2015 IAAF World Relays Are Sat./Sun. *Schedule, Results, TV & Streaming *Entries*Facts & Figures

How To Watch World Relays Live TV from 7-10pm Eastern tonight and Sunday. Universal Sport,  Eurosport 2 in Europe,  & YouTube.

MB: Official 2015 IAAF World Relays Live Discussion Thread Talk about the action live as it happens. Team USA goes for gold in WDMR and M 4 x 800. Usain Bolt goes for gold in 4 x 100.

LRCThey Did It Again: USATF And Its Board Think Doper Dennis Mitchell Is The Best Man In America To Coach Team USA Jakob Larsen, Danish Athletic President, says it best: “I don’t get it – should be possible to find another skilled relay coach in the US. Wonder how the US athletes feel about it?”

LRC Previews: Saturday:Men’s 4 X 800: Can Kenya Be Beaten? USA has a shot.
*Women’s DMR: USA Will Dominate
Sunday:Men’s DMR: No Kiprop = Wide Open Should be tremendous.
*Women’s 4 X 800: US Should Repeat In case you haven’t read them, you can still read our previews to get ready for the action.

• Alan Abrahamson: “This is exactly the kind of thing that track and field needs, the spotlight on a seemingly relaxed Usain Bolt.”
• Usain Bolt Acknowledges Rivals Disrespected Him During His Poor 2014 And He “Was Never Gone” Bolt says he doesn’t have a problem with Justin Gatlin being in the sport and appreciates that, “He’s one of those guys that normally doesn’t say a lot …”
• Q&As With Usain Bolt, Chris Brown And Richard Kilty At World Relays
• UK Sprinter Jodie Williams Pulls Out Of World Relays To “Protect Hamstring” After She Had A Tear 2 Weeks Ago
• Irish 4 X 100 And 4 X 400 Chasing Olympic Qualifying Spot At World Relays Top 8 countries automatically qualify for the Olympics.
  *So Too Will GB
• Allyson Felix And Bahamas 400 Runner Shaunae Miller Talk At Press Conference Apparently with 9 global medals in relays, Felix is the most successful relay runner in history.
• Lamine Diack Has High Praise For Bahamas As Hosts Of The World Relays
• IAAF Ambassadors Ato Boldon, Frankie Fredericks And Michael Johnson Meet The Media In Nassau

Full coverage in our Special Section.

Training Science

• NY Times: Studies Show Two Groups Of Rats Can Train, One Will Improve By 40%, The Other Will Deprove By 2%
  MB:NY times article on science behind the talent of improving with training
• Runners, You Will Get Injured – How You Deal With It Will Define You

Efraimson In The News

• Mike Hickey’s Hoping To Expand His Training Group To More Than 2 People – John Cook Is Now Advising HimMB: John Cook’s back in the game – helping coach Alexa Efraimson
• Meet Alexa Efraimson’s Training Partner McKayla FrickerFricker was a DII champ at Seattle Pacific last year in a PR of 2:06.18 but is thriving with Efraimson and just ran 2:03.

News From The UK

• Jessica Ennis-Hill Tries To Lower Expectations For Her Return To Action: “It’s going to take time to build back.”
• Mo Farah To Race In 1,500m In Birmingham Grand Prix On June 7

Marathon News

• 2015 BOA Chicago Marathon Lottery Acceptances Announced – 2015 Chicago Marathon By The Numbers 36% of lottery entrants got in. 15% of the field were guaranteed to charities.
• Athletics Weekly Editor Says London Is The Best Marathon “In my view, the race has clearly the best elite fields, the best course, the best and most enthusiastic crowds and the best organisation,” said Steve Smythe, who is a bit biased as he’s run it 34 times.
• Man Runs 2:29 In London Dressed As Spider-Man
  *MB: Man – i mean moron – ran 2015 London Marathon in 2:28 dressed as superman

