2017 adidas Boost Boston Games *LRC Preview

LRC Sunday Recap: Tori Bowie (16.30 150) & Shaunae Miller-Uibo (21.76 200) Set World Bests In Straight Sprints As Wayde van Niekerk Runs 19.84 The sprint stars delivered this afternoon in Boston. However, Olympic champs Jenn Suhr and Jeff Henderson weren’t able to win.

LRC Friday Recap: Muktar Edris Rips 13:01.04 5K; Charlene Lipsey (1:59.57) Keeps Rolling In 800; Gabe Grunewald Runs Final Race Before Beginning Chemo Edris outdueled Kenyan Cyrus Rutto (13:03.44). Other winners included Chris O’Hare (3:39.31 1,500) and Brandon McBride (1:45.36) over Donavan Brazier & Robby Andrews in the 800.

LRC Chasing Usain Bolt: After A Historic Year, Wayde van Niekerk Finally Has Permission To Run The 200 Usain Bolt doesn’t want to face van Niekerk this year at 200. We can’t really blame him. But a Bolt-van Niekerk matchup would be epic.

LRC adidas Boost Boston Games Preview

Sprint / Jump News

Reccommended Must Read The LA Times Takes A Look At The Recovery Of Jamie Nieto – Once Paralyzed From The Neck Down, Nieto Is Now Hoping To Walk Down The Aisle At His Own Wedding Do yourself a favor and allow yourself 10 minutes so you can read the piece by Nathan Fenno and be inspired by Nieto.

• Greg Rutherford Re-Injures His Ankle In Italy – Goes To Hospital For Scans Afterwards
• Stephen Francis Isn’t Concerned At All That Elaine Thompson Got Smoked At The Pre Classic He notes that Tori Bowie destroyed Thompson last year at Pre as well and Thompson ended up being the double Olympic champ.
• Blanka Vlasic Hopes The Berlin Stadium – Where She Won WC Gold In 2009 – Isn’t Turned Into A Soccer-Only Stadium “We have a lot of great football stadiums, but we don’t have as many great track and field stadiums in the world that are specific and that are anything like Berlin’s Olympic Stadium, so I think it would really be a shame to turn it into something else.”
• 1984 Olympic 400H Silver Medalist And HS Coach Danny Lee Harris Arrested On Suspicion Of Contacting A Student “With Intent To Commit A Sex Crime”

• US’s Lauryn Williams Looks Back At The Controversial Finish In The 2007 World Champs 100m When She Had To Wait 30 Minutes To Find Out Who Won Williams and Veronica Campbell-Brown finished with the exact same time with the the scoreboard first flashing up VCB as the winner, then Williams and back to VCB.
• Justin Gatlin Isn’t Convinced Usain Bolt Will Retire After This Season “I would like to buy into [Bolt’s plans to retire], but I’m thinking at this point in time, I’m kind of on the fence about that.”
• Oh No, Say It Isn’t So:Carmelita Jeter Won’t Race In 2017 Jeter says she isn’t retired and is still training “just to stay in shape,” but won’t race this season.
• After Two Injury-Hit Seasons, 2008 Olympic 110H Champ Dayron Robles Says He Is In Good Shape And Targeting London Worlds Robles has only ran 13.66 this season, still a ways off the 13.48 needed for selection.
• Usain Bolt Took More Than 2 Weeks Off To Mourn The Loss Of A Good Friend

News From Oregon

• Oregon Coach Robert Johnson Says The Team Embraces The Pursuit Of The Triple Crown “It’s here now. We’re going to talk about it probably ad nauseum until the meet.”
• Register-Guard:“Newcomers Have Made A Big Impact On The Oregon Ducks” A look at the transfers and freshmen who will make an immediate impact for Oregon in their first year in Eugene.
• As Longtime Coach Kelly Sullivan Retires, Ken Goe Explains Why Being The Coach At Oregon State Is Such “A Tough Gig” Whether it’s the UO Ducks or OSU baseball, Oregon State has a lot of competition for attention/support.

More Weekend / Upcoming Track Action

• World Indoor TJ Champ Yulimar Rojas Leaps 14.96m To Win In Spain In the rarely run 2,000m steeple, Kenya’s Benjamin Kigen ran 5:18.67, the fastest time in the world in 10 years.
• Saturday:Brazil’s Olmpic Pole Vault Champ Tiago Braz Da Silva Highliths Field For Brazil IAAF World Challenge Meet
• June 15:Deep 400H Field Set For Oslo Bislett Games With Olympic Champ Kerron Clement, World Champ Nicholas Bett And Euro Champ Yasmani Copello
• July 12:South Africa Names Team For World U18 Champinoships

Oregon News: King Ches Goes Pro

• MB:Edward Cheserek Goes Pro, Signs With Chris Layne At Total Sports
• Alan Abrahamson:“If a track meet happens in the forest, does it make a sound?” Abrahamson thinks if the sport is ever going to be popular, we need to stop holding every meet in Eugene.
  *Ken Goe Responds:“Don’t Blame Eugene For The State Of The Sport In The US” Goe says it’s “not Eugene’s fault” that Pre is the only DL meet in the US, pointing out other big meets like the adidas GP in NYC didn’t survive.
• Race Day Make-Up Is A Big Thing For Raevyn Rogers Rogers spends an hour-and-a-half of her pre-race routine on her appearance. This emphasis on looking “girlier” goes back to when she was in middle school and people compared her to a boy because she was good at sports.
• Kelly Sullivan Retires After 14 Years Coaching At Oregon State