June 9, 2017 | LetsRun.com

Quote Of The Day

“The United States Anti-Doping Agency has sent an official notice of rules violations to an endocrinologist who has treated several Olympians in the Nike Oregon Project stable of elite runners, according to multiple people familiar with the case.

“The notice is a formal signal that officials are pursuing sanctions in the case. The antidoping agency has said a broad investigation into the Nike Oregon Project is continuing; officials are believed to be building cases against athletes and Alberto Salazar, the leader of the prominent team, who has trained some of the most decorated track athletes in the world.”

– Opening two paragraphs of a NY Times article that was published Thursday afternoon.

MB: Dr. Brown notified of doping charges – Is Alberto Salazar next?
MB: I’m sick of anti Nike, NOP, Salazar, Rupp bias on LR

2017 NCAAs TV & Streaming Schedule & Results Men’s Preview Women’s Preview Projected Team Scores / Event-By-Event Breakdown LRC Video Interviews

LRC 2017 NCAA Men’s Fan Polls

MB: Official 2017 NCAA Outdoor Day 3 Discussion Thread A year’s worth of work – even a lifetime’s – basically comes down to one day for all the glory. Who wins the 1500 – Engels or Kerr? Who wins the 5000 – Knight or Fisher? Can Emmanuel Korir take over for Donavan Brazier?

LRC Charlotte Taylor Wins 10,000m To Make History For University Of San Francisco At NCAAs Taylor outkicked Alice Wright and Sharon Lokedi as pre-race favorite Anna Rohrer couldn’t overcome a herniated disc.
*MB: Dreams Become Reality- Alyssa Snyder of Montana State runs back to back 5k prs to finish 4th in NCAA 10,000m
*Montana State Sophomore Alyssa Snyder Was “Pretty Surprised” To Be The Top American In The 10,000 In 4th

LRC Rest Of Day 2 Recap: Some Big Names Go Home In The 800, Georgia Goes 1-2 In Long Jump & Oregon Catches A Break In 100 Semis The Oregon women no longer look invincible. Plus we recap the 800/1,500/steeple semis.

MB: 2017 NCAA Championships – Official Day 2 Live Discussion Thread

Outside Coverage

Ken Goe: Oregon Ducks Skirt Disaster, Remain In Position To Win The Women’s NCAA Track Championship Olympians Ariana Washington and Deajah Stevens barely made the 100 final.
Sisters Christina And Danielle Aragon Raced Each Other In the 1,500 At NCAAs On Thursday They enjoyed it. “It was kind of a comfort being in the same heat,” Christina said. “But it’s also more nerve-racking because you aren’t just nervous for yourself; you’re also nervous for your sister.”
Shocking: LSU Women’s 4 X 100 Relay Team Disqualified So now both of the co-collegiate record holders won’t be in the final as Oregon was DQed at Regionals.
Razorback Women Have Solid First Day As Weeks Sisters Go 2-6 In Pole Vault
Arizona State’s Maggie Ewen Breaks 10-Year-Old NCAA Hammer Record To Win
Oregon Doesn’t Work Out For Everyone: A Look At The Returns Of Former Ducks Haley Crouser, Nikki Hiltz And Brittany Mann To Hayward Hiltz ran the second-best 1,500 time in the prelims.
Vin Lananna Reveals That He Separated The Men’s And Women’s Competitions At NCAAs So People Would Be Able To Follow The Team Scores

Men: Canada’s Justyn Knight No Longer “Star-Struck,” Eyes NCAA Track Title He’ll get ready by listening to Drake and watching a few episodes of “White Collar.”
Tired Texas A&M’s Lindon Victor Misses Ashton Eaton’s Meet Record But Wins Second NCAA Decathlon Title 1st-place points in the discus (174 feet, 11 inches) and javelin (220-7) really helped. “I worked so hard on the farm when I was growing up it’s paying off now. I’ve got a good arm.”
IUPUI Steeple Qualifier Robert Murphy Has Autism When he was younger, they feared he wouldn’t even graduate HS.

