Sunday Worlds Non-Distance Action

• Reuters: Trinidad And Tobago Deny USA A Seventh Successive Men’s 4 X 400 World Title The US hadn’t lost at Worlds since 2003, but Trinidad and Tobago’s Lalonde Gordon overhauled Fred Kerley on the final straight to win in a world-leading 2:58.12 to USA’s 2:58.61.
  *Athletics Weekly: Trinidad Shock US As GB Grab Bronze In 4 X 400
• AP: Banner Worlds For Allyson Felix As She Leads USA To A Record Margin Of Victory In The Women’s 4 X 400 With Jamaica a DNF, this was USA’s race to dominate as they won by 5.98-seconds over the UK and Poland. This gives Felix her 11th career world gold, putting her tied with Usain Bolt for the most.
  *Athletics Weekly: Women’s 4 X 400 Goes The American Way As Britain Land Another Silver
• Mutaz Essa Barshim Clears 2.35m To Stay Undefeated In 2017 And Take World High Jump Gold Barshim faced a small challenge from 20-year-old Russian neutral Danil Lysenko who cleared 2.32m for silver.
• Croatia’s Sandra Perkovic Comes Through As The Favorite To Win Her Second World Discus Title To Add To Her Two Olympic Golds

4 X 100 Relay Action

Video Usain Bolt Goes Out With Injury In 4 X 100 As Host Britain Pulls Upset Gold USA was 2nd and Japan 3rd.
*MB: WHAT HAPPENED TO BOLT!!!!!

Did You Miss Usain Bolt’s Final Race? LRC Watch Usain Bolt Get Injured And Walk Across The Finish Line In His Final Race At 2017 World Track And Field Champs (Video)

Tori Bowie Leads US Women’s 4 X 100 To Gold In London Bowie became the first double gold medalist of these Worlds as she anchored Team USA to the win with UK and Jamaica taking silver and bronze.

• Jamaican Team Furious Over Usain Bolt’s Injury As They Blame Delays For Ending His Team In Relay Agony Yohan Blake and the others complained that they were held for 40 minutes in the call room after they had already stripped down and they got really cold. Blake: “Usain was really cold. In fact Usain said to me, ‘Yohan, I think this is crazy.'”
• Justin Gatlin Agrees That TV Scheduling Contributed To Bolt’s Injury Gatlin: “I personally think that we were held in the stadium a little too long without our clothes on, and there was a little draught in there. I lost all my sweat and body heat.”
• MB: Mo Farah Was So Shocked By Usain Bolt’s Injury He Didn’t Realize GB Won Gold
• The Independent: Great Britain Storm To Surprise 4 X 100 Gold As Usain Bolt’s Big Night Ends In Agony
• Recommended Read: The Guardian: First Lesson From Worlds: There Is No Next Usain Bolt The writer takes a shot at Wayde van Niekerk‘s BBC interview where he “needed a live-TV hug, lasting about 20.09 seconds … before he could jabber again.”
  *MB: The Guardian Mocks Attempts To “Anoint” Wayde van Niekerk
• The Guardian: Greatness Of Usain Bolt Burnished Even With Bittersweet Final Appearance
• The Telegraph: Usain Bolt’s Exit Leaves Massive Void On The Track – What Next For Athletics?
• Seb Coe Tells Athletes They Must Stop Being Bland To Fill The Void Left By Usain Bolt
• Photos: Usain Bolt And Mo Farah Say Goodbye To The Track

1,500M And 800W Semis

LRC Women’s 800 Semis: Brenda Martinez Goes Home, But Ajee Wilson, Charlene Lipsey And The Big 3 Advance The women’s 800 final is set and it will include the seven fastest women in the world in 2017 that ran in London, including the three medalists from Rio in Caster Semenya, Francine Niyonsaba and Margaret Wambui.

LRC 1,500 Semis: Gregorek And Kenyan Favorites Make Final, Robby Andrews Bows Out With Calf Injury Sunday’s 1,500 final is set and the Kenyan stars and Johnny Gregorek will be in it, but not Robby Andrews.

