2015 Beijing Worlds *Schedule & Results *TV & Streaming *Entries *LRC Prediction Contest *LRC Previews: *W800 *M1,500 *W1,500 *WSteeple *M5,000 *W5,000 (Coming) *IAAF Event-By-Event Recaps *Post-Race Video Interviews *Race Videos

MB: Official Day 6 Live DIscussion Thread: Take your Pick!! Bolt v Gatlin @200, Taylor v. PPP in TJ + W400 + W800 Semis 

LRC Usain Bolt Crushes Justin Gatlin In 200 Then Gets RUN OVER By Cameraman On Segway Fortunately Bolt appears okay. 19.55 for Bolt. 19.74 for Gatlin.

• Thursday PM Talk: Bolt DESTROYS Gatlin in 200
• Bolt RUN OVER By SEGWAY CAMERAMAN
• #2 All time – WL AR NR – Christian Taylor 18.21 meters = 59′ 8.9″
• Melissa Bishop Your New Canadian 800m Record Holder
•  Holy Christian Taylor

LRC Thursday AM: Souleiman OUT Of 1,500 As All 3 Americans Advance, American Women Disappoint In 5k The big news was Ayanleh Souleiman pulling up with injury in the 1,500 as Matt Centrowitz looked great in qualifying. Nicole Tully advanced for the US in the 5k but did not run great.
*Interviews With: Centro, Manzano, Andrews, Willis, Tully, Hall, D’Agostino and more in our article or on YouTube channel.

Thursday AM: MB: Official Thursday AM/Wednesday Night Live Discussion Thread (M1,500 and W5k Heats) and Women’s 5k Preview
*FLASH: Men’s 1,500 Round 1 All 3 Americans Make Semis: SOULEIMAN OUT
*CENTROS MEDAL CHANCES JUST SKYROCKETED
*It’s all on Centro’s Shoulders…

LRC Kenya’s Hyvin Kiyeng Wins Wild Steeple As Emma Coburn Settles For Fifth 5 women in contention for gold with 100 to go. Coburn: “I’m bummed … I thought I could medal. I was confident that I could. … I just got to keep at it and come away with some hardware in Rio.”

Day 5 MB: Official Wed. Day 5 Live Discussion Thread: Women’s Steeple, Men’s 400, Women’s 400H Finals

• More Day 5 MB Talk: 43.47 to win the WC final, with Merritt second in 43.65 … are you kidding me?
• Julius Yego throws 92.72m!!!!
  
• Jenna Prandini Will Forego Eligibility at Oregon, Turns Professional…. w Puma?

LRC Day 5 Morning Session: Disaster For Alysia Montaño And Close Calls For BMart And Ludlow; All 3 Americans Through To Men’s 5,000 Final It was a devastating morning for Alysia Montaño, whose bid for a much-deserved global medal came to a halt before it really even got started when she went sprawling to the track. Caster Semenya barely squeaked in – oh, wait … she had the 3rd best time of the day.  It was a much better morning for Ryan Hill, Galen Rupp and Ben True.

LRC Marquis Dendy Talks After Failing To Make Finals In Long Jump At 2015 IAAF Worlds – Hopes Beijing Flop Will Fuel Him To Double Olympic Gold The US struggles in the sprints/jumps continued as both Marquis Dendy and Will Claye failed to make the triple jump final.

