2015 USAs Start 1 Week From Today With 10,000s *Schedule, entries, & results *TV & streaming

LRC2015 USA 10,000 Preview: Molly Huddle & Galen Rupp Are Heavily Favored, But Who Will Grab The Other Spots?

More Things For Alberto/ Nike To Explain

Mid-Day Update: David Epstein Round III Lauren Fleshman Speaks Out Against Alberto Salazar: “He encouraged me to push to be on the highest dose of (the medication) year round, which was something different than what the doctor had said.” Fleshman, the former 5-time NCAA, 2-time USA champ, also added, “Turning illness into an advantage was not right. That you take a medication to fix the problem, not to fix the problem and then go above and beyond.” Fleshman is additionally “extremely uncomfortable thinking of him coaching a Mary Cain.”
*MB: Lauren Fleshman speaks out – “I definitely do think that’s an ethical violation.”

Matt Lawton Round II Mo Farah Had Two Whereabouts Violations Before 2012 Olympics One was in 2010 before he started working with Alberto Salazar and one in 2011 after he started working with Salazar. Three in an 18-month period (12 months starting in 2015) would have gotten him banned. Salazar emailed Farah, “If you miss another test, they will hang you.”

• Slaney Speaks: Portland Tribune Talks To Mary Decker Slaney Who Says She Doesn’t Know If Alberto Salazar Is Guilty Of The Recent Doping Allegations She does however continue to deny that she ever doped and says Salazar wasn’t her primary coach when she tested positive.
• Mo Farah Will Race In Monaco DL Meet On July 17
• Farah “Shuns” His NOP Teammates? Hasn’t Been Seen By Them Since Scandal Broke And Now Is Training Solo At Altitude In France
• Josh Rohatinsky Makes Follow-Up Facebook Post Clairifying His Thoughts On The NOP Doping Allegations He emphasizes that he has no evidence and based on his experiences, was only suspicious of Galen Rupp, not any other NOP member.
• Oregon’s Ken Goe Concerned NOP Doping Allegations “Could Turn Next Week’s USATF Champs Into A Media Circus”

Distance Action: Bring Back The 10,000

• Muktar Edris And Gelete Burka Win Ethiopian 10,000 Trials In Hengelo In Their 2nd 10ks Ever Edris, the world leader at 5,000 last year, beat Imane Merga by .45 in 27:17.18, while Burka, the former wold indoor champ at 1,500, won by more than a second in 30:49.68.
• Kenyan Youth Trials: Emily And Sandra Chebet Lead Kenyan Team For This Summer’s World Youth Championships At the Kenyan Youth Trials, Emily ran a world-youth-leading 9:08 in the 3,000 and Sandra won the 2,000m steeple.
• Capital FM Meet Recap: Willy Tarbei Wins 800 In 1:44.51 Over Kipyegon Bett (1:44.55) Those times put them into the top five on the world youth all-time list. *2nd Article On Meet

• Pretty Cool: Owner And His Dog Wins State Street Dog Mile In 4:15 Josh Helton and his dog Bro broke the course record from 2008.
• South Dakota Joins Kansas In Moving Girls Up To 5K Distance For XC Now only in North Dakota, Oklahoma, and Texas do girls run a shorter distance than boys.
• NCAA Champ Collean Quigley And All-American Sammy Silva Join KIMbia Athletics Agency Alistair Cragg has also joined the group as an athlete manager.
• Ben True USATF Athlete Of The Week After Becoming The First American Man To Win A Diamond League 5,000
• Florence Kiplagat’s 65:12 Half Marathon WR Officially Ratified So too were the 15K and 20K records she set en route.

Upcoming

• Declarations For Next Weekend’s USATF Championships
  *MB: Rupp finally declares for USA Outdoors 5k and 10k
• French Stars Renaud Lavillenie And Pierre-Ambroise Bosse (800) Will Be Two Headliners At Monaco DL Meet On July 17th
• The 2015 Diamond League Series Has Reached Its Halfway Point: Update On Current Standings There is only one athlete who is one more win away from winning the overall series in their event and that is Croatian discus thrower Sandra Perkovic. She has won the Diamond Race for the past three years.

