– Sanya Richards Ross after blowing open the race and helping the US win gold and set the distance medley world record on Day 1 of the 2015 World Relays in the Bahamas.
Kenya's Ferguson Rotich (47.84 first 400 on 800 leg) and Timothy Cheruiyot (51.96 first 400 on 1,600 leg) ran like mad men while the quartet of Kyle Merber, Brycen Spratling, Brandon Johnson and Ben Blankenship (3:51.24 anchor) ran superbly to get the win and the world record in a race like no other.
LRC It’s Gold! U.S. Quartet Of Duane Solomon, Erik Sowinski, Cas Loxsom & Robby Andrews Win 4 X 800 In 7:04.84 Erik Sowinski ran like a beast on leg #2 and the rest was history as all 4 guys did a great job.
More In Depth: A Mature “Cool And Calm” Robby Andrews Anchors US To 4 X 800 Gold Andrews ran like a pro on the anchor and talked maturely about being back with coach Vig and the rest of 2015.
LRC The US Women Dominate And Set A New World Record Of 10:36.50 In Women’s DMR Total and complete domination by the US, which nearly had the best leg on every leg.
MB: Official 2015 IAAF World Relays Live Discussion Thread Talk about the action live as it happens.
LRC They 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?”
How To Watch World Relays Live TV from 7-10pm Eastern tonight and Sunday. Universal Sport, Eurosport 2 in Europe, & YouTube.
LRC Previews:
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.
Full coverage in our Special Section.
IAAF Previews: *W 4 X 100 *W 4 X 200 *W 4 X 400 *W 4 X x800 *W DMR *M 4 X 100 *M 4 X 200 *M 4 X 400 *M 4 X x800 *M DMR
What a week it was with London, Boston, Drake and Penn. Annie LeBlanc kept rolling at Penn, we’ve got an excuse for Zersenay Tadese, we tell you why so many of you hate sit and kick races, talk Larry the Legend‘s underwater treadmill, masters doping and more.
*DailyRelay’s Penn And Drake Recap
*DailyRelay’s 26 Thoughts On The 2015 London Marathon
*10 Reasons Why The Drake Relays Are Popular
Liliya Shobukhova Doping Hearing Cancelled By CAS The IAAF was appealing to make her 2-year ban a 4-year ban, but reports are saying that the IAAF and Russian athletics federation reached an out-of-court settlement.
$1.4 Million In Prize Money Up For Grabs At World Relays In The BahamasIAAF Personal Bests Q&A With TJ World Champ Caterine Ibarguen In this interview series, she’s probably the 100th athlete to name “herself” for the question about her “greatest rival.” However, in this case we think it was the right answer since she hasn’t been beaten since 2012.
Men LRC London Lives Up To The Hype As Eliud Kipchoge Takes Down Wilson Kipsang In Final Mile To Win In 2:04:42 (updated with QTs) This one was packed with drama as with 5 miles to go, it was down to the Big Three of Kipchoge, Kipsang and WR holder Dennis Kimetto plus ’14 runner-up Stanley Biwott. After a 4:33 25th mile, it was Kipchoge vs. Kipsang and after a 4:33 26th mile, Kipchoge was the winner – Kipsang finally breaking with 800 to go.
London On The Boards:
Bruce Jenner Says His “Brain Is More Female Than It Is Male” Jenner talks about reaction from his family, not being gay, and sexual reassignment surgery. “I’m not this bad person. I’m just doing what I have to do.”
LRC Sprint Action At World Relays (With Video) – Down Goes Jamaica And Bolt (For First Time Since 2008), Down Goes Felix And US, Tyson Gay Apologizes Bolt vs. Gatlin didn’t happen but there was still drama in the 4 x 100, a disaster in the 4 x 200, and an apology from Tyson Gay.
2015 Stanford Payton Jordan Was Saturday *Entries, Schedule And Results
LRC Women: Sally Kipyego Goes Sub-15:00, Nicole Tully Has Fast Debut, Emily Sisson Beats Jordan Hasay’s PR, And Meet Courtney Frerichs The women’s 5k and 10k were the highlights as Kipyego is returning to form and Nicole Tully continues her breakout year.
LRC Men: HSer Grant Fisher Impresses, Nick Symmonds And The 10k Guys Disappoint The 10k went out super slow as Andy Vernon got the win. A D2 guy won the 800, and Stanley Kebenei could be on the US Worlds team in the steeple.
Meb Keflezighi Has Gained 12 Pounds Since The Boston Marathon He was 121.4 before the race and 134.0 10 days later.
Mary Cain Wins 1,500 In 4:15 She won by 10 seconds, but was paced by Geena Lara the first 1,200. She also started the 5K, but stopped 3K in.
LRC Mizuno Renews Contract With 2015 Boston Marathon Champ Caroline Rotich
Vic Holchak Has Passed At Age 74 Credentialed as an Olympic journalist at age 16, he went on an television acting career but always loved track and was loved by the founders of LetsRun.com for being the voice of 1-800-94-Track .
On The Roads: Former World XC Champ Japhet Korir Wins 10K In Würzburg In 27:47 While Caroline Chepkemoi Wins Women’s Race In 32:36 James Rungara wins half in Nice, France in 60:12; Ednah Kimaiko wins women’s race in 70:45.
Women LRC Forget About Kenyan “Fantastic Four;” Ethiopia And Tigist Tufa Reign Supreme In London The “Fantastic Four” and “Fabulous Five” got all the pre-race love but Tufa, a 25-1 longshot, was patient this time and got the win over Mary Keitany in 2:23:22.
Paula Radcliffe Has Emotional Goodbye To Competive Running Video of Paula’s finish, interview with her, and article. Recommended read/watch.
LRC Video Highlights Of 2015 London Marathon
*RRW: Recap *IAAF
Asafa Powell Wins 100 In Guadeloupe In 10.08, Running Into A 2.6 m/s Headwind US’s Aleec Harris won the 110H in 13.18, Brittney Reese won the LJ and Tori Bowi the 100 (11.13). Sharika Nelvis beat Brianna Rollins in the 100H and Bershawn Jackson won the 400H.
Boston Marathoner Searching For The Man She Kissed In Wellsley On A Dare On a dare from her daughters, she reversed the typical Wellsley College tradition and got a photo of it. *AP Article
Fricker 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.
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.
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.”
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 …”
Despite Fall, Annie Bersagel Wins Dusseldorf Marathon In New PR Of 2:28:29 Marius Ionescu of Romania won the men’s race in 2:13:19.
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.
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