Falmouth Is This Weekend

• Sunday: Defending Champs Return To 45th Running Of New Balance Falmouth Road Race – Falmouth Road Race Men’s field also has Leonard Korir, Cam Levins and Abdi Abdirahman while Chepkoech faces Mamitu Daska, Diane Nukuri and Neely Gracey.
• Saturday: Nick Willis Vs. Craig Engels To Headline Falmouth Elite Mile The field also includes Garrett Heath, Colby Alexander, Mason Ferlic and Izaic Yorks while the women are lead by Nicole Sifuentes, Heather Kampf and Dominique Scott.
  *Live Streaming On The Falmouth FB Page @ 5:45PM

Mo Farah Updates

• The Evening Standard: Mo Farah Splits With “Right Hand Man” Barry Fudge After Falling Out Fudge, the head of UK’s distance program, has apparently been handling a lot of Farah’s training, but Farah is now reportedly working with British endurance coach David Harmer.
  *MB: So Drama Queen Mohammed Farah splits with “Right Hand Man”?
• Mo Farah’s Former Training Partner Was Filmed Buying EPO In ARD’s And The Sunday Times’ Investigation In Kenya Last Year Farah used to train in Kenya before he moved on to Ethiopia and apparent doper “Freddie” Lemishen Ngoyoni was his training partner for 2013 and 2014.
  *MB: Nothing to see here…. Farah’s training partner caught buying EPO
• Mo Farah Wants To Be Called Mohamed For His Road Career “My road name is Mohamed. I just feel like Mo is done. I need to forget about what I’ve achieved and what I’ve done.”
  *MB: Mohamed Farah
  *MB: Mo does not want to be know as Mo anymore – Mohammad say BBC
• Good Read: Athletics Weekly Does Nice Analysis On How Mo Farah Lost His Last 5,000m Farah complained of Ethiopian team tactics, but Edris’ last 200, 400, 1,000 and 3,000 splits were just as good as anything Farah’s ever done when he won previous Worlds.
  *LRC Analysis: How Did Muktar Edris Beat Mo Farah
• The Telegraph: Mo Farah Reclaims The “Mobot” On Top Of The London Eye In Emotional Farewell The writer bashes Muktar Edris for having “the audacity” to celebrate with the “Mobot” after winning the 5000.

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

More Outside Worlds Coverage

• The Independent: “Mo Farah Attacks Media For Trying To ‘Destroy’ His Reputation As He Insists He Is ‘Clean’ While Beating His Chest” “You guys, so many times towards me, you have been unfair. I don’t know why.”
• ESPN Sports Writer Explains To Non-Track Fans How They “Missed One Of The Best Races In Running History” With The Women’s Steeplechase
• Team USATF Superlatives From London 2017 There were a lot of “firsts” and records for Team USA, including Justin Gatlin‘s record as the oldest man (he’s 35) to ever win 100m gold.
• Team USA Breaks Record For Most Medals At A World Championships With 30 Medals (Including 10 Gold)

Saturday Worlds

LRC Final The Upsets Continue: Mo Farah Is Beaten In Men’s 5,000 At Worlds – Muktar Edris Dethrones The King The King has been dethroned in a tactical 5,000. Paul Chelimo takes bronze. Edris ran his last 4 laps in about 3:57.6 – (63.7, 62.4, 58.1, 52.4).

LRC Analysis: How Did Muktar Edris Beat Mo Farah? Farah thought the Ethiopians had the team tactic to sacrifice Kajelcha, Edris said that wasn’t the case, and no matter what it was, Edris closed in 52.3, which is hard to beat.

