European XC Champs In The Books *Results

Kaan Kigen Ozbilen And Yasemin Can Make It A Turkish Double Victory At European XC Championships Ozbilen won by 9 seconds over Spain’s Adel Mechaal, helping Turkey to a 3-point team win over Spain. On the women’s side, Can won easily while GB took the team title.

• Irish Journalist Cathal Dennehy Rips Turkey: “Turks’ Shameless Talent Grab Playing A Sick Joke On European Athletics” Dennehy writes that it was “another proud day for Kenya” and another “up yours from Turkey” at the Euro XC champs.
• You Can’t Make This Up:After Winning Euro XC Champs The Four Kenyans That Made Up The Kenyan Team Posed With The Turkish Flag The Wrong Way
• Video Highlights
• GB Lands Five Gold Medals At Euro XC Champs The GB senior women didn’t have anyone in the top 5, but put 4 in the top 10 to win team gold. Andrew Butchart took individual bronze after Dewi Griffiths did the early leading and DNFed with a hamstring injury.
• Former Two-Time Euro XC Champs Fionnuala McCormack Could Only Manage 12th This Year
• Jakob Ingebrigsten Defends His Euro U20 Title GB’s Harriet Knowles-Jones won the women’s race.
• After Near Misses, France’s Jimmy Gressier And Germany’s Alina Reh Take Euro U23 Titles Reh beat out her countrywoman Konstanze Klosterhalfen by 3 seconds as GB’s Jessica Judd was 3rd.
• Britain Wins Inaugural Mixed Relay Gold 

More Weekend Results

• IAAF Weekend XC Round-Up:Brother Colm O’Connel-Coached 19-year-old Mathew Kimeli Wins Kenyan AK Series Meet In Iten Kimeli made a name for himself in the spring when he ran 27:14 to come in a close second behind Mo Farah at the Ostrava Golden Spike Meet 10,000m.
• Kenya’s Dickson Kipsang Tuwei (2:10:03) And Ethiopia’s Rahma Tusa (2:25:12) Win Guangzhou Marathon In China
• RRW:Canadian Betty Jean McHugh Sets 90+ World Record At Honolulu Marathon She ran 6:47:31, which broke the previous record of 8:53:08 from 1997.
• AW:UK Weekend Round-Up

Foot Locker High School XC Champs *Results*Race Replay

LRC Claudia Lane Dominates To Repeat As Champ, Misses Joining Sub-17:00 Club (link fixed) 17:03 for Lane as only 3 women in the last 30 years have ever gone sub-17. She’ll attempt to be first-ever 3-time girl’s champ next year.

LRC Dylan Jacobs Wins To Make Carl Sandburg High In Illinois The First With Two Different FL Champs (Lukas Verzbicas) As Soph Graydon Morris Is 2nd Jacobs turned the tables on rival Daniel Kilrea as sophomore Morris moved up to take second and could become the second boy ever to run at 4 Foot Lockers (Jorge Torres).

LRC Official Foot Locker Nationals 2017 Live Thread 

Sports Governing News/ Russian Ban Not Really A Ban

• Alan Abrahamson Explains Olympic Ban Isn’t Really A Ban, Russians Who Compete Will Be “Olympic Athletes From Russia”
• Russia Sanctions Not Really An Olympic Ban, Head Of Independent Investigation Tells ESPN
• Athletics Kenya VP Says Government Minister, Not Athletics Kenya, Picked Team For Cape Town Marathon

More Russian Scandal Updates

• Even When They Know The Whole World Is Watching:FIFA Actually Terminated The “Ethics” Committee Head Who Was Investigating Vitaly Mutko They also fired another member who who was going to block Mutko from the Fifa council, arguing that it would damage the prospects of the World Cup in Russia.
• Thomas Bach Refuses To Apologize To Yuliya Stepanova Over 2016 Olympic Snub, But Encourages Her To Switch Her Nationality To Represent A New Country At Tokyo 2020 Bach says he recently met with and had a “friendly discussion” with the Stepanovs.
• NBA Team Owner Mikhail Prokhorov Accused Of Paying Hush Money In Russian Olympic Doping Scandal Prokhorov, the former Russian biathlon federation president, allegedly paid an athlete to keep quiet about Russia’s doping.
• Vitaly Mutko Denies State-Backed Doping, Slams IOC Ban

2017 Fukuoka Marathon Was Incredible *Fukuoka Results

Wow! LRCNorway’s Sondre Moen Makes History, Smashes European Record To Win Fukuoka In 2:05:48 Moen, who ran 59:48 during his buildup, became the first non-African born male to break 2:06 on a record-eligible course as he stunned the world and Bedan Karoki. 2012 Olympic champ Stephen Kiprotich grabbed second in 2:07:10 just ahead of the Suguro Osako, who set a new Nike Oregon Project record of 2:07:19.

• IAAF RecapSuguru Osako: “I gave my all to this race. … If I continue to train this way, I can continue to improve. I felt that I found a coach I can really trust. In Japan I did not find anyone like that.”
• MB:Official 2017 Fukuoka Marathon Discussion Thread
  
• MB: SONDRE MOEN of Norway runs 2:05:48 (!!!)to win the 2017 Fukuoka Marathon. How did he do it?
  
• Must Read:Renato Canova explains Moen’s amazing breakthrough: “Clean your minds, start to believe in yoursel[f], and go [all] in [on] hard CLEAN training if [you] are really interested in improving [your] performance.”

Kipchoge Vs. Farah At London 2018

Eliud Kipchoge Will Return To The London Marathon; Looking To Maintain His Unbeaten Record With A Third Title After winning in 2015 and 2016, Kipchoge skipped a year to chase the sub-2 hour marathon, but now he’s back and says, “I know that I have the world record in me so we will have to wait and see what happens.”
*Kipchoge Happy To Be Racing Mo Farah In London Kipchoge: “It’s great he will be racing because I’m sure that will make the atmosphere more special.”
*MB: Eliud Kipchoge is taking Mo Farah very seriously