– Mary Cain announcing that she is leaving the Nike Oregon Project and will no longer be coached by Alberto Salazar.
LRC Mary Cain Leaves Nike Oregon Project – John Henwood (Not Alberto Salazar) In Charge Of Her Training She’s still only 20 and now a full-time student at Fordham.
Discuss: Mary Cain leaves Oregon Project
Tirunesh Dibaba Gets Dominant Victory In Her 10-Mile Debut At The Great South Run Dibaba ran 51:49 to beat World 5,000 silver medalist Senbere Teferi by more than a minute. Brit Chris Thompson won the men’s race over Andy Vernon.
Great Read And Coaching Advice: Toni Minichiello Talks About How He Helped Bring Jessica Ennis-Hill From Talented Teen To World Beater Minichiello says a key is keeping kids engaged and having fun. “Too many kids take it far too seriously too young … Have fun and finish the thing with a smile, for goodness sake.”
Recommended Read: Opinion Piece: “WADA & The IOC Will Save Or Destroy One Another” Anti-corruption leader Akaash Maharaj rips the IOC for not supporting WADA and fears that the IOC are plotting to “undermine and supplant it.”
IPC Head Philip Craven Writes Apology Letter To IOC President Thomas Bach After Prank Phone Call Craven harshly criticized Bach on a recorded prank phone call where he thought he was actually speaking to Edwin Moses.
Friends Of Tyson Gay’s Daughter Reveal She Was Very Close With One Of The Men Arrested In Her Death After her death he tweeted, “I love you Trinity,” and other tweets suggest they might have planned on getting married to each other.
Paris Marathon Champion Cyprian Kotut Added To Field For Next Sunday’s Frankfurt Marathon He will face Tadese Tola and Mark Korir. World half champ Peres Jepchirchir withdrew from the women’s race citing lack of fitness.
Rio 2016 U.S. Olympic Marathon Team Invited To Serve As Grand Marshals For TCS New York City Marathon On Sunday, November 6 Galen Rupp won’t be attending due to family commitments.
IAAF Announces Nominees For 2016 World Athlete Of The Year Ashton Eaton, Keni Harrison and Christian Taylor were the only Americans to make the cut.
Thomas Bach Confident About “Significant Reduction” In Tokyo 2020 Costs After Meeting With Tokyo Governor They apparently figured out a way to save almost $2 billion, but when predictions were saying costs could reach $30 billion, that still doesn’t sound too great.
LRC No. 4 Oregon Men & No. 2 Colorado Women Deliver As Edward Cheserek (23:34) And Erin Finn (19:44) Dominate At 2016 Pre-Nats The Oregon men scored 85 to runner-up No. 5 Arkansas’ 110, while the Colorado women (93) easily held off No. 9 Oregon, 93-154. Cheserek won by 21.4 seconds while Finn won by 23.7.
XC Message Board Talk
MB: Official 2016 Wisco/Pre-Nats Discussion Thread
MB: Justyn Knight will win NCAA D1 Cross Country Nationals
MB: Syracuse officially not the favorite
MB: Grant Fisher beat Sean Mcgorty
MB: Breaking: Allie Ostrander is “currently injured and will likely redshirt the cross country season”
LRC No. 4 Washington Women Win 2016 Nuttycombe Wisconsin Invitational As Boise State’s Brenna Peloquin (20:00) Pulls Away To Win Individual Crown Boise State’s Brenna Peloquin came into the year as the #2 runner on her team – now she’s the NCAA favorite. #1 Providence certainly isn’t the favorite any more as they are missing a few studs.
Breaking News LRC Allie Ostrander Is “Currently Injured And Will Likely Redshirt The Cross-Country Season” We wish we had better news to report about the woman who was 2nd at NCAAs as a freshman last year. *Discuss
Tyson Gay Speaks At His Daughter’s Funeral (includes video) Gay thanked the Lexington and world wide track and field community for their support.
Nesta Carter Waits To Find Out His Fate After IOC Hold Hearing On HIs Positive Retested London 2012 Sample Carter and the entire 2012 Jamaican 4×100 squad (including Usain Bolt) are in danger of losing their gold medal due to Carter testing positive for a stimulant in his stored sample.
Nick Symmonds Hoping To Compete One More Year And Make One Last US World Team After the ankle injury kept him out of the Trials, Symmonds says he is 100% healthy and running 40 miles a week.
Recommended Read: Q&A With 60-Year-Old 2:42 Marathoner Brian Pilcher, Who Set 4 American Age-Group Records In Chicago Pilcher talks about how poor pacing at Chicago cost him because he couldn’t hold himself back. Some other interesting insights like 80 miles a week on an ElliptiGO, being coached by Olympian Magda Boulet, and prolific racing.
