LetsRun.com Goes To 2017 World XC

LRC The World’s Greatest Footrace – 2017 World XC Champs Senior Men’s Preview: Can Geoffrey Kamworor Lead Kenya to Team Gold? Can the Americans Medal? Geoffrey Kamworor is looking to become the 1st man since 2006 to successfully defend his world cross country crown. Can he do it? If he falters, who is likely to win? Can the Americans possibly pick up their first individual medal since Alberto Salazar‘s silver in 1982? They’ve certainly got a good chance, particularly if Olympic 5000 silver medalist Paul Chelimo, who is in Uganda ready to race the 10k (but currently only on the 4 x 2k relay), somehow ends up running.

LRC U.S. Champ Leonard Korir Says the American Men Can Win Team Gold at World XC The US men have never won team gold.

LRC Photos Of Eliud Kipchoge Working Out In Nike Zoom Vaporfly Elite Shoes On our way to Uganda for the World XC champs, we made a detour to spend the day with the world’s greatest marathoner, Eliud Kipchoge.

• Senior Men Preview: Geoffrey Kamworor Is Back To Try And Win Another Global Title Kamworor will have his hands full as he is up against Kenyan XC champ Leonard Barsoton, Ethiopian national champ Getaneh Molla, world XC bronze medalist Muktar Edris and USA’s Leonard Korir.
• Senior Women: Kenya’s Agnes Tirop Will Try To Become The First Back-To-Back Champ Since Tirunesh Dibaba In 2005-06 She’ll face last year’s runner-up Senbere Teferi, Olympic 1,500 champ Faith Kipyegon and Olympic steeple champ Ruth Jebet.
• Mixed Relay: World XC Mixed Relay Highlighted By Two Of The All-Time Best 1,500m Runners In Genzebe Dibaba And Asbel Kiprop Olympic silver medailst Paul Chelimo leads Team USA.
• Kenyan Media Calls Out USATF For Sending A Team To World XC In Uganda, But Skipping World U18 Champs In Kenya Over Security Concerns
• Kampala Won’t Be A Cup Of Tea For Kenyans Warns Uganda’s Former Olympic Marathon Champion Stephen Kiprotich “I want to welcome team Kenya in Kampala and they should feel at home but I must warn them that they should prepare for a real battle.”
• Men U20: World U18 3,000m Champ Richard Kimunyan Yator Is The Favorite After Dominating Kenyan Trials Since 1988, Kenya has won every team title except two and only once has a team other than Kenya or Ethiopia finished in the top two (Eritrea silver in 2007).
• Women Under-20: Ethiopia’s Letesenbet Gidey Returns To Defend Her Title Against Kenya’s World U20 Steeple Champ Celliphine Chepteek Chespol In the 25 editions since the junior race started in 1989, Kenya and Ethiopia have won every team title and the last individual winner not from Kenya or Ethiopia was 22-years ago.
• AFP: Kampala Set To Host Uganda’s Biggest Ever Sports Event More than 550 athletes from 59 countries and one refugee team from South Sudan will compete.

Looking Ahead To Outdoor

• May 5: Elaine Thompson Vs. Dafne Schippers Vs. Veronica Campbell-Brown Will Be One Of The Meet Highlights At This Year’s Doha Diamond League Meet Other meet highlights will include LaShawn Merritt vs. Kirani James at 400, Olympic champ Ekaterini Stefanidi vs. Sandi Morris in the PV and Mutaz Barshim vs. Erik Kynard in the HJ.
• May 20: Double Olympic Champ Elaine Thompson And 100H WR Holder Keni Harrison Confirmed For Jamaican Invitational The 200 has LaShawn Merritt against Andre De Grasse and Devon Allen is in the 110H.
• May 27: Olympic Champ Ruth Beitia Leads Deep High Jump Field For The Pre Classic She’ll face USA’s World Indoor champ Vashti Cunningham and former Olympic medalist Chaunte Lowe.
• June 13: World Record Holder Renaud Lavillenie Highlights Pole Vault Field For Paavo Nurmi Games

Previous World XC News

• IAAF Profile: Ethiopian National 5,000/XC Champ Getaneh Molla Holds Key To Ethiopian Revival In Kampala Some are comparing him to Kenenisa Bekele but Molla won’t have it, saying, “Comparing me against Kenenisa [Bekele] is impractical. Kenenisa is a unique creature. He is my inspiration …”
• Geoffrey Kamworor Determined To Defend His World XC Title And Is “Ready To Fight With Anyone” Kamworor is confident that he’s back in top shape after an injury last year saw him under perform in Rio.
• Asbel Kiprop Confident Kenya Can Win The Mixed Relay Race Despite Having To Face Genzebe Dibaba On The Ethiopian Squad
  *Competition For Kenyan Relay Spots Still High As Coach Has Yet To Finalize The Team Six athletes are fighting for four available spots.
• Q&A With NCAA Champ Patrick Tiernan Ahead Of His First World XC Meet Tiernen talks about his love for XC and what he’s looking forward to about racing in Kampala.
• Cross-Country Greats Paul Tergat And John Ngugi Have High Hopes For Kenyan Squad In Kampala
• $310,000 Prize Money Up For Grabs At World XC Individual winners get $30,000 while the top teams win $20,000.
• IAAF Stats, Facts And Figures It’s been 10 years since an athlete not from Kenya or Ethiopia won an individual title. The last time a team title that went to anyone besides Kenya or Ethiopia was 1981 when the US junior team won.
• World XC Preliminary Entries Also course and scoring info.
• MB: Breaking: Science of Sport calls for Nike Vaporfly Elite to be banned Perhaps that’s what Nike wanted – free publicty.
  
