Stumptown Twilight Was Friday Night In Oregon *Full Results

MB: Galen Rupp Wins Tactical 5,000 Over Guy In LetsRun.com Singlet In 13:55; Jordan Hasay Runs 15:45 And Is Beaten At the bell in the men’s 5,000, it was a two-man race. Rupp and the guy in a LetsRun.com singlet, Ben Rainero, but Rupp closed in 55 or 56 to win. *Full Results

Thursday Night In Philly: LRC Hoka NJ/NY Twilight: Gregorek, O’Hare, Merber, And Andrews All Run  1:47. Charlene Lipsey Runs Big 4:10 PR

Upcoming Action – Stockholm DL Is Sunday *Schedule & Entries *TV & Streaming (10am ET)

LRC 2017 BAUHAUS-Galan Preview: Oslo Rematches On Tap As Asbel Kiprop Returns & Luvo Manyonga Looks To Make Long Jump History Will South African Luvo Manyonga, perhaps the hottest athlete in the world right now, break the long jump world record? How will Asbel Kiprop look in his first DL race since finishing last at Pre?
*MB: Official 2017 Stockholm DL Discussion Thread

• IAAF Preview Of Stockholm
• With ExxonMobil Out As Main Sponsor Of Bislett Games, They Had To Cut Costs From $2.4 Million To $1.9 Million And So Oslo And Stockholm Are 3 Days Apart To Save On Transportation Costs
• Diamond League Rented A Bus To Get The Athletes From Oslo To Stockholm This article say it’s a bus but we think it’s actually a train.
• Kiwi Camille Buscomb Credits Her Improvement To 15:19 To Her Switch To Nic Bideau She’s in the 3k in Stockholm.
• Margaret Wambui Pulls Out Of Stockholm As She Ran Final 500 Of Oslo Without A Shoe
• Stockholm: 5 Things To Look Out For
• The Latest: Live Updates From Stockholm

Pre-2017 New Balance HS National News

• A Look At The 10 Best Athletes At NBON
  
• Good Read: Lengthy Profile On 2015 Foot Locker Champion Weini Kelati And Her Quest To Graduate And Make It To The NCAA Kelati hasn’t competed at all this year (she’s too old for HS competition), but has been racing the academic clock to graduate and compete in the NCAA next year (she’ll compete for New Mexico).
• DyeStat NBNO Sprints/Hurdles Preview
  *Jumps Preview
  *DyeStat Throws Preview

 Olympic News – It’s A Good Thing Usain Bolt Is Retiring

• McDonald’s Exits Longtime Olympics Sponsorship Where would Bolt eat?
• McDonald’s Sponsorship Started Unofficially When They Airlifted Hamburgers To The US Team In 1968
• Interesting Read Phil Hersh Thinks The IOC Still Might Give The 2024 Games To LA – “Why L.A. 2028 Might Not Be Such A Good Deal – For The City Or The IOC” He says they need an cheap games for PR reasons and LA will be cheap. If they give LA the 2028 Games, opponents might be able to block it as 11 years is a long wait particularly if Paris 2024 costs more than expected.
• NBCUniversal Says Olympic Channel Will Launch On July 15 Call your cable provider to make sure you get it.

Sometimes Talent Shines Early

• Nice Dave Hunter Profile Of Sandi Morris: The View From 5 Meters When she got to Arkansas, coach Compton told her, “You can jump about 15 feet your way. Or you could change and jump the world record my way some day.”
• Jason Richardson Remembers When He Won World Jr. Gold In Both 110H And 400H In 2003

More Pro News

• Yohan Blake Admits That He “Cried A Little Bit” Making His Farewell Video To Usain Bolt Before His Final Race In Jamaica Last Weekend You can watch the video here.
• Kenyan Journalist Justin Lagat Explains Why Every Pro Athlete Should Have Their Own Website For one, athletes who don’t get their own domain name have random companies benefiting from their name. Just check out EliudKipchoge.com.
• Young Pros Take Note: Four Lessons That Can Be Learned From Usain Bolt’s Career “There’s something the training manuals don’t tell an athlete … Pain thresholds, patience and inner strength are things that can’t be found in a magazine. Instead, a sprinter had to learn those alone, through experience.”
• Valerie Adams Is Having A Baby Girl In October

LetsJump.com

• Did You Know Olympic TJ Silver Medalist Will Claye Is A Rapper? Check Out His Music Video Here
  *LRC Archives: Three Time Olympic Medalist Will Claye Starting New Career As A Rapper
• World And Olympic HJ Champ Derek Drouin Talks About The Slump He Faced After Winning Bronze In 2012/2013 Drouin says after medaling at two global championships, he put too much pressure on himself and ended up jumping horribly for over a year until he learned to relax again.
• Greg Rutherford Sidelined With Ankle Ligament Injury Rutherford won’t jump again this month, but is hoping to be back in July.
• Tips For Track And Life From Bulgaria’s Olympic HJ Silver Medalist Mirela Demireva She shares advice she received from her father as she says, “Every dead end has an exit. What he means by this is, it is all about how you handle things that come to you.”
• IAAF Inside Athletics: Ato Boldon Interviews Olympic Pole Vault Champ Thiago Braz

IAAF Profile: Andre De Grasse Wants To Beat Usain Bolt, But Isn’t Getting Ahead Of Himself As He Knows He Isn’t The Best Yet De Grasse has his doubts on whether Bolt will actually skip the 200 as he claims. De Grasse doesn’t believe Bolt won’t run the 200, Justin Gatlin doesn’t think Bolt will actually retire. What is it with top sprinters not believing Bolt?