Two-Day London DL Meet Is Friday/Saturday *Full Fri. Results *Sat. Results *Television And Streaming Info *Schedule, Entries

LRC What A Race: Asbel Kiprop Toys With Field, Centro Beats Souleiman For 2nd Kiprop went from first to last in the span of 50 meters halfway through the race but it didn’t matter as he was back with the leaders with 300 to go and blew everyone away on the homestretch to get the win. Matthew Centrowitz ran well to finish second in 3:55.03, .03 ahead of Ayanleh Souleiman. (Includes Video)
On The Boards: What the f*** is Kiprop doing? *Kiprop: History’s Fastest Running Comedian! *Blankenship ran like an animal in London!

LRC Saturday Recap: Mercy Cherono Wins As Molly Huddle Almost Gets The Upset, Eunice Sum Stays Perfect And Nijel Amos Wins A Nail Biter With David Rudisha In the steeple, there was a fierce battle between Conseslus Kiopruto and Jarius Birech and in non-distance action, Renaud Lavillenie cleared 6 meters, Valerie Adams lost again and South Africa’s Wayde van Niekerk blew the 400 field away. We recap it all here.
*MB: London Day 2 Thread

LRC Usain Bolt Is (Almost) Back, Wins 100 In 9.87(Includes Video) Don’t hand the gold medal to Justin Gatlin just yet. Usain Bolt put together his best showing of 2015 by far, running 9.87 into a headwind twice within the span of an hour to win at the Sainsbury’s Anniversary Games.

LRCFriday Recap: Mo Farah Dominates The 3,000, While Laura Weightman Gets A Surprise 1,500 Win To Thrill The Home Crowd It was no contest as Farah took the 3,000 in a world-leading 7:34.66 while Weightman held off US’s Gabe Grunewald to get her first big international win.

• London OTB: 1st Day Official Thread
• Usain Bolt “Is Almost Back” – 9.87 Win Into Wind
• UK sprinter Richard Kilty pushes referee after 100 Final DQ
• Farah wins 3000m in 7:34.66
• Mary Cain, going backwards again :/
• Zero congrats to mo from comp?
• Whatsup with Cain

LRC Saturday Preview What A Mile – Kiprop Vs. Souleiman As Centro, Leo And Blankenship Try To Go Sub-3:50; Amos Vs. Rudisha (And Berian) Rematch At 800, Molly Huddle Tries To Win The 5k

• David Rudisha Thinking About Changing His Frontrunning Tactics In Order To Beat Nijel Amos “In most of my races I’m a front-runner and it’s always difficult because my opponents can easily calculate my speed … I’m comfortable running from behind and even running in a tactical race.”
• IAAF:Bolt Lights Up London As Farah Flies To World-Leading Win
• IAAF:Zharnel Hughes Provides London’s Sparkle As He Wins 200 In 20.05 Into A HeadwindMutaz Essa Barshim suffered another defeat as Italy’s Marco Fassinotti got the surprise win.
• Some Feared Mo Farah Might Get Mixed Reaction In London, But Home Crowd Gave Him A “Warm, If Not Wildly Raucous, Reception” Farah says he was “interested” in the British record (which he missed by just over a second), but said to himself, “Do I want to win the race or do I want to go for the time?”
• Bolt: “The heats were perfect for me but the finals were s—.”
• Olympic Heptathlon Champ Jessica Ennis Ties The Second Fastest Time Of Her Career To Finish 5th However, she still won’t commit 100% as to whether or not she’ll compete at the World Championships. *2nd Article
• Reigning World Champ Christine Ohuruogu Only Manages 4th In 400 At Anniversary Games As US’s Natasha Hastings Wins
• UK Independent:“Bolt of sunshine is just what athletics has been crying out for.”
• The Guardian:“Even now, after so many years and so many drills, he leaves the blocks like a man getting out of his favourite easy chair.”
• Pre-Meet Video W/ Bolt: “I’m not the savior of athletics, I just do my best.”

LRC Friday What Does Usain Bolt Do At 100? How Fast Does Mo Farah Try To Go At 3k? Friday DL Preview The DL meet in London is so good it takes up two days. We preview down Friday’s action, where two of the sports biggest stars, Mo Farah and Usain Bolt, take center stage. Farah faces Lopez Lomong & Bernard Lagat in the 3k, plus an American-heavy women’s 1,500 featuring Lauren Johnson, Katie Mackey, Treniere Moser.

