September 4, 2015 | LetsRun.com

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 Medalists 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?
*MB: Official 2015 Zurich Diamond League Final Live Discussion Thread

LaShawn Merritt Gets 400m Revenge, But Kirani James Takes Overall DL Title Merritt won in 44.18 with James 2nd (44.28) and world champ Wayde van Niekerk 3rd (44.35). Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce got the 100m win in 10.93.
Greg Rutherford Is Now Is The LJ Olympic, World, Euro, Commonwealth And Diamond League Title Holder It was a close competition with US’s Marquis Dendy as they both jumped 8.32m, but Rutherford’s second-best jump was better.
Mutaz Essa Barshim (HJ) And Barbora Spotakova (Javelin) Bounce Back In Zurich After Beijing Blues They both won over those who beat them in Beijing. Yarisley Silva was another World Champ who lost as Greece’s Nikoleta Kyriakopoulou beat her in the PV.
Russia’s World Champ Sergey Shubenkov Got The 110H Win, But David Oliver Finished 2nd And Still Won The Overall DL Series
World Champ Shawn Barber Wins Pole Vault At Zürich Train Station He set a Canadian national indoor record of 5.67m.

Distance News

IAAF Profile: After Being Reduced To Tears With Multiple Injuries And Setbacks This Year, Canada’s Melissa Bishop Was Crying Tears Of Joy In Beijing Bishop walked away with a silver medal after setting a 2-second PR in the semi-final with 1:57.52.
Geoffrey Ronoh Will Defend His Title At The Birell Prague GP 10K On Saturday Ronoh has an interesting side job as he also works as a wildlife ranger and has to sometimes work sentry duty at night and sleeps during the day. 2011 Boston Marathon winner Caroline Kilel leads women’s field against Violah Jelagat (69:27 half PR).

Hosting News: 2016 – 2024

Are Olympics Athletes Just “Pieces Of Meat” To The IOC? AP writer says athletes feel they can’t speak up about issues which is why the Rio 2016 swimming venue (in polluted waters) remains unchanged.
Durban To Host 2022 Commonwealth Games South Africa will be the first African nation to host the Games after they were the only bidder.
Thomas Bach Gets What He Wants: A US Bid For 2024 Olympics
USA Today: Los Angeles Back From Dead As US Candidate For 2024 Olympics
USA Today: Olympic-Sized Question Mark: Housing Plan For LA 2024 A lot of undetermined costs associated with the plan for the Olympic Village.
France Launches Promotion Campaign For Paris Olympic Bid

USATF Politics, Performance And Controversy

Good Read: Philip Hersh For The Chicago Tribune: “US Wins At Ballot Box, Loses In Sport At Track And Field Worlds” “It seems pretty clear the U.S. federation leaders had their eyes on the wrong prizes – places within IAAF governance rather than places on the awards podium.”
Did Symmonds’ Stand Work? At World Championships, U.S. Athletes Weren’t Pressured To Wear Nike Gear Away From The Track Team members Nicole Tully and Esther Erb say they wore whatever they wanted outside competition (even easy runs and track workouts) with no pushback from USATF.
Nick Symmonds’ Stand Was A Boost For The Brooks Brand Brooks marketing director Jesse Williams: “Anytime you see the logo out there it’s good for the brand as a whole.”
David Woods For The Indy Star: Beijing Was One Of The US’s Worst Worlds Ever, But That Doesn’t Mean We Have To Panic For Rio The US won its fewest medals (18) since 2003 when doping bans dropped the total from 20 to 16. The US also took home zero gold medals in men’s individual running events, something that had never happened since the modern Olympic Games debuted in 1896.

Big City Marathon News

Distance News

Good Read: Did You Never Make It To High School Nationals? Well, You’re In Good Company With Asbel Kiprop Kiprop also talks about his desire to win another world title and break the WR so he can be as great as El Guerrouj, his love for rally racing and possibly racing Mo Farah over 5,000m next year.
NZ Distance Runner Kim Smith Is Lucky To Be Alive After Several Large Clots Were Found In Her Lungs After Giving Birth To Her First Child (link updated) She had surgery to get rid of the clots, but will have to stay on blood thinners for the rest of her life.
Uganda’s Inaugural World Steeplechase Champion Dorcus Inzikuru Is Moving To The Marathon The 33-year-old won the first women’s World steeple title in 2005 and has a PR of 9:15. She ran her first marathon in 2013 with only a 2:42.
Team Kenya Returns Home To Manic Joy, Chaos And Celebration (Includes Video) As is customary, the returning athletes were greeted to a huge celebration at the airport when they arrived.

