April 21, 2016 | LetsRun.com

Week That Was

LRCLaShawn Merritt And Kirani James On Track To Collide In Rio, Is Yohan Blake Back? Donovan Brazier Stumbles, A Marathon Legend Retires And Women's Sport May Be Changing For The Worse

Get up to speed as we span the track and field globe.

The London Marathon Is Sunday

RRW Q&A: Sara Hall Is Lone American In London Marathon Elite Field Hall says the Trials was the first race she ever dropped out of. In London, she has no time expectations, but wants to run “with reckless abandon, without anything really on the line.”
Kenenisa Bekele Admits He’s Not 100% Fit For London But rather than talk retirement, he says he still wants to eventually break the WR.
Good Read: Despite Money And Fame, Eliud Kipchoge Chooses To Live A Simple Spartan Lifestyle In A Training Camp Where He Has To Do His Share Of The Chores At his camp Kipchoge shares a tiny room, has to chop vegetables, trim the garden and even clean the toilets.
Dennis Kimetto Says His Training Has Gone Well And He Has “No Injuries” Comparing to when he ran his 2:02:57 WR he claims his fitness “is the same.”
Eritrea’s Ghirmay Ghebreslassie: From Pacemaker To World Champ The first time Ghebreslassie met the elites in London was when he paced the Chicago 2014. Now he’s back as their equal.
London Organizers Hope That Mo Farah Will Come Back In 2018 Wilson Kipsang: “He’s a great athlete but even he needs time to focus on the marathon.”
GB’s Charlotte Purdue Making Her Marathon Debut In London Hoping To Gain Olympic Selection
Video Interview: Wilson Kipsang Thinks He Can Win And Break His 2:04:29 Course Record
Former 800/1,500 Olympic Champ Kelly Holmes Has Struggled With Injury Issues During Marathon Training However, she says no matter what she’ll finish on Sunday and “be sprinting like Usain Bolt” at the finish.
Video: Astronaut Prepares To Run London Marathon In Space
BBC Shares Some Inspirational Stories From Those Running London

Hey NCAA Athletes, Don’t Take Too Much Iron: Japanese Athletic Federation Issues Warning Against Widespread Use Of Iron Injections For Anemia There can be some dangerous health concerns with taking too much iron supplements.

RunnersSpace Does Video Interview Series With The Sport’s Top “Influencers” Interviews include Alan Webb, Vin Lananna, Adam Nelson and Simon Bairu.

Event News

Hoka One One Middle Distance Classic At Occidental College Set For May 20th *Discuss
IAAF Worried About Kenya’s Lack Of Preparations For Next Year’s World Youth (Now Under-18) Championships The Local Organising Committee is having a dispute about the appointment of the event’s CEO.
Hy-Vee Extends Sponsorship Deal With Drake Relays Through 2021
RunningUSA Report On What The Largest US Road Races Were In 2015 The Peachtree 10K topped the list, beating out the NYC Marathon by a little less than 5,000.

News From Kenya

Three WADA “Deadlines” Later, Kenya Finally Passes New Anti-Doping Law The new law will give lawmakers the power to enforce fines and jail time on dopers and doctors who supply them.
*Kenyan Media Article With More Details Athletes can get a year in jail and $1,000 fine while suppliers face a minimum of three years and a $25,000 fine.
National Police Service Championships Start Tomorrow In Kenya: Asbel Kiprop Will Take On Augustine Choge And Caleb Ndiku In The 1,500 Vivian Cheruiyot vs. Mercy Cherono in the 5K, Eunice Sum in the 800, Faith Kipyegon in the 1,500 and World champ Hyvin Kiyeng vs. Milcah Chemos and Lydia Chepkurui in the steeple.
Former Boston Winners Moses Tanui And Timothy Cherigat Blame Poor Preparation And Tactics On Kenya Getting Dominated By Ethiopia In Boston Probably more than that, it was Geoffrey Mutai pulling out and many of the top Kenyans running London.
Wilson Kipsang Reflects On The Preparation It Took To Break The WR Back In Berlin 2013 “You need the right people to train with. So I asked many of the fastest people on this planet to train with me …”

Boston Marathon Photo Gallery

Boston Bingo

LRCLRC Exclusive: Boston Bingo Was Won Atop Heartbreak Hill

Bingo came to the Boston Marathon for the first time.

