Archived Homepage For June 04, 2016
Archived Homepage For June 04, 2016
- Boris Berian forced to scratch out of the rest of my races, maybe even the trials
- HSer Thomas Ratcliffe just misses 4:00 barrier!
- Muhammad Ali- "The Greatest" Appreciation thread
- OTC making fun of Soratos/Legesse??!!??
- David Torrence request to compete for Peru granted!
- Was your college coach GOOD????????
- Running with gf...bad idea?
- Womens 800 now a joke
- What is Mary Cain doing with her life?
- Has anyone had a woman compliment you while you were running?
2016 Birmingham Diamond League Is Sunday *Schedule, Entries & TV/Streaming Information
Birmingham Preview:Mo Farah In The 3K, David Rudisha In The 600, Asbel Kiprop Vs. Abdelaati Iguider In The 1,500 A Semenya-less 800 will see Francine Niyonsaba take on Ajee Wilson and Lynsey Sharp. Jairus Birech vs. Conseslus Kipruto in the steeple, Vivian Cheruiyot and Mercy Cherono in the 5K. Non-distance action includes Ameer Webb taking on Trayvon Bromell and Andre De Grasse in the 200, Kirani James (400) and Greg Rutherford (LJ).- The Guardian:Five Events To Watch In Birmingham Women’s 100H will be interesting with Keni Harrison fresh off her 12.24 AR facing Brianna Rollins and Sally Pearson in her comeback race.
- Christine Ohuruogu And Diana Asher-Smith Lead British Sprinters In Birmingham Asher-Smith will be in the 100 against Dafne Schippers, Tianna Bartoletta and English Gardner.
- Athletics Weekly’s “Ones To Watch”
Ultra News
Colleen De Reuck Says Comrades Marathon Is The Toughest Event She Has Ever Done De Reuck finished 7th place in the 55.4-mile race and won the 50–59 age group by 84 minutes.- Ultramarathoner Scott Jurek’s Wife Gives Birth To Baby Girl On Global Running Day
2016 Rome Golden Gala *Full Results *TV & Streaming
Full Meet Recap LRC Almaz Ayana Just Misses The World Record, Caster Semenya And Conseslus Kipruto Continue To Dominate And Elijah Manang’oi Breaks His Maiden The 2016 IAAF Diamond League circuit almost began its European stint in sensational fashion as Ethiopian Almaz Ayana just missed the world record. She wasn’t the only one running impressively as Ameer Webb had a great double, Caster Semenya toyed with the field once again and an American man PRed to place in the top 5 in the steeple. The meet wasn’t roses for everyone as Ajee Wilson struggled mightily. *FULL RESULTS
*MB: Official 2016 Rome Golden Gala Diamond League Discussion Thread
- What’s Next For Ayana After Scaring 5,000 World Record In Rome?
- South African Athletes Win 3 Events In Rome – M400, WJavelin And W800
- Semenya And van Niekerk To Compete At African Champs June 22-26
- 37,727 Cheer For Gianmarco Tamberi But Bohdan Bondarenko Wins HJ
- IAAF Recap Of LJ & TJ: Rutherford Stays Undefeated; Ibarguen Wins 34th In A Row
- Long Jumper Rutherford Happy To Be Olympic Gold Favorite
The Summer Of Greatness Is Here
LRCThe LetsRun.com Summer Of Greatness Kicks Off With Advice To The High School Hopefuls June is here, the Olympic Trials start in one month, and the LRC Summer of Greatness is officially here. We want everyone to pursue a little greatness this summer and start with some advice for high schoolers. How are you going to pursue greatness this summer?
Random But Interesting Distance News
Man Born Without Arms Or Legs Finishes MarathonChris Koch has a foot which he used to propel himself on a longboard to a 4:23 finishing time at the Calgary Marathon.
*2nd Article Koch: “On the uphills I’d have people passing me. On the downhill (though), I could’ve just let it go and blew past people but I didn’t want to be disrespectful.”- 91-Year-Old Sets Age Group World Record Over 800mBetty Lindberg ran 6:57 at the Atlanta Track Club All-Comers meet and said she didn’t even know what the record was. “I was just thinking I’d be lucky if they didn’t turn off the lights while I was finishing!”
- Ultrarunner Sets World Record for 24-Hour Treadmill RunDave Proctor covered 161.81 miles to beat the 2004 record of 160.24. He also broke the 12-hour record along the way.
- Great North Run Closing In On Target To Have A Runner From Every Country In The World They only have 40 countries left to find runners from.
Olympic Doping Re-Test News
Unnamed Jamaican Medal Winner Among The Positive Retests From Beijing 2008 Sources say that the athlete isn’t Usain Bolt, thank God. *MB:Jamaican medalist tests positive in Beijing 08 retest
- Good News:IOC To Widen Re-Analysis Of Doping Samples From Beijing 2008 And London 2012 To Include All Medal Winners So far they’ve done targeted re-analysis on athletes who were likely to compete in Rio.
- Gianmarco Tamberi Calls Racewalker Doper Alex Schwazer “The Shame Of Italy” Schwazer recently return from a 4-year ban, but Tamberi doesn’t think he should have been selected for Italy’s national team.
- Turkish Boxer Latest To Be Identified From London 2012 Doping Re-Tests
Go Out And Run Today
Latest Doping Updates
- The BBC Is Reporting That Even If The IAAF Decides To Ban Russia From Rio, The IOC Is Discussing The Possibility Of Overruling Them The IAAF could ban the Russian athletics federation, but the Olympics is under IOC jurisdiction. And what’s more, the IOC would allow athletes to compete under the Russian flag, not the Olympic flag as has been suggested.
Russia’s Hammer Gold Medalist Tatyana Beloborodova And Shot Put Silver Medalist Yevgeniya Kolodko Among Those Caught In London 2012 Doping RetestsBeloborodovaKolodko is the wife of Canadian shot putter Dylan Armstrong, who was upgraded to 2008 bronze after someone else was caught doping.- Dylan Armstrong Releases Statement About His Wife’s Positive Doping Test They apparently met at London 2012 and didn’t know each other before that. He says he will encourage her to “cooperate fully with the IOC and WADA.” *Full Statement
- Has USADA Dropped The Oregon Project Investigation? Jamaican whistleblower Renee Anne Shirley tweeted that she’s “getting word” that USADA and Travis Tygart are no longer investigating.
*MB:Has U.S. Anti-Doping Agency dropped the Oregon Project investigation w/ Alberto Salazar?
*LRCNOP Doping Investigation Archives - June 8th: New ARD Documentary Will Focus On Russia’s Commitment To Reform Ahead Of Rio 2016 The documentary looks to suggest that the Russians continue to resist change and haven’t done enough to be unbanned.
- IAAF Task Force Head Rune Andersen Feels Russia Has “Done A Tremendous Job” With Technical Changes, But Warns That Cultural Problems Remain Andersen: “They still have a problem to change a culture in just six months that has been there for 30 to 40 years.”
