September 15, 2016 Homepage Archive

The Week That Was

LRCWTW: The Men's 5000 Was Historically Bad in 2016 But The Women's Was Historically Great, Meet Distance Running's Newest Female Star Violah Jepchumba, A PR Disaster for Mo Farah and How Much of An Asterisk Does Ritz's 60:12 Deserve?

Did you know that 2016 produced the slowest world leading time in the men's 5000 in 23 years? We know that and a whole lot more.

Interesting Paralympic News

Paralympic Repair Shop With Technicians From 29 Countries Are Making 100+ Free Repairs A Day In Rio Wheelchairs, carbon fiber legs, you name it, they fix it.
There’s A Secret Inside The Rio Paralympic Medals Each medal has tiny steel balls inside so they make noise when you shake them. Gold has the most balls so is the loudest. The medals are also engraved with Braille for visually impaired athletes.
How Is The UK’s Paralympic Medal Tally Compare With London 2012? Like the Rio Olympic team, the GB paralympic team has won more medals than when they hosted in 2012.

Feyisa Lilesa Continues His Protest From The US

Recommended Read #1:Feyisa Lilesa Talks About The Internal Conflict He Faced When Deciding To Make His Protest In Rio And Speaking To His Family Since On training runs before Rio Lilesa was afraid he’d be attacked by authorities and whenever there was a knock on his door, he always ran to the roof to check before opening it.
RR #2:Feyisa Lilesa Writes Powerful Op-Ed In Washington Post Lilesa talks about the oppression the Oromo people face in Ethiopia and explains why he is afraid to go back. *Discuss
Video/Audio:Feyisa Lilesa Speaks At Press Conference In Washington DC Lilesa is going to train in New Mexico and said he doesn’t currently plan to run for the United States as he hopes to eventually run for Ethiopia again when things improve.
AP article Lilesa: “If I would’ve taken my medal and went back to Ethiopia, that would’ve been the biggest regret of my life. I wanted to be a voice for a story that wasn’t getting any coverage.”

NCAA / HS XC

Syracuse On Top In First Regular Season National Rankings List Syracuse got all 12 of the first place votes and were followed by Oregon, NAU, Stanford and Colorado.
New Mexico’s Lead Dwindles In NCAA DI Women’s Coaches’ Poll New Mexico stayed on top, but share first place votes with Colorado and Providence.
DyeStat Gives A State-By-State Weekend High School XC Highlight List

Pro Distance News

Nick Willis Gives Life Advice To His Twitter Followers Willis talks about living a good lifestyle and going to bed in college when others were partying. He says he’s “been totally dry since 2004.”
Poverty Drives South African Distance Runner David Manja To Win Races Manja won the SA XC Champs this past weekend and said, “Truly speaking, it is poverty that drives me to succeed. I am unemployed and I have a family to feed.”
You Know He Comes To LRC:Joe Gray Says Winning The World Mountain Running Championships “Was A Dream That Became A Reality” The men’s team was pumped to take the team title by 1-point over Italy.
Vivian Cheruiyot Great North Run Victory Inspires SPIKES To Make List Of Women With Impressive Half-Marathon Debuts ThereKara Goucher made her debut there in 2007 and got a 66:57 upset victory over Paula Radcliffe.
Nick Willis To Throw Out First Pitch At Detroit Tigers Home Game On Thursday Willis sent out a tweet poking fun at when Carl Lewis threw a horrendous first pitch at a Mariners’ game.

New Podcast Series With Great Guests

Listen To Pace The Nation We had never heard of the podcast until we were on it this week but they’ve had a ton of great guest in the last year including Matt Centrowitz Sr, Suzy Favor Hamilton, Julie Culley, Kate Grace, Bob Kennedy, Marc Davis, Jenny Simpson, Chris Lear, and Molly Huddle. *Itunes *Website
*MB: Rojo appeared on a podcast where the female co-host admits she starts each and every day on the LetsRun.com forum