• British Media Critical Of Mo Farah’s Availability Ahead Of London Anniversary Games Farah refused to go to the meet press conference and instead appeared on a British morning show where he was “lobbed softball questions.”
• Usain Bolt: “I’m not planning to lose so can’t answer that question.” Bolt’s response when asked if it would be bad for the sport if he was beaten by Justin Gatlin and lost his world record.
• Usain Bolt Feels Bad For Mo Farah And His Situation With NOP Doping Allegations Bolt: “I just really hope that he doesn’t take it too seriously and it doesn’t stress him out. It’s part of the sport, people like to point fingers.”
• Valerie Adams Says Defeat In Paris Gives Her More “Drive And Determination” Adams continues her comeback from the surgery she had in the off-season.
• IAAF Full Meet Preview Wayde van Niekerk in the 400, Mutaz Essa Barshim in the HJ, Renaud Lavillenie in the PV, Jessica Ennis vs. Sanya Richards-Ross in the 200 and Dawn Harper-Nelson in the 100H, and a good women’s 100 with English Gardner, Blessing Okagbare, Muriel Ahoure.

Week That Was

LRC What A Week – Shannon Rowbury Breaks 3:57, Eric Jenkins Breaks 13:10, 15-Year-Old American Sammy Watson Runs 2:03, And Is Maine Better Than Kenya At Producing Distance Runners?Shannon Rowbury reversed a very one-sided rivalry with Jenny Simpson to get the American 1,500 record, Eric Jenkins became the second-youngest American under 13:10, and 15-year-old Sammy Watson dropped a 2:03.55.

Previous Pan Am Games News

• Melissa Bishop Nips Alysia Montaño For 800 Gold At The Pan Am Games Bishop won in 1:59.62 to Montano’s 1:59.76.
  *USA Athlete Quotes From Montano And Other Medalists Montano said it was an “electric” experience losing to Bishop as she won gold on home soil.
• Canada’s NCAA Champ Andre De Grasse Wins 100 In 10.05 Jamaica’s Sherone Simpson won the 100 in 10.95 while USA’s Barbara Pierre was 3rd (11.01).
• Team USA Leads Medal Table After Three Golds On Wednesday NightJeff Henderson (LJ), Shamier Little (400H), Kibwe Johnson (hammer) all took gold.
• USATF Wednesday AM RecapRyan Martin and Clayton Murphy win their 800 semis to make Thursday’s final. *USA Athlete Quotes Including Ryan Martin And Clayton Murphy

Justin Gatlin Has Been Tested 59 Times By USADA Since Coming Back From His Drug Suspension In 2010
*MB: Justin Gatlin tested 59 times by USADA since 2010.

LRC Five Things To Watch At The 2015 Pan American Games There will be a lot of big names in action in Toronto and many story lines to follow, including:

1. The Andre De Grasse show.
2. A hot men’s 5,000 with Levins, Heath and Torrence.
3. Three 1:57 women, including Alysia Montaño in the 800.
4. Olympians Andrew Wheating & Nate Brannen vs. Kyle Merber.
5. Major star power (PPP, Ibarguen, etc.).

• Queen Harrison Sets Meet Record To Win 100H At Pan Am Games She ran 12.52 as US’s Tenaya Jones took silver in 12.84. Other US medals included Cory Leslie‘s bronze in the steeplechase and Aron Rono‘s silver in the 10,000. The winners in those events were Canadians and former NCAA athletes Matt Hughes (steeple) and Mo Ahmed (10,000).
• USA’s Kellyn Taylor Gets 5,000 Bronze She ran 15:52 as Brazil’s Julia Dos Santos won in 15:45.
• Jamaica’s O’Dayne Richards Wins Pan American Games Shot Put
• Lindsay Flanagan Gets Marathon Bronze For Team USA She ran 2:36.:30. The race was won by Peru’s Gladys Tejeda in 2:33:03.
• Marathoner Tyler McCandless Responds To His Removal From US Team “I never thought that accepting a nomination to the Pan Am Games would end in heartbreak … Humiliated, heart broken, and shattered are words to describe my feelings right now.”
  *MB: USATF accidentally gives Craig Leons Pan Am spot to Tyler McCandless. Should TrackTy give up slot?
• Andre De Grasse “Felt Pretty Good” Winning His 100 Heat Easily In 10.04
• Preview Of NCAA Athletes Competing At Pan AM Games Wednesday*Tuesday
• David Oliver, Jenn Shur, Wallace Spearmon Lead US Sprint/Field Athletes Desi Linden is in the 10,000.
• Full Team USA Roster
• MB:Official Discussion Thread 

