February 15, 2017 | LetsRun.com

Week That Was

LRC Week That Was: Women’s 800m Madness, One Runner from Japan is Better than All of American Men Combined in the Marathon the Last 6 Years, Collegiate Milers and More The American 800m women took it to another level this week, and a Japanese runner reminded us the American men’s marathoners have struggled as a whole.

US Mid-D Stuff

Friday: NJNY Track Club Going For The 4 X Mile World Record At The Armory The team of Kyle Merber, Donn Cabral, Ford Palmer and Colby Alexander will go for the 24-year-old record of 16:16.67.
*MB: Kyle Merber says HOKA NYNJ team will be going for 4xMile WORLD RECORD!!
Track & Field News Asks If We’ll Hit 500 US Sub-4 Milers In 2017 With 5 new members from this past weekend (11 new members this year) and 484 total, we could hit the mark this indoor season.
Will Leer Now Sponsored By Polar GPS Watches

From Seb Coe / The IAAF

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Seb Coe Hopes IAAF Wins CAS Appeal On Gender / Testosterone Testing For the sake of women’s sports, we can only hope so.
*MB: Coe “hopeful” of IAAF success in CAS hyperandrogenism case, says Semenya has “right to comp
*LRC Hyperandrogenism Archives
Seb Coe Says He’s A Fan Of Usain Bolt’s New Nitro Athletics Concept Coe: “I saw engagement, I saw fun and laughter and that’s what the sport has been missing for a long time.”
*Another Perspective: Athletics Weekly: “Nitro Athletics Fails To Explode” Editor Jason Henderson writes that nothing was “earth-shatteringly innovative,” mocks the over-hyped-ness, and was “left feeling nonplussed.”
This April: Tickets For 2017 World Relays In The Bahamas Go On Sale

International Distance News

Mo Farah To Run The 10,000m At The Ostrava Golden Spike Meet This June This will be the first time Ostrava will have a 10K since Kenenisa Bekele set a world record there in 2004.
Recommended Watch: Freak Accident Costs Runner 800 Heat Win At Irish Indoor Collegee Championships An elastic crossbar from the pole vault flung onto the track and tangled up his legs like “Spider Man attacked him” as the commentator said.
Good News: Canadian Marathon Runners Get New Lease On Life With New Worlds Standards Athletics Canada re-released the world standards, making them equal with the IAAF times (2:19 and 2:45 for the marathoner) rather than the super strict A+ standards they’ve used in the past which at times were faster than the Canadian national records.
Former British 800 Champion Marilyn Okoro Has Started Off Well In 2017 After Years Of Struggles Okoro, who is now the track coach at the University of Central Florida, rab a 1:25.89 600m, just missing the British record by .08.
After A Rusty Start, Ireland’s Ciara Mageean Hoping To Make Improvements Leading Up To Euro Champs

The 2017 NYRR Millrose Games Millrose Results On 1 Page Post-Race Video Player

LRC 800 Madness At Millrose – Ajee Wilson (And Her Training Partner Charlene Lipsey) Breaks American Record, Sammy Watson Gets Mary Decker’s High School Record Ajee Wilson and her new training partner both had huge PRs to dip under the old American record as Sammy Watson broke the high school record. Updated with video from Wilson and Watson.

LRC Rest Of Millrose Recap: Jenkins And Hassan Win Wanamakers, True Wins 2 Mile Showdown, Centro Struggles And A High Schooler Is #5 In The World In The Pole Vault Courtney Okolo breaking the American record at 500 doesn’t even get in the headline.

*Post-Race Interviews
*RRW: Ajee Wilson Sets American Indoor 800m Record At NYRR Millrose Games

On The Boards:

Non-Millrose US Indoor Track Action *All NCAA Results

From No-Name To Collegiate Record Holder In One Race LRC Texas A&M’s Jazmine Fray Runs Massive PR To Break NCAA 800m Record Before Saturday, the sophomore’s indoor PB was 2:04.76 (outdoor PR was 2:03.25) – now she’s the collegiate record holder.
*A&M”s Fred Kerly Runs WL 45.02 For 400
*IAAF: Kerly’s Time Is Fastest Indoor 400m In The World For Six Years He’s now tied for 5th on the all-time indoor list. There was also a WL from NCAA indoor champion Christian Coleman in the 200m (20.46).

