Week That Was

WTWZane Robertson = Ryan Hall, Alberto Salazar= Bill Belichick, Mo Farah = His Twin Brother, Will Claye ≠ Canadian

NCAA News *All College Weekend Results

• Great Podcast Q&A With Mark Wetmore Hear about his track aspirations for this year and how Colorado is going to start attracting more sprinters, throwers and jumpers. Also why he stopped coaching Jenny Simpson when she graduated.
• Weekend Collegiate Highlights: Texas A&M Men’s 4 X x400 Finish Just .03 Short Of Their 3:03.20 Collegiate Record Leah O’Connor ran a 4:34.28 mile at the Michigan-Michigan State dual. Florida’s Najee Glass just missed the collegiate all-time top 10 with a 45.34 400 to win at Arkansas. DII Hjer Erika Kinsey set a collegiate lead with a 1.90m (6-2¾) clearance.
• Arkansas PVer Sani Morris And Florida Sprinter Najee Glass NCAA Athletes Of The Week Morris jumped the all-time best non-altitude jump by a collegiate with 4.65m.
• Ken Goe Asks “Where Should We Expect Edward Cheserek to Race In 2015?” Goe talks to Oregon coach Robert Johnson about riding the line between what’s best for the athletes/team and the Hayward fans. Team priorities could keep Cheserek from racing much at home.
• Updated DI Rankings: Oregon Men And Florida Women Stay #1 Top 6 men’s teams stayed the same while Arkansas moved from 5th to 3rd on the women’s side.
• Top 10 NCAA Marks From Each Event From The Weekend
• Podcast Q&A With Recent NCAA Pole Vault Record Holder Demi Payne If you didn’t know, Payne is a mother and took a year off from competing in college to have her baby.
• Podcast Q&A With Recent Wisconsin’s Michael Lihrman, Who Recently Broke The NCAA Weight Throw Record

Third Season Of IAAF Inside Athletics Starts With Ato Boldon Interviewing Qatar HJer Mutaz Essa Barshim

• NYT: In London, An Olympic Park Anchors A Resurgence For everyone who thinks the Olympics are huge waste of money leaving only “white elephants,” go to London where the leftovers have sparked a revitalization.
• London Mayor Appoints VINCI Stadium, Operator Of Stade de France, To Manage The Former Olympic Stadium

More Weekend XC Results

• Defending Champ Genet Yalew And “Relative Unknown” Tamirat Tola Win Ethiopian World XC Trials Tola won over an extremely deep field that included former world XC champ Imane Merga, track studs Hagos Gebrehiwet and Yenew Almirew, and world marathon bronze medalist Tadesse Tola.
• Turkey Cleans Up At European Club Championships As Their Teams Win Women’s Senior And Both Junior Races A team from Spain won the men’s team title as France’s Othmane El Goumri got the individual win. Turkey’s Irene Cheptai won the women’s race. *Results

Diego Estrada Says His Dream Is To Be A US Olympian “I am no longer chasing a degree or chasing the money. It’s about satisfaction as an athlete.”

High School Stuff

• Sammy Watson Breaks Mary Cain’s Sophomore Class Record For The Indoor 1,000 With 2:47.47 (#7 All-Time) Rai Benjamin (33.17) and Sydney McLaughlin (37.49) each ran the #2 all-time HS indoor 300m.
• Grant Fisher Opens Season With 4:07.29 Mile Victory
• MileSplit Full Weekend Coverage High schooler Ryen Frazier ran a NC state record of 4:41.46 to place 6th in the Camel City Elite race.
• Tanner Anderson Commits To Oregon He said it was a close choice between Oregon and Washington.
• Anna Rohrer Named Gatorade Girls XC Runner Of The Year She was presented the award by Molly Huddle.
  *Q&A With Rohrer She hasn’t run much mileage due to injuries, so does 300 minutes a week of extra cross training.
  *Grant Fisher Won The Boys Award

Latest Russian Doping News

• Jessica Ennis’ Coach Toni Minichiello Wants Russian Heptathlete Tatyana Chernova’s Drug Ban To Be Re-Examined RUSADA annuled her results from 2009 to 2011, but let her keep her 2011 Worlds gold medal. They also timed her ban so she’s eligible for 2015 Worlds. Ridiculous.
• We Guess He Changed His Mind: Russian Athletics President Valentin Balakhnichev To Resign Over Doping Scandals This is the same man who just recently said, “From the perspective of my health, resigning now would be right. I’d go, forget everything, dump it all on other people, but that wouldn’t be honorable. I should fulfil my duty until the end …”

Weekend XC Action

• IAAF Weekend Round-Up: Defending World XC Champions Japheth Korir And Emily Chebet Fail To Qualify For Kenyan Champs Via The South Rift Province Meet In hot conditions, Chebet dropped out and Korir finished outside the top 20 (top 6 qualify for Kenyan XC Champs). Sheila Chepngetich won the women’s race over Caroline Kilel and WJ XC champ Faith Kipyegon. William Sitonik won the men’s race. Big names like Chebet and Korir could still be selected as a wild card spot.
• Bedan Karoki And Ann Wanjiru Win Kenyan Central Region Championships
• Moses Mukono And Lucy Murigi (Wambui) Win Nairobi XC Champs
• More Kenyan Regional XC Recaps Gladys Chesir and Wycliffe Biwott win Elgeyo Marakwet XC Champs.
• Precious Mashele Gets Surprise Win Over Stephen Mokoka At South African XC Trials Nolene Conrad won the women’s race.
• Emelia Gorecka And Jonny Hay Win BUCS XC Titles Birmingham University claimed both team titles.

Lake Placid Could Make Joint Bid With Québec For The 2026 Winter Olympics

Cas Loxsom Was USATF Athlete Of The Week After Setting The US 600m Record

Armory Track Press Conference Photo Gallery

Rupp, Cain, Centrowitz And Will Claye

Friday’s Big News

Rita Jeptoo Gets 2-Year Drug Ban, Will Lose $500,000 WMM Bonus Her ban will go through the 2015 World Championships and 2016 Olympics.
*MB: Justice: Rita Jeptoo gets 2 year ban from Atheltics Kenya

Our Weekly Recap Is Back

LRC WTW: Is 2015 The Beginning Of The End For Bernard Lagat Or The Beginning Of A Truly Special Year? Shannon Rowbury, Cas Loxsom And Moses Mosop Off To Good Starts; One Japanese Marathoner Is Better Than The Entire USA (Again) What do Emma Coburn and Cas Loxsom have in common? Who makes more? Sprinters or distance runners? Meet the new NCAA leader in the 800 from Los Angeles. All of that, plus a distance race that crushed the NCAA football television game in TV ratings?

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