Sprints/Jumps: Bolt Opener

LRC No Need To Panic, Bolt Fans – Usain Bolt Opens Season With 10.05 100m At Cayman Invitational With video. Bolt opened with a 10.09 in 2013 at this same meet. In other action at this meet, Kendra Harrison ran 12.42 in the hurdles, giving her the 3 fastest times in the world in 2016, and Jenna Prandini got the 100 /200 double (11.16 / 22.63). *IAAF Recap

• Tyson Gay Runs 10.03 Twice At NTC Pure Athletics Meet
• Marquise Goodwin Soars To 8.45m Long Jump World Lead
• Asafa Powell (10.04) LaShawn Merritt (20.15) And Kirani James (44.15) Pick Up Wins At Meet In The Caribbean English Gardner ran 11.04 to win the 100 and Kristi Castlin (12.69) and Ronnie Ash (13.13) ran quick times to win the sprint hurdles.
• Chaunte Lowe Sets HJ World Lead With A 1.96m Victory At Rio Test Event It was the highest she’s jumped since clearing 1.97m in 2014.

NCAA Action Galore *All Conference Meets *All NCAA Results

• PAC-12: *Results
• Devon Allen And Hannah Cunliffe Lead The Oregon Ducks To Another Sweep Izaic Yorks ran 3:39.14 to beat a solid 1,500 field with Matthew Maton 2nd (3:39.97) and Sean McGorty 5th. Elise Cranny took the women’s in 4:17, Raevyn Rogers dominated the 800 (2:02.41) and Colby Gilbert won the 5K in 13:35 over Morgan Pearson (13:36).
• Stanford Wins PAC-12 Men’s 4 X 400 For First Time Since 1954
• Oregon Men And Women On Pace To Sweep PAC-12 Again Edward Cheserek got back to winning by taking the 10K in 28:58. UW’s Aaron Nelson (8:39) and Colorado’s Erin Clark (9:48) won the steeples.
• Video Interview With Cheserek Talks about struggling with a hamstring and calf injury and says the goal here was to get the Regional time.

• ACC: *Full Results
  
• Virginia Tech Men And Florida State Women Nail Down ACC Titles Distance winners included Henry Wynne (1,500), Thomas Curtin (5K/10K double), Louisville’s Edwin Kibichiy 8:34.46 in the steeple over Zak Seddon (8:34.85), NC State’s Megan Moye (1,500 – 4:11), VA Tech’s Hanna Green (800 – 2:02), BC’s Danielle Winslow (steeple – 9:57).
• Day Two Report
• MB: Molly Seidel Will Miss NCAAs With A Sacral Stress Fracture *Tweet From Seidel
• MB: Holy cow: Virginia Tech places 1-7 in Men’s Pole Vault at ACC Championships In the men’s 10k, Thomas Curtin used a 55.4 final lap to beat Luis Vargas and Justyn Knight. Molly Seidel didn’t run the women’s race.

• SEC: *Results
• Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake Wins Triple Crown (100, 200, 4 X 100) At SECs And Misses British 200m Record By .01 His 19.95 makes him just the third Brit to dip under 20 seconds.
  *Emotional Interview With Mitchell-Blake *LSU Article
  Arkansas Men And Women Clinch SEC Conference Titles
  
• MB: Donavan Brazier nearly equals indoor best by running 1:$46.1 in SEC final

• Big 12: Results
• Longhorns Repeat The Sweep At Big 12 Champs
• Oklahoma Men And Women Lead After Day 2

• Big 10: Results
• Nebraska Men Capture Big Ten Title While Michigan And Minnesota Tie For The Women’s

• IC4A/ECAC: Results Former prep star Eddie Owens has won the steeple in 8:46.

High School Action

• HS: Noah Affolder Runs 8:47 To Lead 11 Guys Under Nine Minutes In Loucks Games 3,200
• Elena Bruckner Sets California Record And Moves To No. 4 All-Time In Shot Put With 54’7″

International: Inaugural Adidas Boost Meeting In The Books *Results

• Ethiopians Leul Gebresilasie (27:19) And Netsanet Gudeta (30:56) Run 10,000 World Leads At Adidas Boost Meet In Herzogenaurach, Germany Both races were close as Kenya’s Emmanuel Kipsang (27:22) and 2011 World Junior XC silver medalist Genet Yalew (30:58) finished as near runner-ups.
• Ethiopia’s World Silver Medalist Senbere Teferi Cruises To 14:46 World Lead At Adidas Boost Meet Kenyan teenager Willy Tarbei took the men’s 800 in 1:44.84 while Nixon Chepseba (3:39) and Germany’s Maren Kock (4:11.96) won the 1,500s. Yohan Blake (10.03) and Tori Bowie (10.91) won the 100s. *Results
• Jenny Meadows Wins British Milers’ Club GP 800 With 2:01.23 Olympic Qualifying Time

Previous NCAA News

• Washington’s Colby Gilbert Has Beaten Oregon Ace Edward Cheserek Once And Hopes To Get Him Again
• MB: Looking for Pac 12 Heat Sheats – What is Edward Cheserek running?
• Oregon Men (9 Straight) And Women (7 Straight) Favored To Extend Long Win Streaks At PAC-12 Championships
• Mason Ferlic Has Overcome A Very High-Profile Fall To Be The NCAA Leader In The Steeple
• Q&A With Washington’s 3:53 Miler Izaic Yorks Yorks says growing up he wasn’t good at sports and was “very big into Pokemon and loved the sofa.”
• Profile On Molly Seidel In Notre Dame Magazine Seidel runs 80-95 miles a week, but says she’d run 110 if her coach didn’t hold her back.