Weekend Road Action: Some Great Duels At The Great North Run Results Race Video

GNR: Mo Farah Gets Third Consecutive Victory At Great North Run, Winning In 60:04 To Beat Dathan Ritzenhein By Eight Seconds Ritz pushed the pace to make it a two man race and try to “break Mo”, but Farah surged away from him in the final mile.
*MB:Ritz 2nd, Mo first at GNR
*RRW:Farah Gets Great North Run Hat Trick
GNR: Vivian Cheruiyot Runs 67:54 To Win GNR In Her Half-Marathon Debut It was a close race as Cheruiyot outkicked former London Marathon winner Priscah Jeptoo by just 1-second as Tirunesh Dibaba was 3rd (68:04).
*BBC article / video (for UK IP addresses)
Prague 10K: Violah Jepchumba Runs Second Fastest Road 10K Ever, Winning In Prague In 30:24 She missed Paula Radcliffe‘s mark from 2003 by just 3-seconds. Abraham Kipyatich won the men’s race in 27:40.
*MB:Jepchumba nearly misses the Paula Radcliffe’s road 10K WR
Minnesota: Chris O’Hare (4:01) And Emily Lipari (4:36) Win Minnesota Road MileFord Palmer and Heather Kampf were close runner-ups.
Kenya: Patrick Ngetich And (63:00) And Brigid Kosgei (1:16:09) Win Ndakaini Half Marathon In Kenya

Ultra / Mountain Running News

USA’s Joseph Gray Dominates World Mountain Running Championships, Winning By Nearly Two-Minutes USA men also won the team race as Austria’s Andrea Mayr took the women’s individual title and the Italy women the team race. *Results
*MB: Joseph MF Gray just won the World Mountain Running Championships!
Ultrarunner Karl Meltzer Has 11-Days To Go 600 More Miles To Break The Appalachian Trail Record This is Meltzer’s third attempt at the record and while he was on pace earlier, his pace has started to slow.
*Website Tracking His Progress

2016 Brussels Full Results TV & Streaming

LRCShannon Rowbury Breaks American Record at 5000 -14:38.92 and Now Holds 1500 and 5000 Records Shannon took some names after her disappointment in Rio.

Screenshot 2016-09-09 at 14.39.59 LRC Brussels Everything Else – Evan Jager Challenges Conseslus Kipruto to the Line, Kiprop Has a Problem with His Shorts, Machine Beats Man, Elaine Thompson Runs Fast, Semenya Wins 400 A nice end to the DL season.

LRC Watch Sandi Morris Become Just 2nd Women In History To Clear 5.0 Meters (16′ 4¾”) Outdoors In The Pole VaultThe Olympic silver medallist ended a magical season in style – with a new American record.
*Spikes takes a look at how Sandi Morris’ has gone from a broken wrist to 5.0 meters in the span of months

Pre-Great North Run News

RRW Women’s Race At Great North Run Could Be A Classic: Vivian Cheruiyot Versus Tirunesh Dibaba in Olympic Rematch The two women’s distance legends, who both excelled in Rio, will clash tomorrow in the UK.
RRW Mo Farah To Wrap Up 2016 Season At Great North Run On Sunday Victory seems a conclusion as the biggest threat appears to be Dathan Ritzenhein.
Mo Farah says he’s unfazed by social media critics who blasted him this week on twitter Users were invited to submit questions on twitter and many asked doping-related questions.
*MB: AskFarah on Twitter
Woman who is paralyzed from the waist down started Great North Run early – hopes to finish in 5 days

Good Reads – International Edition

Mo Farah says he’ll soon concentrate on marathon rather than track, but says he wants to give 5k WR a crack After admitting he’s a better championship racer than time trialer, Farah said, “The world record is 12’37. It’s incredibly, incredibly hard and I will give it a shot but you’ve got to be honest with yourself. It’s not an easy record.”
*MB: Here’s what Mo Farah actually said in the #AskFarah interview on SkySports – Re: 5k WR and his marathon future
Wayde van Niekerk says Usain Bolt told him he could break the 400 WR when they were training together in Jamaica

Paralympic News

Kenya’s Samuel Muchai bags Kenya’s first gold in 15:11 in T11 5000 at Paralympics T11 is for athletes with ” a very low visual acuity and/or no light perception.”
Day by Day guide to Paralympics for British track and field fans

