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• MB Official 2017 USATF Outdoor Nats Day 2 Live Discussion Thread
• MB: Paul Chelimo is the BOSS!! He just solo’d a 13:08 USATF championship record!! 
• LRC Check Your $200,017 LRC Running Warehouse USAs Track Prediction Contest Scores You can also change your picks. Now updated through the 5000s.
• LRC Post-Race Interviews

• LRC Men’s steeple Prelims: Dan Huling’s streak of World Championship teams is over, but the other big names advance Huling had made every US WC team since 2009 but he walked off the track midway through the prelims tonight.

Friday Night Messageboard Talk 

• Justin MF Gatlin…Dude is keeping it in the tank. Gatlin took down Coleman!!
• Tianna Bartoletta, Jenna Prandini, Hannah Cunliffe, Ronnie Baker and Jarrion Lawson Talk After Not Making 100m Final 
• Great run by Ajee Wilson Wilson and Lipsey were DOMINANT in heat #1. Rogers and Martinez were dominant in heat #2 as HSer Sammy Watson made the final. 
• Hannah Cunliffe “tweak”
• What about the sport? Christian Taylor Flies to USAs from Holland, Fouls on First Jump and Passes on Next Two
• Trey Hardee dominates the decathlon He walked across the line in the 1500.
• 19-year old Vashti Cunningham wins her first (of many) US titles in HJ
• This is great: They’re running heats of the 400m Hurdles to eliminate 1 person 

Thursday At USAs

LRC Hassan Mead Ends Galen Rupp’s Epic Streak to Win His First U.S. Title in a Bizarre Men’s 10K  What a race, what a way for Galen Rupp’s incredible streak of 8 straight 10,000m titles come to an end. We break it all down.

LRC Women’s 10K: Molly Huddle Three-Peats as Shalane Flanagan Misses Worlds for the First Time Since 2003 Huddle looked great as America is sending a strong team to Worlds.

LRC 800 / 1500 Recap: Donavan Brazier Almost Blows it Again, Drew Hunter Makes His First Final, Alysia Montano and Gabe Grunewald Inspire It was an ordinary ending to a extraordinary career as Nick Symmonds could only manage a 1:51 800. But Nick has a new goal – the 2017 Honolulu Marathon in December.

LRC Nick Symmonds – One Of America’s Greatest-Ever 800 Runners – Has Run His Final Track Race, But He’s Already Got a New Goal: Run a Marathon It was an ordinary ending to a extraordinary career as Nick Symmonds could only manage a 1:51 800. But Nick has a new goal – the 2017 Honolulu Marathon in December.
*MB: Thank You Nick Symmonds

LRC Gay and Bromell Don’t Advance To Semis, But Veteran Gatlin Does Bromell ran USAs despite thinking he would only be capable of 10.5 as he didn’t want people to think he was a quitter.

LRC Pre Race Justin Gatlin, Tyson Gay, LaShawn Merritt, and Trayvon Bromell May Do Nothing at USAs and Team USA Will Be Fine

LRC Post-Race Interviews From Sacramento

• Messageboard Talk: Official 2017 USATF Outdoor Nats Day 1 Live Discussion Thread
• RUPP GOES HOME DEVASTATED!!!!!! 
• Galen Rupp Comes Up Short for USATF Title #9 – Then Blows Off The Media 
• Scott Simmons’ Group Had a Plan to Surge And Talk in Swahili During Race
• That was the greatest 10,000m race I’ve ever seen.
• East African’s Nearly perfect score (1-2-3-4-7) men’s 10k 
• Hope Schmelzle Qualifies for Steeple Final, Scratches to get Married this weekend
• Nick Symmonds and Cas Loxsom go home DEVASTATED 
• Drew Hunter: “Realistically long-term I think I a 5k runner.”
• Cas Loxsom – Heartfelt Note after USAs / Moving back to Penn State to Finish Degree Loxsom put out a post saying he’s been struggling with depression.
• Donovan Brazier… Seriously?  Brazier only gets out of the first round on time
• Eliud Rutto is an American? 
• What is the best electrolyte rehydration drink?
• Charles Jock listed as unattached at USA 
• Anyone have a free streaming link for the USAs? 
• Dang. Trayvon Bromell and Tyson Gay both go home devastated in men’s 100

LetsRun.com’s Pre-MeetPreviews:
W800/1,500/Steeple *w5k/10k *M800/1,500/Steeple *M5k/10k

