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2016 NYRR Millrose*Results

LRC Matthew Centrowitz Becomes Fourth-Fastest Indoor Miler Ever (3:50.63), Repeats As Wanamaker Mile Champion Nick Willis tried his best to turn back Centro but it was in vain as they entertained.

LRC Ryan Hill Kicks Best To Win Loaded 3,000 In World-Leading 7:38.82; Edward Cheserek 7:40.51 (#2 All-Time NCAA) Is Ryan Hill the top 3,000m runner in the world right now?

LRC The Rest Of The Meet: Betsy Saina Wins A Historically-Fast 5k, Shannon Rowbury Comes Up Short In Her AR Attempt, Ajee Wilson Wins As Does Duane SolomonSome great distance action at Millrose.

LRC Drew Hunter Does It Again – Runs 3:57.81 For A New High School Indoor Mile Record He’s still under the weather and still making history.
*MB: DREW HUNTER 3:57.81

Some PV History As Two Women Clear 4.90m In The Same Competition For The First Time Greece’s Ekaterini Stefanidi beat US’s Demi Payne on the countback.
Andre De Grasse Wins 60m In His Professional Debut
Bills Wide Receiver Marquise Goodwin Was 3rd In The LJ Goodwin is shooting for Rio even if it costs him a roster spot as he’ll miss all of pre-season training camp.
UPenn’s Thomas Awad Ran Fastest Mile In Ivy League History (3:57.03)
NY Times:“Millrose Games’ Glamour Is Diminished; Prestige Is Not” Writer calls Millrose a “relic from a golden era of track and field” … back when we had enough fans to have the meet at Madison Square Garden.
Oregon’s Raevyn Rogers Ran The 2nd-Fastest Collegiate 800 Of All-Time Her 2:00.90 wasn’t far off the 11-year-old 2:00.75 record.
MB: Official 2016 NYRR Millrose Games Live Discussion Thread
MB: Who were your biggest winners and losers at Millrose?
MB: After Watching Millrose 3k, Do you think Rupp makes World Indoor team at 3k?
MB: Cheserek Trying to Become US Citizen Before Trials??

Results On One Page

Breaking News: Genzebe Dibaba Runs A Race And Doesn’t Set A WR

Genzebe Dibaba Runs 8:22.50 – The 2nd-Fastest Indoor 3,000 In History – In StockholmGelete Burka was second in 8:33.76. Aman Wote won the men’s 1,500 in 3:39.

Random But Interesting Road Race News

Mike Rossis Of The World Beware:Hey Race Cheaters, Race Directors Are On To You – You’ve Been Warned RDs are finally catching up to what LRCers have been proficient at for years – catching cheaters. An in-depth look at the methods RDs are using to catch course cutters.
Are Racers Responsible For Knowing The Course?RW Talks To Two RDs After The Top 10 Are Sent The Wrong Way And DQed At Daytona Beach 5K Thankfully, both RDs agreed that if a course marshal sends runners the wrong way, then the organizers are to blame. Not like this half marathon last year that had a lead car take 3 pros the wrong way and then blamed the runners.
*MB Archives:3 guys go wrong way. 4th guy wins $1500 dollars
Police Preparing “Pursue Criminal Charges” Against Owner Of Dog That Tripped Runner At New Year Ekiden(includes video) We hope the police aren’t serious. The dog was very small & leashed, but apparently the 69-year-old owner accidentally dropped it. The runner looked fine and didn’t press charges. Move along.
Coming This April:Armory Announces The NYC Indoor Marathon The release says it is a “new twist” on the indoor marathon from 1906 in Madison Square Garden.
*MB Archives:Has a lapped runner ever come back to win a race?

Train Smarter

LRCDrew Hunter's Coach Tom "Tinman" Schwartz Explains Critical Velocity And Type IIa Muscle Fibers

We made a mistake in our article on Schwartz and fortunately for all of us that caused Schwartz to share more info on Critical Velocity pace.

Get Inspired From The Trials

LRCThe Best Moment At Olympic Trials Press Conference - Meb Brought To Tears By Galen Rupp, Amy Cragg, Jared Ward And Desi Linden

Desi Linden said it best, "Meb's the epitome of a hero"

LRCTyler Pennel: LRC Underdog Of The Week - "Screw them. We're going to go out there and show them what's up."

