2016 World Half Is Saturday – Clear Your Calendar – *Free Live Streaming On NBC Sports Extra And BBC (10:10am ET For Men’s Race, 9:35 ET For Women) *Entries 

Men’s Race Preview: LRC A Race For The Ages – Mo Farah Vs. Geoffrey Kamworor & Bedan Karoki In A World Champs Grudge Match Kamworor and Karoki will be battling Farah on his home turf but at their ideal distance. Who gets the win? Or will there be in upset due to the horrific weather conditions? How will Olympian Jared Ward do in his first race in a US vest?

Women’s Race Preview: LRC Kenyan Rivals Mary Wacera & Cynthia Limo Square Off For The World Title And Lead Super-Strong Kenyan Squad Kenya put up a historic 1-5 sweep two years ago. Can they do it again? Which Kenyan stud will be the winner? Can the US snag the bronze, led by Olympic Trials top 6 finishers Kellyn Taylor and Janet Bawcom?

LRC Goes To Kenya Why Bedan Karoki Is The Favorite At The World Half Champs Our correspondent is on the ground in Kenya for the next six months and he’s got the latest scoop on Asbel Kiprop, Ronald Kwemoi and Bedan Karoki as he’s been watching races with Renato Canova.

• LRC Final Entries For 2016 IAAF / Cardiff University World Half Marathon Championships Released
• Kenya Team Leaves For Cardiff And Kamworor Thinks He’s Ready To Defend Title “I have prepared well … I have worked on my endurance and speed and I believe I am good to go.”
• MB: Kamworor talking smack? “I know most Kenyans are waiting for the day we shall beat Farah. That day is coming soon.”
• UK Press Report: “A bout of sickness is believed to have pegged back (Mo Farah’s) preparations for Cardiff.” The article does say Salazar fully expects Farah to win double gold in Rio as “he’s as good as he’s ever been.” *Discuss
• Catherine Ndereba Is Coaching Kenya’s Women’s Team
• Gemma Steel Withdraws From World Half Champs With Chest Infection She’ll be replaced by Tina Muir (73:21 PR).
• Five Years Of Japanese University Runners At The NYC Half In Review

CAS Rebukes Russia

Court Of Arbitration For Sport Says Russia’s Selective Doping Bans For 6 Medalists Were Absurd – Yuliya Zaripova Will Lose 2011 Steeple Gold, Sergey Kirdyapkin Will Lose 2012 Olympics 50k Gold This isn’t a new case; it’s just that when Russia banned the athletes they conveniently banned them avoiding certain dates to allow them to keep their medals. *Full CAS Decision

• Lengthy Article From Russian News Agency Tass The six athletes impacted are Sergey Kirdyapkin, Sergey Bakulin, Olga Kaniskina, Valery Borchin, Vladimir Kanaikin and Yulia Zaripova.
• Jared Tallent Wins Gold After Drug Cheat’s Results Stripped Habib Ghribi will get the steeple gold.
• Ireland’s Rob Heffernan Will Be Upgraded To Bronze

Interesting, But Random

• Boston Police Chief Was Going To Make Boston His 50th Marathon, But He’s Now Shelved Those Plans After Belgium Terrorist Attacks
• Closing Arguments In Murder Of ’84 Shot Put Medalist Dave Laut Have Begun He was shot by his wife, who at first said an intruder did it, but when the police found a gun said it was done in self defense.
• Liz Yelling Defends Britain’s Athletes After Lord Coe Criticism But Admits Athletes Today May Not Be “As Tough As We Used To Be”

More News From Kenya

• Bad News For Evan Jager: Jairus Birech Is Going To Cut Down On His Pre-Olympic Racing This Year And Only Do 3 Diamond League Meets Last year, Birech raced all the time and found himself tired at Worlds.
• Good News For Evan Jager: Birech Realizes A Slow Pace Doesn’t Suit Him For Olympics Nor does it suit Jager.
• Mercy Wacera Says She’s In Better Shape Than In 2014 When She Won World Half Silver Her 66:29 in Houston proves it. Both she and Bedan Karoki won the World’s Best 10k last month.
• 4-Time Track World Champ Vivian Cheruiyot Desperately Wants Rio Olympic Gold But Says She’ll Move To Marathon After That
• Wilson Kipsang Will Run Berlin Half On April 3rd – Three Weeks Before London Marathon Kipsang’s agent emailed us and said he isn’t running and never had plans to.
• Kenyan Legislator Says Kenya Is Unlikely To Be “Code-Compliant” By WADA’s April 5 Deadline, But IAAF Has Already Said Olympic Spot Is Not In Jeopardy They can’t pass the bill as the legislative body will be on vacation until April 6th.

Usain Bolt Still Wants That Sub-19 200

• Usain Bolt Confirms Rio Olympics Will Be His Last And Says The One Thing He Really Wants Is The Sub-19 200 If he has a horrible Olympics, maybe he could be back: “It’s going to be hard to go four more years for me, to keep the motivation that I want, especially if I accomplish what I want in Rio.”
• British Olympic Association Confirms That It Hopes To Host Olympic Trials Like The US Does In 2020
• Renaud Lavillenie Will Open Up Diamond League Season In Shanghai On May 14

2016 World Indoors *Results *TV/Streaming Info *Entries *Video Interviews *Contest *IAAF Event-By-Event Recaps

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.”

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.

Catching Up With Ben True

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