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Quote Of The Day

“I don’t see sprinting as the prime event anymore. These boys can hide too much. Shot put has become more exciting than the men’s 100m because we very seldom see the best men lining up.”

“Everybody wants to duck and hide. This is not boxing. It’s a race. It’s what we do. When you want to duck and hide it is a form of killing the sport and the event.”

– Former 100m world champion Kim Collins talking about how top sprinters always dodging each other is killing the event. We think some level of uncertainty and anticipation between Usain Bolt and Justin Gatlin going into the World Championships is a good thing, but it’s ridiculous that the two fastest athletes in the 100m haven’t raced each other head-to-head in almost two years.

The Bolt Vs. Gatlin Rivalry Is Brewing

Good Read: GB’s Former World Medalist Darren Campbell: “Usain Bolt v. Justin Gatlin could produce ‘crazy’ time.” “They both believe they can win gold. That makes it exciting. … Rivalries are important because it makes people dig deeper.”
Independent Writer Says Bolt Vs. Gatlin Clash Is Like “Chariots Of Fire Rewritten For Marvel Comics”
What About The Sport?: Kim Collins Complains About Men’s Sprinters Always Dodging Each Other “Shot put has become more exciting than the men’s 100m because we very seldom see the best men lining up.”
Seb Coe: “The sport for all sorts of reasons needs Usain to come through in Beijing.”

Monday Morning Doping Updates

Mo Farah Questioned For Five Hours By USADA Lawyer (Bill Bock) Who Helped Bring Down Lance Armstrong Farah agreed to meet him and afterwards said, “It went alright… It’s all good. And I’m good, good, good.”
*Bock Also Questioning UK Athletics Head Neil Black
*MB:Mo Farah met USADA
InsideTheGames: “Positive doping tests declined in 2014 – but is this good news or bad news?” Are fewer people doping, or are just more people getting away with it?

More US Distance News

Q&A With Chanelle Price On Pacing Genzebe Dibaba To Her 3:50.07 World Record Dibaba’s coach and agent told her they were comfortable with her pacing because they knew she was comfortable front running.
Standard In Hand, Ben True Says, “I definitely think I have a shot at medaling …”

Sad News

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

Long-time athlete manager Zane Branson, who shepherded the careers of marathoners Jimmy Muindi, Wilson Chebet and Patrick Makau among many others, died suddenly this morning in Iten, Kenya.

*Zane Branson To Be Buried In 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

Previous Anniversary Games News

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 Saturday Preview What A Mile – Ki prop 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

US News

Good Read:Chanelle Price Talks About Pacing Genzebe Dibaba; Says It Was A “Dream Come True” “… when she did, I just ran across the track and I picked her up. She’s probably only 90, 95 pounds [laughs]. We gave each other a big hug …”
*MB: Chanelle Price: yet another poor women’s pacing job.
Shalane Flanagan Most USADA Drug-Tested U.S. Runner In First Half Of 2015 The most tested U.S. men runners were Matthew Centrowitz, Justin Gatlin, Meb Keflezighi and Ben True.
Sam Crouser Comes Up Short In Attempt To Get World Champs Standard In The Javelin He set a PR of 266 feet, 9 inches, but needed 269-0.

RW On Kerri Gallagher: From Running Dropout To World Championships Team Member Gallagher explains how she quit running after college to work at a wealth management group, but was convinced by her high school coach to move to Washington DC and be coached by Matt Centrowitz,Sr.

Yesterday In Sweden

Duane Solomon Wins Karlstad Grand Prix 800 In 1:45.99 He just held off World Junior bronze medalist Andreas Almgren, who ran 1:46.04. US’s Bridget Franek was 2nd in the steeple with 9:42.59 as GB’s Lennie Waite won in 9:40.39. *Full Results
GB’s Commonwealth Silver Medalist Nick Miller Breaks 31-Year-Old British Hammer Record With 77.55m At The Karlstad GP This article incorrectly says he won. He was 2nd to Asian champion Dilshod Nazarov (77.95m).