Japanese News

• All Three Kawauchi Brothers Running Sunday’s Okinoshima Ultramarathon To Honor Tenth Anniversary Of Father’s Death
• Highlights From Last Weekend’s Japanese National University Championships

2015 NCAA Is Over

• Andre De Grasse, Kendra Harrison, Marquis Dendy And Akela Jones Are NCAA Outdoor Athletes Of The Year
• Robert Johnson, Andy Powell, And John Smith (Southern Illinois) Named National Coaches Of The Year

$12 Million An Hour! Lady Gaga Was Paid $2 Million To Sing For 10 Minutes At Opening Of European Games In Baku

Pro Women News

• IAAF Inside Athletics: Ato Boldon Talks To Last Year’s Diamond League 400 Winner Novlene Williams-Mills Williams-Mills talks about her fight with breast cancer which she was diagnosed with weeks before the 2012 Olympics.
• After 4th Place NCAA Finish, Oregon Hammer Thrower Jillian Weir Will Reunite With Her Dad In South Carolina For Her Post-Collegiate Career Apparently Weir originally transferred to Oregon to be coached by her dad, Robert Weir, but then Robert Johnson became head coach and didn’t renew Weir’s contract.
• Sheffield United Soccer Team Will Remove Jessica Ennis’ Name From Their Stands This comes months after Ennis joined in protests against the club’s plans to re-sign convicted rapist Ched Evans.

Olympic News

• NY Times: Boston 2024 Revises Its Olympic Bid What was supposed to be “the most walkable Games in modern times” might end up with some very long walks.
• Former Mayor Shares His Five Steps To Saving Boston’s Olympic Bid
• Tokyo 2020 Receives Applications From 26 New Sports For Olympic Inclusion Leading the list are baseball and softball.
• Surfing Bids To Become An Olympic Sport
• Chess Bidding To Become Part Of The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Program Thankfully the chances of it winning selection are slim.

Updates On NOP Doping Allegations

• Cloud 259 Podcast Talks About NOP Doping Allegations And Interviews Grant Fisher For His Thoughts Interview with Fisher 21 minutes in. Fisher said, “It is a little weird hearing about it because I look up to a lot of those guys. I guess at this point they are allegations …”
• Former Oregon Project Runner Josh Rohatinsky Backs “Full Extent” Of BBC Doping Allegations Against Alberto Salazar Rohatinsky: “The entire time I was with the group there was always a wall of separation between Alberto and Galen with the rest of the group. The level of secrecy and seclusion was definitely palpable.”
  *MB: Josh Rohatinsky’s Thoughts on Salazar: “Galens progression from 2006-2012 was highly suspicious to me.”
• Steve Magness Happy To Talk To UKA Group Investigating Salazar – Farah Relationship And Doping Allegations
• UK Independent: “For The Sake Of Athletics, It’s Time Alberto Salazar Gave Us Some Real Answers” Apparently the Nike influence issue is new in the UK as the author writes, “It raises the question as to whether [Nike] has gone beyond the role of financial partner to become an influence on decisions in the sport.”
• Ed Warner: UKA Will Fully Support Mo Farah If He Cuts Ties With Alberto Salazar Warner also mentions the identities of the three people doing UKA’s “independent review” into Farah and Salazar.
• UKA Chairman Ed Warner Not Worried About NOP Allegations Fazing Mo Farah For Rest Of Season Well, we’re pretty sure they already did seeing as how he skipped the Birmingham DL meet.
• Former World Champions Colin Jackson And Donovan Bailey Back Mo Farah’s Decision To Stay With Salazar Pending Proof Of Doping Allegations

Portland Track Festival – A Few Fast Races And Some NOP Members Face The Media

Day 2 LRC Evan Jager Runs The Fastest 1,500 By An American-Born Athlete On American Soil With A Huge 3:32.97 PR Evan Jager surprised even himself with a 3:32.97 clocking at the Portland Track Festival as Garrett Heath helped make the race. In other action, Shannon Rowbury nearly ran an 800 PR and then doubled back in the 1,500 just 12 minutes later, Cam Levins got the standard in the 5,000 as Chris Derrick struggled, and Andy Bayer got the standard in the steeple.

