July 14, 2015 | LetsRun.com

Our Weekly Recap Is Back

WTW Nike Is Correct – Actions Speak Louder Than Words In Regards To Doping, Meet The Family That Soon Will Have Three Sub-4 Milers, We Say Goodbye To A Coaching Legend And Hello To African 43-Second 400 Runners, And Is Scott Jurek’s New WR “Soft”? After a summer hiatus, The Week That Was is back. We do our best to avoid talk of the Nike Oregon Project doping investigation but can’t help but criticize Nike and Mo Farah‘s reaction to it. All of that plus praise for Genzebe Dibaba, Alexa Efraimson, Kerri Gallagher, Eric Jenkins, Lopez Lomong and Amel Tuka.

Pro Distance News

Nick Willis Runs 1:46.9 In Time Trial 3 Days Before Monaco DL 1,500
*MB: Nick Willis runs 1:46 in an 800 time trial!
RW Talks With US National Champ Nicole Tully About Being A Pro Athlete While Working Full-Time And Her Move To The 5,000 This Year She’ll be competing in the London DL meet later this month and is hoping to go sub-15 in what will be her third 5,000m race.
With The National Championships Behind Them, Kenyan Distance Runners Look Ahead To The World Champs Trials At The End Of The Month Kenya’s Daily Nation talks to Sally Kipyego and Betsy Saina about returning to Kenya to get ready for the qualifiers.
Carrie Tollefson Does Video Interview With High School Pro Marathoner Alana Hadley

Other Distance Stuff

Recommended Read: 14-Year-Old Amaris Tyynismaa Has Used Running To Almost “Cure” Her Tourette Syndrome In the process, she’s become one of the country’s top young runners, running times that could have qualified her for Foot Locker finals as an 8th grader.
Pippa Middleton (Younger Sister Of The Duchess Of Cambridge) Completes Her First Marathon With 3:56:33 In Kenya She placed 7th in the woman’s race, the first non-African.
*MB: Pippa “The Booty” Middleton goes to Kenya, runs Marathon, destroys field of local runners
College Humor Sketch Makes Fun Of Runners: “If People Talked About Other Hobbies Like They Talk About Running”

Kenyan National Champs Are In The Books *Distance Results

World XC Champ Geoffrey Kamworor Follows Up His First Round 13:13 5,000 With A 13:14 To Win Over World Bronze Medalist Isaiah Koech (13:23) Other big name winners included Asbel Kiprop (1:45.4) beating Olympic bronze medalist Timothy Kitum in the 800 by .1 and Vivian Cheruiyot in the 1,500 (4:09.88).
*MB: It’s official: Geoffrey Kamworor ran 13:13 in heats, 13:14 in final of Kenyan 5k champ at ALTITUDE
Four National Sprint Records Go Down, Led By Mike Mokamba’s 10.23 This got Mokamba the Worlds “B” standard. Joyce Sakari broke her own 400 NR with 51.14.
Commonwealth Champ Joyce Chepkirui Wins 10,000 In 32:08.00 She just beat former world youth 3,000m champion Jackline Chepngeno (32:08.18).
Asbel Kiprop Says He’s Only “70 Percent In Shape” But Is Hoping For A Fast 1,500 Time At Next Week’s Monaco Diamond League Meet
David Rudisha Says He Is Progressing And In Much Better Shape Than Last Year Coach Brother Colm O’Connell says Rudisha is still on the upswing and getting closer to his best with each race.

World University Games *Results

BYU’s Shaquille Walker Wins World University Games 800 Title In 1:49.05 He’s the first US man to win the WUG 800 since 1979.
*Irish 800 Man Mark English Disappoints, Finishing 8th In 1:50
Final Day IAAF Report: Pavel Shalin Wins LJ To Bring Russia’s Gold Medal Tally To 12 Japan’s Yusuke Ogura (1:04:41) and China’s Zhang Yingying (1:15:06) win half marathon titles.
Kazakhstan’s Viktoriya Zyabkina Becomes First Woman Since 1987 Win Sprint Double At WUG Russia’s Ekaterina Sokolenko set a MR and 9-second PR to win the steeplechase in 9:25.77.
Saturday Report: Germany’s Anna Maiwald Takes Heptathlon Title Germany got several wins as Martin Grau won the steeple in 8:31.55.
Jamaica’s National Champ Danielle Williams Wins 100H At World University Games, Beating Russia’s Nina Marozova And Australia’s Michelle Jenneke NZ’s Kate Angela Petty won the 800 in 1:59.06 over Jamaica’s Simoya Campbell (1:59.26).
South Africa’s Justine Palframan Wins 400m Gold At World University Games In 51.27