Husky/ABQ Oregon’s Hannah Cunliffe Breaks NCAA 60m Record With 7.07 Seconds In Albuquerque Cunliffe also ran a 200 WL (22.60) on Fri. At the Husky classic, Lopez Lomong won with an identical time (3:56.55) as Evan Jager. Other winners were Penn State’s Danae Rivers (4:32.55 mile), CU’s Joe Klecker (7:51 3K) and Oregon’s Katie Rainsberger (9:01 3K).
*Edward Cheserek Runs 13:32 World Lead Not far behind him was Washington’s Colby Gilbert in 13:34.
*MB: Cheserek new world lead!
*MB: husky classic men’s mile
*Live Results, Start Lists, Schedule

Iowa State Classic Live Results There were some solid distance results as Georgetown’s Joseph White (1:46.44) and BYU’s Shea Collinsworth (2:01.42) took the 800s and Tulsa’s Marc Scott ran 7:47.57 to beat Justyn Knight out by .25 in the 3K.

BU Valentine Results Andrew Wheating won the 1,000 in 2:20.72 and there was a world lead in the women’s mile from Shelby Houlihan in 4:24.16 over Colleen Quigley (4:24.88).

Tyson Invy *Results *Tyrese Cooper Runs Second-Fastest High School 400m Ever With 46.01 The HS record is 13 years old, set by Elzie Coleman at 45.92.
*Arkansas’ Clive Pullen Smashes Jamaican Indoor TJ Record And Sets The World Lead With 17.19m Leap

International Results

Berlin: Olympic Bronze Medalist Ivana Spanovic Leaps LJ World Lead Of 6.87m At ISTAF Berlin Meet Poland’s Piotr Lisek cleared 5.86m in the PV to defeat Olympic champ Thiago Braz da Silva.

Hong Kong: Ethiopia’s Melaku Belachew Breaks Hong Kong Marathon CR With 2:10:31 Victory Ethiopian Gulume Tollesa won the women’s race in 2:33:39.

Poland: Genzebe Dibaba (3:58.80 1,500) And Joanna Jozwik (1:59.29 800) Post World Leaders At Copernicus Cup Dibaba was going for the WR of 3:55.17 but came up short. Erik Sowinski ran 1:46.84 for 3rd in the 800 while Ronnie Baker (6.46) and Barbara Pierre (7.11) ran world leaders in the 60. *Results
*IAAF Recap: Poland’s Joanna Jozwik Gets 800 World Lead And National Record In 1:59.29 Bethwell Birgen won a tough battle in the 1,500 over Marcin Lewandowski and Silas Kiplagat.

Alysia Montaño Gets 2 Huge Upgrades As Mariya Savinova Gets Punished

LRC Breaking: Alysia Montaño Just Won Two World Championship Medals At 800 Meters The Court of Arbitration for Sport has banned Russian Mariya Savinova-Farnosova for four years and stripped her of her 2011 and 2012 gold medals and 2013 silver. In addition to Montaño getting two medals, Caster Semenya is now a two-time Olympic champ.
*Savinova Banned Based On “Clear Evidence” Including ABP Data

Midweek News Of Note

Mike Tirico To Replace Bob Costas As NBC’s Olympic Host In 2018 Costas held the job for 24 years.
Prince Harry Beats Prince William And Kate Middleton In Sprint At Charity Event This is proof that one should never get married and never have kids if you want to keep running as your #1 priority.
Tokyo Prosecutors Question Japanese Olympic Head Over Controversial Payments To Consulting Firm With Ties To Papa Diack In international business, it’s sadly often a fine line between consulting and bribery.
2018 World Indoors In Birmingham Will Likely Start With A High Jump Only Day It was going to feature 3 days of competition but now organizers want to run the high jump on the night of the opening ceremony.