Tyler Pennel gives some inspiration for underdogs everywhere, revealing he wanted to win the Trials.

Doping Updates: Kenya Going The Way Of Russia?

Seb Coe Says Kenya Could Be Banned From 2016 Olympics If Declared Non-Compliant By WADA Coe: “We know a disproportionate amount of reputational damage is caused by a relatively few countries … if it means pulling them out of world championships or Olympic Games then we will have to do that.” *Telegraph Article
Papa Massata Diack Interrogated By Senegal Police For 7 Hours Diack arrived for questioning just after 4 p.m and left at midnight.

Distance News

Did You Know?Famous Author Nicholas Sparks Was A Former HS Track Star Sparks, the author of The Notebook and Message in a Bottle, ran 1:52 in high school and split 1:50 in college before an Achilles injury forced him to quit.
Mo Farah Confirms He’ll Compete At Birmingham DL Meet Ahead Of Rio Games His next race is this weekend’s Glasgow Indoor GP 3,000.
Scottish Man Gets Lost In Freezing Temperatures During Genghis Khan Ice Marathon In Mongolia
*LRCWinter Running Archives

LetsJump.com

BBC Video On Germany’s “Blade Jumper,” Who Is Trying To Get The IAAF To Allow Him To Compete In The Rio OlympicsMarkus Rehm has an 8.40m PR, which would have won the London Games. He is not allowed to compete against able-bodied athletes as the IAAF says his carbon fiber prosthetic gives him an advantage.
IAAF First Impressions Q&A With PV World Champion Shawn Barber Some random questions like his first toy, first downloaded app and first thing he learned to cook – Ramen noodles.
IAAF Inside Athletics Interview With US’s Four-Time World LJ Champ Dwight Phillips

Updated NCAA Rankings

Arkansas Men Move From 8th To First To Take Over Updated DI Rankings Tennessee moved from 7th to 2nd and #1 Florida to 10th. This is the first week where 2015 marks don’t count.
Florida Women Move From 4th To The New #1-Ranked NCAA Team Oregon moved from 3rd to 2nd and formerly top-ranked Arkansas is now 4th.

Doping Updates: Russia, Kenya, NOP And The MLB

The Guardian’s Sean Ingle:“Isn’t It Time For An Independent Commission Into Kenyan Athletics’ Drug Problem?” The time was probably quite a while ago.
Mets Pitcher Jenrry Mejia Gets Lifetime Ban For Testing Positive For The 3rd Time In 2 Years (He Wasn’t Even Done With His Previous Ban Yet) He is the first player in MLB history to get a lifetime ban for steroid use.
Nothing Like Investigating Yourself:Russian Report Finds “Not A Single Piece Of Evidence” Government Was Involved In State-Supported Doping Well then by all means un-ban them immediately! Issue a full apology. This has all been a terrible mistake!
Former Russian Anti-Doping Chief Nikita Kamayev Dies Suddenly Of A Heart Attack The 52-year-old resigned 2 months ago in wake of the Russian doping scandal. His death comes just 2 weeks after that of RUSADA founding chairman, Vyacheslav Sinev. *BBC
Seb Coe Meets With New Russian Athletics Federation Head Dmitry Shlyakhtin To Discuss Doping Ban
Oregonian’s Ken Goe Is Critical Of Kara Goucher’s “Justice Is Coming” Interview Goe: “The marathon trials stories should have been about the performances.”
*MB: Kara Goucher unloads on Alberto Salazar, Galen Rupp and the NOP – “Justice is coming.”