New Zealand Puts Their Support Behind Seb Coe For IAAF President

Distance Works: SPIKES Talks To South Africa’s Wayde van Niekerk After His Breakout 400 Performance From Paris DL, Where He Won In 43.96 Interestingly, he says he does repeats of 800m to 1,000m, although he describes them as “a drag and torture.”

2015 Lausanne DL Full Results TV & Streaming *2014 Coverage

FULL RESULTS

Men’s Recap: LRC Mo Farah Dominates & Nijel Amos (1:43.27) Takes Down David Rudisha Running in his first race since the NOP doping investigation became public, Mo Farah celebrated his win as if he’d won a World title while Nijel Amos won a big battle in the men’s 800 but limped off the track injured. Justin Gatlin won the awesome men’s 100 battle over Tyson Gay and Asafa Powell.
*MB: More Mo Farah – Andy Vernon drama – Farah tells Vernon to “F*** off” after Lausanne win

Update: LRC After Fall In Lausanne, Caleb Ndiku Has To Go To Hospital, Receives 3 Staples And Will Miss Some Training, Still Hoping To Race In Monaco

Women’s Recap: LRC Jenny Simpson And Emma Coburn Have To Settle For 3rd As Sifan Hassan (4:02.36) & Virginia Nyambura (9:16.99) Grab Wins In 1,500, Steeple Hassan was far and away the best over the final 100 as she won over Faith Kipyegon (4:03.38) while Simpson was third in 4:03.54. Nyambura won for the third time in four DL races with Coburn running 9:20.67 for third. Switzerland’s Selina Büchel won the non-DL 800 (2:01.68) while Dawn Harper-Nelson (12.55 100H) and Allyson Felix (22.09 200) also grabbed wins.

Outside Coverage:

Lausanne On The Message Board:

Full Coverage In Our 2015 Lausanne DL Special Section

Upcoming: Bolt Will Be Back At It In London

London DL: Usain Bolt Announced For Sainsbury’s Anniversary Games 100m In London Olympic Stadium On July 24th Other big names competing include Mo Farah, David Rudisha, Mutaz Essa Barshim, Jessica Ennis and Greg Rutherford.
Raleigh, NC: Olympians And Past Champions Headline 2015 Sir Walter Miler Fields On August 7th Women’s field has Morgan Uceny, Erin Donohue and Emily Lipari. Men’s lead by Cory Leslie, Craig Forys, Ford Palmer.
Cali, Colombia: Q&A With 15-Year-Old 2:04.27 800 Runner Sammy Watson Ahead Of Next Week’s World Youth Champs
*IAAF Release Statistics EBook For Next Week’s World Youth Championships In Cali, Columbia

Other News Of Note

Excellent Guest Column

LRC Dealing With Depression: How I Got Past Suicidal Thoughts While Running In College For a while, life didn’t feel real to Nico Composto – it existed entirely in his head. Might a fall from the 12th floor window make all the pain go away? Thankfully, Composto realized that suicide wasn’t the answer. He shares his powerful story of how he overcame suicidal thoughts out of a desire to help others.

Upcoming: Lagat Leads Deep Field Of Americans Today In Switzerland *Live Results

Start Lists: Spitzen Leichtathletik Meeting In Lucerne, Switzerland A lot of Americans competing, including Bernard Lagat, Will Leer, Ben Blankenship, Garrett Heath, Lopez Lomong, Andy Bayer in the 3,000, Charles Jock, Chanelle Price, Molly Ludlow, Gabriele Grunewald in the 800s.
*Asafa Powell, Veronica Campbell-Brown, Warren Weir And Yohan Blake Competing This will be Blake’s first race outside Jamaica in over a year.
Wednesday In Belgium: Start Lists: Mary Cain Runs First 1,500 Since USAs She faces Shelby Houlihan, Katie Mackey, Cory McGee, Heather Kampf and Ashley Higginson. Alexa Efraimson is in the 800. *Meet Website
Gabriele Grunewald, Jordan McNamara To Defend GNC Live Well Liberty Mile Titles On July 31st

