– Reigning Olympic long jump champ Tianna Bartoletta talking about how it’s expensive to be a top notch track and field athlete. Bartoletta spends more than most as she hates sharing rooms with strangers and needs to fly business class.
LRC Recap: Nijel Amos, Andre De Grasse, Elaine Thompson, Ryan Crouser Keep Rolling, Conseslus Kipruto Goes Out Injured, and The Moroccans Impress Only one more DL meet remains before Worlds.
Crossover Star: Sydney McLaughlin Is On The Cover Of Sports Illustrated The amount of money she’s going to make when she goes pro will be insane.
Speaking Of Covers: Kirby Lee Is A Track And Field Legend Behind The Camera
LRC “Frequent And Passionate” Kissing, Moxylong, And An Indian Chemist: Gil Roberts’ Doping Case Is the Strangest One Of 2017 Over the years, there have been some entertaining stories that have been used to get people off (or at least try) from positive doping tests – from a gay man making out with a female Craigslist encounter to five bottles of beer and sex at least four times with the wife. We’ve got a new doozy for you.
*MB: “Frequent and Passionate” Kissing Results in US 400 Man Gil Roberts Avoiding Doping Suspension
We span the globe to get you up to speed on what's been happening in the track and field world the last two weeks.
Friday In Spain:Olympic Champ Ruth Beitia And Olympic Silver Medalist Orlando Ortega Highlight Meeting De Madrid Distance action is highlighted by Erik Sowinski and Mo Amanin the 800 and Ethiopia’s 2008 world indoor 1,500m champ Gelete Burka vs. Azmera Gebru (14:57 5K best) over 3,000m.
Morton Games:Alexa Efraimson Gets Her First International 1,500 Win As Robert Domanic’s Fine 2017 Continues Ole Miss’s Domanic won in 3:55 as Drew Hunter ran 3:56. Efraimson won in 4:06.73.
Discussion:2017 Morton Games Is Today, July 12 (Hunter, Efraimson, Merber, etc) – Live Discussion Thread
Lucerne: World Bronze Medalist Amel Tuka Wins In 1:46.74 Over Erik Sowinski And Matt Centrowitz Sowinski was 2nd (1:47.06) while Centro was a distant 7th (1:49.12). Ethiopia’s Azmera Gebru won the 3,000 in 8:52 with Aisha Praught 3rd (8:53), Emily Infeld 5th (8:55) and Courtney Freichs 6th (8:56). In non-distance action, Germany’s Johanes Vetter threw the second best javelin mark of all-time with 94.44m while Sharika Nelvis ran (12.67) to beat Sally Pearson in the hurdles and Devon Allen won the men’s race in 13.31.
*800 Race Video
*MB:Nijel Amos Runs 45.55 PB
*MB:JULY 11 800m: Eric S. 1:47.0 and Matthew C. 1:49.12 WTH???
Sunday: Predictable: Kenya boys go 1-2 in 2k steeple The winning time at altitude – 5:32.52 .
The good news is track and field got discussed on the radio as one of the hosts saw The Freeze race at the TrackTown Summer Series meet on TV. The bad news is they ridiculed the idea track could be popular anywhere and the concept of a track league in the US.
RRWThree-Time Olympian Dathan Ritzenhein Has Joined The Hansons-Brooks Original Distance Project Since 180 days had passed since Ritz’s Nike contract expired, he was free to sign and he chose to go with Brooks.
*MB:Breaking: Dathan Ritzenhein has joined the Hansons-Brooks Original Distance Project
2020 US Olympic Marathon Trials Standards Announced The marathon standards stay at 2:19 and 2:45, but the half marks are quicker at 64:00 and 73:00 (dropped from 65:00 and 75:00 in 2016).
*MB:USATF Announces 2020 Olympic Trials Marathon qualifying standards
LRC Who Won Our 2017 Running Warehouse USAs Prediction Contest? A Pro, An Olympic Trials Qualifier, A 3:40 1,500m Runner And An All-State High School Runner See who the kings and queens of LetsRun.com are. Our contest winners this time are by far the most impressive group running-wise in the history of contest winners on LRC.
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