NCAA / HS News

• Recommended Read: Tribute To Inspirational Former Stanford Athlete Tyrone McGraw Who Has Passed Away From Cancer At Age-29 Coming from humble beginnings to achieve greatness, McGraw overcame and accomplished more in his short 29-years than many do in a lifetime. If you’re going to read something non-USAs related, make it this article.
• Men’s Finalists Announced For The 2017 Bowerman Award And Edward Cheserek Doesn’t Make The Cut Christian Coleman, Fred Kerley and Lindon Victor are your three finalists as obviously not racing outdoor NCAAs due to injury took Cheserek out of the running.
• Oregon’s Raevyn Rogers, ASU Thrower Maggie Ewen And Georgia Jumper Keturah Orji Are The Women’s Bowerman Finalists
• Good Read: Toni Reavis Says Raevyn Rogers Final 4×400 Leg At NCAAs Shows What Pro Track Is Missing, The “Team Concept” Reavis’ wants Seb Coe to remember that “people can’t root for shoe company logos” and argues without the team race, the NCAA 4×4 would have been “just another tight, but overall meaningless exhibition of track excellence.”
  *Ken Goe Agrees And Commends Vin Lannana And TrackTown USA On Trying To Build The Team Concept WIth The TrackTown Summer Series
• Japan Running News’ Brett Larner Compares The Performances At New Balance Nationals With Marks From Japan HS Regionals Spoiler alert, the Japanese kids were better.

More Pre-USAs News

• The Sacramento Bee: 5 Story Lines To Finish At USAs There’s certainly a new generation of US male sprinters in Coleman, Lyles and Kerly. Centro vs. Murphy gets a mention.
• USATF Schedule Adjusted Due To High Heat In Sacramento Early afternoon events are starting earlier and evening events are starting an hour later.
• RW Profile: Ben Bruce Hasn’t Missed USAs For The Last 15 Years His first USA meet was in 2003 as a 20-year-old college student. He says “a good way to go out” would be to eventually race against someone at USAs who wasn’t born yet when Bruce first ran there.
• USA Today: 10 Things To Watch At USAs An interesting note – his Wikipedia page says he’s retired, but 33-year-old former Olympic silver medalist Trey Hardee is on the start lists.
• USATF Champs Men’s Throws Guide
  *Women’s Throws Guide
• Shalane Flanagan Says She’s “Winging It” As She Returns From Her Back Fracture Injury To Try And Make Another Team USA Flanagan has made every team she’s tried out for since 2004, but admits she’s “not super fit.”
• Sacramento News Review Profiles Olympic Discus Gold Medalist Stephanie Brown Trafton And Calls Her A Star Of A “Niche Discipline Within A Niche Sport” Brown Trafton reveals even after winning Olympic gold, she didn’t make enough from track to support herself.
• 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.
• Register-Guard: 49 Athletes WIth Ties To The University Of Oregon Will Compete At USAs
• Ben Rosario Is Thrilled With The Way Hoka NAZ Elite Team Is Looking Heading Into USAs Ben Bruce heads into his 15th USAs after a 10k PR and Rosario says Craig Lutz is “on fire.”
• Eugene Register-Guard Editorial Urges USATF To Put 2020 Trials In Eugene The decision could come by Sunday. We 100% disagree.
• 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 Form Chart
• Track And Field News USATF Champs Women’s Form Chart
• 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.

European Team Championships Start Friday *Live Streaming Info *Brits Can Watch On The BBC *Entries *Schedule

• Meet Preview: Hosts France Seek Their First European Team Championships Title
• Euro Team Champs A-Z Part 1 *Part 2
• Olympic HJ Silver Medalist Mirela Demireva Leads Bulgarian Team
• More Coverage From European Athletics

400m WR Holder Wayde Van Niekerk Runs 9.94 PR 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 Jeopardizing 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

• Bahrain’s Dawit Fikadu (28:43) And Ethiopia’s Birhane Mihretu (32:30) Win Corrida de Langueux 10K In France
• Czech Republic’s Katerina Cachova And Algeria’s Larbi Bourrada Win At TNT Express Multi Event Meeting
• Athletics Weekly: Alicia Barrett Smashes UK 100H Junior Record At England Under-20/23 Championships
• Kanagawa University Wins Kanto Region Qualifier for National University Men’s Ekiden

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 

• Schippers False Starts In 200, Is Allowed To Race And Wins, Then Is DQed And Now Reinstated As Your 200 Champ Reuters summed up the race properly – “bizarre.”
• Jake Wightman Is The Son Of A 2:13 Marathon Dad And 2:31 Marathon Mom
• Ireland’s Thomas Barr Runs 48.95 To Finish 3rd In 400H Out Of Lane 1
• IAAF Recap – Part 1: Barshim Breaks Sotomayor’s 28-Year-Old Meeting Record
• IAAF Recap – Part 2: Warholm Runs Himself To Glory And Exhaustion