Day 1 At The Olympic Trials

LRC Galen Rupp Knocks It Out Of The Park To Win Olympic Trials And His 8th Straight USATF 10,000m Title Galen Rupp won his 8th 10,000 title in a row as a slew of carnage was left behind him with athletes dropping out in the heat.

LRC Six Minutes And Six Points With Alberto Salazar, Including “… the hotter it is the better.” Salazar was on hand to offer some interesting insight into Galen Rupp‘s latest US 10,000m title. Was Salazar nervous for Rupp? What double is he leaning towards for Rio? And when might Rupp retire? Find out here.

LRC 2016 Olympic Trials Begin With Chaos – Donavan Brazier And Duane Solomon Bomb Out In 1st Round Of Men’s 800 Unbelievable.
*DONOVAN BRAZIER IS DONE
*Duane Solomon….DUMB!!!
*Murphy >>> Brazier

LRC Women’s 800 Prelims: Favorites Advance As Laura Roesler Goes Home

LRC An Emotional Sanya Richards-Ross Bids Farewell To The Sport Of Track And Field At Historic Hayward Field The 2012 Olympic champ was unable to hold back tears after her great career came to a premature end.

*MB: Rupp Haters – How do you look at yourself in the mirror in the morning?
*MB: Who else has won the OT at marathon and track in one year?
*MB: Lagat would have made the team…
*MB: Army Runners Dominate 10k
*MB: German Fernandez DNF
*MB: The USOC should revoke NBC Sport’s media credentials
*MB: Ben True did exactly what I said he’d do
*MB: Galen Rupp is a beast that eats nails for breakfast….

*LRC Post-Race Video Interviews link fixed

Sprint/Field Action: 

• Young Guns Take OverIn Men’s Shot Put At Olympic Track & Field Trials Ryan Crouser upset Joe Kovacs as Darrell Hill took third.
• Adam Nelson finishes seventh but receives gold (from 2004)
• Ryan Crouser Wins Olympic Trials Shot Put With Lifetime Best In “The Biggest Competition Of My Life” He’s PRed in 2 straight meets.
• Courtney Okolo Tops The Field In Women’s 400 Qualifying
• Jeremy Wariner Keeps His Hopes Alive For Making Men’s 400 Team

Talk About The Action Live: MB: Official 2016 Olympic Trials Day 1 Live Discussion Thread

Jamaican Trials – Bolt Doesn’t Run 100m Final After Suffering Hamstring Injury

• Tim Layden On Day 1 Of The Trials And The Impact Of Usain Bolt’s Injury It’s only a grade 1 strain.
  *MB: BOLT GOES DOWN!!!
• WSJ: Bolt Out of Jamaican Trials, But Could Still Be Named to Olympic Team
• Track Alerts: Picture Of Bolt Getting Treatment
• Yohan Blake Wins 100m In 9.95, Asafa Powell Was 4th Blake was incorrectly initially given a red card for a false start (the guy in the lane next to him did it).
• Bolt Had Won His Semi In 10.15
• SEC Champ Clive Pullen Of Arkansas Qualifies For Olympics In TJ
• MB: Guess how much Kemoy Campbell won the Jamaican 5000 by……..

2016 US Olympic Track And Field Trials – Day 0

LRC Nick Symmonds Scratches & May Have Run His Final Race, Danny Mackey Talks Beasts, English Gardner Talks About “Dodging” Zika & More (link fixed) All the news from the USATF & Brooks press conferences.

LRCLRC Running Warehouse Prediction Contest Favorites For Day 1: Boris Berian And Ajee Wilson Are The Favorites In The 800; Allyson Felix Is The Underdog To Courtney Okolo In The 400

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.”

BAA 10k *Results

LRCPure Brilliance - Shalane Flanagan Runs 30:52 To Break American Record And Dominate B.A.A. 10K In Her Final Race Before Rio

Jama Aden Doping Updates

• Judge Takes Jama Aden’s Passport And Requires Him To Return To Court In One Month (translated)
• Ayanleh Souleiman Says Jama Aden Was Released “Free Of Charge” “My coach and fellow teammate were taken from us and we were saddened as the world turned against us. However, I can safely say that none of the athletes on the team had been doped …”
  *MB: Jama Aden and athlete set free with no charges?
• Qatar’s 1:43 800 Runner Musaeb Abdulrahman Balla Arrested In Connection With Jama Aden Balla was 5th at Portland World Indoors and 6th at Beijing Worlds last year.
  *MB: First Aden athlete arrested
• Ethiopian Federation Says Genzebe Dibaba Hasn’t Reported To Them Why She’s Been Pulling Out Of Meets They said she’d be on the team for Rio “if her results meet the minimum criteria.”