Assorted Distance News

Great Read:Spikes Looks Back At The Storied Career Of Bernard Lagat As The Legend Says Farewell To Track Some interesting insights such as what Lagat considers his “best performance ever”, a quote from David Rudisha about doing 200s with Lagat and Lagat’s one regret being his “pathetically slow” mile PB.
All-Time Illinois Greats Craig Virgin And Jim Spivey Reflect On The Career And Retirement Of Legendary York High School Coach Joe Newton
Runner’s Tribe Video Interview With Aussie Steepler Genevieve LaCaze LaCaze is excited about her great season which culminated with a 9:14 PB and is already looking ahead to 2017. *Part 2 of the interview
Florida State’s Harry Mulenga And UMass Amherst’s Heather MacLean Are USTFCCCA’s First NCAA XC Athletes Of The Week For The 2016 Season
Team USA Minnesota Names Former Elite Marathoner Chris Lundstrom As The New Distance Coach

A Legend Waves Goodbye to the Track

Lagat in 2015

LRC Bernard Lagat Has Run His Final Track Race – What an Amazing Career it Was A track legend is done with the track (but not the roads).

African Distance News

Almaz Ayana’s 10,000m World Record Ranked As The Fifth Best Women’s Track Performance Of All-Time A group of statisticians ranked Flo-Jo‘s very questionable 100m world record #1.
Saturday:Daniel Chebii Will Try To Go For A Hat-Trick Against A Loaded Field At The Prague Grand Prix 10K Chebii faces former marathon WR holder Patrick Makau as well as five more sub-one-hour half-marathoners. 65:51 half-marathoner Violah Jepchumba leads the women’s race against former world 10K silver medalist Gladys Cherono.
Saturday:After A Year Away From Running, 66:09 Woman Lucy Kabuu Will Make Her Return At The Ndakaini Half Marathon Past drug cheat Matthew Kisorio leads the men’s race.

USATF 20K Champs *Full Results

10K Olympian Leonard Korir And Aliphine Tuliamuk Win USATF 20K Champs Hosted At New Haven Road Race Korir beat out Sam Chelanga by one second as Christo Landry was 3rd. On the women’s side, Tuliamuk had a 16-second victory over Emily Sisson.
*Hartford Courant Recap:Close Runner-Up Finish Two-Years In A Row For Sam Chelanga
*New Haven Register article

2016 TCS New York City Marathon Fields Released

LRC Might Dathan Ritzenhein Have A Chance To Win The 2016 NYC Marathon? We Break Down the 2016 NYC Marathon Elite Fields We break down the fields for you and note that the men’s field is short on African talent – could that open the door for a win by America’s Dathan Ritzenhein? Molly Huddle will have her hands full on November 6 as Mary Keitany is looking for a 3-peat against Berlin champ Gladys Cherono, 2015 NYC runner-up Aselefech Mergia and Joyce Chepkirui.
*Press Release from NYRR
*MB: 2016 NYC Marathon Fields released – Does Ritz have a chance (only 4 other sub-2:08 guys in the race)?

Doping: Hackers Release Info On Multiple T&F Olympic Champions

MB:Fancy Bear Day Two Release Includes TUE Info For US Olympic Shot Put Champ Michelle Carter Other big name athletes in the latest release include 2012 Olympic discus champ Robert Harting, former hammer world champ Christina Obergföll, and British cyclists Bradley Wiggins and Chris Froome.
*Full List With TUE Documents At Fancy Bears Website
Philip Hersh: “Athletes Should Just Say No To Flawed Anti-Doping System” Hersh laughs at the idea that the hack doesn’t have ties to the Russian government.
Alan Abrahamson: “The ‘Fancy Bear’ Bid To Stir Up Chaos” Victor Conte sent out an email saying “This is gonna get ugly” and Abrahamson says it already is.
WADA Asks For Help Combatting Hacker Group After Second Release Of TUEs Russian sports minister Vitaly Mutko said they are happy to help, but disputed that the attacks came from Russia saying, “Nowadays, Russia is blamed for everything…”
*Note: The “Fancy Bear” hacking group is “believed to have ties to the Russian government.”
WADA President Craig Reedie Says Russia Faces Further Exile For Leaking Medical Files He claims they have “authoritative information on the identity” of the hackers.
Audio Interview With Craig Reedie On Hackings Reedie says Russia is still in denial about their doping problems.
Video Interview:GB 400 Runner Martyn Rooney Calls WADA Hacking “Petty” And “Sad”

