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MB: Official Day 4 World Indoor Championships Discussion Thread

LRC Centrowitz Caps Perfect Season With Gold In Men’s 1,500 (updated) Centro was magnificent, Nick Willis‘ run for glory ended up with bronze, as Robby Andrews was 4th and the Africans were left off the medal stand.
*Salazar says Centrowitz executed race plan perfectly

LRC USA’s Ryan Hill Gets Silver As Ethiopia’s Yomif Kejelcha Wins And Arrives As Mo Farah’s Potential #1 Rival (updated) Hill was 4th coming off the final turn but he ended up getting the silver!
*Oregonian on Hill’s silver

LRC Burundi’s Francine Niyonsaba Sprints To Gold In Women’s 800 As Ajee Wilson Has To Settle For Silver Wilson had the lead early, but she wasn’t ready for an aggressive move by Niyonsaba, who claimed her first global medal. Kenya’s Margaret Wambui was third and the U.S.’s Laura Roesler fourth.

LRC Women’s 3k Goes According To Form: Genzebe Dibaba Dominates, Defar Gets Silver, Shannon Rowbury Bronze At 2016 World Indoors Dibaba is so good she said this about a field that included Meseret Defar, “It was easy for me because the field was not that strong.”

While You Were Sleeping

LRC Molly Huddle Wins 2016 NYC Half In Controversial Fashion (67:41 CR), Stephen Sambu Rolls In 61:16 The women’s race was super-tight and people are wondering if Huddle should have been given the DQ. Decide for yourself.
*MB: Molly Huddle Interference? Should Huddle have been DQd for flailing her arms out at United Airlines NYC Half?

LRC EPO Cheat Wilson Loyanane Erupe Wins $180,000 At Seoul Marathon As Patrick Makau Drops Out And European Record Barely Survives

GB 800 Runner Lynsey Sharp Calls For Lifetime Bans And For Russia To Stay Suspended For Rio 2016 Sharp was reacting to Ukraine’s Nataliya Lupu getting a drug ban barely a year after she had returned from her first one.

Vin Lananna Says They Never Gave The IAAF An Ultimatum Over 2021 Worlds

Previous World Indoor News

Recommended Read: Boris Berian – From Flipping Burgers To National Champion In Less Than Two Years Before he ran 1:43 at the adidas GP last year, he had dropped out of college, was sleeping on friends’ couches, and working at McDonald’s.
Portland Is A Special Place For Meseret Defar As It Is Where She Gave Birth To Her Daughter 2 Years Ago Defar says she picked up some injuries on the comeback from pregnancy because her weight was about 15lbs higher than her usual. Normally she’s only 95lbs.
RRW: Racing On Home Turf, American Ryan Hill Ready For World Indoor 3,000m “I think we’re in great shape. I think I’m in a lot better shape than Jerry even thinks I’m in. I think I’m a little past the seven or eight [out of ten] he wants.”
Alberto Salazar Says Matt Centrowitz And Shannon Rowbury Will Be Peaking For Worlds Indoors Salazar explains why he wants NOP runners to do an all-out peak twice a year rather than train through indoors with just one peak in outdoors.
Ken Goe: “The World Indoor Championships Open Thursday, But Will Anyone Notice?” World Indoors is up against the opening round of March Madness, so probably not.

Post-NCAAs Stuff

Update On Program Of The Year Standings (Award For Best Overall Team XC, Indoor And Outdoor) Surprise, surprise. Oregon men and women are in the lead. They’d have to choke big time outdoors in order to lose.
Updated Bowerman Award Women’s Watch List Molly Seidel is the only distance runner on the current list.
List Of DI All-Americans

Pro Road News

Q&A: Kara Goucher Says Her Coaches Are “More Confident” Than Her About Being Able To Make The Transition Back To The Track For The 10,000 Trials
Video: Race Official Takes Out Kenyan Half Marathoner With The Finish Line Tape Robert Mbithi won the Bath Half Marathon in 61:45 before being down by one race official’s mistake.
Q&A With Jared Ward About The OT And Making His First Olympics Ward talks about the inspirational moment at the finish, where he was greeted by Meb Keflezighi.
April 2nd: Prague Half Marathon Preview: Kenya’s Daniel Wanjiru And Ethiopia’s Worknesh Degefa Will Try To Defend Their Titles Men’s field has five sub-one-hour runners and the women’s has six who have broken 1:10.

