June 21, 2017 | LetsRun.com

Week That Was

LRC WTW: How Much Does A Diamond League Meet Cost, The LRC Singlet Comes Out Of Retirement, And Are Stars Now Ducking Each Other In High School? Plus Iceland’s Mary Cain is back, Will Claye‘s got a new music video and more.

2017 USAs Start Thursday Schedule & entries TV * streaming information * LRC USAs coverage hub

LRC $200,017 LRC Running Warehouse USAs Prediction Contest Is Here! The USA Champs start Thursday. It’s time to get down to business by playing in our prediction contest.

w5k/10k Preview: LRC Molly Huddle vs. Shannon Rowbury, Shalane Flanagan’s Back & How Fit Is Emily Infeld? Which 3 of the following 6 big talents goes home devastated in the first track final of USAs: Huddle, Infeld, Flanagan, Sisson, Rogers and Conley? Who wins the Huddle vs. Rowbury grudge match in the 5k?
*MB: 2017 USA W5k and 10k: Who wins the 5k: Rowbury or Huddlle? Which star will go home devastated in the 10k?

M5k/10k Preview: LRC Galen Rupp Goes for 9th Straight in the 10K; Olympic Medalist Paul Chelimo Leads 5K Field Only 1 US athlete has ever won the same event 9 straight years at USAs. Can Rupp be #2?
*MB: 2017 USA 10k race is tmw night. Will Rupp win his 9th straight? And the 5k is less than 24 hours later

M800/1500/Steeple Preview: LRC Centro & Jager Look to Extend Win Streaks as Murphy Tackles an Epic Double Jager is looking for his sixth straight US title while Centro looks for his third straight while Clayton Murphy is hoping to qualify in both the 800 and 1500.
*MB: 2017 USAs: Who wins at 800: Brazier or Murphy ? Can Murphy pull of the 8/15 double? Is Jager vulnerable in steeple?

Mid-Week Action

400m WR Holder Wayde Van Niekerk Runs 9.94 PB In Slovenia Niekerk remains the only man to go sub-10, sub-20 and sub-44. World bronze medalist Amel Tuka won the 800 in 1:45.34 and Olympic discus champ Sandra Perkovic set the all-comers record with 69.58m.
*MB: Van Niekerk just run 9.94 +0.9

GB News

Greg Rutherford Admits His Injury Problems Are Jeopardising His Long Jump World Title Defence Rutherford can’t jump at all this month, but hopes to be fit in time for the World Champs.
Jessica Ennis-Hill (7th) And Kelly Holmes (13th) Make Top-20 List Of Most Influential Women In British Sport

Ajee Wilson Loses Her American Record

LRC Ajee Wilson’s Coach Derek Thompson Says “We Don’t Have Anything to Hide” And “We’re Coming To Win” At USAs The coach of America’s best 800 runner reveals that he and Wilson “didn’t have a clue what zeranol” was before her positive test. Thompson also says Wilson is in great shape and he hopes she breaks the American record in Monaco.
*Nicole Teter Will Remain The 800 AR Holder To hold the AR, you have to be drug tested after a meet and meet organizers only tested the winner, Wilson, and not Charlene Lipsey.
*Thompson Wants Charlene Lipsey To Be A 1,500 Runner In 2018
*MB: Ajee Wilson loses her indoor 800 American record as the US beef supply contains a banned substance

USADA Strips Ajee Wilson Of Her Indoor American Record At 800 As She Ate Beef That Everyone In The US Eats She wasn’t suspended for any time as she tested positive for a “low parts per billion concentrations” of zeranal – “a legal growth promotant in beef cattle in the US.” Zeranal is illegal for beef farmers in Europe.

USAs Start Thursday

Recommended Read: NY Times: Chemotherapy, Then USAs For Gabriele Grunewald Grunewald hasn’t let her fourth bout with cancer stop her from running, but it hasn’t been easy. A good read on her running/cancer fighting journey from before her first diagnosis through now.
Alysia Montano To Compete While Pregnant At USAs Again Except this time she’ll “only” be around 4 months pregnant instead of 8 months.
Nick Symmonds Video Blog On His “Final Track Workout Ever” (3 x 300m) Does this mean he’s giving up hope on making Team USA for London?