The Telegraph: Paul Chelimo Criticized For Cut-Throat “Mobot” Gesture On his start line gesture, Chelimo said, “It is what it is, I just meant that I was going to take Mo down.”
*2nd Article Muktar Edris also did the “Mobot” as he won, but said it was out of respect for Farah.
*The Guardian: “A Brave Face And A Last Lap Of Honor As Mo Farah Runs His Track Finale”

• Official next to last day 2017 Worlds discussion – Men’s 5000, 4 x 100s and Decathlon
• Mo Farah goes home DEVASTATED
• Ayana and Edris make it clear: Ethiopia is the last bastion of doping
• Watch The Brits Turn on Mo Farah Now He’s Served His Purpose
• Mo Farah should NOT have medaled
• Did Mo Farah Just LOSE the 5000m? Message board poster wondered last week if the tough 10k would cost Farah in the 5k.
• Ryan Hill withdraws from the 5K final due to illness

Full Worlds coverage in our 2017 IAAF London Worlds Special Section

Friday At Worlds

UNBELIEVABLE LRC Final Americans Emma Coburn And Courtney Frerichs Pull Off Incomprehensible Upset And Go 1-2 In Women’s Steeple In a shocking upset on a scale not seen in American distance circles since perhaps when Billy Mills won Olympic gold in the 10,000 in 1964, Americans Emma Coburn and Courtney Frerichs won gold and silver in the women’s steeplechase tonight at the 2017 IAAF World Championships.
*MB: [email protected]#@!#@#@!# USA 1-2 IN STEEEPLE [email protected]#@!#@!#@!#@!#
*MB: Kenyan steeplers go home DEVASTATED
*MB: Courtney Frerichs gets 2nd!!!!
*MB: Coburn 5 sec PB for gold, Frerichs 16 sec PB for silver. USA USA USA meh
*MB: Beatrice Chepkoech Would Have Won GOLD
*MB: IMAGINE IF QUIGLEY HADNT OF BEEN DQ’D! 1-2-3!! 

Race Video: LRC Watch Emma Coburn And Courtney Frerichs Stun The World And Go 1-2 In Women’s Steeplechase At 2017 World Track And Field Champs (Video)
*Video Of Beatrice Chepkoech’s Wrong Turn At The Water Jump

London Worlds Sprint Stuff

• Athletics Weekly: Dafne Schippers Strikes Gold Again, Defending Her 200m Crown In 22.05 Marie-Josée Ta Lou followed up her 100m runner-up with another silver and Shaunae Miller-Uibo got some redemption from the 400 by taking bronze. GB’s Diana Asher-Smith just missed in 4th.
• Dawn Harper Nelson Leads 4 Americans Into Women’s 100 Hurdles Final Harper-Nelson was the fastest American of the day taking her heat in 12.63 while Sally Pearson had the fastest time overall in the first heat (12.53).
• Register-Guard: Deejah Stevens Ends Up Fifth In 200 Final Stevens: “That’s just all I had today. … It’s just kind of frustrating coming off a long collegiate season and running against all these people who didn’t have to do that.”
• The Independent: Diana Asher-Smith Narrowly Misses Bronze In 200m Final
• European-Athletics: Ramil Guliyev Sprints Into Turkish History With 200m Gold

More Worlds

LRC 2017 Worlds Official Friday Discussion Thread – M1,500 Semis, W800 Semis, WSteeple Final Emma Coburn goes for a medal – plus there’s Dafne Schippers vs. Shaunae Miller-Uibo in the women’s 200 final.

LRC Friday At Worlds Podcast – Centro Is Out, Quigley Is Out And More We get you ready for the final weekend of action.

Thursday At Worlds

LRC Olympic Champion Matthew Centrowitz Eliminated In 1st Round Of 1,500 At 2017 World Champs Centro had nothing in the kick for home and was eliminated.

LRC Men’s 1,500 Heats: Asbel Kiprop Looks Great, Ronald Kwemoi Struggle And Robby Andrews And Johnny Gregorek Move On If you think heats are boring, then you shouldn’t be on this website. 2,000+ words of analysis.

LRC Final Three For Three: All Three Americans Advance To Women’s 5,000 Final At 2017 IAAF World Championships Updated with interviews. Plus Brits Laura Muir and Eilish McColgan are in as well. Muir and Shannon Rowbury said they are still eyeing the podium.