Sprint News

Justin Gatlin Ineligible For IAAF Athlete Of The Year After New Rule Change Disqualifies Athletes With A “Serious Doping Offence” We’re not Justin Gatlin fans, but we agree with the British ultra runner who said, “If he’s allowed to race then he should be eligible.” After all it’s not a “sportsmanship” or “personality” award. It’s for the athlete who performed the best.
The Telegraph: Allyson Felix Has “Perfect Blend Of Style And Substance” The Telegraph talks to Felix about her smooth running style which contrasts so drastically to the quick turnover of the “power runners” like Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce.
IAAF Personal Bests Q&A With Puerto Rico’s Two-Time World 400H Silver Medalist Javier Culson Culson says his greatest achievement outside track is being a father to his daughter.
Jamaican Opinion Piece: “Respect is due to Asafa Powell, but … unfortunately there will always be that but.” Powell has surprised by coming back to be Jamaica’s current top sprinter, but will he finally be able to overcome his tendency to choke on the biggest stage?
Random: Asafa Powell Raced Against Olympic Cross-Country Ski Champion Dario Cologna In Switzerland Powell ran on a track while Cologna was on snow.
*Race Video
From The Weekend: South Africa’s Carina Horn Equaled A 25-Year-Old National Record When She Ran 11.06 In Madrid
GB 400 Runner Richard Buck (45.61 PR) Retiring From Track To Pursue An Acting Career *2nd Article

Weekend Track/Road Action Madrid Results Edmonton Results *Boilermaker

Sunday: Duane Solomon Avoids The “Gray Zone,” Takes Down Erik Sowinski And Nick Symmonds In 1:46 Maggie Vessey won the women’s 800.
*With Injury And Coaching Change, LaShawn Merritt Has Had A Rocky Year But Is Trying To “Bounce Back” Merritt says that he has a lot more room for improvement in training. “My biggest gun that I have in my bag I haven’t even pulled out yet …”
*Full Results LaShawn Merrit wins 400 in 44.36; Jeremy Wariner 4th (45.42).
Kenyans Eliud Ngetich (43:31) And Mary Wacera (48:49) Win Boilermaker 15K Canada’s Reid Coolsaet was 8th (44:33) as Fernando Cabada was the top American in 11th (45:13). Clara Santucci was the first American woman in 7th (51:59).
Saturday: Madrid World Challenge Mike Rodgers broke 10.00 twice and ran 9.88 in the final, Melissa Bishop beat Chanelle Price and Lynsey Sharp in the women’s 800, and Bosnia and Herzegovina has a 1:43 guy as 24-year-old Amel Tuka, who started the year with a 1:46.12 PR, ran 1:43.84 to tie Boris Berian at #7 in the world for 2015.
Guldensporen Meet In Belgium: GB’s Ross Murray Beats Eric Jenkins, Chris O’Hare And Ford Palmer With 3:38.98 A ton of Americans competed at this one. Heather Kampf beat Abbey D’Agostino by .05 in the 1,500 with 4:08.73. Rachel Johnson won the steeple in 9:57, GB’s Jenny Meadows beat Alexa Efraimson in the 800 (2:00.56 to 2:01.33).

Jamie Cheever Wins Letterkenny Steeplechase In 9:40.99 USA Minnesota’s Jon Peterson won the mile in 4:00.41. More results on event’s Facebook page.
Chris Solinsky Runs 3,000 At Wisconsin Summer Track Series Meet Results should be posted here eventually. *Photo On Twitter

Track At Pan American Games Starts Saturday Meet Website Schedule/Results

Kyle Merber Hoping He And Andrew Wheating Can Go 1-2 In Pan Am Games 1,500
Absolutely Insane: 2015 Toronto Pan Am Games Requiring People Seek Formal Permission To Link To Its Website Their website is here. No, we didn’t ask.
*UPDATE: Organizers have changed their rule and you can now link to their site without threat of lawsuit.
National Federations Angered By Organizers Trying To Change Track Qualifying Standards At The Last Second To Limit The Fields Toronto 2015 organizers are attempting to reduce the number of track athletes from the 1,100 originally qualified to 680.
Six Athletes Set To Be Cut From Trinidad And Tobago’s Pan Am Team Due To New Standards 8 athletes from Jamaica’s team set to be cut.

