– Lawi Lalang talking after getting some redemption from a disappointing indoor season by winning the Carlsbad 5,000.
Dibaba missed out on the world record (14:46) but was still very impressive, winning by 25 seconds. Lalang beat fellow Kenyan Wilson Too (13:35) for the men’s title, while Bernard Lagat was third in a world masters best of 13:40.
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Dathan Ritzenhein and Alvina Begay are the athletes who would appear to have broken the rules. Even more interesting is Salazar thought L-Carnitine would help Ritzenhein improve 2-3 minutes in the marathon. *Discuss Here
Australian Champs: Jeff Riseley Becomes First Man In 24 Years To Win The 800/1,500 Double
Justin Gatlin Lands New Controversial Sponsorship Deal With Nike Gatlin was sponsored by Nike in the past before his second drug ban in 2006, but since returning in 2010 he’s been with Chinese firm Xtep.
Thank You: IAAF Appeals Six Recent Russian Drug Ban Decisions The IAAF disagrees with the “selective disqualification of results applied by RUSADA.” Athletes received bans that conveniently let them keep championship medals.
Indian Sprinter Dutee Chand Starts Her Appeal Against “Gender Test” Ban Chand failed a gender test last year and was kept off the Indian team for Commonwealth Games when she refused medical treatment that would make her eligible.
LRC The Most Popular Running Shoe On LetsRun.com Is … Not Made Anymore … The Nike Pegasus+ 30 Thousands of you filled out our detailed running shoe survey in the fall and more of you ran in the Nike Pegasus+30 than any other shoe. Only problem is all of you need to find a new shoe, help us out below:
LRC The Improved LRC Running Shoe Survey Is Back – Three Minutes To A Better Running Shoe The running shoe buying process sucks and we want to improve it with data. We took your reviews from the fall, made a running shoe beta site, and have improved our survey to ask you what shoe your previously ran in. We now need more reviews from you on the latest shoes.
2015 World XC Special Section *Results 
LRC Kenya’s Geoffrey Kamworor Wins 2015 World XC Champs To Officially Arrive As A Star; Fierce Team Battle Goes To Ethiopia On The Tiebreaker Kamworor and teammate Bedan Karoki hammered from the front as Africa put on a clinic on how to run XC as Chris Derrick was the top non-African in 24th.
Women: 19-Year-Old Agnes Tirop Becomes Youngest Winner Of World Cross Since Zola Budd Ethiopia won the team title as the US women, led by Sara Hall in 20th, were 7th.
Juniors: Letesenbet Gidey Leads Ethiopian Sweep Of Medals In Girls Race
*Ethiopia’s Yasin Haji Wins Junior Boys Race As Kenya Wins Team Title
LRC 4 Takeaways From An Awesome World XC Champs: Get Used To The Name Geoffrey Kamworor, The Vindication Of Sara Hall, LRC Is Popular In China, And African Domination Is A Good Thing The long trip to China proved to be well worth it. Have we finally found a rival worthy of Mo Farah?
LRC Interviews: Chris Derrick Talks After Finishing 24th *Brett Robinson 28th *Ryan Vail 34th *Bobby Curtis 37th
More in our World XC Special Section
RIP Canadian Olympic 400 Sprinter Daundre Barnaby Barnaby drowned in a swimming accident. He was only 24.
Flo-Jo’s Daughter Sings National Anthem At Pacers Game, The Team Flo-Jo Designed Uniforms For
Rio 2016 Releases Olympic Competition Schedule
Australia Names Team For 2015 IAAF World Youth Championships The championships are in Cali, Colombia in July.
Good Read: Is It Time To Make Doping A Criminal Offence? Former UK Anti-Doping Head Michele Verroken Thinks So (LRC Is All For It) “Why should there be an an automatic freedom pass back into sport once a ban has ended?”
Good Q&A With Iowa State’s NCAA Indoor 800 Champ Edward Kemboi Kemboi talks about being motivated from losing last year, his mileage, how he thinks too much lifting hurt his running and trying to make the Kenyan team for Worlds.
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
Ethiopia’s Berhanu Legese Wins Berlin Half Marathon, Running 59:45 In His Debut It was a close race as 2nd was Kenya’s David Kosgei in 59:46 and the top four were under 60 minutes. Cynthia Chepchirchir Kosgei won the women’s race (70:52).
Speculate No More: LRC Jeremy Wariner Runs 1:53.02 In His First 800 Race video, results and interview. Discuss Here
Usain Bolt Will Compete At June 13th adidas Grand Prix In NYC The last time Bolt raced in NYC was at this meet in 2008 and he set his first WR with 9.72 in the 100.
Meb Keflezighi Talks About His Current Fitness Ahead Of Boston 2015 And Plans Beyond That Meb plans on running a fall marathon ahead of the Olympic Trials in February. He says NYC Half (where he ran 62:17) “was a grind,” but he could have “gone for a while at that pace.”
LRC Good News, Bad News: Everything You Want To Know About The Nike Oregon Project And L-Carnitine Injections The Sunday Times reported that Alberto Salazar ordered his Nike Oregon Project athletes thousands of dollars of L-Carnitine supplements and experimented with injecting L-Carnitine on coach Steve Magness. We break it down. *MB: Salazar, Farah, talk about use of L-carnitine, a legal supplement with 11% performance. gains
LRC Mo Farah Comes From Behind To Win Lisbon Half In European Record Of 59:32! (And Sprawls To The Ground Over Finishing Tape) (updated with recap/analysis) Half way into the race, Farah was dropped from the lead pack, but he hung tough and got the super-impressive win in 59:32 over Micah Kogo. Rose Chelimo won the women’s race in 1:08:22.
*IAAF Recap
LRC Official 2015 EDP Lisbon Half Marathon Live Discussion Thread
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