Doping News

Seb Coe Emphasizes That There Is “No Pre-Ordained Outcome” On The Russian Olympic Ban And A Final Decision Will Be Likely Be Made In May Or June It was also announced that the IOC will re-test stored samples from the London 2012 Olympics to try and catch cheats before they compete at Rio 2016.
Confederation Of African Athletics Unhappy WIth IAAF Probe Into Anti-Doping Practices In Ethiopia, Kenya And Morocco
Kenyan Athletes’ Official Noah Ngeny Quits Post, Saying Athletics Kenya Isn’t Doing Enough To Fight Drug Issues
Russia Questions If It Needs To “Dance On The Table” Or “Sing A Song” In Order To Compete At Rio Seb Coe says there is still “significant work to be done.”
Tennis Star Rafael Nadal Threatens Lawsuit Over Allegations By Ex-French Sports Minister
Russia Requests “Scientific Research” On Meldonium From WADA
IAAF Identifies Ethiopia, Morocco, Kenya, Ukraine And Belarus As Urgent Cases Of Countries With Poor/Non-Existent Drug Testing
German Sprinter Rouven Christ Suspended After Failing Drug Test As a plus, he was also suspended from his job coaching juniors.

USA 15K Champs Were Saturday *Results

Stanley Kebenei And Tara Welling Win US 15K Championships At Gate River Run Welling just held off Kebenei by 2 seconds to win the $5,000 man vs. woman equalizer bonus (the women got a 6-minute head start). On the men’s side, Kebenei won a close race with Shadrack Kipchirchir and Christo Landry.

Non-USA/NCAA Weekend Action

Kenya’s Solomon Kirwa Yego Runs World-Leading 58:44 To Win Romea-Ostia Half Marathon The first sub-60:00 of the year was also a sub-59:00 but this is point to point and wind-aided. Ethiopia’s Workenesh Degefa won the women’s race in 67:08. *Results
Kenya’s Valerie Aiyabei Sets A Spanish All-Comers Record With 2:25:26 At The Barcelona Marathon 2:04:50 marathoner Dino Sefir won the men’s race in 2:09:31.
Kenya Cleans Up At African XC Champs, Taking All Team Titles And 10 Of 12 Individual Medals James Rungaru won in a sprint finish with Uganda’s Philip Kipyeko while Alice Aprot dominated the women’s race.
Portugal Locals Nelson Cruz And Carla Salome Rocha Win Almond Blossom XC After Travel Issues Keep Ugandan And Kenyan Runners From Making The Race

NCAAs Day 1

LRC The Legend Of King Cheserek Grows Even Bigger – Edward Cheserek Wins Two More NCAA Titles Thanks To 3:52 DMR Anchor Less Than 35 Minutes After 5,000 Win Less than 35 minutes after winning the 5,000, Edward Cheserek used a 3:52 anchor split to dispatch the fastest American collegiate miler in history and give Oregon the DMR title.

LRC The Rest Of The Meet: Molly Seidel Continues To Roll, Chaos In The Men’s 800 And Katrina Coogan Kicks Georgetown To Women’s DMR Title There was a TON of action on day 1 at the NCAA meet. Additionally, the women’s pentathlon record was broken, the NCAA women’s HJ record fell to a woman who didn’t even score and the men’s 60m meet record fell.

Carl Lewis Helps You Get Over Hump Day

MB: Two AMAZING articles on Carl Lewis – Carl Lewis thinks Coe should (temporarily) step down and says current state of lj is “pathetic”
Lewis Calls Long Jump “The Worst Event In The World” And Says Greg Rutherford’s Best Performances Are “Pathetic”
Carl Lewis Wants Seb Coe To Temporarily Step Aside And Allow Doping Mess To Be Taken Care Of And Then Come Back “I think Seb Coe is smart enough, he’s a great guy who can do this,” Lewis said Tuesday. “But at the end of the day, when you’re talking about drugs and issues like this, you’re talking about credibility. If he was willing to step aside, and let someone independent come in and really clean this up, he’d be the perfect guy to come back in and run it.”

