2017 Lausanne Is Thursday *Schedule, Entries, Results *TV & Streaming

LRC 2017 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?

In Lausanne On Thurday, Wayde van Niekerk Will Run His 1st 400 Since His World Record How low will he go?

Links That Make The Cut

• With Shin Splint Problem A Thing Of The Past, Nick Willis Is Itching To Win His First-Ever World Champs Medal In London
• Japan Running News Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary It’s a great resource for sure. It’s most popular article ever is one we hadn’t even read: Last-Placer Named Winner After Entire Rest Of Field Disqualified
• Runner’s Tribe Looks At The Training Of “5-Time World Cross-Country Champ” Paul Tergat
• South Africa Wins 17 Medals At African Junior Champs Sprinter Clarence Munyai impressed with a 20.22 in the 200. Ethiopia dominated the medal standings with 38.
• Runner’s World Podcast On What It Takes To Maintain A 20+ Year Running Streak
• Tone Deaf: IOC Officialy Says 2028 Olympic Host Better Not Ask For More Money As They’ll Save $50-100 Million By Not Having To Bid

News From The UK

• Brits Think That Football (Soccer), Not Track And Field, Is The Sport They Have The Least Amount Of Confidence In 36% of Brits don’t trust football at all. This survey shows us that doping scandals alone aren’t why track struggles for popularity.
• Eilidh Doyle Know The 400H Will Be Loaded At Worlds And Will Treat Every Race Like Final
• Great Britain Tops Medal Table With Huge Haul At World Transplant Games

2017 Canadian Track And Field Championships Have Begun *Schedule, Results And Streaming Info

*MB: Official 2017 Canadian Champs Discussion Thread

US Sprint / Jumps News

• Interesting: US Pole Vault Champ Sam Kendricks And Renaud Lavillenie Joke About How Kendricks Always Comes In At Opening Height At the Paris DL, Kendricks started at 5.37m while Lavillenie came in at 5.62m. Kendricks: “I came all the way to Paris, I trained all these years to pole vault, why not take a few extra jumps?”
• USA’s Sprint Hurdlers React To Sydney McLaughlin Moving Down To The 100H For Next Year Both Nia Ali and Lolo Jones sent out joking tweets to McLaughlin.
• 101-Year-Old Sprinter Sets Age Group Record For 100-Yard Dash Julia “Hurricane” Hawkins covered 100 yards in 39.62 seconds.
• Fred Kerley And Raevyn Rogers Win Bowerman Award Fan Vote Both votes were pretty close as Kerley took 40.8% of the vote to Christian Coleman‘s 38.8% and Rogers had 35.5% to Keturah Orji‘s 33.0% and Maggie Ewen‘s 31.5%.

British Champs *Results

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.

• More Day 2: Laura Weightman Winning 1,500m Among Female Highlights At British Trials
• Video Of Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake Winning 200 At British Champs
• Sean Ingle: British Athletics Needs New Generation Of Stars (And Its Stars To Run Nationals) After Attendance At Nationals Ss Equal To A League 2 Football Match

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.

Chijindu Ujah Or Adam Gemili Will Likely Be Left Off British 100m Team After They Both Don’t Run Trials Final

Sprint/Field  News

• Bermuda Invitational Results: Wallace Spearmon Gets A 20.98 Win If that’s the final race of his career, it’s not a bad way to go out.
• Omar McLeod Says Paris Was “Juast A Bad Day” – He Had Cramps In Warmups
• South African Sprints Coach Expert Breaks Down Wayde Van Niekerk’s Chances For Double, 200m World Record
• Italian Champs Recap: Yadisleidy Pedroso 55.09 400m Hurdles The Highlight
• Janek Oiglane (8170) Of Ukraine And Alina Shukh (6208) Win European Combined Events Team Championship
• South African Junior Clarence Munyai Sprints 20.22 At African Junior Champs In Algeria

Distance News / Upcoming Action

• Recommended Read: Profile On Former Irish Olympic Miler And Current Agent Ray Flynn Looking Back At When He Broke 3:50 In The Dream Mile In Oslo Flynn ran 3:49.77 to set the still-standing Irish record and says that is the race he is “… most proud of. … I didn’t win any Olympic medals, but I think I got as much out of myself as I could.”
• Sunday: Robby Andrews Going For The 1,500 World Standard At TrackTown Summer Series Meet At Mt. Hood Community College In Oregon Andrews has until July 21st to run the 3:36.0 standard. There won’t be any rabbits in this one though, so he’ll have to hope for a fast pace or set it himself.
• Recommended Read #2: The Oregonian: “No Mystery About Ben Blankenship’s Race Plan Sunday At Mt. Hood – He Will Run To Win” “I would rather be last every time for 100 times to give myself a chance to win once.”
• Sunday: Kenneth Mungara Chasing A Hatrick At The Gold Coast Marathon In Australia He’ll face Yuki Kawauchi, whom he only beat by 1 second last year. Abebech Afework (2:23:33) leads the women’s race.
• July 4: Bernard Lagat, Chris Derrick, Leonard Korir And Shadrack Kipchirchir Lead Field For Peachtree Road Race The women’s race has Jordan Hasay, Neely Gracey and Aliphine Tuliamuk.
• MB: Craig Engels to NOP… BTC, OTC go home DEVASTATED

TrackTown Summer Series *Results *Watch On Demand

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.

• Discussion:  tracktown summer series June 29, 2017 Stanford University
• Hannah Fields…Wow!!!!
• Copper Teare Attempting Sub 4 Tonight! He came up short with 4:01.92.
• OK, why does Paul Chelimo keep touching his face?

Distance News: Steve Spence’s Streak Survives

• 55-Year-Old Former US Olympian Steve Spence Runs 4:55 To Extend His Streak Of Sub-5 Minute Miles To 42 Years “I try to keep it fun, but it’s starting to become a little stressful because of the expectations I have of myself. Each year it gets a little harder. I have to train more. A few years ago, I could just go out and do it.”
  *MB: BREAKING! Steve Spence runs 4:55 and continues his sub5 steak to 42 years.
• Good Read: IAAF Profile: Yuki Kawauchi Is Running His 70th Career Marathon On Sunday At The Gold Coast Marathon Kawauchi with his prolific racing and full-time job “defies categorization” as a normal elite runner.
• UK’s Laura Muir Still Wants To Do 1,500/5,000 Double At World Champs Despite Foot Injury BA performance director Neil Black was quoted saying that she had “a one percent” chance of doubling up in London, but Muir tweeted in response, “Reports of my demise have been greatly exaggerated.”
• Recommended Read: Daily Mail Profile On Laura Muir, Who Says She Rather Have Gone For The Win In Rio And Lose A Medal Than Play It Safe And Finish Third Muir is very blue collar compared to some athletes as she says she talks about how hardly takes any supplements and hates using pain killers and said she tried a sports psychologist, but it wasn’t for her.
  *MB: Laura Muir shades Jenny Simpson (Olympics)
• The Guardian: Mo Farah Vows To Stick With Alberto Salazar But Also Eyes Return To UK Farah denied previous reports that he was leaving Salazar when he moves up to the marathon, but he has apparently been looking at houses in the UK.