October 15, 2017 | LetsRun.com

Until TCS Amsterdam Marathon TV & Streaming Tracking And Results

Amsterdam Delivers: Lawrence Cherono Runs 2:05:02 Course Record As 4 Guys Break 2:06, 8 Break 2:08 And 11 Break 2:10! Cherono’s close was impressive as Tadelech Bekele won the women’s race in 2:21:54. Zane Robertson was a DNF.
*Audio Interview With Coach Canova After The Race
*MB: Official 2017 TCS Amsterdam Marathon Live Discussion Thread
*MB: So if Galen Rupp had run Amsterdam, he would have been at best 3rd and maybe 5th?
IAAF Amsterdam Marathon Preview – 10 Men Broke 2:08 Last Year – How Many Will Do It This Year? 11 men in the field have a pb under 2:08. *Daily Nation
Race Is Debut For Zane Robertson

More News From Europe World Javelin Champion Johannes Vetter Of Germany And Greece’s Pole Vault Champ Katerina Stefanidi Were Named 2017 European Athletes Of The Year At The Golden Tracks Gala In Lithuania On Saturday

NY Is In 3 Weeks Time To Raise The White Flag? Mary Keitany Says Her Training For NY Has “Gone Well” Her husband/coach is “optimistic” that she can run like she did in London (2:17:01).

The US Officially Has A New Teen Phenom

MB: Katelyn Tuohy smashes historic VCP record by 30+ seconds! Tuohy, who ran a 4:24 1,500 in 8th grade and broke Mary Cain‘s NY state mile record as a freshman, ran 13:21.8.
*From The Archives – 2016 – MB: The Next Girls Phenom Has Arrived

The Sprints

Four Years After Quitting, Asafa Powell Returns To The Stephen Francis-Coached MVP Track Club Powell left MVP when Francis gave an ultimatum for Powell to leave his long-time agent, Paul Doyle, whom Francis blamed for Powell’s positive stimulant test.
From Miss Universe Malaysia Finalist To National Sprinter Malaysian model and actress Tanalaksiumy Mahenthiran Rayer is hoping to make the Commonwealth and Asian Games.

RW: Devastating California Wildfires Wreak Havoc for Races, Runners, And Their Families Sara Hall‘s and Kim Conley‘s families were among those affected by the fires and had to evacuate.
*MB: Bay Area Smoke: Train normally, dial back, wait it out?

Corruption Stuff

Chicago Tribune: Why Chicago Didn’t Have The 2016 Olympics In The Bag In light of the bribery charges against Rio 2016, the Chicago Tribune writes, “No, it appears that Chicago lost because it wasn’t corrupt. We pause here to allow you to linger over that sentence. You may never see it in print again.”
Um, You Think? European Athletics Council Proposes Honorary Membership Of Disgraced Former Russian Athletics Federation President Valentin Balakhnichev Be Revoked He has a life ban from the sport for blackmailing Liliya Shobukhova. How was this not automatic?
USOC Among Those Getting Frustratd By How Long The IOC Is Taking To Make A Decision On Russia Ahead Of 2018 Winter Games
The IAAF Replaces Suspended Athletics Kenya Official David Okeyo With African Athletics Confederation Vice Pres. Vivian Gungaram In other news, ADAK found runners Shieys Chepkosgei and Florence Chepsoi guilty of doping and upheld their 4-year bans.

Field Eventer News

Russia’s High Jump World Champ Maria Lasitskene Plays Down Her Chances At Winning The IAAF Athlete Of The Year Award Lasitskene competed as a neutral athlete and was undefeated in 2017, but thinks the award is so subjective that she doesn’t expect to even make the top 3.
Lengthy Video Podcast With USA Shot Putters Ryan Crouser, Darrell Hill And Ryan Whiting
Syria’s World High Jump Bronze Medalist Majd Eddin Ghazal Says The Greatest Challenge Of His Career Was Rio 2016 When He Tried To Compete While Battling Anemia In Rio he could barely run or walk, but managed to finish 7th place with a 2.29m clearance. Afterwards at the hospital, the doctors told him he should have been given the gold for even competing.
Tips For Sports And Life From Latvia’s World Heptathlon Bronze Medalist Laura Ikauniece-Admidina She says to be “personal but not too personal” on social media and that “people who text and drive are crazy.”

