2017 European Indoor Champs *Live Results, Start Lists, Schedule

Sunday: RRW Sunday Recap: Laura Muir Completes 1,500 / 3,000 Double At 2017 Europeans In Style – Garners Her Second Championship Record With 8:35.67

MB: Laura Muir does it again!! 2nd day in a row – European title and Championship record – 8:35.67!!
*MB: Laura Muir wins her second gold at European Indoors. I really hope she’s clean but… 🙁

• RRW Saturday Recap: Laura Muir Runs Away With European Indoor 1,500m Title Muir stormed to victory in a British record of 4:02.39, becoming the first Brit to win it since 1977 and she’ll try to add to that in the 3,000m on Sunday. Poland’s Marcin Lewandowski won the men’s race in a tactical 3:44.
  *Recommended Watch: Laura Muir Blows By Official To Do Her Victory Lap They tried to stop her because the meet was behind schedule, but Muir was having none of it.
  *MB: Muir 4:02.39 CR, NR
• Day 2: Czech Republic’s Pavel Maslak Claims His Third Straight European Indoor Crown Other highlights included Lithuania’s Airine Palsyte jumping 2.01m to upset Ruth Beita in the HJ, Olympic champ Ekaterini Stefanidi winning the PV (4.85m) and a NR from Albania’s Izmir Smajlaj in the LJ (8.08m). France’s Floria Guei beat out Zuzana Hejnova in the women’s 400.
• GB’s Richard Kilty Defends His Euro 60m Title
• Good Read: GB’s Andrew Pozzi Overcomes Injury Nightmare To Win 60H Hurdle Gold Pozzi has overcome years of injury and “five or six” surgeries to get to the top. *The Guardian Article
• Day 1: Belgium’s Olympic Champ Nafissatou Thiam Wins Pentathlon Title Poland’s Piotr Lisek won a competitive PV with 5.85m while Germany’s Cindy Roleder won the women’s 60m and there was a world lead in the TJ qualifying from Germany’s Max Hess (17.52m).

Distance Action

• USA Men And Canada Women Win At NACAC XC Championships The USA men took the the five spots lead by race winner Abbabiya Simbassa. Canada’s Sasha Gollish won over USA’s Amy Van Alstine.
  *USATF: Senior Men Sweep Scoring At NACAC XC *Results
• Ezekiel Chebii Outkicks Vincent Kipruto To Win Lake Biwa Marathon In 2:09:06 The two entered the stadium together and Chebii pulled away with less than a lap left to win by 7 seconds.

Previous Euro Indoor News

• RRW: Laura Muir Advances To 1,500m And 3,000m Finals Turkey’s Ali Kaya lead the 3000 heat qualifying as did Norway’s Henrik Ingebrigtsen. In the men’s 1,500, Henrik’s brother Filip Ingerbrigsten was the biggest casualty.
• RRW: GB Gets Three In Women’s 3K Final With Laura Muir, Steph Twell And Eilish McColggan Favorites Adam Kzzczot (Poland) and Selina Buchel (Sweden) advanced comfortably in the 800s.
• GB’s Richard Kilty Knows He Needs To Raise His Game If He Wants To Defend His Euro 60m Title Kilty false started at the British Trials and was sick before his last race, so hasn’t had the best of seasons so far.
• Laura Muir Going For 1,500/3,000 Double Gold At Euro Champs Muir has taken down multiple GB records this season but says, “It’s great to be breaking records, but I want to be one of the big athletes out there with medals against their name.”
  *Kelly Holmes Believes Muir Can “Cement Her Place In History” By Winning A Medal At London 2017
• Irish Examiner: “1,500m Runner Ciara Mageean Is The Only Realistic Irish Medal Hope In Belgrade”
• Katarina Johnson-Thompson To Miss Euro Champs To “Concentrate On Outdoor Season” She had a hamstring strain last month and a British Athletics spokesman said, “The injury is fine but she didn’t want to go there and not win …”
• Commonwealth Games Decathlon Silver Medalist Ashley Bryant To Captain GB Team For Euro Indoors Other top names on Team GB are Richard Kilty (60m), Andrew Pozzi (60H), Robbie Grabarz (HJ), Asha Philip (60m) and Eilidh Doyle (400).
• GB Sprinter Lina Nielsen Out Of Euro Indoors WIth Leg Injury

More On The NOP Doping Allegations

LRC Fancy Bears Releases The Vitamins And Medications That Galen Rupp And Shannon Rowbury Were On Before Rio Supplements are an important part of the all-in focus of the Nike Oregon Project as Galen Rupp took more than 20 legal pills over the span of 4 days in April according to the latest Fancy Bears leak as published in L’Equipe.