LRC Cam Levins Discusses Doping Allegations, Admits To Starting To Take Asthma Medication After Leaving Southern Utah Levins says he’s not on thyroid medication.

LRC Shannon Rowbury On Alberto Salazar Doping Allegations: “I have a clean record. I have never cheated. I never would. I would rather quit the sport than do that.” Rowbury did a ridiculous double that included nearly an 800 PR, but the media members, even some from the UK, weren’t interested in talking to her about that.

LRC Chris Derrick Talks About The Galen Rupp And Alberto Salazar Doping Allegations – “I’m glad that Steve and Kara and Mr. Stiner came forward.” Derrick hopes that there is a good explanation for everything but says it’s good that people came forward with their concerns as the only way we’ll have a clean sport is if people aren’t afraid to speak up when they are concerned.

Ken Goe: Evan Jager gets a record, Shannon Rowbury and Cam Levins get questions at the Portland Track Festival
*Wow: Fiona Benson Becomes Just The 5th Canadian To Go Sub-2 In The 800; 2 Weeks Ago Her PR Was Only 2:08.53 She won in 1:59.94.
MB: Jager runs massive 3:32 1500m pb! (Heath 3:34)
MB: Did German Fernadez really just run a 3:57 1500? Or am I reading this wrong? 

Day 1: Emily Infeld Runs 21-Second PR (15:07) To Beat Shalane Flanagan, Desi Linden And Sara Hall Get 10k Qualifiers And Kara Goucher beat Jordan Hasay as Kara returned to the track for the first time in nearly 2 years and Jordan for the first time outdoors in 2015.
MB: HASAY BEAT BY GOUCHER????

2015 adidas GP *Full Results *TV & Streaming

LRC Ben True Becomes The First American Man To Win A Diamond League 5,000 (updated) An American man had never won a 5,000 on the DL circuit until today when Ben True kicked home to the title. Can he challenge Galen Rupp at USAs?
*MB: BEN MF TRUE!!!!!!

LRC Women’s 1,000: Mary Cain Improves But Still Struggling, Impressive Double For Treniere Moser, And Welcome Back Erin Donohue? Donohue, a 2008 Olympian who has barely run for the last 3 years, got the upset victory.

Rest Of Meet: LRC: David Rudisha Is Back, American Boris Berian Has Turned The US 800 Ranks Upside Down, Usain Bolt Is In Trouble, Ajee Wilson Is Dominant (updated) David Rudisha is back in the 1:43s, America’s best 800 ranks are in flux with former 1:48 man Boris Berian on top, Usain Bolt looks like he’s in trouble, Ajee Wilson is looking like she can win gold in Beijing and Grant Fisher won the HS Dream Mile.

LRC The Oregon Project’s Mary Cain And Treniere Moser Talk About The BBC’s Allegations Against Alberto Salazar Cain wasn’t too talkative (on that subject), but Moser says it “sucks.” The US’s first-ever DL 5,000 winner Ben True also shares his thoughts.

