The 2nd-Fastest Man In World History Is On The Comeback Trail

LRCThe Rebirth Of Yohan Blake

Mid-Distance Stuff

• Boris Berian Defense Fund Launched Berian and his team are trying to raise $25,000 for his legal fees to defend the lawsuit filed by Nike. The hearing scheduled for today in federal court got pushed back until tomorrow. Being in federal court sucks and is expensive.
• After Not Getting The 1,500 Olympic Standard, Clayton Murphy Will Focus On Making Rio In The 800 However, he says he plans on also running the 1,500 even if he makes the team in the 800.
• Emma Coburn To Be In ESPN’s Body Issue Comes out July 6th.
  *MB: Emma Coburn is going to be in the ESPN body issue.
• Q&A: Evan Jager Confident But Not Cocky Heading Into The Olympic Trials The qualifying round will only be his second steeple of the year, but Jager “feels really good” about his fitness right now.
• High School 400H Record Setter Sydney McLaughlin Beats Out Kate Murphy (4:07 1,500) And Mikey Brannigan For USATF Athlete Of The Week Brannigan broke the Paralympic American record in the 800 with a 1:52.44.

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• Recommended Read: Bills WR Marquise Goodwin Doing Everything He Can To Be In Gold Medal Contention In Rio Even If It Means Risking His NFL Career Goodwin will miss pre-season training, is eating an organic and vegan diet to slim down for track and says it “confuses the hell out of him” why he can’t get a sponsor.
• Yelena Isinbayeva Sets Pole Vault World Lead In Her First Competition Since 2013 She cleared 4.90m to win Russian Champs.
• Sandi Morris Recovering Quickly From Breaking Her Wrist Last Month She’s been doing modified training avoiding using her left hand and still hopes to make the team for Rio.
• 2012 Olympic Long Jumper George Kitchens Arrested For “Committing Terroristic Threats And Acts” Kitchens barricaded himself in his home after threatening to harm himself and his family.

Latest Russian Doping News

• IOC Enact Special Doping Measures Requiring Russian And Kenyan Athletes In All Sports To “Prove Themselves To Be Clean” The IOC wants every Russian and Kenyan athlete to have to undergo an “individual evaluation” by testers outside their country.
• IAAF And IOC Clashing Over “Neutral Athlete” Exception IOC president Thomas Bach said clean Russians should compete under their own flag, but the IAAF insisted they will compete “in an individual capacity as neutral athletes.”
• Interesting: Blogger Makes Series Of Flow Charts To Explain Conflict Between IOC And IAAF Handling Of “Clean” Russians In Rio
• More On IOC – IAAF Clash There seems to be some different rule interpretations in play, but part of it involves whistleblower Yulia Stepanova as the Russian Olympic Committee has said she wouldn’t be able to compete under the Russian flag.
• Russian Athletes Will File Joint Lawsuit With CAS
• Russian Hopes Of Successful Appeal Of Doping Ban Take A Blow As CAS President John Coates Supports IAAF Ruling Coates was quoted as calling the Russian athletics federation “rotten to the core.”
• Russia Rules Out Olympic Boycott But May Take Legal Action Against IAAF This after the IOC backed the IAAF’s Russian ban.
• IAAF Is Destroying Russian Athletics Says Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko No, corrupt Russian officials saw to that.
• IAAF Statement On IOC Meeting

Oscar Pistorius’ Family Report Threats Of Murder Ahead Of Sentencing A man contacted the family asking for payments for “evidence” that would help Pistorius, but when they refused, he threatened to have Pistorius killed in jail.

Sprint Stuff: Bolt Vs. Blake > Bolt Vs. Gatlin

• Ato Boldon Predicts Usain Bolt Will Have An Easier Time Winning In Rio Than He Did In London Remember that Bolt lost to Yohan Blake at the 2012 Jamaican Trials, but Blake is nowhere near the level he was back then
• Good Read: Australian Sprinter Mangar Makur Chuot Will Represent South Sudan In Rio Chuot, the 2014 Aussie 200m national champ, will dedicated his performance to his father, who died fighting for South Sudan independence.
• South Africa May Have Left It Too Late To Qualify For Rio In The Men’s 4 X 100 They are making a last ditch effort at the African Champs, but this author bashed admins for not organizing an attempt earlier.
• Justin Gatlin Signs New Deal With Chinese Sports Company

Previous Jama Aden Drug Bust News

• David Torrence Says Jama Aden Tried To Get Him To Take “Vitamin Injections,” But He Refused There were also “silencing campaigns” as John Cook (former coach of Leo Manzano) received death threats when he raised concerns about Taoufik Makhloufi in 2012.
• IAAF Statement: Investigation Into Aden Started In 2013
• AP Article One of Aden’s trainers was also arrested and the IAAF was there to test 30 athletes (including Genzebe Dibaba) who were staying at the same hotel.
• Original Spanish Media Article That Broke The Story (translated)
• Video Of Spanish Cops Escorting Aden To A Police Vehicle
• LRC Jama Aden Archives
• MB: Dibaba dirty but Ayana clean?
• MB: So if Farah is dirty for associating with Aden, does that make Salazar/NOP clean?
• MB: BREAKING: UK runner with Aden’s during drug raid!! MO FARAH?!?!?!?!? Link Attached

adidas Boost Boston *Full Results

Saturday LRC Recap Of The US’s 1st Street Meet: Marvin Bracy (10.23) Nips Yohan Blake At The Line, Tori Bowie Runs 11.03 & Jenn Suhr Scratches The United States’ first street meet is in the books. The atmosphere was great but not everyone was a fan of the temporary track. Yohan Blake was candid in the mixed zone afterwards, calling the track “atrocious.” That’s not all he was candid about as he also said that the Russians should be given a second chance in Rio and explained how God told him to give up “The Beast” nickname. A pastor told him if he did so, he’d run well in 72 hours and he then went out and ran his first sub-10 since 2012. Plus Jasmine Todd talks about her mysterious departure from UO.
*RRW: ADIDAS BOOST BOSTON GAMES A HIT IN HUB