London 2017 Tickets Go On Sale August 1st

London 2017 Chief Niels de Vos Argues That Usain Bolt Is Running Worlds “For Glory Rather Than Money” Apparently 2017 Worlds is the last time the government plans to let foreign athletes be exempt from the UK’s harsh income tax laws.
Niels De Vos Says Next Year’s Worlds Will Be “Without Doubt The Cleanest Championships Ever” He claims they’ve sold $50,000 tickets for the Anniversary Games without even announcing any of the fields.
Kids Tickets Will Be Priced At £9.58 ($13.79) For Usain Bolt’s “Farewell” At London 2017
London 2017 Tickets Will Go On Sale August 1st

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

High Schooler Katie Rainsberger Gets Huge 1,500 Win At Oregon Relays With 4:17.52 She ran the 12th-fastest time ever by a high school girl to beat a competitive field that included pros Geena Gall and Maggie Vessey. 5K winners were Alexi Pappas (15:33) over Tara Welling and NOP’s Suguru Osako (13:55) over Luc Bruchet and Jordan McNamara.
*MB: Sarah Baxter Makes Collegiate Debut Baxter continued her comeback from injury by running 4:36 for 17th in the 1,500.
Devon Allen Has Another Impressive Quadruple, Winning 110H, 400H, 200 And 4 X 100 His quadruple included a 13.48 MR in the 110H and a PR in the 200.

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.

LRC Goes To Kenya

LRCThe Brilliance Of Asbel Kiprop & Jairus Birech's Crazy Quadruple: Scenes From The Spring's Final Athletics Kenya Meet In Eldoret

LRC's latest dispatch from Kenya includes a recap from the "City of Champions," where Andy Arnold tells you who's looking good (Ezekiel Kemboi, Elijah Manangoi, Timothy Cheruiyot), why Kiprop can go sub-3:26 this year and why he's become a Birech fan. Plus did he spot Kenyan's newest teen sensation? Updated with altitude conversions.

New Forensic Evidence Claims Oscar Pistorius Attacked Reeva Steenkamp With An Air Rifle And Cricket Bat Before Shooting Her That’s some pretty heavy evidence to come out after the trial (and 3 years after a murder).

Sprint Stuff

TMZ: Rihanna Snubbed Date Request From Usain Bolt Bolt joked that Leonardo DiCaprio (who Rhianna is rumored to be dating) was “no competition” saying, “I’m tall, I’m handsome I’m dark, I’m the greatest.”
Usain Bolt Says There Is A Chance He Could Not Retire After 2017, Although It Sounds Like He Really Wants To “Coach says I shouldn’t say I want to retire just yet, I should focus on the year and see how I feel after (2017) … But he says to give it a chance, because I think my coach is pushing for me to go a few more years. We’ll see what happens.”
“Ground-Breaking” 100H Race Set For Pre Classic Dawn Harper Nelson, Brianna Rollins, Jasmin Stowers and more.
Lolo Jones Will Miss Drake Relays With A Hamstring Injury
Three Random Facts About US 400 Hurdler Johnny Dutch Most interesting, he used to do ballet and he’s never seen Star Wars even though he owns a film production company.
Ato Boldon Does Video Interview With France’s Two-Time World Indoor 60H Silver Medalist Pascal Martinot-Lagarde He says the weakest part of his race is the start, which is the perfect thing to improve racing indoors.
Michigan Hurdler Cindy Ofili Joins Updated Women’s Bowerman Watch List Molly Seidel is the only distance runner on the list.

Latest Doping Headlines

RRW: Doping Dominates Conversation At London Marathon Press Conference Wilson Kipsang: “Doping or cheating is a problem, it’s a crime. That doesn’t mean that the whole sport (is a problem). All the guys, we’ve been tested 7 or 8 times.”
London Marathon RD Hugh Brasher Reveals That All Top Marathoners Are Subject To At Least 6 Out-Of-Competition Tests A Year By The WMM Also, the WMM is going after Lilya Shobukhova for more than $1.4 million in appearance fees and prize money she took from them while doping.
Russia Will Hire Two International Anti-Doping Experts (Nominated By WADA) To Be Based In Russia Full-Time To Help With Overturning Their Ban In Time For Rio How about Robin Parisotto and Michael Ashenden from the original ARD report?
Video Interview With Wilson Kipsang: “Kenya’s Situation Is Improving” “Once we compete and once athletes are tested … I really truly believe that they are clean and that we compete fairly and free.”
New Kenya Anti-Doping Law Still Not A Done Deal Yet As It Has To Go Through The Kenyan Senate
Russia Announces Anti-Doping Reforms In Bid To Avoid Olympic Ban Any athlete going to Rio will have a minimum of 3 out-of-competition tests by the IAAF. So the bare minimum they should have been doing all along.
International Tennis Federation President Thinks WADA Could Have Handled The Meldonium Issue Better Still no official word on when Maria Sharapova‘s doping hearing will be.