Bird’s Nest Jumps And Throws

• Good Read: Greg Rutherford’s LJ Victory Made Him Only The 5th British Athlete To Hold The World, Olympic, Commonwealth And European Titles Simultaneously Afterwards Rutherford took a jab at his critics who said his Olympic win in 2012 was a fluke.
• Polish Hammer Thrower Pawel Fajedek Wins Gold Medal, Gets Drunk, Uses It To Pay For Taxi Home Chinese media reports that Fajedek reported the medal lost and police helped him track it down to the cab driver.
  *Fajdek Denies Reports And Says The Taxi Driver “Probably Drove Off With [It] Unknowingly”
• Kenya’s “YouTube Man” Julius Yego Wins World Javelin Title With Monster 92.72m Throw The throw set an African record and is third on the all-time list.
  *MB: Julius Yego throws 92.72m!!!!
• Yarisley Silva Wins Dramatic World Pole Vault Gold Silva was behind Fabian Murer on countback, but cleared 4.90m on her final effort. Greece’s Nikoleta Kyriakopoulou was 3rd. US’s Jenn Suhr and Sandi Morris finished in a three-way tie for 4th.
• Australia’s Fabrice Lapierre Overcame “Agonizing Pain” To Win LJ Silver He injured his hamstring on the warmup, but jumped through it. Lapierre: ” thought ‘you’re just here once, if you’re in pain just go for it.'”
• Good Read: “The Rise And Rise Of Shawn Barber” A lot of interesting info on Canada’s World PV champion.

More Worlds

LRC One-Page Recap Of Tuesday’s Day 4 Action At 2015 Worlds Rudisha won the 800 and his countryman won the 400m hurdles, Genzebe Dibaba hit burst mode, Greg Rutherford got a Worlds gold, and Justin Gatlin and Usain Bolt cruised in round 1 of the 200.

Starting Wed: LRC 2015 Worlds Men’s 5,000 Preview: Should We Hand Mo Farah The Gold Right Now? Can Ryan Hill, Ben True Or Galen Rupp Become The First American-Born Athlete To Medal In History? We break it down for you.

Day 3 Is Complete LRC Agony & Ecstasy In The Women’s 10,000: Molly Huddle Gives The Bronze Away To Emily Infeld As Vivian Cheruiyot Wins Gold Once Again Huddle had the bronze until the final step, when she slowed down to throw up her arms, allowing Infeld to sneak by on the inside. Overall, it was a fantastic race for the Americans (Shalane Flanagan was the other), as they went 3-4-6.

LRC Ezekiel Kemboi Cements Status As Greatest Of All Time; Evan Jager’s Medal Hopes Come Up Short There were doubts surrounding Kemboi’s fitness this year, but once Worlds came around, he did what he always does, blowing away the field over the final 200 to win in 8:11.28. Conseslus Kipruto managed second despite tearing his shoe on the final water jump, while Brimin Kipruto (3rd) and Jairus Birech (4th) helped produced an unprecedented 1-4 sweep for Kenya. Dan Huling (5th) was the top American as Evan Jager (6th) and Donn Cabral (10th) struggled.

MB: Huddle Celebrates Too Soon, EMILY INFELD GETS BRONZE
*Ezekiel Kemboi 5th straight major win Evan Jager 6th.
*Schippers 10.83!!!!!! SAFP 10.76 for gold.
*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

Worlds Monday On One Page

LRC Short On Time? One-Page Recap Of All Of Monday’s Action At 2015 Worlds Drama in the 10k, greatness in the steeple and the 100, collegian Shawn Barber winning the pole vault, plus some developments in the qualifying. We recap it all in quick fashion in one article. *Interview With Barber

• Canada’s NCAA Champ Shawn Barber Gets Surprise Victory In Pole Vault He won a dual with Germany’s defending champ Raphael Holzdeppe. Olympic champ, WR holder and favorite Renaud Lavillenie only managed to finish in a three-way tie for the bronze.
• Colombia’s Caterine Ibarguen Defends Her World TJ Title Her winning streak is now at 29 in a row with her last loss coming from the 2012 Olympics.

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 
*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.

2015 Beijing Worlds Saturday Action

Saturday Photo Gallery (224 Photos)

Day 1 In The Books: LRC Kenyan Team Tactics Not Enough To Stop The Invincible Mo Farah In Men’s 10,000 – Farah Wins 6th Global Track Title At last, the Kenyans gave the fans what they wanted – a relentless assault on Mo Farah. In the end, it didn’t matter as Farah overcame the spirited team challenge to win 27:01 as Kenya was rewarded with the 2-3-4 placings. Galen Rupp ran the 4th-fastest time (27:08) in American history to finish 5th. *Video highlights
*MB: Official 2015 Worlds Men’s 10,000 Discussion Thread
*MB: Mo Farah – What a talent!!! 
*Independent On Farah’s Win

