2017 Boston Marathon Rankings

LRC The Boston Marathon Report Cards Are Out – We Rate the Runners A Through dnF We rank the top 10 and the Americans on their Boston performances. Someone pictured might have gotten an A+.

Doping News

• Top Kenyans Say They Are “Embarrassed” And “Ashamed” Of Jemima Sumgong Vivian Cheruiyot, Florence Kiplagat and Mary Keitany all spoke out against her at the London Marathon press conference.
• Former UK Athletics Chief Medical Officer Chastised For “Inexcusable” Conduct When He Failed To Record Mo Farah’s L-Carnitine Injection Dr. Rob Chakraverty was questioned by UK MPs and said he had simply forgotten to record the treatment as he was busy and flying out the next day.
  *The Independent article The doctor said the 13.5mL injection was well below the maximum 50mL allowed within 6-hours.
• It Never Ends: Russia State Medical Agency Boasts That It Has New And Improved Alternatives To Meldonium The agency claimed it has found “several drugs which are not banned and work significantly better than meldonium.”
• Five Russian Athletes Given 2-Year Doping Bans After Being Caught In 2012 Olympic And 2013 World Re-Tests Sprinter Antonina Krivoshapka will lose her 2013 400m bronze and 4×400, meaning the Team USA squad of Jessica Beard, Natasha Hastings, Ashley Spencer and Francena McCorory will be promoted to gold.
• Five-Time Russian Olympic Gymnastics Medal Winner Denis Ablyazin Questioned As A “Witness” To Doping In Russian T&F

2017 London Marathon Is Sunday

LRC 2017 London Marathon Men’s Preview: Kenenisa Bekele Takes On Ghirmay Ghebreslassie, Feyisa Lilesa, Abel Kirui & Rising Star Daniel Wanjiru In Another Stacked Race Even without Eliud Kipchoge, the 2017 London race is LOADED as Bekele (Berlin), Ghebreslassie (NYC), Kirui (Chicago) & Wanjiru (Amsterdam) all won big fall marathons, while Lilesa took Olympic silver in Rio. Kenyan stud Bedan Karoki (’15 World XC/’16 World Half silver) is also making his debut.

Upcoming Action: World Relays Are This Weekend

• $1.26 Million In Prize Money Up For Grabs At World Relays This Weekend $50,000 to the winning teams with bonuses for WRs.
• Event-By-Event World Relays Previews
  *World Relays Provisional Entry Lists
• May 5: Olympic HJ Silver Medalist Mutaz Barshim Leads List Of Qatar Olympians And Rising Stars For Doha DL
• May 27: Olympic Champ Omar McLeod And WR Holder Aries Merritt Lead Pre Classic 110H Field The field also includes Russia’s recently cleared to compete world champ Sergey Shubenkov, David Oliver and France’s Pascal Martinot-Lagarde.

NCAA News

• Event-By-Event Top-10 Marks From The Weekend Top distance results not already mentioned include Elinor Purrier‘s 9:43 steeple win at Ocean State Invy and the 1:45.70 Eliud Rutto ran behind Clayton Murphy at Mt. SAC.
• Future NCAA Championship Sites Announced Through 2022 XC and indoor will move around a lot while outdoor will stay in Eugene through at least 2021.
• NCAA Events Returned To North Carolina After Repeal Of Transgender Bathroom Law
• NCAA Atheltes Of The Week Are Josh Kerr And Raevyn Rogers Rogers set the NCAA 800 record at 1:59.10 while Kerr put himself #6 all-time with 3:35.99.
• Updated Women’s NCAA Rankings No changes to the top 5 as Oregon stays #1.
• Updated Men’s Collegiate Rankings Top 5 remain unchanged with Florida ranked #1.

2017 Boston Marathon *Tracking And Live Results

LRC Updated Geoffrey Kirui Outduels Galen Rupp Over Final 5 Miles To Win 2017 Boston Marathon A great run by Kirui to put back a stiff challenge from American Galen Rupp.

LRC 7 Thoughts On Men’s Race In Boston: Galen Rupp More Than Leads The Way With Six Americans In Top 10 A Kenyan may have won and a Japanese guy was 3rd, but Galen Rupp led the American invasion (these points are in our full race article above).

LRC Boston Winner Geoffrey Kirui Does “… 70% (of) the preparation of a real marathon runner.” Life isn’t always fair.

Boston Marathon Discussion

• Official 2017 Boston Marathon Live Discussion Thread
• Jordan MF Hasay
• Geoffrey Kirui had no idea who Galen Rupp was – he just asked him what his name was in the press conference
• not a good day 4 jordan hasay haters
• Will “Salazar Can’t Coach the Marathon ” be put to rest today?
• inferring Rupp’s flat marathon ability from Boston
• Hall would have won Boston today! 
• What did Rupp have on his calves?
• Can Galen beat Ryan Hall’s time?
• Huddle v Hasay
• WOAH!! ABDI IS IN THE LEAD PACK AT 18!!! 

