Sunday MB Talk:Official 2017 Worlds Day 3 Discussion Thread – Marathons, Women’s 100 Final & More
LRC Final Amy Cragg Ends America’s 34-Year Medal Drought In The Women’s Marathon At Worlds By Snagging A Surprising Bronze in London What a run for the 33-year old.
*MB: Amy MF Cragg!!!
LRC Final Men’s Marathon: Kenya’s Geoffrey Kirui Follows Up Boston Victory By Winning 2017 World Title Marathon’s got a new star and his name is Geoffrey Kirui.
*MB: WC Marathon: Tamirat Tola vs Daniel Wanjiru
*MB: World Championship Marathon late start times, does it advantage the Africans.
LRC Former NCAA Champ Bobby Curtis Announces He’s Retiring At The End Of The Year He’ll end his career with PRs of 13:18, 27:24 and 2:11:20.
LRC Men’s Steeple Prelims: Conseslus Kipruto Reveals He’s Run One Track Session Since June; Evan Jager Leads All Qualifiers Jager looked good even if he was sporting a goatee he plans to shave.
*LRC VIDEO EXCLUSIVE- Evan Jager Explains His Goatee
*LRC Post-Race Interviews
*Running Warehouse Prediction Contest Scores Updated Through Men’s Marathon Boston champ Geoffrey Kirui has won. A husband of a US Pro is leading the way in the contest.
MB:Drew Hunter 3:57 FTW @ Sir Walter Miler Hunter beat out Craig Engels by .45 with Izaic Yorks third. Amanda Eccleston won the women’s race in 4:31.72 over Stephanie Garcia(4:31.87). *Results*Meet Website
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.
LRC Justin Gatlin Steals The Show In Usain Bolt’s Final 100M Race To Win 2017 World Title At Age 35 Usain Bolt did the unthinkable once again – he lost. We put in perspective.
LRC Final (updated) 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. Updated with comments from Molly Huddle, Emily Infeld and Emily Sisson.
*MB: Molly Huddle on the Ethiopians: “I feel like they get away with a lot”
*MB: Almaz Ayana – guts and glory
LRC W1,500: Semis: Jenny Simpson Moves On To The Final, Genzebe Dibaba Struggles But Survives & Konstanze Klosterhalfen Goes for It (But Fails) Dibaba looked terrible and Caster Semenya looked pretty good.
Interviews: Jenny Simpson, Kate Grace, Sara Vaughn and Konstanze Klosterhalfen in article above.
Discussion: We just found out why Jenny Simpson Fist Pumped at End of 1,500m Semi Post-race interviews:
*MB:Official 2017 Worlds Day 2 Discussion Thread
Mason Finley Of USA Talks About Getting Historic Bronze It’s not easy being a discus thrower full-time as he lives at home with his mom to save money.
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 shoe coming untied.
LRCPost-Race Interviews From 2017 IAAF World Championships In Athletics / Track And Field
Full Coverage In Our 2017 London Special Section
LRC Unbeatable: The Amazing Mo Farah Wins The 10,000 At 2017 Worlds, Earns 10th Global Gold In “Toughest Race” Of His Life He almost had to PR to do it as the Africans threw it at him but Farah held them off in 26:49.51
LRC Joshua Cheptegei Is Primed To Succeed Gebrselassie, Bekele And Farah As The World’s Next Great 10,000-Meter Runner The Ugandan turned heads first at World XC and now looks to be Farah’s successor.
Women’s 1,500 Heats: LRC All 3 Americans (Including Sara Vaughn With A PR) And 4 Brits Move On In The Best Opening Round Women’s 1,500 In History The women brought it today as 17 of the top 20 seeds moved on.
London MBoard Talk
Andre De Grasse Pulls Out Of Worlds A message board poster said this would happen yesterday and people were irate we wouldn’t take the rumor down. Guess what? It’s true … well, half true as the poster said he was still doing the 200.
*De Grasse:“The entire year this 100m race in London was my focus. I am really in the best shape of my life and was looking forward to competing against the best in the world.”
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.
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%?
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.
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.
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