Full Coverage including previous days on our 2017 NCAA Outdoor Event Page. *LRC Video Interviews

NCAA Day 1 Coverage

LRC Tulsa’s Marc Scott Wins 2017 NCAA 10K Title Just Two Days After Being Hospitalized For A “Mini-Seizure” On Monday, four miles into a 10-mile run, Marc Scott suffered what he described as a “mini-seizure” which resulted in him going to the hospital. Today, he won his first NCAA title.

LRC Christian Coleman Blasts 9.82 100m To Crush The NCAA Record The University of Tennessee started didn’t wait long to make history. *Video Interview/Race

LRC Rest Of Day 1: Great Finals On Tap In 1,500 (Kerr Vs. Engels) & 800 (Korir Vs. Everybody) As Florida Goes 1-2 In The Long Jump Florida’s KeAndre Bates and Grant Holloway put on a show in the long jump and we should have a great show in the 1,500 final Friday.

LRC Video Interviews From The 2017 NCAA Outdoor Track And Field Championships Josh Kerr, Craig Engels, etc. We’re talking to all the stars as they step off the track.

Message Board Talk:

More NCAA Day 1 Coverage

RRW: On Eve of NCAA 1,500m Final, Craig Engels Ready To Bring Home Title Engels: “I’ve thought about it so much, what I would say. There’s nothing that can compare to it. I want that title more than anyone else can feel. We’ll see on Friday.”
Daily Emerald Calls Out Oregon Track Coaches For Restricting Press Access To Athletes They claim coaches often deny interview requests “without ever consulting the athletes … in an effort to control which stories about the team are disseminated in the news.”
RRW: After Overcoming Medical Emergency, Marc Scott Takes NCAA 10,000m Title
AP Day 1 Recap: Christian Coleman Has Become Good Friends And Gotten Advice From Justin Gatlin
IAAF: Christian Coleman Flies To World-Leading 9.82 Other day 1 winners included Virginia’s Filip Mihaljevic (shot put), Akron’s Matthew Ludwig (pole vault), and Texas A&M’s Ioannis Kyriazis (javelin). *Register-Guard Day 1
The Oregonian: Texas A&M Leads, Florida Lurks After NCAA Day 1 The team race looks to be tight between Texas A&M and Florida as they’re currently separated by 3 points.
Kyree King Comes Through Big As Oregon Men Try To “Scrounge” As Many Points As They Can Without Edward Cheserek King set school records in the 100 (10.00), 200 (20.27) and ran a leg on the school record setting 4 x 100. *Register-Guard Article
Cornell’s Rudy Winkler Wins NCAA Hammer Title With 243’2″ Throw
KeAndre Bates And Grant Holloway Go 1-2 In The LJ To Score 18 Points For Florida *2nd Article

Full Coverage on our 2017 NCAA Outoor Event Page.

Olympics / Admin.: Paris 2024, LA 2028?

Los Angeles Effectively Conceding The 2024 Summer Games To Paris? Bid leader Casey Wasserman talked about doing what was best for the Olympic movement and said “LA 2024 has never been only about LA or 2024.” While not an official concession, it’s pretty clear what direction this is moving.
Australian Brett Clothier Named As First Head Of IAAF Athletics Integrity Unit
NBA And WNBA Announce Support For LA 2024
Thomas Bach Wants To Move Towards A Recruitment Process Rather Than Current Candidature Process For Bidding For The Olympic Games
Paris 2024 Bid Receives Support From European Parliament

Nick Symmonds Has Made it to USAs

LRC Good News, Nick Symmonds: You’re Already Qualified for USAs He’s qualified thanks to his 2013 silver medal. It would be great if he could end his career at Worlds, but USAs would be a fitting place for the 6-time US champ to run his last race.

2017 Rome DL Results TV & Streaming

LRC 2017 Rome Diamond League Recap: Sifan Hassan And Hellen Obiri Impress – Is Konstanze Klostherhalfen The Greatest Non-African-Born Talent Ever? Sifan Hassan blasted a 3:56 1,500m, Hellen Obiri ran a 14:18 to destroy Genzeba Dibaba in the 5,000m. Andre De Grasse (200), Aries Merritt (110H), and Dafne Schippers (100) got back to their winning ways. Donavan Brazier was 3rd in his DL debut, there was a good battle in the steeple, Ekaterini Stefanidi took world record attempts in the pole vault, Lijiao Gong dominated the shot put, and Thomas Röhler threw 90 meters in the javelin. *Results

Sanctions Coming For The NOP Team Doc?