Distance Drama

The Daily Mail: Source Claims That UK Athletics Wanted Mo Farah To Dump Alberto Salazar But He Refused Apparently Farah was really under pressure to leave Salazar before committing to the 2018 London Marathon and Farah is no longer on good terms with UKA head of endurance, Barry Fudge.
MB: 2015 FL runner-up Phillip Rocha no longer part of Colorado team Rocha has left CU and may be pursuing a career in the military.
Connecticut XC Coach Resigns After AD Says He Has To Take Back Kid Who Quit Team Without An Apology Mike Cohen, the coach for 30 years, stated, “It went against my core values. And the reason why I coach.”
*MB: Connecticut XC Coach Resigns After AD Says He Has To Take Back Kid Who Quit Team W/O Apology

International Distance News

Recommended Read: The Independent Profiles Irish Mile Record Holder And Sports Agent Ray Flynn: “Born To Run And Still In Love With The Sport” The article follows Flynn’s start in Ireland through college, the pro ranks and his transition to a manager.
Interesting Q&A With Paula Radcliffe On Mary Keitany Breaking Her “Women’s Only” WR, Eliud Kipchoge’s Breaking2 Run And Jordan Hasay Radcliffe also talks about what she might have been able to run in her own version of Breaking2 and how much a difference she thinks the new Nike shoes make.
Wilson Kipsang Seeks Redemption In NYC After Berlin DNF Kipsang says that he felt sick in Berlin, which was the only thing that held him back. Since he DNFed at 30K Kipsang claims it was “just like training for me.”
GB’s Two-Time Euro 400m Champ Martyn Rooney Considering Moving Up To The 800 The 30-year-old Rooney has a 1:50 PR from 2005 and last ran the 800 in 2014 with a 1:53.
Q&A With Former Villanova All-American Jordan Williamsz Fun fact: Williamsz runs for Australia, but his father was born in Sri Lanka and his grandmother held the Sri Lanka national high jump record.

2017 TCS New York City Marathon Is Fast Approaching

LRC Shalane Flanagan Says Her Training For 2017 TCS New York City Marathon Has Gone “Exceptionally Well” The 36-year-old is still dreaming big. “I think there was a point probably of some overtraining over the last couple years [and] not really identifying it.”

RRW Meb Keflezighi’s Final Marathon Is In 26 Days And He Wants To Be A Factor In New York – “I want my last one to be a good one.” Meb isn’t just going through the motions for his last race. “I’m healthy, which is a big battle; I hope to be very competitive. I’m here up in Mammoth Lakes, away from my wife and kids for five weeks.”

After Dropping Out In Berlin, Wilson Kipsang Is Added To NYC Field
*Last Year’s Runner-Up Buzunesh Deba Is Also Entered

More From The Weekend

Kenya’s Daniel Salel (64:31) Earns BAA Half Marathon Three-Peat While Joan Chelimo (70:31) Dominates The Women’s Race Salel won over Japan’s Suguru Osako (64:42) while Abdi Abdirahman was 5th (65:11) and Dathan Ritzenhein 8th (66:25).
Tokai University Outruns Defending Champ Aoyama Gakuin To Win First Izumo Ekiden Title In Ten Years Cornell alum Ben Rainero, the guy who raced Galen Rupp in the LetsRun.com singlet, had the second-fastest time on the anchor stage to bring the Ivy League Select Team from 12th to 10th. Brett Larner called it “one of the best individual performances in the Ivy League’s history at Izumo.”
Kenya’s Festus Talam Runs 2:06:13 To Just Outkick His Compatriot Felix Kiptoo Kirwa At The Eindhoven Marathon (translated) Both men were timed at 2:06:13, but Talam just got the win. Eunice Jeptoo (2:26:13) dominated the women’s race by over 10 minutes. *Results
Nozomi Tanaka Leads Five High Schoolers Under Nine Minutes in Japan National Sports Festival Junior Women’s 3,000m Tanaka won in 8:54.27 as the top 3 all came in within .72 of each other.
UTEP’s Jonah Koech And UMass Amherst’s Heather MacLean Are NCAA Athletes Of The Week Koech won the New Mexico State-UTEP dual meet while MacLean took the win at the New England Championships.
Kurashiki And Osaka Kunei Joshi Win Season-Opening High School Ekidens

