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2015 Pan Am Games *Schedule, Entries, Results *LRC Five Things To Watch

• David Torrence Gets 5,000m Silver At Pan Am Games; Mexico’s Juan Luis Barrios Gets The Win Barrios ran 13:46.47 to beat Torrence by .13 seconds. Garrett Heath was a close 4th as Cam Levins was 5th. US’s Cory McGee finished 4th in the women’s 1,500, which was won by Colombia’s Muriel Coneo.
  *MB: Cam Levins horrible tactics gets boxed and beaten by four scrubs in last 200
  *MB: Rosa brothers, least Puerto Rican looking people ever, running for Puerto Rico
• Craig Leon (2:19:26) And Tim Young (2:19:34) Finish Fifth And Sixth For Team USA In Pan Am Marathon The race was won by Cuba’s Richer Perez in 2:17:04.
  *Quotes From Leon And Young Leon: “It’s crazy. I was an average high school runner, a college walk-on, and I never would have thought that this was possible. It’s a dream come true …”
  *MB: PAN AM MARATHON: US BOMBS
• IAAF: David Oliver Wins Pan Am 110H Re-Run In Championship Record 13.07

Rest In Peace: Athlete Manager Zane Branson Dies Suddenly In Iten, Kenya

*Pat Butcher’s Tribute To Zane Branson

Assorted Admin/Political News

• Bizarre: Athletics Australia Demands IAAF Investigation Into 1980 Olympic Triple Jump Results AA claims it has scientific evidence that Aussie athlete Ian Campbell was incorrectly denied a gold medal-winning jump. They also say that their sprinter Shirley Strickland de la Hunty should have won 200m bronze at the 1948 Olympics.
• D-Day For Boston: USOC Set To Make Decision On Boston 2024 On Monday With Los Angeles Ready To Step In
• Seb Coe Promises An “Olympic Athletics Dividend” Of $22 Million Would Be Shared Between The IAAF’s 214 Member Federations If He’s Elected IAAF President The money would be aimed at projects such as facility maintenance, competition staging and athlete preparation.
• Athletics Kenya Not Letting Youth Runners From World Youth Champs Compete At The Trials For Senior World Champs AK doesn’t want them burned out for Commonwealth Youth Games in early September.
• Canadian Olympic Chief Pledges To “Advocated And Lead” Toronto 2024 Olympic Bid

More Weekend Action *Morton Games Results

• Jake Edwards (3:56) And Heather Kampf (4:26) Win 8th Annual Ryan Shay Mile It was Kampf’s 4th consecutive title.
• Amputee Long Jumper Markus Rehm Wins German National Championships For Second Year In A Row However, the German athletics federation has ruled that while he’s allowed to compete alongside the able bodied athletes, his results don’t officially count since he receives an advantage from his carbon-fiber limb.
• Sunday: Kenya’s Stanley Biwott And Ethiopia’s Berhane Dibaba Lead Field For Sunday’s Bogota Half Marathon
• Yohan Blake Sets Stadium Record At Morton Games With 10.12 Victory In Cool Conditions Aussie Jeff Riseley won the Morton Mile over Pat Casey in 3:57.09. Ireland’s Ciara Mageean won the mile in 4:30.64 as Shelby Houlihan was 3rd (4:31.79). In the 800s, Ireland’s Karl Griffin ran 1:47.47 to beat Mike Rutt (1:47.60) and Robby Andrews (1:47.80). New Zealand’s World University Games champ Angela Petty won in 1:59.89. Australia’s Sam McEntee took the 3,000 in 7:48.35 as Will Geoghegan was 2nd (7:48.79).
  *MB: Robby Andrews fails to sit and kick and ends up 3rd in Morton 800m (Race Video)