Sunday International Results

More Weekend International Action

Polish Hammer Throwers Anita Wlodarczyk And Pawel Fajdek Are Victorious Again, This Time At The IAAF HT Challenge In Samorin, Slovakia On the track, former Olympic 800 silver medalist Nijel Amos highlighted with a dominant 1:45.74 victory (Worlds bronze medalist Amel Tuka was 3rd in 1:47.06 and Mo Aman a distant 8th).
Kawauchi Brothers Repeat Father’s Day Okinoshima Ultra Sweep Yuki Kawauchi won the 50K as his brother Yoshiki took the 100K.
GB Heptathlete Morgan Lake Wins England Athletics U20/23 Champs High Jump With 1.94m
*Athletics Weekly Profile: Morgan Lake Is Looking Ahead To The 2020 Tokyo Olympics Will she be the next great GB women heptathlete?
Czech Heptathlete Eliska Klucinova And Algerian Decathlete Larbi Bourrada Lead After Day 1 Of IAAF Multi Challenge Meet In Kladno

Going Pro Early

Tennessee’s Christian Coleman Is Turning Pro When you go sub-10 and sub-20, you go pro. He’ll stay at Tennessee and still go to school there and be coached by them.
Is She Next? High Schooler Sydney McLaughlin Splits 49.85 FAT At New Balance Nationals That’s the fastest split in HS history. *Video
MB: HSer Sydney McLaughlin just split a 49.85 FAT!

Coffee/Nap News

Athletics Weekly: 6 Foods Every Athlete Should Eat From coffee (because it’s great for your gut) to pomegranate, they’ve got you covered.
Steve Magness: A 15-20 Minute Nap Helps You Do Better Than A Large Coffee In Terms Of Concentration At Work A nap as short as 10 minutes may be the best, even if you don’t fall asleep.
Nick Willis Reveals He’s Never Had Coffee In His Life
Here’s How To Take A 10-Minute Nap At Work

2017 Bislett Games Results TV & Streaming

LRC 2017 Bislett Games Recap: Jake Wightman Pulls Off A Huge Upset, A 16-Year-Old Runs 3:56 and A Woman’s Wig Comes Off Mid-Competition Fans who watched the 2017 Bislett Games were entertained in a variety of ways on Thursday evening. On the track, two precocious Norwegian talents delighted the home crowd. Off the track, a woman long jumper’s wig fell off during the event and a rabbit forgot to run the water jump in the women’s steeplechase and then took out the #1 seed from behind. *Full Results

LRC Oslo Track And Field Blooper Reel: A Wig Falls Off, The Rabbit Misses The Water Jump And More The meet was full of crazy stuff that you don’t normally see at a track meet.

MB: Official 2017 Bislett Games – Oslo Diamond League Discussion Thread
MB: Jakob Ingebrigsten runs age 16 WR of 3:56.31 in Oslo!!!
MB: WTF Wightman Some British guy I’ve never heard of just won the Oslo 1,500
MB: Dafne Schippers Blatantly False Starts in 200 in Oslo But is Allowed to Run

Outside Coverage

Random Links We Enjoyed

Josh Kerr Talks To The Albuquerque Journal About His Training In 2016 And 2017 He didn’t race XC in the fall but bumped his mileage up and didn’t race for a month after NCAA indoors.
Favorites For 2017? Georgia Returns Everyone On Its Women’s Team That Scored At NCAAs Except For Kendall Williams (Who Won The Hep)
Skid Row Marathon – Film On Homeless In LA Who Run Marathons – Is Debuting On Saturday LA Film Festival
Devon Allen Doesn’t Totally Rule Out A Return To Football “Maybe after I have a gold medal and a world record. Maybe then I’ll seriously think about football again.”
Can A Watch Really Estimate Your VO2 Max? Within about 5% apparently.

Hasay And Flanagan Squaring Off At AJC Peachtree

RRW Jordan Hasay To Race Shalane Flanagan At Peachtree On July 4th Bernard Lagat, Leonard Korir and Sam Chelanga on the men’s side.
Discuss: Hasay vs. Flanagan: Who You Got? This one would have been no contest a year ago. Has that changed?