Bolder Boulder 10K *Men’s Results*Women’s Results
Isaac Mukundi Wins Bolder Boulder 10K As Diego Estrada Finishes 3rd To Lead Team USA Kenya won the overall team race with USA Red (Estrada, Scott Fauble – 6th and Abdi Abdirahman – 8th) finishing second.- After Finishing 2nd Five Previous Times, Ethiopia’s Amane Gobena Finally Wins Bolder Boulder 10K; Kenya Wins Team Competition USA Red finished 4th in the team standings lead by Alisha Williams in 8th.
- Jared Ward Preps For Rio Marathon With 16th Place Finish“You go into these 10Ks thinking they’re a sprint compared to the marathon, but it was a long race.”
- Sara Slattery Struggles In Boulder Homecoming Slattery is the last American woman to win this race in 2006, but struggled to a 24th-place finish this year.
- Brandon Johnson (30:34) And Melissa Dock (35:44) Win Citizens Races
Mo Farah Headlines
Daily Mail:Mo Farah Shuts Down His Charity After It Spent More On Marketing And A Glitzy Ball Than Helping African Children The charity reportedly spent $155,100 on marketing and fundraising ($119,700 on a ball), but gave $134,600 to projects in Africa and $36,000 in the UK.
*MB:Mo Farah’s charity was a fraud- Mo Farah Says He’s Not Worried About Zika And He And All His Family Will Be In Rio“Before the London Olympics there was a lot of things said like ‘they weren’t ready and the traffic was going to be bad’ and there was none of that. It was the best Olympics ever.”
2016 Pre Classic*Results
LRCRecap: Asbel Kiprop Wins An Underwhelming Bowerman Mile, Mo Ahmed Goes For It In The Men’s 5K And Keni Harrison Gives The World Record A ScareAsbel Kiprop won a slow Bowerman mile, Keni Harrison went after the WR in the hurdles, and a whole lot more, plus a sick women’s steeple and Boris Berian winning the 800 (both recapped separately below).
LRCRuth Jebet Wins The Greatest Women’s Steeple Ever Run, Emma Coburn Gets American Record What a race!
*Nice Read In Denver Post On Coburn’s Struggles This Winter*Coburn Video Interview
LRCBoris Berian (1:44.20) Front-Runs His Way To Victory At Pre, Becomes Third* American Man To Win Diamond League 800Berian didn’t let the Nike lawsuit distract him as he won convincingly at Hayward Field (in his New Balance kit). *Nick Symmonds won two 800s at DL events in 2013 but they did not count for Diamond Race scoring purposes.
LRCPost-Race Video Interviews 25 videos. Drew Hunter talks Bowerman Mile, Emma Coburn her American record, Bernard Lagat his cold, and much, much more.
- Asafa Powell Blames Poor Starting Gun On His Loss To Justin Gatlin Powell complained that he could not hear the starter’s gun and reportedly Tyson Gay and Mike Rodgers also complained.
- TJer Will Claye Caused A Scene During The Women’s Steeple As He Celebrated A Jump By Sprinting Onto The Track The women “did not appear to be affected” though Coburn called it “frustrating.”
- IAAF:Keni Harrison And Ruth Jebet Scare World 100H And Steeplechase Records Harrison’s 12.24 AR was just .03 off the WR from 1988.
- IAAF:Christian Taylor Throws Down The Gauntlet With 17.76m TJ World LeadRenaud Lavillenie beat Canada’s Shawn Barber on count back in the PV. Chaunte Lowe took the HJ in 1.95m as Vashti Cunningham finished 5th.
*Renaud Lavillenie Wore University Of Oregon Speed Suit - LaShawn Merritt Says He Doesn’t Care About His Overall Record Against Kirani James, Just The Big Races For those counting, James has as 12-7 record against Merritt.
- IAAF:Kirani James Over LaShawn Merritt With 44.22 To Merritt’s 44.39Omar McLeod took the 110 hurdles.
- AP:Justin Gatlin Runs 9.88 To Smoke Asafa Powell (9.94) And Tyson Gay (9.98) Gatlin joked about Keni Harrison “stealing his thunder.”
RRW:Asbel Kiprop Snags Fourth Bowerman Mile Win At Pre Classic Kiprop was happy to get the win, but disappointed he didn’t set a PR. - Register-Guard:Former Duck English Gardner Rolls To Victory In 100m With 10.81
- Register-Guard Pre Mile Recaps
- USATF’s Pre American Highlights
- MB:Who were your biggest winners and losers at Pre?
- MB:8:59.96 for Jebet, American Record for Coburn – That was the greatest women’s steeple ever
- MB:Two high school sub-4:00 miles today…and the reaction is “meh”
- MB:Drew Hunter singlet
- MB:Wheating and OTC Are Really Bad
Non-Pre Track Action: 40+ Year-Olds Impress
Kim Collins Becomes The First Masters Runner To Break 10 Seconds In The 100 With A 9.93 PR
*MB:Kim Collins became the first Master ever to go sub-10- British Milers Club Grand Prix:Adelle Tracey Runs 2:01.24 To Beat Jenny Meadows On the men’s side, 44-year-old Anthony Whiteman ran an impressive 1:49.56 for 6th. *Full Results
- Canadian Sweep At Gotzis Hypo Multi Meet As Brianne Theisen-Eaton And Damian Warner Win
- The Guardian:GB’s Katarina Johnson-Thompson Targeting Olympic Gold Despite Shaky Qualification She was only 6th in Gotizs. *The Telegraph Article*BBC
- HS: Tyrese Cooper Leads High School MGX Team To 3:09.19 4 X 400
- Irish Teenager Elizabeth Morland Breaks National Heptathlon Record With 5,545 Points In Irish distance news, Ciara Mageen ran a 4:98 victory in Belgium and marathoner Sergiu Ciobanu lost his appeal of the controversial Olympic selections.
Doping News
Eight Russians Among The 23 Positive London Games Re-Tests- Russian HJer Anna Chicherova Continues To Compete Despite Reports She Was Caught In Beijing Re-Tests Her coach says they’ve received no notice from the IAAF so will continue to compete.
- Good Read:Seb Coe Slams UK Media; Says “It Would Be Delusional To Say London 2012 Was The Dirtiest Olympic Games Ever” We agree with him there; previous Olympics before effective drug testing were likely way dirtier.
- The Telegraph Visits Moscow’s Discredited Anti-Doping Lab And Talks With Athletes And New Federation Head They all swear Russia has turned over a new leaf and some are still delusional (or desperate) enough to contest the original allegations in the first place.
- What A Joke:Former UCI President Hein Verbruggen Wins Defamation Case Against Jurnalist Paul Kimmage Kimmage was one of the main journalists who spoke out about doping with the UCI and Lance Armstrong. Now Kimmage will have to pay Verbruggen $12,000 and pay his legal fees.
