– Katie Mackey talking after winning the Stockholm 3,000, becoming just the fourth American to win a Diamond League 3,000/5,000.
We preview Beach to Beacon with updates from of America’s stars including Eric Jenkins, Will Geoghegan, Riley Masters, Christo Landry and Abdi. And we explain the photo to your right.
More Beach To Beacon From RRW: Americans Ready To Battle For Bragging Rights, Dedicated Purse At TD Beach To Beacon 10-K Thanks to Dunkin Donuts we’ve got American bonus prize money for the first time.
*Daniel Salel Confident Contender At TB Bank Beach To Beacon 10-K
Meseret Defar To Use Wild Card Entry To Run 5,000 In Beijing World Champs This will be her first race since September 2013 when she took a break to have a baby.
After A Breakthrough 1:57.95 PR, Switzerland’s Selina Buchel Is A Serious Medal Contender For Worlds Buchel actually lives and trains in a town without a 400m track, but still doesn’t see any “sense” in traveling for training camps as “why change” what works.
Kenya’s Big Guns Ready To Rumble In Kenyan World Trials This Weekend There will be the favorites, the lesser knowns and those looking for a return to glory in races that might be more competitive than the actual World Champs.
And You Thought Galen Rupp Looked Goofy With His Pollen Mask: Ashton And Brianne Eaton Test Out New Nike “Cooling Hood” The headgear supposedly helps keep athletes cooler in hot conditions.
Asbel Kiprop Talks About His Strange Tactics In The London DL Meet, Disappointment Of Missing The WR In Monaco And Doubling At Worlds He blames his tactics on being tripped, mentions Matt Centrowitz and Ben Blankenship as guys he had to worry about outkicking, and says he celebrated early because he forgot the mile starting line wasn’t the finish line.
Indian Athletics Federation Wants Controversial Sprinter Dutee Chand To Train For 4 X 400 Rather Than The Individual 100 And 200 They think that’s her best chance to make the Olympics since she hasn’t hit the 100/200 qualifying standards for Rio.
LRC The End Of Women’s Sports As We Know It? Is Caster Semenya The Favorite For Gold For The 2016 Olympics? The Court Of Arbitration For Sport Suspends IAAF’s Hyperandrogenism Regulations Earlier this week, hyperandrogenic Indian sprinter Dutee Chand was cleared to compete despite having super-elevated testosterone levels. More importantly, the court totally suspended the IAAF’s hyperandrogenism regulations, meaning athletes with internal testicles are free to compete as women without treatment. We break down what it means. Is this the beginning of the end for women’s sports?
European Maccabi Games – aka The “Jewish Olympics” – To Be Hosted In Nazi-Built Stadium
L.A., San Fran. Look Into Possible Joint Bid For 2024 Olympics
USOC Dumps Boston 2024 Bid, Attention Shifts To LA
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.”
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).
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”
2015 Stockholm DL Was Thursday *Full Results On 1 Page *TV & Streaming
LRC Souleiman Over Centro With Ease, American Women Falter In 800, SAFP Keeps Winning, Texas Tech’s Jacorian Duffield Wins HJ Soulemain got the convincing win in the 1,500 as Robby Andrews beat Centro, who quit the final 200m, no Americans went sub-2:00 in the 800, Katie Mackey won the 3k (see below), SAFP won the 100 over Tori Bowie, and Texas Tech’s Jacorian Duffield won the HJ.
LRC Katie Mackey Wins 3,000m! Say all you want about the quality of the field, but Katie Mackey did something very few American distance runners have done – win a Diamond League race, running a big PR.
Yohan Blake Says Patience Is Key In His Comeback From Injury Blake is slowly improving, running an Irish soil record of 10.12 last week. “The toughest thing about coming back has been the mental part of it. Knowing that the body has healed but in the back of your mind it was to overcome that you could go out there and perform and not be afraid to run fast.”
Saturday: Stephen Kibet, Stanley Biwott, Moses Kipsiro, Eric Jenkins, Abdi Abdirahman Headline Field For TD Beach To Beacon 10K Kibet, with a 58:54 half PR, is the class of the field that also has Micah Kogo, Will Geoghegan, Christo Landry, Riley Masters, Aaron Braun, Maksim Korolev and Chris Solinsky. The women are lead by defending champ Gemma Steel, Emily Sisson, 5-time World XC medalist Meselech Melakamu, Diane Nukuri, Alexi Pappas and Laura Thweatt. *Full FieldsBritish Team For 2015 Worlds Is Released Despite their resources, the Brits continue to refuse to support the athletes and send full teams to Worlds.
Recommended Read Difficult Year Now Behind Him, Belgian Decathlete Thomas van der Plaetsen Looks Ahead To Beijing And Rio Last October, Thomas van der Plaetsen was told he’d failed a doping test. In reality, he had testicular cancer. Amazingly, the World Indoor bronze medalist will be competing in Beijing.
Former 4-Time 800 HS State Champ Emily Infeld Fulfills Early Promise At 10k After Nearly Quitting Sport After Series Of Injuries
2015 Beijing Will Feature Big Crowds – Already 80% Full For Morning Sessions, 90% For Evenings On Average Whether they are given away or bused in, we just want it full for TV.
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.
*MB: Usain Bolt “Is Almost Back” – 9.87 Win Into Wind
*MB: UK sprinter Richard Kilty pushes referee after 100 Final DQ
LRC Friday 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
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.
Tokyo Olympic Games Logo Embroiled In Plagiarism Dispute It has been challenged by the creator of Belgium’s Théâtre de Liège emblem.
This week we look back at Pan Ams, tell you it's okay to eat ice cream (at least in high school), get caught up on a Polish 800m rivalry, talk about video games and much more.
Boise State NCAA Champion Emma Bates Joining BAA High Performance Team She’ll join the group of athletes coached by Terrence Mahon.Nike And Apple Settle Class Action Suit Regarding Nike+ Fuelband – Will Pay Out $15-$25 To Consumers They don’t admit that the devices are inaccurate but will pay you either $15 in cash or $25 in Nike credit.
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.”
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
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?
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.
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