Another World Record For Dibaba

LRC Genzebe Dibaba Gets World Record #6, Runs 5:23.75 For 2,000 Meters In Sabadell, Spain She destroyed the 18-year-old indoor record by 7 seconds and also beat Sonia O’Sullivan‘s outdoor mark of 5:25.36.

*IAAF Meet Recap Poland’s Adam Kszczot won the 800 in 1:46.31 while Euro silver medalist Adel Mechaal won the 3K in 7:48.

News From Oregon

Register Guard: Track Town Gives The Eatons A Royal Send-Off A capacity crowd of 300 at the TrackTown Tuesday meeting in Eugene gave them two standing ovations.
*Ken Goe In The Oregonian: The Eatons Enjoying Retirement And Being “Fun-Employed” The two have kept busy since retiring with a number of projects including helping with a fantasy track and field game.
Ken Goe Profile On Oregon Hurdler Alaysha Johnson Johnson talks about her sociology studies and work promoting better relationships between police officers and minority groups which included doing a night ride-along.
University Of Oregon Reconsidering A “Draconian” Liability Waiver For Track And Field Volunteers They caught some flack for a new waiver that would force volunteers to give up a lot of legal rights in the event of an injury caused by university negligence.

Super Saturday Was Full Of Action *Full Results

LRC Six Takeaways From Some Fantastic Action Across The Globe On Super Saturday What a day. Laura Muir and the Kenyan-born Americans were fantastic.We give you the highlights as we doubt you can spend all of Sunday and all of Saturday glued to your TV or PC.

USA XC: Leonard Korir Wins, Aliphine Tuliamuk Dominates As Do Scott Simmons’ Kenyan-American Men Scott Simmons-coached athletes swept the top 4 places on the men’s side at the USA XC champs as Leonard Korir got the win. Aliphine Tuliamuk dominated the women’s race.
*OK State’s Michelle Magnani Wins Jr. Girls Race
*CSU Pueblo’s Paul Roberts Wins Jr. Boys Race

ATI RRW 2017 Armory Track Invitational Full Recap: Ajee Wilson And Sammy Watson Impress With Fast 600m Times In the men’s mile Andy Butchart impressed and the men’s 3,000 was physical and featured shoves and elbows between Drew Hunter and Daniel Winn.

Super Saturday Talk On Our The Fan Forum

2016 Was A Record Year For Us In Terms Of Traffic – Thanks For Visiting

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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In Case You Are Feeling Overly Hot And Steamy On Valentine’s Day

LRC Could A Cooling Wristband Be The Key To Athletes Who Struggle In The Heat? For years, scientists have been working on solutions to keep athletes cool before, during and after competition. We took a look at the dhamaSPORT, a new cooling wristband used by multiple U.S. Olympians in Rio which will also be used by several members of Team USA at the upcoming World Cross Country Championships in Uganda.

Sprints And Jumps

Usain Bolt Wins Record-Equalling Fourth Laureus Sports Award Bolt joins tennis star Roger Federer as the only athletes to have won it 4 times. Gymnast Simone Biles won the women’s award.
Sanya Richards-Ross Expecting Her First Child
US’s Olympic Long Jumper 4th Placer Jarrion Lawson Shares His Tips On Sport And Life Lawson talks life on the circuit, cooking, fashion and dating.
Usain Bolt Talks About His Decision To Retire: “I’ve just done everything I wanted to do in the sport.”
Renaud Lavillenie Ends His Indoor Season To Let His Hamstring Injury Heal