Previous Pan Am News

• USATF Thursday Recap: Clayton Murphy And Ryan Martin Take 800m Gold And Bronze Murphy won in 1:47.19 over Colombia’s Rafith Rodriguez (1:47.23) while Martin ran 1:47.73. In the women’s 10,000, Desi Linden had to settle for silver behind Mexico’s Brenda Flores. Flores ran 32:41.33 to Linden’s 32:43.99.
  *Quotes From Murphy, Martin, Linden And More
  *MB: Linden 2nd at Pan Am 10000 m
• Jamaica’s Commonwealth Games Rasheed Dwyer Runs 19.80 In 200 Semis To Set A Pan Am Games Record The previous record was set in 1971 by Jamaican legend Don Quarrie.
• USATF Pan Am Thursday AM Recap: Women’s 100 / Men’s 200 Semis *Quotes From Wallace Spearmon, Kaylin Whitney, Others

• Press Conference Highlights Usain Bolt, David Rudisha, Aries Merritt And More Bolt: “I won’t really know how ready I am till tomorrow, but I’ve been training really hard and working on what I need to work on. Now we’ll see what happens.”
• David Rudisha Trying To Get Back On Track After Losing His Last Race To Nijel Amos “I have learned my weakness and for the few weeks I have I will see how best I will work on that.”
• Good Read: Writer In Irish Examiner Says It’s Time To Start Worrying About Usain Bolt He likens Bolt to the hero and Justin Gatlin to the villain. “Basically, it is track and field’s nightmare scenario unfolding; its clean and bright hero struggling just at the moment when the sport’s arch villain, the bloke who supposedly once spat into Bolt’s lane before a race to try to put him off, is soaring.”
• Recommended Read: Qatar’s Mutaz Barshim Returns To The Stadium Where He Won An Olympic Bronze Medal With A Broken Back “That night was life-changing for me … I thought: I can do that with a broken back, imagine what I am going to do when I am healthy.”
• Three Years Ago, 19-Year-Old Dina Asher-Smith Was One Of The Volunteers At The London Olympics; Now She Returns As A NR Holder Asher-Smith is hoping to bounce back from a disappointing Monaco meet by breaking her own GB 100m record.
• Can GB’s Sub-10 Second Men Chijindu Ujah And James Dasaolu Challenge Usain Bolt?

Post-Monaco 1,500 News *All LRC Coverage

• Good Q&A With Shannon Rowbury About Running 3:56.29 To Break The American 1,500 Record In Monaco Rowbury talks about her rivalry with Jenny Simpson, medaling at Worlds, training with NOP and her thoughts on the Turkish dopers who placed ahead of her at the 2012 Olympics.
  *MB: Shannon Rowbury Fires back at Jenny Simpson
• IAAF: “Genzebe Dibaba Is Finally A Master Of All Trades” (AKA Outdoors, Not Just Indoors) Dibaba mentions the cold shoulder she got from Almaz Ayana after the Paris 5,000 and compliments Chanelle Price‘s pacing. “The pacer did a really good job and I was confident in her. … She did such a good job that I knew I had to keep pushing. I didn’t want to waste the opportunity.”
• Interesting Stuff: Statistical Analysis Of Genzebe Dibaba’s 3:50.07 And Other World Records: Will Other Previously “Untouchable” Records Fall Too? Crazy Stat: Dibaba closed in 2:01.7 for the last 800m, which would have made her the 8th-fastest Ethiopian woman ever in the 800m.
  *Stat Analysis From Before Dibaba’s WR Saying How Many Women’s WRs Are “Unphysiological”
• Nick Willis After Running 3:29.66 To Finish 5th In Monaco: “It puts me in the top five or six in contention for medals.” Willis talks about staying away from the action before Monaco staying in a separate hotel and warming up outside the stadium.
• Dibaba Talks About Training With Men Rather Than Women And The Chinese Women Who Set The Records Before Her Looking ahead she said, “I am a dreamer … In the future, the records over 1,500m, 5,000m and even 800m – I’d like to beat them.”
• Rowbury Is USATF AOW

Tuesday In Switzerland *Results

LRC Gala Del Castelli: Germany’s Fabienne Kohlmann Gets Upset Victory In The 800 With 1:58.37; Bosnia’s Tuka Amel Wins Easily In 1:45.80 Molly Ludlow ran 1:59.05 to finish as runner-up while Erik Sowinski was 5th in the men’s race (1:46.95). Asafa Powell got another easy 100 win in 9.87.