Outside Coverage:
*11-Year-Old Jonah Gorevic Sets Single-Age Mile Record With 4:51.85 Gorevic ran some interesting splits as he went 66.93, 75.87, 76.3, 72.75 to set the record.
*Bring Back The Mile Article On Grant Fisher’s And Christina Aragon’s Dream Mile Victories
*RRW Recap
*USA Athlete Quotes
*NY Times: Usain Bolt And Mary Cain Are Not At Their Fastest In Adidas Grand Prix
*Usain Bolt: “I Pretty Much Gave Up” In Slowest 200m Final Since 2006
*Ex-Giants RB David Wilson Struggles In Pro Debut In Triple Jump
*IAAF: Tori Bowie And Francena McCorory Dominante, Usain Bolt Challenged
*IAAF: Christabel Nettey Breaks LJ MR, Sandra Perkovic Stays Undefeated In Disucs
*IAAF: Confidence Boosting Wins For David Rudisha And Fabiana Murer

• Discussion: BEN MF TRUE!!!!!!
• Boris Berian – 1:43!!! He’s an American for those of you who have never heard of him.
• Centro 1:44 800 is a mistake. Wrong direction.
• Blanka Vlašic (*swoons*)
• Mary Cain Diamond League New York 1k!

More NCAA Coverage From Friday

Outside Coverage

AP Recap: USC And Canada’s De Grasse 9.75 & 19.58!!!, Ducks Crush The Competition King Ches got the best of Eric Jenkins in the 5,000 as the Ducks went 1-2-4, but even with 0 points in that event they would have won the meet.

• Ken Goe: Can you say dynasty? The Oregon Ducks roll to 4th straight track title (2 indoors, 2 out)
• Ken Goe: Historic performances by Florida’s Marquis Dendy, USC’s Andre De Grasse highlight NCAA track championships Dendy went 58’1.25″ (17.71m) and won by more than 2 feet.
• Eugene Register-Guard: Ducks Repeat As Sole Men’s Champs For 1st Time In Program History The Ducks repeated in 64-65 but the 65 title was shared with USC.
• R-G: Former Oregon Duck Chad Noelle Of Oklahoma State Wins 1,500 Noelle on time at UO: “It just wasn’t a good fit for me.”
• R-G: USC’s Andre De Grasse Steals The Show With 100-200 Double The USC Athletic Director implies he wants De Grasse to play football.

Day 3 Photo Gallery

*NCAA Post-Race Interviews

Full Coverage In Our 2015 NCAA Special Section

Friday On the Boards:

• De Grasse says F*ck the field– 9.75/19.58!!!
• “I hate how Distance running has become a jog and sprint fest…” .. BS!!
• Slowest 800 Mens NCAA win since 1955
• Official 2015 NCAA Outdoor T&F Live Discussion Thread
• Guys NCAA distance races very boring this year
• De Grasse saved the men’s meet!

Olso Diamond League *Watch On Demand *Results

Live Thread

LRC 50th Bislett Games Recap: Asbel Kiprop Wins The Dream Mile, Genzebe Dibaba Comes Up Short In 5,000 WR Attempt, And The HJ Fizzles Asbel Kiprop got the big win in the Dream Mile as the world record attempts in the women’s 5,000m, men’s HJ, and even the men’s mile all came up well short.

LRC Women’s 1,500: Laura Muir Becomes First Brit To Win A Diamond League 1,500 As Her Brave Front-Running Gets Rewarded Since the Brits are our #2 source of traffic, she gets her own article. We’re still looking for the Brits to make a thread super hot on their own. OTB: Laura MF Muir

• More: China’s Guowei Zhang Gets Huge Upset Win In Oslo HJ With 2.36m He beat a field that included Bogdan Bondarenko, Mutaz Essa Barshim and Ivan Ukhov. Caterine Ibarguen won her 25th straight TJ competition. She hasn’t lost since 2012.
• An Alternate Way To Rank The Diamond League: Which Athletes Have Taken Home The Most Prize Money? Currently Justin Gatlin and discus thrower Sandra Perkovic have raked in the most cash.
• Murielle Ahoure Wins 100 In 11.03; Christophe Lemaitre Takes 200 In 20.39 Talking about the 5,000, Genzebe Dibaba said, “I tried hard, but the pacemakers could not do what I needed … I did my best.”
• Brits Laura Muir And Greg Rutherford Win

Very Cool: Nick Willis Loses Road Mile To Four High Schoolers In Michigan Willis was running the mile while the high school team ran a 4 x 440y. They ran 3:56 to Willis’ 3:58.