International Distance Results

Geoffrey Kamworor Wins In Battle With Bedan Karoki At Kenyan XC ChampionshipsAlice Aprot (sister of 2010 World XC champ Joseph Ebuya) won the women’s race as favorite Faith Kipyegon finished way back, running through illness.
IAAF Indoor Weekend Round-Up:Poland’s Adam Kszczot Wins 800 In 1:46.18 Over Timothy Kitum (1:46.72) And Mohammed Aman (1:47.24) Women’s 1,500 and 800 world leads went to Renata Plis (4:07.38) and Joanna Jozwik (2:00.12). Elsewhere, Asafa Powell set a 60m PR and world lead with 6.49 in Houston.
Florence Kiplagat Gets Third Consecutive Barcelona Half Marathon Win Her time of 69:19 was well off the 65:09 WR she set here last year. Vincent Kipruto won the men’s race in 62:54.
Seán Hehir And Shona Heaslip Dominate Ireland Inter-Count XC Champs

Trials Talk

2016 Glasgow Indoor Grand Prix – Mo Farah’s 1 Indoor Race Of 2016 *Results

The fans were happy LRC Mo Farah’s 2016 Track Campaign Gets Off To A Successful Start As He Wins Glasgow 3,000 In 7:39.55 After realizing the British record was out of reach, Mo focused on the win and got it, but Mo only closed in 58.9.

LRC Mary Cain’s Lackluster 2016 Continues – Cain Runs 4:13.55 In Glasgow Cain finished 8th of 9.
IAAF: Abdalaati Iguider Runs World-Leading 3:34.94 To Win 1,500 Over Ayanleh SouleimanSiffan Hassan won in 4:01.40 as Gudaf Tsegay set an indoor Jr. record in 4:01.81. Adam Kszczot (1:46.23), Melissa Bishop (2:00.19) and Nancy Chepkwemoi (8:49) were the other distance winners.
Non-Distance:Shawn Barber Returns To Form With A 5.89m PV Victory; Dafne Schippers Wins 60m in 7.10 Seconds Little-known Brit Sean Safo-Antwi won the men’s 60m after Kim Collins pulled up with a cramp and was stretchered off the track.
“Blade Jumper” Markus Rehm “Wins” Glasgow LJ In 8.10m Technically, Aussie Fabrice Lapierre (8.08m) won since Rehm finishes in a separate set of paralympic results.
MB:Official 2016 Glagow Indoor Live Discussion Thread

Weekend NCAA Action *All College Results

Alex Wilson Invy Results:Fast DMRs Highlight As Oklahoma State Runs Third-Fastest Time In NCAA History With 9:26.60 They beat Washington by .59 seconds with the top five teams going sub-9:30. The Michigan women ran the 3rd-fastest time of the year to win in 10:58.25.
Patriot League Conference Champs:Navy Men, Bucknell Women Lead After Day 1 *Live Results *Meet Site
Atlantic 10:Rhode Island Men And Women Lead After First Day *Live Results *Meet Site

News From Oregon

Figuring Out A Competition Schedule Is Complex For A Multi-Event Athlete Coach Harry Marra explains it can take weeks to figure out which meets/events the Eatons will do.
Oregon Lawmakers Still Haggling Over Tax-Increase Bill For 2021 Worlds Advocates of the hotel room tax, which is meant to help subsidize Eugene 2021, have scaled back their request to try and gain support.
What Will Happen To The Portland Indoor Track After Worlds? The University of Iowa will get a track as promised, but it might not be this one as there are rumors someone in Portland might step in to buy it.

Week That Was

LRCPutting Galen's Run And Kara's Post-Race Comments In Perspective + Meb Is Winning Vs. Father Time

We take a brief look back to the Trials and a bigger look back to Regina Jacobs and Suzy Favor Hamilton.

Kenyan Doping Updates

AK Official Is Afraid The IAAF Is Planning On Banning Kenya Barnaba Korir: “My belief is the IAAF are preparing us for a ban. If they are able to ban Russia, what is so special about Kenya?”
First Probe Into Suspended AK Officials Due By Mid Or Late March It sounds like one man, the former director of public prosecutions in Kenya, is doing the investigation and reporting back to the IAAF Ethics Commission.
Acting AK Head Jackson Tuwei Isn’t Worried About Kenya Being Banned From The Olympics Apparently the Anti-Doping Association of Kenya (ADAK) has been given a two-month extension to “show it was doing its job.”