News On The Corruption Front

Educate Yourself Watch The English Version Of The Latest ARD Doping Documentary – “Russia’s Red Herrings”

Abebe Aregawi B Sample Is Positive We’re pleased to see that Aregawi has admitted to taking the drug and supposed a doctor is in jail.
Alan Abrahamson Rips Media For Acting Like The Olympics Are Going To Be A Disaster 5 Months Before Every Single Olympics We agree.
Kenyan Authorities Are Demanding Answers From Nike Over Alleged Athletics Kenya Corruption “Why was such a huge sum of money paid as commitment?” said one of the detectives. “It’s only Nike who can tell us.”
UK Athletics Head Says Lord Sebastian Coe Will “Face Ridicule If He Lifts Russia Ban” Before Olympics After Latest ARD Report We still don’t think it will happen (even if it probably should). Money talks. Can someone imagine the financial hit to NBC if it was the USA that was banned?
Four More Russian Athletes Test Positive For Meldonium

Two More Bite The Dust?

LRC Shannon Rowbury Shares Her Thoughts On 2012 Olympic 1,500 Final – “These Cheaters Rob People Like Me And My Competitors Of Medals” 4 of the 6 women who finished ahead of the American record holder at 1,500 at the 2012 Olympics have been linked to doping.

Turkey’s 2012 Olympic 1,500 Silver Medalist Gamze Bulut And World Junior Marathon Recorder Holder Tsegaye Mekonnen Reportedly Fail Drug Tests Bulut, who has raced sparingly since 2012, has apparently been caught by a radical biological passport profile. Ethiopia’s Mekonnen is famous for his 2:04:32 debut as a 19-year-old at the 2014 Dubai Marathon.
*MB: 2012 London Olympic 1500 silver/gold medalist Gamze Bulut being investigated for ABP abnormalities

$200,106 LRC Running Warehouse Trials Prediction Contest Recap

LRC Girl Power! A 13-Year-Old Wins LRC Running Warehouse Marathon Trials Prediction Contest There’s a new generation in the running ranks. 13-year-old Kate Kowalik won our contest and her 11-year-old sister finished in the top 10. Take that, LRC Nation.

Doping Updates: Aregawi Trying To Get Off On A Technicality

Abeba Aregawi And Manager Jos Hermens Trying To Save Her With A Loophole (translated) Her positive test came from January 12th and meldonium (the drug she tested positive for) was only banned on January 1st, so they are saying she could have taken it before it was banned. However, one expert says it wouldn’t stay in the system that long. Also interesting, she apparently had a 3-day warning that the out-of-competition test was coming.
Blame The Foreigners: Swedish Journalists Visit Ethiopia To Investigate: Source Reveals Several Russian And Ukrainian Doctors Have Been Arrested For Drug Distribution (translated) It sounds like the Ethiopian federation is going the Kenyan route and trying to blame foreigners for the current drug issues.
UKA Asking Athletes To Sign A “Drug Vow” Ahead Of World Indoors By signing, they agree that they “will never represent their country again if they take drugs”.
UKA Head Neil Black Says They’re “Really Comfortable” With British Stars Training In Ethiopia In Spite Of Recent Doping Scandals Black said that Mo Farah and the other athletes who trained there for 6 weeks this winter were “fully supervised.”
Kenya’s Proposed New Anti-Doping Law Delayed After It Was Due To Be Presented On Monday The law will criminalize doping and set up funding for the new Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya. WADA has given them an April 5th deadline to get it straightened out.
Rio Organizing Committee President Insists That Drug-Testing Lab Will Be Operational In Time For The Olympics Brazil’s lab lost its accreditation in 2013 after failing to meet standards.

Worlds Sunday Non-Distance *Post-Race Interviews

LRC Vashti Cunningham – Randall’s Daughter – Wins World High Jump Title And Announces That She’s Going Pro Cunningham won while not even jumping as high as she did last week at USAs as she was clean on her first four attempts.
*AP Profile of Randall and Vashti Cunningham Before the HJ Final

LRC The Rest Of The Meet: Marquis Dendy And Omar McLeod Win Their First World Titles And The US Dominates Both 4 X 400s To Finish With Half The Gold Medals At Worlds The US picked up 5 more golds to finish with half of the 26 golds awarded at Worlds.