LRC Women’s 800 Heats: The Stars Look Great & All Three Americans Advance After Brenda Martinez Survives A Scare Ajee Wilson and Charlene Lipsey qualified with ease.

Outside Worlds Coverage

• The Telegraph: “Turkey’s Ramil Guliyev Upstages Wayde Van Niekerk And Isaac Makwala To Win 200m Gold” Guliyev ran 20.09 to beat van Niekerk and Trinidad and Tobago’s Jareem Richards by .02 (they were both clocked at 20.11).
• The Independent: Ramil Guliyev Happy To Fly Under The Radar After Shocking Wayde Van Niekerk To Claim 200 Gold Guliyev: “I was competing against some of the best athletes in the world, so it didn’t bother me that the attention was on them. Maybe at the next competition everyone will look at me instead.”
• Wayde Van Niekerk Feels “Disrespected” By Isaac Makwala Makwala accused the IAAF of keeping him from the 400 to pave the way for van Niekerk to take gold.
• Video Interview: Wayde Van Niekerk Gets Emotional After Getting 200m Silver
• Athletics Weekly: Kori Carter Leads US One-Two In 400H As She Beats Out Olympic Champ Dalilah Muhammad For Gold Jamaica’s Ristananna Tracey was 3rd.
• The Telegraph: Laura Muir Edges Through In 5,000 While Diana Asher-Smith Qualifies For 200 Final Muir did not look good as she only got in on time and crumpled to the track for a minute after running a 14:59 PB.
• Athletics Weekly: Christian Taylor Completes World Triple Jump Treble It was his third World and fifth global gold. Will Claye was a close second with 17.63m to Taylor’s 17.68m.
• Ethiopian Athletes Robbed In London The hotel attendants stole money and other property from athletes, including Tirunesh and Genzebe Dibaba.
• IAAF Profile: After Beating Her Heroes, Bahrain’s Salwa Eid Naser Lives Her Teenage Dreams Naser shocked everyone by beating out Allyson Felix and Shaunae Miller-Uibo to take 400m silver.
• Shaunae Miller-Uibo Blames Breakdown At End Of 400 Final On Loss Of Concentration She says she looked up at the jumbotron and lost her balance.
• European Athletics President Svein Arne Hansen Was Among Those Quarantined During Norovirus Outbreak On a related note, some businesses have tried to capitalize on the outbreak with bookmaker Paddy Power saying they’ll give your “money back if your athlete gets the runs.”
• Register-Guard: Injuries Catch Up With Matt Centrowitz

Non-Worlds Randomness

• Craig Engels’ Mullett Is No More Engels chopped off his hair for charity.
• Crazy Video: Police Hunt For Jogger Who Knocked A Woman In Front Of A London Bus The woman was only saved by a very fast reaction from the bus driver to swerve out of the way.
  *MB: London Jogger Pushes Woman in Front of Bus
• USA Today: Paris Open To Esports On 2024 Olympic Program And yes, “esports” are video games.
• RW Safety Tips: There Will Be A Total Solar Eclipse On August 21st There hasn’t been one in the US for 38 years.
• (Delusional?) Sports Writer Says Minneapolis Should Host The 2028 Games Instead Of LA
• Team USA Win Three Silvers (Two Team, One Individual) At World Long Distance Mountain Running Champs 32K in the mountains in Italy.
• Man Attacked By A Hawk On His Run Andy Llewellyn was on a run near Chellaston, England when the bird put two huge gashes in the top of his head.

USA Gets Its 2nd-Ever Men’s PV World Title

• AP: “Army Reservist Sam Kendricks Wins World Pole Vault Gold” Kendricks cleared 5.95m to beat out Poland’s Piotr Lisek (5.89m) and Renaud Lavillenie (5.89m). Lavillenie lost on countback, but gets props for going for the win rather than the silver as he raised his last jump to 6.01m to go for gold.
• Reuters: Kendricks Wins Pole Vault, Lavillenie Frustrated Again
  
• MileSplit: HSer Armand Duplantis Finishes 9th While Representing Sweden
  
• Defending Champ Shawn Barber Crashes Out Of Pole Vault Final As Canada’s Medal Hopes Dwindle After a year of injuries and illness, Barber could only manage 8th. Canada won 6 medals in Rio and 8 at 2015 Worlds, but might leave London with none.