Mo Farah Tells BBC He Is Feeling “More Upbeat” Since Initial Press Conference About Alberto Salazar Doping Scandal On Facebook, Farah added an extra apology about pulling out of the Birmingham DL meet.

2015 European Games Begin Today

• European Games 2015: Bans And Talk Of Boycotts Cloud Baku’s Big Moment
• Amnesty International Hit Back At Azerbaijani Government After Forced To Cancel Press Conference On Eve Of Baku 2015 Amnesty International was planning on delivering a “damning report” on human rights issues.
• Guardian: “Baku 2015’s gleaming stadiums a facade covering corrupt Azerbaijan regime.”
• Video: Baku 2015: Azerbaijan Cracks Down On Free Speech
• Two Cities Express Interest In Hosting 2019 European Games Following Withdrawal Of The Netherlands

RIP 1964 Olympic Sprint Champion And NFL Player Henry Carr Carr had an amazing career setting a 200 WR at 20 years old, winning the 1964 Olympic 200 and 4 x 400 after barely making the team and playing for the NY Giants.

Grant Fisher Is USATF Athlete Of The Week After Going Sub-4 “The four-minute barrier was kind of becoming a burden on me, so to have that out of the way and have these races coming up, my goals are to get in there and compete.”

Early Week Track Action

• Results: 2015 Vancouver Sun Harry Jerome International Track Classic Sarah Brown won the 1,500 in 4:07.67, while Sheila Reid was 6th (4:11.38). Anthony Romaniw beat Harun Abda in the 800 with 1:47.95, and back in 7th and 1:49.72 was Andrew Wheating. Ross Proudfoot won the 1,500 (3:39.62) over Nate Brannen and Wallace Spearmon won the 200 in 20.77.
• South Africa’s Henrico Bruintjies Runs 10.06 To Win 100 In Prague Now South Africa has two sprinters this season getting close to breaking the 10-second barrier.
• Starting Today: World 10,000 Silver Medalist Gladys Cherono Racing Kenya Defence Forces Athletics Championships She’ll run both the 5,000 and 10,000. Olympic 800 bronze medalist Timothy Kitum will also compete.

Salazar Responds; Farah’s Blood Being Analyzed

• Alberto Salazar Says His Accusers Are “Knowingly Making False Statements” And That He Will “Document And Present The Facts” “I have said all along that I believe in a clean sport, hard work and I deny all allegations of doping … The BBC and ProPublica have engaged in inaccurate and unfounded journalism …”
• Mo Farah’s Blood Record To Be Examined By UK Athletics To Check For Any Signs Of Doping UKA head Ed Warner said that even if nothing is proven, they might still end their relationship with Salazar.
• UK Athletics Chairman Ed Warner Warns Mo Farah Should Part From Alberto Salazar Seb Coe: “I’m not supporting [Salazar]. I’m just saying that I have no way of knowing the veracity of what’s been said.”
• GB Teammate Christine Ohuruogu Defends Mo Farah Saying He’s Been “Unfairly Dragged Into A Very Difficult Position” She points out how they are just “accusations” and Farah is being “overly scrutinized.”
• Columnist: “UK Athletics Has Questions To Answer After Alberto Salazar Allegations” Salazar also acts as a UK distance coach/adviser. Did he recommend other athletes take anything to boost performance?
• Ohuruogu Concerned Doping Accusations Will Distract Mo Farah And Hinder His Preparation For World Champs

Two Assistants – Two Totally Different Views

• Former NOP Coach John Cook Is “Not Surprised” By Alberto Salazar Doping Allegations 
• Former NOP Assistant Coach Bob Williams Defends Salazar And Rupp Williams, who helped Salazar in 2004 and 2005, says he was “privy to everything” and that there “absolutely” was no doping.