News From Jamaica

Aisha Praught Talks About The Decision To Switch To Jamaica And Represent Them At The World Championships The Jamaican press headline reads, “Mississippi Girl Carries Ja Hopes In Steeplechase.”
Recommended Watch: IAAF Inside Athletics Interview With Usain BoltAto Boldon has a lengthy video with Bolt talking about everything from the Olympics to why doesn’t do the 400. Bolt says it’s a problem being so tall because he is “unable to hide” and is spotted wherever he goes.
JAA Head Warren Blake Talks About The Trend Of Athletes Leaving Jamaica To Represent Other Countries There have been reported cases where athletes going to Bahrain or Qatar have received $5,000 a month for life and additional bonuses for records.
Bolt Says Having To Eat Healthy Is The Biggest Sacrifice He’s Had To Make To Extend His Career “I’ve started eating healthy. That’s the hardest thing for me right now is the sacrifices, eating vegetables all the time. Everything else is easy to give up, but eating healthy is really hard!”
UK/Jamaica/Anguilla: Anguillan Sprinter Zharnel Hughes Talks About The Decision To Represent The UK In International Competition Anguilla can’t send athletes to the Olympics and is a GB overseas territory.
*Hughes Is Excited To Compete In The Olympic Stadium This Weekend After Watching 2012 Games On TV
The Telegraph:“Usain Bolt’s Achievements Are Overshadowed By Ongoing Success Of Drug Cheats”

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 BeijingCam 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.

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

LRCGenzebe 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.

LRCAsbel 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 SteepleSome 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.

Full Coverage In Our Monaco DL Special Section

Two-Day London DL Meet Was Friday/Saturday Full Fri. ResultsSat. ResultsTelevision And Streaming InfoSchedule, Entries

Screenshot (446) LRCWhat A Race: Asbel Kiprop Toys With Field, Centro Beats Souleiman For 2ndKiprop 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!

LRCSaturday 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.
*MB: Usain Bolt “Is Almost Back” – 9.87 Win Into Wind
*MB:UK sprinter Richard Kilty pushes referee after 100 Final DQ

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.
*MB: Farah wins 3000m in 7:34.66
*MB: Mary Cain, going backwards again

London Diamond League Photo Gallery 110 Photos

US Road / Ultra Action

Sam Chelanga Wins Wharf To Wharf 6-Mile In Close Race With Shadrack Kosgei And John Muritu Chelanga won in 27:25 (4:34 pace) as 3 seconds separated the top 3. Brett Gotcher was the top American in 5th (27:32). Risper Gesabwa won the women’s race (31:19). *Full Results
*MB:Sam Chelanga Wins Wharf to Wharf, Becoming American Citizen
Leonard Korir Wins Bix 7 In 33:05 Beating Ethiopia’s Solomon Deksis By 1 SecondMicah Kogo was another 4 seconds back in 3rd while Meb Keflezighi was 8th (34:00). *Cynthia Limo Wins Women’s Bix 7 In 36:56 Over Mary Wacera (37:06) After A Five-Woman Battle Boston Marathon champ Caroline Rotich was a close 3rd (37:08). Former Arkansas All-American Stephanie Brown was the top American in 13th (41:50). *Full Results
Sage Canaday Wins Speed Goat 50K
Finland’s Ashprihanal Alto Wins And Sets Record At Self-Transcendence 3,100-Mile Race, The World’s Longest Certified Race Alto finished in a little over 40 days. The entire race is held on a high school campus in NYC, the course being open from 6AM to midnight each day. Crazy.
Track: Final Day Report For USATF Masters Outdoor Championships*Full Results

Olympic News

London Olympic Stadium Track To Turn Be Ripped Up And And Replaced With A New Blue One
Toronto Will Bid For 2024 Olympics; Joins 5 Others They join Boston, Budapest, Hungary; Hamburg, Germany; Paris and Rome.

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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

More London DL Coverage

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 1:45.80Molly 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.

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.

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

The Integrity Of The Sport Is At Stake – Mike Rossi Is A Marathon Cheat And Should Have Been DQed From The 2014 Lehigh Valley Marathon

LRC Investigates Lehigh Valley Got It Wrong: The Evidence Is Conclusive: Mike Rossi – The Viral Boston Marathon Dad – Is A Marathon Cheat And Should Never Have Been On The Starting Line In Boston In April, Mike Rossi gained international fame for his snarky response to a letter from his kids’ principal scolding him for taking them out of school for several days to watch Boston. A LetsRun.com investigation has revealed that Rossi’s principal was correct, the kids should never have been in Boston as the evidence is conclusive – their father didn’t legitimately qualify for the 2015 Boston Marathon. How confident are we that Rossi cut the course when he “ran” his 3:11:45 BQ qualifier at Lehigh Valley? Extremely. We’ll pay Mike Rossi $10,000 if he qualifies again in the next 12 months – and the qualifying time is 13+ minutes slower – 3:25.
*MB: Did Mike Rossi (viral marathon dad) cheat his way into Boston?

