European Indoor Champs In Prague *Distance Results: *Sat. *Fri. *All Results *Free Live Stream Starts *Final Entries *Schedule

• Sat. Distance Action: MB: Lee Emanuel Gets 3,000m Silver And A WR Attempt In The Men’s 1,500 Heats!!! Turkey’s Ali Kaya dominated the 3,000, leading gun to tape and breaking Mo Farah‘s MR with 7:38.42. Russia’s Yelena Korobkina won the women’s race (8:47), and the big names got through in the 800s semis. But maybe the biggest excitement came in the form of two extremely non-tactical men’s 1,500 heats.
• The Huge Favorite Coming In, GB’s Jenny Meadows Runs A Disappointing 2:02.40 For 4th In Her Heat She only made the final after the UK protested and a Russian was DQed for a lane violation. Meadows said she has had a cold.
• Lee Emanuel: “It’s nice to come here and show people I can actually run. It’s a big step … I finally feel like I can belong now.”
• IAAF: Renaud Lavillenie Dominates PV With MR 6.04m To Win His 4th Straight Title He had it won with only 2 jumps, but continued on to break his own MR. Pavel Maslak thrilled the home crowd by defending his title in the 400 with a MR 45.33. Russia’s Mariya Kuchina won the HJ (1.97m) in a sudden death jump-off.
• Katarina Johnson-Thompson Thinks UK Heptathlon Rivalry Between Her, Jessica Ennis And Morgan Lake Could Help The Sport “I heard BBC switched off the tennis to go to the athletics, which is insane.”
• The Netherlands’ Dafne Schippers Could Be The Favorite In The 60m After Setting A New PR Of 7.07 To Clock The Fastest Time In The Heats
• Ireland’s John Travers Sets A PR To Make 1,500 Final
• UK’s Richard Kilty, CJ Ujah And Diana Asher-Smith All Through The First Round In The 60m
• Johnson-Thompson Says She’s “Still In Awe” Of Jessica Ennis Even After Breaking Her Record “She’s one of the people who inspired me to be an heptathlete.”

Boston Bombing Trial Updates

• AP Legal Writer Explains Why There Is A Trial At All Given That Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Admitted He Did It
• Victim Who Lost Both Legs In Widely Circulated  Image Talks About How He Saw Tsarnaev Before The Explosions Jeff Bauman: “He was alone. He wasn’t watching the race. I looked at him, and he just kind of looked down at me. I just thought it was odd.”

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 PR) 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

Snow Unlikely To Affect Boston Marathon, But BAA Is Prepared The snow should all be melted by April 20th, but organizers are concerned about the fields that host the “athletes’ village.”

Previous Euro Champs News

Europe, We Love You: LRC A Fan’s Guide To The 2015 European Indoor Championships 2014 world outdoor and 2015 world indoor 1,500 leader Sifan Hassan is going for the double but the event of the meet is the women’s 800. Lots of Iona Gaels in action – one who is skipping NCAAs (Kate Avery) and one who isn’t (Rosie Clarke)
*More Previews: *Athletics Weekly Preview *M Track *M Field *W Track *W Field

• Games Are Underway As Opening Ceremony Is A Success With Mascot “Little Mole”
• Laura Muir Is Going For Medal In 3,000 The 3k is a bit surprising as she ran 2:00 and 4:00 last summer at just 21.
• Team GB Captain Lawrence Clarke, Who Is Related To FDR, Learned A Lot From Witnessing A Climber Fall To His Death At Age 15 Clarke was a surprising 4th in the 2012 Olympics at 110h despite only having a 13.31 PR.
• Ireland’s Best Chance For A Medal Lies With Mark English In 800
• Interesting Facts: World Jr. 100 Champ Dina Asher-Smith Used To Run XC And Throw The Hammer
• 17-Year-Old Morgan Lake Is Ready For Euros
• Eight Questions For Team GB At Euros

USATF Indoor Photo Gallery (149 Photos)

Week That Was

WTW Hyping Montaño, Rowbury And Andrews; Tapping The Brakes On Loxsom’s AR; Don’t Ever Leave Lane 1; Plus A Collegiate Record For Emily Sisson And The Oregon Ducks Are Insanely Good (Corrected) Cas Loxsom and Emily Sisson had the performances of the weekend. We break them down and take another look at all the USA winners. We ponder if Alysia Montaño and Shannon Rowbury may soon be on the 2012 Olympic podium, and tell you how incredibly good the Oregon Ducks distance men are. Plus 300 Olympic Trials qualifiers from Japan. Note: Our stagger info was incorrect.

Previous European News

• Sub-10 Man Chijindu Ujah Is Ready A British sprinter has medaled at every Euro indoors since 1987.
• World Jr. 100 Champ Dina Asher-Smith Is Ready As Well
• UK Press: Can Katarina Johnson-Thompson Usurp Ennis-Hill? Katarina is the heavy favorite for her first gold as Ennis Hill won’t return to the multi until May?
• Some Criminals Have A Heart: Kelly Sotherton’s Commonwealth Games Gold Medal Found In Mailbox By Postman

College News: NCAAs Are Next Weekend *Men’s Entries *Women’s Entries

• Florida State XC Coach Karen Harvey’s Resignation Was 100% Voluntary FSU Sports Info Director, It’s fair to say it was surprising. … Karen doesn’t plan to make any statements to my knowledge and she’s kind of distanced herself from everyone. … But I can absolutely confirm that this was Karen’s decision.”
  *MB: Karen Harvey Resigns at FSU
  
• LRC Observations On The Women’s NCAA Indoors Entries: Oregon’s Run Is Over, An SEC Slugfest In The Team Race Oregon’s 5-year run is about to end. The team race is tight, yet Georgia star Kendall Williams is only doing 1 event. Do you know why? MB: Why isn’t Kendall Williams doing something besides just the multi?
• LRC Observations On The Men’s NCAA Indoors Entries: Oregon Vs. Florida In Team Race + What Does It Take To Get In?
• Good Read: Jesse Squire Analyzes The Great Team Action At The Conference Champs
• Devon Allen Is Rehabbing His Knee With 1 Goal – 2016 Olympics “I’m not thinking of a situation where I’m not on the Olympic team,” said Allen, who isn’t ruling out an unlikely return for 2015 Worlds.
• Updated DI Team Rankings: Florida Men And Arkansas Women Remain #1

Previous European Indoor News

• We Wouldn’t Count On It: Poland’s Piotr Lisek Wants To Challenge WR Holder Renaud Lavillenie At Euro Indoors Lisek did clear 5.90m last weekend, but Lavillenie has been unbeatable.
• Czech Republic’s Pavel Maslak (400) And Petr Svoboda (60H) Hope To Win Euro Indoor Gold In Front Of Their Home Crowd Maslak is the defending champ; Svoboda won in 2011.
• The Netherlands’ Multi-Event Athlete Dafne Schippers Will Stick To The Sprints For Euro Indoors
• Spain’s 35-Year-Old Ruth Betia Back Defending Her Euro Indoor HJ Champ
• Opening Ceremonies Are Thursday In Prague, Czech Republic

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