There Is No Disputing Aden’s Group Is Taking Names On The Track

LRC Hamza Driouch Retracts Claim That Coach Jama Aden (Whose Athletes Broke 3 World Records Yesterday) Doped HimThe IAAF needs to figure out who was doping the 17-year-old Driouch when he tested positive.
Updated:Odile Baudrier of SPE15.fr has sent us English translations of his original article and the email he received from Driouch, which was in English.

Upcoming Action: Mo Farah Races In The UK Tomorrow

Tomorrow: Mo Farah Vs. Caleb Ndiku And Augustine Choge In Glasgow 3K Other top matchups include Adam Kszczot vs. Mohammed Aman over 800 and Sifan Hassan vs. Dawit Seyaum over 1,500. Ayanleh Souleiman and Melisssa Bishop lead the men’s 1,500 and women’s 800.
Sunday:Ethiopia’s Berhanu Shiferaw (2:04:48) And Kenya’s Miriam Wangari (2:27:53) Lead Sevilla Marathon Fields
March 5th:David Rudisha Will Open His Season In Melbourne He will face Australia’s national champ Jeff Riseley and NR holder Alex Rowe.
March 6: 2:04 Man And World Bronze Medalist Munyo Solomon Mutai Lead Field For Lake Biwa Marathon Lake Biwa is also the final qualifying race for the Japanese Olympic team, with Kazuhiro Maeda (2:08:00) and Yuki Kawauchi leading the domestic field.
March 26th:Japan Squad For The IAAF University World Half Marathon Championships Hoping To Win Its Ninth Consecutive Team Medal

2016 Globen Galan *Results

LRCThree World Records At One Meet! Genzebe Dibaba Gets Mile (4:13.31), Souleiman The 1k (2:14.20) And Haroun The 500* (59.83)

All three have the same coach, Jama Aden. In other action, Adam Kszczot kept winning in the 800.
*Dibaba Didn’t Like The “Conditions,” Saying The Arena “Felt Very Cold” To Her
*Non-Distance Recap: After Stumble, Kim Collins Wins 60m Over Mike Rodgers; Nikoleta Kyriakopoulou Sets Greek PV Record (4.81m) US’s Jeneba Tarmoh won the 200 in 23.38 over Trinidad and Tobago’s Michelle-Lee Ahye.

Ireland AIT Results: Mary Cain 4:13 for 6th in 1,500.
*World Silver Medalist Melissa Bishop Sets Canadian Indoor 800 Record With 2:00.60

More From The Olympic Marathon Trials

Q&A With Former All-American Chris Barnicle, The “World’s Fastest Stoner,” Who Was DFL At The OT Barnicle’s 3:45:34 last-place finish probably isn’t the best advertisement for mixing running and marijuana. And no, the rumor that he submitted PBR for his fluid stations wasn’t true. *Q&A Part 2
*MB: Chris Barnicle = Greatest performance of the 2016 OTM
Interesting Analysis:How Did The Half Marathon Qualifiers Do At The Olympic Trials? Overall not too well, although Galen Rupp and 5th place Janet Cherobon-Bawcom were notable exceptions.
*MB: Who was the top finisher that qualified with a half?
Good Watch:Profile On Sam Chelanga And His Journey From A Peasant Farmer In Kenya To A US Olympic Hopeful
Brooks And Nike Lead US Olympic Marathon Trials Shoe Count Looking at the top 75 men and 75 women, 27 wore Brooks and 26 wore Nike. Adidas was 3rd most prominent with 23.

Don’t Forget – Millrose Is Saturday

Emily Infeld Is In Good Shape, Hoping For Big PR And 1st Sub-15:00 Clocking At Millrose On Saturday Her PR is 15:07.

