Previous 2017 Worlds News

• Despite Lackluster Season, Asbel Kiprop Assures That He Is “In Good Condition To Defend” His Title Kiprop added that “I have learnt my lessons from last year” and he’d be ready for the tactical final.
• AP: Stage Set For Trey Hardee After Ashton Eaton’s Retirement Hardee, who says he’s never retired despite what Wikipedia tells you, jokes that he is “the bread in the Ashton sandwich.”
• AP: No Anthem Or Colors, But Russians Are Back At Worlds World 110H champ Sergey Shubenkov complained that he wouldn’t be able to wear his “beautiful, awesome uniform” and that the rules “seem tough and a bit ridiculous.”
• Jamaica’s Defending 100H Danielle Williams Says She Doesn’t Get The Respect She Deserves True, the Americans get all the hype, but Williams is only 6th fastest in the world this year. Will she have another clutch performance at Worlds?
• Crisis Averted: Jenn Suhr Almost Didn’t Have Her Poles For Worlds She tweeted at United after they were never put on the plane to London and United responded saying they have been located and returned to her.
• Christian Coleman Says If He Makes The Final And Lines Up With Usain Bolt He’ll “Be Sure To Take In The Situation And Remember The Moment”
• Steve Cram’s 10 Stars To Watch At London 2017 Evan Jager makes the list.
• IAAF Offering Worlds Live Stream (Not In USA)

One Last Pre-Worlds Presser With Usain Bolt

• Good For A Quote:Usain Bolt Says He’s “Fully Confident” At His Final Pre-Championship Press Conference Bolt talks about dealing with the loss of his friend earlier this season, how he may get into acting and do some action movies after retirement and how he never wants anyone to break his WRs.
• Canada 24 News:“Usain Bolt Displeased With Andre De Grasse’s ‘Disrespect” Bolt is quoted as saying “I’m not going down that road (predicting who will take his place after retirement). The last guy I said was going to be great disrespected me.”
• Bolt Asked What Happens If He Loses:“I can’t believe you’re asking me that. We won’t have that problem, don’t worry about it.” Talking about Andre De Grasse, Bolt’s tone was apparently “on the frosty side of Siberian” as he described their relationship as “I see him around … I don’t have his phone number or anything.”
• Bolt Warns Fellow Athletes: Stop Doping Or The Sport Will Die
  *The Telegraph Article
• Bolt Says He’s Told Wayde Van Niekerk To “Open Up His Personality A Little Bit”
• The Telegraph:How Much Is Usain Bolt Worth And Where Does His Money Come From? The British writer jokes that “Bolt is to the average athlete what Bill Gates is to my 17-year-old self with a summer job.”
• Usain Bolt: The World’s Fastest Man’s Best Quotes

Rudisha Out Of Worlds

LRCDavid Rudisha Pulls Out Of Worlds With Injury The greatest race at the 2012 London Olympics was the men’s 800 final, won in a world record by David Rudisha. The fans won’t get a repeat this year as Rudisha is out with injury. Michael Saruni of UTEP was not entered as an alternate so no word officially if he can’t run yet.
*Rudisha: “I have accepted my fate with a very heavy heart.” Rudisha says he damaged his quad while “trying to engage in more speed.”
*Discuss: Rudisha announces a no show at London 2017 – quad injury.

Russian Drug Ban Will Continue

IAAF Not Ready To Lift Russian Suspension After Latest Task Force Update Task force head Rune Andersen says that Russia has still not “establish a strong anti-doping culture … or created an open environment that encourages whistleblowing.”
*Athletics Weekly Article Andersen: “RUSADA has started some testing but not comprehensive testing. There is a long way to go before they conduct the testing which we consider to be meaningful.”

Previous London 2017 Worlds News

• LRC Entry Lists For 2017 World Champs Now Available Shalane Flanagan and Kara Goucher are listed in the marathon but they are not entered.
• BBC Video: Mo Farah Talks About The Struggle Of Being Away From His Family For Half The Year Talking about training, Farah says he’s averaging 120 miles a week and has multiple guys on a bike to pace him for track workouts.
• Defending Champ Hyvin Kiyeng And The Kenyan Women Steeplers Plan On Using Teamwork To “Sweep The Podium” In London
• Kenyan 400 Runner And Tulane University’s NCAA Qualifier Raymond Kibet Dreams Of Making The Final In London Kibet ran a 45.21 PR two months ago and says he wants to break 44 seconds in London.
• Conseslus Kipruto Says He’s Been Back Training Well For London After Pulling Out Of Rabat DL With An Ankle Injury Kipruto really wants to win his first world title after finishing with silver in 2013 and 2015.
• Brazil’s Olympic Pole Vault Champ Thiago Braz Withdraws From Worlds With Injury
• IAAF: Athletics Integrity Unit And UK Athletics Unveil Robust Anti-Doping Program For Worlds 600 blood samples and 600 urine tests will be conducted in London.
• The Guardian: How The London Olympic Stadium Has Changed Since The 2012 Games
• The Telegraph: “Are London 2017 World Championships The End Of An Era For Athletics In Britain?” The heroes of GB’s “Super Saturday” are finished with or winding down their track careers. (Register to get one free article a week.)
• IAAF Event-By-Event Previews

