2017 Brussels DL *Full Results *TV & Streaming Information

LRC 2017 Brussels Diamond League Recap: World Champs Conseslus Kipruto, Faith Kipyegon And Hellen Obiri Earn Diamond League Titles In the men’s steeple, Evan Jager went for it but ran out of steam while Jenny Simpson ran a big seasonal best in the 1,500 but got smoked. *FULL RESULTS

America’s Next BIG Track Star Is Here LRC 20-Year-Old Noah Lyles Wins 2017 Diamond League 200 Final In Brussels How do you spell “total stud”? NOAH.

• MB: Official 2017 Brussels DL discussion thread – Say it ain’t so The 2017 season end is near.
• IAAF: Shaunae Miller-Uibo Completes 200/400 Diamond League Double With World-Leading 49.46 Ivana Spanovic didn’t win a LJ medal at Worlds, but beat out both Tianna Bartoletta and Brittney Reese here while Christian Taylor won the TJ over Will Claye.
• Elaine Thompson Ends 2017 With Some Redemption By Winning 100m In 10.92
• IAAF #2: Russian Neutrals Have Their Day As Maria Lasitskene Stays Perfect In The HJ With A 2.02m Win And Sergey Shubenkov Takes The 100H In 13.14
• There Were Over 100 Athletes That Didn’t Accept A Spot In The 2017 Diamond League Final Injuries and burnout kept a lot of big name athletes from a chance at some serious prize money.
• NZ’s Shot Put World Champ Tom Walsh Disappointed With 6th Place Season’s End “Really annoyed with myself for not being able to focused and do what I needed to do … today I was just trying too hard and I know when I try too hard it just doesn’t work.”

General Distance News

• Joe ‘Stringbean’ McConaughy Sets Fastest Known Time On Appalachian Trail Running unsupported, McConaughy finished the 2190-mile route in 45 days, 12 hours, 15 minutes, breaking Karl Meltzer’s record by about ten hours even though Meltzer was supported.
• MB: Jakob Ingebrigsten Continues His Racing Season With 8:00 Victory At Norwegian Youth Championships This came about an hour after he finished second in the 400. *Video
• Tokyo 2020 Is Growing Trees Along The Olympic Marathon Course To Provide Cool Shade For Runners The branches are being pruned in a specific way to encourage the growth of larger branches to block the sun.
• Athletics Illustrated Q&A With GB 800 Woman Lynsey Sharp Sharp is a very low mileage mid-d runner doing about 30-miles a week with a her longest run coming to about 45-minutes in the winter.
• Carrie Tollefson Podcast Q&A With Amy Cragg On Her World Marathon Bronze, The BTC And 2018 Plans
• #4 Ranked Arkansas Men Open XC Season With Dual Meet Sweep Against Tulsa And Oklahoma

Drug News

• Positive Test On Bahamas World Champs Athlete Still Under Investigation The athlete still hasn’t been identified as they are waiting for results of their “B” sample.
• RUSADA Appoints New Director General Yury Ganus was approved from a list of around 700 candidates.
• Institute Of National Anti-Doping Organisations (iNADO) Head Doesn’t Think A Fine Is A Big Enough Sanction For Russia’s Winter Sports Joseph de Pencier: “If it is only a fine, however, it feels like ‘pay to play,’ which would be very disappointing.”
• WADA Prioritizing Research On The Extent Of Doping In Sports WADA would like to do more studies like the recent one (which the IAAF blocked for 6 years) which reported that over 30% of the athletes at 2011 Worlds were doping.
• WADA Takes Financial Hit After Being Forced To Scrap Upgrade To Athlete Whereabouts System
• David Owen: Would You ADAMS And Eve It? Problems With New Data Management System Contributed To Another Tough Year For WADA In 2016

LRC Opinion

LRC Week That Was: Mo Farah’s Epic Track Career Is Over, Ajee Wilson’s Incredible 2017 Continues, Plus Usain Bolt And Conor McGregor We look at all the action on the track plus a look at the 2017 Chicago Marathon field again.

