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MB: Official 2016 NCAA Women’s Outdoor Track and Field Discussion Thread 

Thursday Results: Dominique Scott Cruises in 10k, PRs in W1500, NCAA Records in Javelin and Shot

LRC Thursday Video Interviews Dominique Scott, Claudia Sanders, Elise Cranny,Courtney Freirechs more

Thursday Update: LRC Freshman 800m Phenom Donavan Brazier Says He Will NOT Run The Olympic Trials And Has No Idea Who Jim Ryun Is

LRC Bailey Roth, American High School Record Holder In The Steeplechase, Is Back With 8:37 PR After Running 9:14 At End Of May Medical issues had his season going the wrong direction, but now it’s trending up.

Full Coverage On Our 2016 NCAA Outdoor Event Page.

NCAAs Wednesday Day 1

Day 1 Full Results King Ches won his 14th title, the 800 prelims were amazing and there was a sub-10 100.

LRC Business As Usual: Edward Cheserek Cruises To Third Straight NCAA 10,000 Title King Cheserek is back on top. As expected, no one could match Cheserek on the final 400m Wednesday. Futsum Zeinasellassie was 2nd and Gabe Gonzalez a surprise 3rd.

LRC Day 1 Recap – Look Out – Tremendous 800 And 1,500 Finals Set For Friday As McBride, Brazier, Yorks, Murphy, Kidder, Wynne Look Great Jim Ryun‘s NCAA record turns 50 on Friday and now is officially in jeopardy. We recap all of day 1’s distance action plus Texas’s Senoj-Jay Givans went sub-10 for first time.

LRC Men’s Day 1 Video Interviews

Day 1 On The Message Board

• MB: Official 2016 NCAA Men’s Outdoor Track And Field Discussion Thread
  
• MB: Please post your apologies here if you wrote him off. Donavan Brazier just jogged a 1:45.03!!!
  
• MB: Cheserek with the win!
  
• MB: Men’s 10k Shaun Thompson 51 for lap 3
  
• MB: Pierce Murphy NOT a Blue Collar/Walk-on Type Guy

Women Compete Thu./Saturday: *MB: Official 2016 NCAA Women’s Outdoor Track And Field Discussion Thread

Full Coverage On Our 2016 NCAA Outdoor Event Page.

• USTFCCCA: It Was A Rough Day For Texas A&M As Their Title Hopes Plummet They came in ranked #1, but only got 3 athletes through to the finals on the track and had two no-heights in the PV. *AP Day 1 Recap
• Arkansas’ Jarrion Lawson Dominates LJ And Qualifies For Finals In Three More Events Lawson won the LJ with 8.15m and made finals in the 100, 200 and 4 x 100. In other field action, Jake Blakenship won the PV (6.60m), Filip Mihaljevic the SP (20.71m), Curtis Thompson the javelin (77.64m) and Nick Miller the hammer (73.98m).
• Ken Goe Catches Up With Two Ex-Ducks Who Tell Him Why They Transferred Out As Oregon Won’t Even Acknowledge That Jasmine Todd Has Left The Team Nikki Hiltz, who scored in the mile as a frosh for Oregon, says Oregon reneged on its verbal scholarship offer and so she left for Arkansas.
  *MB: Bait and Switch: Schools not following through on verbal scholarship offers – How common is it? What’s the solution?
• Register-Guard: Michigan’s Mason Ferlic Stays Dry In Winning His Steeplchase Semi Ferlic had an epic diving fall in the steeple pit at NCAAs last year.
• Edward Cheserek On Early Season Struggles: “I was worried a little bit. We sat down with the staff and coaches (and said), ‘Can we try to get me healthy?'”
• Oregon’s Greg Skipper Got Third In Hammer With PR And Credits His Dad: “My dad is my best friend.”
• Oregon’s Cody Danielson Scores Two Unexpected NCAA Points In Javelin Despite Injury
• Register-Guard: Oregon Men Stay On Pace After Opening Day Of NCAAs
• Duck Men Get An Unexpected Point In The Hammer And 2 In The PV

2016 Has Been A Big Year For Alexi Pappas

• USA Today: Alexi Pappas Makes Her Family Proud By Making Greek Team For Rio Pappas’ grandmother (or “yiayia”) is pumped that’s Pappas will be Greece’s first-ever women’s 10,000m Olympian.
• Alex Pappas’ Movie “Tracktown” Gets Favorable Review As Viewer Calls It “A Charming Coming-Of-Age Story With Legs” Pappas starred, co-wrote and co-directed the film, which premiered at the LA Film Festival.
  *MB: An actual Tracktown movie review, with plot summary.

African Distance News

• Turmoil Brews In Ethiopian Camp As Haile Gebrselassie Leads Meeting In Protest Of National Federation’s Olympic Selection Process About 100 athletes met to discuss the poor management which, among other things, didn’t select Kenenisa Bekele for the Rio marathon team.
• Haile G Says The Ethiopian Federation Is “Marred With Incompetency”
  *MB: Good sign for Kenenisa. Haile Gebrselassie, other athletes protest at Ethiopia federation
  *LRC Ethiopians Leave Off World’s Fastest Woman And Arguably The World’s Greatest Distance Runner Ever
• IAAF: What’s Next For Almaz Ayana After Scaring The 5,000m WR In Rome? At 4K, Ayana was 5 seconds ahead of Tirnesh Dibaba‘s WR run, but Dibaba closed way faster when she ran her 14:11.
• Nice Profile On World 1,500 Silver Medalist Faith Kipyegon Interesting takeaways: Kipyegon says a 4:00 1,500 “feels slow” to her now and her coach thinks she will end up running a great marathon one day.