Distance Updates

• Athletics Kenya To Name Beijing World Marathon Team Next Week
• Phoebe Wright Blogs About A Solid Third Place Finish In The Drake Relays 800 Wright has struggled in recent years and said she “forgot what it feels like to run well.” Here, her 2:01.65 time wasn’t super fast, but she got a lot of scalps and won a big (both in size and amount) check.
• Running Times Q&A With Leah O’Connor, Who Says “I’m Just Now Falling In Love With Running” O’Connor talks about how she got her start in running, making big improvements and becoming a steepler, and goals for this year including making Worlds.
• Good Read:Kyle Merber Blogs About Training In Flagstaff This Winter Reads more like a story than a blog.
• Extensive Gary Cohen Q&A With US 1980 Olympic Marathon Team Member (The Year We Boycotted) Benji Durden Benji talks about finishing 3rd in 2:09:57 at the 1983 Boston Marathon behind 2 Americans, the 1980 Olympic boycott and more.

Sprint Stuff

• Q&A With Carl Lewis On His Botched National Anthem Rendition In 1993, Jamaican Doping, State Of US Sprinting Lewis on the entitlement culture of student-athletes today: “We’ve got kids now who are used to getting rewards for mediocrity.”
• Carl Lewis’s Son Graduates From Basic Combat Training Apparently he struggled with the physical training when it came to pushups/situps, but then blew everyone away in the run (he did 2 miles in under 13 minutes).
• Fox News Profile On Top US Hurdler Aleec Harris: “From Troubled Teen To Olympic Hopeful”
• Former Top Jamaican 400 Runners Fear Lack Of Training Knowledge Is Hurting The Future Of Top High Schoolers Former Jamaican Olympians say that coaches overtrain their 400m runners.
• Jamaican Columnist Proclaims Sherone Simpson Is “Back” After Dealing With Career Of “Adversity” Two weeks ago she pushed Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce in the 200, finishing only .01 behind.

Post-London News

• Wilson Kipsang Says Eliud Kipchoge Beat Him Because He Has More Fat “Towards the last kilometre, Eliud was a bit stronger than me because I couldn’t resist the cold. Since I have less fat, it was not easy to resist such a pace in such conditions …”
• Eliud Kipchoge: “A champion is not made when he succeeds, a champion is made when you look back at the seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks and months he has spent preparing.”
• Tigist Tufa Will Use Her $70,000 In Prize Money To Buy A Car And Help Her Family
• Kipchoge Plans Low-Key Celebrations In Kenya “I’ve won races a lot over the last couple of years and I am a low-key person so there will be no big celebrations.”
• Some Bizarre Events / Costumes From The London Marathon
  *More Crazy Costumes From London
• The Telegraph: “Why The Best Sports Stars Struggle To Retire” We’re glad Paula Radcliffe got to go out with one last run.
• How Did Celebrities Do At The London Marathon
• Video:Runner Stops To Propose To His Girlfriend During The London Marathon

• Pre Classic 800 Will Have Nijel Amos, Mo Aman, Duane Solomon, Adam Kszczot, WJ Champ Alfred Kipketer, Taoufik Makhloufi
• Former Champions Heather Kampf And Craig Miller Return For Medtronic TC Mile On May 14th

Non-London Road Action

• Despite Fall, Annie Bersagel Wins Dusseldorf Marathon In New PR Of 2:28:29Marius Ionescu of Romania won the men’s race in 2:13:19.
• Lucas Rotich (2:07:17) And Meseret Hailu (2:25:41) Win Hamburg Marathon Titles
• Ethiopia’s Hayle Lemi Berhanu Takes Warsaw Marathon In 2:07:57 As Top 6 Finish Within 32 Seconds Of Each Other Ethiopian Fatuma Sado won the women’s race in 2:26:25.
• Kenya’s Ezekiel Kiptoo Chebii (2:12:00) And Monica Jepkoech (2:33:42) Win Rock ‘N’ Roll Madrid Marathon
• Kenyans Ernest Ngeno (2:11:47) And Helena Kiprop (2:31:36) Win Yellow River Estuary Marathon In China

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