Worlds Are Ending And So Are Usain Bolt’s And Mo Farah’s Careers

• Reuters: London Braced For Bolt And Farah Swan Songs
• The Guardian: Mo Farah Conquers All On Track But Will Leave Complex Legacy Off It
• The Guardian: Can Any Jamaican Take On The Baton Passed On By Usain Bolt? It definitely hasn’t been a very good championships for Jamaica so far.
• AP: After A Weary Week Of Track, Usain Bolt Return For Finale In The 4 X 100
• Athletics Weekly: Mo Farah Looks To Bow Out In Full Voice
• The Guardian: Mo Farah Faces His Rivals And Critics As He Prepares For London 5000
• The Telegraph: Usain Bolt’s Incredible Sprinting Career In One (Very Large) Chart

More Worlds

LRC #Jumping60: After Another World Title, Christian Taylor Going To Mountains Of France To Try To Break Jonathan Edwards’ World Record (link fixed) The attempt isn’t called #Breaking60 but like #Breaking2 it will be held one of two days depending on the weather.

LRC A Lifeline For Colleen Quigley? London World Champ Organizers Put Cones Out In Violation Of IAAF Rules Video evidence shows that the cone just prior to where Quigley stepped on the line on the curve was not set up on top of the line per IAAF regulations. Will her DQ be overturned?

Interviews: Kori Carter After 400mH Gold Says she wants to run 100m hurdles next year and praises Coach Floreal, who could coach 3/4 of the gold medalists in the hurdles at Worlds.
*Ramil Guliyev Says President Erdogan Called Him After He Won 200 Plus see what Wayde Van Niekerk and Isaac Makwala said after upset city in 200.

Live On The Message Boards

• Official 2017 Thursday at Worlds Discussion Thread – Makwala goes for it in the 200
• Centro goes home devastated The Olympic champion has shockingly finished last in his heat.
• What a Weird World Championship …
• White Man wins 200M World Championship Race … Props go out to Ramil Guilyez, who was born in Azerbaijan but competes for Turkey.

Wed. At Worlds

LRC Women’s 400: Shaunae Miller-Uibo & Allyson Felix Falter In Home Straight As Phyllis Francis Comes Up Huge To Win 2017 World Title Crazy race. *Race Video Here

Isaac Makwala – Wayde van Niekerk 200m Final Is Set After Makwala Is Allowed To Run Special Time Trial To Qualify For Semis And Then Makes Final 2 Hours Later 
*Video Of Makwala’s 2 Races
*IAAF Is Furious Of BBC’s Coverage Of Makwala’s Situation Well, they must be furious with us as well as we think he should have been allowed to run even if he had the norovirus.
*IAAF Considers Formal Action Against BBC For Grilling Medical Expert On Live TV
*USA’s Ameer Webb Thinks It Was Unfair For Makwala To Get To Run A Solo 200 “I wish I could have run a prelim by myself knowing the time I had to beat was 20.50. It is a little bit I feel unfair. It is what it is and I’ve got to line up against him.”
*The Guardian: “Isaac Makwala’s Lone Furrow Exposes Bungling Of Shambolic IAAF”
*Yohan Blake Said His Leg Pulsed Coming Off Turn And It Prevented Him From Making Final

Wednesday Distance Action

LRC Drama In The Women’s Steeplechase Prelims: Colleen Quigley Gets DQed The IAAF rule book needs to be changed or a rail needs to be built in the steeple as Colleen Quigley and Ezekiel Kemboi have both been DQed in successive years.
*Breaking: Say it ain’t so. Colleen Quigley DQd in women’s steeple
*We need to be consistent, USATF needs to protest 

LRC Men’s 5,000m Prelims: Paul Chelimo Falls And Scrapes By Into Final, A Kenyan Gets Lapped And Eric Jenkins Doesn’t Qualify Recent NCAA stars Patrick Tiernan and Justyn Knight made the final too.

• Official 2017 Worlds Wednesday Discussion Thread 
• Karsten MF Warholm – GOLD medal 400H!! A Norwegian won the 400h.
• Eugene’s Horrible Weather Pays Off U of O alum Phyllis Francis runs PR FTW in the rain! And wins gold in a HUGE upset as Miller-Uibo didn’t medal and Felix only got bronze.
• Jenkins???? Damn!! He failed to get out of the 1st round.
• Chelimo fracas in 5000 qualifier He fell and still advanced.