More Recent / Upcoming Action

• MB: Foot Locker XC 10th Placer Conner Mantz Runs 3:51 Downhill Mile(Includes Video)
• Hammer World Record Holder Anita Wlodarcyzk Highlights Poland Champs With The 10th Farthest Throw In HistoryAdam Kszczot won the 800 in 1:46.70, beating out European indoor champ Marcin Lewandowski (1:47.32).
• AW Weekly Round-Up
• September 13: Mary Keitany Vs. London Marathon Champ Tigist Tufa Headlines Great North Run Half Marathon The field also includes Priscah Jeptoo and Gemma Steel.
• September 3: Four Fastest 100m Women In 2015 Announced For Zurich DL MeetShelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce will line up against English Gardner, Blessing Okagbare and Murielle Ahoure.

Sprint News / Controversy

• Bahrain Not Just Buying Kenyan Distance Runners Now:Jamaica’s Former Olympic Silver Medalist Shericka Williams Is Transferring Allegiance To Bahrain Two sub-10 100m men, Andrew Fisher and Kemarley Brown, are also switching nationalities.
• Irish Sprinter Steven Colvert Has A 2-Year Drug Ban For EPO But Is Adamant That He Never Cheated “When I come back and run PBs people will say ‘he’s a doper.’ I know because that’s what I say! I see Justin Gatlin, (and think) ‘he’s a bastard.'”
• Kevin Liao: “Justin Gatlin Deserves To Be On Athlete Of The Year Ballot” Despite Doping Past We agree that if he is free to compete, he should be eligible for the award. Whether or not he should be free to compete after testing positive twice is a separate debate.

If At First You Don’t Succeed …Japan Holding New International Design Contest To Choose Stadium For Tokyo 2020

2015 World Youth Champs In The Books *Results *Event-By-Event Recaps *Meet Website

• Final Day Report:USA’s Candace Hill Completes Sprint Double With A World Youth Record In The 200 At World Youth Championships She won in 22.43 to win by a ridiculous .47 seconds. Japan’s Abdul Hakim Sani Brown also won the sprint double, breaking Usain Bolt‘s championship record with 20.34.
• Team USA Wins Record Medal Haul USA took home 8 golds and 19 medals overall to top the medal tables. Kenya was next best with 5 golds and 13 overall.
• Samantha Watson Wins 800 Gold For Team USA In 2:03.54
• Kenya Gets Two More Gold Medals Via Richard Yator Kimunyan (3,000) And Vincent Kipyegon Ruto (2K Steeple) Yator ran 7:54.45, closing in 55 seconds to win a very close three-way sprint by .07 seconds.
• Day 4:USA’s Norman Grimes And Sydney McLaughlin Dominate To Win World Youth 400H Titles Ethiopia’s Bedatu Hirpa won the girls 1,500 in 4:12.92.
• Willy Tarbei And Kipyegon Bett Go 1-2 For Kenya In World Youth 800 Tarbei won in 1:45.58.
• Day 3:Kenya’s Kumari Taki Leads Wire-To-Wire To Win World Youth 1,500 In 3:36.38Celliphine Chepteek lead a 1-2 Kenyan finish in the girls 2K steeple. *AM Recap
• Christopher Taylor Breaks Usain Bolt’s Jamaican Youth 400m Record; Runs 45.27 To Win He ran 45.30 in the semifinal before going even faster to win the final.
• Jamaica Observer: “Taylor’s Gold Only Spark As Jamaica Ends World Youth Champs With One Medal”
• Day 2: USA’s Candace Hill Sets MR To Win World Youth 100 In 11.08*AM Recap
• Day 1:Japan’s Abdul Hakim Sani Brown Sets Meet Record To Win World Youth 100 In 10.28*AM Recap
• Ethiopia’s Shuru Bulo Won The World Youth 3,000 In 9:01 Over Kenya’s Emily Chebet
• Team USA Highlights: Day 4*Day 3*Day 2 *Day 1 *Athlete Quotes And More Here

Americans Drop Fast Times In Heusden *Full Results

LRC KBC Nacht Meeting:Ben True Gets IAAF Standard As Eric Jenkins Explodes To A 13:07 And Lauren Johnson Destroys Her PR To Make Worlds On A Night Full Of Fast American Running True ran 13:06 to seal the deal for Worlds with Jenkins right behind him in a huge PR. Abbey D’Agostino PRed at 5,000 as did Johnson to punch her ticket to Worlds in the 1,500. Other big names in action included Dejen Gebremeskel, Chris Derrick, Emily Sisson, Mary Cain, PVer Sandi Morris and Lolo Jones. Check out how they did.
*MB: Ben True Runs 13:06 5000m, Eric Jenkins 13:07

