– Excerpt from piece by Ken Goe on Alexa Efraimson ahead of the Prefontaine 1,500 on Saturday. Efraimson talks about trying to have a normal low profile freshman year at the University of Portland and her coach reveals that he thinks she could run a sub-4 1,500 “very soon.”
LRCPre Friday Live Thread Alysia Montano has won the 800. Hellen Obiri the 5000, 10,000 up next.
LRC Exclusive Alan Webb’s Historic 3:53.43 HS Mile Record Could Be Broken On Saturday – Drew Hunter’s Coach Talks About Hunter’s Plan For The Bowerman Mile And The Rest Of The Season Clear out your Saturday afternoon. The Bowerman mile is officially a must-watch event!!
*MB:LRC Exclusive: Drew Hunter’s coach thinks Hunter might be able to break Alan Webb’s historic 3:53.43 HS mile record
LRCPre Classic Preview: Mo Farah (10K), Geoffrey Kamworor (5K), Asbel Kiprop (Mile), Faith Kipyegon (1,500) Among Many Stars At Hayward Field This WeekendThe Prefontaine Classic is loaded once again. Meets are much more enjoyable if you know what you are watching, so give us 15-20 minutes and read this 5,000+ word preview. In addition to the world’s best from Africa, the meet features US grudge matches of Jenny Simpson vs. Shannon Rowbury and Drew Hunter vs. Alan Webb. Hunter wants a US Olympic Trials qualifier (3:54.00), so Alan Webb’s 3:53.43 US HS mark could be in jeopardy.
She’s Not Competing At Pre, But We Wish She Was Shalane Flanagan Did Special 90-Minute Run In Environmental Chamber At US Olympic Training Center To Learn About Properly Getting Ready For Rio Heat She nearly didn’t make it through the heat of LA.
Dakar Is Complete Results: 2016 IAAF World Challenge Dakar Results American Jarvis Gotch won the long jump with a 27′ 3¼” (8.31m) leap.
*MB: Broken wind or measurement gauge? American Jarvis Gotch just won the Dakar LJ w 27′ 3¼” (8.31) leap into -4m/s wind!
More Field Event News: Have You Wondered How Pole Vaulters Train?World Pole Vault Champion Shawn Barber Likes To Play Volleyball Three Times A Week For X-Training
The Pre Classic is this weekend and the Bowerman Mile is LOADED with Olympic champ Taoufik Makhloufi, all three medalists from Worlds last year, plus studs like Matthew Centrowitz, Silas Kiplagat and Ayanleh Souleiman. But the headliner is Asbel Kiprop, and our man on the ground in Kenya, Andy Arnold, says hand him the victory and world record later this summer after getting a behind-the-scenes look at his preparation for Pre.
*MB: The secrets of Asbel Kiprop revealed - Our man on the ground in Kenya says hand him the gold and WRecord
LRCRabat Recap: Almaz Ayana’s World Record Attempt Comes Up Short (14:16.31), Caster Semenya Wins Again (1:56.64), Another WL For Conseslus Kipruto (8:02.77), And Pierre-Ambroise Bosse (1:44.51) Gets His First Career DL Win The first-ever African DL didn’t disappoint. Find out what happened here.
*FBK Games: *Hengelo Results
*MB:Dejen Gebremeskel smokes the field – runs 13:00 in Hengelo!! Ethiopia’s Letesenbet Gidey won the women’s 5,000 in 14:58.
*IAAF Recap:Dafne Schippers Clocks World-Leading 22.02 In Rainy Conditions
*3 Races Over 3 Days For Schippers It would have been a perfect 3-for-3, but the Dutch 4 x 100 relay team botched a handoff and was a DNF at the FBK Games.
*Loughborough: Jessica Ennis-Hill Makes Return From Injury In Loughborough Javelin She threw a modest 41.69m (her PR is 48.33), but said she was free from the Achilles pain that cancelled her indoor season. *More Quotes From Ennis
We’ve read through the lawsuit and tell you why Nike, a company with a $95 billion market cap, is suing the guy who two years ago was working at McDonald’s. Updated with statement from Merhawi Keflelzighi.
*MB: Holy cow!! Nike just served Boris Berian at the Hoka One One Meet – They are suing him for breach of contract
*Oregonian’s Ken Goe:Regardless Of Who Is Right Or Wrong, “Nike Already Has Lost The Public Relations Battle” Goe calls it “a classic little guy vs. the machine story.”
LRC Oxy Recap: Evan Jager (8:15), Eric Jenkins (13:24), Hassan Mead (3:37) & Kate Grace (4:05) Impress With Victories; Leo Manzano (3:43) Struggles Find out who excelled and struggled late at night in California in the meet where none of the races were amazingly fast.
Oxy On The Boards MB: Official 2016 Hoka One One Oxy Live Discussion Thread
*MB: 10,000m Runner Hassan Mead Just Crushed Wheating and Manzano at 1500 – They’re Done
*MB: Oxy drinking game
LRC Ostrava Full Results *Bolt Race Video
LRCOstrava Recap: Usain Bolt Wins In 9.98; Breakout Runs From Young 1,500 Runners Filip Sasinek (3:36.32) & Konstanze Klosterhalfen (4:06.91) Bolt crushed the competition, beating a man Gatlin beat by .30 by .23, but wasn’t happy and shook his head when he saw the time. MB*Official Ostrava Thread
*IAAF Recap: Thomas Rohler Throws World Leader On Last Throw To Win Javelin
*Unknown 20-Year-Old Czech Runs Huge PR To Win 1,500 Over Chris O’Hare In 3:36.32 American Cristian Soratos was way back.
*19-Year-Old Konstanze Klosterhalfen Of Germany Gets Olympic Standard (4:06.91) And Win
Manchester:*Results
WTW Top 5 Winners From Hoka Meet, 40-Year-Old Kim Collins Beats 20-Year-Old Trayvon Bromell, Lawi Lalang Struggles, And Is Mike Powell BACK?! Plus read about the dude who tried to hang with Chris Solinsky at the state XC meet.
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USATF Suspends Its Entire Youth Executive Committee And Its Chairman, Lionel Leach Due to a dispute about the selection of the vendor to provide registration services for national youth championships.
*MB: USATF & Max Siegel Continue Their Powergrab – This Time Against The Youth
A Must Read: Ross Tucker Interviews Medical Physicist Joanna Harper On Hyperandrogenism In Women’s Sports Harper, who describes herself as a “scientist first, an athlete second, and a transgender person third,” provides amazing insight and analysis into the controversy surrounding intersex athletes such as Caster Semenya and Dutee Chand.
*MB: If you care about women’s sports and the Caster Semenya situation, you MUST read this article
LRC UK 10K Trials Run Through A Bar:Total Unknown Jess Andrews Sets Huge 83-Second PR To Win British 10,000m Trials And Qualify For Rio; Jo Pavey And Andy Vernon Falter There was drama and excitement at the British 10K Trials as in front of thousands of spectators and bar goers, Andrews went from nobody to Olympian, beating Kenya’s former World champion Linet Masai in the process. Team favorites Jo Pavey and Andy Vernon faltered. Recap, results, quotes and race videos.
While You Wait For The Week That Was: Read The Daily Relay’s Weekly Recap The talk about Hoka One One, Semenya, Ayana and the Ethiopian marathon selection.
MB:Kenenisa Bekele (28:07) And Tirunesh Dibaba (31:16) Win Manchester 10k Bekele beat Wilson Kipsang (28:15) and David McNeill (28:39) while Dibaba made a triumphant comeback, beating Edna Kiplagat by 9 seconds.
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