- Australian Anti-Doping Gets 20% Budget Cut
Non-Pre Weekend Results *Comrades Results
South Africa’s David Gatebe Smashes Comrades Marathon “Down” Record- Charne Bosman Beats Out Defending Champion Caroline Wostmann To Win Comrades Wostmann had an 11-minute lead at one point, but had to take numerous “walking breaks” and at one point ran into one of the lead motorcycles.
*MB: Max King 8th at Comrades Marathon; Colleen De Reuck 7th - World Half Champ Peres Jepchirchir Wins Ottawa 10K In 31:29 After Almost Collapsing At The Finish Line, Struggling In The Hot And Humid Conditions Morocco’s Mohammed Ziani (28:37) was the surprise winner in the men’s race.
- Canadians Damian Warner And Brianne Theisen-Eaton Lead After Day 1 Of Gotzis Hypo Multi-Event Meet
*The Guardian:Three PRs Have GB’s Katarina Johnson-Thompson Sitting In 2nd
*The Telegraph:Katarina Johnson-Thompson Puts Beijing “Scars” Firmly In The Past *BBC*AW - Rebecca Hilland And Andrew Douglas Win British European Mountain Running Championships Trials
Rio 2016 Zika Fears Continue
150 Expert Doctors, Scientists And Researchers Say Rio Should Be Moved Due To Zika Concerns They fear it will help spread Zika worldwide and accuse the World Health Organisation of having a “conflict of interest” because of the financial investments.- World Health Organization Rejects Calls To Move Rio 2016 Due To Zika They say it will “not significantly alter” the spread of the virus.
Week That Was
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.
Doping News
- IOC Finds 23 Positives In London Olympics Doping Retests 23 athletes from 6 countries and 5 sports. What’s the over/under on how many of them are Russians?
*MB: IOC Finds 23 Positives from 2012 London Olympics 
Maria Sharapova On Russia’s Provisional Olympic Team For Rio Despite Her Provisional Drug Suspension This should help out Russia with its doping image issues.- Inside Source Says None Of The 31 Caught In 2008 Olympic Doping Retests Were American
- Kenya’s Parliament Approves Changes To Anti-Doping Legislation In Hopes Of Becoming WADA Compliant
*Kenyan Media Article With More Specifics On The Legislation Changes - Botswana’s Former World 400 Champ Amantle Montsho Planning Comeback In 2016 Her drug suspension will end on August 1st, but she’ll miss the Olympics as she won’t have a qualifying time by the July 11th deadline.
- Joke Video:Australian Race Walker Jared Tallent Awards Himself Mock Olympic Gold Medal In His Backyard Tallent was upgraded to 2012 Olympic gold after the Russian winner was caught doping.
- Study Claims That The Olympic Brand In Decline Ahead Of Rio 2016 With drug and corruption scandals left and right, you’d assume this much, but the study focuses on the negative impact from the Zika virus and other Rio 2016-specific issues.
Previous Pre-Pre Classic News
- Michael Slogowski Says He’s “A Little Nervous Racing Pros For The First Time” But Is Looking Forward To Running Against Competition Almost all his races this year have been solo efforts.
- Press Conference Quotes From Vashti Cunningham, Sanya Richards-Ross, Aries Merritt, Christian Taylor And Justin Gatlin Richards-Ross ran a 51-second 400 in practice leading up to Pre.
- Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Faces Crucial Injury Test In Pre 100m She’s still working through a toe injury which has required her to take time off and miss several meets.
- The Daily Relay Gives Their Best Pre Classic Matchups
- 2012 Olympic Champ Sandra Perkovic, Who Has Won The Last 4 DL Titles, Is Ready For Pre
- Jenna Prandini Returns To Hayward Field As A Pro To Face Stacked Field With Dafne Schippers, Olympic Silver Medalist Elaine Thompson, And 18-Year-Old Kaylin Whitney
- Good Profile Of Spanish HJer Ruth Beitia, Who Is Making Her 2016 DL Debut In Eugene Beitia won the DL title in 2015. Interestingly, she retired in 2012 at age 33 after finishing 4th in the Olympics.
- Vin Lananna Says The Key To Having Successful Events Is Community Engagement People are happy to volunteer if given a reason to. “It has been my experience that people want to be insiders. They want to know what’s going on from the earliest stages of the planning process.”
- 10 Jaw-Dropping Moments From Four Decades Of The Prefontaine Classic
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!
Throwing News / Two Throwing Legends Aren’t Done Yet
- Totally Awesome:Adam Nelson, Double Gold Medalist In SP, Says He’s Coming Out Of Retirement And Will Compete At 2016 Trials
- 2004 Olympic Hammer Gold Medalist Koji Murofushi, 41, Will Return For Rio After Not Competing In 2015
- Goldie Sayers Says She Should Have Celebrated Olympic Bronze On The Podium – Instead She Learned Of Her Medal While Driving On A Highway Eight Years Later
- Goldie Sayers Says She Might Not Compete In Rio If Russia Isn’t Banned
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
What Makes Asbel Kiprop So Good? We Try To Tell You
LRCA Week With The World's Best Miler: An Exclusive Look At Asbel Kiprop's Last Two Workouts Before The Pre Classic
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
News From The UK
Jess Andrews “Still Shocked” By Olympic 10,000m Qualification, Will Take It Easy For A Week Before Talking To Coach About A Plan For Rio “I’ve not really been telling people what I’ve been up to while living here,” Andrews added. “I haven’t been racing on the British scene recently, so that’s why it’s come as quite a shock.”- Catching Up With British Sprint Star Dina Asher-Smith, Who Has Gone From Being A Kit Carrier At The 2012 Olympics To An Olympic Medal Hopeful
US Distance News
Recommended Read:Alexi Pappas Gets Lengthy Profile Piece In The NY Times The article doesn’t just focus on running, but Pappas’ other talents in poetry, acting and film-making.
*MB:Alexi Pappas profile today in the Times- Drew Hunter, Michael Slagowski And Austin Tamagno Will All Compete In Pro Races At Pre Disappointingly, Hunter and Slagowski will be in separate races.
*MB:Slagowski AND tamagno headlining national mile at PRE
*MB:Get Slagowski in Prefontaine Bowerman Mile - adidas Dream Mile Switches Girls Races To 1,500 To Target Olympic Trials Standard A rabbit will pace the race at the OT standard of 4:09.50.
- The Register-Guard Takes A Look Back At Frank Shorter’s Double Olympic Trials Win In The Marathon And 10,000 In 1976 At the Montreal Olympics, shorter ended up just doing the marathon and won silver.
NCAA Championship Season Starts Thursday – Live Results, Start Lists, Schedule, Streaming: *DI West*DI East*DII*DIII
- Top Six Teams Remain Unchanged As Texas A&M Men Continue To Lead NCAA Rankings LSU and Florida are ranked 2-3.
- Kentucky And Arkansas Women Lead The Way In Updated NCAA Rankings Oregon is ranked 3rd.
