Ethiopian 10k Trials

LRC Tirunesh Dibaba Loses A 10,000 For The First Time In Her Career – Almaz Ayana Is Now The Woman To Beat In Rio Dibaba had never lost a 10,000 in her life before tonight, having amassed a perfect 11-for-11 record. Ayana had never run a 10,000 before tonight but that inexperience didn’t stop Ayana from ending Dibaba’s win streak in dominant fashion. What does it mean for Molly Huddle?
*MB: Official Ethiopian 10,000 Live Discussion Thread

LRC Kenenisa Bekele’s 2016 Olympic Dreams Come To An End As The 2012 World Junior Champ Yigrem Wins Ethiopian 10,000 Trials Bekele wasn’t the only prominent DNF. Mo Farah slayer, Ibrahim Jeilan, also was a DNF.

Barcelona Discussion Thread: Genzebe DIbaba Taken Off Track In A Wheelchair After 5K DNF Dibaba went through 3K in 8:41 (14:29 pace) before dropping out. In other action, Ayanleh Souleiman ran 1:45 and the latest Dibaba sister, Anna, ran 4:23.

Week That Was

LRCThe Month That Was: WADA Head Craig Reedie Needs To Resign, Jama Aden Gets Busted, And Donavan Brazier Busts Out

A Look Back At 2012

LRC An Oral History Of The 2012 Olympic Trials Women’s 5,000, Part III: The Aftermath The world saw the drama unfold on the track but how has the unforgettable race impacted the protagonists since then?
*LRC Part I: The Road To The Trials
*LRC Part II: The Race

Oceania News

• Peter Snell’s Auctioned Off Olympic Singlet Likely A Fake A New Zealand museum was going to pay $140,000 for it, but after examining it said it wasn’t the real deal.
• Despite Missing Rio With Hamstring Tear, Sally Pearson Says Her Best Is Yet To Come The 29-year-old 2012 Olympic champ didn’t rule out being at the 2020 Games.
  *MB: Sally Pearson out of Rio with hamstring tear

Previous Olympic Trials News

• Recommended Read: Sub-4 Miler Liam Boylan-Pett Profiles Legendary Coach Frank “Gags” Gagliano, Who At 79 Says This Is His Final Olympic Trials As A Coach A great read about Gags the coach and person, with humorous stories and insights from many including Boylan-Pett, Kyle Merber and Vin Lananna.
• Good Read: Register Guard: “Ben Blankenship Prefers To Lie Low Until It’s Time To Run For Rio” “Eugene is one of the best places to train, but I think at times it does become a fish bowl … It’s hard to find a place where the Trials isn’t the focus.”
• Ato Boldon’s 3 Must-See Races At Olympic Trials They are all sprints and he thinks a WR could go down in one of them.
• RR: DailyRelay: “An Oral History Of The 2008 Men’s 800m Olympic Trials Final” Andrew Wheating: “There’s never going to be a race in my life that will ever have the same meaning to me as that race does.”

Doping News

• Recommended Watch: Last Week Tonight’s John Oliver Targets Doping Scandals Oliver gives a humorous recap of the current doping scandals plaguing professional sports and calls out Dennis Mitchell.
  *USA Today: John Oliver Destroys Olympic Drug Testing Amid Doping Scandal
  *MB: John Oliver’s HBO show just nailed Doping
• American Academy Of Pediatrics Finds Increased Use Of PEDs Among Middle And High School Students The study included legal drugs as well, but found that 5% of high schoolers use HGH or steroids.
• 67 Russian Athletes Appeal To CAS Over Olympic Ban
• Thermal Cameras Will Be Used At Tour De France To Detect “Technological Doping” Will help catch cheaters using hidden motors in their bikes.