WADA Gets Hacked

LRC The Russians Have Hacked WADA and Want You To Think Simone Biles Is A Drug Cheat Because She Takes ADHD Medicine Russian hackers have gotten their way into WADA and published a positive drug test for American star Simone Biles. In reality, the positive test is a good thing for the anti-doping movement as it shows the tests work as Biles should have tested positive for the ADHD med she openly declared she was taking.
*MB: The Russians Have Hacked WADA: Leaked Drug Tests/TUEs – Real or Not?

NY Times article The hacking group “the Fancy Bears” said, “This is just the tip of the iceberg” as they plan to released more medical records of other athletes from around the world. *BBC analysis
USADA Head Travis Tygart Slams “Cowardly And Despicable” Cyber Attack
Kremlin Spokesperson Says Russian Government Involvement In The Hack “Is Out Of The Question”

The Latest From The Paralympics

LRC USA’s Mikey Brannigan Dominates 1500m at Paralympic Games Brannigan ran like the boss in the Paralympic T20 1500.
*NBC Video:Race Highlights, Interview With Brannigan And His Parents And Reaction Clip From His Former HS Watching At Home

If You Care: General Olympic Themed News

Anti-Ryan Lochte Protesters Arrested For Interrupting His “Dancing With The Stars” Debut Includes video of security tackling one of the protesters to the ground as Lochte and his dance partner were about to receive their scores.
Update On Olympic Ticket Scandal: IOC Defend Their Email Exchange With Ireland’s Patrick Hickey, Saying They Did Nothing Wrong

Doping / Corruption Headlines

Seb Coe Defends Mo Farah’s Status As A Clean Athlete And His Coaching Relationship With Alberto Salazar “There are some systems where you can’t have that presumption of innocence any more but Mo – and I am not here as his spokesman or his defender – has made all his readings public.”
Kenyan Op-ed: “Olympic Shenanigans Mirror What Our Country Has Become” The author says the problems that went down in Rio are “a microcosm of Kenya today.”
Opinion Piece By InsideTheGames’ Nick Butler:“Control Or Independence? A Vital Crossroads In The Fight Against Doping” A long read that provides an interesting analysis of the power struggle and sports politics between the IOC, WADA, USADA and more.
Russian Olympic Committee President Alexander Zhukov Believes History Will Prove IPC’s Decision To Ban Russia Was Wrong Or history will prove the IOC wrong for not banning Russia from the Olympics.
Maria Sharapova Will Find Out Early Next Month If Her 2-Year Doping Ban Will Get Reduced By CAS
Three Russian Cyclists Threaten To Sue WADA And Former Moscow Lab Director Grigory Rodchenkov Over The McLaren Report And Subsequent Ban From Rio They were named in the McLaren report as taking EPO.
UCI President Brian Cookson Says UCI Isn’t In Denial About Doping Like Some Other Sports But then he says something like this: “I think it’s actually quite difficult to cheat in our sport now.”
Police Release Alleged Incriminating Ticketing E-Mails From Irish IOC Member Patrick Hickey
*Brazil Police Will Oppose Hickey Returning To Ireland Pending Court Hearing

Great North CityGames *Full Results

Great North CityGames:David Rudisha runs ridiculous 57.69 world record (best) for 500! There was a lot of interesting action as Laura Muir won the women’s mile and Bernard Lagat struggled in the men’s.
*MB: Rudisha runs 57.69 over 500m in Newcastle

RRW: Rudisha Runs Fast 500m At Great North CityGames
Greg Rutherford Remains “Marginally Disappointed” About His Rio Bronze Now Rutherford turns his attention away from jumping to focus on his appearance on the UK’s version of “Dancing with the Stars.”
James Dasaolu & Chijindu Ujah in 100m photo finish Dasaolu got the win.
Greg Rutherford & Laura Muir claim wins