News Of Note

The Plot Thickens:Sunday Times Reveals Former Chief Of Russia Anti-Doping Agency Who Died Unexpectedly Of “Massive Heart Attack” Was Working On A Book That His Friends Urged Him Not To Write
RIP 4-Time Comrades Winner Riana van Niekerk Has Died At Age 39 Due To Pancreatic Cancer
LA 2024 Logo Unveiled – “Follow The Sun” If they actually get the Games, they will apparently make a 2nd logo.
March’s Lake Biwa Mainichi Marathon – Japan’s Final Selection Race – Will Be FantasticYuki Kawauchi has turned down a lucrative offer to run London and has entered the race on his own, hoping to be the top Japanese selection and dare the Japanese selectors not to take him as they’ve said he won’t go unless he breaks 2:06:30.
Some Believe That Doping Might Be Rampant In Amateur Ranks Of British Sport
Spikes Looks At Great Track And Field Athletes Over The Age Of 40 Not Named Meb Constantina Dita, Merlene Ottey, Kim Collins and Bernard Lagat are half of the 8.
Martyn Rooney Is Feeling Great At Beginning Of Olympic Year “‘I’m doing things I didn’t think I could do at any time of my life, and I’m doing it in an Olympic year. … This is the most confident I have been in my body.”
2004 Olympic Heptathlon Bronze Medalist Kelly Sotherton, Now 39, Talks About Her Life As Sports Administrator She hopes to be a female Seb Coe.
Germany’s Kai Kazmirek Achieved A Heptathlon World Lead Of 6,111 Points To Win The Annual International Combined Events Meeting In Tallinn Held Over The Weekend

1st Olympic Trials Photo Gallery – 160+ Photos (Link Fixed)

New Balance Indoor Grand Prix Full Results Race Videos

LRCMeseret Defar Announces Return In Style, Andrew Wheating Stays Undefeated, Nick Willis Cruises, Boris Berian Goes Fast & Dawit Seyaum Outkicks Brenda M

IAAF Non-Distance Recap:Kurt Roberts Throws World-Leading 21.57m In NBIGP Shot PutJenn Suhr won the PV in 4.82m after failing in an attempt at breaking her own WR.
Natasha Hastings Breaks Allyson Felix’s American 300m Record With 36.25 Seconds
Defar On Comeback Race: “This was the biggest race of my life.”
NBIGP OTB:Official Thread
Wheating Wins Again ~ 2:18 1000m
Boris Berian #6 all indoor 600m

More Weekend Indoor Action

Italy’s Half-Bearded High Jumper Gianmarco Tamberi Sets New National Record With 2.38m Elsewhere, Qatar’s Mutaz Essa Barshim won a low-key HJ in 2.36m.
Dafne Schippers Runs The Fastest 60m Time In The World For Three Years With 7.00 She also tied the Dutch record of Nelli Cooman set 30 years ago in 1986 and moved up to 9th on the all-time lists.
*MB: MB:Dafne Schippers ties 60m Dutch record in Berlin (7.00)
Poland’s Ewa Swoboda Sets World Junior 60m Record With 7.07 The previous mark was 16 years old.
Belgium’s Pieter-Jan Hannes Sets 2,000m WL, But Misses NR With 5:04.33 The NR is 5:00.0 by Emiel Puttemans from 1973.
IAAF Indoor Weekend Round-Up Germany’s Kai Kazmirek Sets World-Leading Heptathlon Mark (6,111 Points) In distance action, Morocco’s 19-year-old Mostafa Smaili and Iceland’s Anita Hinriksdottir got 800m wins in 1:46.50 and 2:01.59.
UK’s Christopher Baker Clears New HJ PR With 2.36m

Olympic Marathon Trials Women *Results And Mile-By-Mile Splits

LRC Amy Cragg Gets Vengeance From 4th Place Finish 4 Years Ago, Desi Linden Runs Smart For 2nd And Shalane Flanagan Hangs On – Full Recap and Analysis link fixed Flanagan and Cragg pulled away early, but it took a toll on Flanagan, who barely kept it together and collapsed at the finish. Kara Goucher was a close 4th in 2:30:24 and Janet Bawcom 5th. Videos and more.

LA Times:Amy Cragg And Shalane Flanagan Work Together To Make U.S. Olympic Team
RW: For Kara Goucher, A Comeback Ends In Heartbreaking Fourth
MB: Kara Goucher unloads on Alberto Salazar, Galen Rupp and the NOP – “Justice is coming.”
Denver Post:Kara Goucher Goes Off On Her Former Coach

More International Results

Asian Indoor Champs Day 2 Recap:Qatar’s Moroccan-Born Mohamed Al-Garni Just Misses Asian 1,500 Record As He Wins In 3:36.35 He was only .07 seconds off the record even after an excessive celebration cost him time in the final straight. UAE’s Betlhem Desalegn followed up her 1,500 win with an 8:44 victory in the 3,000.
Cosmas Kiplimo Lagat Breaks CR With 2:08:14 At Sevilla Marathon Spain’s Paula Gonzalez thrilled the local crowd by winning in her debut with 2:31:18.