Looking Ahead – Euro Champs Are Next Week

• Jo Pavey And Greg Rutherford Lead 98-Strong GB Team For Next Week’s European Championships
• Very Cool: There Will Be A “Run Off” For The Last UK Olympic 200 Spot Between Louisiana State’s Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake And Zharnel Hughes Both missed out on an auto spot at the GB Trials, but will have one more chance at Euro Champs.
• July 15: Asbel Kiprop And Wayde Van Niekerk Added To Fields For Monaco DL
• Rio State Governor Says Olympics Could Be “Big Failure” If Transport And Security Concerns Not Addressed There are concerns that the subway system won’t be finished for the Games.
• 400 Hurdler Thomas Barr WIll Lead 52-Strong Irish Team For Euro Champs

The World’s Countries Host Their National Championships

• France: Renaud Lavillenie Clears 5.95m; Jimmy Vicaut Runs 9.88 Vicaut also won the 200. Two-time Olympic silver medalist Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad won a tactical steeplechase in 8:29.
  *MB: Say it ain’t so – Teddy Tamgho breaks his leg again – will obviously miss Rio
• Ireland: Thomas Barr’s And Mark English’s Highlights English won the 800 comfortably in 1:51.48 after returning from injury only 3-weeks ago while Barr won the 400H in 50.28.?
  *Irish Examiner: “Mark English And Thomas Barr Daring To Dream”
• Japan: Javelin Thrower Shohei Arai (84.54m) And 400 Hurdler Keisuke Nozawa (49.14) Highlight Medal Hopes Going To Rio In the 100m Aska Cambridge got an upset victory with 10.16 while NOPer Suguru Osako won the 5K/10K double (28:07/13:37).
  *JRN Day 3 Recap: Chisato Fukushima Breaks 200m NR With 22.88
  *Day 2: Anju Takamizawa Comes Back From Fall To Get Epic Steeple Win *Day 1 Recap
  *Japan Announces Rio Olympic Team
• Italy: World Indoor Champ Gianmarco Tamberi Clears 2.36m He took 3 unsuccessful attempts at 2.41m. Matteo Galvan broke the NR in the 400 (45.12) and Veronica Inglese won her 4th national 5,000 title in 15:22.
• Poland: Throwers Highlight As Pawel Fajdek (Hammer), Anita Wlodarczyk (Hammer) And Piotr Malachowski (Discus) Set World Leads And Championship Records Angelika Cichocka won the 1,500/800 double with 4:08 and a laughably tactical 2:10.62.
• Juniors: Junior Athletes Impress At Bauhaus Junioren Gala In Germany Aussie PVer Kurtis Marschall cleared 5.70m to secure a ticket to Rio.

2016 British Championships / Trials *Results *TV & Streaming

• Laura Muir Has Impressive Front Run To Win 1,500 In 4:10 Over Laura Weightman Charlie Grice beat out Chris O’Hare in the 1,500, Shelayna Oskan-Clarke got an upset win over Lynsey Sharp in the 800 and Steph Twell took the 5,000 over former steepler Eilish Mccolgan.
• Adam Gemili Has “Best Feeling In The World” After Narrow Victory Over Danny Talbot In 200m Zharnell Hughes only managed 4th while Dina Asher-Smith took the women’s 200 in 23.11 and Matthew Hudson-Smith won the 400m in a Euro-leading 44.88.
• IAAF: Beating The Rain And Wind, 38 Claim Spots For Rio
• BBC: Laura Muir, Chris O’Hare, Steph Twell And Lynsey Sharp Among The 12 Scots On GB Rio Squad
• In Germany: Jessica Ennis-Hill Puts Up Big Score To Win In Her First Heptathlon Since 2015 Worlds Her 6,733 points in Ratigen is the second best in 2016 and 64 points more than what she scored when she won Worlds.
  *IAAF Recap: Germany’s Arthur Abele Wins Men’s Decathlon
• 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.
• British Athletics Recap Of Day 2 Of British Champs Sisters Tiffany Porter and Cindy Ofili went 1-2 in the hurdles, Tom Farrell booked a ticket to Rio as runner-up to Andrew Butchart in the 5,000.
• Christine Ohuruogu Withdraws From British Championships With Virus She’s still expected to go to Rio.
• Several Athletes At British Champs Complain That Britain May Break Up After Brexit You’d think they’d be for it as it would be way easier to make the Olympics for England than GB.
• Jessica Ennis-Hill Did Well (3,990) On Day 1 Of Her 1st Multi Since Last Year’s Worlds Her total is 15 points less than what she scored in Beijing last year.

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 UpWith 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

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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.