• BBC: USADA Wants More Proof That Salazar Should Have Had Androgel: “(Salazar) has not established acceptable justification for possessing testosterone and his admitted possession of testosterone appears to have been a violation of sport anti-doping rules.” USADA has apparently asked Salazar for his medical tests proving he needs to have androgel. Salazar apparently hasn’t complied although his vehement denial of the initial ProPublica/BBC report included a note from from two doctors (Exhibit 26 and 27) and a note from a pharmacist.
• Recommended Read: Toni Reavis Analyzes The “Fine Line Between The Letter And Spirit Of The Law” Reavis surmises that Salazar has already broken the spirit of the law in the court of public opinion, but notes that the spirit is constantly changing (example: today’s professionals vs. former amateurs).
• Ken Goe’s Thoughts “About The Rules And The Spirit Of The Rules” “I believe, if there is a consensus rules have been evaded to the point the intent of the rules has been violated, it’s time to the change the rules to make the evasion impossible.”
• UK Athletics Chief Neil Black Stands Behind Alberto Salazar Black said that they “are in a process of co-operation with USADA” but that “nothing has really changed.” *The Guardian Article
  *MB: British Athletics Sticking with Salazar

HS Stars Showing Up The Pros

• HS Pole Vault Record Holder Armand Duplantis One Ups Olympic Bronze Medalist Sam Kendricks’ PV Challenge Kendricks posted a video of himself jumping over 18 feet (5.50m) five times in under 30 minutes, so Duplantis went and posted a video of himself doing it 10 times.
  *From Millrose: Duplantis Sets National HS Record At 5.75m (18-10.25)
• Alyssa Wilson Breaks Raven Saunders’ National High School Shot Put Record With 57-Foot 5.5-Inch Throw She broke Rio 5th placer Saunders’ record by an amazing 10 inches.

More Drug News

• Video: Adam Nelson, Michael Phelps And Travis Tygart Testify In Front Of Congressional Hearing On Doping You can watch the full 2+ hour hearing, but these three speak from about 18:30 to 40:30.
• Michael Phelps Was Tested 13 Times Before Rio; Is Baffled How Many Athletes Weren’t Tested At All It’s not a surprise that Phelps would be tested more than most, but it was surprising that 4,125 Olympians (many in high risk sports) weren’t tested at all before Rio.
• But Tell Us How You Really Feel: Alan Abrahamson: “A Theater-Of-The-Absurd Hearing In Congress” Abrahamson bashes the doping hearing in DC calling it an excuse for Congress members to take pictures with Phelps “while coming off like the camera-seeking hypocrites that skeptics might suggest they are.”
• Russian President Vladimir Putin Urges Russia To Heed Demands Of McLaren Report, But Continues To Dismiss That There Was Any “Institutional Conspiracy To Conceal Positive Doping Tests” Putin admits that the Russian anti-doping system has “failed,” even if he didn’t admit to the specific allegations in the McLaren report.
• NY Times: Vladimir Putin Casts Doubt On Storage Of Doping Suspects’ Urine Samples Putin seems to suggest that the tiny scratches on Russian athletes’ bottles, which indicated they had been tampered with, could have happened after Sochi while being stored in Switzerland.
• IOC Claims It Wants WADA To Be Independent After Travis Tygart Slams Them For Letting Clean Athletes Down In Rio For WADA to be independent, it needs a leader who doesn’t have conflict of interest by also being an IOC Vice Pres.

US Distance Stuff

• Sara Hall Explains Her Breakthrough At The Tokyo Marathon Hall credits a lot of her improvement to training with a team in Ethiopia this time around rather and getting pulled along in workouts by women much faster than her.
• Good Read: Q&A With Steve Magness Talking Coaching And Training Some interesting topics are discussed here, including mileage for mid-d runners, altitude training vs. altitude tens and how the most important part of recovery might be “social interaction.”
• Run Blog Run: “Putting Rio Disappointment Behind Him, Robby Andrews Looks Ahead” Getting over missing the Rio 1,500 final on a DQ was tough for Andrews to get over, but he says, “For whatever reason, that’s how it was meant to be; but it keeps me hungry, that’s for sure!”
• Johnny Gregorek And His Father Now The Fastest Father/Son Combo Milers Amazingly, the Gregoreks now have a faster average mile PR than even Kip Keino and his father and the Centrowitzes.
• MB: Courtney Dauwalter Breaks US 24-Hour Record Running on a track, she did a little over 250 kilometers, which means she ran 9:16 pace for about 155.34 miles.

Update On NOP & The Sunday Times

LRC More From Leaked USADA Report – Alberto Salazar And Dr. Brown Used Risky “Procedures And Prescriptions Medications” To Increase Testosterone And Boost Performance USADA’s leaked report says Salazar “… repeatedly ignored the medical evidence and his athletes’ long-term health prospects.”

• The Guardian Writer Shares His Experience With L-Carnitine And Shares How The NOP Story Makes Him Question Whether He Should Be Using It Oliver Duggan writes, “The boxes in my home look less like the virtuous health boost they did last week, and more like my own personal slice of scientific abandon.”
• Jessica Ennis’ Former Coach Toni Minichiello Calls For Independent Inquiry Into Allegations Against Alberto Salazar UK Athletics investigated themselves back in 2015, but Minichiello thinks a more independent look is needed from someone like Richard McLaren or Dick Pound.

A Magical Day In Japan As Both All-Comers Records Fall @ Tokyo *Results

LRC Wilson Kipsang Enters All-Time Great Status With 2:03:58 Japanese All-Comers Record In Tokyo Kipsang now has 4 sub-2:04 clockings to his name. No one else has more than 2. Andrew Bumbalough ran 2:13:58 in his debut.

LRC Kenyan Sarah Chepchirchir Announces Herself As A Marathon Star, Wins Tokyo In 2:19:47; American Sara Hall Runs Big PR Of 2:28: 26 Betsy Saina went for it big-time and blew up and dropped out.

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