Results/Video:Olympic Pole Vault Champ Thiago Braz da Silva Upset By Rio 4th Placer Jan Kudlicka At Golden Fly Series Street Meet In Schaan, Liechtenstein

Doping Updates

Former WADA Director General Calls Out WADA And IOC Over Russia; Says WADA Should Have Deemed The IOC Non-CompliantDavid Howman is afraid the IOC’s plans to reform anti-doping will prioritize increasing their personal control rather than establishing independence.
Polish 19-Year-Old Olympic Shot Putter Konrad Bukowiecki Fails Drug Test He reportedly tested positive when he won World Juniors in July. *Polish language article (translated)
Seb Coe And European Athletics President Svein Arne Hansen Congratulate Belgian Women’s 4×100 Team For Their 2008 Olympic Gold Following Russian Doping Positive Re-Test

The Not So Smooth Travels Of Mo Farah

Mo Farah’s Wife Tania Says They Were “Humiliated” By A Delta Flight Attendant When He Was Trying To Board A Flight Home From Rio Farah’s wife accused the flight attendant of being racist and “yelling at him like he was a piece of sh— to get back into line” when he was trying to board business class for his flight. *BBC *Discuss
Other Reports Say That The Farah’s Arrived Late For Business Class Boarding And That Farah’s Wife Was “Disrespectful” Witnesses say Farah was silent, but his wife called the worker “f***ing pathetic” and said she had a “sad little life.”
Farah’s Applauded By Other Passengers After Being Allowed To Board
Irish Examiner:Mo Farah And David Rudisha Arrested For Speeding … Sort Of Photos to prove it.

News Involving Rio’s Stars

If you can’t beat ’em, have them join your team Galen Rupp might soon be the US’s #2 marathoner – Feyisa Lelisa is now living in the US
Wayde van Niekerk says he was upset that some people speculated he was a doper after he broke the WR If that’s true, he shouldn’t have skipped the rest of the season.
Controversies in S. Africa? Some in South Africa are wondering why Wayde Van Niekerk was given a new Audi and Caster Semenya wasn’t The fact that he was sponsored by Audi before the Olympics is the answer. Others are wondering if Van Niekerk’s victory is a victory for blacks or a victory for coloured people.
Kenyans can’t agree who it was that stayed in a luxury cruise ship in Rio

Paralympics

Tatyana McFadden’s quest for 7 golds ends in 1st event as she settles for silver We’re glad in the sense the same athlete shouldn’t be the best in the world at the 100m and marathon. It would be like the quarterback also being the best offensive linemen.
Blade runner Peacock peerless as he powers to another Paralympic 100m title

Week That Was

LRC Week That Was: How Fast is the 5th Avenue Mile Course?, Free PR Advice for Mo Farah, And a College Coach Helped an NCAA Legend Score Some Booze Plus in case you were gone we had the Diamond League finale in Zurich with the big win by Shannon Rowbury, a game effort by Evan Jager, and a great women’s 200m.

Wejo Speaks – His Rio Olympics

LRC “People are People”- The Olympics Remind Us Of All That is Great (and Bad) in the WorldTwo weeks after Rio, LRC’s Weldon Johnson tries to make sense of his Olympic experience.

The Paralympics Have Started

Belarus Stages Pro-Russia Protest During Paralympics Opening Ceremony By Carrying Russian Flag To be fair, Belarus is a country with a lot of doping bans as well.
Q&A With Utah High School 400m Champ Hunter Woodhall Ahead Of The Paralympic Games Back in May, Woodhall ran 47.63 to win the stat championships against able bodied runners.
New Brazilian President Booed As He Opens 2016 Rio Paralympic GamesMichel Temer was the vice president of the impeached Dilma Rousseff, so he is accused of the same corruption allegations.
Paralympics Opening Ceremony In Pictures There were some cool stuff like a wheelchair stuntman and some strange things like a paralympic snowboarder dancing with a robot.
Opening Ceremony For Russia’s Alternative Paralympic Games Takes Place In Moscow The Russian paralympic committee president had some harsh words for the rest of the world as he said, “Let the God be the judge for all those, who used to say that everything is all right with us and then barred us from the Paralympic Games.”
British Paralympic Chief Denies Accusations That Classification System Is Being Maniupated To Boost Medal Chances
Five Irish Stars To Follow At The Paralympics
Olympic Channel Will Show More Than 300 Hours Of Rio Paralympic Coverage