LRC “I Love Pre, But This Meet Was Better”: A First-Timer’s Thoughts On Weltklasse Zurich Jon Gault shares his experience of the Diamond League finale.

Fall Marathon Season Is Near

• Good Read: Pat Butcher Calls Berlin 2017 The “Best Elite Trio In A Marathon” Since Khalid Khannouchi, Paul Tergat And Haile Gebrselassie In London 2002 Butcher also discusses the “advancing years” of the Berlin trio which are probably even more advanced than they are on paper.
• Abel Kirui Focused On Defending His Chicago Marathon Title This article is a joke as it doesn’t even mention Olympic medalists Feyisa Lelisa or Galen Rupp and calls Chicago 2017 “one of the strongest fields ever assembled.”
• Gladys Cherono Shakes Off Hip Injury, Eyes Redemption In Berlin Cherono won Berlin in 2015 with 2:19:25, but injury has kept her from running any marathons in 2016 (she was 5th in Boston this year).
• Kenyan Journalist Calls Berlin 2017 “Tough To Call” Before Explaining Why He’s Confident Eliud Kipchoge Will Win The race may end up being close, but on paper, picking the most likely winner is not a “tough call.”

RIP David Torrence – November 26, 1985 – August 28, 2017

LRC Remembering David Torrence: Olympian, US Champion, US And Peruvian National Record Holder And Legendary Downhill Miler Torrence has died unexpectedly way too young at age 31.
*MB: David Torrence is Dead: RIP / Appreciation Thread

LRC “A Beautiful, Genuine Soul”: The Running World Shares Its Tributes To David Torrence He will be missed.

• Kyle Merber Taking Steps To Honor David Torrence At Hoka One One Long Island Mile
• USATF Statement On David Torrence
• Steve Magness Writes About The Flooding In His Native Houston And David Torrence’s Death And Sees Hope
  
• Good Read: FloTrack’s Taylor Dutch Writes Tribute To Her Friend And Fellow Cal Berkeley Alum David Torrence 
• FloTrack Video Tribute
  
• MB: David Torrence Memorial Downhill Mile
• MB: This was David Torrence

Doping Updates

• Doping Report Reveals That 30% Of The Athletes At 2011 Worlds Admitted To Doping About half the athletes at Worlds participated in an anonymous survey about doping. Over 30% admitted to doping, but only 0.5% of athletes at 2011 Worlds (where all were tested) tested positive. *AP Article
• The Guardian: Sport Doping Study Revealing Wider Usage Published After “Scandalous” Delay The research took almost 6 years to officially come out as the IAAF had issues with it and one author accused them of purposely blocking its release.
• AP: Ethiopia Shuts Down Drug Store Selling Banned Substances Ethiopia’s anti-doping office confirmed the pharmacy was offering EPO after they investigated in response to the most recent ARD documentary.

Not Your Everyday News

• Drunk Hood To Coast Runner Accused Of Stealing Porta-Potty Pickup Truck And Running Over A Runner David Blackmon drove through a field where runners were resting, hitting Cynthia Gillespie and fleeing the scene. Blackmon was arrested while Gillespie was lucky to escape with only bruises.
  *Hood To Coast Runner “Very Lucky To Be Alive” After Being Run Over And Dragged By Drunk Pickup Truck Driver
• GB’s Former World 110H Champ And BBC Commentator Colin Jackson Comes Out As Gay The 50-year-old Jackson says the reason he had not previously spoken of his sexuality was to avoid it being “sensationalized.”
  *The Telegraph Article Jackson came out in an interview for a Swedish television documentary, “Rainbow Heroes.”
  *MB: Colin Jackson comes out
• Woodlands High School XC Coach Shares How His Team Has Been Dealing With The Hurricane Rain In Texas Coach Juris Green: “Cross country is not supposed to be a clean sport, if you don’t finish muddy, there’s something wrong with that course. I think we’ll have every opportunity to get some really good cross country in.”
• Thomas Bach Says Violent Video Games Have “No Place At The Olympics” But E-Sports Are Still In The Running
• Video Blog On Cool Underground Pole Vault Competition In A Sand Mine Jeff Coover cleared 5.50m to set the American “underground pole vault” record.