Upcoming International Action

June 23: Renaud Lavillenie Looking For His Sixth Victory At The European Team Championships
June 24: UK Half-Marathon Record Holder Callum Hawkins Chasing The Sub-60 Minute Barrier At The Olomouc Half The field includes Kenyans Simon Cheprot and Kenneth Keter who both have sub-60 PBs. Ethiopia’s Worknesh Degefa (66:14) leads the women’s race.
June 28: David Rudisha Looking To Drop A Fast Time AT The Ostrava Golden Spike Meet This will actually be Rudisha’s first time racing over 1000m.
July 1: Ukraine’s 18-Year-Old Heptathlete Alina Shukh Expected To Be In Contention For A Senior Title At The Euro Combined Events Team Champs

Paavo Nurmi Games *Results

Poland’s Pawel Fajdek Highlights Paavo Nurmi Games With 82.40m Hammer World Lead Bahrain’s Sadik Mikhou won the 3,000 in 7:44 as Caleb Ndiku was back in 5th (7:54). Renaud Lavillenie took the PV over his brother in 5.81m.

Doping Updates

Jamaica’s Kaliese Spencer Wins Doping Rules Violation Case Spencer was accused by JADCO of evading a drug test, but they could not provide evidence that she had been properly notified that she was required for testing.
Irish 1,500m Olympian Ciara Mageean Calls Out Double Standards With Doping Procedures For Different Sports An Irish soccer player served a ban, but it only came out later on due to report by the Sunday Independent.
Russian Athletics Federation Hoping Confident More Athletes Will Be Cleared To Compete Neutrally Before Worlds This after the IAAF Task Force completed their latest progress inspection in Russia.
Ukrainian Racewalker Olena Shumkina Banned For Doping The former Russian (competed under infamous doping coach Viktor Chegin) got a 3+ year ban after being caught by the biological passport.
WADA Drops Investigation Into Russian Fencers Names In McLaren Report Due To Lack Of Evidence 27 fencers were under investigation after being named in connection with the manipulation of doping samples.

Pros Show Some Humor And Read Mean LetsRun.com Posts

LRC Pro Runners Reading Mean LetsRun.com Posts Edition #1: Robby Andrews, Kyle Merber, Craig Lutz Andrews, Merber, and Lutz are compared to Alan Webb, praying mantises, slackers living in their parents’ basements and much more. It was originally published on our new instagram page. Follow us on Instagram, twitter, facebook, youtube.

More Pre-USAs News

Good Read: Q&A With Shalane Flanagan Ahead Of USAs Flanagan talks about her latest comeback from injury, doping in the sport, being a foster parent and the fact that this could be her last season on the track.
Podcast Q&A With Sprinter Jenna Prandini Prandini discusses a slew of topics including her training ahead of USAs, what sports she played growing up and Usain Bolt.
Track And Field News USATF Champs Men’s Formchart
Track And Field News USATF Champs Women’s Formchart
USATF Shares Some History Of Track And Field In Sacramento Sacramento hosted the 2020 Olympic Trials, setting an 8-day attendance record that still stands.
NBC Sports: Five Men’s Events To Watch At USAs Centro vs. Murphy over 1,500 makes their list.

Sad News: Bear Attack

Black Bear Kills 16-Year-Old Runner In Alaska Mountain Race The boy actually texted or called a family member while being chased in the woods. Race officials went looking, but were not able to reach him in time.
Bear Attack Timeline There was another black bear fatal mauling at a mine near Fairbanks. There were the first fatal bear attacks in Alaska since 2013.
MB: Alaska park rangers fail to have powerful enough rifles to deal with black bear who mauls 16-year-old runner to death
MB Archives: Advice for running in bear country
MB Archives: Is it at all possible to outrun a grizzly bear?
MB Archives: Have you ever come across a bear while running?
MB Archives: Bear attacks runner in Calgary
MB Archives: Would you rather be attacked by a bear or a shark?