Some More Marathon Trials Analysis

Brett Larner Takes An “Honest Look” At American Marathoning History And Asks If We’ve Reached A Turning Point The women are better than ever and the men have potential thanks to Galen Rupp, but have some work to do.
Peter Abraham: 10 Ways To Improve The Olympic Marathon Trials He starts off by talking about the sponsorship battle between Sketchers (who sponsors the LA Marathon) and Nike (who sponsors USATF).
How Did Californians Do At The Olympic Trials? After Meb, Shadrack Biwott was 7th on the men’s side. For the women, she might live in Michigan now, but Desi Linden is a California native.

The Race To Host The 2024 Games Is On

Rome 2024 Bid Will Use Colosseum And Circus Maximus Beach volleyball at the Circus Maximus and the marathon finishing under the Arch of Constantine near the Colosseum are proposed ideas.
New NFL Stadium To Play Key Role In LA 2024 Bid
A Look At Some Details From The LA 2024 Olympic Bid Plans Reportedly, 97% of venues already exist.
Paris 2024 Bid Highlights Existing Venues

New Balance Indoor Grand Prix Photo Gallery

Get Excited: World Indoors Is Fast Approaching

Evan Jager Putting More Focus On Indoors Than Usual As He Wants To Compete At Home In Portland Jager: “It might be one of my only chances to run at a global championships in the states and that in itself is cool.”
Interesting Read: Portland Tribune: “Introducing The Best Track In The World” Apparently Nike and the city of Portland are considering buying the track even though it was promised to the University of Iowa for $2.6 million.
Jenn Suhr Is Reconsidering Doing US And World Indoors As She Wants Another Chance At 5.07m She had previously said she wouldn’t do them because they were too close together and her husband/coach bashed the US qualification system.
Photos:Track For World Indoors Is Being Disassembled And Moved From The Abandon Warehouse To The Oregon Convention Center
TrackTown Adds Four Prep Events To World Indoor Program Includes the 60m, PV and a 4 x 400 relay.

Post-Olympic Trials News

Good Read:Shalane Flanagan Q&A On Dehydration, Delirium, And Drama At The Olympic Trials Flanagan goes step-by-step through the race from reacting to Kellyn Taylor‘s move to teamwork with Amy Cragg and getting so dehydrated she needed an IV afterwards.
Meet The Last Place Finishers At The Olympic Marathon Trials: 149th Place Joanna Zeiger (3:23) And 105th Place Chris Barnicle (3:45) Zeiger is a 45-year-old who promised herself she’d finish after DNFing in 2012. Barnicle is a once 62-min. half runner who now works as a distributor for medical marijuana dispensaries.
*MB: Chris Barnicle = Greatest performance of the 2016 OTM
Chris Chavez The Sports Illustrated Writer Meets Chris Chavez The 2:17 Marathoner Two identical names in a close-knit running community, they each sometimes find themselves receiving credit for the other’s work. *MB: Chris Chavez (The Runner) vs Chris Chavez (The Reporter)
Luke Puskedra Talks About Being 4th; Says He’ll Try To Make Rio In the 10,000 If he doesn’t make the 10,000 team (and Galen Rupp sticks with the 10K/marathon double) then Puskedra will focus on Chicago again.
Marathoner Brandon Birdsong Proposes To His Girlfriend At Olympic Trials Finish Line
RW Graphical Analysis: How The OT Were Won

Doping News

Athletics Kenya CEO Isaac Mwangi Temporarily Steps Down Over Bribery Allegations
Papa Diack Will Be Questioned By Senegal Investigators A warrant for his arrest has been issue by Interpol, but Senegal has refused to extradite him.
Russia Orders Athletes To Sign Anti-Doping Pledge To Compete At Russian Indoor Champs How many athletes will cross their fingers or roll their eyes while signing?
Kenya Anti-Doping Agency To Investigate Claims Against AK CEO Isaac Mwangi
Kenyan Government Says Its Putting Another $4.9 Million Towards Anti-Doping

LRC Yohan Blake Opens His Season With A 48.14-Second 400 In Jamaica (video included) Blake was the last finisher in the race won by Javon Francis in 46.21.