2017 Wisco And Pre-Nats Were Fri. / Sat. Wisco Results Pre-Nats Results *Other Results

MB: Official 2017 Wisco / Pre-Nats Discussion Thread- Who you got?

Pre-Nats LRC 2017 Pre-Nats Analysis: Who Surprised And Bombed Today In Louisville? The #1 Colorado women were upset by #2 Oregon but don’t write them off. Individually, UNH’s Elinor Purrier upset Karissa Schweizer as well. In the men’s race, BYU’s Rory Linkletter got the win as the Cougars CRUSHED it. Who is better on the men’s side, #1 NAU or #2 BYU?
*USTFCCA Recap

LRC 2017 Wisco XC Men’s Recap: Justyn Knight Edges Grant Fisher As NAU Dominates, But Who Were The Biggest Winners And Losers? Friday’s 2017 Nuttycombe Wisconsin Invitational in Madison played out very much the same as the 2016 Nuttycombe Wisconsin Invitational as for the second year in a row, the No. 1 Northern Arizona men and Syracuse’s Justyn Knight emerged as the champions. We break it down for you and tell you which teams flopped and which teams surprised.

LRC Wisconsin XC Women’s Recap: Ednah Kurgat Leads New Mexico To Victory (Updated with table) New Mexico claimed individual and team victories at the 2017 Nuttycombe Wisconsin Invitational in Madison on Friday.

Penn State Women Win Penn State National Open With Four In The Top Ten The men’s team finished runner-up to Oklahoma State.
USTFCCCA: BYU No Longer Under The Radar After beating Oregon and Stanford at the Bill Dellinger Invite and vaulting to #2 in the country, coach Ed Eyestone warned his team, “We’re not going to be the best-kept secret any longer.”
MB: BYU’s Casey Clinger Leaving For Mission After This Season
Auburn’s Brenda Kigen Top Collegiate At Crimson Classic 6K; Unattached Runner Marta Freitas Wins Overall Team titles went to the Mid. Tennessee State men and Georgia Tech women. *Results
USTFCCCA Wisconsin Recap

Week That Was

LRC Who Comes Out On Top In The Marathon: 2007 Ryan Hall Or 2017 Galen Rupp?, Bad TV Coverage, Plus Another German Star This week in our weekly recap, we take a trip down memory lane and compare Ryan Hall‘s great run in New York in 2007 to Rupp’s run in Chicago, figure out how rare Rupp’s win was and see how far away from the WRs Rupp and Jordan Hasay are.
*MB: Allright Letsrun – Who wins, Ryan Hall 2007 or Galen Rupp in 2017?

End Of Year Awards

2017 Quotes From The 10 Women’s IAAF AOY Nominees
Sydney McLaughlin Is T&F News High School Girls Athlete Of The Year
Mondo Duplantis Is T&F News’ Boys High School Athlete Of The Year Becoming the first prep ever over 19 feet made him the unanimous vote for T&F News’ AOY.
World 5,000 Champ Hellen Obiri Wins StarTimes’ Sports Personality Of The Month Award For August Obiri said the award came as a “surprise” to her. She probably wasn’t expecting to win an athlete of the month award for August in October.
A Brief Review Of The Jumpers On The IAAF AOY Long List USA’s Sam Kendricks, Christian Taylor and Britney Reese are all up for the award.
A Quick Look At The Throws And Multi IAAF AOY Candidates No Americans made the list this year.

