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Saturday: MB: Official 2017 Worlds Day 2 Discussion Thread

Justin Gatlin & Christian Coleman Beat Usain Bolt
*DOWN GOES BOLT! / Justin Gatlin- The Champion track deserves
*“Dear London: Boo your f***ing self” – Justin Gatlin
*What happens when Mo Farah or Usain Bolt gets beat at Worlds? 
*World Championships 100m: University of Tennessee Dominates 
*Usain Bolt Has Just Lost His First 100m Worlds SemiFinal Ever, Will He Lose the Final? 

LRC Flash Almaz Ayana Laps Nearly The Entire Field To Win Gold In The Women’s 10,000 In One of The Finest Displays in Women’s Distance Running History The Chinese level of distance running is now the reality.
*MB: Molly Huddle on the Ethiopians: “I feel like they get away with a lot”
*MB: Almaz Ayana – guts and glory 

Jenny Makes Final: We just found out why Jenny Simpson Fist Pumped at End of 1500m Semi Post-race interviews

LRC 800m Round 1: Donavan Brazier Runs Like a Pro as All 3 Americans Advance, Emmanuel Korir Confirms He’s Gone Pro All 3 Americans (Donavan Brazier, Drew Windle and Isaiah Harris) advanced with Brazier’s show coming untied.

LRC 400 Round Qualifying: All 3 Americans Advance, But Makwala Says “We want to take the 400 to Africa, to make it (an) African race.”

LRC Post-Race Interviews From 2017 IAAF World Championships In Athletics / Track and Field

Full Coverage In Our 2017 London Special Section

Worlds Outside Distance Coverage

• Recommended Read: Q&A: US 1500 Champ Robby Andrews Heads To Worlds After FInal Weeks Of Hard Workouts On actually being towards the front at USAs (instead of way back), Andrews says he “felt strangely comfortable.”
• The Guardian: “Mo Farah Hails 10,000 Gold As Greatest Of His Career”
• Recommended Read: IAAF Profile: After Nightmare At World XC, Joshua Cheptegei Lives London Dream At World XC, Cheptegei had a 7-second lead with 1000m to go, but cratered and finished 30th. Now he’s a world silver medalist.
• Mo Ahmed Sets Canadian 10K Record With 27:02 For 8th He broke Cam Levins’ 27:07 mark from 2015.
• Q&A With Daniel Winn On Pacing Robby Andrews To The World Standard, The Rewards Of Rabbiting And His Training Partner Chris O’Hare Winn shares some insights into the rabbiting experience and what it pays.
• Farah Says He’ll See A Doctor As He Hurt His Leg And Got Some Cuts And Bruises During The 10,000
• Caster Semenya Eases Into 1500m Semis She finished second in her heat with 4:02.84, just behind Genzebe Dibaba.
• The Guardian: Laura Muir Makes Confident Start 1500m Into Her Gruelling Schedule
• RRW: Despite Potential Distractions, Jenny Simpson Stays Focused On Competing Talking about doping and Caster Semenya, Simpson says “My event is full of controversy this year.”
• Irish 4:01 Woman Ciara Mageean Exits 1500 After “Disaster” “Oh god, I didn’t even fathom not making it out of the rounds. I knew could make it through so I’ve no excuses for that. I just couldn’t get my legs to switch on.”
• UKA Chief Neil Black: I Have Looked Mo Farah In The Eye And I’m Convinced He Is Not A Cheat
• MB: World Steeple Silver Medalist Habiba Ghribi Scratches From Worlds With Injury

• MB: Let the trash talking begin. C. Kipruto says he’s recovered from injury and “won’t allow” an American to win
• MB: Sara Vaughn getting some major love: Associated Press, ESPNw and Washington Post all publish profiles of her
• RRW Day 1 Recap: Mo Farah Wins Third Straight World 10,000 Title In Dramatic Fashion

More Worlds Non-Distance

Sprints/Jumps: Other notable news was Olympic champ Jeff Henderson not qualifying in the long jump but saying he’ll be back in 2018, Jenn Suhr no-heighting in pole vault, former NCAA 100m champ Christian Coleman looking good in round 1 of 100 and saying he wants to win (and beat Bolt), and Justin Gatlin getting booed but saying he’s fine with the that. And Usain Bolt being Usain Bolt.

• Usain Bolt, Yohan Blake and All 3 Americans Move On In 100
• Usain Bolt Blames Starting Blocks For “Very Bad” First Round “I think these are the worst blocks I’ve ever experienced and it was just not a smooth start.”
  *Short Video Interview With Bolt
• Good Read: The Telegraph: “Nafi Thiam On Winning Rio Heptathlon Gold With An Injured Arm And Her Unique World Champs Prep” Even after Olympic gold, Thiam still competes at local meets, trains at her local track and has had the same coach since age-14.
• The Guardian: “Impending End Of Usain Bolt’s Supremacy Raises Alarm About What Comes Next”
• GB Heptathlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson: “The worst things have happened. Now I’m ready to make new memories” Johnson-Thompson has shown potential over the years, but hasn’t put it together at a major championship.
• BBC Video Interview With Russian Long Jumper Darya Klishina Klishina says “it doesn’t matter about the flag” since everyone knows she’s from Russia anyway.
• China’s Olympic TJ Bronze Medalist Dong Bin Pulls Out Of Worlds With Injury
• Jenn Suhr No-Heights In Pole Vault Qualifying Round
• Olympic Champ Jeff Henderson And Marguis Dendy Fail To Make LJ Final
• Martin Bingisser’s World Champs Women’s Hammer Preview Anita Wlodarczyk is the obvious favorite; US’s Gwen Berry is the top challenger.
• Track And Field News’ 2017 World Champs Top 10 Men’s Predictions
• Track And Field News’ 2017 World Champs Top 10 Women’s Predictions
• The Oregonian: A Look At The Long List Of Oregon Athletes At Worlds
  *Register Guard article
• Irish Examiner: “Usain Bolt: Man Who Saved His Sport Saying Goodbye”
• Day 1 Team USA Quotes
• IAAF Full Day 1 Recap

LRC Betting Odds For 2017 IAAF London World Championships In Track And Field / Athletics What American man has the best odds (60%)  for gold in a mid-d/distance event? What woman has the best odds at just 9%?