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

European News

Campaign Has Started To Secure Knighthood For Legendary GB Distance Running Legend Ron Hill
Greg Rutherford Opens Outdoor Season With 8.30m Victory At Long Beach Invitational
European Olympic Committee Struggling To Find Host For The 2019 European Games The Netherlands backed out and the EOC apparently wants Russia to host even though Russia says they can’t.

Oscar Pistorius Sentencing Set For June 13th To 17th Pistorius faces a minimum 15-year jail sentence.

International Road Results

Hamburg Marathon: Dubai Winner Tesfaye Abera (2:06:58) And African 10,000 Record Holder Meselech Melkamu (2:21:54) Nab Victories Melkamu smashed the CR by more than 2 minutes to win easily over defending champion Meseret Hailu. *Finish Video
Brighton Marathon: Duncan Maiyo (2:09:56) Defends His Title As 2010 Commwealth 10,000 Champ Grace Momanyi (2:34:16) Gets Her First Marathon Victory
Lodz Marathon: Ethiopia’s Abraraw Misganaw (2:13:24) And Kenya’s Racheal Mutgaa (2:31:41) Win In Poland
Ireland: Record-Breaking Leg By Mick Clohisey Helps Raheny Win Men’s Race At Irish National Road Relays

Boston Marathon Appetizers

LRC Molly Huddle (15:14) Wins Third Straight B.A.A. 5K Title; Dejen Gebremeskel (13:39) Takes Down Ben True (13:41) In Men’s Race Both of the American stars will be running the 5,000 at the Pre Classic.

LRC Chris O’Hare (4:10.2) And Brook Handler (4:49.6) Win 2016 B.A.A. Invitational Miles Kemoy Campbell and Heather Kampf were the runners-up (Kampf for the third straight year).

Are We Still Talking About This? Boston Globe Asks “Is A Two-Hour Marathon Time Possible?” Lelisa Desisa, Meb Keflezighi, Ryan Hall, Wesley Korir and Ross Tucker all weigh in. Hall thinks someone could do it on a treadmill.
*LRC Archives: The Myth Of The Sub-2-Hour Marathon
AP: Boston Celebrates 50 Years Of Women In The Race The difference that 50 years can make is evident in the contrasting quotes/experiences from Joan Benoit Samuelson and Bobbi Gibb vs. Shalane Flanagan and Desi Linden.
Meb Keflezighi Says His Recovery From The Trials Has Gone Well And Talks About His Goals For Rio “I mean, I was second in Athens, fourth in the last Olympics. I mean, anything in between would be great (laugh).”

Pro Sprint Action: Yohan Blake Back In The Club

The Beast Is Back! Yohan Runs 9.95 World Lead In His First Sub-10 100m Since 2012 “It means a lot to be back in the sub-10 club.”
MB: LaShawn Merritt Runs 19.79 World Lead In The Bahamas *Video
Fast Sprint Action At Chris Brown Invy: Kirani James Runs World-Leading 44.36 James won over US’s Tony McQuay (45.34) and Jeremy Wariner (45.55). Other world leads included Shaunae Miller in the 400 (49.69) and Johnny Dutch in the 400H (48.36). Justin Gatlin ran a wind-aided 9.90 in the 100 while Queen Harrison and David Oliver won the sprint hurdles.

News From The UK

Fascinating Read: Greg Rutherford Uses DNA Analysis Which Tells Him To Do Hill Workouts As He Has Good Endurance
Greg Rutherford Will Not Take Family To Rio Olympics Due To Zika Virus Outbreak “It’s a shame because there’s a chance this might be my last Olympics.”
Britain’s Dr. Lauren Howarth Talks About How She Balances Running 8:52 3,000 And Working 80-Hour Weeks
People In Britain Are Irate That Parks Are Going To Charge Free Parkrun Races To Use Public Parks
Paula Radcliffe And Jo Pavey Join Calls To Reverse Council Decision To Charge Runners 40,000 have signed the petition urging the park not to charge the 300 runners £1 each to use the park each Saturday.