Sunday Worlds On The Boards

Saturday World Indoors

LRC Boris Berian’s Gutsy Run Gets 800m Gold At World Indoors 2016; Bronze For Erik Sowinski Berian was fortunate to make the final as he ran tactically. Tonight, he went for it – big time. And got gold!!
*MB: Boris MF Berian is the World Champ!! Wire to Wire!!!

LRC W1,500 Sifan Hassan Holds Off Dawit Seyaum To Earn First Global Gold In 4:04.96 And Lead Ethiopian-Born 1-2-3-4 Sweep With Genzebe Dibaba in the 3,000, Hassan had the opportunity to shine and delivered a stellar last lap to hold off the 19-year-old Seyaum for gold. American Brenda Martinez was the top non-Ethiopian-born finisher in 5th.

Today’s Doping Updates

Putin Sees The Light? President Vladimir Putin Calls For Improving Russia’s Doping Laws Putin: “It’s obvious that our national anti-doping legislation needs serious improvement.” We guess better late than never.
Former Coach George Skafidas Gets Lifetime Ban For Nine Doping Violations Involving UK Sprinter Bernice Wilson UKAD described the case as “disturbing and sad” as Skafidas provided Wilson with drugs multiple times, even after her first ban.
Time Running Out For Brazil To Make Changes Required By WADA Or It’s Testing Lab Will Be Suspended The Brazil president was supposed to make a special decree yesterday, but it didn’t happen yet and the deadline is Friday.
IOC Re-Testing Beijing And London Olympic Samples Ahead Of Rio

More Worlds

Ukraine’s 2013 European 800 Champion Nataliya Lupu Pulls Out Of World Indoors After Testing Positive For Meldonium She claims she’s been taking it for 15 years through a doctor’s prescription, but stopped in November.
Video Q&A With Mohammed Aman Aman, a member of the OTC, will go for his third consecutive World Indoor title.
Sifan Hassan Reveals She Was Crying From Disappointment After Winning 1,500 Bronze At Worlds Last Year On facing Genzebe Dibaba this year, she says “Everyone can be beaten … We will see.”
Ashton Eaton’s Head Injury From US Indoors Won’t Hinder Him At Worlds
Nearly $2.5 Million Prize Money Up For Grabs At Portland World Indoors
Team USA “By The Numbers” Some random figures on the USA team.

More Doping News

Maria Sharapova Suspended As Goodwill Ambassador By United Nations
Kenya’s Former Olympic Champ Noah Ngeny: “If you go to the federation today there is nothing, there is no discussion about the doping issue.” Ngeny quit his role at AK in protest to the lack of anti-doping efforts. Only 40 tests were carried out in Kenya all of last year.
WADA Director General David Howman Wants 2014 Winter Olympics Drug Samples To Be Re-Examined Now
WADA President Craig Reedie Wants Sponsors And Broadcasters To Help Fund WADA He calls for a “slice of the millions of dollars” that are paid for sport television revenue to be provided to the anti-doping cause.
UK Anti-Doping Given Leading Role In Global Fight Against Doping In Buildup To Rio Games WADA has asked them to be the “secretariat” for an IOC anti-doping taskforce.

Japanese Distance News

Bahrain’s Eunice Kirwa (2:22:40) Defends Nagoya Women’s Marathon Title As Tomoni Tanaka Finishes 2nd As The Top Japanese In A Sprint Battle For The Olympics Tanaka clocked 2:23:19 to just beat out Rei Ohara by 1 second in the last Japan Olympic selection race. *IAAF Recap
Yuki Kawauchi Breaks World Record For Half Marathon In A Suit By 18 Minutes He ran 66:42 to finish 3rd in the race.
*MB: New world record over 1/2 marathon run a suit for Yuki Kawauchi
JRN: Understanding The Japanese Women’s Olympic Team Selection Standings
JRN: Understanding The Japanese Men’s Olympic Team Selection Standings

2016 USAs Results LRC Video Interviews

LRC Robby Andrews Gives Him A Run For His Money, But Centro Is Still The King Of The 1,500 A great race between Centro and Andrews that had Ben Blankenship speculating he may move up to the 10,000m afterwards.

