Boston Marathon Monday *Video Highlights/Replay *Results

LRC  Ethiopia’s Atsede Baysa Storms From Behind To Win Boston Marathon In 2:29:19 After Leaders Blow It With A 5:00 16th Mile (Updated with interviews with Neely and Steve Magness) dramatic come-from-behind victory for Ethiopia’s Atsede Baysa as Neely Spence Gracey was 9th.

• RRW: Boston Marathon Belongs To Ethiopia This Year
• Boston Herald: Zach Hine Becomes First Massachusetts-Born Man To Finish In Top 10 Since 1986 Hard to believe it’s been 30 years.
• Runners World Looks At How Celebrities And Other Notables Did In Boston Some of the big players from “Born to Run” were in the race, including Tarahumara Arnulfo Quimare (3:38) and Scott Jurek (4:09).
• IAAF: This Was The First Time In The 120-Year History Of Boston That Ethiopia Swept Both Titles
• AP: Ethiopian Boston Marathon Winners No Sure Thing For Olympics No final decisions will be made until after London this weekend.
• NY Times: Surprise Surge Completes Ethiopians’ Boston Marathon Sweep
• Boston Video Highlights/Replay
• MB: Official 2016 Boston Marathon Live Discussion Thread

Diamond League Season Is Right Around The Corner

• Stacked Field Set For Pre Classic 5,000: Americans Ben True, Ryan Hill, Bernard Lagat Face Top Africans Geoffrey Kamworor, Yomif Kejelcha, Hagos Gebrhiwet And Caleb Ndiku There are 10 guys who have gone under 13 minutes, including Yenew Alamirew, Isiah Koech and Edwin Soi. Chris Derrick, Cam Levins, Hassan Mead, Paul Chelimo also in the field.
• May 6: World Champions Almaz Ayana And Vivian Cheruiyot Will Duke It Out Over 3,000m At The Doha DL Meet Eunice Sum will face the new and improved Caster Semenya in the 800 and there will also be a great men’s steeple with Ezekiel Kemboi, Jairus Birech, Brimin Kipruto and Conseslus Kipruto.

Doping Updates

• Meldonium Creator Claims Athletes Take Meldonium For Sexual Performance Rather Than Athletic
• Manufacturer Wants Meldonium Removed From WADA Banned List
• Bulgarian Triple Jumper Gabriela Petrova Has Doping Suspension For Meldonium Lifted By The IAAF
• WADA President Craig Reedie Denies That Meldonium Clarification Was Embarrassing For WADA “I don’t regard efforts to help people as embarrassing.”
• CAS To Hold Hearings In May For 12 Banned Russian Track Athletes They include former World heptathlon champ Tatyana Chernova and five racewalkers who tested positive for EPO.
• Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko Says The IAAF Is Unfairly Persecuting Clean Athletes But he never acknowledges the clean athletes who were persecuted by Russia’s essentially state sponsored doping.
• IAAF Ethics Board Has Annual Meeting In Monaco We’re sure they had a lot to talk about.

Katie Rainsberger And Devon Allen Impress At Oregon Relays *Full Results

SA Champs: The Only Thing That Can Stop Her Is The Courts *Results

MB: Hand her the gold medal(s) now – Caster Semenya completes ridiculous 50.76/1:58.46/4:10 double in span of 50 minutes triple in span of 4:10 The double – during which she had 50 minutes between the 400 and 800 (which was run off of a 61 first lap) – blew us away. Then we found out she was also running the 1,500. 3:20 later, the triple was complete.

*IAAF Recap: World Champ Wayde van Niekerk Cruises To 400 Win In 44.98 Stephen Mokoka had a solid distance double, winning the 5K/10K double in 13:40 and 27:57. Ruswahl Samaai had a big LJ win in 8.34m.
*AP On Caster Semenya’s Crazy Triple Semenya: “Sometimes you’ve got to enjoy what you do. I haven’t had fun in a while.”

News We Found Interesting

• Great News: A New Book On Emil Zatopek – QUICKSILVER – The Mercurial Emil Zátopek – Is Coming Out In 3 Months You can listen to Butcher talk about Zatopek on radio here.
• Boris Berian Reveals He Became An 800 World Champ As His HS Coach Threw Him In A 4 X 800 As A Junior And He Loved It He says the 800 is way easier than the 400.

Doping News

• Russia Acts Swiftly And Lifts 8 Athletes’ Meldonium Suspensions The country of Georgia acts quickly as well – freeing 6 wrestlers.
• WADA Revokes Accreditation Of Moscow Lab In case you thought this already had happened, in November, the lab had just been suspended. *WADA Statement

LetsJump.com

• Greg Rutherford Rips Carl Lewis For Being A Bitter Ex-Athlete After Lewis’ Recent Criticisms Of The Sport, The LJ And Rutherford Himself “I don’t need validation from Carl Lewis and I don’t compete to please ex-athletes.”
  *MB: Carl Lewis thinks Coe should (temporarily) step down and says current state of lj is “pathetic”
• Vashti Cunningham Talks Ahead Of Making Her Pro Debut At Mt. SAC She broke the HS record here last year.
• Greg Rutherford Using DNA Profile To Keep Him One Jump Ahead In Rio The DNA test reportedly helps him form the optimal diet/training for his genes.
• May 14th: US’s 2015 World Leader Jeffrey Henderson And Australia’s World Silver Medalist Fabrice Lapierre Face Quartet Of Chinese LJers In Shanghai DL The home jumpers will be led by World junior champion Wang Jianan.
• May 20: Olympic PV Champ Renaud Lavillenie Announced For Ostrava Golden Spike Meet
• August 25: Renaud Lavillenie Will Make His 8th Straight Appearance At The Lausanne DL Meet Lavillenie, who lives a few hours from the stadium, has won this meet in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2014.

More Boston/ Marathon Cheating News

• Recommended Read: Marathon Cheating More Prevalent Than You Think – Investigation Reveals At Least 47 Runners Cheated Their Way Into The 2015 Boston Marathon Inspired by the Mike Rossi story, a runner and “math geek” named Derek Murphy started a blog and Facebook group dedicated to catching race cheaters, and using a special algorithm, race photos and results sites, he found a bunch.
• Canada’s National Post Leads Story On Race Cheating With Quote From LetsRun.com Co-Founder Robert Johnson Rojo says he won’t be offering a $200,000 challenge to the Canadian triathlon cheater.
• Defending Champ Lelisa Desisa Looking For His Third Win In Boston After running an impressive five marathons in 1 year (NYC, Dubai, Boston, Beijing, NYC), he realized he needs to scale back and only focus on two a year.
• Roberta “Bobbi” Gibb, The First Woman To Run Boston, Sculpting Her Own Statue To Honor Her Historic Run The modest Gibb says she’s “really embarrassed doing a sculpture of myself” and would prefer to do a generic woman.

Have You Read This Yet? LetsRun.com Goes To Kenya 2016

LRC Exclusive One Week, Three Workouts: Behind The Scenes With Renato Canova, Florence Kiplagat, Thomas Longosiwa And Jairus Birech We have another exclusive update for you from Kenya and are worried that since we aren’t charging you to read this we might be charged with theft, as the intellectual property of one of the world’s greatest coaches is being given away for free. Oh well. His loss, your gain. Our man on the ground in Kenya, Andy Arnold, goes behind the scenes and gives you the rep-by-rep splits of three of the world’s top distance runners as they prepare for Rio. Plus Birech makes an Olympic prediction that Evan Jager fans will want to read.