More Recent Action

• Jeffrey Eggleston (65:05) And Maegan Krifchin (1:15:17) Win Chicago Rock ‘N’ Roll Half Marathon In Hot And Humid Conditions
• Euro Junior Champs:UK Tops Medal Tables At European Junior Championships Iceland’s 19-year-old 2-flat runner Anita Hinriksdottir actually lost in the 800 as she only finished 3rd in 2:05.04. The race was won by Belarus’ Renee Eykens in 2:02.83. *Results
• Euro Part 1 Recap: Polish Shot Putter Konrad Bukowiecki Crushes David Storl’s Championship Record
• Hepathlete Morgan Lake Wins HJ To Lead GB Medal Haul At European Junior Champs
• Tajikistan’s Dilshod Nazarov And Russia’s Mariya Bespalova Win Znamensky Memorial Hammer Meet

• Mo Farah Might Only Do The 10,000 At World Champs “I will do the 10,000m for sure and then we will see about the 5,000m.”
• Mo Farah In A “Happy Place” Despite NOP Doping Allegations “I’ve answered all the questions that I’ve needed to answer. All I want to do is to be Mo Farah and continue running faster and enjoy it.”
• Nick Willis Wasn’t Thrilled With His New 1,500 PR In Monaco As He Only Finished 5th “I crossed the line not feeling the jubilation I thought after running a sub 3m 30s. I really wanted to finish in the top two.”
• Genzebe Dibaba: “I think Tirunesh will be happy, all of Ethiopia will be happy.”
• Renaud Lavillenie And Sandra Perkovic Return To Winning Ways In Monaco
• Joe Kovacs Produces World’s Best Shot Put Mark Since 2003 In Monaco
• Justin Gatlin: “Hopefully the 9.7sec will be my standard and I can get some rest and run faster in Beijing.”

• July 24-25: 41 World And 22 Olympic Champions Will Line Up When The Olympic Stadium Re-Opens For The London Anniversary Games Mo Farah, David Rudisha, Asbel Kiprop, Usain Bolt, Eunice Sum and more.
• July 30: Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Confirmed For Stockholm 100m

Doping Updates

• Justin Gatlin Calls Out London Anniversary Games Double Standards As He Is Barred From Racing There He won’t be invited, but other athletes with past doping bans like Asafa Powell and Mike Rodgers are. Gatlin also had some advice for Mo Farah in his current situation.
• Russia Withdrawing Its Racewalkers From All International Competition To Avoid “Disgrace” Due To Doping If they want to be extra sure, they could just withdraw the entire team.
• Gatlin Says His 4-Year Doping Ban Was A “Gift And A Curse “My body feels it’s like a 27-year-old instead of a 33-year-old who’s run those four years and feels tired.”
• Irish Sprinter Steven Colvert Gets Two-Year Doping Ban After He Tested Positive For EPO Last Year

Distance Stuff

• Craig Leon Added To US Pan Am Roster In The Marathon After USATF Admits It Forgot About Him When Making The Initial Selection Even after admitting that mistake, it took a “legal team” for Leon to get USATF to put him on the team. Mistakes like this shouldn’t happen; it’s a bad deal for both Leon and Tyler McCandless, who now loses a spot.
  *MB: USATF accidentally gives Craig Leons Pan Am spot to Tyler McCandless. Should TrackTy give up 
• Robby Andrews Talks About The Decision To Do The 1,500 Rather Than The 800 At USAs/Worlds “The 1,500 is my strong suit. I have more potential in the 1,500. It plays to my strengths. Coach [Jason] Vigilante told me that in the 1,500, I’d be closing in 1:48, and to do that I had to run 1:44.”
• Top Distance Runners Among Those Doing 22-Day, 520-Mile March For Peace In Kenya The walk for peace is to raise awareness of ethnic violence in northern Kenya, where cattle rustling and revenge killings are common. Wilson Kipsang, Paul Tergat, Ezekiel Kemboi, Haile Gebrselassie and Stephen Kiprotich are among those participating.
• Wilson Kipsang Completely Focused On Winning Marathon Gold In Beijing “One of the few things lacking in my career is a medal at the World Championships. … I dream of reclaiming the title for Kenya in Beijing.”

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.

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