NY Times Says That USADA Has Notified Dr. Jeffrey Brown Of The Nike Oregon Project That He’s Committed Rules Violations The logical question then is, “Will Alberto Salazar be charged as well?”
*MB: Dr. Brown notified of doping charges – Is Alberto Salazar next?

Runner’s World Recalls The Key Developments In The Alleged NOP Doping Scandal That Has Now Been In The Press For 2+ Years

Interesting Reads

In The Name Of Berlino, Pat Butcher Urges Everyone To Try To Save Berlin’s Olympic Stadium Personally, we think large stadiums should be built for other sports (NFL in the US) but designed so a track can be built up over the first few rows for a few million.
Yuki Kawauchi Thinks It’s Absurd That Japanese Runners Are Obsessed With 2020 Olympics “It feels a bit like during the war era.There’s this Great Cause called the Tokyo Olympics, and everyone has to march in that direction. If you step out of line even just a tiny bit people say, ‘You’re a traitor!’ I hate that kind of atmosphere.”
Runner’s World Editor-In-Chief David Willey Is Stepping Down After 14 Years At The Helm He just ran a 3:28 marathon at age 49.
Diego Estrada Syas His Mom Told Him If They’s Stayed In Mexico He Would Have Fathered A Kid By Age 15 And Become A Bricklayer
Welsh Athlete Who Was 4th At World Orienteering Champs Runs 29:06 10k
Frank Shorter Goes Back To His HS And Gives A Speech At Graduation He went out for XC after making a bet with a friend after initially trying to play football and baseball.
Sanya Richards-Ross Breaks Silence On Sport’s Last Taboo With Incendiary Claim About Prevalence Of Abortions
Armand Duplantis Remembers Back To When He Won World Juniors As A 15-Year-Old

Sprint Stuff

Andre De Grasse Says He Has A “Great Chance” To Take Down Bolt At Worlds
Asafa Powell Pulls Out Of Racers Grand Prix With Hamstring Strain; Allyson Felix Added To The 200
Olympic Silver Medalist And HS Coach Danny Harris Denies Sexting Allegations
Canada’s Two-Time World Indoor 60m Champion Bruny Surin Looks Back At What He Considers The Greatest Challenge Of His Career Surin talks about the difficulty of switching training programs to work with coaching genius Dan Pfaff in 1998. It payed off big, though, as at the age of 32 he dropped his PR from 9.97 to 9.84 and won Worlds silver.
IAAF: Sprinters And Jumpers Help Brazil Dominate At The South American Junior Championships In Guyana

How Common Is Abortion In Women’s Track And Field?

LRC Sanya Richards-Ross Explains Why She Went Public About Having An Abortion So She Could Pursue Gold At The 2008 Olympics Richards-Ross says abortion in women’s track and field is very common. “I literally do not know another female track athlete who hasn’t had an abortion and that’s sad.”
*MB: Sanya Richards Ross: “I literally do not know another female track athlete who hasn’t had an abortion and that’s sad”
*MB: Sanya Richards-Ross reveals having an abortion right before the 2008 Olys

Doping News

We Can’t Believe This Even Went To Trial: Spain’s Supreme Court Rules Against Appeal By Steepler Marta Dominguez, Who Tried To Claim IAAF’s Blood Testing Had Violated Her Right To Privacy We’ve seen some pretty bad excuses for doping positives over the years, but “they shouldn’t have tested me in the first place” has got to be one of the worst.
Dick Pound Confident Individual Russian Athletes Will Be Found Guilty Of Sochi 2014 Doping Pound is highly critical of Thomas Bach‘s and the IOC’s actions towards Russia, but thinks in the end CAS will sanction Russian athletes despite IOC inaction.
Russian Olympic Committee President Alexander Zhukov Thinks Suspending Russia From 2018 Winter Games Will Cause A “New Rift” In The Olympic Movement