Mid-D Stuff

• Good Read: 2014 US Marathon Champ Tyler Pennel Blogs About Going Sub-4 For The First Time In The Same Race As Grant Fisher Pennel finished 2nd behind Jordan MacNamara, but ahead of Fisher.
• IAAF Personal Bests Q&A With Nijel Amos Amos says the best piece of advice he ever got was from Olympic 1,500 champ Taoufik Makhloufi, who told him “no one will give you anything for free in this world … So each day wake up and know you have to go out and work hard for what you want.”
• Sifan Hassan Is The Early Season Diamond League 1,500 Point Leader And Says The Best Is Still To Come Hassan is formerly of Ethiopia, but moved to the Netherlands in 2008. “Since I came [to the Netherlands] seven years ago, I’ve had no contact with the Ethiopian people … I feel more Dutch … it feels like my home.”

IAAF President Diack Awards IAAF Silver Order Of Merit To JAAF Honorary President Yohei Kono

Not Farah Certified – Mo Farah Flies Home To Portland Without Competing – Fans Get Screwed

• “Emotionally And Physically Drained” Mo Farah Pulls Out Of Birmingham Meet  – Apologizes To Fans Who Bought Tickets To Watch Him Discuss here. 
• British Pros Slam Farah For No-Show Kilty: “I’d have shown up on one leg. It’s a shame for the fans. I think a lot of people have paid to watch him today.”
• Fans Are Irate As Well: “You don’t go to a rugby match and see one of the teams pull out, for this event you’re coming to see individuals compete.”
• Paula Radcliffe And Steve Cram Criticize Farah For No-Show
• Press Irate That UK Athletics Officials Won’t Answer Questions
• The Telegraph Reveals Farah Wasn’t Entirely Truthful At Press Conference: Mo Farah Said At Press Conference He Was Told Of Salazar Allegations “Three To Four Days Ago” When In Reality He Was Sent A Letter On May 6th – Coe Calls On Salazar To Defend Himself
• Daily Mail: Mo Farah Should Have Run The Race, Not Run For Home
• Not Everyone Is Negative: Jenny Meadows Offers Some Support: “None of us think he’s done anything wrong.” But she did add a disclaimer: “Obviously, we want it (his 2012 golds) to be true. We really hope it is.”

Birmingham DL Sunday *Results

Live Birmingham Thread

LRC Recap: Javelin And 200 Highlight As Hassan And Amos Get First DL Wins Of Year And Lagat Masters 1,500 WR The biggest news was Mo Farah pulling out of the meet before hand, but on the track there was a thrilling women’s 200m, in the infield one of the best javelins ever, and in the distances, Hassan and Amos picked up their first DL wins of the year and Bernard Lagat another masters WR in one of his least impressive runs of the year.

LRC Fair Or Foul?  Should Julius Yego’s 91.39m Monster Javelin Throw Have Counted In Birmingham? Our analysis using a free online photo editor shows it should be a foul, but Jesse Squire tells you why it counted.

• Adam Gemili Becomes Sixth Brit To Break 10.00 But Then Crumbles To Track With Hamstring Injury – Says Fireworks At Finish Caused It
• IAAF Recap Of Jumps/Distance Events In Birmingham
• IAAF Recap Of Sprints/Hurdles In Birmingham
• IAAF Recap Of Throws In Birmingham

Mo Farah Spoke At Saturday’s Press Conference And We Learned A Lot *Discuss

Angry Mo Farah Wants Answers Over Alberto Salazar’s Doping Allegations And Reveals A Lot He said he has never been on thyroid medication, will sit down with Alberto face-to-face, speak with Steve Magness and others in the documentary, and also make his blood values public to show he has nothing to hide. We’d also like him and the entire NOP to release the list of supplements they admit to taking when they are drug tested. The sports “grey area” may need to change.