LRC Wednesday At Worlds Podcast – A Look Back At The 1st Half And A Look Ahead 

Tuesday At Worlds

LRC Final American Evan Jager Comes Up Short In Quest For Gold, Settles For America’s 1st-Ever Men’s World Championships Steeple Medal updated with analysis. Post-race video.
Discussion: French Do it Again & Appeal and Try to Have Jager DQd
*Video Of Final Lap

LRC Final Pierre-Ambroise Bosse Pulls Off Upset And Win’s Men’s 800 Title At 2017 World Track and Field Championships

Tuesday MB Talk:

• Official Day 5 Discussion Thread – Evan Jager Goes For Gold
• Great run for Jager – BRONZE 
• EVAN Jager goes home DevastaTED!!!! 
• Jinx? They just called Jager on the loudspeaker: “the favorite for gold” 
• Pierre MF Bosse Bosse has shocked the world in the 800.
• Bett and all of Kenya go home devastated!! 

More Tuesday Non-Distance Action

• Athletics Weekly: Barbora Spotakova Regains World Javelin Title A Decade Later Spotakova won her first world title in 2007, but hadn’t been on top of the podium at Worlds since.
• USA’s Dalilah Muhammad And And Kori Carter Advance To 400H Final 2015 World silver medalist Shamier Little was a distant 4th in her heat and didn’t advance.
• USA’s Deahjah Stevens And Kimberlyn Duncan Advance To 200m Semis Tori Bowie was a DNS and a USATF statement said she was recovering from her fall at the finish line of the 100m.
• If Allyson Felix Finishes Top 3 In Tomorrow’s 400 Final, She’ll Tie The Record For Most World Championships Medals The record is 14 and held by Usain Bolt and former Jamaican-born Slovenia sprinter Merlene Ottey.
• AP: Allyson Felix Relishes Rematch At Worlds After Close 400 Loss To Shaunae Miller-Uibo In Rio Felix: “I never get past losses. They just motivate me. It’s a part of my story.”

Monday Non-Distance Action

• AP: Gold For Jamaica’s Omar McLeod As He Does In The 110 Hurdles What His Countryman Couldn’t Do In The 100 McLeod ran 13.04 to win over Russian “neutral” Sergey Shubenkov and Hungary’s Balazs Baji. The USA was shut out of the medals for the first time in Worlds history as Aries Merritt finished 5th.
• Venezuela’s Yulimar Rojas Dethrones Caterine Ibarguen In Fierce Triple Jump Battle The two exchanged the lead multiple times, but in the end Rojas won by the smallest of margins with 14.91m to Ibarguen’s 14.89.
• European-Athletics: Anita Wlodarczyk In A Class Of Her Own As London Basks In Her Brilliance Yet another gold for Poland’s consistent hammer thrower as she threw 77.90m to beat China’s Zheng Wang by almost 2 meters.
• Allyson Felix And Phyllis Francis Advance To Women’s 400m Final US’s Quanera Hayes went out.

Illness Epidemic Hits Worlds Hotel

• World Champs Hotel Hit By Norovirus As Athletes Forced To Withdraw Due To Illness Outbreak Multiple athletes from the same hotel, including Botswana’s Isaac Makwala, suffered gastroenteritis. This forced Makwala to withdraw from the 200m.
• Isaac Makwala Insists He’s Fit To Run The 400 After Illness Forces Him Out Of 200 Heats Apparently he said he warmed up and was ready to run the 200, but IAAF medical officials instructed (forced?) him to withdraw.
• Ireland 400H Runner Thomas Barr Was Forced To Pull Out Of Worlds With Illness He had made the semifinal, but was hit by gastroenteritis.
• Up To 3 People Hit By Virus Outbreak At London World Championships Hotel
• Reuters: Hotel Says It’s Not To Blame For Athletes’ Stomach Bug Do they think it’s a coincidence that Botswana, German, Canadian, Irish and Puerto Rican athletes staying at the same hotel all got sick?

