– Co-author of the recent study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine on the effect of testosterone in women’s sports, Dr. Stéphane Bermon, talking about the advantage that hyperandrogenic female athletes such as Caster Semenya have over their fellow female competitors.
Leonard Korir And Aliphine Tuliamuk Win USA 10K Titles At AJC Peachtree Road Race Korir won a close race over Shadrack Kipchirchir as he outkicked him by 1-second (28:16 to 28:17) while Sam Chelenga got third in 28:25. Tuliamuk won her 6th US road title in 32:49 as Sarah Pagano took 2nd (33:01) and Jordan Hasay 3rd (33:08).
*Runner In Cardiac Arrest Collapses At Peachtree Finish Line Not surprisingly, conditions were very hot and humid in Atlanta today.
Peachtree On The 4th: Hasay And Marielle Hall Square Off, Derrick Joins Field Racing Lagat, Korir, & Kipchirchir A great American race. Wejo totally apologies for totally butchering who was in this race. Molly Huddle was never running and Shalane Flanagan withdrew.
Jamie Nieto Being Honored At Redondo Beach 4th Of July 5K, He Recently Took 200 Steps without A Walker High jumper was paralyzed from neck down while doing a back flip.
Gold Coast: Takuya Noguchi Runs 2-Minute PR To Win Gold Coast Marathon In 2:08:59 And Beat 43-Year-Old Mungara (2:09:04) And Kawauchi (2:09:18), Abebech Bekele Runs CR (2:25:34) Kawauchi was doing this race as training for next month’s World Champs.
Jarrion Lawson Ready For Long Jump And 4 X 100 At World Championships
2020 US Olympic Track And Field Trials Awarded To Los Angeles; Will Be Hosted By Mt. SAC If you read some of the articles beforehand, you might have thought the real competition was just between Eugene and Sacramento, but LA won the vote 11-2.
*Ken Goe: USATF Spurns Eugene, Awards 2020 Trials To Mt. SAC Now on the USATF board, Lauren Fleshman said, “Long term, you can’t build track on one city.”
*Los Angeles Times Article
*MB:USATF Awards 2020 Olympic Trials to Mt. SAC
LRC Jenny Simpson Makes It Four In A Row In The 1,500 As 31-Year-Old Mother Of Three Sara Vaughn Snags Final Spot To London Simpson and Kate Grace both punched their tickets to London but the big surprise was that Shannon Rowbury did not and Sara Vaughn did.
*MB: SARA MF VAUGHN
*MB: Jenny Simpson is the Greatest US 1500m runner EVER- male or female
*The Sacramento Bee Article Grace gives a lot of praise the NorCal Distance Project under Drew Wartenburg.
LRC Emma Coburn Remains Queen Of The Steeple At USATF Championships As The Team From Rio 2016 Will Repeat At London 2017 The order of finish was the same in 2017 as 2016 but is the gap between Coburn and everyone else narrowing?
RRWEmily Richards – Star at DIII’s Ohio Northern – Impresses at USA Championships in 800m
LetsRun.com’s Pre-Meet Previews:
*W800/1,500/Steeple *M800/1,500/Steeple
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
LRC2017 Athletissima Lausanne Preview: Centro Returns To The Diamond League; Dibaba Runs The Mile; Hassan Faces Niyonsaba Over 800 Meters Matthew Centrowitz will toe the line in a DL 1,500 for the first time in 2 years.
*MB: Official 2017 Lausanne DL Discussion Thread – How Will Centro Do In His 1st DL Race in 2 Years?
LRC Portland Recap: Robby Andrews Drops Out As Ben Blankenship Wins A Thriller Over Merber And Engels, Windle Keeps Rolling The men’s 1,500m didn’t get the Worlds qualifying standard but it was three abreast racing down the homestretch. Drew Windle continued his good form in the 800 and Stephanie Garcia won the 3,000m.
Discuss:Robby Andrews just dropped out with 350 to go
Ken Goe Recap Of Portland:Surprise, Ben Blankenship Wins The 1,500 At The TrackTown Summer Series
Robby Andrews Post-Race Interview:“I’d be lying if (I said) there’s no pressure to get the world championships standard.” Plus news he’s been staying with Clayton Murphy.
LRC Paris Recap: Sifan Hassan Beats Faith Kipyegon, Ronald Kwemoi And Omar McLeod Lose For First Time, Nijel Amos Is Back? The World Championships picture may be getting a little bit clearer after Paris and Sifan Hassan may be your new favorite. Get up to speed on everything in Paris.