• Asafa Powell Gets His 90th Sub-10
• IAAF: US Hurdler Ronnie Ash Ran 13.13 In The 110H Trials, But Didn’t Start In The Final
• Pre-Meet: LRC Bosnia’s Amel Tuka Vs. Erik Sowinksi & Switzerland’s Selina Buchel Vs. Molly Ludlow

Who’s Going To Worlds?

• Ethiopia Names Its Team: Genebe Dibaba Only Chosen In The 5,000 In 2013, the Ethiopian federation put Tirunesh Dibaba in only one event to give younger runners “experience.” We hope they don’t make the same mistake again; Genzebe should be in the 1,500 as well.
• Canada Sending 51 Athletes To Beijing Cam Levins will do the 5/10 double, Brandon McBride in the 800. Andre De Grasse in 100, but not 200.
  *MB: Nate Brannen runs 3:35 but not going to worlds b/c of Canada’s early deadline
• Two-Time NCAA Champ Sam Crouser Making Attempt To Get Javelin Standard Wednesday At Concordia Throws Meet Crouser was 3rd at USAs, but has only thrown 79.19m this year and needs 82.0m.

Upcoming: Bolt In London This Weekend

• Usain Bolt Up Against Mike Rodgers, Ryan Bailey, Nesta Carter, Kemar Bailey-Cole And France’s Jimmy Vicaut At London DL Meet Normally this would be easy for Bolt, but with his lack of form this year the Jamaican headline reads, “Bolt To Face Solid Test In London.” It definitely could be interesting.
• Jairus Birech Pulls Out Of London DL Meet With Malaria
• Yohan Blake Racing Morton Games In Ireland On Friday US athletes in action include Robby Andrews, Jordan McNamara and Shelby Houlihan.
• London Diamond League Provisional Entry Lists
• Preview: USA National Masters Track Championships Start Thursday
• Asafa Powell And Veronica Campbell-Brown Competing In American Track League Meet In Atlanta August 1st

2015 MONACO EXCEEDS THE HYPE *Full Results *TV & Streaming *2014 LRC Coverage

LRC Genzebe Dibaba Runs 3:50.07 To Smash 1,500m World Record!!! Shannon Rowbury Crushes AR! (updated) Genzebe Dibaba has done the unthinkable and has run 3:50.07 for 1,500m to smash the world record and take a Chinese WR off the books. Jenny Simpson served as a rabbit for Shannon Rowbury for 1,500 as Rowbury kicked home for the American record.

LRC Asbel Kiprop Puts On An Exhibition, Running 3:26.69 To Destroy 1,500 Field And Become Third-Fastest Man In History (udpated) It was the deepest men’s 1,500m race in history with ten of the top twelve setting lifetime personal bests, but no one was even close to touching Kiprop. Matthew Centrowitz PRed and became the fastest American-born runner in history. That’s the good news. The bad news – he was 10th.

Rest Of Monaco: A Guy You’ve Never Heard Of From Bosnia Runs 1:42.51, Boris Borian Runs 1:43.34, The Clean World Record In The Shot Put By Kovacs? And Ghribi Runs World-Leading Steeple Some European dude you’ve never heard of (Amel Tuka) ran 1:42.51, Boris Berian of the US went 1:43.34, Joe Kovacs threw a bomb in the shot, Justin Gatlin kept winning, Ghribi led a world-leading parade in the steeple as Emma Coburn had another sub-par race.

• Monaco On The MB: Official 2015 Monaco Diamond League Discussion Thread
• ‘MONACO HAS DONE IT AGAIN!’ DIBABA WORLD RECORD (3:50.07). ROWBURY AMERICAN RECORD (3:56.29)
• Holy Mother of ***. Kiprop 3:26.69!! At 70% fitness, he destroys the Monaco field.
• Matthew Centrowitz 3:30.40 – Fastest American born 1500m ever
• What is the new drug out there? Monaco times are unbelievable.