• More Nike Doping Allegations: Alberto Salazar Told Mo Farah He Wasn’t Coaching Mary Slaney When She Tested Positive
• Ken Goe Gets A Text Of A Liturgical Reading From Alberto And Shares His Thoughts On Doping Allegations Alberto Salazar texted Ken Goe: “An evil report he shall not fear; his heart is firm, trusting in the LORD. His heart is steadfast; he shall not fear till he looks down upon his foes.”
• Steph Twell Says Many Had Heard NOP Rumors
• Nick Symmonds On Twitter: Coach overnighted a good read to get me ready for tonight’s race! #OvalOffice #ChewRunGum #CleanSport 
• Editorials: Ben Bloom Editorial: Alberto Salazar Scandal Casts Shadow Over Second-Biggest British Athletics Meeting Of Year – Telegraph Bloom says, “No matter how much the powers protest, Britain is heavily involved in this episode.” It’s a great point.
• Amby Burfoot Editorial: No Rush To Judgment On Alberto Amby is one who realizes Nike has a big role to play in this.
• Sticking With Alberto: “It’s the wrong decision for the right reasons.”
• Editorial: Farah’s Smile Remains But He Must Ask Salazar Some Difficult Questions How can Salazar prove to Farah he wasn’t doping Rupp?
• Video Clip:

2015 Rome Golden Gala *Full Results

LRCSub-Four Win For Jenny Simpson, The Steeple Is For The Taking For The Americans, Crazy Fall In Women's Hurdles - 2015 Rome Women's Recap

LRCRome Men's Recap: Gatlin 9.75, Aman Over Amos Again, Kejelcha Is The Real Deal

• Justin Gatlin Refuses To Focus On Usain Bolt After Beating Bolt’s MR In Rome “The key thing to keep winning is to not think about it.”
• SAFP Scratches From 200 With Minor Injury She got to the warmup track 2 hours early to try to get loose and scratched as a precaution.

Full Coverage In Our Rome Special Section

• Qatar’s Femi Ogunode Breaks Asian 100m Record, Runs 9.91 To Win Asian Champs
• IAAF Recap: Qatari Sprinters Dominate At Asian Championships

Super-Fast Teenagers

• Jakob Ingebrigtsen 14-Year-Old – 3.50.57 On 1,500 –
• Rey Rivera (Sophomore From NJ) Runs 1:50.82 To Win NJ MOC (State Meet) 

The Person Formerly Known As Bruce Jenner

• ESPN To Honor Caitlyn Jenner With Arthur Ashe Courage Award Not everyone is happy. Tom Cruise’s son and Rojo disagree:
  MB: What has the world come to? ESPN to honor Caitlyn Jenner with the Arthur Ashes courage award.
  MB: PED’s Turned Bruce into Caitlin
• IOC Rejects Petition To Strip Bruce Jenner Of Olympic Gold

US – Non-NOP News

• 2016 U.S. Olympic Trials Marathon Course Unveiled
• UNCW Saves Its Track Program For 1 Year By Raising $250,000 – Must Raise $800,000 By Feb. 1 To Make It Permanent

The Week That Was – Our Weekly Recap

WTWMo Farah Earns Our Respect, Big 1,500 PRs For Kyle Merber And Stephanie Garcia, Mo Aman's Big Rebound, Meb's Masters Debut And Gallowalking To Comrades Glory

LRCVin, Mo, Galen, Alberto, Alexa And Justin: Six Thoughts On Prefontaine

Distance News

• Jordan Hasay Has Been Working Out Hard In The Pool And The Alter-G While Dealing With Plantar Fasciitis “This injury is the first time I’ve had to take more than five days in a row off for an injury in seven years. That was the year of the Olympic trials when I was 16.”
• Iceland’s Anita Hinriksdottir Hoping To Finally Break The 2-Minute 800 Barrier Today At The Games Of Small States Meet The 19-year-old has a PR of 2:00.49 which she ran 2 years ago.
• Q&A With Track Writer Jack Welch About The State Of US Running And What It Was Like Interviewing And Reporting On The All-Time Greats In The Sport Welch is the author of “When Running Was Young And So Were We” and co-founded “Running” magazine.
• Jo Pavey To Return To Glasgow For Great Scottish Run Half Marathon