Non-Worlds Distance News

• Recommended Read: The Allegiance Switching Problem In Track And Field Is Much More Serious Than You Think Ethiopian runner Lily Abdullayev says athletes are “treated like sporting slaves” and talks about how corrupt coaches and officials stole prize money and tricked her into taking dangerous drugs when she switched to Azerbaijan.
• NCAA Champions And All-Americans Marc Scott, Henry Wynne, MJ Erb And Josh Thompson Sign With KIMbia Athletics Scott and Thompson joined the Bowerman TC, Wynne the Brooks Beasts and Erb a Saucony team coached by Tim Broe.
• MB: 15-Year-Old Brandon Miller Runs 1:49.87 Freshman Class Record To Win AAU Junior Olympics 800m Miller led wire-to-wire to win by over 5 seconds. *Meet Results
• NPR Interview With Sports Writer Kate Fagan, Author Of New Book On UPenn Suicide Victim Madison Holleran Fagan’s new book is titled, “What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles And Tragic Death Of An All-American Teen.”
  *MB: Madison Holleran Story
• AP: Man Running Across US For Charity Struck By Hit-And-Run Driver In Ohio Nicholas Ashill was flown to Columbus hospital and is in “fair condition.”
• Not Your Every Day Headline: RW: Recovered From Paralysis, A Runner, His Surgeon And The Driver Who Hit Him Reunite For A Half Marathon

More Non-Worlds News

• Oscar Pistorius Taken To Hospital With Chest Pains Pistorius is currently serving a 6-year jail sentence, but his case is not completely over as prosecutors are appealing for more jail time.
• DyeStat Video Interview With Mt. SAC Coach On Winning The Bid For The 2020 Olympic Trials
• Kayla David Earns USATF Athlete Of The Week Award After Record-Breaking Performance At Junior Olympics Davis became the fastest 13-year-old girl in history by winning the 400m in 52.54.

Previous Outside Worlds Coverage

• The Guardian: Good Profile On Laura Muir, Whose London 2012 Memories Involve Watching On TV After Spending Hours Each Morning Milking Cows Muir talks about studying to be a vet, using her first prize money to buy a cage for her pet rats and her favorite movie (Seabiscuit).
• Athletics Weekly: Laura Muir Talks About Bouncing Back From The Stress Fracture In Her Foot At The Start Of The Summer Season
• The Telegraph: “Laura Muir Wants A Happy Ending To Her Script Of Underdog Endeavor At London 2017”
• What Are The Most Predictable Men’s Races At Worlds According To The Bookies? Wayde van Niekerk in the 400 is as close to a sure thing as you get while the 400H is the most up in the air.
• Women’s Race Predictions Surprisingly, the bookies are more confident about Elaine Thompson in the 100 than Caster Semenya in the 800. The 1,500 is the hardest to call.
• Track Slam: Another Fun London 2017 Prediction Contest The goal is to have the longest streak of picking the correct winner.
• The Queen Turns Down Invitation To Attend Worlds There won’t be any sky diving queens this time in London.
• Which Europeans Have The Best Chance For Gold In London?
• Thomas Barr (400H) And Rob Heffernan Lead Irish Charge At Worlds
• Video Highlights From Usain Bolt’s Pre-World Press Conference
• The Telegraph: 10 Facts You Didn’t Know About Usain Bolt Did Bolt really start sprinting to win a free lunch?
• The Telegraph: 10 Athletes To Watch At Worlds
• London 2017 Day 1 Start Lists Now Available
• IAAF London 2017 Statistics Handbook
• IAAF Reaches Multi-Year Deal With European Broadcasting Union And ESPN For Europe And Africa Broadcasting Rights
• IAAF Event-By-Event Previews

The Wait Is Over

LRC $200,017 LRC Running Warehouse LetsRun.com Worlds Prediction Contest Is Here! The World Champs start Friday. It’s time to get down to business and enter our prediction contest. Easy to do even if you know very little about Worlds.

Alan Webb’s 2007 Season 10 Years Later

LRC The Summer Of Webb: An Inside Look At Alan Webb’s Magical 2007 Season For a few months in 2007, American Alan Webb was the world’s best miler. Ten years later, we take a look back at Webb’s magical summer.

Webb MB Talk: 
*LRC Feature: 10 years ago, Alan Webb was the greatest miler on the planet. An inside look at Webb’s magical summer. 
*How did Alan Webb inspire you? post your stories 
*10 Years later and Centro is STILL SLOWER then Webb??????!!!!!!!
*I don’t think Webb Would Have Feared El G
*Alan Webb confirms sex is critical for running
*Greatest American Distance Runners: 1) Billy Mills, 2) Alan Webb. 3) ? 4) ? 5) ?
*“Summer of Webb” 2007- What a Joke! 
*Willis’ 3:29.66 = 3:46.22 mile. Sorry Alan.

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).