• Germany’s Christina Schwanitz Edges China’s Gong Lijiao In Shot Put
• Jessica Ennis-Hill In Gold Medal Position After Day One Of Heptathlon But Katarina Johnson-Thompson Close Behind
• Jessica Ennis-Hill Gets The Better Of Katarina Johnson-Thompson On Day One Of Heptathlon
• Kenya’s Nicholas Bett Produces Fastest Time Of Day In 400H Out Of Lane 8
• MB: Bershawn Jackson – world leader – bombs out in 1st round of 400h
• Mark English And Thomas Barr Seal Places In World Championships Semi-Finals

Saturday Morning: LRC 2015 Worlds Marathon: Stars Fizzle As 19-Year-Old Ghirmay Ghebrselassie Wins Eritrea’s First Gold, A 2:16 Guy Goes For It, And The Top 10 DON’T KNOW WHERE THE FINISH IS A 2:16 marathoner broke away from the world’s best, but he could not hang on as Eritrea got its first Worlds gold ever as the top 10 did not know where the finish was. *AP Recap Of 1st Session: After A Big Surprise In Marathon, Rudisha, Ennis-Hill Restore Normalcy At World Championships
*RRW: 19-Year-Old Ghirmay Ghebreslassie Surprises As Youngest-Ever World Marathon Champ

• Discussion: Official 2015 World Championships Marathon Discussion
• There is Hope For All Of You a 14:30/31:03/66half/2:16 guy Is Leading Worlds Marathon 18 Miles In
• Why don’t American elite marathon runners take seriously the marathon world championship?
• Pertile, 41 years old – 4th World Champs Marathon

More IAAF / IOC Political Stuff

• BBC: “Lamine Diack: What Has He Achieved As IAAF Chief?” The end of Diack’s time has been been marred by doping allegations, but is proud of his financial success.
  *AP: Diack Defends IAAF Integrity On Doping On His Watch
• IOC President Thomas Bach Says He Supports Lifetime Bans But That They’re Not Legally Realistic We’re not sure what he means by this because they are 100% legal. Maybe he means for first-time offenders?
• Sergey Bubka To Miss All Of Worlds Due To Family Illness
• USATF Release: “New IAAF Era Includes Gender And Age Requirements, Term Limits” Sounds like they’re trying to justify their decision to choose Stephanie Hightower over Bob Hersch for USATF’s IAAF council representative.
• LA Due To Give Final Green Light On 2024 Olympic Bid Next Week

Gatlin Is NOT A 2-Time Cheat

LRC Everything You Need To Know About Justin Gatlin’s Drug Positives Before His Showdown With Bolt, Including His Dad Got A Gun And Wanted To Kill Trevor Graham In a LetsRun first, we show some sympathy for Justin Gatlin, reveal how his dad intended to kill Trevor Graham when he heard his son tested positive (as part of an April Fool’s Prank), and how Gatlin’s own agent didn’t buy the Chris Whetstine sabotage story. Plus, we go on the the record and say Gatlin should never have been banned 4 years.

Legal Stuff

• Caitlyn Jenner Could Face Manslaughter Charge For Role In Fatal Car Crash Last February Jenner rear ended a car, sending her into oncoming traffic. Jenner could face a year in prison.
• Decision On Oscar Pistorius’ Release May Take Up To 4 Months A review board will decide whether and when he will be released from prison into house arrest.

Seb Coe For IAAF President

• Seb Coe Elected New IAAF President He won the vote over Sergey Bubka 115 to 92.
  *MB: Seb Coe elected President of IAAF!
• Coe Promises To Create An Independent Doping Commission To Address “Conflicts And Loopholes” In The Current System Article includes quotes from Paula Radcliffe and Steve Cram about Coe and doping.
• BBC Article With Video Interview With Coe Coe addresses multiple question on doping and the perception of the IAAF. *IAAF Article
• Coe Acceptance Speech Video: “This is for me is the pinnacle. It is my sport, my passion, the thing I’ve always wanted to do.”
• UK Opinion Piece: “Seb Coe Can Conquer Cynicism Again But Misplaced War Analogies Must Go”
• The Telegraph: “The Challenges Facing The New Man” From doping to revitalizing interest, Coe has his hands full.
• Coe: “Timeline Of An Olympic Champion And Sports Administrator”
• MB: What is Seb Coe’s Salary w/ IAAF?