Doping Updates

Lance Armstrong Faces $100 Million Lawsuit By The Federal Government After Judge Denies His Request To Have The Case Thrown Out Of Court The US Postal service paid only $32.3 million to sponsor Armstrong’s cycling team, but under the False Claims Act, they can reclaim damages up to three times that. *2nd Article
*MB: Lance Armstrong handed defeat by federal judge
Russian Athletics Federation Files Requests With The IAAF For 16 More Athletes To Compete Neutrally That brings the total to 41.
International Paralympic Committee Says Russian Ban Should Continue The IPC Taskforce working in Russia says officials have not “specifically addressed” or “properly rebutted” the findings of the McLaren report.
Egyptian Javelin Thrower Ihab Abdelrahman Gets 2-Year Drug Ban It has taken 6 months for his B-sample to officially come back and the case will drag out even longer as he’s appealing to CAS.
Maybe He’ll Learn Something: Thomas Bach To Open Second Edition Of International Forum For Sports Integrity

Olympians Speak On US Travel Ban

The Guardian: “Life As A Muslim-American Olympic Champion” Olympic 400H champ Dalilah Muhammad reacts to Donald Trump‘s travel ban, saying, “It’s insane what’s going on and what America is becoming. It’s frightening and a little scary.”
*MB: Olympic champ Dalilah Muhammad: “It’s insane what America is becoming”
Hassan Mead Says He Was Heartened By Protests Of Trump’s Travel Ban Mead has been blocked from flying before because he was born in Somalia and had to cancel a training trip to Australia in 2015 when they bolstered their national security.

Training Group Updates

Andrew Wheating Goes Solo, Leaves OTC Elite Wheating still gets advice from Mark Rowland, but thinks he’s better off training on “my time instead of having a regimented every-day schedule.”
Ken Goe: Some Fan Favorites No Longer Are Part Of OTC Elite Mac Fleet, Jordan McNamara, Tyler Mulder, Aisha Praught, Alexi Pappas and HJer Jesse Williams are all off the roster.
*MB: Thoughts on Nijel Amos joining OTC?
*MB: Tom Farrell leaves OTC?
GB’s Olympic 800 Finalist Lynsey Sharp Writes About How She’s Improved Since Joining Terrence Mahon’s Coaching Group Sharp gives a lot of credit to Mahon for her improvements since 2012 (from not making the Olympic final to finishing 6th in 2016).

British Indoor Champs Are In The Books *Results

Women’s Long Jump Battle Highlights British Indoor Champs World indoor bronze medalist Lorraine Ugen got the win with 6.72m over heptathlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson and The Voice contestant Jazmin Sawyers. Lee Emanuel finished his last 1,000m in 2:31 to win the men’s 3,000 in 7:55 as the top 5 were all sub-8:00.
Kataraina Johnson-Thompson Says She’s “Not Enjoyed Anything Over The Last Two Years” While Explaining Decision To Leave Her Childhood Coach Johnson-Thompson has showed promise, but had disappointing performances at the last two global outdoor championships.
*The Guardian: “Katarina Johnson-Thompson Smiling Again Thanks To Radical Changes After Rio”
Andrew Robertson Wins 60m Title As Richard Kilty Is DQed For False Start For The Second Year In A Row Eliish McColgan just beat out Steph Twell with 9:05 in the 3,000, Asha Philip won comfortably in the women’s 60m and Andrew Pozzi equaled his 60H world lead (7.44 seconds).
Athletics Weekly Day 2 Recap 2012 Olympic HJ medalist Robbie Grabarz qualified for Euros by finishing 2nd only five weeks after having an emergency appendectomy. *Day 1 Recap

Olympic / Admin News

Only 6 Months After The Games, Rio 2016 Venues Have Fallen Into Disrepair, Calling Olympic Legacy Into Question One of the swimming pools has orange water with insects and mud, the golf course has been shut down and many other buildings have been vandalized. *Photos
USATF Signs Multiyear International Broadcast Rights Deal With Lagardere Sports Now non-US residents will have access to USATF events.
USATF Unveils 2017 Outdoor Broadcast Schedule On NBC, NBCSN
Olympic Council Of Ireland Had To Pay $958,000 To Combat Rio Ticketing Scandal

2017 RAK HALF Marathon Mania

LRC Peres Jepchirchir Runs 65:06 Half Marathon World Record And Collapses At Finish! updated What a race! The world half marathon champ Jepchirchir had to run a world record of 65:06 to defeat Mary Keitany. Jepchirchir ran 30:33 from 10k to 20k (a time that only 2 Amercians have ever run faster than) to pick up the $100,000 world record bonus. Bedan Karoki won the men’s race. We break it all down.
*MB: Race of the Year (So Far): 2017 RAK Half Marathon Starts at 9:45 PM ET – Official Discussion Thread.
*MB: Peres MF Chepchirchir: 65:06 WR at RAK

Pre-Race Dibaba: “Training has gone very well.”