Full Coverage In Our Monaco DL Special Section

Doping News

• Nick Willis Talks About Doping And The State Of The Sport “My biggest fear is when sponsors are effectively in charge of the whole sport. People are scared of saying anything negative which might reflect poorly on their sponsor because they want to get into future races and negotiate better contracts.”
• International Athletes Celebrate The Suspension And Retirement Of Russia’s Doping Race Walking Coach Viktor Chegin Aussie racewalker Jared Tallent: “It’s a step in the right direction. I think a lot of us are still pretty skeptical. … Ideally I’d like to see that training center shut down.”
• Financial Times: “Guilty Until Proven Innocent In Athletics” (now free. no paywall required)

Hosting News

• NY Times: Japan Scraps Olympic Stadium Plan Over $2 Billion Price Tag Includes video with Prime Minisiter Shinzo Abe saying that the government would start over from zero on a new Olympic stadium plan.
• Funny Slideshow: Tokyo Olympic Stadium Mutates Into A Meme
• Architect Who Chose Design For Tokyo 2020 Olympic Stadium Admits Cost Too High But Warns, “We can’t abandon Zaha.” The cost of the stadium ballooned to almost double the original estimate.
• Toronto 2015 Defends Choice Of Non-Canadian Kanye West For Closing Ceremony As Music Is An “International Language”
• USOC And Boston 2024 Still Working Together To Ensure “Success” Of Olympic Bid Following Meeting

*LetsRun.com Monaco Preview *LRC Listen On Demand To Thursday’s Live Monaco Preview LRC Track Talk Show

Pre-Monaco MB Talk

• Monaco 1500 prediction thread
• Monaco rabbits will go through in 54, 1:50 and 2:17!!!!
• Cheesecake OUT of Monaco 3k
• Dibaba thinks she can go faster than 3:54!! “Last week I ran 3:54 and it felt comfortable.”

Distance News

• Jenny Simpson Says She Was Inspired By Deena Kastor And Shalane Flanagan When She Watched Them Winning Medals Now she’s focused on winning another medal of her own at Beijing 2015.
• Sunday: Jeffrey Eggleston, Fernando Cabada And Bobby Mack Headline This Sunday’s Rock ‘N’ Roll Chicago Half Marathon Women’s race is lead by Lindsey Scherf and Maegan Krifchin.
• Vivian Cheruiyot Working Hard To Reclaim A World Title In Beijing In 2011, she won the 5,000/10,000 double, but isn’t sure which event she’ll focus on for 2015.
• RunnersTribe Looks At Some Of The Top Australian Running Books Top of the list is “The Unforgiving Minute” by Ron Clarke.

USA Women Clean Up In Liege, Belgium *Full Results *Meet Website

International Meeting De Liege: LRC Victories And PRs For Alexa Efraimson And Rachel Schneider Schneider won the 1,500 in 4:07.88 while Mary Cain made big improvements on her SB with 4:09.08 in 4th. Efraimson got the 800 victory in 2:01.11. Bahrain’s Abraham Rotich won the men’s 800 in 1:45.81 as NCAA champion Edward Kemboi was 3rd (1:46.94). *Discuss
*MB: Efraimson and Cain still dodging each other

Kara Goucher Issues A Statement – “I firmly stand by all my statements. It was because of the illegal actions that occurred at the Oregon Project under Alberto Salazar that I chose to leave the group … Any new knowledge will be shared to USADA alone.” Kara Goucher issued a statement today saying she will not publicly share more information about the Nike Oregon Project investigation in order to clear her name as she previously said she would do. Instead she will only share info with USADA.
On The Boards: Goucher releases statement: Further evidence will only be shared with USADA

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”

2015 Paris DL And AJC Peachtree Photos