Sprint Stuff

Even Bolt Can’t Take On Friday The 13th: Unveiling Of Usain Bolt Statute Rescheduled Due To Bad Weather The statue was supposed to be unveiled today, but it’s been postponed until December 3.
Christophe Lemaitre Hoping For “Big Things” In 2018 After A “Frustrating” 2017 Season Lemaitre had a lot of injuries which kept him from making the World 200 final by .02.
Sydney McLaughlin’s World Under-20 400H World Record Ratified By The IAAF McLaughlin ran 53.82 at the 2017 US Champs to break her own record (54.15) from the 2016 Olympic Trials.

Doping / Corruption News

Rita Jeptoo’s Former Coach Claudio Berardelli And Her Support Personnel Cleared Of Charges That They Gave Her EPO However, pharmacist Stephen Kiplagat Tanui is still charged with operating a pharmacy without a license. *AP Article
McLaren Report Used To Help Ban Russian Triple Jumper Anna Pyatykh The McLaren report was used to disprove claims from Pyatykh that her failed drug test was due to a weight loss drug. The CAS ruling showed that Pyatykh had the full cocktail of drugs created by former Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory director Grigory Rochenkov.
World Olympians Association Chief Says His Microchip Comments Were Taken Out Of Context Many reacted negatively to the proposition, although we were all for it.
*MB: At last, they’ve found a way to stop dopers – microchip all elite athletes
Lance Armstrong Mocks Sunday Times Journalist David Walsh After Walsh Gave A Character Reference To A Convicted Sex Offender Walsh was a journalist who accused Armstrong of doping 9 years before he was actually stripped of his Tour de France titles.
Olympic Columnist Neil Wilson: Has FIFA Taught The IOC A Lesson In Honesty By Making Voting Public? Actually, Seb Coe already instituted this with the IAAF. Will Thomas Bach do the same with the IOC or find some reason not to?
Former Brazil Olympic Committee Head Carlos Nuzman Fails In Bid To Be Released From Prison A judge ruled that he would remain in prison indefinitely to prevent possible interference in the investigation.

Hosting / Olympic News

Budapest Emerges As The “Clear Favorite” To Host The 2023 World Championships After Africa Decides To Wait Until 2025
Good News: Study Of 457 US Athletes And Staff From Rio 2016 Finds No Zika Cases However, there were 32 cases of other mosquito-borne infections.
Paris 2024 Under Pressure Over Expenditure Already InsideTheGames’ David Owen writes that it looks like Paris 2024 is going to have to “justify every cent of spending” after media question the future pay of its top officials.
Pyeongchang 2018 Has Still Only Sold 30.3% Of Their Winter Olympic And Less Than 5% Of Their Paralympics Tickets With only 4 months until the Games, a very low percentage of the tickets for South Koreans have been sold and even ice hockey, one of the most popular winter sports, has only sold 17.2% of tickets.
Brazil Olympic Committee Head Carlos Nuzman Sends Letter Of Resignation From Jail Amid Vote-Buying Investigation
*Nuzman Proclaims Innocence; Says He’s Resigned To Focus On Clearing His Name
*Brazilian Judge Extends Nuzman’s Custody Indefinitely
Scoring Events Announced For 2018 World Indoor Tour

AOY Awards

A Quick Look At The Distance Runner AOY Candidates Mo Farah, Almaz Ayana, Elijah Manang’oi, Hellen Obiri and Caster Semenya.
Sprint And Hurdle Candidates Omar McLeod, Sally Pearson, Wayde Van Niekerk.
Laura Muir, Callum Hawkins And Chris O’Hare Among Nominees For Scottish Athlete Of The Year Award
“Photograph Of The Year” To Be Chosen At The 2017 IAAF Athletics Awards On November 24th There are separate contests for both professional and fan photographers, so if you snapped some cool pics at a meet this year go ahead and enter. You can win a free trip to the 2018 World Indoor Champs in Birmingham.

