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• PV: Mondo Duplantis Breaks Pole Vault World Jr. Record With 19’4.25″ At Texas Relays! It’s also a Swedish national senior record for the Louisiana junior.
• Mile: HSer Sam Worley Beats Leo Manzano In Texas Relays Mile – Runs 4:00.61!
• 800: Michael Saruni (1:45.82) Guns Down Donavan Brazier (1:46.11) As Leo Manzano Runs 1:50 

• Texas A&M’s Lindon Victor Breaks Collegiate Decathlon Record With A Score Of 8,472 Points He broke Trey Hardee‘s mark from 2006 by 7 points. Afterwards Victor said, “I don’t think my record will last as long as Trey’s did. I think it will only last a few months, until I do my next one.”
  *A&M’s Ioannis Kyriazis Throws NCAA #2 All-Time In Javelin (288’9″ – 88.01m)
• Carl Lewis Says He Prefers The Texas Relays To The Penn Relays

Florida Relays: Live Results / Schedule

• Oregon Ducks Break 4 X 100 And 4 X 200 Collegiate Records The new records are 42.34 and 1:28.78. In the 4 x 200, Dafne Schippers ran down Ariana Washington.
• Oregon’s Alaysha Johnson Destroys Oregon School Record As Well As NCAA 60H Champ With 12.69 At Florida Relays Oregon’s women’s sprint squad is so good it’s amazing as their previous school record holder – Sasha Wallace (NCAA 60H champ) – was 6th in the race.
  
• Florida’s Eric Futch & TJ Holmes Both Break 50 In 400H
  
• Florida’s Clayton Brown Cleared A Nation-Leading 2.21 Meters (7 Feet, 3 Inches) In HJ, Then Jumps 25 Feet (7.62m) In LJ Less Than 30 Minutes Later
  
• Veronica Campbell-Brown Runs World-Leading 200m With 22.60 At Florida Relays

Stanford Invitational: Live Results / Entries / Schedule

• 18-year old Juco runner Quincy Hall runs 45.32 world lead at Stanford!! The kid is a talent as at age 16 and 1 month, he ran 46.71 in HS.
• 10k: Anna Rohrer Runs 31:58.99 In 10k Debut For Win At Stanford! Abbabiya Simbassa (28:03) Wins Men’s Race Rohrer got the WChamps standard and is the 7th-fastest collegian ever. Stephanie Bruce, who was 22nd at World XC last week, was 2nd in 31:59. Stars Edward Cheserek (28:46) and Molly  Seidel (33:19) won the slow heats.
  
• 5ks: Amy-Eloise Neale (15:39.30) Beats Karissa Schweizer To Win Stanford 5k, David Elliot (13:36) Wins Men’s Race 
  
• Steeple: Allie Ostrander Runs 9:55 FTW In Her Steeple Debut Michael Jordan won the men’s race in 8:33.
  
• 1,500s: Fresno State’s Annemarie Schwanz (4:13.82) And Ok State’s Josh Thompson (3:41.80) Win
  
• MB: Runners Slam Into Official In Men’s 1,500 At Stanford (Video)

Gonzaga Coach Pat Tyson (And Former HS Legendary Coach) Says He’ll Never Retire

A Ton Of Other Quality Road Racing Is Taking Place This Weekend

• RRW: Americans Shannon Rowbury, Paul Chelimo To Take On International Rivals At Sunday’s Carlsbad 5,000 Rowbury faces Viola Lagat, former All-American Dominque Scott and Neely Gracey while the men’s race has 2012 Olympic silver medalist Dejen Gebremeskel, Will Leer, GB’s Andy Vernon and Aussie Collis Birmingham.
• Berlin Half Marathon Preview: Men’s Race Led By Sub-60 Minute Kenyans David Kogei, Gilbert Masai And Daniel Chebii Sarah Hall is in the women’s field which is lead by the race’s past two winners Elizeba Cherono and Cynthia Kosgei.
• MB: Michael Wardian Set to Race Barkley (Ultra) Marathons After Running 2:29 Marathon On Indoor Track Last Week For some good reads on this epic ultra race which has way more DNFs than actual finishers, go to our Barkely Marathons archive page.
• $62,000 In Prize Money Up For Grabs At The Cooper River Bridge Run 10K In Charlotte, NC Fields include last year’s winner Monicah Ngige, former NYC Marathon champ Firehiwot Dado, Amy Van Alstine, Becky Wade, Jen Rhines for the women and 2-time defending champ Dominic Ondoro, Shadrack Kipchirchir, Jon Grey, Kirubel Erassa for the men.
• Past Winners And Top American Set Headline Strong Field For Credit Union SACTOWN Run 10 Mile The men’s race includes Aaron Braun, Andrew Lemoncello and Fernando Cabada while the women are lead by Kenya’s defending champ Jane Kibii.

Japanese News: Kawauchi Corner

• Recommended Reads: Lengthy 3-Part Blog Series By Japanese Citizen Runner Yuki Kawauchi In the first part, Kawauchi talks about the “miracle in Fukuoka” where despite a sprained ankle, he fought through to finish 3rd (top Japanese man) and make the 2017 World team.
  *Part 2: Kawauchi Clarifies That He Isn’t Retiring After London, Just Not Seeking National Team Berths “Unless you give up the fight, there’s no retirement for amateur runners.”
  *Part 3: “The Lessons Of The Past Are Not ‘Outdated'”
• Yuki Kawauchi Butted Heads With Japan National Long Distance Head Toshihiko Seko At Worlds Meeting Kawauchi had some witty remarks to Seko’s speech and Sekio criticized Kawauchi thinking too much about being weak in the heat. An interesting exchange for sure.
• The Japan Times: Change To Japan’s Marathon Team Selection In Works For 2020 Games They’re considering taking a page out of the US book and having the top two finishers at a trials race qualify automatically with a third being selected based on whoever has the fastest qualifying time.

Drug Busts

• Russia’s Mariya Savinova Launches CAS Appeal Over Her Doping Ban And Stripped Medals Savinova was banned for 4 years and lost her 2012 Olympic, 2011 World and 2010 European golds.
• Dopers, Watch Out: Craig Reedie Says More Whistleblowers Are Talking To WADA Reedie says he has been told that a number of whistleblowers are working with WADA, but he himself doesn’t know the specifics because it remains confidential.
• Former Hammer World Record Holder Gulfiya Khanafeyeva Among Four Russians Diqualified From London 2012 Olympics Khanafeyeva, another hammer thrower, a triple jumper and weightlifter were sanctioned after being caught in doping retests.
• Jamaica’s Riker Hylton Files For Dismissal Of His Provisional Doping Ban

Looking Ahead On The Track

• May 13: Shanghai Diamond League Meet WIll Have 13 Olympic Champions Distance headliners include David Rudisha, Faith Kipyegon, Ruth Jebet and Almaz Ayana.
• May 27: Eugene Assembles Its Best-Ever Women’s Javelin Field Pre will have all three Olympic medalists, the World champion, the European champion and the 2016 Diamond League winner … amazingly they are all different people.
• June 13: World Champ Julius Yego, 2012 Olympic Champ Keshorn Walcott And 2007 World Tero Pitkamaki Added To Paavo Nurmi Games Javelin Field They’ll face off against Olympic champ Thomas Rohler.