LRC USA Distance Recap: Favorites Boris Berian, Ajee Wilson & Brenda Martinez Cruise To U.S. Titles Laura Roesler (800) and Cory McGee (1,500) also made it onto Team USA but men’s 800 runner-up Erik Sowinski will have to wait to see if he’ll get an at-large bid from the IAAF for World Indoors.

LRC Young US Phenoms: High Schooler Vashti Cunningham (Randall’s Daughter) Jumps A World Leader In The High Jump, Sandi Morris Joins The 16-Foot Club And Ashley Spencer Is On Her Way Back In 400 The future is very bright for the US in the vault and high jump. Demi Payne had a vault that would have put her top 10 all time and didn’t make the US team.

Screenshot 2016-03-12 at 15.26.58 LRC USA Post-Race Video Interviews *Race Videos LRC USATF Indoor Flash Saturday Recap:

DII And DIII Champs In The Books Results: DII *DIII

Tiffin Men And Lincoln Women Win DII Champs Team Titles In Historic Meet Includes some quick event-by-event highlights. *Results
UW-Eau Claire Men And Baldwin Wallace Women Win Division III Team Titles *Results
Event-By-Event Top 10 NCAA Marks From The Weekend

Non-USA/NCAA Weekend Action

South Africa’s 400m World Champion Wayde Van Niekerk Makes Sprinting History By Running A 9.98 100m Van Niekerk is now the only person to ever run sub-10 in the 100, sub-20 in the 200 and sub-44 in the 400.
David Rudisha Wins Again With A 1:44.89 At The Perth Track Classic Kenya’s James Magut won the mile in 3:59.83 over Elijah Kipchirchir and Australia’s Brooke Stratton set an Oceanian record in the LJ with 6.84m. *Results
Kate Avery Wins UK Inter-Counties XC Champs

Double Standard Or Just Business As Usual?

LRCUnbelievable: The 2016 NYRR Millrose Games Wasn't A USATF-Sanctioned Meet

Just over a month ago, USATF told us that Rachel McFarlane couldn't run in the Olympic Marathon Trials as her qualifier didn't come in a USATF-sanctioned event, even if we paid the sanctioning fee ourselves. A month later, someone failed to secure a sanction for the crown jewel of the US Indoor season - the NYRR Millrose Games - but all of the marks will count.

Even More Drug News: Jos Hermens And Alysia Montano Speak

Interesting Read: Jos Hermens Defends His Reputation After Abeba Aregawi Positive: “I have never been involved or assisted any athlete at any time to dope.” Some interesting quotes from Hermens, who calls Aregawi’s husband a “f*cking lunatic” and explains why a lot of Africans don’t care if they get banned for 4 years for doping as long as they win a lot of money first.
Alysia Montano Says Tyson Gay And Justin Gatlin Should Be Banned From Competing At The Olympics “Excuses are like – well, you know what the saying is. … These people just want to play the naive card and we’re too old for that. We’re not in pre-school. Sorry. … I don’t care if that’s a bold statement, it’s true.”
Three-Time Dutch 60m National Champ And Record Holder Brian Mariano Provisionally Suspended After Failing Drug Test

Latest On The Abeba Aregawi Doping Story

Recommended Read: Swedish Coach Per Synnerman Says Swedish Officials Need To Take Responsibility For The Abeba Aregawi Situation (translated) Synnerman says those in charge fought for her citizenship despite warning signs like her “sham” marriage because they wanted medals. Now they want to wash their hands of it without taking any blame.
Authorities After Former Turkish Man Who Is Suspected As The Person Who Sold Abeba Aregawi Drugs In Ethiopia Metin Sazak is a former Turkish distance runner, now coach and allegedly drug dealer.

Dreams Do Become Reality

LRC Meet The Most Interesting Man In NCAA Running: He’s 5’9″, Can Dunk A Basketball And In One Year Has Gone From 4:17 To The #3 Time In NCAA History: Meet Oklahoma State’s Josh Thompson Josh Thompson of Oklahoma State has a unique and cool story.