Bureaucracy 1, Athletes 0

LRC Federal Judge Dismisses Nick Symmonds’ Run Gum Lawsuit; USATF And USOC Can Restrict Non-Apparel Logos At Olympic Trials USATF and the USOC won at least the temporary legal battle but have they won the war? Will athletes stand for being told USATF has the legal authority to prevent them from monetizing a logo that USATF does not even attempt to monetize itself?

Keep Chasing Your Dreams: At Just Shy Of 41, Marathoner Scott Westcott Will Become Australia’s Oldest Track Olympian When He Competes In Rio This will be Westcott’s first Olympics as he missed being selected at the three previous Games despite running qualifying times.

US Road News *USATF 1 Mile Results

• Ben Blankenship (3:55) And Heather Kampf (4:34) Win USATF 1 Mile Road Championships Both won by comfortable margins as Garrett Heath (3:59) and Christy Cazzola (4:37) took the runner-up spots. *Results
• Saturday: Jared Ward Up Against Nick Arciniaga And Fernando Cabada At USATF 25K Championships Women are led by 2:29 marathoner Clara Santucci, former US marathon champ Esther Atkins and 2:32 woman Lindsey Scherf.
• No More Elite Foreign Runners At Freihofer’s Run For Women Race director George Regan said they want to give more support to Americans so won’t recruit or pay to fly in top Africans any more.
• Healthcare Company Aetna Signs On As Title Sponsor Of The Falmouth Mile

Sprint Stuff

• Worth A Watch: High School 4 X 100 Anchor Makes Up Huge Deficit To Win AZ State Meet
• RIP: Former Trinidad And Tobago Sprinter Mike Agostini Passes Away At 81 After Battle With Cancer Agostini had the bad luck to miss out on two WRs during his career due to technical faults with 1950s timing methods/equipment.
• IAAF “Legends Of Athletics” Video Interview With Aries Merritt

The Myth Of The Sub-2-Hour Marathon?

Recommended Read: NY Times: Man Vs. Marathon Meet Yannis Pitsiladis, the scientist behind the Sub2 Project who is trying to raise $30 million and challenging the validity of every training principle out there to try and get a man to run a marathon in under 2 hours. He thinks it can be done by the end of 2019.

Part 2: An Unknown To Most Of The World, Yannis Pitsiladis Was A Huge Factor In Kenenisa Bekele’s Comeback At The 2016 London Marathon Pitsiladis worked with Bekele, giving him a rehab program and restricting his diet down to 1,000 to 1,500 calories a day to help him lose the excess 25 lbs. he had put on.
*MB: Good Lord, the Bekele London Training Stuff Was True *LRC Archives: The Myth Of The Sub-2-Hour Marathon

Olympic News: Another Major Scandal?

• New Olympic Scandal Brewing As Tokyo 2020 Organizers Are Alleged To Have Made A $1.5 Million Payment To A Secret Account Managed By Papa Massata Diack Multiple transactions were made from the Tokyo 2020 organizers to Diack’s secret bank account in Singapore known as “Black Tidings.” *2nd Article
  *BBC: IOC Refuses To Comment On Tokyo Payment Claim
• Australian Olympic Team’s Medical Director Thinks The Zika Risk In Rio Is Minimal We’re against the media over-hyping the negatives, but this guy’s going a bit too far when he said the last people he’s spoken to didn’t even see a mosquito in Rio.

LetsThrow.com

• Norway’s Two-Time Olympic Javelin Champion Andreas Thorkildsen Retires The 34-year-old won his first gold at the 2004 Athens Games.
• Kenya’s World Javelin Champ Julius Yego “Tips His Spear” To Retired “Mentor” Thorkildsen
• Cornell’s Rudy Winkler And Texas Tech’s Hannah Carson Are NCAA Athletes Of The Week Winkler had a huge weekend in the hammer with an all-time Ivy League record and national leader to win Heps while Carson became the first collegiate to break the 60m barrier in both the discus and javelin.
• NCAA Record Book Updates: The Year Of The Discus? Wisconsin’s Kelsey Card had an impressive weekend in the shot and leads Carson in the discus.
• Multis: May 28: More Top European Multi-Eventers Added To Fields For Gotiz Hypo Meeting