Early Week Action / Weekend Leftovers

• France: World Indoor Bronze Medalist Margaret Wambui PRs By 2 Seconds To Run 1:57.52 That puts her #3 in the world this year only behind Caster Semenya and Francine Niyonsaba. Nicholas Kipkoech won the 800 in 1:43.85 with Pierre-Ambroise Bosse 3rd (1:44.53). France’s Jimmy Vicaut equaled European 100m record with 9.86 *Results
  *MB: Jimmy Vicaut 9.86!! European Record and World Lead!  Thread includes video of race.
• Italy: Brittney Reese Wins Long Jump With 7.04m, Her Biggest Leap In Three Years In the 800, Poland’s Adam Kszczot (1:45.77) and Angelika Cichocka (1:59.97) got the wins. Cornelius Kangogo won the 5K in 13:12. *Results
• Ithaca, NY: Tyler Sigl And Corrine Malcolm Win USATF 50 Mile Trail Championships
• Hungary: Poland’s Anita Wlodarczyk Throws 77.70m Hammer Meet Record
• Ethiopia: New Talents Emerge At Ethiopian Junior Champs Men’s 5K was a highlight with Selemon Bogale winning a close race in 14:12.
• Vietnam: Asian Junior Champs Recap 1:51 and 2:06 will get you 800 gold at Asian juniors.

The Olympic Trials Are Less Than A Month Away

LRC LetsRun.com Olympic Trials Q&A: Who Are The Favorites To Make Rio? What Big Names Are Going To Stay Home? Wednesday marks three weeks to go until the Olympic Trials. With that in mind, it’s time for the LRC crew to start looking ahead. Who looks good? Who needs a lot of help? Who might surprise? Dare we say who will make the team?

Doping Updates: Russia’s Date With Destiny Is In 10 Days

• Russian 3-Time Olympic Silver Medalist Tatyana Firova Suggests Athletes Should Be Able To Take Banned Substances As “Normal” People Do She asks, “How else can we achieve high results?” Firova recently failed a drug test when her 2008 Beijing sample was retested.
• Olympic HJ Champ Anna Chicherova Records Clean “B” Sample After Her London 2012 Retest Initially Was Positive For Doping Her Beijing “A” sample also tested positive, but she for some reason has delayed the “B” sample retest until June 8th.
• Russian Ministry Of Sport To Introduce Anti-Doping Classes In School Starting Next Year We’ll give them this, they’re trying really hard to look like they’re trying.
• The Guardian: Russia Begins Charm Offensive Ahead Of Doping Ban Decision A good synopsis of how Russia started off denying and calling the WADA report a “political hit job”, but have now facing Rio ban have changed their tune to one of reform.
• Madrid Doping Control Lab Has Accreditation Suspended By WADA The decision was taken as a response to WADA’s Foundation Board declaring the Spanish Anti-Doping Agency noncompliant.

What Is Wrong With Some Countries?

Weekend Track Action – Results: *Furman 1,500 *ATL *Festival Of Miles *Music City Distance Carnival

• MB: Morgan Uceny Runs Her Fastest 1,500 Since 2012 – 4:03.94 In Furman Elite Race Uceny just beat out Canada’s Nicole Sifuentes by .03. NJ-NY Track Club’s Colby Alexander won the men’s race in 3:37.32.
• Italy’s Daniele Meucci And Turkey’s Esma Aydemir Win European 10,000 Cup
• Jordan McNamara Wins Saint Louis Festival Of Miles In 3:56.39 Frezer Legesse (3:57.24) and Cristian Soratos (3:57.39) were also sub-4. *Results
• 2016 American Track League – Atlanta Results Distance highlights included Jamaica’s former NCAA champ Natoya Goule winning the 800 in 1:59.38 from Justine Fedronic (1:59.86) and Rachel Johnson taking the steeple in 9:46. In sprint action, winners included Asafa Powell (100 – 10.01) and Queen Harrison (100H – 12.72).
  *MB: Discussion Thread
• Sanya Richards-Ross Carried Off Track After Pulling Up With Hamstring Injury It was also a rough day for Dee Dee Trotter, who had to receive treatment for an asthma attack and Lolo Jones, who was a DNS with injury.
• 2016 Music City Distance Carnival Results Charles Jock ran 1:14.92 in the 600m to beat out Cas Loxsom (1:14.96) and Eliud Rutto.
• Poland’s Pawel Fajdek Extends His Hammer Throw World Lead To 81.71m At European Athletics Festival
• Asian Junior Champs Recap: 100m Victories By Khairul Hafiz Jantan (10.36) And Liu Qun (11.84) Highlight

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.

Week That Was

WTW Molly 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.