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• Friday Mid-D/D Results: MB Lee Emanuel Makes 2015 European Indoor 3000 Final – Kate Avery does not Aníta Hinriksdóttir set a European Jr. record of 2:01.56 in the 800.
• Video: Two Athletes Fall Hard At Finish Line Of 800 Heat Poland’s Karol Konieczny fell over the line and won the heat, but Austria’s Andreas Rapatz fell just before and had a final time of 2:19 by the time he got up.
• Kate Avery “Absolutely Devastated” Not To Make Euro Champs 3000 Final
• Irish 800 Runner Mark English Thinks He’s Got A Great Shot At A Medal If He Makes Final
• Ireland’s/NJ-NY TC’s Declan Murray Advances To 800 Semis He was in the heat with the crash.
• IAAF Day 1 Recap: GB’s Katarina Johnson-Thompson Dominates Pentathlon With 5,000 Points And Just Misses Natallia Dobrynska’s WR By 13 Points She ran 2:12.78 in the 800, but needed 2:11.86. Sweden’s Michel Torneus won the LJ in a NR 8.30m, David Storl won the SP. Huge favorite Renaud Lavillenie almost went out in the PV as he needed 3 attempts at his opening height of 5.70m. World 400H champ Zuzana Hejnova failed to make the final in the 800.
• Johnson-Thompson Disappointed With Missing Pentathlon WR “I am full of regret from the 800m. I thought I could easily run that time and maybe took it for granted…”
• Legal Bribery? Russian And Ukraine Reach Deal Over Euro Javelin Champ Vira Rebryk Rebryk and other athletes took Russian citizenship last year when Russia annexed Crimea, but were blocked from competing. Now Russia has paid Ukraine “compensation” so Rebryk and the others can compete in the spring.

Sunday’s Road Action

• Moses Mosop Up Against CR Holder Stanley Biwott (59:44) At The  Paris Half-Marathon Women’s race has Kenyan’s Emily Chemutai Ngetich (2:25 marathon pb) and Pauline Njeri (67:55).
• IAAF Preview Of Nagoya Women’s Marathon: Russia’s defending champ and 4o-year-old Mariya Konovalova (2:22:46 in 2013) takes on Asian champ Eunice Kirwa (2:21:41) and Japan’s Ryoko Kizaki (2:23:34). *JRN Preview

Distance News

• Very Impressive Iowa State’s Edward Kemboi Won The 800 And 1k 20 Minutes Apart At Big 12s He’s a big fan of “The Time Is Now.”
• Meet The Japanese World Record Mother/Daughter Marathon Combo Of Sairi Maeda And Junko Maeda In Nagoya, they ran 5:22:10, thanks to a Japanese collegiate record of  2:26:46 and a 2:55:24 by mom.
• Caleb Ndiku Says He Has No Plans To Run World Indoors This Year That’s good as there is no World Indoors.
• Jim Spivey Gives Advice To Young Milers – Do 6-10 X 100 Every Day But After The Long Run

US News Of Note

• Recommended Read: Hartford Runner Chaz Davis Returns To Competition After Going Blind In College Davis was a small school individual state champ in HS before he went blind in college.
  *Hartford-Courant: Legally Blind, Hawks Runner Chaz Davis Keeps Competing
• Boston Bombing Trial Starts With Tsarnaev Attorney Admitting He Did It – “It Was Him” They are trying to say his brother heavily influenced him to do it.
• Nick Symmonds’ Words Of Wisdom On How To Stay Calm: “It’s just running. It’s not family, not curing cancer, not feeding the world, it’s running around in circles.”
• Guess What Color 2016 World Indoor Championships Track Will Be? Orange for Oregon State would be incorrect.
• Q&A With New Saucony Pro Brian Shrader About Why He Went Pro *As predicted on the MBoard in January, he’s signed with Saucony. *MB: Shrader goes pro! 
• Boston Mayor Strongly Defends 2024 Olympic Bid Amid Criticism
• Leo Manzano Has Degree In Portuguese – Hopes It Comes In Handy In 2016
• Kansas Relays Will Feature A Collegiate Quadrangular In 2015 Trying to generate fan interest, Kansas will battle KState, Purdue and Colorado State in a meet within a meet.
  *MB: DOWN GOES KU RELAYS.

2015 Age Cheat African Jr. Champs 

• African Junior Champs Start Thursday – Team Kenya Seeks Golden Start
• “Cash Strapped” Team Nigeria Had To Get A Private Loan For Plane Tickets The federation only came up with $25,000 of the $100,000 it promised for the trip.

Emma Coburn, Read This: Milcah Chemos’ Hamstring “Snapped” At CGs, But After Surgery In October, She’s Ready To Begin Training And Hopes To Defend Her World Title

UK Euro Indoor Section

• GB’s Jenny Meadows Comes Into Euro Indoor Champs As The Favorite In The 800 She’s the 2011 Euro champ, but hopes to win it for real this time as she had to get that medal years after the fact due to a Russian drug ban. She’s the only sub-2:00 woman this year.
• A Look Back At Seb Coe’s 800 Victory At The 1977 European Indoor Championships (includes video) It was a breakthrough performance for him at the time as he won in a championship/UK record of 1:46.54.
• Good Read: UK Multi-Event Athlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson Talks About Competing At London 2012 When She Was 19 And How She Broke Her Mom’s Heart When She Quit Ballet For Sports She’s the favorite in the pentathlon.
• British 19-Year-Old Dina Asher-Smith A Favorite To Medal In The 60m At Euro Indoors This Week She’s tied at 5th fastest in the world this year with 7.11 seconds.
• Sprint Hurdler Lawrence Clarke Will Captain GB Team For Euro Indoor Champs

Asking The Questions That Need Answering

LRC Why Was Drug Cheat Hamza Driouch Training (With Mo Farah) In Ethiopia? Who Supplied The 17-Year-Old Doper? Social media photos of Mo Farah training with now drug cheat Hamza Driouch of Qatar have the British press asking, “What is Farah doing training with a drug cheat in Ethiopia?” Our more immediate focus is, “What the hell is drug cheat Driouch doing training period?”
*MB: Mo Farah training with Driouch after his suspension started (but before it was announced)

Update: British Athletics Responds: Say They Relied On Jama Aden To “Facilitate” Farah’s Trip Aden provided Driouch as an athlete to train with Farah. Aden says he didn’t know about his ban.
*Mo Farah In Twitter Pic With Gamze Bulut And Taoufik Makhloufi

LRC Remembering LRCer Van Townsend The running world lost one of its bright lights this week with the death of Van Townsend.
*MB: RIP Van Townsend: Share Your Respects Here