Previous NCAA News

CU’s Dani Jones, NCAA 3k Champ, Thinks NCAA 1,500 Will Be “A True Testament” To Her Fitness
Justyn Knight Says “It’s Gonna Be Interesting” To See How NCAAs Play Out Without Cheserek
Oregon Coach Robert Johnson Thinks Edward Cheserek Should Get The Bowerman Award Maybe in the past, but definitely not this year.
Great Read: Nebraska Jumper Isaiah Griffith Has Overcome Death Of His Mother To Qualify For NCAAs In 2 Events After his mom’s death, things were chaotic and he was ultimately adopted by his 21-year old sister but he always kept dreaming BIG.
Oregonian Hands The Title To Oregon Women: “The question isn’t whether the Oregon Ducks will win the women’s title, but by how much.”
USC Women’s Coach Won’t Admit The Team Battle Is For Who Finishes 2nd
Oregon Ducks’ Deajah Stevens Has Made A Fast Ascension In American Sprinting Ranks Last year at this point, she was the PAC-12 runner-up at 200. Now she’s an Olympian with 34,000 Instagram followers.
NCAA.com: 10 Things To Know About The 2017 Outdoor Champs
USA Today: Five things To Watch At This Week’s NCAA Track Champs

Full Coverage in 2017 NCAA Outdoor Special Section

NYRR New York Mini 10k And Usain Bolt’s Final Race In Jamaica Are Saturday Bolt Meet Schedule Start Lists *Watch Mini 10k At 7:50am ET

Friend’s Death Hangs Heavy Over Bolt’s Final Jamaica Run Bolt, who was a pallbearer, admits he lost fitness while grieving but says he’s excited for his last track race in Jamaica. “I know it’s going to be a lot of emotions on the day because it’s my last time. I know the fans are going to miss it and I will miss it also because I know the energy is going to be good in the stadium so I’m looking forward to it.”

The London Champ Will Face The Boston Champ As Mary Keitany And Edna Kiplagat Line Up For The NYRR Mini 10K Other notables in the field include Betsy Saina, Americans Aliphine Tuliamuk, Natosha Rogers and Amy Van Alstine, NYC 4th placer Joyce Chepkirui, Mamitu Daska and GB’s Jo Pavey. *Watch NYRR Mini 10k For Free At 7:50am ET

More NYC News: 4-Peat? Mary Keitany Will Defend Her Title And Look To 4-Peat At 2017 TCS New York City Marathon On Sunday, November 5

US High School Nationals Are Next Weekend Live Webcast June 16-18 Schedule

New Balance Outdoor Nationals Entries They are now out for next weekend’s HS meet.

Other News

Meet The Woman Meb Keflezighi Hand Picked To Run The NYC Marathon Running helped Nora Allen deal with her anxiety and depression after she attempted suicide.
Study Finds The More Miles You Run, The More Likely Your Friends And Family Are To Up Their Weekly Mileage, Too
Yesterday Was Global Running Day We hope you got your run in.

Our Weekly Recap – The Week That Was

LRCWTW: It's Okay To Wear Makeup In War, Several HS Girls Do Better Than Sub-4, And An American Wins Comrades

This week Raevyn Rogers tells us it's okay to wear makeup when going to war, we marvel about a bunch of high school girls that did something more difficult than a 4-minute mile, praise a LetsRun poster for winning Comrades, hand out free coaching advice from David Rudisha and snap photos of a 75-year-old great grandmother.

Distance News: Despite Cancer, Grunewald Still Shooting For USAs

And You Thought You Had A Busy Week: Gabriele Grunewald Has A Live Biopsy On Monday, Chemotherapy On Tuesday And A Race On Saturday Even though she’s starting chemo, Grunewald hasn’t given up on qualifying for USAs and will shoot for the 4:09.50 standard at the Music City Distance Carnival.
MB: Galen Rupp Will Open His Season Saturday In The 10,000 At The Portland Track Festival
MB: Kenenisa Bekele And Tirunesh Dibaba Lead Ethiopian Marathon Squad For Worlds The men’s squad also has Olympic 10,000 bronze medalist and Dubai winner Tamira Tola and 2:04-man Tsegaye Mekonen. The women’s squad also has defending champ Mare Dibaba, Tokyo/Berlin runner-up Birhane Dibaba and Dubai runner-up Shure Demise.
Caster Semenya Is Juggling Her Race Schedule With Her Exams As She Finishes Up Her Degree Semenya has one more semester as a sports science student at the University of North West in South Africa.