September 05, 2014 Homepage Archive

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Quote Of The Day

“There is definitely a focus on cross-country at Syracuse. (Director of Athletics) Darryl Gross asked Fox to develop a conference championship team and a team that will contend on a national level every year. And that is what Fox and (Associate Head Coach Brien) Bell have done …”

“The long-term goal here is always to be a national champion and that’s really what brings us to work every day. We’re really happy to be a great conference team and we’re working really hard to be a great nationals team.”

– Excerpt from a feature on the rise of cross-country at Syracuse thanks to Chris Fox and Brien Bell. The ‘Cuse men won three of the last four Big East titles and then last year won ACC title #1 and finished in the top 10 for the first time in 56 years. 2014 NCAA XC Preview Here.

2014 Memorial van Damme – Brussels DL Is Fri. Schedule / Start ListsTV / Streaming (2pm ET) *LRCFan Poll Results

Discuss Live: Official 2014 Brussels DL Live Discussion Threead

LRC PreviewWhat A Way To End The DL Season: Drama And Grudge Matches Galore Brussels will be special as there is a winner-take-all 1,500 with Kiplagat, Kiprop and Souleiman,plus an American grudge match between Rupp and Leo. There’s another American grudge match in the 3,000 between Rowbury and Simpson which also features Dibaba, Cherono and Ayana. Plus Jager, Birech and MMB in the steeple. In non-distance action, the men’s high jump (Bohdan Bondarenko, Mutaz Essa Barshim) and 100 (Justin Gatlin, Kemar Bailey-Cole) should also be exciting.

IAAF Full Meet Preview*Jesse Squire’s DL Preview
Brussels Press Conference Highlights: MMB Wants European Record And Sub-8: “I know I have the ability to do it.” “(Today)’s field looks like an Olympic final,” said Mekhissi-Benabbad.
Justin Gatlin Primed For His “Super Bowl” Gatlin will try a crazy 100 and 200 double to finish off a truly remarkable season during which he’s UNDEFEATED at 100 and 200, having gone 16 for 16. *MB:Justin Gatlin to retire in 2020!!!!!!!!!!!!!
W3k: Cherono Must Beat Dibaba To Claim The Title
Brussels 10,000 Was Cancelled – Is The 10,000m Verging On Extinction? In the last “off year” (2010), there weren’t any major European 10ks either.
SPIKES Catches Up With Kaliese Spencer – If You Fail At First, Keep Trying The woman who has suffered a lot of heartache in the past is dominant in 2014 and will win $50,000 on Friday.
Top 2 Finish Will Clinch Discus Title For Piotr Malachowski
Update On Diamond League Standings

News From The Commonwealth

Chris O’Hare Has “Fracture On The Sesamoid Bone” Looks like he’s enjoying his time off, however.
After Getting Sent Home From Worlds After Spat With Sally Pearson, Athletics Australia Coach Eric Hollingsworth Resigns His contract was set to end soon anyway.
Jessica Judd’s Coach And 1994 CG Gold Medalist And 13:10 Man Rob Denmark Has Joined The British Athletics Endurance Program As A National Institute Coach Apparently he’s a good biker nowadays.
Trinidad And Tobago Delivers On Promise To Give Javelin Gold Medalist Keshorn Walcott A New House The house is worth $393,000 and he got $157,000 in cash.

Sprint Stuff

Usain Bolt Says It Was His Dad Who Convinced Him To Be A Sprinter Instead Of A Cricket Player “My dad said because of the system in Jamaica, it would be better to take up athletics. He said, ‘You just have to run fast in athletics while it’s tougher to get into the national (cricket) team.'”
Interesting Interactive Graphic Which Shows Sprinters’ 2014 Season Bests Against Their Pre-Season PRsTori Bowie tops the chart, going from 23.99 to 22.18 in the 200 (a 7.54% improvement), while Allyson Felix is on bottom (3.00% slower than her PR). The list is only the top 10 ranked sprinters in 2014, but if Usain Bolt was on it he’d be on the bottom (4.18% slower than his PR).
IAAF Inside Athletics: Ato Boldon Interviews Jamaica’s World 200 Silver Medalist Warren Weir

Looking Ahead – 2014 Chicago Might Be Special Thanks To 2003 Rematch

Oct 12. Full Chicago Marathon Elite Field Announced, Kenenisa Bekele Won’t Have It Easy – Eliud Kipchoge Headlines List Of Challengers Kipchoge, a 12:46 5ker who famously beat Bekele for the 2003 world title at 5,000, has run three marathons, none slower than 2:05:30. Sub-2:20 women Rita Jeptoo and Florence Kiplagat lead the women’s field.

Next Week: American Stars Jenny Simpson, Mary Cain And Matthew Centrowitz To Headline NYRR Fifth Avenue Mile On Saturday, September 13 There actually are a couple of Kenyans as well this year. *Flipagram: Meet The 5th Ave. Pros

Three Great Reads

Awesome Read: A Key Part Of Seb Coe’s 1984 Olympic Preparations Were Spent Alone In American While Living With Legendary HS Coach Joe Newton Some great stuff in this article.
Recommend Read #2: Usain Bolt Makes Rare US Appearance, Does Great Q&A With NBC
*MB: Bolt is the man – Calls for lifetime bans for drug cheats, says he couldn’t have beaten Justin Gatin this year
RR#3: 2008 Olympic 800 Champ Wilfred Bungai: Trouble With Kenya Is Its Embedded Officials Wow, the first three paragraphs of this piece are GREAT. *Nairobi Branch Of AK Names Bungei As The Nandi County Chairman

More Doping News

China Is 1st Ccountry To Match IOC’s $10 Million Anti-Doping Donation It’s very sad if other rich countries don’t match.
*MB: Obama, China has pledged $10 to anti-doping, will you match?
Jamaica Doubles The Number Of Doping Control Officers On The Caribbean Island Let’s hope it didn’t go from 1 to 2.