- Best Collegiate Marks Of The Weekend: May 16-22Thomas Awad‘s 3:37.75 highlighted the distance action.
David Torrence Will Run For Peru In 2016 Olympics
LRC Q&A:David Torrence Talks About Why He’s Switching Nationalities To Peru, Seb Coe’s Criticism And Why He Wants To Run The 800/1,500 Double In Rio Torrence said he’s hoping to inspire the people of Peru by representing them in Rio and said that he had to do some soul searching before reaching a decision. “I’ll acknowledge that getting to the Olympics now is a much easier task. But if anything, that made me want to run for the U.S. even more.”
*MB: David Torrence request to compete for Peru granted!
Other Citizenship News: GB Olympian Julia Bleasdale Hopes To Run For Germany In Rio She was 8th in the 5K and 10K at London 2012.
Gender Controversy Continues
Phoebe Wright Tweets Great Photo: What It’s Like Racing Caster Semenya Why aren’t more of Semenya’s competitors speaking out? *Race Video
*MB:OK girls what say you about competing against Semenya?
*MB:Womens 800 now a joke
*Caster Semenya Running 800 And 1,500 At This Month’s African Championships- Duathlete Chris Mosier Will Be First Known Transgender Athlete To Represent US Men’s Team In International Competition Mosier has a TUE to take testosterone injections every 10 days to get within the normal male range.
- Competitors Upset About Racing Transgender Girl At Alaska State Meet One said, “I’m glad that this person is comfortable with who they are … but I don’t think it’s competitively completely 100-percent fair.”
*MB:Alaska boy selected for girls all-state honors
Doping Updates
Jamaican Olympic Association Confirm That An Athlete Tested Positive In Beijing 2008 Retests They won’t confirm the name, but it’s rumored to be Nesta Carter, which could cost Usain Bolt his 4 x 100 gold from 2008.- WADA To Share Potential New Evidence On Russian Doping With IAAF Before Olympic Ban Verdict There were some strong words from WADA director general David Howman and Dick Pound about not being concerned about “innocent” Russians being banned as well.
- Ethiopian Team Doctor Confirms 5 Of The 6 Recently Suspended Athletes Tested Positive For Meldonium The doctor said two of the six would have made Ethiopia’s Olympic team “if they were clean,” but are still suspended for now.
- WADA Investigation Into Doping At Sochi 2014 Among Agenda Items At International Ski Congress
2008 Jamaican Positive Isn’t That Big Of A Deal
Nesta Carter Is Rumored To Be The Jamaican Who Tested Positive At 2008 Olympics The positive is only for methylhexanamine, which normally results in a short suspension, but it could impact a 4 x 100 gold medal for Bolt. The B sample hasn’t been tested.
Birmingham DL Is Sunday (9-11am ET)
- LRCSchedule, Entries, TV/Streaming Information
- Provisional Entry Lists For Birmingham Diamond League Meet LRC faithful, please note that we will not be previewing or recapping the meet as we normally do as we have to get ready for the 2016 NCAA champs.
- Five Events To Watch At The Birmingham Diamond League On Sunday
- Christine Ohuruogu And Dina Asher-Smith Will Lead GB Sprint Charge In Birmingham
- Mo Farah Is Racing 3,000
- World’s Best LJers Will Do Battle At Birmingham DLGreg Rutherford, Marquise Goodwin, World indoor champ Marquis Dendy and Christian Taylor.
Women’s 800 News
Good Read:Alysia Montano Says Dopers “Stole The Best Moments” Of Her Career Montano writes an emotional essay and says, “What hurt the most was that it made me feel like my career wasn’t real.”- GB’s Laura Muir Opens Her Season With A 2:00.57 Victory In France
Sprint Stuff
Justin Gatlin Says He’s Tired Of Being Portrayed As The Villain“It’s hurtful, it’s hurtful to be looked at as a villain because that’s not how I portray myself, that’s not how my son portrays me or my family.”- Saturday:World Youth Champion Candace Hill To Make Outdoor Pro Debut At American Track League Meet In Atlanta
- Usain Bolt Says His 2002 World Junior Champs Gold Is His “Best Achievement” Bolt: “The reason is because it was actually in Jamaica. It feels much better and more pleasurable to win in front of your home crowd.”
- Good Read:USATF Has Lengthy Profile On New American 100H Record Setter Keni Harrison In high school, Harrison’s older sister used a new pair of spikes to bribe her to do track full-time.
- “Did You Know?” Interview With Bulgarian Sprinter Ivet Lalova Lalova says she loves to write and sing in the shower.
*MB Archives:Ivet Lalova Blows Employee #1 a Kiss. - Register-Guard:Sanya Richards-Ross Not Ready To Be The Retiring Type Doctors tried to talk Richards-Ross out of her 3rd foot surgery, but she “wanted to give it one last shot.”
- Usain Bolt Predicts Yohan Blake Will Take Over As The “Face Of Global Athletics” When He Retires
- Sports Illustrated Video Interview With Allyson Felix Felix is currently injured and in the pool, isn’t worried about Zika in Rio.
Five Sports Recommended For Tokyo 2020 Inclusion Baseball and softball, karate, sport climbing, skateboarding and surfing are all approved for the 2020 Games.
Monday Was The 41st Anniversary Of Pre’s Death
Recommended Read:Mark Cullen Writes About Watching Steve Prefontaine Win The 1972 Olympic Trials Cullen was a “nodding acquaintance” with Pre and shares a heartfelt story and exchange they had after the Trials.- SF Examiner:Steve Prefontaine Remembered On 41st Anniversary Of His Death
- LRCSteve Prefontaine Archives
LetsJump.com
Christian Taylor Says He Was Motivated After Becoming “The Biggest Loser Of All Time” When He Jumped Over 18 Meters And Lost To Pedro Pablo Pichardo Last Year“I will not take anything for granted. I will attack every competition like it’s my last. That’s the goal now.”- Photo:Take A Look At Marquis Dendy’s Nasty Ankle Sprain With how bad the photo looks, he’s lucky it was just a sprain.
- “Blade Jumper” Markus Rehm “Not Giving Up Hope” On Rio 2016 Olympics After Study On Use Of Prosthetic Blades Is Inconclusive The study found that his blade was a disadvantage with his start and run-up, but improved his “jump efficiency.”
- German LJer Sosthene Moguenara Leaps 7.16m, The Farthest Jump In 3 Years Moguenara wasn’t even a finalist at Worlds last year, but her jump is the longest since US’s Brittney Reese‘s 7.25m in 2013.
- IAAF First Impressions Q&A With Ukraine HJer Bohdan Bondarenko Interestingly, Bondarenko’s first and current coach is his father.
- GB High Jumper Robbie Grabarz Has A Long Road Back Since Winning Bronze At London 2012, But Is Ready To Set The Bar High Again Grabarz struggled for a long time after getting knee surgery, but has come back around this year, winning silver at World Indoors.