Upcoming Action

• Thursday USATF 1 Mile Road Championships: Garrett Heath And Heather Kampf Return To Defend Their Titles At The Medtronic TC 1 Mile Their primary challengers will be Ben Blankenship and Gabriele Grunewald.
  *USATF.tv Coverage @ 8:55PM (Subscription)
  *Race Home
  *BBTM Prediction Contest
  *MB: USATF Road Mile Championships Thursday
• Q&A With Nicole Blood Ahead Of TC 1 Mile Most of Blood’s training is 5K based, but she’s added in some speed to get ready for a mile.
• Saturday: Omar McLeod Looking For First Sub-13 Of The Year In Shanghai McLeod is on a big winning streak this year, having racked up 10 wins in the 60, 100 and 110H.
• Saturday: Egyptian Javelin Thrower Ihab Abdelrahman Hopes China Continues To Be Good To Him Abdelrahman broke out at Shanghai two years ago with a huge PR and then won world silver in Beijing last year.
• May 20: Big Names On The Track And In The Booth For Next Friday’s HOKA ONE ONE Middle Distance Classic Alan Webb, Chris Solinsky and Carrie Tollefson will commentate for the free live stream as Shannon Rowbury, Galen Rupp, Evan Jager, Leo Manzano, Robby Andrews and more line up in deep distance fields. *Meet Site/Info *Entries

Upcoming DL Action: Pre Classic In A Little Over 2 Weeks

• Amazing Field Set For Pre Classic Bowerman Mile: Asbel Kiprop Faces Matt Centrowitz, Taoufik Makhloufi, Ayanleh Souleiman And Drew Hunter Silas Kiplagat, Elijah Manang’oi, Abedelaati Iguider, Evan Jager and Ben Blankenship also in the field.
  *MB: Pre Mile is SALTY!
  *MB: 5K: True vs Hill vs World Geoffrey Kamworor leads the way, challenged by Yomif Kejelcha, Bernard Lagat, Hagos Gebrhiwet, Caleb Ndiku, Edwin Soi, Isiah Koech.
• Saturday: Fast Sprints For Shanghai DL: SAFP Vs. VCB Over 200m Justin Gatlin vs. Tyson Gay in the 100.
• June 5th: Kirani James Will Lead 400 Field Against GB Local Star Matthew Hudson-Smith At Birmingham DL Meet Sub-44-second men Yousef Masrahi and Isaac Makwala are also in the race.

More Road Results

• Irvette van Zyl Wins SPAR 10K Road Race In South Africa van Zyl said she was in a “very bad place” after a disappointing performance in the London Marathon and getting the win here helped her bounce back.
• Masato Imai Wins Sendai Half Marathon In Japan With 63:06 Over Tomohiro Tanigawa (63:11) Yuki Kawauchi was 5th (64:35).

Sunday Road Results

• Little-Known Dickson Kipsang Tuwei (2:09:27) Gets Surprise Win At Yellow River Estuary Marathon Tuwei won in a close race, just beating out Marius Kimutai (2:09:32) and 2:03 man Moses Mosop (2:09:33). Bahrain’s Eunice Chumba (2:31:13) won the women’s race.
• RRW: Lawrence Cherono (2:07) And Lucy Karimi (2:24) Complete Kenyan Sweep At Volkswagen Prague Marathon
  *Finish Video
• Julius Chepkwony (2:11:10) And Jane Kiptoo (2:35:04) Take Geneva Marathon Titles
• Italian Doper Alex Schwazer Wins IAAF World Racewalking Team Championships In Return From Drug Ban Schwazer is the one who got his ex-girlfriend, figure skater Carolina Kostner, banned by having her lie to drug testers. *IAAF Report
• AW Weekly Round-Up

Rec Running News

• Interesting Read: WSJ: How Millennials Ended The Running Boom After two decades of growth, the number of race finishers dropped 9% in 2015. Fewer young people are running races and even fewer are running them competitively.
  *MB: WSJ: How Millennials have ended the running boom
• One Millionth Finisher In London Marathon History Is Revealed Shannon Foudy finished in 5:45:18, running for the hospital that saved her newborn daughter’s life.

Track And Field’s Opening Day – 2016 Doha DL *Results 

LRC Was Caster Semenya’s Final 100m In Doha The Fastest Ever Run In A Women’s 800? Crazy as it sounds, she closed in 13.6.

2016 Doha Recap LRC A Day Of Distance Dominance: Asbel Kiprop, Conseslus Kipruto, Almaz Ayana & Caster Semenya Earn Big Wins On Track & Field’s Opening Day The 2016 Diamond League season opened with a bang in Doha as favorites Asbel Kiprop, Almaz Ayana and Caster Semenya won in utterly dominant fashion. The men’s steeple wasn’t as kind to the favorites as Jairus Birech lost and Ezekiel Kemboi got embarrassed. American Ameer Webb looked fantastic in the men’s 200, Dafne Schippers ran fast but lost the women’s 100 to Tori Bowie, and a number of Americans picked up their first-ever DL victories in the field events. *Full Results 

MB: Official 2016 Doha Diamond League Discussion Thread

• Omar McLeod Man To Beat In Hurdles After Win In Doha
• Ibarguen And Rojas Triple Jump Dual A Treat In Doha
• Tori Bowie Runs 10.80 Fastest 100m Of 2016 Before you get too excited, realize the fastest 100m of all of 2015 was also run in Doha by Justin Gatlin at the first DL meet of the year.