2016 South African Champs

LJ van Zyl Clinches Olympic 400H Spot Despite Diarrhea
World Leader In 100m – 9.96 Man Akani Simbine – Beaten At South African Champs By Henricho Bruintjies Simbine may be injured as it was cold and there were 3 races in 1 day but Bruintjies did run 9.97 last year.

Olympic News

Rio 2016 Golf Venue Will Have Animal Handlers To Carry Alligators Off The Course They will also be there to chase off capybaras, the world’s largest rodents.
Rio 2016 Olympic Schedule With Day-By-Day Highlights Opening ceremonies are August 5th; track starts on August 12th.
Budapest 2024 Chairman Dismisses Claims The City Is An “Outsider” And Defends Delay In Official Launch Budapest is definitely “different” when compared to LA, Paris and Rome and is considered the least likely to win the bid.
Budapest 2024 Unveil Logo As They Officially Launch Their Olympic Bid
West Ham United Soccer Team Will Pay $3.5 Million Per Year To Rent London Olympic Stadium

Boston

LRC What’s It Like Being The Husband Of A Potential American Marathon Star? We Talk To Dillon Gracey Before Neely Spence Gracey’s Debut In Boston Dillon Gracey tied for 3rd in our $20,016 LRC Running Warehouse USA Indoor Prediction Contest. We used that as an excuse to talk about Neely’s debut in Boston and being the husband of an American star.

Neely Spence Gracey Ready For Boston “Training has been great and she’s healthy and ready to go.” From the interview above.

LRC Two Aspiring Coaches Triumphed In Our Running Warehouse USA Indoors Prediction Contest We give props to two of the guys who finished ahead of Dillon in the LRC Running Warehouse Prediction Contest.

LRC Running Warehouse Worlds Contest Recap

LRC Doping Scandal Comes To LRC $200,015 Running Warehouse World Indoors Prediction Contest Doping has tainted our contest but you still can meet the interesting winners who make up LRC and win our contests.

Your Help Is Needed

LRCEthiopian Distance Runners Need Your Help After Truck Plows Into Them, Killing One And Severely Injuring 4 Others - Please Consider Donating To Their Recovery

One Ethiopian runner is dead, another is in critical condition after a truck plowed them over on a training run on Saturday. Help them now. *Donate here.

That Irish 4 X 400

Anchor Leg In Crazy Irish 4 X 400 Relay Finish Phil Healy Jokes That She Can “Retire Now” The media reaction has been huge and she even had to get an extension on her final year project so she can deal with all the interview requests.
*MB: Comeback from the depths of hell in Collegiate 4 x 400m
Commentator And Journalist Cathal Dennehy Writes About The Experience: “How I Lost My Mind Calling A Women’s Relay Race In Ireland” We loved Dennehy’s tweet: “One day, a race you commentate on could go viral. At the pivotal moment, don’t screech like a slaughtered chicken.”
Good Read: Dennehy Explains Why In This Dark Period Of Doping Scandals, Phil Healy’s Viral Finish Is Great For The Sport “There is still a whole lot of beauty left [in the sport].”

Assorted Distance News

Recommended Read: Great Inverview By Gary Cohen With 8-Time US 800 Champ And Now LSU Coach Khadevis Robinson KD goes into a lot of detail talking about his long career, which included 8 national titles (4 outdoor, 4 indoor), 2 Olympic and 7 straight World teams.
Toni Reavis Writes About How Today’s Young Marathoners Are Defying The Conventional Wisdom Which Said To Only Race Two A Year “Young legs and hungry hearts bounce back quicker,” he writes, but also wonders if it will cut their careers short in the long run.
Former HS Star Caitlin Chock Addresses The Fear Of Burnout With Young American Female Distance Runners Going Pro Early She feels this “ambiguous” fear held back women distance runners for a long time and argues that even when some struggle (like Mary Cain and Alana Hadley) it doesn’t mean they’re burning out.
May 15: World Half Champion Peres Jepchirchir To Lead Field For TCS World 10K In Bengaluru, India She faces Gladys Chesire (30:41), World XC champ Agnes Tirop and last year’s runner-up Wude Ayalew. Men’s field has defending champ Mosinet Geremew, former marathon WR holder Patrick Makau and 27:36 man Edwin Kipyego.

