2016 NCAAs*Day 1 Full Results *Day 2 Full Results *Full Day 3 Results *Day 4 Results

LRC Updated Wow: Mississippi State’s Marta Freitas Wins Women’s 1,500 But A Premature Celebration Nearly Costs Her The Title As Stanford’s Elise Cranny Almost Steals It What a race. Freitas led it wire to wire but Elise Cranny is back and better than ever as she PRed and lost by the tiniest of margins. *MB: Cranny is Back!

LRC Updated From 54th At State Meet To NCAA Record Holder: Courtney Frerichs Wins Women’s NCAA Steeplechase Title In Style, Breaks Jenny Simpson’s Collegiate Record By Running 9:24.41 Frerichs wanted the record and she got it!

LRC Updated Oregon’s Raevyn Rogers Wins Her Third Straight NCAA 800m Title In Dominant FashionShe’s a class above at the NCAA level.

LRC NCAA Women’s Recap: Dom Scott’s Double Leads Arkansas To First Team Title, Keturah Orji Breaks The AR In The TJ, Frosh Ariana Washington Wins The 100-200 

More Post-NCAA Stuff

• Good Read:Sean McGorty Talks About His Strategy Racing Edward Cheserek, Getting “Closer And Closer” And Hoping To Beat Him At Some Point Is McGorty the next Chris Derrick? Derrick never won an NCAA title, but often finished second to Lawi Lalang.
• Ken Goe Would Like Oregon Coach Robert Johnson To Be More Open With Fans“Refusing to acknowledge high-profile departures leads to speculation there is something to hide. Not every question or criticism about what happens in the UO program is a personal attack.”
• Kentucky Coach Says Freshman NCAA 100H Champ Jasmine Camacho-Quinn Can Be A “Megastar” Camacho-Quinn, who incidentally trains alongside American record holder Keni Harrison, also scored in the 200 (8th) and ran on Kentucky’s 5th place 4 x 100.
• Two Jamaican Discus Throwers Qualify For Rio At NCAAsKellion Knibb and Shadae Lawrence both got their Olympic qualifying marks. Knibb’s runner-up 61.44m set a Jamaican record.
• LA Times:USC Women Drop The Baton, But Still Finish Top 10 In The NCAA

Oscar Pistorius Re-Sentencing Starts Today

• Oscar Pistorius Records First TV Interview Since The Shooting The interview will air June 24th. Pistorius talks about the shooting, the court case and more.
• Mike Rowbottom: Oscar Pistorius Takes His Dishonorable Place Among Convicted Former Olympians He is far from the first.
• Oscar Pistorius Will Appear In Court On Monday For Sentencing After Being Found Guilty Of Murder The case could last through Friday and minimum sentence is 15 years, although it could be reduced for time served and “mitigating factors.”
• AP:A Glance At Oscar Pistorius’ Re-Sentencing, Now For Murder Pistorius is going back to jail; the question is for how long?

Doping Updates

• IAAF Bans Seb Coe’s Former “Right-Hand Man” Nick Davies And His Wife For Taking Payments To Cover Up Russian Doping Two more IAAF officials were also banned for their part in the cover-up. Davies is the one who wrote a passionate letter to LetsRun.com about IAAF drug testing.
  *Telegraph Article
  *LRC ArchivesNick Davies Writes LetsRun.com About Reports IAAF Did Not Follow Up For Retesting 150 Suspicious Samples From 2006-2008
  *LRC ArchivesBBC World: Why Did IAAF General Secretary Nick Davies Write A Passionate Letter To LetsRun.com Instead Of Issuing A More Traditional Statement
• The Telegraph:Usain Bolt Reveals “Heartbreak” At Prospect Of Being Stripped Of One Of His Olympic Titles Bolt said: “Things happen in life, so when it’s confirmed or whatever, if I need to give back my gold medal, I’d have to give it back, it’s not a problem for me.”
• NY Times:Cycling Officials Combat “Mechanical Doping” As if biological doping wasn’t pathetic enough, cyclists also hide tiny electrical motors in their frames and magnets in their wheels to boost their performance.

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Thursday’s NCAA Action

LRC DOMination: Arkansas’ Scott Claims First NCAA Outdoor Title In Women’s 10,000Dominique Scott dominated the final 2 laps to help the Razorbacks team title hopes.

LRC Women’s Day 1 Thursday Recap: PRs But Not A Ton Of Drama In Distance Qualifying, NCAA Records In Jav, Shot, Oregon’s Title Hopes All But Gone Raven Saunders of Ole Miss got the NCAA shot record, Maggie Malone of Texas A&M got the NCAA jav record, Arkansas’ title hopes started well while Oregon’s likely fell by the wayside.
*Squire: Thoughts On Day 2

• Thursday Results 
• MB: Official 2016 NCAA Women’s Outdoor Track and Field Discussion Thread 
• LRCThursday Video InterviewsDominique Scott, Claudia Sanders, Elise Cranny, Courtney Freirechs and more.

Outside Coverage

• The Oregon Ducks’ Chances For The NCAA Women’s Track Title Fizzle On A Damp Day The Ducks dropped the stick in the 4 x 400 and saw star Hannah Cunliffe pull up injured in the 100.
• Austin Meek: Oregon’s Hayward Magic Vanishes
• Arkansas Has Great Day 1 – Picks Up 2 Event Wins And 26 Points To Put Themselves In The Driver’s Seat
• RR Jesse Squire’s Thoughts On Day 1 This is actually about day 1 for the men but it’s so good you need to read it. He rips the TV commentating.
• Raven Saunders Shatters 33-Year-Old Collegiate Record In Women’s Shot
• Texas A&M’s Maggie Malone Sets New CR In Javelin (204′)
• DeAnna Price’s Broke Her Own NCAA Meet Record In The Hammer
• DeAnna Price Talks Being Comfortable About Your Body After Winning NCAA Hammer
• Georgia’s Chanice Porter Battles Back And Wins Long Jump On Final Jump
• Not All Was Bad For Oregon – Sasha Wallace Set A School Record In 100H

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

LRCBailey 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 in 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.

LRCDay 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.

LRCMen’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 TeamNikki 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
  *LRCEthiopians 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 3:56.39Frezer 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 ResultsCharles 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

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.