Doping News
Yelena Isinbayeva Accuses US, UK, Germany And Kenya Of “Systematic Doping” Isinbayeva has also threatened to sue if she is not allowed to compete in Rio. Not a very diplomatic tone from someone trying to get elected onto the IOC Athletes’ Commission.- Good Read:Nick Butler For InsideTheGames: “Russian Athletics Ban Must Remain For Rio If Sport Is Really Serious About Ending Doping” The IOC meet this week in Lausanne and what they discuss could “be heavily involved in ‘suggesting’ a solution” for what IAAF ultimately decides on June 17th.
- IAAF Extends Bans For Three Former Athletics Kenya Officials Isaiah Kiplagat, David Okeyo and Joseph Kinyua were provisionally suspended until May 29th, but have had those suspensions extended for 6-months.
- Opinion Piece:Why Banning Kenya From Rio Presents An Olympic Dilemma
More From The Weekend
Athletics Illustrated:Mo Ahmed’s 13:01 Canadian Record At Pre Finally Brings Him Out Of Cam Levins’ Shadow Christopher Kelsall writes that Ahmed caused a “social media flutter” when he took the lead with 1 lap to go at Pre.- Andrew Butchart (28:28) And Lily Partridge (33:03) Win Vitality London 10K Defending champ Andy Vernon was 3rd. *BBC
- Nick Goolab (4:01) And Sarah McDonald (4:38) Win Westminster Miles
- Turkey Men And Portugal Women Win European Champion Clubs Cup
Friday Pre *Results
LRC Friday Night At Pre – The King Mo Farah Survives A Scare In The 10,000m, Mom Power From Alysia Montaño And Hellen Obiri Mo Farah won an exciting 10,000 and Alysia Montaño and Hellen Obiri showed being a mom doesn’t mean you can’t kick some ass. *Friday Results
- IAAF Recap:Joe Kovacs Gets World-Leading 22.13m In Shot Put As Brittney Reese Wins LJ
- Register-Guard:“Alysia Montano Puts Mom Duties On Hold To Win Again “Tonight was awesome. I felt like I had a good kick.”
- Register-Guard:“Youth Isn’t Served As Mo Farah Sprints To Victory”
- MB:Pre Friday Live Thread A blow-by-blow of the action.
- MB: Discuss: 2016 Prefontaine 10,000
- MB: Hellen Obiri Smashes Personal Best at Pre Classic 5,000
- MB: Bet You Didn’t Know This: The Guy Leading Farah with 80 Meters to Go Lost to Lagat (and 5 others) at Payton Jordan
- MB: Chris Derrick 28:38-is he done?
Women’s Distance News
- Kara Goucher Won’t Run The 10K At The OT; Will Focus On A Fall Marathon Goucher said she felt great after the marathon Trials, but then a month later started not recovering and was “pushing too hard.”
Estonia Marathoners Leila, Liina, And Lily Luik Will Make History In Rio As The First Set Of Triplets Ever To Compete At An Olympic Games The fastest has a PR of 2:37 and the other two are 2:39 and 2:40.- Make Your Dreams A Reality:800 Runner Dominique Jackson Blogs About Achieving Her Dream Of Qualifying For The Olympic Trials By Running 2:02.39 She just missed qualifying for the 2008 Trials by one spot when she was 19 and didn’t run during the 2012 season.
The Transgender Controversy Gets Real
The Beginning Of The End For Women’s Sports?Transgender Girl Finishes 3rd In Alaskan High School State Meet This was the fear two weeks ago when the US government said schools would have to allow students to compete in sports “consistent with their gender identity.” Now that fear is a reality.
*MB: Obama Issues Decree Ending Sex Segregated Sports in All Schools
NCAA Championship Season Has Started *Results: *DI West*DI East*All NCAA Results
Brandon McBride Highlights NCAA Preliminary 800 With 1:44.89 Dominating Win In The East Florida’s Andres Arroyo was a surprise non-qualifier.- Donavan Brazier Topped NCAA West 800 Action With A 1:46.53, Winning His Heat By More Than Two Seconds
- Big Blow To Oregon: Star Jasmine Todd Announces She’s Ending Her UO Career She was entered in the NCAA West meet, but scratched due to “unforeseen circumstances” that were “out of my control.”
*MB:Jasmine Todd DNS at West Regional and no longer a duck - Mississippi State’s Marta Freitas Runs NCAA-Leading 4:09.80 In the men’s 1,500, Clayton Murphy and Henry Wynne were the heat winners. Izaic Yorks, Sam Prakel, Blake Haney and Dillon Maggard were the heat winners in the West.
- Oregon Qualifies 32 Entries For NCAAsEdward Cheserek won the 10K (29:45) comfortably by 5 seconds over Futsum Zienasellassie and finished 2nd in the 5K 1 second behind Portland’s Woody Kincaid (14:09).
*MB:Did Ashlee Maton lodge protest @ West Regional? - Arkansas Women’s 4 X 400 Runs World-Leading 3:25.48 They broke their school record and now sit 7th all-time in the NCAA. Dominique Scott won the 10K and then came back and qualified in the 5K in a race won by OSU’s Aurora Dybedokken.
- Michigan’s Mason Ferlic Highlights Steeple Action With 8:29 Win
- New Mexico’s Courtney Frerichs Won Her Steeple Heat By 18 Seconds In 9:51 New Hampshire’s Elinor Purrier was the fastest in the East with 9:55.
- Stanford Gets 12 Athletes And A Relay To NCAAs Among their distance qualifiers were Aisling Cuffe (5K), Sean McGorty (5K), Grant Fisher (5K), and Elise Cranny (1,500).
- LSU Sending 24 Athletes To NCAAs Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake ran a wind-aided 19.96.
- Texas A&M Qualifies 33 Entries For NCAAs
- Texas Punches 23 Tickets To NCAAs
Sprint / Field Event News
Good Read:Profile On US High Jump Record Holder Chaunte Lowe, Who Is Shooting To Compete In Her Fourth Olympic Games In Rio Lowe (who has 3 kids) talks about wanting to quit every day when she was coming back from her pregnancies and tells a funny story about talking to her 5-year-old on the phone after winning 2012 World Indoor gold.- GB Multi-Eventers Katarina Johnson-Thompson And Morgan Lake Face Top Field In Gotzis Hypo Meet
- Katarina Johnson-Thompson Facing Down “Mental Demons” After Missing Potential World Gold Last Year By Fouling Out Of The LJ
- Nigeria’s Blessing Okagbare Will Do Olympic Triple In 100, 200 And LJ
- World 400 Champ Wayde Van Niekerk Donates $32,000 To South African Hospital Neonatal Unit Van Niekerk was himself a premature baby and spent several weeks in an incubator when he was born.
- South Africa’s Carina Horn Runs SB 11.18 In Austria Poland’s Ewa Swoboda was 2nd in with an identical time, setting a new national junior record.