2015 Beijing Worlds Results TV & Streaming LRC Prediction Contest IAAF Event-By-Event Recaps Post-Race Video Interviews Race Videos

LRC The Sensational Asbel Kiprop Reigns Supreme And Wins Fourth Global Title Kiprop showed he is better than everyone else in a thrilling race as Matt Centrowitz was the first American in 8th. *Video Of 1,500
*Who Is Elijah Manangoi? (Can He Supplant Kiprop?) He’s a Masai former 400m runner who is going to drink goat blood to celebrate his silver, getting the approval of David Rudisha.
*Centro, What Happened?
*Igiuder – The Next 5,000m Superstar!

Non-Distance Sunday:
W4 X 400: US Women Lose 4 X 400 Despite 47.7 Split From Felix Video of the race here. Discuss here.
Men 4 X 400: US Men Still Boss (Video highlights)
HJ: Derek Drouin’s Gold Caps Canada’s Historic Performance At Worlds

Saturday Worlds Race Videos Post-Race Interview

LRC Seventh Heaven: Mo Farah Captures 7th Global Title, Becomes First Man To Complete The 5,000/10,000 Double Three Times 7 years ago, Farah came to Beijing and did not make the 5,000 final. Now he leaves Beijing with GOAT talk.

LRC Stop Us If You’ve Heard This Before: Ashton Eaton Breaks The World Record, Usain Bolt Completes The Triple And The U.S. Botches A Handoff A great night in the Bird’s Nest with a WR by Eaton and another botched US relay.

MB: Ashton MF Eaton finds a 29.6 last 200. Breaks the WR!!!!!
*UnF****** Believable – Eaton 45.00 for 400!

The Triple Double Is Complete! MB: Mo MF Farah runs last 800 in 148, last k in 2:19, last 1,600 in 3:55!!!
*How to beat a 3:28 guy in a 5,000m race? I know, lets run 15 minute pace for half the race! Decisions.

LRC Belarus’ Marina Arzamasova Holds Off Melissa Bishop & Eunice Sum To Win Women’s 800 In 1:58.04 A super tight one for 800 glory.

Thursday

LRC Day 6 Recap: Bolt Beats Gatlin (Again) In 200, Christian Taylor Scares The World Record And Allyson Felix Reigns Supreme What a night of action at the Bird’s Nest as the US had a great night with the exception of Usain Bolt doing his thing over Justin Gatlin.

segway 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. *Bolt/Gatlin Press Conference

Full Coverage in our 2015 Worlds Special Section.

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.

The Sam Chelanga Story

LRCThe Accidental Runner: Sam Chelanga's Amazing Journey From Poverty In Rural Kenya To American Citizen And US Olympic Favorite

Sam Chelanga always vowed he'd bring change to his totally impoverished village where his mother died when he was young. At age 20, he was told by marathon world record holder Paul Tergat he should become a runner if he wanted to go to college. Chelanga's first thought was no way. "I went home and I had made up my mind. This dream of helping people, trying to get a higher education, it's too much. It's hurting me," said Chelanga, but in the end, he gave it a try and now a 27:08 collegiate record, 4 NCAA titles and favorite status for the 2016 US Olympic team are his reality - as is clean drinking water for his village.

Worlds Week That Was

LRCWTW: Did Centro Bomb In Beijing? Is Dafne Schippers Clean? Did The US Suck In Beijing? + Ben True's Shoes, Dennis Mitchell And More

We look back at the wonderful (or not so wonderful??? for the US) World Champs.

Photos From Raided Illegal Drug Labs In The UK Show Unhygienic Conditions That Look Like Something Out Of An Episode Of “Breaking Bad” Doping is already bad for your health, but athletes using drugs from these labs might be making themselves sick with contaminated products.