• USATF: Stephanie Hightower Overwhelmingly Elected To IAAF Council There are six IAAF council seats designated to be filled by women and there were ten candidates. Of the ten, Hightower received the most votes.
  *USATF Candidates Score Record Victories In IAAF Election
• Kenya: AK Head Isaiah Kiplagat Fails In His Attempt To Be Elected As An IAAF Vice President He came in last of 7 candidates (for 4 spots) and also lost his seat on the IAAF council.
  *CapitalFM: “Is Kiplagat’s race run after failed IAAF VP bid?” Kiplagat had previously said he would step down from AK if he won an IAAF vice president position.
• JAAA President Dr. Warren Blake Fails In Bid For IAAF Council Seat
• Kosovo And South Sudan Voted Into IAAF

Pre-Worlds Distance News

• Recommended Read: Great Profile On The Life And Career Of Nick Willis Starting From His Early Days At Michigan To Now Read how Willis went from a 12-year-old binge drinker to the world beater and family man he is today.
• Akron Junior Clayton Murphy Talks About His Unexpected Trip To Worlds Thanks To Nick Symmonds Coming into the year as a 1:50 guy, he never thought he’d be ending the year with a trip to Beijing.
• Amel Tuka (800), Yomif Kejelcha (5,000) And Selina Buchel (800) Among The “New Kids In The Blocks” At Worlds These three, along with sprinters Andre De Grasse and Elaine Thompson, were unknowns coming into 2015, but could leave Beijing as World medalists.
• Q&A With Hassan Mead Ahead Of His First World Championships Mead calls himself a 10,000 “rookie” and thinks he has a lot more room to improve.

Sponsorship News

• MB: Tara Welling (formerly Erdman) signs with Sketchers!
• Jamaica’s World Junior 400H Champ Jaheel Hyde Signs Pro Contract With PUMA

Administrative News

• Nick Symmonds 1, USATF 0 USATF Admits To Incompetence USATF claims that senior executives had no idea a letter had been sent to all US athletes telling them to pack “ONLY” Nike gear and now says athletes can wear whatever they want in private.
• WADA Looking Into ARD Allegations, Says Nothing Before 2009 Will Be Looked At “No test data derived from the IAAF database prior to the adoption of the ABP in 2009 can be considered to be proof of doping. It would be reckless, if not libelous, to make such an allegation.”
• Sebastian Coe Keeps Racking Up Votes – Ghana Commits – Up To 38 Supporters Now Many thought Bubka would get all of Africa.
  *Coe Had Been Leading Bubka 36 To 5 In Race To Become IAAF President
• Is This Proof That Designer Of Japan 2020 Logo Copied Others?
• Japanese Runners Are Irate There Will Be No Permanent Track – Even Practice Track – In New 2020 Stadium As There Is “No Land Nearby” There is only 1 track in central Tokyo accessible to the public. Runners were hoping the Olympics would leave a 2nd.

Book Reviews

LRC Book Review Of Once a Runner Prequel Racing the Rain By John L. Parker, Jr. – “It works and has the potential to draw a new audience into Once a Runner.” Racing the Rain isn’t about Quenton Cassidy‘s development as a runner, but rather his development into a runner. The novel opens by introducing a second-grade Cassidy and concludes with the miler moving into his familiar room in Southeastern University’s Doobey Hall. In between, Parker’s sharp prose richly describes what it was like to grow up a middle-class baby boomer on Florida’s Gold Coast.

LRC Book Review: How to Race the Mile By Jeff Hollobaugh – “A terrific resource for younger runners.” And “… also a great read for even the expert fan.” We recommend the book, which is a comprehensive look at the mile from the 19th century to the present and is full of rich race histories.