Previous Coverage In Our 2017 Boston Marathon Special Section

Other News

• Triple Jump Star PPP May Have Defected From Cuba Pedro Pablo Pichardo was training in Germany but there is zero trace of him.
• Eunice Sum Wins Her 1st Race Since Rio Olympics – 4:13 1,500m
• Interview With Australia’s Michael Hillardt: 1985 World Indoor 1,500m Champion

News From Europe

• Eilish McColgan And Others Talk About What It’s Like To Be A Pro Athlete When Your Parent Was A Really Famous Pro Athlete Liz McColgan somehow won World 10,000 gold in 1991 – just 9 months after giving birth to Eilish.
• Britain Forfeits Again – Pulls Out Of Women’s 4 X 100 For 2017 World Relays
• Chrissie Wellington, Who Won 4 Ironman World Titles, Is Running This Year’s London Marathon
• Pat Butcher Wonders Whatever Happened To Kid Phenoms Zhang Huimin And Budhia Singh And Wonders How Much Running For Young Kids Constitutes Abuse If you know what Huimin or Singh are up to, email us as we wonder too.
• We Wish This Was A Joke IAAF Has Proposed That The IOC Add A 4 X 5,000 Mixed-Gender Racewalk For 2020 Olympics Talk about change for change’s sake.

Jumps And Throws

• New Zealand’s Olympic Shot Put Bronze Medalist Tom Walsh Shares His Tips For Sport And Life Walsh says he likes to play golf while traveling on the athletics circuit and he and his coach have a rule that they don’t talk track on the golf course.
• Italy’s World Indoor HJ Champ Gianmarco Tamberi Is “Back On The Road To The Big Time” After Heartbreaking Injury Kept Him From Rio Tamberi says he spent a week in bed crying when he missed Rio and is already counting down the days until Tokyo 2020.
• World Junior Record holder Mondo Duplantis Will Compete In Pre Classic Pole Vault
• GB Indoor Record Holder Lorraine Ugen Hopes To Continue The Resurgence Of The Women’s Long Jump In The UK Shara Proctor won GB’s first World LJ medal in 2015 with a NR and Ugen knows it’ll take another record jump replicate that in 2017.
• IAAF Profile On GB’s Olympic Bronze Medalist Hammer Thrower Sophie Hitchon Hitchon talks about how she bounced back from a bad rut in 2014-2015 to win a medal in 2016.

Other Assorted News

• Good Read: Samford University Assistant Coach And Sub-4 Miler Pat McGregor Going For A Streak Of Sub-5:00 Miles 105 Days In A Row He’s trying to break the record that was actually set by his high school coach Devon Hind in 1979.
• Props, But Sad That It’s Come To This: Beijing Marathon To Use Facial Recognition In Cheating Crackdown Race organizers are doing this in reaction to many instances of runners hiring “ringers” to run in their place with their bib.
• 3000m World Record Holder Daniel Komen Charged With Fraud And Forgery He is accused of trying to defrauding someone of a card, but he denies the charges claiming he’s being framed by political enemies.
  *MB: Daniel Komen finally busted!
• UK Drunk Driver Jailed For 6-Years For Killing Two Teenage Runners Last Fall The driver, a British soldier, pleaded guilty and admitted to driving drunk and speeding.
• IAAF To Keep 50K Race Walk On Program For Tokyo 2020 Games Plans to replace it and the 20K with a half-marathon for men and women were opposed by the IAAF Council after a campaign from the world’s leading race walkers.

Previous Boston News

• Good Read: Jordan Hasay Shares Some Thoughts Before Her Marathon Debut Hasay says her favorite marathon workout is a 20-mile long run and her least favorite is a 800/300 workout at faster than race pace which always feel “absolutely horrible.”
• DyeStat Q&A: Catching Up With Boston-Bound Jared Ward Ward says he isn’t in quite as good shape as when he got 6th in Rio, but says his long runs “have been as good as they have ever been.”
• Q&A With Longtime Boston Marathon RD Dave McGillivray As He Prepares To Run His 30th “Solothon” Every year long after the race is over, McGillivray runs the Boston course alone in the dark. He says he won’t run the regular race again until he retires from directing.
• Runner’s World Lists Their “12 Most Important Boston Marathons” A look back at some of the more significant moments in Boston history.
• Details From FBI Interview With Deceased Boston Bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev Revealed The FBI interviewed Tsarnaev in 2011 two years before the Boston bombing, but said they saw no evidence of terrorism.
• Boston Marathon Weather Forecast Calling For Temps Starting In The Low 50s With Partial Sunshine

International Sprints, Jumps And Throws

• Wayde Van Niekerk Wants To Go After Usain Bolt’s 100m And 200m World Records Van Niekerk is the first man in history to run 100m in under 10 seconds, 200m in under 20 seconds and 400m in under 44 seconds, but his 9.98 and 19.94 PRs are a long way from Bolt’s 9.58 and 19.19. *Discuss
• June 11: World 200m Champ Dafne Schippers Announced For FBK Games She’ll be going for her third straight win there as she set the meet records in the 100 and 200 the last two years.
• The Sydney Morning Herald Takes A Look Back At Sally Pearson’s Golden Moment At The 2014 Commonwealth Games One of the biggest obstacles Pearson had to overcome was the conflict with the polarizing Australian head coach Eric Hollinsworth.
• Austria’s European Indoor Pentathlon Silver Medalist Ivona Dadic Talks About Her Big Breakthrough This Season Dadic set a slew of PRs this indoor season which culminated with her silver medal and a national pentathlon record.
• IAAF Inside Athletics Video: Ato Boldon Interviews Jamaica’s Olympic 110H Champ Omar McLeod
• Decathlon Legend Daley Thompson Has Faith Katarina Johnson Thompson Can Be “One Of The Stars Of London 2017”