Marathon News

Good Read: ESPNW: The Inspiring Story Behind Aliphine Tuliamuk’s Rise To The Top Of Elite Running Tuliamuk was one of 32 siblings and ran her first races in loafers and sandals. Now she’s getting ready to try to win the NYC Marathon as a US citizen.
Sunday: World Marathon Champ Rose Chelimo Faces 66:19 Woman Ruth Chepngetich At The Rock ‘N’ Roll Lisbon Half Marathon World 10,000 4th placer Senbere Teferi is also in the field while Eritrea’s Yohanes Ghebregergis (60:21) is the men’s favorite along with three other sub-61 men and former World XC champ Imane Merga. Tokyo Marathon champ Sarah Chepchirchir (2:19:47) leads the women’s marathon while the men’s has 2:07 men Edwin Koech and Jacob Cheshari.
A Marine With Prosthetic Legs Is Running 31 Marathons In 31 Days To Raise Awareness For Wounded Veterans Rob Jones lost both his legs when he was wounded by a landmine while serving in Afghanistan.
Kathrine Switzer (The First Woman To Officially Complete The Boston Marathon) To Receive USATF Pioneer Award

Euro AOY Awards

European Golden Tracks Awards Ceremony Is Today In Portugal
Formidable Foursome Of Euro AOY Contenders Were All Undefeated This Summer High jumper Mariya Lasitskene, pole vaulter Katerina Stefanidi, heptathlete Nafissatou Thiam and hammer thrower Anita Wlodarczyk make for a hard choice.
Distance Runners Konstanze Klosterhalfen And Yasemin Can Compelling Nominees For Euro AOY

Upcoming Action

October 22: Kenyan 2:26 Woman Angela Tanui Looking To Turn The Tables On Ethiopia At The Toronto Waterfront Marathon Ethiopian women have won seven of the last ten years, but Tanui is hoping for big improvements in what will be her second marathon.
November 12: After A Surprise Win In 2016, Edwin Kiptoo Returns To Defend His Title At The Beirut Marathon
Saturday: MileSplit Manhattan High School Invitational Preview
*Finish Line Live Webcast / Meet Schedule

Some More Post-Chicago Tidbits

Runner’s World: 6 Reasons Why Jordan Hasay’s Chicago Race Was a Shock – And 3 Reasons Why It Wasn’t Maybe most impressive was the fact that she finished so well after going out so fast (2:17:20 pace at 10K).
Alberto Salazar Speaks More On Rupp/Hasay Post-Chicago “When [Hasay] caught [the fourth and third place women], I knew this would be a career changer. In the past, she struggled when she went out too fast. She slowed down and lost her confidence. This was a new Jordan.”
Galen Rupp Named USATF Athlete Of The Week After Chicago Win

Upcoming: Great Fields Set For USATF 5K Champs

November 4: Matt Centrowitz, Paul Chelimo, Ben True, Desiree Linden And Brenda Martinez Lead Deep Fields For The USATF 5K Championships Hosted By The Abbott Dash To The Finish Line 5K Other top contenders include Leonard Korir, Hassan Mead, Abbey D’Agostino and Natosha Rogers.

Post-2017 BOA Chicago Marathon

LRC Debate: The Big Debate: What Marathon Should Galen Rupp Run Next? Boston Or London? The LRC crew debates Galen Rupp‘s marathon career through 2021.

LRC Shalane Flanagan Reacts To Galen Rupp’s Chicago Marathon Win: “There’s still an investigation going on, so it’s hard to truly and genuinely get excited about the performances that I’m watching.” Two of America’s biggest marathon stars don’t know what to make of Galen Rupp‘s win in Chicago due to the ongoing USADA investigation. Meb Keflezighi said he was happy for Rupp and Salazar but added “there’s a lot of speculation going on and I would love to know what’s going on and how far it’s gotten.”
*MB: Breaking: Shalane and Meb react to Galen Rupp’s Chicago Win

LRC Editorial Galen Rupp – The Perfect Marathon Champion For America In The Year 2017 As we try to process what Galen Rupp‘s historic victory means, the number one word that comes to mind is this – polarizing. Just as our country is currently totally polarized by the holder of the Oval Office, Rupp’s victory is polarizing within the US running community.