– 20-year-old British sprinter Julia Cook writing in Athletics Weekly about the psychological toll that injuries take on young athletes.
MB: Official 2017 Shanghai Diamond League Live Discussion Thread
LRC Are You Ready For Some Saturday Morning Track And Field? 2017 Shanghai Diamond League Preview: Olympic Champs David Rudisha & Faith Kipyegon Open Their 2017 Seasons, Plus Jebet-Kiyeng Round II In The Steeple On Saturday morning, it will be time to turn off the cartoons and tell the kiddos they’ll be watching track as the Shanghai DL starts at 7 am ET. Americans Katie Mackey, Cas Loxsom, Stephanie Garcia and more will be racing.
LRC How Far Did Eliud Kipchoge Really Run In His Breaking 2 Attempt? What Was the Deal With Him Crossing the Blue Line? Kipchoge’s incredible 2:00:25 clocking wasn’t achieved because he ran less than 26.2 miles. No, the course may have actually been seven seconds long.
LRC Breaking2 Falls Short, But Eliud Kipchoge Runs An Astonishing 2:00:25 It won’t go in any record books, but Kipchoge showed once again he is the greatest marathoner of all time. We try to break down his remarkable run.
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*Form Analysis:What Could Nike Scientists Do To Better Manage Fatigue The Next Time Around?
*Pat Butcher:“So, Superman is not a big, chisel-jawed white Jewish guy from New York, after all. He is a weedy little black guy from 3,000 metres up in the Great Rift Valley in Kenya.”
*RW:Processing The Aftermath Of The Sub-2:00 Attempt An interesting note is that Kipchoge unexpectedly used the new Swedish sports drink used by Kenenisa Bekele and the rival Sub2Hr project.
*IAAF:Eliud Kipchoge A “Happy Man” “I hope next time people believe it is possible.”
*NY Times:Eliud Kipchoge Runs World’s Fastest Marathon, In Nike’s Special Shoes
*WSJ: Nike Marathon Stunt Fails To Break Two-Hour Barrier
Alexi Pappas’ Film TrackTown Opens Today (May 12) In Boston, Chicago, Columbus, Corvallis, Eugene, Portland, San Fan, Seattle, LA And NYC If you don’t live there, you can also watch it on itunes. If you thought it came out last June (like we did), that was just the premiere.
LRC Pacing2: Chris Derrick & Andrew Bumbalough Tell What It Was Like To Pace Eliud Kipchoge To 2:00:25 Derrick and Bumbalough talk about not only the details of the attempt but also their tremendous respect for Kipchoge.
LRC Nike Or Its PR Firm Altered The Time On The Clock In Eliud Kipchoge Breaking2 Finish Line Photo The best marketers in the world wanted everything to look perfect, so they just added 2 seconds to the finish line clock photo they sent out, which was off.
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