High School / NCAA News

Good Listen: Canadian Running Magazine Does Extensive Podcast Interview With Justyn Knight Knight talks about his tough loss at NCAAs, whether he thinks NCAA student-athletes should get paid and tells a funny story about how he once lied and said he was cousins with rapper Drake.
Lexington Herald Leader: “Sydney McLaughlin ‘Mania’ Is Coming To Kentucky” Kentucky track coach Edrick Floreal said going to the UK football game with her “was a nightmare” because everyone stopped her for selfies.
*Sydney McLaughlin Won Her Fourth Consecutive New Balance Nationals 400H Title With A 54.22 Meet Record
Katelyn Tuohy’s 4:45.95 Victory At NBNO Broke Mary Cain’s NY Freshman Record
RunBlogRun Q&A With Oregon Freshman Katie Rainsberger Rainsberger says she’s still “baffled” by how her mother, the last American woman to win Boston, “ran so fast for so long.”
National Scholastic Athletics Foundation Are Starting A National HS Track And Field Hall Of Fame The inaugural class will be named in January.

Stockholm DL Results Video/Video highlights

*Results *Video Highlights

LRC Stockholm DL Recap: Andre De Grasse Runs 9.69, Timothy Cheruiyot Runs 3:30, Asbel Kiprop Improves And A Big Field Event Upset Timothy Cheruiyot impressed with a 3:30.77 world leader in men’s 1,500 as Asbel Kiprop took a big step in the right direction by running a season’s best of 3:33.17. Andre De Grasse kept rolling with his third straight Diamond League victory, running a heavily wind-aided 9.69 in the 100 (worth 9.88 in still conditions). Sandra Perkovic‘s win streak came to an end and Luvo Manyonga got injured.

IAAF Recap: Russian Maria Lasitskene Extends Her HJ Winning Streak To 14 With 2.00m Lasitskene (formerly Kuchina) is one of the Russians approved to compete neutrally.
IAAF Recap: Andre De Grasse Flies To Windy 9.69 100m Win
Stockholm Discussion: LRC Stockholm Live Thread
Andre De Grasse 9.69 100m!!!
Ingebrigtsen: 3:39 in Stockholm!

Grandma’s Marathon *Results

Kenya’s Elisha Barno Becomes The First To Three-Peat At Grandma’s Marathon Barno won by over a minute with 2:12:06 as Hellen Jepkurgat won a close woman’s race in 2:32:09 over Askale Merachi (2:32:25). In the half, Kenyan Evans Kurui (63:05) and Ethiopian Biruktayit Degefa (1:11:25) got the wins, while 45-year-old Kevin Castille ran 63:58 for 5th and Kara Goucher raced for the first time in over a year, finishing 5th (1:15:12).
*MB: Kevin Castille 1:03:58 HM at Garry Bjorklund

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
*Rupp: “It was actually kind of perfect, I think, that it ended up being a little slower. It’s probably closer to what the 10k is going to be like.”

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

Random But Somewhat Interesting

Preliminary Model Of Usain Bolt Statue Is Revealed To Dispel Fake Images On Social Media Kind of looks like an old man falling backwards, doesn’t it?
A List Of Japanese Athletes With London 2017 WC Qualifiers Only one Japanese man has the 10,000 standard of 27:45.00.
Irish 1,500 Runner Ciara Mageean Says She’d Give Her “Right Arm” For A Medal At Worlds
Lucy Smith Sets New Canadian 50+ Record Of 17:39.66

World Youth News

Kenya Names Its Team For The World Youth (U18 Champs) That It’s Hosting Later This Summer
Japan Withdraws From World Youth Champs In Kenya Due To Security Concerns
Kenya Offering Free Internet, Swimming, Gym And Sauna Services To Those Who Show Up For World Youths “We must put out the best message about the country to the world.”
Kenya To Send Only Four To Commonwealth Youth Games In Bahamas In July

Last Week Was An Amazing One For Track Fans – We Take A Look Back At It

WTW Mo Farah Celebrates Really Early, Edward Cheserek Dominates Virtually, And Molly Huddle’s Medal Chances Go Up While Evan Jager’s Go Down Eammon Coghlan famously celebrated in 1983 more than 100 meters out. Last week, Mo Farah was celebrating from more than 200 meters out. While Farah was celebrating, foreign-born athletes were sweeping the men’s distance events at NCAAs and the medal odds for Evan Jager were going down and Molly Huddle going up.