Mid-Week Action: Genzebe Dibaba Misses Mile WR Results: Rovereto *Zagreb

Rovereto: Genzebe Dibaba Runs 4:14.30 To Break African Mile Record, But Comes Up 1.74-Seconds Short Of The WR Dibaba’s time was the second fastest outdoors ever, although it’s slower than her indoor WR of 4:13.31. Sifan Hassan was way back with 4:25 for 2nd and Alexa Efraimson was 3rd (4:27). World bronze medalist Amel Tuka won the men’s 800 in a SB of 1:44.80. *Discuss
Zagreb: Long Jumper Ivana Spanovic (7.03m) And Discus Thrower Sandra Perkovic (67.86m) Were The Highlight Performances Distance victories included Robert Biwott in the 1500 in 3:37 (Robby Andrews was only 12th) and Margaret Kipkemboi in the 3K (8:45) over World XC champ Agnes Tirop. In the sprints, Asafa Powell missed his 98th sub-10, but won in 10.01.
*Olympic Champ Ryan Crouser Wins Deep Shot Put Crouser beat out bronze and silver medalists Tom Walsh and Joe Kovacs.

Unrest In Kenya

Kenyan Sports Minister Hassan Wario Defends Decision To Disband NOCK He said that sporting organisations should not exist in a “vacuum above the law.”
NOCK Reportedly Lost $30,000 Paying For A Room On A Cruise Ship For The Kenyan President Even Though He Never Attended The Games
Bickering And Finger Pointing Continues Between Hassan Wario, NOCK And Wesley Korir At Parliamentary Meeting

Get Excited For This Weekend: The Final Diamond League Meet Of The Year Is Friday

Friday:IAAF Preview: Some Events Will Come Down To The Wire For The Overall Diamond League $40,000 Prize The 100 will be a duel between Dafne Schippers and Elaine Thompson, Asbel Kiprop has a small lead in the 1500, but faces Elijah Manangoi and the men’s HJ is wide open.
*Provisional Entry Lists
*MB:Shannon Rowbury entered in Brussels 5000m, will she break the AR?
Saturday:500m And Mile Fields Highlight The Great North City GamesDavid Rudisha will take on GB’s top 400m runners in the 500 and in the mile, Bernard Lagat faces Silas Kiplagat while Laura Muir leads the women’s race.
Sunday:Vivian Cheruiyot, Tirunesh Dibaba And Priscah Jeptoo Will Face Off At The Great North Run Half-Marathon There is a good men’s field as well with Mo Farah leading Dathan Ritzenhein, Emmanuel Bett, and Abdi Abdirahman.
*MB:Farah, Ritz, Abdi And Vivian Cheruiyot vs Tirunesh Dibaba

More Upcoming Road Action

Saturday:Jordan McNamara And Heather Kampf Face Solid Fields As They Try To Defend Their Titles At The Pittsburgh GNC Live Well Liberty MileBen Blankenship is the star of the men’s race while Kampf faces a rematch with Emily Lipari who beat her last weekend. *Bring Back The Mile Prediction Contest Win some free shoes from Running Warehouse.
World Half-Marathon Champion Peres Jepchirchir Returns To Mattoni Usti nad Labem Half Marathon Jepchirchir is the class of the field with a PB 3-minutes better than her main competition. The men’s race has four sub-60 minute runners.
Kenyan 42-Year-Old Mariko Kipchumba Will Defend His Title At The Beijing Marathon The master runner has a 2:06 PB and won here last year in 2:11:00. He faces a field with seven other sub-2:10 runners. Former Paris Marathon winner Meseret Mengistu (2:23:25) leads women’s race.
Sunday:UK’s Ageless Wonder Jo Pavey Returns To Kew Gardens 10K Road Race Pavey, just days from her 43rd birthday, will face fellow GB runner Charlotte Purdue. Men’s race has Chris Thompson and Scott Overall.
October 30:Former World Bronze Medalist Tadesse Tola (2:04:49 PB), Lani Rutto (2:06:34) And Former Paris Champ Mark Korir (2:05:49) Headline Frankfurt Marathon Field Former world 10,000 bronze medalist Moses Masai is also in the race. The women’s field is lead by world half champ Peres Jepchirchir and 2:21 woman Mamitu Daska.

