Which US Meet Will Join The Indoor Diamond League Circuit?

IAAF World Indoor Tour Will Expand In 2017 And 2018 The NBIGP is the lone indoor US meet on the Tour – which is turning into the Diamond League of the indoor season – but a 2nd US meet will be added for 2018 (Dusseldorf, Germany is being added for 2017).

US Stars In The News

• After Winning World Indoor Silver, Ryan Hill Is Pumped For Outdoor Season, Which He Thinks Suits His Racing Style Better Than Indoors “My style of running will work a lot better on an outdoor track. More room to work, positioning isn’t as crucial because I’m not great at getting to the front and staying there. But I’m great at going from fifth to second. Or fourth to first.” *Discuss
• Neely Spence Gracey Is Excited To Make Her Debut In Boston And Has No Regrets About Missing Olympic Trials Boston is the place she should debut as she was born while her dad was racing there in 1990.
• Good TeamUSA.org Profile Of World Champion Vashti Cunningham And Dad Randall Randall: “I’ve always told her, ‘Look, you’re 18 years old, there’s no pressure on you. The pressure’s on everyone else.'”
• Kim Conley Blogs About Her Final Altitude Training Stint Of Year And Shares Her 1st Days Of Training In Flagstaff
• Brianne And Ashton Eaton Blog About Their World Indoors Experience

Other (Random) Links That Make The Cut

• Catherine Ndereba Enjoyed Coaching At World Half – Hopes To Return To Rio
• AP Does Q&A With Boston Police Commissioner William Evans About Running And Security For This Year’s Race
• Get To Know 2009 World Champion Discus Thrower Dani Samuels
  
• Wilson Kipsang And Zane Robertson To Race At Great Manchester Run 10k On May 22nd
• Oscar Pistorius Sentencing Set For June 13-17

College News

• Narrow NCAA Indoor Mile Loss Fuels Angel Piccirillo For The Outdoor Season Piccirillo: “That was probably the best I’ve ever competed on a national stage, but it was also the most bittersweet second place I’ve ever experienced.”
• Recent Study Asks Why Are So Many College Athletes Depressed? In the study which spanned all sports, track and field athletes were twice as likely to suffer from depressive symptoms.
• Ken Goe Says The USC Trojans Are A Threat To Oregon’s Dominance Of The PAC-12 The UO men have won 9 consecutive titles and the women 7, but last year the women only won by 3 points over USC. Goe thinks 2016 could be another close one as well.
• University Of Idaho Forced To Change Its Home Meet Name It had called the meet the Mike Keller Invitational after the former coach, but he complained that they never asked permission or invited him to the meet.
• Discus Thrower Sam Mattis And Sprinter Shayla Sanders Are DI NCAA Athletes Of The Week Mattis has all 10 of the longest throws this season with a best of 61.69m while Sanders ran an NCAA-leading 11.13.

TV Is Good

Good News: NBC Networks Increase TV Coverage Of Olympic Trials With More Prime-Time NBC Coverage, Including Men's 10,000m Final Live On NBC

Good Read:Ben True Started Dating His Wife, Professional Triathlete Sarah True, In Part Thanks To A Broken Toe Which Forced Him To Cross Train With Her The Trues explain the pros and cons of being married to a fellow pro endurance athlete.

Molly Huddle A Top Story On Deadspin:“If You See Something, Say Something. Unless It’s About A Fellow American” The writer doesn’t think Huddle should have been so indignant about people questioning whether she should have been DQed at the NYC Half.
*MB: Molly Huddle Interference? Should Huddle have been DQd for flailing her arms out?

More Post-World Half News

• Mo Farah Thinks Geoffrey Kamworor Is Capable Of Breaking The Half Marathon World Record Speaking to reporters after finishing 3rd, Farah said, “It’s what you guys have been waiting for – a challenge!”
• Before He Became A World Beater, Geoffrey Kamworor’s Plan Was To Go To School In The US And Get A Law Degree
• Bedan Karoki Plans On Making Rio His Last Track Race Before He Moves Up To The Marathon
• World Half Champ Peres Jepchirchir Now Turns Her Focus To Making The Kenyan Squad For Rio In The 10,000

You Won’t Be Seeing The Alternative New Zealand National Flag In Rio Many athletes were behind the change in the NZ flag since theirs is often confused with Australia, but the vote was 56.6% for the original flag.

First Impressions Q&A With Greek Pole Vaulter And Stanford Alum Ekaterini Stefandidi Stefanidi talks about her first coach, first competition, first injury and other random things.

Elite Preps Making Waves

• MileSplit Asks If 4:04 High Schooler Connor Dunne Is The Next Sub-Four Miler 4.59 seconds is a lot of time to take off for a guy who’s already improved a ton this year as he only ran 4:14 last year.
  *MB:11 boys run 4:09.70 or better full mile in one race at Azusa Meet Of Champs Dunne beat Austin Tamagno and Eduardo Herrera Madera, who were both also sub-4:05.
• Las Vegas Sun:“Rising Star Vashti Cunningham Is Her Father’s Daugher” Vashti says that she likes all the attention she’s received “somewhat,” but still prefers most of it to go to her former NFL quarterback father Randall Cunningham.
• New York Sports Writers Association: “Turning Pro Is The New Trend In High School Track And Field”Vasthi Cunningham and Ato Boldon-coached sprinter Khalifa St. Fort are the most recent, but before that it was Candace Hill, Alexa Efraimson and Mary Cain.

World Half Men’s Photo Gallery (61 Photos)

The Random And The Crazy

• BBC:Free Soap Leaves Bad Taste For Chinese Marathoners Apparently marathoners at the Qingyuan Marathon mistook the soap for energy bars because the wrappers were in English. There were reportedly bars of soap all over the ground with one bite missing.
• Update:UK Mountain Running Champ Who Attacked UKA Official Actually Stabbed Two Others As Well Lauren Jeska is now in custody and charged with attempted murder.
• Tokyo 2020 Will Reveal New (Hopefully Non-Plagiarized) Olympic Logo Next Month It has been narrowed down to a shortlist of 4 which will be released on April 8th to gather public opinion and then a final vote April 25th.

LetsNotDope.Com

• AP Article On How The Rules Get Bent For Kenya When It Comes To Advanced Notice Drug Testing Anti-doping expert Michael Ashenden says: “In my view the lack of a testing facility in Kenya is a red herring used to disguise inaction. … Where there is a will there is a way, but when there is no will there are just a thousand excuses.”
• Russian Racewalking Coach Viktor Chegin Given Lifetime Ban From The Sport Chegin is infamous for having more than 20-athletes fail drug tests.
• Seb Coe Accuses Other Sports Of Having The Attitude “If you don’t go fishing, you don’t catch fish.” If your testing is a joke (see NFL, NBA, etc) then it won’t look like you have a drug problem.
• Irish Racewalker Rob Heffernan Says His Olympic Bronze Is Proof You Can Win Without Doping Well, if you consider “winning” getting beaten by dopers and waiting 4 years until they get caught so you can get upgraded.
• Paula Radcliffe Wants Testers To Be Exempt From Visas To Avoid Tipping Off Athletes Of Surprise Drug Tests
• 27 Russians Among The 127 That Have Failed Drug Tests For Meldonium