Worlds Saturday Non-D

LRC Michelle Carter Comes Up Totally Clutch, Ashton Eaton Crushes Field Again, Dafne Schippers Is Beaten, And Much More Michelle Carter threw an American record in her final throw to get gold in the shot, Ashton Eaton won the heptathlon with ease as Curtis Beach just missed a medal, Barbara Pierre won the 60m, and much more.

Your Worlds Saturday Discussion

Friday At World Indoors

LRC Friday At World Indoors: Trayvon Bromell, Brianne Theisen-Eaton And Brittney Reese Come Up Totally Clutch For Gold, Asafa Powell Does Not, As Nia Ali Repeats In 60H The first night of track action was full of drama as Trayvon Bromell showed he’s clutch and Asafa Powell showed he’s not. On the women’s side of the ledger, Brianne Theisen-Eaton and Brittney Reese came up huge as well for gold. Plus Tom Walsh gave New Zealand its 1st-ever gold!

LRC Men’s 1,500 Prelims: Matt Centrowitz Dazzles As All The Favorites Make Final And Robby Andrews Qualifies Easily Centro had a big kick in the first heat to get the win in a super-tactical 3:47 while the second heat got off easy as they all basically jogged a 4-minute mile to qualify.

MB: Official World Indoor Live Discussion Thread – Day 2

LRC Friday Early Distance Prelims Recap: Caleb Ndiku Falls And Advances To Final, As American Brenda Martinez, Berian, Sowinski, Ryan Hill And Paul Chelimo Make Finals We break down the first track action from World Indoors.

LRC Caleb Ndiku Has A Message For Mo Farah: “All I know is I’m still the guy to watch.”

LRC World Record Holders Lavillenie And Suhr Kick Off World Indoors In Impressive Fashion It only took Lavillenie two jumps to wrap up pole vault gold, but that didn’t stop him from entertaining the Portland crowd with three attempts at the the world record. It was an all-American battle for gold on the women’s side as Suhr and Sandi Morris went 1-2 with Suhr setting a Championship record.

LRC The Bigwigs Speak: Trust Is The Word Of The Day For Sebastian Coe; Ashton Eaton Explains Why He Prefers Indoors To Outdoors A beautiful day for the outdoor press conference at World Indoors.

Men’s Previews:

Hill_Ryan_WIC_2016_Pre_Meet_Presser_Lotsbom LRC M 3,000 Preview LRC M 1,500 Preview LRC M 800 Preview

Your Worlds Friday Discussion

The Robots are Taking Over! We don’t have to measure the long jumps anymore
Iguider looking DOPED TO THE GILLS
Cam Levins goes home devastated
Asafa Powell back on the SAUCE — runs 6.44!! He actually ran it twice before coming up short yet again in the final.
What exactly has Ndiku done since Sopot 2014?

Here’s What Team USA Will Be Wearing In Rio

Rio 2016 Team USA Uniforms Unveiled We hope you like blue.
*MB: New USA 2016 Olympic Uniforms (Guess What Color …)

More World Indoors Coverage

Centro: Matthew Centrowitz Talks World Champs, Doping Scandals And March Madness Centro says he wishes all his competitors were tested as much as he is in the USA. He also mentions that he thinks he’ll eventually move up to the 5,000.
*MB: Centro Says He Will Eventually Move Up
*MB: Centro RIPS drug testing. Says competitors “don’t get tested nearly as much”
RRW: Trust Is the Key To Future Success, Says IAAF President Seb Coe
BBC’s Events And Athletes To Watch At World Indoors
Diana-Asher Smith (60), James Dasaolu (60), Shara Proctor (LJ) And Tiffany Porter (60H) Among British Medal Hopefuls In Portland

Celebrity Running News

Did You Know Allyson Felix Is Close Friends With Serena Williams And Has A Connection With Beyonce?
Actress From Harry Potter Movies Running NYC Half This Weekend Q&A with Evanna Lynch, who played Luna Lovegood.