• MB: LetsRun.com has landed in Kenya

US Distance Updates: Boston Is In Less Than A Month

• Video Q&A/Article: Desi Linden Really Wants To Win In Boston “I don’t think you should be afraid of your goals. If you can’t say it out loud, you don’t really buy into it. So putting it out there in the universe, it makes it easier for me to try and tackle and get excited about.”
• Good Read: Kara Goucher Q&A: Goucher Is Back Training, But Says Retirement Was On The Table When She Missed 5 Months This Summer With Two Knee Surgeries Goucher also talks about Nike’s new sub-2 hour shoes and was “pretty upset” when she found out Shalane Flanagan and Amy Cragg were wearing an early version of them at the Olympic Trials.
• AP: Meb Keflezighi Is Racing Toward Retirement” Meb: “People say, ‘Why stop? You’re still at a high level.’ But it takes a lot out of you. Even when my family gets together, I’ve got to get my run in.”
• Shalane Flanagan Will Be Part Of Boston Marathon Local Broadcast Team Flanagan had to miss this year’s race with injury, but in a video interview says she’s “pumped” to help commentate on the race.
• Brenda Martinez Gets A New Sponsor In Cercacor Cercacor is a company that makes “the world’s first non-invasive hemoglobin tracker for endurance athletes.”

Championship Hosting Updates

• Prevailing Opinion Is That If The IOC Decides To Award The 2024 And 2028 Games Simultaneously, Then LA Will Have To Wait Until 2028 Paris has claimed that the land reserved for the Olympic Village won’t be available in 2028.
• InsideTheGames: “LA 2024 Take Swipe At Paris 2024 By Promising To Promote French Language At 2024 Games”
• The 2019 Pan American Games Could Be Moved From Peru Due To Current Intense Flooding Many have called for the money allocated for the Games to be used to help flood recovery.
• Turkish President Claims Country Deserves To Host Olympic Games Losing the 2020 Games to Tokyo was their 5th failed bid attempt.
• LA Mayor Says Los Angeles Marathon A Sign Of How Fan Friendly 2024 Olympics Could Be
• Four Australian Cities Interested In Hosting 2022 Commonwealth Games

NCAA ` Outdoor News

Sprint Stuff

• Good Read: Did You Know That GB’s 2-Time Euro Indoor 60m Champion Richard Kilty Actually Retired Back In 2012? He was so heart broken to miss the 2012 Games with an injury that he quit the sport for 5 months, but came back because he “didn’t want to be the sort of person who had regrets.”
• Usain Bolt Says He Might Shed A Tear During His Last Race In Jamaica Even Though He’s “Not An Emotional Person”
• Records Go Down At South African Regional Championship Meet As Olympic LJ Silver Medalist Luvo Manyonga Breaks African Record With 8.62m The world U18 400H and South African junior 100m records also went down as Sokwakhana Zazini ran 48.84 and Gift Leotlela ran 10.12.
• South African History Is Made As Two Athleties Break 10 Seconds In The Same Race For The First Time Akani Simbine and Thando Roto ran 9.92 and 9.95 seconds with Roto becoming the 5th South African to go under the 10-second barrier.

Hosting Updates

• Olympic Columnist Alan Abrahamson Analyzes And Decodes Recent IOC Jargon, Explains Why LA Is The Only Choice That Makes Sense For 2024 Abrahamson also touches on the idea of a double bid and concludes with, “If Paris wants 2028, that’s altogether another matter. Some good lawyers can work that out.”
• LA Marathon Using Snapchat To Showcase Social Media Innovations LA 2024 Could Bring
• Sydney Set To Join Race To Host 2022 Commonwealth Games

NZ Nationals *FreeStream *NZ Schedule, Start Lists, Results *Preview

• Day 2: Joseph Millar Completes 100/200 Double In Style With National Record (20.37) – Upstages Walsh & McCartney At NZ Champs
• NZ Champs: New King Reigns As Stu Farquhar Vacates Javelin Throne Farquhar is basically retired after Rio but he still threw hoping to win national title #17.
• Day 1 Of NZ Champs: Joseph Millar Runs Fastest 100m By Kiwi (10.18) On New Zealand Soil To Win 100m

Random But Maybe Worth A Click

• Jailed transgender who was convicted of attempted murder of a UK Athletics official thought UK Athletics was ‘trying to kill her’ She was irate that they wanted her to take a blood test to prove her testosterone wasn’t giving her an unfair advantage.
• JAAF Announces Marathon Teams for London World Championships – Yuki Kawauchi makes the cut
• IOC creates working group to study Olympic bidding – Many think this means Paris and LA might get a big

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