More Doping: No Russia, It’s Still You

Russian Javelin Thrower Maria Abakumova Stripped Of Her 2008 Olympic Silver Medal Following Doping Re-Tests Russia’s men’s 4×400 team will also lose their 2008 bronze after team member Denis Alexeev re-tested positive. Adding to the Russian doper list are 2008 10K 8th placer Inga Abitova and a cyclist. Out of the 18 named so far in re-tests, 10 have been Russian.
GB Jav Thrower Goldie Sayers And Men’s 4×400 Upgraded From 4th To 2008 Olympic Bronzes *BBC
Good Read:GB 4×400 Runner Andrew Steele Says Bronze Is Emotional And Reflecting About Bronze Upgrade Doping destroys dreams.
Appeals Of 94 Russian Athletes Against Rio Paralympic Ban Rejected By German Court They will now appeal to Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court, but with only 5-days left in the Paralympics, there isn’t much point.
Russia To Still Host World Curling Championships Despite McLaren Report Doping Allegations The IAAF took events away from Russia, but other sports seem reluctant too.

One Year To Go Until Decision On 2024 Olympic Host

Previous Paralympic News

A Pre-Race Good Read:Wall Street Journal: “Mikey Brannigan’s Ready For The Long Run” Brannigan gets high praise from coaches, legendary Irish Olympian Eamonn Coughlan and of course his mom.
*NOTE: You may have to access this through Google to read.
Good Read:“Mikey Brannigan Wasn’t Allowed to Compete in College. Now, He’s Going for Gold in Rio” Great profile on the paralympic runner who’s autism and academic scores kept him from being eligible to compete in the NCAA, but haven’t stopped him from chasing his running dreams.
The Huffington Post:“Four Paralympians Just Ran The 1500m Faster Than Anyone At The Rio Olympics Final” Algeria’s Abdellatif Baka won in 3:48.29 and the headline points out that even the 4th place finisher was faster than Centro‘s time in Rio. But if this author understands time having no significance in tactical races, he isn’t letting on and it’s the casual non-runners who will be left confused. *The Telegraph article
New Zealand’s “Blade Runner” Breaks Oscar Pistorius’ Paralympic Games RecordLiam Malone won 200m gold in 21.06
*MB:Blind paralympic athletes run faster than Centro
Minor Fire And Water Damage In Rio After Unmanned Hot-Air Balloon Crashes Into Roof Of Paralympic Games Venue.

NCAA News

AP:Texas Track Coach Mario Sategna Taking Indefinite Leave of Absence *Discuss
DI Women’s Week 1 Regional XC Rankings *Men’s Week 1 Regional Rankings
NCAA Athletes Of The Week Are Eastern Kentucky’s Erick Rotich And Penn State’s Tessa Barrett Rotich won the Kentucky Bluegrass Invitational as Barrett was first at Harry Groves Spiked Shoe.

NCAA Action and News *NCAA XC Schedule and Results

Video:Devon Allen Scores Touchdown For Oregon And Celebrates With Some Hurdling In The Endzone
Michigan Women Almost Sweep At Sycamore Invy In Terre HauteErin Finn won easily as they went 1-4 and 6th.
Drake University Starting Off Year Without A Head Coach
MB: Syracuse’s 13:55 transfer Iliass Aouani dominates 1st meet of year – Will the Cuse repeat?
NCAA Head Mark Emmert is concerned that Texas’ Joseph Schooling got a $750,000 gold medal payment from Singapore Few people realize that since 2001, the NCAA has allowed athletes to receive medal bonuses from their home countries. But the didn’t consider that other countries might pay way more than the US.

Show Us The Money

Diamond League Prize Money Breakdown For 2016: Who Came Out On Top? Discus thrower Sandra Perkovic and Dafne Schippers tied for the highest earners as Conseslus Kipruto was the top male and distance earner.