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LRC Abbey D’Agostino Is An Olympian – Emily Infield And Molly Huddle Will Only Race The 10,000 In Rio

M1,500 Matthew Centrowitz Delivers Again As Ben Blankenship Gets Revenge By Edging Leo Manzano For Final Olympic Spot (article updated) Centrowitz (3:34.09) took down the U.S. championship record in a fast race as Robby Andrews took second (3:34.88). Just as in 2015, it was Blankenship and Manzano battling to the finish, with Blankenship turning the tables for third in 3:36.18 to Manzano’s 3:36.62.

LRC W1,500 Women’s 1,500m: Jenny Simpson Wins Convincingly, Rowbury 2nd, And Brenda Martinez Makes It To Rio (article update) The real drama here was for third. Brenda Martinez got the storybook ending she wanted as former world #1 Morgan Uceny came up just short in her own bid for redemption.

LRC W5,000 Molly Huddle Completes 10k/5k Double; Shelby Houlihan, Kim Conley, Abbey D’Agostino Going To Rio (article updated) Huddle was dominant as Houlihan and Conley took 2-3. Huddle and 4th placer Emily Infeld are only doing the 10K, so 5th placer D’Agostino gets a ticket to Rio.
*NBC Article

LRC 12 Minutes With Matt Centrowitz After He Won Olympic Trials 1,500

• MB: Official Day 10 – Final Day – Live Trials Discussion Thread
• Brenda Martinez makes it!
• Will Ben Blankenship get DQ’d? The results are now final.
• Rowbury and Simpson look really uncomfortable around each other
• Ben Blankenship TROLLS Manzano down home stretch for 3rd!

Doping Updates From Russia And Kenya

• IAAF Bars All Russian Track Athletes Except Long Jumper Darya Klishina From Rio Klishina is based in Florida and is therefore outside of the tainted Russian testing program. *2nd Article
• IAAF Statement Apparently 136 applications from Russian athletes were received, but all were rejected.
• New ARD Documentary Alleges EPO Use By Kenyan And British Athletes In Iten Training Camp The report implicated Kenyan athletes and three unnamed British runners. The doctors featured in the documentary offering drugs to an undercover reporter have been arrested by Kenyan police.
  *Video: 9-Minute ARD Video
  *Discuss
• UK Anti-Doping Launches Investigation Into Claims Of Doping In Kenya Training Center Reportedly this is Lornah Kiplagat‘s training center and her husband said athletes don’t even have refrigerators in their rooms. A statement from UK Athletics called the allegations “vague and unsubstantiated.”

The HS Sprint Action On Friday Was Unreal

LRC Friday Sprint Recap: High Schoolers Michael Norman & Noah Lyles Steal The Show Again; LaShawn Merritt 19.74 WL; Brianna Rollins (12.34) Wins 100H As Keni Harrison Is Just 6th Both Lyles (20.26) and Norman (20.21, ahead of Justin Gatlin) won their semifinals, just as they won their first-round heats on Thursday. Rollins won a loaded 100 hurdles despite running part of her race in Queen Harrison‘s lane; Kristi Castlin and World Indoor champ Nia Ali join her on Team USA.

• Upsets Abound In Women’s 100 Hurdles Final
• A Look At The Olympians That Had To Use AthleteBiz.us And GoFundMe To Make It To Rio One is TJer Andrea Geubelle.
• Mason Finley Wins A Men’s Discus Competition Held In Conditions That Many Competitors Thought Were Too Wet “You literally couldn’t hold on to the discus. … You can’t throw in conditions like that.”
• Aries Merritt Runs 6th-Fastest Time In 1st Round Of Men’s 110H (13.64)
• Allyson Felix Advances To Women’s 200 Semifinals
• Oregon Men’s Distance Coach Andy Powell Discusses Star Recruit Drew Hunter’s Decision To Turn Pro

Day 7 At US Trials

LRC Emma Coburn Wins A Dramatic Steeplechase Final As Missourians Courtney Frerichs And Colleen Quigley Rally Late To Nab The Final Two Olympic Spots Coburn remains the queen of the steeple in the US but Courtney Frerichs (9:20.92) and Colleen Quigley (9:21.29) both came up big and PRed in the most important race of their lives to punch their tickets to Rio.

LRC Men’s And Women’s 1,500 Heats: Much Ado For Nothing As Nine Races Are Run To Eliminate Eight Athletes Will Leer was the biggest name to go home. Interviews with nearly all the 1,500 stars.

LRC  Sara Hall Talks Adoption And Ryan Hall Being Back On The Track: “He Can Still Throw Down” link fixed

Previous Trials News

LRC Take The Tour: What’s It Like To Make Team USA? The sad truth is not everyone can achieve their Olympic dreams, but at least now you can get a glimpse of what it would be like to make Team USA.

LRC US Olympic Trials Women’s 1,500 Preview: Simpson & Rowbury Should (Probably) Make It? Who Will Emerge In The Battle For Third? Brenda Martinez is doubling back from the 800. Morgan Uceny is the defending Trials champ. Cory McGee made the World Indoors team. Which one will step up? And how will 4:07 HS junior Kate Murphy fare against the pros?

LRC US Olympic Trials Men’s 1,500 Preview: Can Anyone Stop Centro? And Will Anyone Else Get The Standard? Only five guys – Matthew Centrowitz, Kyle Merber, Ben Blankenship, Robby Andrews and Leo Manzano – have the Olympic standard. Unless someone runs faster than 3:36.20 this week, three of those five will be your team to Rio.

LRC US Olympic Trials Men’s 5,000 Final Preview: Who Will Close Best In A Wide-Open Race? Ryan Hill is the defending champ but bombed in his only race outdoors. Galen Rupp looked shaky in the prelims. Ben True, Hassan Mead and Eric Jenkins all struggled in the 10k. Bernard Lagat is 41 years old. This race is full of question marks, which makes for a compelling final.

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?”