Wejo Is Proud:Weldon Kirui Loses Luggage, Gets New Pair Of Skechers From Race Organizers And Wins LA Marathon In 2:13 Ukraine’s Nataliya Lehonkova won the women’s race in 2:30.

The 2016 US Olympic Marathon Trials #Greatness Full Results And Mile Splits: Men *Women

LRC Full Recap America’s Next Great Marathoner Arrives As Galen Rupp Dominates Olympic Trials In Debut; Meb Keflezighi, Jared Ward Grab Final Two Spots On Team USA (updated) Rupp (2:11:12), Keflezighi (2:12:20) and Ward (2:13:00) is your team to Rio as Luke Puskedra (2:14:12) and Tyler Pennel (2:14:57) just miss out.

MiLive.com: Dathan Ritzenhein “Just In Shock” After Dropping Out Of Olympic Marathon Trials He said the cramping began about the nine-mile mark in his left calf, moved to his right and then his hamstrings.
Recommended Read: SI’s Tim Layden Writes About Trials Better Than Anyone Else “This should be cause for excitement. Barely a decade ago, U.S. distance running was abysmal and now there is a runner in red, white and blue talking bigger than Kenyans and bigger than Ethiopians. … But instead, there is not just a double, but also an ongoing investigation, veiled threats and the familiar and dogged specter of wrongdoing.”
LRC Meb Explains His Unfriendly Words And Gesture With Galen Rupp During The Marathon Trials – “It’s not a track, the road is o pen.” A little love was lost between Meb and Galen during the race. Meb tried to explain what happened.
RRW:Rupp, Cragg Prevail In Hot USA Olympic Trials Marathon
All Post-Race Videos

NCAA Weekend Action Results: BU ValentineHuskyISUSpireAll NCAA Results

Fastrack National InviteResults: Villanova’s Patrick Tiernan Runs An NCAA-Leading 7:48.55Robby Andrews won the 800 in 1:47.50.
*Cornell’s James Gowans Wins Mile Dual With Columbia’s Rob Napolitano As Both Run 3:58
Husky Classic: MB: Grant Fisher Runs 7:50.06 To Win Husky Classic 3K In A Close Finish He beat out Washington’s Izaic Yorks by .14 seconds. Allie Ostrander ran 8:54 to win the women’s race. Boise State’s David Elliott took the mile in 3:57.38 as the top 7 went sub-4 and Natalia Piliusina won the women’s (4:35.31).
*Edward Cheserek Runs World-Leading 13:35
*ResultsChelsea Blaase took the women’s 5K in 15:43.
ISU Classic: Elise Cranny Gets 4:38 Mile Win In Her Return To Racing Was her first race since outdoors last year. Also on Saturday, Akron’s Worlds qualifier Clayton Murphy ran 1:46.13 to beat NCAA champ Edward Kemboi.
Justyn Knight Runs 7:48.71 To Beat Out Sean McGorty By .08
*Results Both 5Ks were very close as Thomas Curtin ran 13:37 to beat out Marc Scott by .24 and Molly Seidel won from Anna Rohrer in 15:47. *Video Recap
Spire: MB:ERIN FINN Solos A 15:38 At SPIRE Invy
*Results

BU Valentine: Results Friday winners included GB’s Lynsey Sharp (800 – 2:00.30), Amanda Eccleson (mile – 4:26.88) as the top 4 broke 4:30, Christina Melian (5,000 – 15:48) and Jessica O’Connell running 8:56 to beat Ashley Higginson and Emma Bates. Saturay: Amed Bile (7:51), Joel Hubbard (3:58) and Drew Piazza (2:21.97 – 1,000).
Raven Saunders Breaks Collegiate Indoor Shot Put Record With 19.23m
Event-By-Event Top NCAA Marks From The Weekend