Week That Was

LRC The Week That Was In Running: The Colorado Milers, Snow Cross Nationals, Callum Hawkins, Amy Cragg And More Plus a funny clip of Jenny Simpson delivering good news on national football signing day.

Doping News: Dawn Harper-Nelson Tests Positive

US 100 Hurdler Dawn Harper-Nelson Gets 3-Month Drug Ban She tested positive for a substance used in diuretics and masking agents which she said was caused by prescribed blood pressure medication.
AP: “Russia Picks Fight Over Doping After IAAF Ban Extended” If you’re waiting for an apology or sincere admission of guilt from Russian officials, don’t hold your breath.
One Thing We Agree On: Russian Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko Says Coaches “Do Not Understand How To Work Without Doping” Should “Retire”
Athletics Illustrated’s Chris Kelsall Isn’t Happy That Disgraced Turkish Miler Asli Cakir Alptekein Has Returned From Her Shortened Ban Alptekein was initially banned for 8 years, but had it reduced to 4 for providing info on the Diacks.
Seb Coe Is “Sad” His “Friend” Nick Davies Was Sacked From The IAAF Coe disagrees with critics who said Davies’ punishment was too lenient.
BBC Video: Seb Coe Denies Misleading British Parliamentary Committee Over Russian Doping Cover-Up He says he’s too busy to appear before the committee again.
Russia 2012 Olympic 400H Champ Natalia Antyukh Announces Her Retirement After Being Stripped Of Her 4 X 400 Medal Due To Her Teammate’s Doping Offense

Random But Interesting

11-Year-Old New Zealander To Run A Half Marathon In Antarctica Quinn Gardiner-Hall explains that while it can get down to minus 21 with the windchill, you can’t wear too many layers because “you don’t want to sweat because it can turn into ice all over your body.”
Interesting Video: NYC Professor Studying Rivalries Has Found That They Can Improve Performance And Have Psychological And Physiological Effects
New Research Finds Post Run Carbs May Mean Healthier Bones

Meet The Freshman Who Is Taking The NCAA By Storm

LRC Who Is Emmanuel Korir – The Freshman The Set A World’s Best In The 600m? “I Think He Could Be A World Champion In The 800” UTEP coach Paul Ereng knows a thing or two about 800-meter phenoms – he used to be one himself, winning Olympic gold in 1988 as freshman at the University of Virginia. Now Ereng’s got one on his hands in the form of Korir, the freshman who set a world indoor best of 1:14.97 for 600m last weekend (since surpassed), and he thinks greatness lies in Korir’s future.

UK News

Former Olympic 400 Champ Christine Ohuruogu Blogs About The Challenges She’s Faced In Her Career Talking retirement she says, “I don’t know whether I’ve made the right decision to carry on (with the sport), but I’ve just got to roll with it.
GB Weekend Round-Up: Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake Ran The Fastest Indoor 200 By A Brit In 19 Years He won the Tyson Invy 200m in 20.49.
Video: GB Sprinter James Ellington Does His First Interview Since His Motorcycle Crash Ellington talks about the crash and recovery since.