LRC Q&A: Washington Coach Greg Metcalf Talks About The Win At Wisconsin, A Showdown With No. 1 Colorado At PAC-12s And Whether This Is His Best Team Since The Loaded 2008 Squad Only #11 in the pre-season polls, the Huskies dominated at Wisconsin, putting all seven women in the top 50 and going 1-6 in the open race, and are now #2 in the land. Now it’s on to PAC-12s, which features four teams ranked in the top 11 nationally. The UW staff has already scored the PAC-12 meet on paper; where do they have Washington finishing? Plus should NCAAs be hosted by UW at Chambers Bay golf course (site of the 2015 U.S. Open golf tournament)?
Ross Tucker Among The Scientists Who Think Irish Sprinter Steven Colvert Should Be Cleared Colvert tested positive for EPO, but different testing methods showed one sample to have 20 times more than the other. Tucker and others argue that kind of inconsistency means the test should be thrown out.
Tyson Gay’s 15-Year-Old Daughter Shot And Killed At A Restaurant In Lexington, KY Trinity Gay was shot in the neck by a stray bullet after two cars exchanged gunfire outside the restaurant at 4AM on Sunday. Three men have been arrested and charged in connection with the shooting.
Men’s Wisco Race LRC No. 1 Northern Arizona (78 Points) Rolls To Big Win At 2016 Nuttycombe Wisconsin Invitational; Syracuse’s Justyn Knight (23:51) Unleashes Big Kick To Claim Individual Title #1 NAU lived up to it’s ranking with a great performance. In terms of the individual race, Justyn Knight blew everyone’s doors off.
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Pre-Race Coverage
The Votes Are In LRC LetsRun.com NCAA XC Fan Poll #1: The LRC Nation Thinks NAU Is Way Overrated And That Syracuse Will Repeat The votes are in for our first fan poll of 2016 and our results are very much different than the USTFCCCA poll, at least on the men’s side. The LRC nation thinks #1 NAU is overrated and that Syracuse is the team to beat. Also LRC likes Stanford way more than the coaches poll.
LRC Pre-Race Analysis Who’s #1 On The Men’s Side? How Good Is Stanford? And Three Other College XC Questions Ahead Of Wisconsin/Pre-Nats Weekend
Tirunesh Dibaba Will End Her 2016 Season At The Great South Run 10 Mile In her 10-mile debut, Dibaba will face world 5,000m silver medalist Senbere Teferi. Dibaba says she wants to run a spring marathon and maybe the marathon at Worlds.
World Leader Viola Jepchumba (65:51) Faces World Half Champ Peres Jepchirchir At The Valencia Half Marathon In the men’s race, Abraham Cheroben (58:48) will go for his third straight victory against Solomon Kirwa Yego (58:44) and Stephen Kosgei Kibet (58:54).
Good Read: First Impressions Q&A With US 400m Hurdler Johnny Dutch Dutch’s first track race was a 100m when he was 10 years old. He was so nervous that he peed himself and his competitors laughed at him.
LRC The Amsterdam Marathon Was Super-Deep And Fast, The Toronto Marathon Dropped An Illegal Rabbit Out Of A Car, Ed Whitlock Still Going Strong, EPO Non-Positives And More Learn what’s happening in the running world.
And More Than A Decade Later: Federal Court Dismisses Trevor Graham’s Lawsuit Against USADA Graham was banned for life by USADA for his connection with the BALCO scandal, but he sued saying that USADA “violated his 1st Amendment and due-process rights.”
LRC Tyson Gay’s Fellow Professional Athletes Take To Twitter To Share Their Condolences Asafa Powell, Ato Boldon, Lolo Jones and former NFLer Chad Johnson are among those who sent messages to Tyson Gay.
Altitude Training Has Given Mid-D Runner Charlie Grice’s Athletic And Business Career A Boost In addition to training at altitude in Kenya, Grice sells altitude simulation products to athletes, including Mo Farah.
Amsterdam: Daniel Wanjiru Pulls Off Upset And Wins Amsterdam In New CR Of 2:05:19 As Three Kenyans Break 2:06
European Athletics – Farah & Beitia Are European Athletes Of The Year, Thiam & Hess Rising Stars Max Hess and Nafissatou Thiam were honored with the Rising Star awards.And Kenya Alice Aprot Nawowuna Stays Hot – Wins XC Race In Kenya She’s been training and racing a lot since running 29:53 in Rio. The men’s race was won by Abraham Kiptum, who ran a 59:36 half marathon last month.
LRC Evan Jager’s Fairy Tale 2016 Continues As He Gets Married In Sweden Jager married Sofia Hellberg-Jonsén on Saturday in Sweden. Read about the wedding and how they met.
*MB: Sorry Ladies (And Fellas): Evan Jager Is Married!
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