2017 Great Edinburgh XC *Edinburgh Results *Edinburgh Video *Campaccio Results

Saturday: LRC Full Recap: Leonard Korir Outkicks Callum Hawkins In Thrilling Duel As Mo Farah Finishes 46 Seconds Back In 7th The men’s race was super-entertaining as Mo Farah got beaten by a Brit for the first time in 7 years. Laura Muir looked dominant in the 4 x 1k relay. Yasemin Can won the women’s race and the US’s Noah Affolder won the junior race.
*Edinburgh XC Video Highlights *IAAF

• Laura Muir’s Coach Knew She Was Something Special From The Very Beginning 4 years ago, he emailed a friend saying he was working with “the next Paula Radcliffe/Kelly Holmes.”
• Laura Muir Leads Britain To Great Edinburgh XCountry Relay Victory
• Sir Mo Farah Says His Training Hasn’t Been Going Well Recently And He’s Also Been Sick “I’m disappointed but you have to be honest with yourself – during the last couple of weeks training hasn’t gone as well.”

Campaccio Was Friday Hellen Obiri And Muktar Edris Win 60th XC Meet Obiri hammed throughout and showed how she took down Almaz Ayana in Rio. Men’s race was more tactical. *Results
*Post-Race Interviews With Campaccio Stars, Including Hellen Obiri Alberto Stretti talks to the leading Kenyan finishers.

Other News

• Ashton Eaton And Brianne Theisen-Eaton Say They Both Came To Decide To Retire Independently Of Each Other But On The Very Same Day Sounds like a marriage made to last.
• SPIKES Lists The 5 Match-Ups They Want To See In 2017 They aren’t going to get Wayde van Niekerk vs. Bolt at 200 as Bolt doesn’t want to tarnish his legacy.
• Former French Athletics Head, Paris DL Head And IAAF Treasurer Jean Poczobut Dies At Age 80 Seb Coe: “Jean Poczobut dedicated his life to athletics.”

Sprints / Hurdles / Jumps / Throws News

• Croatia’s Sara Kolak’s Win In The Javelin Was One Of The Biggest Upsets In Rio – Learn About Her Back Story Here At the Olympics, she PRed by nearly 9 feet. Yes, it’s true. 2.68 meters.
• Jamaican Columnist Wonders If Wayde van Niekerk Will Try The 200 / 400 Double At Worlds? And If So, Will The Schedule Be Changed? We’re wondering if Bolt is giving up on the 200 – his supposed favorite event – as he doesn’t want to end his career with a loss to van Niekerk at Worlds?
• Jordan Geist Throws 6k Shot (Used For World Juniors) 70 feet, 6 inches – 2nd Farthest In US History
• Olympic 400m Hurdles Silver Medalist Boniface Mucheru Wants Gold In 2017 “I usually tend to lose my steps especially on the seventh hurdle and that has cost me a lot.”

Olympic News

• Will Eurosport Turn Into The European Olympic Channel? Eurosport CEO Says He’s Hoping To Give Olympic Fans Year-Round Olympic Buzz Now That They Control Olympic Rights In Europe “Go back to how the Olympic Games affects you, it is great that the moment affects people, but also look back in time. I have got a picture on the wall here of Seb Coe winning in Moscow in 1980, but I remember him breaking three world records in 41 days the year before … the whole thing became a longer story, and that is what we want to do with the Olympics.”
• Good Read Phil Hersh Hands Out His End-Of-Season Olympic Awards – Usain Bolt, Not Michael Phelps, Is His Male AOY As he has for the last 30 years, Phil Hersh hands out out his end of season Olympic awards. From Neymar to Uchimura to Jorgensen, he’s got you covered.
• Another Good Column Toni Reavis Ponders A Few Questions As The Calendar Switches To 2017 Among his questions: “Why when you turn 40 do they call runners Masters? Master? Are they kidding? It’s like they’re mocking you. Believe me, by the time you hit the big 4-0 you’re no master.”

Non-LRC Year-End Rankings And Looks Back

• Wayde Van Niekerk Named Track And Field News Athlete Of The Year  Mo Farah #2, Usain Bolt #3.
• Hammer Thrower Anita Włodarczyk Named Track And Field News Female Athlete Of The Year And we bet 95% of track and field fans couldn’t name her. Almaz Ayana 2nd, Elaine Thompson 3rd.
• TFN‘s #1 Rankers For Every Single Male Event
• TFN‘s #1 Rankers For Every Single Female Event
• Ashton Eaton Is TFN’s US AOY Evan Jager and Matthew Centrowitz tie for #5.
• Keni Harrison Is TFN’s Female US AOY Emma Coburn is the only distance runner in the top 10 at #8.
• Interesting Read Alfons Juck Looks Back And Looks Forward He looks back and sees how his 10 questions for 2016 ended up. And then poses 10 questions for 2017. He also shares his top 10 moments from 2016.
• Wayde Van Niekerk And Anita Włodarczyk Had The Best Single Performances Of The Year According To All-athletics.com
• All-athletics.com: Usain Bolt And Elaine Thompson Are The All-athletics.com AOY
• The Rio Olympics Was The Highest Quality Track Meet In History According To All-athletics.com
• Jeff Benjamin’s Top Ten Moments Of 2016

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An Inside Look At How LRC Operates How a Ragtag Crew Of Almost Journalists Created Running’s Most Controversial Website Author Charles Bethea embedded himself with us during the US Olympic trials and got a behind-the-scenes look at how we operate. His article in Outside magazine includes some really nice quotes from Tim Layden, “… their best quality is that they don’t give a shit about offending people,” and Nick Willis, “It gave me a ton of inspiration. LetsRun is one of the primary reasons high-quality coaching and training have improved in ­America.”
*MB: Long Article on Letsrun… in Outside Magazine

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