Sprints / Jumps

Recommended Read: Successful Kidney Implant Behind Him, Aries Merritt Is Optimistic About Repeating His Success From 2012 In 2016 (includes video) Merritt’s doctor talks about how they had to avoid using EPO (which is a normal treatment method) so he could stay eligible and how amazing it was Merritt could get bronze at Worlds in the condition he was in.
Andre De Grasse Passes Up Chance To Go Pro To Return To The NCAA Experts say he could have made over a million dollars next year if he signed a shoe contract.
*MB: De Grasse declines endorsement offers and returns to NCAA
Words Of Wisdom From World LJ Champ Tianna Bartoletta Bartoletta talks about the mental side of track and not psyching yourself out.
UK’s Richard Kilty Hoping To Bounce Back From Beijing Relay Disappointment With 150m Race At Great North CityGames Next Weekend

NCAA News: Two Big Upgrades For Oregon

Proposed Hayward Field Renovations Set To Begin Next Summer The renovations will expand seating up to 30,000 so that Eugene can host the World Championships in 2021.
Phil Knight Donating Money For Huge New Marcus Mariota Sports Performance Complex On UO Campus The state of the art facility would include many beneficial resources for athletes including sports science testing.
Collean Quigley Among NCAA Woman Of The Year Top 30 List

Aries Merritt Has Successful Kidney Transplant What he did at Worlds 4 days before a kidney transplant was amazing.

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.

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)

Day 3
Infeld
Day 2
Bolt and Gatlin

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?

Post-Worlds Bests And Worsts

The Telegraph’s Beijing “Hits And Misses” They put together a pretty good list.
Jumping-The-Gun: 5 Beijing Shocks List includes Emily Infeld, a Kenyan winning the 400 hurdles and Dafne Schippers.
BBC: Miracles And Comebacks – Beijing’s Most Memorable Moments Bolt winning over Gatlin tops their list. They have some interesting stats, including the dramatic drop in medals for Russia.
Ten Memorable Quotes From Worlds Marathoner Ghirmay Ghebreslassie after becoming the first Eritrean to win a World or Olympic gold medal: “My parents wanted me to be a great university student, but I wanted to become a good athlete.”
Runner’s World: Five Winners, Five Losers From Worlds We agree one huge loser was the television coverage. Also, whoever failed to create a clear finish line (and let athletes know about it) for the men’s marathon.
USA Today: What Did We Learn About Rio At The 2015 IAAF World Championships?

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 Racewalker 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.

Track Is Winding Down And It’s Almost Time For XC

XC Rankings: Colorado Men Start NCAA DI Three-Peat Quest As Pre-Season Favorites Stanford, Syracuse, Oklahoma State and Wisconsin round out the top 5.
Iowa State Tops DI Women’s Cross-Country Pre-Season Poll New Mexico, Michigan State, Colorado and Georgetown round out the top 5.
Defending Champs Colorado, Michigan State Lead Way In Pre-Season Regional Rankings

Running Politics

Seb Coe Defends His Link With Nike Saying There Is No Conflict Of Interest With That And His Role As IAAF President Coe says his role with Nike is with a project that tries to tackle childhood obesity and doesn’t involve the elite performance side of the company. *Video
AK National Executive Committee To Decide Fate Of President Isaiah Kiplagat Kiplagat has been on sabbatical for 3 months campaigning for IAAF Vice President, which he lost. He will step away if the council says so and considering this was Kenya’s best Worlds ever, maybe he should.
Seb Coe Releases Statement From His First Official Day As The New IAAF President A working group has been set up to look into the possibility of establishing a “new over-arching integrity unit” which would include an independent anti-doping operation.
IAAF Athletes’ Commission Elected Includes Valerie Adams, Mutaz Essa Barshim and Yelena Isinbayeva.
Seb Coe Appoints Defeated Rival Sergey Bubka As Senior IAAF Vice-President

Worlds Sunday Post-Race Interviews Race Videos

Kiprop After 3 In A Row

Recommended By David Rudisha, Kenya’s New 1,500 Star And Masai Warrior Manangoi To Celebrate By Drinking Goat Blood

Centro After 8th Place

Felix After 47.7 Split

More Interviews Here, Race Videos Here

More Sprint Stuff From Thursday

Trey Hardee Pulls Out Of The Decathlon With A Back Injury Completely unrelated, but interesting tidbit from the article: Hardee’s two dogs are sponsored by a pet food company. We’ll bet they make more than a lot of track athletes.
You Won’t Be Seeing Any Bolt Vs. Gatlin Rematches Any Time Soon They’ll both be at the Brussels Diamond League meet, but in different events.
Usain Bolt Hints He May End His Career After Rio 2016 Rather Than London 2017
Jenna Prandini Misses 200 Final; Confirms She’s Skipping Her Senior Year At Oregon To Go Pro With Puma
BBC: Why We Should Cherish Supreme Usain Bolt

Worlds Photos Galleries: Day 1 (M10k Marathon), Day 2 (M100), Day 3 (W10k, MSteeple), Day 4 (M800, W1,500, M Long Jump) & Video (Interviews, Races)

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.