Friday LRC Boston Recap: U.S. Leaders For Ajee Wilson In 800 (1:59.72) And Ben True In 1,500 (3:36.05), Sub-13 For Dejen Gebremeskel & HS Junior Kate Murphy (4:07.21 1,500, #3 A-T) Runs Faster Than The Pros Robby Andrews was 7th in the 1,500 in 3:37, Mary Cain 3rd in 1,500 in 4:10. *Friday Results

Message Board Talk About The Meet:

MB: Official 2016 adidas Boost Boston Games Discussion Thread
MB: High schooler Kate Murphy crushes the Olympic trial standard 4:07!!
MB: Robby Andrews 7th in Boost Boston 1,500; smoked by Ben True 
MB: Mac Fleet: 3:51, Ben True: 3:36, Will Leer 3:58. WHAT?!?!?!

Lots Of National Champs Were Held Over The Weekend

• German Champs: Strong Throwing Performances Lead The Way The Harting brothers – Robert and Christoph – went 1-2 in the discus.
• Barbora Spotakova Throws WL 66.87 At Czech Champs She’s going for her 3rd straight Olympic title this summer.
• Maryna Bekh Wins Ukranian LJ Title With 6.93m

US News

• 26 Years Later And The Guy Is Proud That He Sported A Speedo On Cover Of Runner’s World Some thought the cover was pornographic.
• TrackTown USA President Vin Lananna Is Working Very Hard As The 1st-Ever Draft Of Track Athletes For The First TrackTown Summer Series Is Next Week And Olympic Trials Start In 2 Weeks 687 athletes have registered for the draft.

The Latest On The Russian Doping Ban

• Amazing Russia Responds To Doping Ban By Saying They’ve Opened A Criminal Investigation On Ex Anti-Doping Lab Chief Grigory Rodchenkov, Who Has Fled To The US
• Russian Track Athletes Are Likely Not Going To Be In Rio As IOC Issues Statement Saying It “Fully Respects” IAAF’s Decision To Ban Russia Some thought the IOC would overturn the IAAF’s decision on June 21. *More On IOC Statement
• Great Point Author Says Yelena Isinbayeva Is A Hypocrite As She Wants To Go To Court Of Human Rights To Compete In Olympics But Doesn’t Want Gays In Russia Which is more of a human right? A) the right to compete in the Olympics or B) sleep with whom you choose. Answer: B.
• Toni Reavis: It’s Time The Russians Learned About Collective Responsibility
• Steve Magness Q&A On Russia Track And Field Ban
• Russian Sports Minister Wants IAAF To Tell Russia What It Needs To Do To Be Allowed To Compete

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• Poland’s Anita Wlodarczyk Throws 3rd-Farthest Hammer In History (79.61m)
• Adam Nelson Starts New Company [email protected] “[email protected] is a new sports and lifestyle brand that will educate, inspire, and recognize the ‘masters’ athlete as it fills the massive void of information and opportunities for athletes over the age of 40.” *Fund It Here

Russia Ban Remains

LRC Russian Ban Remains: 9 Takeaways From IAAF Press Conference The IAAF has upheld Russia’s doping ban ahead of the Rio Olympics. We pull out the most important/interesting details that came out of the press conference with Seb Coe and the independent task force leader, Rune Andersen.
*MB: A great day for the sport. Russia remains banned for Rio

• IAAF Press Release And Full Taskforce Report Download
• Vladimir Putin Condemns “Unfair” IAAF Ban He said they’d be talking to WADA and hope for a “reaction from the IOC.”
• Money And Politics: Insider Says Russian Ban Is A “Political Play” To Give The IAAF Credit, But Let The IOC Make A “Back Door” In The IOC meets on Tuesday to “to address the difficult decision between collective responsibility and individual justice.”
• Ten US Track Athletes Who Benefit From Russian Ban Russia had a lot of depth in the jumps, so Jenn Suhr, Vashti Cunningham and Brittney Reese will all have an easier time in Rio.
• Yelena Isinbayeva Furious; Says She Will Appeal To Human Rights Court “I’ll turn to a human rights court … I’ll do this demonstratively so that it is understood that Russia won’t stay silent.”
• Good Read: Russian Olympic Ban Is Bittersweet For Whistleblower Vitaly Stepanov “What’s happening in Russia sports right now is like a circus. The same people that were running doping programs are saying that they are making changes. … I was somewhat glad to see that IAAF and the task force actually didn’t buy what Russian officials were saying.”
• Positive And Negative Reactions From Around The World Quotes from from athletes, officials, governing bodies and politicians.
• NY Times: Olympic Ban Adds To Russia’s Culture Of Grievances A good read for the politically inclined.
• USA Today’s Nancy Armour: “Russian Ban Is Victory For Clean Sport, But There’s Work To Be Done” She argues it’d be a mistake for the IOC to try and find a “backdoor” way the Russians “can sneak in.”
• Door Opened For “Gamechanger” Yuliya Stepanova To Compete In Rio
• Stephanie Hightower: “[The Russian suspension] is the only proper course of action given the compelling and powerful evidence.”
• NY Times’s Christopher Clarey: “Barring Russia’s Team, Not Just Individuals, Is A Powerful Move”
• Statement Of European Athletics President Svein Arne Hansen