Great North Run And CityGames Are This Weekend *Watch Live For Free On USATF.tv

Great North Run Elite Start Lists The race is on live on the BBC starting at 9:30 BST (that’s 4:30 ET).
After Racing On Friday In Brussels, Asbel Kiprop Will Race Again On Saturday In UK At Great North CityGames
Great North Run And Great NorthCity Games Will Be Broadcast For Free On USATF.tv This Weekend
Mo Farah On Sunday’s Great North Run: “Anything around 60 minutes would be good.”
Coach Gabriele Nicola Says Mary Keitany Is Ready For Great North Run Keitany is on the comeback from childbirth and Nicola will use the race to determine if she should run a marathon this fall or not.
A Look At The On-And-Off Track Career Of Bupa Great Run Founder Brendan Foster He ran 27:30 and won Olympic bronze as an athlete.
IAAF And Great North Run To Display Dramatic Opening Ceremony To Recognize 1 Millionth Finisher Milestone*The opening ceremony is now sold out.

Random But Interesting

Lolo Jones Will Be On “Dancing With The Stars” The season premiere is Monday Sept. 15.
Kim Smith Has Foot Surgery In Boston She’s got a great attitude about it though, “Everyone likes a comeback story, right?”
Former USATF Head Doug Logan Blogs About Rory McElroy Dumping Caroline Wozniacki Logan: “Rory, you’re an idiot!”
Let’s Hope Not – Can Excercise Cause ALS?

Olympic News

D.C. 2024 Olympic Group Launches New Website, Logo Let’s hope it doesn’t come to DC. The security and costs would be over the top.
Berlin And Hamburg Competing To Be Germany’s Bid City For 2024 or 2028 Olympic GamesThey both have submitted low cost bids that say it will only cost $2.63 billion.
Public Rally Planned To Show Opposition To Oslo 2022 Olympic Bid

Tuesday Action In Europe

Croatia: Zagreb World Challenge Results: Brenda Martinez Wins 1,500 Brenda’s fine running at the end of 2014 continued with the win in 4:05 as Gabrielle Grunewald was 4th, Brie Felnagle was 8th, and Treniere Moser 11th.
*Tom Wlash wins IAAF World SP Challenge in Zagreb over Majewski and Hoffa
IAAF Report: Local Star Sandra Perkovic Highlights Winning Discus In 65.09m Two Days After Sudden Death Of Her Coach Russia’s Sergey Shubenkov wins competitive 110H in 13.39 over Orlando Ortega; US’s Nia Ali wins 100H; Blanka Vlasic loses on countback to her countrywoman Ana Simic in HJ.
Kemar Bailey-Cole Barely Beats Asafa Powell And Mike Rodgers To Win Zagreb 100 In 10.07
Italy: IAAF Recap Of Roverto Meet: Italian 19-Year-Old Federica Del Buono Wins 1,500 In 4:05.32 Her PR at the start of the year was only 4:16. Kenya’s Cornelius Kangogo won the 5,000 (13:24.01), beating world leader Muktar Edris. Justin Gatlin won the 100 (10.07) as Barbara Pierre won the women’s (11.16). Dayron Robles won the 110H (13.29).

Pure Entertainment

LRCRunning In The Real World: How Damn Expensive The Sport Is And "You Put A Running Store Somewhere - Let Me Tell You Something - You're Whitening It Up"

2014 NCAA XC*All Weekend Results

Wisconsin Opens 2014 Season At Home On Friday
Oregon Hosts Bill Dellinger Invite As Well
Chris Fox Is Turning Syracuse Into A Power
LRC Top 10 Women’s Individual Preview: Abbey’s Gone, So Who Takes Over? The top returner is Emma Bates, but she will be challenged by Aisling Cuffe, Kate Avery and Shelby Houlihan up front. Can Cuffe break the Foot Locker curse? Can a freshman (Elise Cranny or Sarah Baxter) crack the top five for the first time since 2009? We sort through a wide-open women’s field as just 6 of the top 16 from NCAAs last year are back in 2014.
LRCTop 10 Men’s Individual Preview: King Ches And Then Who?Edward Cheserek is the heavy favorite but who can pull off the big upset like he did last year? Remember in recent years, people thought Lawi Lalang and Kennedy Kithuka would never lose a college XC race. Our top 10 has 5 Americans and 5 foreigners in it. Could Stanford really have three in the top 10?

Week That Was

LRC No DQ In Zürich, Alexa Goes Pro, Taoufik PRs, Amazing Japanese Stamina And High Praise For Taco BellJenny Simpson won the DL in dramatic fashion, Alexa Efraimson went pro, Makhloufi PRed, a XC skier made running news, and the most amazing endurance feat of the week was in Japanese high school baseball.