Stumptown Twilight *Results

LRC Justin Knight Outkicks Galen Rupp, Former NCAA Stars Greer, Fleet, Wheating, Soratos Come Up Short, Centro Is Back And Is Mary Cain As Well? Galen Rupp lost in the 5,000, beaten by Knight and Woody Kincaid. Centrowitz crushed everyone in the 1,500 as Andrew Wheating ran 3:40, Edward Cheserek 3:41 and Mary Cain 4:13. Becky Wade didn’t get the USA qualifier in the steeple. 

LRC Mary Cain: “The reason I’m relaxed is I’m finally in a place where I see it’s going to happen again … I know it’s going to happen and I know it’s going to be better than 4:03.” Cain talks like she’s definitely on the way back.

LRC Andrew Wheating: “Eight years ago I was just a boy, now I’m a man taking a different approach.”

 US Distance News

• Worth A Red: Drew Hunter’s Season Is Over Early As He’s Recovering From A Bout With Lyme Disease Hunter was dealing with the effects when he ran 3:58 at the Bowerman mile, but didn’t know he had Lyme.
• Luke Puskedra Shares Good News As His Baby Daugther Is In Remission From The Childhood Cancer Neuroblastoma She received two rounds of chemo, but now doesn’t need any additional treatment. Puskedra says he’ll race Chicago in the fall.

UK News

• Overlooked Results: GB’s Annie Conway Wins World Long Distance Mountain Running Champs Italy’s Alessandro Rambaldini won the men’s race. Elsewhere, Luke Mathews beat Collis Birmingham at the London Mile.
• Good Read: GB High Jumper Isobel Pooley Writes Column About How She’s Stayed Positive And Optimistic Despite Getting An Ankle Stress Injury Which Will Keep Her Out Of The British Trials “Whatever the outcome when the Olympic team is announced, I will have put my heart and soul into the fight for greatness.”
• Greg Rutherford Withdraws From British Championships Due To Fitness Concerns Rutherford says he’s still confident about defending his Olypic title in Rio.
• Ato Boldon Interviews Young British Sprint Star Diana Asher-Smith Asher-Smith manages to be one of the top sprinters in the world (5th in Beijing 200m last year) while maintaining a high GPA as a history major.
• Jessica Ennis-Hill Will Warm-Up For Rio At Ratigen Combined Events Challenge Meet This Weekend

Olympic News – Rio And Beyond

• NY Times: “LeBron James Opts For Summer Vacation Instead Of Summer Olympics” He said, “I could use the rest.”
• USA Today: Zika Among Reasons Many American Tourists Are Skipping Rio Games Original estimates had about 200,000 Americans expected to travel to Rio, but that number is now closer to 100,000.
• NY Times: “As The Olympics Near, Brazil And Rio Let The Bad Times Roll” Another “doom and gloom” piece about how bad things are in Rio as they suffer from issues with the economy, political corruption and Zika.
• Kuwait Launches $1 Billion Lawsuit Against The IOC Excluding Them From The Olympics The IOC suspended Kuwait for “undue government interference.”
• Rome 2024 Dismisses Claims Bid Is In Danger As Result Of Virginia Raggi’s Election As Mayor Well, it definitely doesn’t help your bid when your mayor says you can’t afford it.

A Lot Being Made Over Whether Russian Flag Will Be In Rio

• WADA President Craig Reedie Backs IAAF In Disagreement With IOC Over Whether Russians Should Compete As “Neutral” Athletes In Rio The IAAF are keen for neutral participation primarily in order to find a way for Yulia Stepanova to compete.
• USA Today Writer Accuses Thomas Bach Of Appeasing Vladmir Putin Because Of Russian Money
• Nancy Armour: “The IOC Caved”
• USA Today Podcast: “Weighing In On IOC’s Softened Stance Towards Russia”