Distance Updates: Crazy Quadruple For Ingebrigsten

• MB: 16-Year-Old Jakob Ingebrigsten Runs 13:35 To Win Norwegian National Champs Not just that, but Ingebrigsten went on to finish 3rd in the 800 (1:50.54), and win national titles in the 1,500 (3:53) and the steeplechase (8:44).
  *13:35 Race Video *Results
  *Norwegian Article (Translated)
• Kenyan Julius Kogo Wins Crim 10 Miler In 47:01 As Dathan Ritzenhein Finishes 4th (47:31) Ethiopia’s Buze Diriba won the women’s race in 51:49. *Results
  *MB: Crim 10 Mile – nice run Ritz
• Shalane Flanagan To Run The 2017 NYC Marathon “I want that one last really special moment and I’m just hoping I can achieve it soon … I feel like I have it within me.”
• Oregon’s Raevyn Rogers Turns Pro With Nike; Will Forgo Final Year Of Eligibility
  *Rogers’ Video Announcement
  *MB: Raevyn Rogers goes pro!

Previous World University Games News  *Live Stream *Live Results, Start Lists, Schedule

• Japan Nearly Sweeps The Half Marathon Medals At WUG With The Full Men’s Podium And Women’s Gold And Bronze Kei Katanishi (66:09) and Yuki Munehisa (73:48) were the race winners.
• Athletics Weekly: GB’s Jessica Judd Wins Bronze In World University Games 5,000 As Germany’s Germany’s Hanna Klein Wins In 15:45.28
• Taiwan’s Chao-Tsun Cheng Shatters Asian Javelin Record With 91.36m On Saturday At The World University Games The throw is #3 in the world this year and #12 all-time. Germany’s Andreas Hofmann was also over 91m with 91.07m for second.
• Watch The 2017 World University Games For Free On LetsRun.com The WUG are in Taipei, Taiwan and go through Monday.
• IAAF Recap: Poland’s Pawel Fajdek And Taiwan’s Chun-Han Yang Make History At WUG World champion Fajdek won a historic 4th consecutive hammer title and Yang took an upset victory in the 100m, running 10.22 to beat favorites Thando Roto (9.95 PR) and USA’s Cameron Burrell (9.93 PR). Dominican Republic’s 2012 Olympic silver medallist Luguelin Santos ran a 45.24 season’s beest to win the 400m.
• Athletics Weekly: Jonny Davies Bags GB’s First WUG Medal With 1,500m Bronze As Germany’s Timo Benitz Gets The Win In 3:43.45

Jamaican News

• Good Read: The Herald: Another Hero Will Emerge To Replace Superstar Usain Bolt … Perhaps Sooner Than We Think The writer chronicles how new stars have always risen up to replace those that retire. He says once Bolt’s times get beaten he’ll be “another chapter in history alongside [Jesse] Owens and [Carl] Lewis.”

• Asafa Powell Says He’s Still Motivated And Looking Ahead To 2018 Powell has a record 93 sub-10 clockings, so he needs at least 7 more to break the 100 barrier.
• Jamaican Journalist Blames Cold London Weather On Jamaica Only Winning 4 Medals At Worlds
• Justin Gatlin Disagrees With Carl Lewis’ Claim That Usain Bolt Has Actually Hampered The Growth Of The Sport Lewis says the last 8 years were “just about following one person (Bolt)” instead of building the overall sport.
• Jamaica Observer: “Usain Bolt’s Name Has Borne The Weight Of Disappointment” The writer worries that people won’t show Bolt the respect he deserves because of the way his final championship ended.