Japan Distance News

Yuki Kawauchi Takes Almost 7-Minutes Of The CR To Win Ehime Marathon In 2:09:54 The previous CR dated all the way back in 1965.
Yuki Kawauchi Joins Elite Group Of Men Who Have Broken 2:10 In The Marathon 11 Or More Times Kawauchi is one of only three non-Africans on the list of 15 men and has the slowest PR by about a minute.
Japanese Media Headline: “Japanese Men Stuck Behind The 2:09 Wall Seven Minutes Behind The Rest of the World” The article laments that Japanese marathoners struggle to hit to 2:09 while the “world standard is at the 2:02 level.”
Abiyot Abinet (61:21) And Ai Utsunomiya (70:47) Win Japan National Corporate Half-Marathon Titles At the Karatsu 10-Miler, 19-year-old Shota Onizuka got an upset win in 46:36 over a field that included Japan #2 all-time 5,000/10,000 runner Tetsuya Yoroizaka.

Post-Weekend NCAA Stuff

Amherst College Coach Erik Nedeau Resigns After 20 Seasons For “Personal And Family Reasons” This comes a month after the XC team was suspended due to a sexist/racist email chain.
*MB: Amherst Cross Country Team Suspended Following Email Chain
Ken Goe Asks What More Does Edward Cheserek Have To Prove In Order To Win The Bowerman Award? Cheserek has been one of the final three finalists three times, but never won it.
Colorado’s Zach Perrin Ran A 15-Second 3,000m PR With A Broken Arm At Husky Classic Perrin fell at the start and they called it back and he decided he still wanted to race despite the pain.
*MB: CU Buffs runner breaks arm and still runs 15s 3k PR. Wetmore calls him a hero
Top-10 NCAA Marks From The Weekend One we missed: Michigan’s Erin Finn ran 15:34 at the SPIRE Meet.
Big Changes To The Top 10 In Week 4 Of NCAA DI Men’s Rankings Florida and Oregon stay 1-2 with Arkansas and Texas A&M moving up to 3rd and 4th.
Updated Women’s DI Team Rankings: Oregon Stays #1, Georgia Overtakes Arkansas For Rank #2

More International Results

Florence Kiplagat Gets Her Fourth Consecutive Victory At The Barcelona Half Kiplagat won in 68:15 in windy conditions as Sara Hall finished in 4th (71:19). Leonard Langat won the men’s race in 60:52 as former double world marathon champ Abel Kirui was 4th in 61:30.
Ethiopian World XC Trials: Underdogs Upset The Favorites At Ethiopian World XC Trials Getaneh Mola won the men’s race as former world 10K champ Ibrahim Jeilan, former world XC champ Imane Merga, and World XC bronze medalist Muktar Edris all finished outside the top 4 to miss auto selection. National 5K champ Dera Dida won ahead of 2012 Olympic 10K bronze medallist Belaynesh Oljira.
Video: Yohan Blake Opens His Season With A 47.02 400m In Jamaica
Swedish Orienteerer Jonas Leanderson Wins Gent 3,000 In 7:53

Drug News

GB’s Jenny Meadows Angry That She’s Lost A 2010 World Indoor Gold Medal “On A Technicality” Savinova had all her results from summer 2010 onward annulled so she got to keep the world indoor medal by a matter of months.
Alan Abrahamson: “Anti-Doping Reality: We All Get What We Pay For” Abrahamson analyzes WADA funding numbers and the big gap between what they need and what they get.
Caster Semenya Says Double Olympic Gold Would Be A Hollow Victory Semenya: “I ran the Olympics and I won the silver medal, so I can’t celebrate anything other than my silver … It wouldn’t mean anything for me.”
Russian Olympic Committee President Alexander Zhukov Admits That “Only A Few” Athletes Have Returned Their Olympic Medals Which Were Stripped For Doping At least 18 Russian medalists were caught in 2008 and 2012 re-tests.
Vitaly Mutko Says Number Of Doping Samples From Russian Athletes To Be Doubled In 2017 But how many of them will be legitimate?
UKAD Misses Out On Testing Contract For London 2017 World Champs Instead, a German company that offered a much lower price was chosen.
Ukraine Athletics Federation Defends Its Anti-Doping Policies After Singled-Out For Concern By The IAAF Ukraine was also one of the few countries that did not vote in support of Seb Coe’s new IAAF reform measures.