More Women’s 1,500 Coverage

• Caster Semenya Says She Has “No Time For Nonsense” When Asked About The IAAF’s Fight To Reinstate Hyperandrogenism Regulations
• Semenya: “For me, when you listen to music and have one song playing each and every time … it’s been almost nine years and it’s quite boring.”
• The Guardian: Laura Muir Gives Everything, But Is Pipped To A Medal In 1,500 Final “I don’t know. It’s fourth, isn’t it? I gave it everything I could …”
  *The Independent: Heartbreak For Laura Muir As The Medal Hopeful Is Edged Into 4th

• Laura Muir Refuses To Enter Caster Semenya Debate All she said was, “I’ve not got anything to say about that.”
• RRW: Faith Kipyegon Wins Wild 1,500m Final

Sunday AM

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 Amy 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 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.

Saturday In London

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.

• MB Talk:
• DOWN GOES BOLT! / Justin Gatlin- The Champion track deserves
• “Dear London: Boo your f***ing self” – Justin Gatlin
• Most Entertaining Part of Press Conference: Usain Bolt Takes Offense at Reporters Anti-Doping Question 

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)

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

Full Coverage In Our 2017 London Special Section

Worlds Outside Distance Coverage

• Recommended Read: Q&A: US 1,500 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 1,000m to go, but cratered and finished 30th. Now he’s a Worlds 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
• 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

Sir Walter Miler

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

• Sir Walter Miler Recap: Third Time’s The Charm For Amanda Eccleston; Drew Hunter Outkicks Craig Engels
• Craig Engels Is Cutting His Mullet For Charity He’s raised $1,865 of his $2,000 goal. Follow the haircut live on Engels’ Instagram account.

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.

Doping Updates

• The Telegraph: Furious Backlash Forces Athletics Chiefs To Abandon Plans To Scrap Pre-2005 WRs There is a new proposal to scrap WRs that came before 1991, when out-of-competition testing started. The new cutoff would scrap the records of FloJo (100/200), Marita Koch (400) and Jarmila Kratochvilova (800).
  *Paula Radcliffe Relieved Her Record Is Safe, But Still Opposed To New 1991 Proposal She would rather see records individually investigated.
• WADA Says Russia Must Fulfill At Least 12 More Criteria Before They Can Be Ruled Compliant Among the criteria is that the Russian government must publicly accept the findings of the McLaren investigation.
• Russia Warns That They Will Not Give In To WADA Demand To Publicly Accept McLaren Report Findings One official stated, “We have repeatedly said that it contains certain controversial positions and provisions … Undoubtedly, no one is going to accept this report.”
• Russia Bans Six More Athletes On Eve Of Appeal To Have IAAF Suspension Lifted Among the banned is steepler Lyubov Kharlamova, who will have all her results since July 2010 (including a Euro silver medal) annulled.
• CBC: Should Track And Field Erase Its Record Book? Infamous BALCO scandal drug expert Victor Conte actually supported the record reset.

The Gender Debate In Sport Isn’t Going Anywhere

• PBS: Should Testosterone Be Regulated In Women’s Events? A deeper look at the IAAF’s recent study shows why it probably won’t be enough to convince CAS to reinstate the currently suspended hyperandrogenism rules.
• Athletics Illustrated: “Caster Semenya’s Apparent Defiance; Could It Serve A Greater Purpose?” Chris Kelsall wonders if Semenya is “angry at the world or starting to enjoy drawing attention to herself” after she announces Worlds 800/1,500 double.
• Outside Magazine: “The Controversy Around Caster Semenya Explained” The problem is CAS requirement is far too great as they want the IAAF to prove hyperandrogenic females have an advantage as great as men, which they don’t.