Archived Homepage For August 04, 2016
Archived Homepage For August 04, 2016

Week That Was

Russian Doping

Olympic Sprint Stuff

US Distance News

Multi-Event News: Meet A 25-Year-Old Cancer Survivor

Latest Doping News

Olympic News: Opening Ceremony Is On Friday

Random But Interesting

Would You Break Your Marathon PR If We Offered You $200,000? What About $10,000 To Come Within 30 Seconds Per Mile Of It?

LRCOne Of The Largest Cash Prizes In Road Racing History Goes Unclaimed - 48-Year-Old Pennsylvania Viral Marathon Dad, Mike Rossi, Misses Out On $200,000 Challenge To Replicate His Marathon Personal Best

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.

US Distance Olympians Getting Ready For Rio

Non-Olympic Distance Stuff: Joe Newton Retiring, Drew Hunter Pro Debut Tomorrow

More News Of Note From Rio Games

Doping News: IOC Vs. WADA Tension Continues

More News From Kenya

Other News Of Note

US Distance News

Jamaican Sprint Stuff

Bix 7 Road Race *Results

International Distance News

American Track League Houston *Results

centro-murphy7LRCClayton 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.

The Latest On USADA’s Investigation Into Alberto Salazar’s Nike Oregon Project

The WSJ Story on Dr. Brown in 2013LRC 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

USADA-LogoLRC 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

The Real Winners From The Trials

More Olympic News

 

Non-Olympic Distance News

LRC Goes To Kenya

LRCThe Man Who Took Down Asbel Kiprop: A Week With Kenyan 1,500-Meter Stud Ronald Kwemoi

Our man on the ground in Kenya, Andy Arnold, was granted exclusive access to Kwemoi last week as the ninth-fastest man of all time (3:28.81 PR) prepares for his first Olympics. His coach, Renato Canova, would not be surprised if the 20-year-old Kwemoi, who beat Kiprop and several of the world's top milers in Monaco on July 15, one day breaks the world records at 1,500 or 5,000 meters.

Hyperandrogenism Will Be A Huge Controversy In Rio

Pre-Rio Jumping News

Pre-Rio African Distance News

US Throwers Making Headlines

Olympic News: Brooks And Rule 40; The Yellow Should Have Given It Away

Sprint Stuff

The IOC Doesn’t Support Whistleblowers, But You Can