– Text from Peter Wamali, the coach/policeman whom Moses Kipsiro has accused of rape, to Kipsiro. Kipsiro now says his life is in danger as Kipsiro claims Wamali has murdered one person who spoke up against him and tried to abduct Kipsiro’s brother.
David Rudisha, Blanka Vlašić, Ajeé Wilson Join Usain Bolt at adidas Grand Prix in New York on June 13 If you live in NYC and don’t attend this one, you no longer have the right to call yourself a track fan.
Sweet: David Rudisha Will Go After 600m World Record In Ostrava On May 26th
28th Marathon des Sables Is Taking Place This Week In The Sahara
Meet The Two Austrlian Athletics Commentators Who Have A Cult Following
One Everyone Missed? Sarah Baxter Made Her Collegiate Debut With A 4:29.54 1,500 For 6th Place At Willamette Invy The race was won by Oregon’s Frida Berge in 4:23.99. Both raced unattached. *Full Results
Mo Farah Racing 3,000 Against Absolutely Stacked Field At The Doha DL Meet On May 15th Farah will face world 5,000 silver medalist Hagos Gebrhiwet, world indoor 3,000 champ Caleb Ndiku, 12:48 man Yenew Alamirew, world 5,000 bronze medalist Isiah Koech, Olympic bronze medalist Thomas Longosiwa, Edwin Soi and Albert Rop.
Wall Street Journal: Sources Say USOC Could Drop Boston’s 2024 Olympic Bid Due To Local Opposition A person familiar with the USOC’s plans said it is more likely the U.S. would withdraw from the competition entirely than try to resurrect a bid from another city.Good Read: Lee Emanuel Talks About How Coming To The US Made And Then Almost Broke His Running Career Emanuel won back-to-back indoor mile titles in 2009-10, but then struggled for a while running with Ron Warhurst in Michigan before going back to Joe Franklin in Albuquerque.
New Yorker Article On Teenage Indian Sprinter Dutee Chand, Whose Gender Case Is Going To CAS Chand’s case is far from the first gender controversy in track, but could have huge implications for women’s sports in the future. If she’s allowed to compete, then kiss goodbye to women’s sports as we know them.
We Wish Him A Speedy Recovery: Tokyo 2020 President Yoshirō Mori Reveals He Is Suffering From Lung Cancer But Claims Prognosis Good There were some worries when the 77-year-old took the job that he was too old.
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.
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 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 . 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.
Moses Kipsiro Says Coach/Policeman He Accused Of Rape Has Murdered Another Athlete That Spoke Up Against Him & Tried To Abduct Kipsiro’s Brother The policeman denies everything and says it’s all made up, even the sexual assaults, by Kipsiro, who votes differently than him.
*Moses Kipsiro: “I am fearing for my life and my family. Yesterday one of my brothers (Ayeko Simon) was arrested over an incident.”
*Daily Mail: Mo Farah’s Training Partner Moses Kipsiro Receives Death Threats After Accusing Coach In Uganda Of Raping Young Female Athletes
Sergey Bubka Makes His Case For IAAF Head – Promises Complete Review Of Athletics If Elected 
His “Vision 2025” document is now out.
*Athletics Weekly On Bubka
Australia And New Zealand Name Initial Teams For IAAF World Championships, Beijing 2015 Memo to those down under – Worlds are in August, not April. As a result, Australia currently has zero men from 1,500 through 26.2.
University Of Oregon Student Paper Falls For Our Edward Cheserk / Eric Jenkins April Fools Article The author fell for it hook, line and sinker. He admitted to his mistake with good humor on Twitter.
Ken Goe Gets Quotes From Alberto Salazar On The Nike Oregon Project’s Use Of L-Carnitine Salazar did confirm Steve Magness tested the supplement first. “A few of my athletes tried it but found no benefit so they no longer use it. … was done so within WADA guidelines. … My assistant coach volunteered to test it first to determine if further use was worthwhile.”
With The World XC And World Half Titles, Geoffrey Kamworor’s Focus Turns To The World 10,000 Title Kamworor is actually very inexperienced on the track, only having run two 10,000s. His first/PR was 27:06 from 4 years ago when he was 18.
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.
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.
Bad News For Asian Women: Indian Sprinter Dutee Chand Cleared To Compete At Asian Champs While Awaiting The Verdict In Her Gender Controversy Case With CAS Like Caster Semenya, Chand has hyperandrogenism and her body naturally produces testosterone above guidelines set by the IAAF.
April Fools? Two-Time World Marathon Champion Edna Kiplagat Thinks The WR Could Go Down At This Month’s London Marathon The article came out on the 31st so we assume she’s serious when she said, “The world record is very possible with proper pace setting and conducive weather.”
US 800 Runner Molly Beckwith-Ludlow Talks About How She Got Lost On A Run During Her First Trip Overseas She left the apartment at 3PM for a 45-mintue run, but didn’t end up getting back until 7:30PM.
Stephen Sambu (23:03) And Alexi Pappas (26:32) Win Shamrock Shuffle 8K In Chicago Jacob Riley was 2nd in 23:10.
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?”
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
LetsRun.com Founders Named as Two of “The 50 Most Influential People in Running”
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