Weekend Road Action
World Half Champ Peres Jepchirchir Vs. Gladys Cherono Highlights Ottawa 10K; 2:05:50 Man Dino Sefir Leads Men’s Marathon Field The women’s marathon has former 5,000 Olympic silver medalist Isabella Ochichi and Simon Cheprot (27:41) is the favorite in the men’s 10K.- Kenya’s Peter Wanjiru Looking To Win Back-To-Back Edinburgh Marathon Titles On Sunday US 2:15 man Chris Zablocki will run his 7th marathon of 2016. Joan Kigen will try to defend her title in the women’s race.
*LRC Archives: Meet The Most Interesting Man In Running: Chris Zablocki’s Long Road To Los Angeles
International Distance News
Nick Willis Says It Will Be “A Nightmare For The Selectors” Picking The New Zealand Olympic 1,500 Team“Who will they pick? We’ve got four of the 13 fastest [1,500m] runners in NZ history in action. Fortunately, I’ve already got my qualifying time, and I was the pace-maker for theirs, so they can’t be complaining at me.”- Gemma Steel And 4 Olympic Marathon Runners Will Lead UK’s Half Marathon Squad For European Championships So UK Athletics is okay with marathoners racing a half one month before Rio, but not a sprinter doing a 400?
- Want To Buy Former World Champion Eamonn Coghlan’s House? It’s On Sale For $1.6 Million
- Japan Federation Bows To Public Pressure With New Selection Policies For 2017 World Championships Marathon Team The new policy will guarantee team selection to runners who run under JAAF’s time standard and finish as the top Japanese in a selection race.
Latest USATF Controversy
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
2016 Is The Year Of Emil Zátopek Books
LRC Book Review: The Emil Zátopek Biography Today We Die A Little By Richard Askwith Is A Fine Work This well-researched biography on the “patron saint of running” – a man whom Runner’s World named the greatest runner of all time – is one of three English-language biographies on the Czech legend coming out this summer. *Purchase here.News From The Other Side Of The Pond
- Irish Choose 4th Irishman In Berlin Marathon For Olympics Over 3rd Placer – Was It Because The #3 Was Born In Moldova?
- 24-Year-Old Andrew Butchart Broke The 33-Year-Old Scottish 5,000 Record By Running 13:13 In Hengelo And The Last Lap He Ran With Only One Shoe! At the start of the year, he had a 13:29 PR.
Comrades Is This Weekend
- On Sunday, Caroline Wostmann Will Try To Become 1st Person To Win Both The Two Oceans And The Comrades Ultra-Races In Two Straight Years
- Defending Down Comrades Champ Ellie Greenwood Has To Withdraw With Injury She said everything was going great until about 3 weeks ago when her hip started to hurt and now it extends all the way down to her knee and she can’t even run 30 minutes.
- 42-Year-Old Claude Moshiywa Thinks He’s Got A Shot “I’m now 42 but I still feel like a 32-year-old boy.”
- Comrades Legend Bruce Fordyce Says Caroline Wöstmann Is Women’s Favorite, Thinks That The Men’s “Race Will Be A Fascinating One” “Caroline has broken every rule in running, and proved me wrong.”
Russia Makes Its Case For Reinstatement – If Only The US Would Do These Two Things
#1 Russia Says No Former Dopers Will Be Allowed To Compete In Rio- #2 Russia Says Doping Will Be Criminal Offense In Russia
- Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko Urges IAAF To Lift Ban For Rio Olympics “Personally, I am in favour of individual punishments for athletes who violate anti-doping rules,” said the Russian sports minister Vitaly Mutko.
- Inside Moscow’s Discredited Drug Testing Lab The BBC gets inside access.
- Alan Abrahamson Says Russians Should Be Allowed To Compete Even If KSB Helped Them Dope We disagree. If the KSB allegations are proven, they have to be punished.
- Russia Expected To Lose 9 Of 17 Medals It Won In 2012 Olympics
- GB Expected To Pick Up At Least 2 Medals
- Chicherova Finally Speaks About 2012 Positive – Says She’s “Shocked” “For me it’s the most complete shock. I can’t explain how it could have happened,” she said. We’ll explain it: You were a Russian Olympian, end of story.
Women’s Sports Are In Danger
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
Jumps / Throws
IAAF First Impressions Q&A With Serbia’s World Long Jump Silver Medalist Ivana Spanovic She says her first sport was karate, first pet was a cat that slept on her head and first CD was Avril Lavigne (though she was clear to say it isn’t something she’d listen to today).- Tomorrow: Former WR Holder Betty Heidler Leads Hammer Field For Dakar World Challenge Meet In other meet action, former African Jr. champ Haftamnesh Tsefay will face Ethiopian champion Dera Dida in the 3,000.
- August 25: Bohdan Bondarenko, Renaud Lavillenie And Shawn Barber Will Headline HJ And PV Fields For Lausanne DL Meet
Nike Vs. Berian
Nike Seeking Federal Court Order To Halt Boris Berian From Running With New Balance Gear Nike had the “right of first refusal” and claim they matched the NB offer. Berian’s lawyer says, “We have a different view on that, and this matter will play itself it out in the courts.”
*MB: Boris Berian forced to scratch out of the rest of my races, maybe even the trials
Week That Was
WTWMolly Huddle And Emma Coburn Open Up Fast, NCAA Regional Flops And Kim Collins Breaks 10 At Age 40 Who flopped at NCAA Regionals? Does your state let transgender athletes compete without treatment? We answer those questions and more.
2016 Adrian Martinez Classic
Full Meet Recap LRC 2016 Adrian Martinez Classic: HSers Sammy Watson (US #1 2:03.07 800) & Thomas Ratcliffe (4:01.50 Mile) Run Fast As Brandon Johnson (1:46.79) & Gabriele Grunewald (15:25.40) Pick Up WinsAndrew Wheating (4th in 800 in 1:47.33), David Torrence (8th in 1:48.55) and Kim Smith (4th in 5k in 15:32.10) were among the big names who raced in Concord, Mass., on Thursday night as a ton of athletes chased Olympic Trials standards in the 800, mile and 5,000.
*MB: Thomas Ratcliffe sub 4 attempt at Adrian Martinez Classic – Official Discussion Thread
*MB: Ratcliffe just misses 4:00 barrier!
Boston Will Host An Even Better Meet In Two Weeks
LRC Wayde van Niekerk, Robby Andrews, Morgan Uceny, Ben True, Abbey D Added To adidas Boost Boston GamesJenn Suhr, Nick Willis, Yohan Blake and Meseret Defar were previously announced for the June 17-18 meet.
Other News Of Note
- Jess Andrews’ Coach Told Her 11 Months Ago She Could Make Rio
- Japanese Comedian Who Just Ran 2:44 Marathon Will Run Marathon In Rio For Cambodia
- Kuwait Ban Unlikely To Be Lifted In Time For Rio The ban is meaningless as they will be allowed to compete under the Olympic flag.