Great Journalism From The NY Times

The New York Times Goes To The Czech Republic And Catches Up With 800-Meter World Record Holder Jarmila Kratochvilova In the 3,000-word piece, Kratochvilova and her coach maintain she never doped.
*MB: “Track’s Most Resilient (and Suspect) Record Is in Danger” – NYTimes

News From The UK

Sebastian Coe Admits Athletics May Never Again Be One Of The Top 3 Sports In Britain But That Won’t Stop Him From Being “Innovative, Braver And More Creative”
Mike Rowbottom Thinks The Mixed Relays Are A Bad Idea “The Olympic Games are not, and should not be, a novelty event.” We agree. If you are going to have mixed relays, you need to get rid of the regular relays.
It’s 50 Days Until Worlds And Here Are 50 Reasons To Be Excited For 2017 Worlds In London
50 Days To Go: IAAF World Championships Chat With Colin Jackson Jackson won two 110H titles in the 1990s.
Triathlon Federation Sends Congratulations Letter To Jonny Brownlee That Was Supposed To Go To His Brother
British Paralympic Star David Weir Reveals His Battle With Depression: “I wrote a letter to my kids saying I was going away and I was sorry.”
GB picks development squad for next week’s Euro Team Champs The bigger names are mainly skipping it to get ready for the British Trials. *Super League Entries *1st League Entries

Murphy Going For The Double!

LRC Legend Alert: Clayton Murphy Trying To Become First Man In 84 Years To Win 800 & 1,500 At USAs Rick Wohlhuter did do it at the 1976 Trials (at the time a separate meet from the US Champs), finishing it off by beating Matt Centrowitz Sr. Can Murphy get through the Olympic champion, Matthew Centrowitz Jr.?
Discuss: Clayton Murphy to run 800 and 1500 at USAs!

LRC Nine Days Out From USAs, Which Athletes Have The IAAF World Championships Standard? Who Has More – The Men Or Women? Team USA fans, we’ve got good news, the lowest number of standard holders in any mid-d or distance event is six. Plus who has more qualifiers – the men or the women?

Post-NCAA Season Stuff

USTFCCCA Names Their Athletes Of The Year The track winners were Christian Coleman and Raevyn Rogers while decathlete Lindon Victor and thrower Maggie Ewen won the field award.
Florida’s Mike Holloway (Men) And Georgia’s Petros Kyprianou (Women) Named Coaches Of The Year Interesting that Oregon head coach Robert Johnson didn’t win the women’s award.
Arkansas Men And Oregon Women Named DI Programs Of The Year Despite their not-great outdoor finish, the Oregon men were second behind Arkansas while the Colorado women were a very distant second behind Oregon.
Sophomore Matt Ludwig Followed In The Footsteps Of Shawn Barber When He Brought The NCAA Pole Vault Title Back To Akron
Iowa Men Led Big 10 Schools At NCAAs With Their 17th-Place Finish
Three Women Make Their Bowerman Watch List Debut As Semifinalists Announced Distance runners Raevyn Rogers and Karissa Schweizezr made the semifinal cut.
Christian Coleman Named USATF Athlete Of The Week After Taking Two Titles And A 9.82 Collegiate Record At NCAAs
Multi-Time Olympic Gold Medalist Coach Clyde Hart To Receive USATF Legend Coach Award Hart coached Michael Johnson, Jeremy Wariner and Sanya Richards-Ross at Baylor. All together his athletes won 16 Olympic medals and set five world records.

This Summer’s Global Championships

Meet The Freeze

Recommended Read: Washington Post: Who Is “The Freeze”? Meet The Masked Runner Racing Braves Fans Between Innings Nigel Talton is a member of the Braves’ ground crew, but also a 10.47/21.66 sprinter who dreams of making Team USA.
*MB: Who is the Freeze? (Braves masked runner)

Drug News

Operation Puerto Doping Scandal Athletes Unlikely To Be Named After Spanish Court Ruling The court said the confiscated blood bags could only be used to identify athletes with already open cases, which there none. Time for another Fancy Bears hack?
RUSADA Employees Begin Training Program To Improve Standards They could start by hiring more employees like Vitaly Stepanov and less Yelena Isinbayevas.
WADA Partially Suspends UCLA Laboratory In LA For 3-Months The lab can continue with regular anti-doping testing but must get a second opinion from another lab for four specific substances.