The Week That Was

WTWWTW: Nationals Galore, D2 > D1?, NCAA > USATF?, Super-Fast Collegiate Sprinting And Super-High Women's Vaulting, And Meet The Unknown 58:44 Half Marathoner

What a week! Indoor nationals were held at every level - HS, college and pro. We get you caught up on everything as it was impossible to follow it all as it took place. Who overachieved, underachieved and dropped out? Plus learn about Drew Hunter's latest exploits.

Catching Up With Ben True

LRCAfter Stellar 2015, Ben True Turns His Sights To Bigger Things In 2016

After a fantastic 2015, Ben True is very bullish on 2016 even if he is a little banged up right now. Update: True has withdrawn from this weekend's United Airlines NYC Half but you can still learn about how his off-season is going.

News From The UK

UK Olympic 5K/10K Runner Julia Bleasdale Switches Allegiance To Germany Bleasdale had dual citizenship through her parents.
The Independent: “The Last Thing Athletics Needs Is A Lecture From Carl Lewis” UK Writer calls Lewis out for making hypocritical statements as someone with past doping positives.
*MB: Two AMAZING articles on Carl Lewis – Carl Lewis thinks Coe should (temporarily) step down and says current state of lj is “pathetic”
Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson Quits London 2017 Over “Tokenistic” Role She is the fourth member of the organizing board to step down.
From Last Week: Seb Coe Accused Of Giving “Untrue” Evidence To Parliament Did Coe avoid telling the truth about the IAAF blocking a study that found 45% of track athletes may be on drugs?
*MB: Seb Coe accused of perjury in front of Parliament regarding IAAF doping scandal

2016 World Indoors Start Thursday

LRCIAAF Announces Entries For 2016 World Indoor Championships

Good news track fans. Vashti Cunningham is competing.

IAAF Event-By-Event World Indoor Previews
SPIKES: USA Champs Was A Great Dress Rehearsal For World Indoors “It was a dress rehearsal that had us salivating at the thought of the long weekend in store.”
Ireland 800 Runner Mark English Will Miss Worlds With A Twisted Ankle
Roster Of 58 For US Squad

NCAA Photo Galleries (1,659 Photos!) Day 1 Gallery Day 2 Gallery

USA Indoor Photo Gallery

2016 NCAAs Results LRC Video Interviews

LRC NCAA 3,000s: Molly Seidel And Edward Cheserek Remain Utterly Dominant The 2015 NCAA XC champions have added the indoor 5k and 3k crowns to their CVs with ease.

LRC NCAA 800 Finals: Favorites Deliver As Clayton Murphy Has To Fight For It; Raevyn Rogers Was Totally Unbeatable The people that we thought would win at the start of the day did, but in contrasting fashion.

LRC Mile Finals: Henry Wynne Wins By Controlling It From the Front; Kaela Edwards’ Patience Pays Off Virginia’s Henry Wynne and Oklahoma State’s Kaela Edwards got their first NCAA titles.

Live From Birmingham: New On 1 Page: NCAA Post-Race Video Interviews Meet TCU’s Ronnie Baker – the fastest man in the world.
Live Discussion Thread
Ducks Sweep Team Titles
What A Race! Men Turn In A Historic 60-Meter NCAA Final

2016 USAs Day 1 *LRC Video Interviews

LRC M3k: Ryan Hill Stamps Himself As A Medal Contender & Paul Chelimo Kicks His Way Onto Team USA In A Classic Race Bowerman Track Club tried to rabbit the race to set it up for Hill and Evan Jager but ultimately only Hill was able to take advantage as he claimed his second straight U.S. title in a meet-record 7:38.60. Chelimo was the surprise runner-up while Galen Rupp was eighth 27 days after winning the Olympic Marathon Trials.

LRC W3K: Shannon Rowbury Puts Away Field With Ease Over The Final 400 and Turns Focus To Medaling At Worlds Shannon Rowbury dispatched the field with ease the final 400 and now turns her attention to a medal at Worlds. Abbey D’Agostino will join her on Team USA after a strong second-place showing.
LRC 800 Prelims: Favorites Advance, Though Not Without Drama Laura Roesler and Ajee Wilson both faced some trouble in their prelims but ultimately advanced to Saturday’s final unscathed. Boris Berian and Erik Sowinski had an easier time of it on the men’s side.