2017 Weltlkasse Zürich *Full 2017 Results *Video Of Farah’s Race

LRC The Great Mo Farah Ends His Track Career With An Epic Win After One Of The Craziest Finishes We’ve Ever Seen What a great way for one of the all-time greats to end his track career.
*Watch One Of The Craziest Race Finishes Ever (video)

LRC  What A Meet! Zurich Recap: Jebet Goes 8:55, Semenya, Kendricks, Manyonga, Barshim Stay Undefeated As Kenya Dominates 1,500, Gatlin Loses 100 The first DL finale of 2017 was an incredible track meet. We break it down with analysis, results and video.

• The Telegraph: Mo Farah Bows Out With Dramatic Last Gasp 5,000 Victory Farah: “It’s probably going to hit me later. I’m really going to miss all this, but everything must come to an end.”
• IAAF Recap: Ruth Jebet Threatens World Steeplechase Record
• European Athletics: Top 10 Of Mo Farah’s Most Memorable Track Moments
• BBC: The Stats Behind Mo Farah’s Golden Track Career 430 miles on the track since 2006, 10 gold medals and a bunch of 52-second final laps.
• IAAF: Mo Farah Ends Track Career With Dramatic 5,000 Victory
• MB: Breaking: Paul Chelimo Has Been DQed From Zurich And It Cost Him $20,000
• MB: Official 2017 Zurich DL Discussion Thread Farah has won his final track race in thrilling fashion.
• MB: MO GOES HOME DELIGHTED! / Mo Farah is the greatest ever 
• MB: Paul Chelimo spoiled the race – would Edris have beaten Farah again? 
• MB: Leave Caster Alone 

Full Zürich coverage including our pre-race coverage in our special section.

Doping News: Only (?) Three Positives So Far From London

• Good Read: ITV News: “Justin Gatlin: Not Quite The ‘Bad Boy.’ A Side Of The New World Champion You Don’t Often Read About” British journalist Steve Scott found Gatlin “softly spoken and surprisingly eloquent” and writes how Gatlin was bothered most in London by the boos hurting his parents in the stands.
• There Were Three (Non-Medalist) Positive Drug Tests From London Worlds The identity of the athletes won’t be announced until their cases are completed.
  *IAAF: Athletics Integrity Unit Announces Summary Of World Champs Testing Program 596 urine and 917 blood samples were collected in London. *Reuters Article
• There Was A 26.4% Increase In Positive Tests In 2016 Due To Meldonium There were 4,814 adverse analytical findings in 2016, up 1,005 from 2015, but 497 of those were meldonium, many of which didn’t result in bans.

2017 Birmingham DL *Compiled Results *Video Interviews *Full Coverage

LRC Recap: Farah Exits British Soil With A Win, Hassan Impresses, Americans Struggle, Barshim Goes 2.40 The American distance runners weren’t great, but we can forgive them after their medal haul in London. Jenny Simpson may be forced to watch the DL final from home. *Full Results

LRC Birmingham Post-Race Interviews

MB Talk

• Birmingham Diamond League Thread
• OMG what did I just see?? Klosterhalfen 8:29!!!
• Blankenship highly inspirational in Birmingham
• Can anyone explain Obiri’s fourth place? 

Outside Coverage

• Klosterhalfen Is Thrilled With 2nd In 3,000 “I beat the world champion (Obiri). I cannot believe it. I am so happy. It has been such a memorable year for me.”
• Farah Takes Off His Vest And Gives It To Andy Butchart To Mark Symbolic Changing Of GB Guard
• BBC Puts Random People On Treadmill And Has Them Run At Mo Farah’s 5,000m Pace For As Long As Possible (Video)
• Barshim Became The First Man To Ever Jump 2.40 Or Higher In 5 Straight Years
• Week After Relay Glory, Britain’s Top Sprinters Are Brought Back To Reality In Birmingham