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Day 3 Is Underway

Live: MB: Official Day 3 Live Discussion Thread: Molly Huddle and Evan Jager go for medals – can they do it?

LRC History In The Steeplechase: The US Will Send Three Women To The Final For The First Time Ever It was a great morning for the US women in the steeple as two years after sending zero to the final, Team USA will be sending three to the final for the first time ever.
*MB: Steeple Talk

*Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce And US’s Tori Bowie Both Run 10.88 In First Round Of Women’s 100
*IAAF: Five Expected Highlights On Worlds Day 3 Women’s 100, men’s steeple, women’s 10K, men’s pole vault and women’s TJ.

Day 2

LRC He Is The Greatest: The Incomparable Usain Bolt Wins 5th Global 100 Title As Justin Gatlin Can’t Keep It Together In Final Meters Bolt barely made the final after stumbling in the semis but he showed the resilience that makes him the Greatest of All Time by running 9.79 in the final to edge Gatlin by .01. Gatlin led most of the way but he couldn’t hold his form once Bolt caught him in the final 10 meters and had to settle for silver. The battle for bronze between college stars De Grasse and Bromell was even closer.

Video Of Men’s 100m Final: Usain Bolt Defeats Justin Gatlin 9.79 To 9.80 (Or Did Gatlin Give It Away)? You can rewatch it and decide. Full coverage from Sunday coming. US visitors only.

Shocking Developments In Men’s 800 LRC Three Thoughts After Men’s 800 Semis – Amos And Aman Go Home Early, David Rudisha Most Certainly Stays And The Amazing Year Of Clayton Murphy Comes To An End What a stunner. Two of Rudisha’s biggest rivals won’t be in the final as one was DQed and one got outleaned at the line. We talk about that and the end of an amazing year for Clayton Murphy.
*After Season Of His Life, Clayton Murphy Gets Some Attention From Grantland.com Their headline: “Running Man: Clayton Murphy on Junk Food, Passports, and Replacing Nick Symmonds”
*MB: US distance runner gets some pub on Grantland.com – You’ll never guess who

LRC Three Thoughts After Women’s 1,500 Semis – A Medal Of Any Color Won’t Be Easy For Simpson Or Rowbury; Kerri Gallagher And Lauren Johnson Should Be Proud; And The African-Born Runners Have Been Foolish Jenny Simpson and Shannon Rowbury both auto qualified to Tuesday’s final but they are going to have their hands full as the African-born runners are looking great.

Day 2 On The Boards: Official Day 2 Live Discussion Thread – The King Isn’t Dead. Usain Bolt FTW!!!
*SUCK IT GATLIN
*Shock: Nijel Amos OUT of 800m Final (didn’t qualify) as is Mo Aman (DQd) Shock results in the 800 as Amos and Aman both fail to make the final.
*Amos doesn’t go through and Aman should be disqualified 
*Mo Aman disqualified
*So Johnson-Thompson can’t medal since she fouled 3 times in LJ and so she’s jogging the 800? Give me a break.
*Gatlin says F*CK YOU HATERS, runs 9.77 in semi final
*Bingtian Su 9.99! First Chinese man sub-10!!!
*Men’s 400 Meter at Beijing doped to the gills – two guys run 43 in 1st round
*Mo Farah’s PB’s at age 22 

Pre-Race: LRC It’s Official: Justin Gatlin, Not Usain Bolt, The Favorite In 100m Final Sportsbooks and LRC nation agree Justin Gatlin is the favorite in tonight’s 100m final. Race at 9:15am Eastern. Tape delay on NBC.
*Official Sunday/ 100m Final Thread

Beijing 100m / 400m News

Oiselle Partners With Yale University’s Women’s XC And Track Teams

Beer Mile World Classic Is Saturday In San Francisco *Event Website *LRC Beer Mile Archives

• Recommended Read: Large ESPN Feature On The Beer Mile And The Beer Mile World Classic Saturday In San Francisco The race will feature the three all-time fastest beer milers in Lewis Kent (4:55.78), Josh Harris (4:56.2) and James Nielsen (4:57).
• LRC Beer Mile World Classic In San Francisco August 22nd – Will We See The World’s First Sub-5:00 In A Competitive Event?
• ESPN: After Bringing Beer Mile To Forefront, James Nielsen Is Back For More
• ESPN: Josh Harris Looking To Reclaim World Record At Beer Mile World Classic
• ESPN: As Beer Mile World Classic Approaches, Lewis Kent Relives World-Record Run

More Distance News

• Paula Radcliffe Doesn’t Think Athletes Should Release Blood Data “I think if you put too much of that information in the public domain you risk doing a lot of things, you risk it being misunderstood and misinterpreted, you also risk putting information into the hands of people who are trying to cheat …”
  *LRC Thoughts From Rojo *LRC Thoughts From Wejo
  *MB: Radcliffe says she’s not releasing blood values
• Inspirational: Two Weeks Ago, 28-Year-Old Brandon Hudgins Overcame Years Of Illness To Finally Run A Sub-4 Mile Hudgins has a rare autoimmune disease which has hindered his training and life since college. However, he has persevered and ran 3:59.67 to place 5th at the Sir Walter Miler.
  *MB: Brandon MF Hudgins!!!! Sub-4 and more
• Meb Keflezighi, Other Elites Helped Save Cyclist’s Life Before Falmouth Road Race A man flipped over his handlebars and was knocked unconscious and bleeding. Elites on the scene called 911, went for help and used Keflezighi’s shirt as a tourniquet.