Once A Doper …

2008 Olympic Race Walk Champ Alex Schwazer Fails Drug Test Just 6 Weeks After Returning From 3+ Year Ban This from the guy who got his girlfriend banned for helping him evade drug tests and broke down in apologetic tears after testing positive in 2012. Pathetic.
*Schwazer Claims He Was Sabotaged, But Aussie Jared Tallent Isn’t Buying It Schwazer returned from his doping ban to beat Tallent at the World Race Walking Team Champs last month.
*AP article

Jama Aden Gets Arrested

LRC Jama Aden Doping Raid Update: How Might The Raid Impact Mo Farah, The Dibabas And Nike? Today, we look at some of the connections between Aden and the sport’s biggest names like Genzebe Dibaba, Tirunesh Dibaba, Mo Farah, and Nike and wonder what type of impact, if any, the scandal will have on them. We also reveal for the first time in the English press that Mo Farah trained in Sansabell, Spain in 2014, a fact his agent didn’t even know, but claimed to be more than 100 miles away in France. Why?

LRC Everything You Need To Know About The Jama Aden Doping Raid That Took Place With Three Dibaba Sisters Being Present We give you the scoop on the biggest doping scandal in distance running’s history and the biggest non-country-related (i.e. Russia) doping scandal since BALCO. In the near future, we’ll have much more for you, including “What does this mean for Nike, Mo Farah and Alberto Salazar, who all have ties to Aden?”

• Spanish Police Arrest Third Person Linked To Jama Aden Doping Ring A police spokesman wouldn’t give the name or their nationality.
• MB: How will Aden bust affect performances at Rio?
• MB: Charlie Grice – Not to be overlooked during all of this
• MB: If David Torrence is 100% clean…
• MB: Nick Willis Comments on Anti-Doping Raid
• MB: Jama Aden Arrested After Police Raid Discovers EPO In His Hotel In Spain
• MB: David Torrence essentially saying he snitched on Jama’s group

LetsJump.com

• 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.

Brazier Will Be At The Trials As A Pro

LRCGood News, Track Fans: Donavan Brazier Enters Olympic Trials And Is Turning Pro

More From The NCAA:

• Jasmine Todd Breaks Silence On NCAA Withdrawal Mystery As She Says She Was Pulled From Regionals For Being Academically Ineligible Apparently she was ineligible for the whole outdoor season, even when she competed at PAC-12s.
• Ken Goe: Hayward Field Will Look Like A Modern Stadium When Renovations Are Done

Distance News

• June 26th: Olympic Marathoners Shalane Flanagan, Amy Cragg To Run B.A.A. 10K They’ll face a deep field which includes Atsede Baysa, Mary Wacera, Edna Kiplagat and Kim Smith. On the men’s side, Geoffrey Mutai will face Dathan Ritzenhein, Abdi Abdirahman and Daniel Salel.
• Denver Post: How Jenny Simpson And Emma Coburn Co-Exist As Training Partners Mark Wetmore they both have “very strong egos” so “have room in their self-esteem for other people to be successful.”
• Peter Snell’s Olympic Singlet Auctioned For $87,000 A NZ museum bough the singlet and Snell said he was shocked at the final price, admitting he’d only pay a couple of hundred for it himself.

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?!?!?!

Ryan Hall Gets Profile In Men’s Journal About His Transformation From Rail-Thin Runner To 40-Pounds-Heavier Weightlifter Hall says he has more energy now, has fixed his testosterone levels and is eating more now than when he was running 20 miles a day.
*MB: Ryan Hall: a dozen eggs per day (yes, that’s 84 eggs per week !!!!)

Stop Pre Phe: Phoebe Wright Selling “Stop Phe” T-Shirts

The Trials Are 2+ Weeks Away – Who Is In? Out? And On The Bubble?

LRC Who’s In? Who’s On The Bubble? 2016 US Men’s Olympic Trials Descending Order Lists Given past history, we know there is bound to be a ridiculous controversy so we’ve tried to get ahead of it and let you know how things stand two weeks from the Trials.

LRC Who’s In? Who’s On The Bubble? 2016 US Women’s Olympic Trials Descending Order Lists