LRC Flash:Women’s 1500: Faith Kipyegon Wins Another Gold Title As Jenny Simpson Beats Caster Semenya To Nab Her Fourth Global 1500 Medal A thrilling final sprint saw a five-way battle for the medals as Kipyegon just held onto the gold with Simpson timing her kick perfectly to grab silver over Semenya. GB’s Laura Muir and world leader Sifan Hassan both ran out of gas after starting their kicks too soon and finished in 4th and 5th.
*LRC Women’s 1500 Post-Race Video Interviews Hear from Kipyegon, Simpson, Semenya and Muir.
*MB:Official 2017 Worlds Monday Discussion Thread – Women’s 1500 Final + More
1500 MBoard Talk
Monday:Get Ready For Monday By Listening To The Daily LetsRun.com Podcast We’re recording a live podcast each morning this week at 8 am ET to get you filled in on what happened the night before and get you ready for the following day.
LRCWorlds Day 3: Tori Bowie Wins 100 To Complete US Sweep As Joe Kovacs (Shot Put) & Sandi Morris (Pole Vault) Earn Silver Anything can happen in sport as it was a rough day for the two US men who entered World undefeated on the year as Ryan Crouser didn’t medal in the shot and Sam Kendricks needed a third attempt final to make the PV final.
*MB: Was Joe Kovacs robbed of world title? Was his last throw really a foul?
LRC Men’s 800: Carnage In The Semifinals Sets Up A Wild Final On Tuesday; With Emmanuel Korir Out, Who Is The Favorite?None of the Americans made the final as Donavan Brazier knew he let a great opportunity get away.
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 FinalAmy 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!!!
LRCAmy Cragg Credits Jerry Schumacher For Her Surprising Bronze In The Women’s Marathon “Jerry has completely changed my running. He has changed my life.”
LRC FinalMen’s Marathon: Kenya’s Geoffrey Kirui Follows Up Boston Victory By Winning 2017 World TitleMarathon’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.
LRCFormer 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.
LRCMen’s Steeple Prelims: Conseslus Kipruto Reveals He’s Run One Track Session Since June; Evan Jager Leads All QualifiersJager looked good even if he was sporting a goatee he plans to shave.
*LRC VIDEO EXCLUSIVE- Evan Jager Explains His Goatee
*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.
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
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.
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
*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.
Full Coverage In Our 2017 London Special Section
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
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