Doping Updates

• Ridiculous: Russian 800 Runner Who Was Caught On Tape Talking About Doping In ARD Documentary Is On Worlds Start Lists If Anastasia Bazdyreva is on the start line, we and a ton of athletes are going to be furious.
• Only A Third Of Athletes Will Have Their Blood Tested At 2015 Worlds Even Though Every Athlete Did In 2011 And 2013 The IAAF says it will do 600-700 targeted tests rather than mass screening the 1,900 athletes at Worlds.
• RR: Japan Times, Part IV: Victor Conte Explains How He Would Completely Overhaul The WADA Testing System If He Was In Charge He explains why the out-of-competition testing system is a joke and athletes can strategically miss tests and dope for weeks without being tested. He would change the system and also make missed tests public.
• IAAF Statement On It’s Testing Strategy Ahead Of Beijing Some good news here as the IAAF says it’s now implemented a version of of the biological passport for steroids and urine (the current one is for blood and blood doping).
• WADA President Craig Reedie Says They Would Consider Banning Entire Countries Like Russia For Doping “The sport has turned around and said, ‘At the moment, your record isn’t good enough so we don’t want you coming to our events for a period of years.’ It’s happened very infrequently but I think it’s been effective.”
• European Athletics Head Svein Arne Hansen Wants IAAF President To Put Anti-Doping On Top Of IAAF Agenda

• Guardian Writer: “The Answer To Drugs In Athletics? Have Two Races: Doped And Clean” This is most certainly not the answer. Health risks aside, athletes would still dope in the “clean” category.
• Another Idiot Thinks Doping Should Be Legalized This is one of the worst arguments about legalizing doping we’ve ever heard, at least concerning track and field.

2015 Beijing Worlds – Get Your Picks In

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1,103 Days Later But Well Worth The Wait

MB: Turkey’s Asli Cakir Alptekin Stripped Of 2012 Olympic Gold In 1,500 For Doping (link fixed) Alptekin’s victory didn’t pass the “smell test.” Thankfully, after her initial DQ was overturned by the Turks, she’s agreed to accept an 8-year ban and forfeit her 2012 gold medal. That’s the good news. The bad news … the new Olympic champ is fellow Turk Gamze Bulut, who had never broken 4:18 prior to 2012 and hasn’t broken 4:07 since 2012.

2015 New Balance Falmouth *Results

LRC Stephen Sambu (32:17) & Diane Nukuri (36:47) Streak To Titles At 43rd Falmouth Road Race Americans Abdi Abdirahman, Chris Derrick and Meb Keflezighi all had the lead at one point in the men’s race but the top Americans were Sara Hall (2nd) and Sam Chelanga (4th). Derrick ended up getting trounced but thinks he’s ready to PR at 5,000. Keflezighi reveals he recently was forced to walk home in the middle of a 12-mile training run. And American marathoners, it’s time to get nervous as Chelanga reveals he may run the Trials. Post-race interviews with Americans Keflezighi, Chelanga, Derrick, and Hall.
*RRW: Stephen Sambu Is Big Winner At Falmouth; Wins Race, Countdown Bonus

• LRC: Four-Time NCAA Champion Sam Chelanga Became A U.S. Citizen On Friday
• For Neely Spence Gracey, Falmouth Is Far More Than Just A Race – It’s Part Of Her Family’s History
• $5,000 Gender Challenge Added To Falmouth For First Time
• RRW: Five Story Lines For Sunday’s New Balance Falmouth Road Race

Zane Branson Is Laid To Rest In Kenya

• Stars Show Up As Zane Branson Is Laid To Rest In Kenya Wesley Korir, Edna Kiplagat, Mary Keitany, Florence Kiplagat, Patrick Makau, Emily Chebet, Wilson Chebet and Joyce Chepkirui were all there to pay their last respects to their manager.
• The Nation: Branson’s Family Donates Heart Equipment That Might Have Saved His Life To Kenyan Hospital

Make Sure Your Parents Walk

A Brisk Walk May Be All It Takes To Improve Our Ability To Think As We Age Old people who walked for 225 minutes a week were only a little smarter than those who did it for 75.

Worlds Didn’t Use To Almost Always Be Held In Asia (3 Out Of Last 5)

Journalist Takes A Trip Down Memory Lane And Recaps The 1st World Champs Held In Asia – Tokyo 1991 The track exceeded IAAF standards for hardness and was therefore great for sprinters.

Welcome To America (Officially)

LRCFour-Time NCAA Champion Sam Chelanga Became A U.S. Citizen On Friday

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?