News Of Note

Plan Ahead Now TV & Streaming Info For 2015 IAAF Beijing World Track And Field Championships: NBC And Universal Sports Will Provide 35 Hours Of Live Coverage – 48 Hours Total East Coast fans, you are going to need to go into work late on a few days during the week as the evening sessions end a few days at 10 am ET. West Coast people – you are going to have some ridiculously early mornings if you want to watch mid-week stuff live.
Running Legends Joan Benoit Samuelson And Deena Kastor Return To Chicago In 2015 – Kastor Wants Masters AR, Joanie Wants To Run Within 30 Minutes Of Her 1985 AR
*MB: 2015 Berlin gets the Mutais and Eliud Kipchoge – 2015 Chicago gets Deena Kastor and Joanie
Recommended Read: Longtime Gophers Track And Field Coach Roy Griak Dies At 91
*MB: RIP Roy Griak – A Legend
*USTFCCCA Tribute To Roy Griak
Oiselle’s First Nest – Oiselle Has Opened Its First Retail Store In Seattle
Erik Sowinski Wants A 1:43 This Summer And A Spot In WC Final “I am just excited to wear the red, white and blue.”
London 2012 Déjà Vu: Canada’s Former Olympic Champ And WR Holder Donovan Bailey Sky Dives With Torch Into Pan Am Games Opening Ceremony

Boston 2024 Claim Latest Poll Figures Show Increase In Support For Olympic Bid Within Massachusetts However, polls specifically within Boston show more than 50% opposition.

Previous WUG News

Ireland’s Thomas Barr Wins 400H At World University Games First Irish athlete to win a title at the meet since Sonia O’Sullivan in 1991.
Akani Simbine Equals Henricho Bruinjties’ 4-Day-Old South African Record Of 9.97 To Win World University Games
One Fast House: Simbine And Bruinjties Are Housemates
IAAF Recap Of First 2 Days Of 2015 World University Games

Profiles

Spikes Profiles Marquis Dendy Did you know his aunt was a 1988 Olympian?
CNN Catches Up With 16-Year-Old Candace Hill And Calls Her “The Fastest Girl Of All Time” Let’s hope she doesn’t end up like former teen phenoms Mary Slaney and Marion Jones.
Steve Prefontaine Was Great, But Rod Dixon Was Better

Mid-Week Action In Italy, Ireland & Hungary – Cork City Sports Meet Results Free Video Replay *Full Lignano, Italy Results

Lignano, Italy *MB: Kerri Gallagher Is Going To Worlds – Runs 5-Second PR (4:03.56) – Efraimson 4:05 Gallagher had a 4:09 PR prior to USAs.
*MB: Jenkins 7:41 3k in Lignano!
*LRC Full Results – Jenkins crushed m3,000, Riseley won m800, Willis m1,500.

Ireland: Big Green Domination LRC Abbey D’Agostino And Will Geoghegan Are Dominant Winners At 2015 Cork City Sports International Athletics Meeting In the women’s 3k, Mary Cain led from 1k to 2k but Abbey D dominated the final 900. In other action, in the battle of guys who have run 13:21 this year, Brett Robinson took down Jeff See. Heather Kampf and Michael Rutt won the 800s as Will G schooled everyone in the mile.
*MB: Merber, Cain, Riley Masters, Abbey D, L. Wallace all in Ireland’s Cork City Sports Meet today (free YouTube feed) 2:25-4 pm ET

Hungary: IAAF Istvan Gyulai Memorial Recap: Ronald Kwemoi Beats Silas Kiplagat By Over A Second In 1,500 (3:37 To 3:38) Evan Jager fans should rejoice as Jairus Birech raced again (is he overracing?) and won in 8:16. Barshim won the HJ (2.36m); Fajdek heaved a world-leading 83.12m,
*Sprints: LaShawn Merritt Loses Again – Runs 44.43 As Teenager Steven Gardiner Runs 44.30 Justin Gatlin ran 10.02 (-1.1m/s wind) as VCB ran a season’s best 10.99 (-1.2m/s wind).
*Omar McLeod Suffers “Slight Hamstring Cramp” In European Debut, DNFs

2014 World Junior 400m Hurdles Champion Jaheel Hyde Pulls Plug On 2015 Season Due To Hamstring Injury

Vin Lananna Is Trying To Grow The Sport – Are You?