LRC WTW: The Winners And Losers From USAs + Ronald Kwemoi Breaks The 1,500 WR* and Mo Farah Breathes Easy Plus everything you need to know about the Kenyan Trials and a rarity on LetsRun.com – ultra running news.
BBC:FBI And IRS Investigating 2021 Eugene World Championships Award After failing in their bid for 2019, Eugene was given the 2021 championships without the IAAF opening up the bidding to other countries that were interested. Lamine Dick was still head of the IAAF at the time and Seb Coe was still a paid Nike employee.
*MB: BREAKING: The FBI is investigating Eugene being awarded the 2021 Track and Field World Championships
LRC Redemption: Donavan Brazier Wins His First National Title With A Brilliant 1:44.14 At The Age Of 20! Brazier silenced his critics with a 1:44.14 victory as Penn State’s Isaiah Harris and Brooks Beasts’ Drew Windle each made their first US team.
LRC Ajee Wilson Doesn’t Miss A Step As She Wins Her Second Outdoor 800m National Title With A Negative Split 1:57.78 You’d never know that Ajee Wilson hadn’t raced in nearly four months prior to USAs as she was in the form of her life today as she took home the women’s 800 crown and sent a warning shot to Caster Semenya, Maragaret Wambui and Francine Niyonsaba.
*RRW:Donavan Brazier, Ajee Wilson Take USA 800m Titles
LRC Evan Jager Blasts 56.70 Final Lap To Win Sixth Straight USATF Title As Andy Bayer Finishes 4th Again Jager showed great finishing speed as the entire top 4 went sub-60 on the final lap over barriers.
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
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.
Final Day Recap Of British Champs: Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake Runs 20.18 In LSU Vest, Chris O’Hare Beats Kerr In 1,500 First race for Mitchell-Blake in UK since he was 13.
Day 1: Dina Asher-Smith Finishes 6th In 100 But Revives London Hopes A lot of stars didn’t compete, but Morgan Lake jumped 1.96 and Reece Prescod won the 100 (Chijindu Ujah ran 9.98 in the prelims but didn’t run the finals).
Olympic & World Champ Christine Ohuruogu Runs 54.41, Doesn’t Make 400 Finals At British Champs, Says She’s OK If That’s Her Last Race What a career.
LRC Hannah Fields Wins 1,500 In 4:05.30 With Nearly 6-Second PR To Highlight TrackTown Summer Series Meet #1 Paul Chelimo toyed with the field in the 3,000m, Cooper Teare gave sub-4 another crack, Steven Solomon showed he may be on his way back, and Brittney Reese was upset.
LRC Wayde Van Niekerk Breaks World Record In 300m
LRC Usain Bolt Looks Shaky But Wins 100 In 10.06, Mo Farah Doesn’t PR But Runs To 27:12 10K Win As David Rudisha Is Defeated Again Full recap and results.
LRC 2017 Ostrava Golden Spike Race Videos For those of you who actually have jobs we’ve got video of most of the races.
Ryan Crouser Launches “Clean World Record” In Shot, Dalilah Muhammad Wins Deepest Women’s 400m Hurdles, Coleman, Bowie Gets Upset In 200 Joe Kovacs took the lead by a foot on his final throw in the shot, and then Crouser launched his monster. The top 6 all PRed in the 400m hurdles and Olympians Ashley Spencer and Sydney McLaughlin did not make the team. Jeff Henderson, the Olympic champion, did not make the team in the long jump.
*AP Recap: Aries Merritt Makes Worlds With New Kidney
*Noah Lyles Out Of 200 W/ Slight Injury, Tyson Gay Didn’t Make Final
*IAAF:Dalilah Muhammad Wins Deepest Women’s 400H Race In History Also noteworthy, Ryan Crouser‘s SP victory was the longest throw in the world for 14 years.
*Register-Guard:“Dejah Stevens Gains Redemption In 200”
*Final Day USAs Athlete Quotes
*Once-Homeless Sisters Mingle With Track Stars At Nationals
Best Sprint/Field Interviews (All Here): *Ryan Crouser After His Monster Throw *Dalilah Muhammad Thinks World Record Will Fall *Sydney McLaughlin Gets To Go To Beach Now *Tori Bowie Likely Won’t Do 100-200 Double In London *Aries Merritt*Devon Allen
LRCAfter A String Of Misses, Robby Andrews Takes Down Matthew Centrowitz To Win First US Outdoor 1,500 Title Long-time Robby Andrews fans couldn’t believe what they were seeing both midway through the race (Andrews actually led) and at the end (he led again) as Andrews used his patented kick to take down the Olympic champ in a big upset.
MB Talk:
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
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