1st Of 2 DL Finals – 2015 Weltklasse Zurich *Full Results *TV &  Streaming

LRC Full Meet Recap: Asbel Reigns Supreme, Ayana Takes Down Dibaba (Again), Eunice Sum Rebounds as David Rudisha and The Steeplechase Medallists Struggle $50,000 paydays were on the line in a number of events which helped spice up the action and prevent the athletes from succumbing to post-Worlds jet-lag/hangovers. How did Evan Jager, Jenny Simpson, Shannon Rowbury, Emily Infeld, Robby Andrews and Leo the Lion do?

LRC FULL RESULTS

MB: Official 2015 Zurich Diamond League Final Live Discussion Thread

Russian Doping Updates

• ARD Doping Writer Hajo Seppelt Asks If There Is Collusion Between WADA President Craig Reedie And The Russian Governement (translated) Seppelt picks apart a leaked email between Reedie and Russian anti-doping adviser Natalia Zhelanova. You can read the email in full here and from what we’re reading there doesn’t seem to be any “collusion”‘ or scandal. However, we weren’t thrilled with where Reedie says WADA was pressured into actually launching an investigation.
  *English Article On ARD Report
• Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko Says They Won’t Yield To Pressure By Western Media Organizations Demanding Bans He claims the audio and video recordings used to catch Russian athletes on tape admitting to doping are “illegal methods of information gathering” and that they won’t ban athletes based on them. We hope WADA/IAAF disagree.
• Australian Race Walker Jared Tallent Takes Shot At Russia After Getting Silver At Worlds: “First time in a long time in the 50K we’ve had a clean podium.” Like gold winner Matej Toth, Tallent is boycotting next year’s World Cup because it is being held in Russia.

More Doping News

• Justin Gatlin And His Agent Release Letters From 2010 Which Include An Apology And Willingness To Cooperate In Combating Doping They released these letters in response to those saying Gatlin never apologized for doping or tried to make amends.
• Good Read: Paul Kimmage Rips BBC’s Former Athletes For Biased Stances When It Comes To Doping Kimmage says they unfairly vilify Justin Gatlin while giving other athletes (like UK’s Linford Christie) a pass.
• The Guardian: “Dafne Schippers’ World Championship Success Should Not Mean Instant Condemnation” A lot of questions were asked after she ran the 3rd fastest 200 time ever (only behind FloJo and Marion Jones). On the issue of her adult acne, a Dutch writer said that both her mom and sister also have acne.
• Good Read: UK Independent: “Legacy Of Doping Means Clean Wins Meet With Distrust” Drug cheats ruin the sport for clean athletes and fans because even if the clean athletes win, they’re still under suspicion.
• The NY Times: “Tests, Near And Far, For Sebastian Coe, Track’s New Chief” Includes quote from former NYRR president Mary Wittenberg, advising Coe to ditch his connection with Nike.
• Seb Coe: “We’re more than a discussion about test tubes, blood and urine.”
• IAAF Summarizes Doping Program From Beijing Overall, 1,405 doping controls were carried out, including blood and urine tests, in and out of competition.
• Criminal Probe Into Asafa Powell And Sherone Simpson Dropped In Italy Powell, Simpson and Canadian trainer Christopher Xuereb were placed under criminal investigation two years ago when their hotel rooms were raided.
• AK President Isaiah Kiplagat Asks The Newly Formed Anti Doping Agency Of Kenya (ADAK) To Expedite Investigations Into The Two Sprinters Who Failed Drug Tests At Worlds Joy Zakari (400) and Fransisca Koki (400H) both failed tests at Worlds.
• Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto Warns That Harsh Measures Will Be Taken Against Doctors And Agents Doping Athletes

Olympic News – Here’s To LA 2024

• LA Officially Launches Bid To Host 2024 Games 85% of the venues are already built or planned.
• USA Today Writer: “Los Angeles Saves USOC From Another Olympic-Sized Embarrassment” She says the USOC was “dumb” to choose Boston in the first place.
• Tokyo 2020 Scraps Olympic Logo After Charges Of Plagiarism They defended the logo, but are yielding to criticism.
  *24 Hours Earlier: Tokyo 2020 Stands By Olympic Emblem Amid Plagiarism Row Ironically, they changed from the original design to avoid copyright infringement and the original design “looked nothing like the Belgian theatre logo” which is claiming plagiarism now.

More Sunday Worlds *Race Videos *Post-Race Interviews

LRC W5k Almaz Ayana Does The Unthinkable And Runs Away From Genzebe Dibaba With An 8:19 Final 3k A huge, huge upset in dominant fashion as Ethiopia swept the medals.

LRC Mare Dibaba Wins 100m Sprint For World Title, USA’s Selena Burla 10th, Reaction From Her And Esther Erb Dibaba ran 2:27:35 to Kiprop’s 2:27:36 and Eunice Kirwa‘s (Bahrain) 2:27:39. Serena Burla of the USA was still with the lead pack at 30k and finished 10th.
*Discuss

Doping Talk

• IAAF Launches Pre-Emptive Strike Against The Sunday Times The IAAF has denied the new doping scandal story about systematic blood doping among past Russian under-23 athletes.
• Racewalk World Champ Matej Toth Skipping World Cup Race Next Year In Russia To Protest Russian Doping
• The Guardian: A Thrilling Week In The Bird’s Nest, But For Seb Coe, The Hard Work Is Only Just Beginning

Friday Worlds

LRC Day 7 Recap: What Drama: Bartoletta’s Clutch Last Jump To Win The Long Jump, Ashton Eaton’s Greatest Performance Ever? Dafne Schippers Wins The Greatest Women’s 200 Ever? The action Friday night in Beijing was unreal in so many places.
*MB:  Greatest w200 ever: Netherlands Dafne Schippers runs 21.63 championship record as 3 break 22.00!!!
*MB: UnF****** Believable – Eaton 45.00 for 400! 

Thursday Worlds Distance

Bookmark This Page: Watch Worlds Without Knowing The Results If you’re looking for race videos, go here.

LRC Sifan Hassan Runs 1:58.50 And Goes Home (So Do The Americans): The Madness Of The Women’s 800 Semifinals 24 women, 10 PRs and no Americans in the final. The three women’s 800 semifinals were insane as Canada’s Melissa Bishop led all the qualifiers in 1:57.52 (a two-second PR!). Americans Molly Ludlow and Brenda Martinez went home as the final time qualifier was a ridiculous 1:58.35.

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.

More Worlds Wednesday

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.”

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.

Worlds Photos Galleries: Day 1 (M10k Marathon), Day 2 (M100), Day 3 (W 10k, MSteeple), Day 4 (M800, W1500, M Long Jump) & Video (Interviews, Races)

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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?