Sprint Stuff

Knox TN Today: “Logic Prevailed. Tennessee’s Track Team Has Turned Pro” Coleman was essentially Tennessee’s track team as he scored all 20 of their points at NCAAs.
Christian Coleman Writes Open Letter To “Vol Nation” Thanking Them For Their Support As He Decides To Turn Pro “Deciding on becoming a professional athlete was not an easy decision to make, mostly because of the tremendous amount of love and support I have received from Vol Nation.”
IAAF Profile On Norway’s 21-Year-Old Karsten Warholm, Who Got The Surprise 400H Win At The Oslo Diamond League Meet Warholm was the slowest on paper coming into the race but set a NR to win in front of the home crowd.
Olympic 400H Bronze Medalist Ashley Spencer Talks About The Challenge Of Living Away From Her Close-Knit Family For Her Track Career Spencer lives and trains in Austin and only gets to visit home in Indianapolis a couple times a year.
Double Olympic Champ Elaine Thompson Talks About The Significance Of When She Won Her First Major Championship Medal, Silver At 2015 Worlds “After my semifinal (which she won in 22.13) I thought, ‘Wow! Is that really me?’”

Pro Distance Updates

Good Read: RW: “Mom, Firefighter, Pro Runner: Kellyn Taylor Has No Chill” 10,000 Olympic Trials 4th placer Taylor impressively puts in triple digit mileage while being a parent and going through the physical/mental training to become a firefighter.
Irish Times Writer Ian O’Riordan Questions Whether Semenya Is Purposely Not Trying To Break The 800m WR O’Riordan says Semenya just “toys” with the field until blowing them away with less than 100 m left.
Cam Levins Ran His First Race In Almost A Year At The Stumptown Twilight Last Weekend The article notes that Levins ran in his Canadian kit from the 2012 Olympics rather than the NOP singlet.
Video: 4:09 Hoka One One Athlete Stephanie Schappert Advocates For Ice Bathing

**HS Action – Brooks PR Meet *Full Results**

brooks-pr-invitational Full Results For The 2017 Brooks PR Invitational Sam Worley won the mile but not no one broke 4:00. Brodey Hasty (8:45) won the deuce. Anna Gibson (4:43) and Brie Oakley (9:51) won the girls distance races.
*Brie Oakley Runs #2 All-Time Two Mile With 9:51 It’s actually the outdoor record and second only to Mary Cain‘s NR of 9:38 (indoors).
*Joseph Anderson Wins 110H After Being Hospitalized For Bronchitis

MB Talk: Brooks PR Mile Best HS Mile ever It was supposed to be but no one broke 4:00.
The best HS milers EVER? fail to break 4…
Casey Clinger Will Win The Brooks PR Mile
Swinging Sammy your Brooks PR mile champ
Anna Gibson 4:43 wins Brooks PR mile

2017 New Balance HS Nationals Schedule & Results Free Live Webcast June 16-18

MB: Sydney McLaughlin Splits a 49.85 FAT in a relay!!!
MB: Official 2017 New Balance HS Nationals Discussion Thread

NJ’s Jenna Rogers Wins NBNO High Jump With A National Freshman Record Of 6 Feet, 3.75 Inches Now she says she’s off to eat bowls of pasta (linguini with white clam sauce) since she had given it up for track.
DyeStat: Jordan Geist Wins Shot-Hammer Double
Saturday Video Highlights
Cameron Cooper Runs 1:47.79 Split
Stanford-Bound Jess Lawson (16:38) And Sophomore Ryan Oosting (14:36) Win 5ks

Mid-Distance Q&As

Post-NCAAs Q&A With Grant Fisher Fisher talks a lot about his tactics/kick he used to win the NCAA 5K.
Carrie Tollefson Does Podcast Interview With Drew Hunter Hunter talks about his decision to go pro out of high school (a no-brainer in our minds), his struggle with Lyme disease and his racing plans for 2017.
Q&A With Ireland’s European 1,500 Bronze Medalist (4:01 PR) Ciara Mageean She’s treating London 2017 almost like a “home championships” and says she’d “give her right arm” to medal there. *2nd Article