– Paul Chelimo speaking after soloing a 13:08 meet record to crush the 5,000 field at the 2017 USATF Championships.
MB Talk: Official 2017 USATF Outdoor Nats Day 3 Live Discussion Thread
*Robby Andrews is not a one trick pony anymore – He takes early lead and then takes down Centro!! Robby Andrews has knocked off the Olympic champ in a big upset.
*Matthew Centrowitz Reveals He Thought He Was Out of Nationals a Couple of Weeks Ago With a Virus and Injury
*Breaking: Clayton Murphy is grabbing his hamstring and limping off the track
*BEN BLANKENSHIP IS A HERO! –
* Centro goes home DEVASTATED
*Anyone think Murphy is in danger?
*SARA MF VAUGHN Simpson has won the 1500 with Grace 2nd but the big story is a realtor and mother of 3 makes her first team at 31.
*Big Names DNS men’s 200
RRWEmily Richards – Star at DIII’s Ohio Northern – Impresses at USA Championships in 800m
LRC Paul Chelimo Crushes The Field & Sends A Message To Mo Farah With Meet Record 13:08 Victory In 5,000 At 2017 USAs Chelimo was so dominant he could pump up the crowd with a lap to go and do his signature WCAP Army salute at the finish.
LRC Three Years After Making 800m Final At USATFs In Sacramento, Shelby Houlihan Returns To Win The 5,000m Houlihan got the upset win over 10,000m winner Molly Huddle and American record holder Shannon Rowbury.
LRC 800 Semis: Donavan Brazier Makes His First Final, So Do 2 Ex-DII Guys, Mouth-Watering Women’s Final Set Murphy’s quest for the double is on track. One woman will be left out in the cold in the women’s 800.
Friday Night Message Board Talk
LetsRun.com’s Pre-Meet Previews:
W800/1,500/Steeple *w5k/10k *M800/1,500/Steeple *M5k/10k
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
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.
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
Justin Gatlin Takes Down Christian Coleman At Nationals Recent collegians Coleman and Christopher Belcher went 2-3 as Pre winner Ronnie Baker didn’t make the final.
*Tianna Bartoletta, Jenna Prandini, Hannah Cunliffe, Ronnie Baker And Jarrion Lawson Talk After Not Making 100m Final
LRCChristian Taylor Did Not Take USAs Seriously, But He Should Have Taylor flew to USAs from Holland to purposely foul in the triple jump since he had a bye into Worlds. What a joke.
Discussion:What About The Sport? Christian Taylor Flies To USAs From Holland, Fouls On First Jump And Passes On Next Two
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 / 1,500 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
LRCGay 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
LRCPost-Race Interviews From Sacramento
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.
LRC Stockholm DL Recap: Andre De Grasse Runs 9.69, Timothy Cheruiyot Runs 3:30, Asbel Kiprop Improves And A Big Field Event UpsetTimothy 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.
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
*MB Threads:
Official Thread: Athletics Kenya Trials for IAAF World Championships, London 2017
BREAKING/WOW: UTEP’s Emmanuel Korir and Michael Saruni go 1-3 in 800 at Kenyan Trials – Korir has already gone pro!! Korir is one of the greatest 800 talents in history.
*Ronald Kwemoi wins the 1500 in 3:30 at altitude!!! Cheruiyot and Manangoi 2-3Reigning WCs like Kiprop didn’t need to race.
*Kamworor Crushes The 10k in 27:35 Then Talks Big After Big Win
*Hellen Obiri wins 5k
*Wambui takes the w800
*C Kipruto and Chespol win the steeples
Day 1 Of Kenyan World Champs Trials Is In The Books The highlight of the day came in the women’s 10,000 where the last two World XC champs Agnes Tirop and Irene Cheptai went head-to-head with Tirop winning in 31:56.0 to Cheptai’s 31:56.4. In the men’s 5,000, Cyrus Rutto used a 55-second last lap to win in a close race in 13:31 while Worlds silver medalist Caleb Ndiku was a DNS due to injury.
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.
Full Results For The 2017 Brooks PR InvitationalSam 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: Sydney McLaughlin Splits a 49.85 FAT in a relay!!!
MB: Official 2017 New Balance HS Nationals Discussion Thread
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