Great Idea: Following In BIll Bowerman’s Footsteps, Vin Lananna Will Offer Free Coaching To Eugene Locals In Basics Of Running And How To Run 5k, Half And Marathon
Details About Vin Lananna’s TrackTown Summer Series Idea For 2016 That Would Keep Athletes From Running To Europe Portland, Seattle, San Francisco and Sacramento, Calif. might all have meets.

UK News

Random Links

Admin / Politics

Papa Massata Diack Wants IAAF Ethics Commission To Speed Up Their Investigation They are investigating the IAAF President’s son for corruption charges related to taking bribes from Qatar.
Seb Coe Puts Out IAAF Presidential Campaign Video With Endorsing From Top Stars David Rudisha, Haile Gebrselassie, Jessica Ennis, Valerie Adams and Yelena Isinbayeva spoke on his behalf.
Adrian Durant Named Men’s Head Track Coach At Cornell

Lausanne Photo Gallery And Mo Farah Going Nuts (Click For Full Gallery)

Big Ultra News

U-23 Champs And More European Action *U23 Champs Results

Euro Under-23 Champs: Turkey’s Ali Kaya Completes Double By Winning 5,000 In 13:20 Other impressive distance performances included Amela Terzic‘s 4:04.77, Tugba Guvenc‘s 9:36 steeple and Renelle Lamote‘s 2:00.19. Germany’s Rebekka Haase became first in event history to take three gold medals, winning the 100, 200 and 4 x 100.
Day 1: Ali Kaya Wins 10,000 In A Meet Record Of 27:53 Netherlands’ Jip Vastenburg won the women’s 10,000 in 32:18.
*AW Final Recap *Day 1 *Day 2 *European-Athletics.org Coverage
French National Champs: Jimmy Vicaut And Christophe Lemaitire Clash Twice And Get One Win Apiece Vicaut won the 100 in 9.92 to Lemaitre’s 10.07, while Lemaitre won the 200, 20.28 to 20.42. *2nd Article
Day 2 English Schools Championships Recap
*Day 1: Records Fall At English Schools Championships
Athletics Weekly’s Weekly Round-Up

More Distance Stuff

Good Read: Outside Magazine Story On Scott Jurek’s Attempt To Break The Appalachian Trail Record Jurek has been hampered by injury and illness as he tries to break the current 46-day record for the 2,160-mile trail. Will he get the record? It’s going to be close.
UK Independent Opinion Column: “Mo Farah Would Do Better To Bite His Tongue” “If Mo Farah had not already shelled out thousands for a PR firm, yesterday he’d have done well to hire one.”

2015 Barcelona Results Race Video

Wow LRC Genzebe Dibaba Runs 3:54.11 For 1,500 In Barcelona – The Fastest Time In The World Since 1997 Jenny Simpson fans, it’s time to start praying that Dibaba doesn’t double at Worlds as she just ran the fastest 1,500 since 1997. Also Ayanleh Souleiman put up a 1:43.08 world leader in the men’s 800. *Video
*MB: Genzebe Dibaba just ran 3:54.11 for 1500 in Spain!

More Big News From Wednesday

LRC Analysis Eliud Kipchoge, Emmanuel Mutai & Geoffrey Mutai Announced For 2015 BMW Berlin Marathon A year ago, in his sixth career marathon, Dennis Kimetto set the WR in Berlin at age 30. Will history repeat this year when the 30-year-old Eliud Kipchoge toes the line in his sixth career race at 26.2? What type of chance does Geoffrey Mutai – the Roger Federer of men’s marathoning – have?
*MB: Eliud Kipchoge. Emmanuel Mutai and Geoffrey Mutai in 2015 Berlin Marathon
*Eliud Kipchoge Is Excited About Berlin “Dennis Kimetto’s world record would be hard to break so soon, but everything is possible if the conditions are right and people are prepared for the task.”

Appalachian Trail Record Holder Jennifer Pharr Davis Is Ready For Her Record To Be Broken By Scott Jurek She’ll obviously still hold the women’s record. In what other event is the women’s WR better than the men’s?