- President Of The Jamaica Olympic Association Won’t Confirm Or Deny That A Jamaican Medalist Tested Positive In 2012
Field Event News
GB Decathlete Ashley Bryant’s Olympic Hopes In Doubt After Airline Loses His Pole Vault Poles Bryant was only 44 points short of the standard after borrowing a pole a foot longer than the one he’s used to and missing his PR by 30cm.
*BBC Article He may try to qualify elsewhere and UKA said they will consider his exceptional circumstances.- Greg Rutherford: “It’s great I’m the favourite for Rio. I love the pressure.” Rutherford has a 10-competition winning streak going since last summer and is the bookmakers’ favorite for the Rio LJ.
- Sports Illustrated Documentary On Caitlyn Jenner Will Premiere Monday At 9 AM ET In “Jenner: 40 Years After Gold,” Jenner reflects on the journey since winning Olympic gold at the 1976 Montreal Games.
*AP:Caitlyn Jenner To Mark Olympic Anniversary On SI Cover
Marathon News
Ethiopia Officially Chooses Its Rio Marathon Squad; Women’s Team Sees Some Changes Selectors still foolishly left off Kenenisa Bekele, but they took our advice with the women’s squad and added Tirfi Tsegaye and Tigist Tufa to join Mare Dibaba. *Discuss
*LRC2016 Ethiopian Olympic Marathon Team Announced – Ethiopians Leave Off World’s Fastest Woman And Arguably The World’s Greatest Distance Runner Ever- Kenenisa Bekele:“I am very disappointed by the announcement … The selection process was biased and the result unjust.” The criteria required you to run at least 2 major marathons in the last year, but Bekele says they didn’t inform athletes until it was too late.
- Good Read:Jared Ward Gets Nice Local Profile Piece And Video On Making The Olympic Team And Prep For Rio Watch the video – you’ll see Ward is not only an Olympic caliber runner, but he’s got a decent golf game too.
- Australian All-Comers Records Of 2:08:42 And 2:27:17 Under Threat At This Weekend’s Gold Coast Marathon Defending champ and record holder Kenneth Mungara faces 2:05 man Peter Some and Yuki Kawauchi. Women are lead by sub-2:24 runners Gulume Tollessa and Meseret Mengistu.
More Upcoming Diamond League Action
June 16: Steeplechase WR Could Go Down At Stockholm DL With A Ruth Jebet And Hyvin Kiyeng Rematch They’ll also face Olympic silver medalist Sofia Assefa, 2015 Diamond Race winner Virginia Nyambura and African champion Hiwot Ayalew.- June 5th:Provisional Entry Lists For Birmingham Diamond League Meet
- Overall Diamond League Points Updates There have only been 4 out of 14 meets, but in some events it’s not too early to predict who will win the overall series.
*Meet-By-Meet Video Highlights - July 15: World Indoor Silver Medalist Pascal Martinot-Lagarde Will Headline 110H Field At Monaco DL Meet
NCAA Champs Are Next Week *Men’s Entries*Women’s Entries
- Arkansas Women Favored In Pre-NCAA National Rankings Kentucky and Texas are ranked 2-3; Oregon moved down from 3rd to 6th.
- Texas A&M Leads Men’s DI Rankings Going Into NCAAs Florida and Oregon are ranked 2-3.
College News: NCAAs Are Next Week *Men’s Entries*Women’s Entries
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette:Are The NCAA Regionals A Waste Of Time & Money? Many coaches, athletes and fans complain and this writer would like to see it go back to a descending order list qualification system.- Ken Goe Takes A More Unbiased View On The NCAA Regionals Goe acknowledges that they can only hurt big schools, but give smaller programs a chance to qualify athletes who wouldn’t otherwise get in.
- NCAA Champs Entries Announced: *Men*Women
- Ken Goe Says Jasmine Todd Quitting And Hannah Cunliffe Not Qualifying In The 200 Are Big Blows To The Oregon Women The form charts which projected Oregon to win had Cunliffe getting 2nd in the 200.
- Vin Lananna Fleshes Out The Timeline For Hayward Field Renovations They will start this fall and will pause in spring 2017 to host a few meets like Pre and NCAAs.
Upcoming
June 9th:Asbel Kiprop, Taoufik Makhloufi, Ayanleh Souleiman And Silas Kiplagat Head Dream Mile Field At Oslo DL MeetRyan Gregson, Elijah Manang’oi (3:29 1,500 PR) and world indoor silver medalist Jakub Holusa are also in the race.- Thursday:Rome Diamond League Provisional Entry Lists
- Saturday:Geoffrey Mutai Looks To Return To His Winning Form At The České Budějovic Half Marathon Mutai will face 59:30 man Barselius Kipyego as well as a slew of other Kenyans in the 60-61 minute range. Risper Chebet (69:24) and Esther Chemtai Ndeima (69:49) lead the women’s field.
- June 25:Jessica Ennis-Hill To Compete In Ratingen Multi Event Challenge
- 50 Days To Go Until IAAF World Under-20 (Junior) Championships
Kenyan National Champs In The Books *Results
2016 Kenyan National Championships Results Distance highlights included Nicholas Kiplangat‘s 1:43.91 and Emily Jerotich clocking 2:00.30 to beat Winny Chebet by .10. 1,500s: Vincent Letting with 3:37.03 over Timothy Cheruyiot (3:37.04) and Judy Kiyeng wins in 4:05.45.- Capital FM:In-Form Alice Aprot Turns Gear To Olympic Trials After Winning Kenyan Champs 10K In 31:40
- The Standard:Harun Koech Runs Away With Kenyan 400H Title In 48.99 Koech is the brother of world 400H champ Nicholas Bett.
- DailyNation:Fast Sprinters Lead 59-Strong Team For African Games
Sunday Road Results
Ethiopians Dino Sefir (2:08:14) And Koren Jelela (2:27:06) In Hot And Humid Conditions At The Scotiabank Ottawa Marathon- Eddah Jepkosgei (2:39:53) And Boaz Kiprono (2:19:55) Win Edinburgh Marathon Titles In his 7th marathon of 2016, American Chris Zablocki was 4th.
- Forget The Sub-4 Minute Mile:David Weir Becomes First Wheelchair Racer To Do A Sub-3 Minute Mile Weir, whose time was 2:57, even got a special congratulatory message from Roger Bannister.
- From Last Week:Richard Mengich Won The Gothenburg Half Marathon In 59:35; Won The Women’s Race In 68:01*Results
Negative Olympic / Doping News
After 23 Positive Re-Tests, London 2012 Has Potential To Be The “Dirtiest Games Ever” At least based on number of cheaters actually caught.- Boxing Facing Olympic Ban After Sport Failed To Carry Out A Single Out-Of-Competition Doping Test In 2015 And Only One In 2014 The whole sport now runs the risk of being declared non-compliant by WADA.