Justin Gatlin Is The British Media’s Scapegoat

• Recommended Watch: Michael Johnson Calls Out Steve Cram Over Failure To Put Spotlight On Drug Cheats Johnson accuses the media of vilifying Gatlin when he’s far from the only past drug cheat still competing in the sport.
• The Irish Times: BBC Happy To Ignore The (British) Elephant In The Room John O’Sullivan writes that their “treatment of Gatlin is in stark contrast to the refusal to ask questions about Mo Farah [and Alberto Salazar.]”
• IAAF Denies 100m Medal Ceremony Was Moved Over Justin Gatlin Boo Fears It was originally supposed to be at 8PM when the stadium would be packed, but was moved to 6:50PM.
• The Independent: “It’s Not Good Enough For Usain Bolt To Bat Away Doping Questions” Cathal Dennehy wasn’t thrilled by Bolt’s response to a doping question at the 100m press conference.
  *MB: Most Entertaining Part of Press Conference: Usain Bolt Takes Offense at Reporters Anti-Doping Question
• MB: Was Usain Bolt’s stunning loss last night actually a great development for track as it proves Bolt is clean?
• The Independent: “Justin Gatlin is the shameless fraud who plays the system perfectly.”
• Usain Bolt Says Justin Gatlin Had “Done His Time” And Deserved 100m World Title

Beach To Beacon 10K *Results

• Mary Keitany Lowers Her Course Record For Repeat Win And Stephen Kosgei Kibet Holds Off Ben True To Reclaim Title At Beach To Beacon 10K Kosgei ran 27:55 to beat True by 1 second while Keitany won comfortably in 30:41 and Shalane Flanagan was the top American in 4th, with an identical 31:14 time as former Olympic champ Meseret Defar.
• RRW: Course Record For Mary Keitany At TD Beach To Beacon 10-K
• Pre-Race: RRW: America’s Marathon Past, Present And Future On Display At Beach To Beacon 10K

Outside Saturday Worlds Coverage – Gatlin Wins And The UK Is Pissed

• South Africa’s Luvo Manyonga Leaps To Golden Moment In London Long Jump USA’s Jarrion Lawson was a close second, leaping 8.44m to Manyonga’s 8.48m. SA’s Ruswahl Samaai took bronze.
• UK Headline: Usain Bolt Beaten In Last Solo Race As Drug Cheat Justin Gatlin Gatecrashes World 100m Final There were boos from the crowd and plenty of disdain from the British media.
• Justin Gatlin’s Medal Ceremony Moved To Avoid Booing
• Seb Coe: “Sport rarely settles upon the perfect script. Life’s just not like that.” “I’m hardly going to sit here and tell you I’m eulogistic that somebody that has served two bans in our sport would walk off with one of our glittering prizes …”
• Pat Butcher: “The Bad Guy Wins”
• Seb Coe: “The second ban, we went for an eight-year ban, which would have, in essence, been a life ban. We lost that.”
• Bolt: “London, I really appreciate the support you gave me. I’m just sorry I couldn’t deliver as I wanted.”
• Katarina Johnson-Thompson’s HJ Flop Hits Heptathlon Medal Hopes She has a 1.98m PR, but only cleared 1.80m. She did bounce back, though, with a quick 200m to put herself in 4th going into the second day.
  *Johnson-Thompson Moves Into 3rd After LJ
• IAAF Saturday Worlds 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

Olympic News

• Don’t Quit Your Day Job: The Telegraph: Former British Olympic Badminton Silver Medalist Issues Public Cry For Help As She Admits She Can’t Find A Job Or Pay The Bills Gail Emms says she lacks the credentials to find regular employment (she has a sports science degree) and has to sell belongings on eBay to pay the bills.
• Kenya Facing Olympic Ban After Government Refuse To Back Plan To Allow NOCK Elections To Take Place Things just wouldn’t feel right if Kenya wasn’t on the brink of being banned for something.
  *Premature Celebrations: NOCK Elecction Set To Finally Go Ahead After Legal Objection Dropped
• Public Poll Says LA 2028 Has 83% Support
• IPC President Hopes LA 2028 Will Help Paralympic Movement Grow In The US Paris and LA have both hosted the Olympic twice, but neither has ever hosted a Paralympics.
• Tokyo 2020 Opens Mascot Design Competition To Public Come on Japan, we know you can do better than 2012’s “walking alien penis creatures.”
• The Netherlands Not Currently Planning 2032 Olympic Bid We’ve barely decided the 2024/2028 hosts and already talk is on to 2032.
• IOC Payments To LA 2028 To Start By January 1, 2018 THe IOC will send quarterly installments of of $9 million.
• Kobe Bryant Stars In LA 2028 Promotional Video
• French President Meets With Thomas Bach After LA 2028 Announcement

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.

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).