Nitro Athletics Series In The Books *Day 3 Results

Usain Bolt All-Stars Sweep Nitro Athletics Series With Another Close Win Over Australia On Final Day Bolt got double wins on the final day in the 150m and 4 x 100. Kenya’s Selah Busienei (4:36) and Australia’s Ryan Gregson (4:06) won the elimination miles while Jenna Prandini took the 60 (7.31) and 16-year-old Aussie Riley Day surprised in the women’s 150m.

*Reuters Recap Bolt: “I knew that this is what track and field needed. I’m just happy the event came together the way that it did. *AP Article

Pre-Millrose Coverage

LRC America’s Muslim Olympic Champion Dalilah Muhammad Reacts To Donald Trump’s Executive Order On Immigration – “It’s Just Unfortunate” Find out what America’s first-ever Olympic 400 hurdles champ has to say about Trump’s executive order on immigration.
News And Notes From Friday’s Press Conference LRC Centro Isn’t Dodging Anyone, Kate Grace Talks About Her Switch To Nike & More From The 2017 Millrose Games Press Conference We share our news and notes from today’s press conference.

**Nitro Athletics #2 *Results**

Dennis Mitchell Would Be Proud Usain Bolt’s All-Stars Win Nitro Meet #2 In Absurd Fashion All Australia had to do to win was walk the baton around the track in the 4 x 100 but they dropped the stick and got -10 points in a penalty instead of 40 for a win, but the national TV audience was told Australia was the winner. Bolt was taking it seriously and said he’d file a protest if the score wasn’t correct.
*Daily Mail: Usain Bolt Furious At Referee Error At Nitro Athletics
*Australian Sprinter John Steffensen Beats Usian Bolt … In Practice And With A Huge Head Start
*Revived Kerron Clement enjoyed Nitro #2 even though his team was last
*IAAF Recap Of Nitro #2 Ryan Gregson won the elimination mile in 4:03.

More Mid-Week Action Pascal Martinot-Lagarde Wins 60H In 7.51, Olympic Heptathlon Champion Nafissatou Thiam Excels In Triathlon In France The triathlon is where you do 3 events of the multi.

Coming In May Stacked Pole Vault Will Take Place At 2017 Pre Classic With All 3 Olympic Medalists + Shawn Barber Renaud Lavillenie, who set his outdoor PR in Eugene, will be looking for a record 5th straight win in Eugene.

LRC’s Jon Gault Goes To The Super Bowl

LRC What’s It Like To Go To The Super Bowl (And Watch Your Team Storm Back From 25 Down And Win) LRC’s Jonathan Gault went to the Big Game and fortunately for him he didn’t leave early. He tells us what it’s like attending a Super Bowl in person.

Discuss: Jon Gault’s Rules for the Superbowl: 1) Cheer for the Patriots, not against the Falcons and 2) Don’t be an asshole

Vivian Speaks

Good Read: Vivian Cheruiyot Prepares To Move To The Roads And Reflects On The Best And Worst Moments Of Her Track Career Cheruiyot isn’t approaching the marathon as a career afterthought as she talks about winning Olympic marathon gold and breaking the WR.
Vivian Cheruiyot Thinks “Running A Marathon In Under Two Hours Is Impossible” She has “no problem” with the 2-hour project, and thinks Eliud Kipchoge can break the WR, but feels “1:59:59 is setting the bar too high.”
Vivian Cheruiyot Talks About Motherhood, Retirement And Future Plans She wants to have another child after the 2020 Games and retire when she is 40 years old (2023).

Some Big News From The IAAF: Russia Will Miss Worlds

IAAF Votes Unanimously To Maintain Russian Ban Through The 2017 London World Championships The IAAF task force head Rune Andersen said Russian officials still fail to acknowledge the problem and that the plan is now for Russia to not be reinstated until November 2017.
*The Telegraph Article

*IAAF Freezes All International Transfer Of Allegiance With Immediate Effect Are the days of Turkey, Qatar and Bahrain dominating “European” championships over?
*IAAF Publish Qualification System And Entry Standards For 2017 Worlds

“If Matt Centrowitz writes a book, you buy it and read it.”

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