- US Women’s Soccer Team Might Boycott Rio 2016 Over Gender Pay Dispute
- UK’s Former Olympic Champion Denise Lewis Says It’s A Good Thing 23 Athletes Were Caught In London Re-Tests As It Means We’re Exposing Cheats
- Russian Riot Police Break Up Wrestling Brawl Over Rio 2016 Olympic Spot
- Japanese Appoint Panel To Investigate “Black Tidings” Consultancy Cash
NCAA Championship Season Started Thursday *Results: *DI West*DI East*DII*DIII *All Weekend Results
Weather Scrubs First Day Of NCAA West Preliminary Meet Heavy rain and thunderstorms postponed all Thursday’s events.
*MB:2016 NCAA West Regional Weather Chaos – What will they do?
*MB: NCAA D1 West Prelims results
*Revised Schedule- DII Preview: Key Events In The Team Race
- DIII NCAA Champs Preview: What Events To Watch, Team Competition Analysis
- MB: NCAA East prelim/regionals predictions?
- Texas’ Byron Robinson, Who Led NCAA In 400H At 49.10, Is Scratched From NCAAs As He’s Been Suspended From The Team
On The Roads
- RRW:At 52, Colleen De Reuck To Maker Her Comrades Marathon Debut De Reuck has a strong connection to the race as she grew up very close to the course and her father ran it 15 times and her brother finished in the top 10 in 1995.
- June 11: 18 Rio-Bound Olympic Marathoners to Headline Stacked Field for NYRR New York Mini 10K On June In Central ParkDesi Linden faces London Marathon champion Jemima Sumgong, recent US citizen Aliphine Tuliamuk-Bolton and Diane Nukuri.
- June 4:RRW Preview: Sara Hall, Serena Burla Lead Freihofer’s Run For Women Entries The race will have its first American woman in 11 years as prize money will be for US athletes only. 2015 winner Emily Chebet, who also won in 2010 and 2013, was given a 4-year doping ban last year.
- A Result We Missed:Cosmas Jarius Kipchoge (60:55) And Muliye Dekebo (69:45) Win Stralugano Half Marathon In Switzerland
More Upcoming Action
- Kenyan National Championships Are This Weekend These are different than the Olympic Trials, but will be used to pick team for the African Championships.
Saturday/Sunday:Brianne Theisen Eaton And Germany’s Kai Kazmirek Will Try To Defend Their Titles At Gotiz Hypo Multi Event Meeting- “Turkish” Distance Runners Will Lead The Way At This Weekend’s European Champion Clubs Cup
- June 5th:World’s Best LJers Will Do Battle At Birmingham DLGreg Rutherford, Marquise Goodwin, World indoor champ Marquis Dendy and Christian Taylor.
- June 16:World Champ Julius Yego Will Lead Outstanding Javelin Field For Stockholm DL He’ll face former world champ Vitezslav Vesely.
The Latest On The Doping Front
- USADA Head Travis Tygart Writes Opinion Piece In NY Times Where He Criticizes WADA Almost As Much As Russia
*MB:Interesting Travis Tygart NY Times column on Russian doping crisis – He rips WADA almost as much as Russia!! - Athletics Kenya Has Its Headquarters Put Under Police Protection As They Are Fearful Of Another Athlete Revolt In November, it was taken over for two days “in protest at alleged corruption by officials and their failure to deal with the country’s doping problems.”
Be Inspired
- Man Born Without Arms Or Legs Is Doing Calgary Marathon This Weekend He has a foot which he uses to help propel himself on a longboard.
- Video Of Idaho State’s Shelby Erdahl Finishing 400m Hurdles In 2:53.26 With Totally Ruptured Achilles And Scoring 1 Point At Big Sky Conference Has Gone Viral She was even interviewed on Sports Center.
- ESPN’s Olympic Writer Bonnie Ford Talks About How She Learned To Appreciate Running – Excerpt From “Night Running, A Book Of Essays About Breaking Through”
The Latest On Transgderism/Hyperandrogenism
- Interesting Point In NY Times:Children In Wheelchairs Or With Severe Autism Have Been Using Bathroom Of The Opposite Gender For Decades Many parents say there is no chance they could be left alone to go in the bathroom of their gender.
- Toni Reavis Points Out That The Paralympics Have Tests For Its Various Categories, Why Not The Same For The Regular Olympics? “Sure, it’s arbitrary at some point, but you didn’t go to school and self-declare what grade you were in.”
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The Pre Classic Loses Two Stars
Genzebe Dibaba Pulls Out Of Pre Classic 5k The meet says her toe injury makes racing in spikes “unwise.”- Allyson Felix Pulls Out Of Pre Classic With Ankle Injury Coach Kersee says, though, that training is going well and she’s still planning on doubling at USAs.
- Ritz Won’t Be There, Either Dathan Rizenhein Says He May Not Do The 10,000 At The Olympic Trials
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.
News From Kenya
- Kenya Changes Date Of Olympic Trials (Again) Trials To June 30- July 1 It will be June 30-July 1 so Kenyans can run in Stockholm and Oslo. They finally got the date right as there are no DL meets from mid-June to mid-July.
- Still Don’t Know Where It Will Be Held Eldoret has not been confirmed.
Ireland Names Its Marathon Squad For Rio
Former Euro XC Champ Fionnuala McCormack Leads Irish Olympic Marathon Squad Then there are Lizzie Lee (2:32), Breege Connolly (2:37) and Kevin Seaward, Mick Clohisey and Paul Pollock (all in the 2:14-2:15 range).- Heartbroken Irish Marathoner Sergiu Ciobanu Set To Appeal After “Unfair” Olympic Omission Ciobanu’s time was 24 seconds faster than Pollock’s, but he feels he was left out because he is originally from Moldova.
- Ciobanu’s Coach Jerry Kiernan Blasts Athletics Ireland, Calling Decision “F***ing Bull***t”
- MB:Irish Athletics Shows Incompetence Again (marathon selection fiasco)
Almost Half The “Beijing 31” Were Russians – Anyone Surprised?
London 2012 HJ Champion Anna Chicherova And 13 Other Russians Are Reportedly Among The 31 Athletes Caught Doping Through Beijing 2008 Re-Tests Chicherova won Olympic bronze in 2008 and World gold in 2011. USA’s Brigetta Barrett finished runner-up behind her in London 2012.
*MB: Chicherova first name to come out from 2008 re-tests- Yelena Isinbayeva Says She’ll Sue For “Human Rights Violations” If Russia Is Banned From Rio It is not yet clear whom she would file a lawsuit against. *2nd Article
- Russia’s New Track Federation President Dmitry Shlyakhtin Thinks They Have “Between 50 And 60 Percent” Chance Of Competing In Rio Shlyakhtin: “We have looked through our documents and made them legally sound. A mouse would not be able to slip past us now!”
- WADA Investigation Into Sochi Doping Claims To Be Competed In Time For Rio The investigation will look into whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov‘s claim that he swapped hundreds of dirty urine samples in Sochi.
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