$100,000 .US 12K Champs Were Sunday *Results

LRC Molly Huddle And Sam Chelanga Win .US 12K Championships – Recap, Results And Post-Race Interviews Huddle dominated while Chelanga just held off Tyler Pennel to win by less than a second. Interviews with Chelanga, Pennel, Jared Ward and Molly Huddle. *Washington Post

LRC Molly Huddle Caps Undefeated Season On Roads And Leaves Open the Possibility Of Running Olympic Trials Marathon The chances are not likely as Huddle on the Trials said,  “Probably not. I’ll never say never, but probably not.” When asked why she wouldn’t rule it out 100%, she said, “Just because I have taken to the roads pretty well, but I’ll likely delay the marathon debut.”
Discuss: Molly Huddle Leaves Open The Possibility Of Doing The Olympic Marathon Trials
*MB: Official USATF 12k Championship Thread

• RRW: Molly Huddle Hopes To Cap Best-Ever Year With Third Straight .US 12-K Title
• .US 12K Press Conference Highlights Quotes from Molly Huddle, Sara Hall, Kim Conley, Sam Chelenga, Tyler Pennel.
• Race Preview: Molly Huddle And Jared Ward Look For USATF Running Circuit Titles At $100,000 .US National 12K

Other Action Over The Weekend

• Kenya’s John Mwangangi Crushes Spain’s All-Comers Record In Marathon By 1:01, Wins Valencia In 2:06:13 Doper Matthew Kisorio was also under the old record in second in 2:06:33.
  *Full Results USA’s Chris Zablocki was 16th in 2:15:39.
• Ethiopia’s Atsede Baysa Wins The Inaugural Saitama International Marathon In 2:25:44 It was the first win for Baysa since her 2:22:03 PR and win at 2012 Chicago. Two-time World 5,000 silver medalist Sylvia Kibet fell off early.
• World’s Longest Half Marathon: Bangkok Half Extended To Almost 17 Miles As Organizers Send Runners The Wrong Way People were not happy.
• Imane Merga Wins Opening IAAF Cross-Country Permit In Portugal For 5th Straight Year Belaynesh Oljira repeated on the women’s side.
• Komazawa University Runners Go 1-2 At Ageo City Half Marathon It’s Japan’s major fall half marathon and the winning time was 62:48. Yuki Kawauchi ran 63:11.

The Latest Russian Doping Scandal Updates

• The IAAF Is Next: A Lot More To Come In Second WADA Independent Commission Report On Corruption Within The IAAF Commission member Richard McLaren said that there could even be calls to suspend the IAAF once the report is released.
• Would Really Defeat The Purpose: Could Russian Athletes Compete Under The Olympic Flag If Russia Is Still Banned Come Rio? Apparently Yelena Isinbayeva‘s coach is looking into that option.
• Daily Mail: Is There Already A Deal In Place To Ensure Russia’s Return Before Rio? An IAAF insider said if Russia make it to the Olympics “… then it will be because of a huge and genuine turnaround, or forces much bigger than the IAAF.”
• IOC President Thomas Bach Confident Russia Will Reform In Time For Rio We’re sure many athletes and fans hopes they are not.
• Russian Athletics Federation President Vadim Zelichenok Says IAAF’s Suspension Is “Too Severe”
• Russian Suspension Means They Will Be Kept Out Of SPAR European XC Championships In December Russia hasn’t sent a senior team since 2010 anyway.
• Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko Says Russia Will Be Compliant In Three Months
• Daily Mail: “Lord Coe Must Have Guts To Tackle British Athletics’ Smug Attitude To Doping” Writer accuses Brits of condemning Russians, but sweeping things like Christine Ohuruogu‘s ban for three missed drug tests under the rug.
• Yelena Isinbayeva Wrote An Open Letter Asking IAAF Council Not To Impose A Blanket Ban On Russia Thankfully they didn’t listen to her.
• GB Captain Martyn Rooney Believes Seb Coe Has Been “Naive” “I want to believe he is the right person for the job. … it is just whether it is the best thing for athletics to have someone who was involved in the IAAF at that period still involved at the turnaround.”

Russia Is Banned *All Russian Doping Scandal News

Breaking: IAAF Provisionally Suspends Russian Athletics Federation; Russian Athletes Banned From All International Competitions 22 of the 24 voting members were in favor of the ban; only one was against. Russia will not be able to host the 2016 World Race Walking Cup or World Junior Championships. To regain membership to the IAAF, the new Russian federation will have to fulfill a list of criteria and pass inspections.
*MB: BREAKING: IAAF Suspends Russian Athletics Federation