– Excerpt from a USA Today article: “Will transgender Olympian come out for Rio Games?”
LRC 2016 TrackTown Summer Series: Colby Alexander (3:34.88) Wins A Fast 1,500, Kate Grace (4:09.92) Keeps Rolling, Melissa Bishop Wins 800 (1:59.74) As Shannon Rowbury Finally Breaks 2:00 updated 3:05 am We break down the action for you at the 1st TrackTown Summer Series meet, which was the last meet held at Hayward Field before the renovations begin.
LRC Post-Race Videos Fom 2016 Track Town Summer Series 23 videos. Matt Centrowitz, Kate Grace, Melissa Bishop, David Torrence, Erik Kynard, Brittney Reese, Emma Coburn and a ton more.
Hydration For Runners: Athletics Weekly Gives You The New Rules Many average runners over-hydrate.
IAAF And UK Athletics Make Up: UK Govt. Says It Will Give £8m Funding For 2017 Worlds Some were concerned that UK Athletics was trying to run next year’s Worlds as their own event.
Indian Shot Putter Inderjeet Singh Fails Doping Test Singh claimed his sample was “tampered with” and he was being punished for speaking out against his federation.
Day 2 Full Recap LRCOn To Rio: Mo Farah Delivers A World-Leading 5,000m And Warning Shot To Kamworor And Karoki, Molly Ludlow Almost Wins And Much More Day 2 of the London Anniversary Games was full of quality, the best of which came from Mo Farah who put on a show for the fans and destroyed American Bernard Lagat, Ben True, Ryan Hill and Eric Jenkins in the process. There was good news for Emma Coburn and she didn’t even race but more heartbreak for Molly Ludlow.
*MB:Hill, True, and Jenkins go home DEVASTATED!
*MB:Mo and Butchard smash up USA and Kenya
*MB:Official Day 2 Live Discussion Thread
Day 1 LRCAmerican Keni Harrison Rebounds In Incredible Fashion From Not Making Olympic Team, Breaks 28-Year-Old World Record In Women’s 100 HurdlesWe all love sports because they are not scripted. Keni Harrison has gone from the lowest of lows to the highest of highs.
MB:12.20 WR For Keni Harrison in Hurdles
LRCMove Over, Kelly Holmes – Laura Muir Is The New British Record Holder At 1,500mMuir was sensational!!! American Amanda Eccleston showed no post-Trials 4th place fatigue as she PRed.
LRCThe Rest Of The Meet: Usain Bolt Wins And Shows He’s Healthy, Brandon McBride Comes Close, Silas Kiplagat Is Still Really Good And Is Shaunae Miller – Not Allyson Felix – The Favorite In The 400? Day 1 of the London Anniversary Games was full of quality.
We were so confident that Mike Rossi cheated at the 2014 Lehigh Valley Marathon that we offered him $200,000 to replicate his personal best. He failed to do so and also failed to claim $10,000 if he could come within even 30 seconds per mile of his alleged marathon best.
LRC The Track Town Summer Series Is Here: Everything You Need To Know From The Press Conference – Plus The Pros Don’t Make Much In Europe Team track and field gives it a go Friday.
LRCTrackTown Summer Series Preview: Robby Andrews Vs. Ben Blankenship In An Olympic Trials Rematch, Plus Matthew Centrowitz Vs. Erik Sowinski & Melissa Bishop Vs. Brenda Martinez at 800 With the Olympics just over two weeks away, several top Americans will get one final tune-up before Rio in the final meet at Hayward Field before it begins renovations. Overall, 23 Brazil-bound athletes will be in action, with Will Claye, Brittney Reese and Erik Kynard all taking part.
WTWAge Cheating At World Juniors, Russia Doesn’t Get Banned, The IOC Screws Over Yuliya Stepanova And Is Keni Harrison The Second Coming Of Michael Johnson? We break down the good (Keni Harrison is back in a big way) and bad (lots of cheating still going on all over the place) from an action-packed week with two great meets – one in Houston and one in London.
Fight The Injustice LRCSign The Petition To Get Whistleblower Yuliya Stepanova Into The Olympics We don’t just think she should be in the Olympics – we think she should lead the parade of nations. She’s a role model that Russia and the world should follow. Yes, she made mistakes, but she’s more than made up for them.
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LRCClayton Murphy Versus Centro Lives Up To The Hype, De Grasse Defeats Powell & Gives The Stare, Prandini Gets The Double Centro and Murphy both brought it in the 1,000m and Murphy was too good and got the win. Ajee Wilson won the 800.
LRC Sandi Morris Breaks The American Record In The Pole Vault Video.
Russian Team Escapes Blanket Ban From IOC For Rio Games Instead, the 28 individual sports federations that make up the summer Games will make their own decisions while any Russian with a previous doping sanction is banned. *Discuss
LRCWhat A Day For High School Sprint Stars: Michael Norman Wins World Juniors 200m And Lyles Brothers Turn Pro Noah Lyles gets all the attention but his younger brother has better range. Video of Norman’s run.
Get Psyched For September:Wilson Kipsang And Kenenisa Bekele Will Go Head-To-Head At The 2016 Berlin Marathon Maybe something positive will come out of the madness that was Ethiopia not selecting Bekele for their Rio marathon squad.
*MB:Bekele and Kipsang in Berlin, also Yuki Kawauch
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RRead #1 The Return Of Caster Semenya: Olympic Favourite And Ticking TimebombThe Guardian’sDonald McRae has done an excellent job of bringing the Semenya story to the UK masses in 4,000+ words. You get a feel for both Semenya the person – who had been unhappy and injured in recent years – and the scientific argument for her exclusion thanks to Ross Tucker.
RRead #2 Learn About Amazing Story Of Uganda’s Last Olympic Champ Before Stephen Kiprotich – John Akii-Bua He was born into poverty as one of 43 children and died a pauper at the age of 47. In between, he managed to somehow win 1972 400H Olympic gold with a WR. His coach, who is now the UK Athletics National Event coach for Hurdles and Senior Performance, remembers him fondly: “Of all the athletes I have worked with, I put John number one.”
LRC Three Thoughts On A Much-Improved American Field At The 2016 New York City Marathon Earlier today, the full American elite field for New York was released. Kim Conley will be making her debut and Dathan Ritzenhein will be returning to NY for the 1st time in 6 years.
LRCAmerican Christina Aragon Gets 1,500m Bronze At IAAF World U20 Championships Aragon ran 4:08.71 for 3rd as Ethiopia’s Adanech Anbesa (4:08.07) and Fantu Worku (4:08.43) went 1-2. Alexa Efraimson was 5th in 4:10.23.
*MB: Bronze for Aragon!*IAAF Race Recap
LRC Exclusive What’s Going On With US Anti-Doping’s Investigation Of Alberto Salazar’s Nike Oregon Project? Documents And Audio From Latest Court Hearing Offer Lens Inside The Investigation USADA’s attempt to compel Dr. Jeffrey Brown to testify about his treatments of several elite athletes has been met with skepticism by a Texas judge even though seven athletes themselves have given their permission.
*MB: The latest on USADA’s investigation into Alberto Salazar’s Nike Oregon Project
LRC Legal Analysis: 5 Takeaways From USADA’s Attempts To Force The NOP’s Endocrinologist To Give A DepositionA lawyer gives his thoughts on the court hearing.
NY Times:Judge Rules Against USADA Seeking To Despite Doctor Brown
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