International Results

Kenya’s Stanley Biwott Runs 63:15 To Win Bogota Half Marathon Over Ethiopia’s Tadesse Tola (64:47) Ethiopia’s Amane Gobena won the women’s race in 1:13:44. 2012 Boston Marathon champ Sharon Cherop was 3rd (1:13:55).
German Championships Recap: World PV Champ Raphael Holzdeppe Sets 5.94m PRFabienne Kohlmann won the 800 in 1:59.54 as Gesa-Felicitas Krause set a German-soil record to win the steeple in 9:32.20. *Full Results
Yohan Blake’s 10.12 At The Morton Games Was The Fastest 100m Ever Run On Irish Soil

2015 Pan Am Games All LRC CoverageResults

IAAF Final Day Report:Cuba’s Yorgelis Rodriguez Wins Pan Am Games Heptathlon Breaking The 16-Year-Old Meet Record NCAA champ Andre De Grasse lost the historic triple sprint crown (100, 200, 4 x 100) by a DQ. Canada initially won, but after a lane violation DQ, the gold went to Team USA. Canada’s Derek Drouin won the HJ in 2.37m before attempting and failing to clear 2.41m. *Toronto Sun:“Disqualification shouldn’t take shine of De Grasse”
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.
*US Athlete Quotes From Torrence And Others
*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
Marquise Goodwin Makes A Pro Track/NFL Career Work As The Buffalo Bills Wide Receiver Wins LJ Silver
Kanye West Gets Angry And Throws Microphone At Closing Ceremony Apparently there was a technical malfunction towards the end of his performance.
USATF Tops Pan Am Games Scoring Tables With 41 Medals The US came out with 403 “points” to Canada’s 153.
*USA Won Overall Competition As Well With 265 Medals (103 Golds) Across All Sports Canada was second with 217 (78 golds).
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

More London

IAAF:After First Day Pole Vault Postponement, Renaud Lavillenie Comes Through With Huge 6.03m Win
IAAF:National Records For Dafne Schippers (Netherlands) And Dina Asher-Smith (UK) In 100
David Rudisha After Losing To Nijel Amos: “I am coming back nicely, and I know in the coming races, I will be there. I am really encouraged and motivated because I lost by very few meters.”
Mo Farah Off To Pyrenees To Compete “Heavy Weeks” Of Training Ahead Of Worlds He won’t race again before Worlds and said there “is still a little bit of work to be done.” He also lamented that he wouldn’t see his family again for 6 weeks.
After String Of Poor Races, Ireland’s Mark English Seals His Spot On 2016 Olympic Squad With 1:45.49 Season’s Best

Previous Pan Am Games Coverage

Andrew Wheating And Ashley Higginson Get Double Gold For Team USA At Pan American Games Wheating won in 3:41.41 to beat Canada’s Nate Brannen (3:41.66). Higginson ran a Pan Am record to win in 9:48.12 while Shalaya Kipp made it a US 1-2, taking silver in 9:49.96. In the women’s 200, US’s Kaylin Whitney and Kyra Jefferson also went 1-2.
*US Athlete Quotes Including Wheating And Higginson
*MB:Wheating provides a beating
Canadian Sprinting Sensation Andre De Grasse Completes Double, Taking The 200 In 19.88 Seconds It was a new NR for De Grasse, who beat Jamaica’s Rasheed Dwyer and Panama’s Alonso Edward by .02.
David Oliver Wins 110H … “Twice” Oliver set a MR to win in 13.07, but that was after he ran the race to completion (in 13.17) not realizing there had been a gun malfunction.
*USA Athlete Quotes From Oliver And Others Oliver: “I’m an 11-year veteran on this circuit, and you have to be able to refocus when things aren’t exactly ideal …”
*MB:Starter doing a terrible job at Pan Ams
IAAF Sat. Recap: Oliver Wins 110H Re-Run In Record 13.07
Damian Wariner Wins Decathlon In MR In Front Of Home Crowd
Cuba’s Yarisley Silva Wins PV In World-Leading 4.85m Jenn Suhr was 3rd.
US’s Jeffrey Henderson Sets LJ World Lead At 8.52m
IAAF: Hosts Canada Enjoy Strong Start At Pan Ams

London DL Pre-Meet News

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.

Previous Pan Am News

LRC Five Things To Watch At The 2015 Pan American Games
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

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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.

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

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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.