Sprinting News

Usain Bolt Says He Had Some Problems With His Ankles At The Start Of The Season So His “Fitness Is Not Exactly Where [His Coach] Wants It To Be”
LaShawn Merritt Has No Plans To Try For Rio Double Despite The Impressive 19.78 PR 200 He Ran Last Weekend “I have to be really dominating in the quarter to try that double …”
*MB: IT’S ON! Lashawn Merrit runs 19.78 wind legal!
Yohan Blake Wants To Ditch “The Beast” Nickname He says the name has been holding him back.
Worth A Watch: Irish Universities Championships 4 X 400 Ends In Crazy Sprint Finish And A Face Plant Commentary by friend of LRC, Cathal Dennehy.
*MB: Comeback from the depths of hell in Collegiate 4 x 400m
Trayvon Bromell And Andre De Grasse Will Go Head-To-Head In The Oslo DL 100m On June 9th
Jeremy Wariner Encouraged By The 45.55 He Ran In The Bahamas “I’ll take that race. … Felt great. Work in progress, but I’ll be in 44s soon.”
Sally Pearson Says She Is “Really Confident” She Will Be 100% Fit For Rio It’s been a slow comeback for Pearson from her nasty wrist fracture, but she’ll finally race again in 4 weeks.

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Boston Men

LRC: Lemi Berhanu Hayle Drops The Hammer On Lelisa Desisa To Get His First World Marathon Major Win (Updated with interviews) Desisa broke the race open after 25K and made it a two-man duel between he and Berhanu. But in the end, Berhanu was way better as he crushed Desisa over the final mile to win in 2:12:45 to Desisa’s 2:13:32. Yemane Tsegay made it an Ethiopian sweep as he held off former champ Wesley Korir for 3rd.

Collegiate News

Event-By-Event Top NCAA Marks From The Weekend In the Ocean State Invy steeplechase, New Hampshire’s Elinor Purrier (9:47.17) and Boston College’s Danielle Winslow (9:48.81) ran the top two times in the NCAA this year. *Full Meet Results
Kansas State’s Akela Jones Had A Monster Heptathlon Performance At Mt. SAC The overall point total (6,307) was impressive, but she also set the NCAA heptathlon HJ record with 1.95. The mark is also tied for 10th best in collegiate history.
Big Weekend Sees Oregon Women Move From 4th To 1st In Updated NCAA Rankings Arkansas moves down to 2nd.
Texas A&M Stays #1 As The Top NCAA Men’s Rankings Go Unchanged
Allie Ostrander Wins Pride Of Alaska Award

Mt. SAC Relays Full Results All NCAA Results

Former NCAA Champ Ameer Webb Has Career Day With Impressive 100/200 Double First he beat Andre De Grasse with a wind-aided 9.90 seconds and came back with a wind-legal 19.91. Other sprint action included Allyson Felix splitting a 48.9 leg on the 4 x 400.
IAAF Recap: Canada’s Johnathan Cabral Runs 110H World Lead Of 13.35 Ashton Eaton was 4th in the 110H after coming back from winning the LJ.
800: Laura Roesler Over Kaela Edwards And Raevyn Rogers; Duane Solomon Over Eliud Rutto Roesler won in 2:01.54 to hold off the NCAA indoor mile and 800 champs. Solomon ran 1:45.47 to beat NCAA runner-up Rutto (1:45.59).
OSU Coach Dave Smith On Edwards: “She could win a national title in the 800 the way she ran tonight.”
Oregon Women Run Third Fastest Women’s 4 X 100 In NCAA History At Mt. SAC With 42.68 In the individual sprints, pro Jenna Prandini ran 10.95 with Oregon’s Hannah Cunliffe 2nd in 10.99.
*MB: Cunliffe 10.99 legal in first 100m for Ducks
Vashti Cunningham Clears 6-4 To Win Mt. SAC In Her Pro Debut
Michigan’s Cindy Ofili Wins 100H In 12.66 The time moves Ofili, sister of GB Olympian Tiffany Porter, to second-fastest in the World this year.
MB: Mt Sac Results Fail
*Mt SAC 5k: D2 Frosh CRUSHES in 13:36
*Tamagno wins BIG in 4.03 2nd place – 4:09. Great Oaks HS broke their own 4 x 1,600 NR with 16:52.
*Mt. SAC – Where are the crowds?
Pre-Race False Advertising: Connor Dunne, Austin Tamagno And Eduardo Herrera Make “Assault On The 4-Minute Mile”

