LRC The 1st-Ever Professional Track And Field Draft Is Tonight – Who Will Be The #1 Pick?

2016 USA Juniors *Schedule, Results And Streaming

• Day 1 Recap: Fiona O’Keeffe (15:56), Candace Hill (11.09) Set Meet Records On Day 1  The HSer O’Keeffe beat Notre Dame’s Anna Rohrer. Noah Lyles (10.08) won the men’s 100. Kate Murphy and Katie Rainsberger are running the 3k, Efraimson‘s in the 1,500. Brazier was a DNS. *IAAF *Flotrack
• DyeStat’s List Of Who Made The US Team For 2016 World Juniors
• DyeStat’s 10 Story Lines To Follow At 2016 USATF Juniors
• A List Of All Collegians Competing At USATF Juniors

2016 British Championships / Trials Have Begun *Results *TV & Streaming

• James Dasaolu wins historic 100 at British champs 3 Brits broke 10.00 in the same race for the 1st time in history and two more ran 10.02. 38-year old Dwain Chambers was 6th in 10.11
• Athletics Weekly Preview Of The British Trials “Any athlete with two qualifying performances who finishes in the first two places is guaranteed selection for Rio, while there are also European Championships places available.”
• Eilish McColgan Has Switched To The 5,000 From The Steeple As She Has 7 Screws And A Metal Plate In Her Body Now
• British 200m Star Zharnel Hughes: “Don’t rule me out of a medal yet, man. I still think I can get one.”
• Greg Rutherford Withdraws From British Championships After Suffering “Whiplash” At Birmingham DL Rutherford says he’s still confident about defending his Olympic title in Rio.
• Jessica Ennis-Hill Won’t Be At Trials Either As She’s Doing A Multi In Germany Hoping To Score Near What She Did To Win Worlds Last Year (6,669 Points)
• Former WY 100 Champ Asha Philip Confident She’ll Make The Olympics In 2016 After Missing In 2008 And 2012 A knee injury kept her out our of 2008 and a torn hamstring in 2012.
• 12 Scots Might Make The British Olympic Team
• 400 Hurdler Meghan Beesley Also Will Miss Trials With Injury, Making It A Cakewalk For Eilidh Doyle
• 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.”

Jamaican Champs Are Next Weekend: Usain Bolt And Warren Weir Sign Up For 100/200 Double At Jamaican Champs – Asafa Doing Just The 100m Powell had earlier said he’d try to double.

Sunday In Boston: 2016 BAA 10k With $10,000 For 1st Is Loaded With Flanagan, Cragg, Ritz, Abdi, Mutai, Edna Kiplagat And More Daniel Salel and Mary Wacera are the defending champs.
*IAAF Preview
*Ritz Would Like To Run Under 28:15

Doping News

• Q&A with David Torrence about what he found suspect about Jama Aden’s group
• Ethiopia Reminds Everyone That Jama Aden Had No Relationship With Its Athletics Federation
• WADA Suspends Accreditation Of Rio Anti-Doping Laboratory With Less Than Two Months Until Olympic Games It’s not a big deal, as for the Brazil World Cup, the doping samples can be shipped overseas, but it is embarrassing for the cash-strapped Brazil, which spent $60 million on training people and retrofitting the facility. *NY Times

Random

• Amazing: Catching Up World Mountain Champion Annie Conway, Who Had Never Run Until 6 Years Ago
• Analysts Are Bearish On Nike Stock, Which Is Already Down 16% This Year Don’t feel too bad for them, they are planning on increasing their sales from $30 billion to $50 billion by 2020.
• Brazil Has Passed Laws Outlawing “Ambush Marketing” At The Olympics
• 2004 Olympic Hammer Champ Koji Murofushi, 41, Only Finishes 12th At Japanese Champs, Likely Will Re-Retire He had come out of retirement to seek a 5th Olympics.
• Donavan Brazier, Edward Cheserek And Jarrion Lawson Are Men’s Finalists For 2016 Bowerman Award

 US Distance News

• Worth A Read: Drew Hunter Is 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. Might he go pro straight out of HS?
• Luke Puskedra Shares Good News As His Baby Daughter 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.

Junior / NCAA News: 2016 USATF Juniors *Live Results *Meet Home With Schedule, Entries And Other Info

• DyeStat USATF Junior Champs Preview: 10 Storylines To Follow The girls 1,500 will be great with Alexa Efraimson, Kate Murphy and Christina Aragon.
• 12-Year-Old Grace Ping Runs Two Single-Age Group World Bests At 5,000m And 2 Miles Ping, who recently started being coached by Tom “Tinman” Schwartz (Drew Hunter‘s coach) ran 16:44 and 10:28.
• Eight Medalists (Four Champions) From Last Year’s World Youth Champs Lead Kenyan Team For World Juniors They actually have several sprinters on the men’s side.
• Chilean Thrower Natalia Duco Reminisces About Winning SP Gold At The 2008 World Junior Champs Duco went on to finish 9th at the 2012 Olympics.
• Courtney Okolo, Keturah Orji And Raven Saunders Are Women’s Bowerman Award Finalists

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

LRCThe Rebirth Of Yohan Blake

The Latest Russian Doping Updates

• IAAF Publishes Its “Exceptional Eligibility Guidelines” By Which Select Individual Russian Athletes Can Regain Eligibility
  *Full PDF Document Many factors will be considered including past doping history, association with banned coaches and doctors and having testing outside of Russia.
• Yelena Isinbayeva “Optimistic” Of Competing At Rio 2016 After IOC Decision Saying Russians Can Compete Under Their Own Flag
• Russian Athletes To File Class Action With CAS Next Week The Russian Athletics Federation has hired a group of lawyers to work for them.
• Alan Abrahmson Blogs Against The Russian Ban: “Guilt By Association Is Not Cool” Supporters of the ban might argue it’s not guilt by association, rather guilty until proven innocent.
• Russia, Kazakhstan And Belarus Weightlifting Teams Could Be Banned From Rio The International Weightlifting Federation said it would ban any national federation that had three or more doping positives from 2008 and 2012 re-tests.
• Vitaly Mutko Calls Weightlifting Ban A “Psychotic Episode”
• CAS To Consider Russian Weightlifting Bans On July 6th

Distance / Mid-D News

• Good Read: Even After Running 4:07, Kate Murphy Says She “Has A Lot More Left” And Can Go Faster With Competition The HS junior will line up at this weekend’s US Junior Champs before running the OT next week.
• RRW: Mary Keitany Gets Back In Action at Mattoni Olomouc Half-Marathon on Saturday Keitany was named as a reserve for the Kenyan Rio marathon squad, but she revealed that the team might not be finalized yet with another decision coming July 1st.
• David Rudisha Was Inspired By His Olympic Silver Medal Winning Father, But Is Having More Trouble With His Own Kids Rudisha admits that his daughter told her, “Dad, I don’t like running,” but she likes to imitate his drills and exercises so there is hope for her yet.
• Runner’s World Looks At The Rise Of Sacral Stress Fractures Among Elite Runners Molly Seidel, Ryan Vail, Kara Goucher, Emily Infeld and Tim Ritchie are some of pros who’ve been afflicted with this slow-healing injury.
• Three Things You Didn’t Know About Jenny Simpson Simpson admits to hardly knowing her PRs and often accidentally giving stats in interviews that are incorrect.
• Kenyan Junior Championships In The Books Some winning highlights included Kipyegon Bett‘s 1:44.4 and Rodgers Chumos‘ 28:26. *Results

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.

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?!?!?!