Weekend Distance Results

• Sam Chelanga And Aliphine Tuliamuk Take USATF 7 Mile Championship Titles At Bix 7 In Iowa Tuliamuk dominated by over a minute as Marielle Hall, Sara Hall and Becky Wade took 2-4 while Chelanga beat Scott Fauble by 8 seconds. *Results
• Ben Blankenship (4:05) And Emily Lipari (4:35) Take GNC Live Well Liberty Mile Titles Blankenship won a close race over Kyle Merber as Lipari beat out Lauren Johnson.
• Olympic Silver Medalist Feyisa Lilesa (64:30) And 37-Year-Old Kenyan Brigid Kosgei (72:12) Get Wins At Bogota Half Marathon
• Jim Walmsley And Anna Mae Flynn Win Speedgoat 50K Ultra*Results
• Athletics Weekly England Championships Recap Former Worlds silver medalist Hannah England took the 1,500 in 4:17.

It’s A Slow Weekend In Terms Of Action

• Ireland’s 16-Year-Old Sarah Healy Destroys The Field by 3+ Seconds To Win Gold At European Youth Olympics We hope to see her in the NCAA.
• Anita Wlodarczyk Just Misses Her Own World Record Of 82.98 With 82.87 Heave In Poland. She had a ridiculous 5 throws over 80 meters. Piotr Malachowski won the discus with a SB of 67.68m.
• MB Robby Andrews runs 1:50 in 800 time trial at Princeton
• 21 Years Ago, It Was Exciting 21 Years Ago From Saturday, Carl Lewis Won His 4th Straight LJ Gold Medal
  *MB: Carl Lewis ESPN article

Mid-D News

• Jenny Simpson Looking Forward To “Getting Some Personal Redemption” At The London Olympic Stadium She went out in the semis at the 2012 London Games, but is hoping to be on the podium for London 2017.
• Tips For Track And Life From Germany’s World Steeplechase Bronze Medalist Gesa Krause (link fixed) Krause likes to travel with family and says she’s been to around 50 countries. She says when on vacation, “I try not to worry about money and just enjoy the experience.”

Running Form Analysis

• Interesting:Running Form Analyst Jae Gruenke Takes A Deeper Look At The Recent NY Times Article On Usain Bolt’s Unusually Asymmetrical Stride Gruenke says that the asymmetry found in Bolt is actually extremely common in distance runners, including all-time greats like Eliud Kipchoge.
• IAAF:Largest Ever Biomechanics Research Project In Athletics To Be Undertaken At London 2017 A team of 41 people will use high speed cameras and video to analyze athlete biomechanics across 17 events (including the steeplechase, 10,000 and marathon).

Latest Worlds Team Naming News

• MB: Ethiopian steepler Chala Beyo gets screwed over by federation and left of WC team – Punches coach and gets banned for 2 years Beyo was third at the Ethiopian Trials and is the third-fastest Ethiopian on the year but was left off their Worlds team.
• UTEP’s Michael Saruni Back In Kenya Pre-Worlds Training Camp After Getting Kicked Out For Three Days Saruni doesn’t know what event he’s running, but one report said he would run in the 4 x 400 after being cut from the 800 squad.
  *Kenyan Journalist Says The “Bright Side” Of The AK Selection Controversy Is That Kenya Has So Many Good 800 Runners To Choose From He writes, “After all, it doesn’t really matter who wins the 800m title … as long as he is Kenyan,” but we think the athletes, whose livelihood depends on running, would disagree.
• MB:16-Year-Old Sub-4 Miler Jakob Ingebrigsten Added To Norway Team In The Steeplechase He ran 8:26 in his debut earlier this month and then won European U20 Champs.
• The Bahamas Names 21-Member Team For London
• Eliud Kipchoge Says Kenya’s Marathon Squad Will Sweep All The Medals In London
• IAAF Extends Invitations To Four Additional USATF Throwers Who Didn’t Have The Standard They include Olympic hammer throwers Rudy Winkler and Kibwe Johnson.
• Former Villanova All-American Jordan Williamsz Among 14 More Australians Added To Worlds Squad 14 more got in thanks to the IAAF invitations to fill the fields.
  *6 Villanovans Going To London
• Hammer Throwers Anita Wlodarczyk And Pawel Fajdek Lead Poland Team For Worlds Reigning 800m silver medalist Adam Kszczot also returns.
• Six More GB Athletes Get IAAF Invites To Worlds