The Stars Are Out In Kenya *Results

Eunice Sum, Kipyegon Bett And Timothy Cheruiyot Highlight Mid-D Action At Athletics Kenya Meet Sum won the 800 in 2:03.2 as Bett ran 1:46.3 and Cheruiyot 3:36.8 in the 1,500. Conseslus Kipruto won his heat of the 5K in 13:47.
Asbel Kiprop Threw Down A 1:44.6 In The 800 Heats Silas Kiplagat also won his heat in 1:47.4, but didn’t run the final.
Jarius Birech Says He Will Go For The Steeplechase World Record At The Rome DL Meet On June 2nd Birech continued his steeple prep by running and winning the 10K in 28:35 at this weekend’s AK Series meet.
“YouTube Man” Julius Yego Starts His Season Of With A 78.86m Javelin Victory In Kenya 400H world champ Nicholas Bett opened his season with a 400H win in 49.6.

2016 Boston Media Day

LRC The Inside Scoop From The Top Pros At The 2016 Boston Marathon – Who’s Scared Of The Heat, Who Loves It And What American Hopes To Break 2:10 You had better read this article about what the top pros have to say about the race as we know that sadly no other news organization is going to interview most of the pros from Africa. Plus Joyce Chepkirui reveals in an exclusive that she feels she would have won the 2016 United Airlines NYC Half Marathon had Molly Huddle not made contact with her.

LRC Catching Up With Olympians Amy Cragg, Desi Linden And Ryan Hall In Boston John Hancock rolled out the red carpet for some of America’s best marathoners, past and present, and we got to talk to three of them today. Cragg and Linden talked about their Trials recovery and Rio buildups while Hall spoke about what life is like with four young girls in the house and coaching his wife Sara as she prepares to run the London Marathon next week.

LRC 2012 Boston Marathon Champion – And Kenyan Member Of Parliament – Wesley Korir Says Kenya Is On Track To Meet May 2 WADA Deadline Korir says the risk/reward ratio for doping needs to be changed in Kenya and has asked WADA for special permission to allow Kenya to criminalize doping (the WADA code says countries can’t impose additional penalties on top of those established by WADA).

Judge Hears USOC Motion To Toss Out Nick Symmonds’/Run Gum’s Lawsuit The judge is expected to decide in the next 2 weeks whether the suit moves forward or not.

Doping: Bad News For Clean Sport As Tatyana Andrianova Goes Free

CAS Rules That Russian Doper Tatyana Andrianova Can Keep Her 2005 World 800 Bronze After Testing Positive For Steroids In A Sample Re-Analysis The IAAF misinterpreted the recent statute of limitations rule change as it is 10 years moving forward, but still only 8 years for previous tests. This means that potentially 28 dopers caught in 2005 re-tests will now go free.
Eight Russians Have Their Suspensions Lifted After New WADA Ruling On Meldonium Includes track athletes Nadezhda Kotlyarova, Olga Vovk, Gulshat Fazletdinova and Andrei Minzhulin.
Ukraine’s World Indoor Pentathlon Silver Medalist Anastasiya Mokhnyuk Tests Positive For Meldonium But will it even matter?
Track-Stats.com Looks At Which Countries Would Benefit Most If Russia Isn’t In Rio With a cool interactive graph, you can see that the US would benefit most without Russia there, and even more if Kenya was also banned.
Doctor At Center Of UK Drug Scandal Also Being Investigated For Treatment Of Cancer Patient

Week That Was

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LRC WTW: Dennis Mitchell And USATF, Shaq Goes 1:44.99, Nick Symmonds 2.0?, Hurdle Stars Keni Harrison And Devon Allen, Meet The Lyles Brothers, And The Indoor Marathon We recap the week that was from the track, the boardroom, the bedroom, and even the indoor marathon.

How Can We Make The Sport Cleaner? Two Ivy League Legends Share Their Ideas

LRC “The Scarlet Letter Law” & The “Fair Play Fund”: A Look At Ben True’s & Adam Nelson’s Ideas For A Cleaner Sport Dartmouth alums True and Nelson brainstormed a couple of unique anti-doping solutions while True was training in Athens, Ga. this winter. Should convicted dopers where a special uniform when they return? Should a significant portion of prize money only be paid out years after the fact? We take a look at the proposals and whether Nelson can revitalize the Track and Field Athletes Association (TFAA), an attempt at a T&F union.
*MB: Fair sport: Ben True and Adam Nelson have some very interesting ideas on doping – We share them with you here