Distance News

Sprint Stuff

• Recommended Read: Take A Behind The Scenes Look At GB’s World Gold 4 X 100 Squad Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake and Danny Talbot talk about the teamwork, practice and emotion that went into the upset win in front of the home crowd in London this summer.
• FloridaGators.com: A Long Trip To Catch Up To Gators’ 18-Year-Old Japanese Sprint Sensation Abdul Hakim Sani Brown While most on the Florida campus wouldn’t recognize Sani Brown or his name, people on the streets of Tokyo “would give you a weird look for even asking.”
• UK Para Athlete Sophie Kamlish Doesn’t Want To Be Known As “Blade Babe” “I guess it’s not an insult, but I don’t think it would be a total complement either.”

Distance News

• Edna Kiplagat Declared World Marathon Majors Winner After Jemima Sumgong’s Doping Ban This is the third time Kiplagat has won the $500,000 WMM title.
• Former Olympic Champ Meseret Defar Looking Forward To Making Her Marathon Debut In 2018 Defar hasn’t raced a lot the last few years, but says she wants to “assure my fans I’m in athletics to stay.”
• Nick Willis Looking To Double Medal In The 1,500/5,000 At The 2018 Commonwealth Games Only twice in CWG history has someone medaled in both events at the same Games (the first time was Kip Keino in 1970). Willis won 1,500 bronze and was 10th in the 5,000 back in 2014.
• Podcast Q&A With Nick Symmonds Symmonds talks about his career, business and 3:00:35 marathon debut.

2017 Comes To An End

• Mutaz Barshim Is T&F News Male Athlete Of The Year 11 competitions and 11 victories for Barshim in 2017.
• IAAF End-Of-Year XC/Road Racing Review There were a lot of impressive road performances this year, highlighted by two WRs, one at the half marathon (Joyciline Jepkosgei‘s 64:52) and the other Mary Keitany‘s 2:17:01 “women’s only” record.
• What Do You Think? Vote For DyeStat’s Performers Of The Year: High School Boys *High School Girls *College *Pro *Relays
• 17 Brits Make Athletics Weekly’s Event-By-Event Top 10 World Merit Rankings Mo Farah is Britain’s sole top world-ranked athlete as he’s #1 in the 10,000 (but only #2 in the 5,000).
• Mary Keitany’s 2:17:01 Is T&F News’s Women’s Performances Of The Year
• German Javelin Thrower Johannes Vetter’s #2 All-Time Throw Was T&F News Top Men’s Performance Of 2017

• IAAF End-Of-Year Hurdles Review Omar McLeod continued to dominate while WR holder Keni Harrison continued to falter on the biggest stage, finishing 4th at Worlds as Sally Pearson won.
• World Discus Champ Sandra Perkovic Named Croatian Sportswoman Of The Year (All Sports)

Post-Christmas Day News

• Mo Farah Targeted With Racist Messages After His “Merry Christmas” Instagram Post Farah is a practicing Muslim and received offensive messages for acknowledging Christmas.
• Athletics Weekly: What Did British Track And Field Athletes Do On Their Christmas? Most of the distance runners polled said they would put in the usual one to two easy runs they’d normally have on a Monday.
• MB: How far did you run on Christmas?

Merry Christmas!

Pros/College Stars Share Their Christmas Greetings On Social Media  Mo Farah, Eliud Kipchoge, Evan Jager, Andre De Grasse, Sally Pearson, Lolo Jones, Jordan Hasay, more.

Ryan Gregson And Genevieve LaCaze Are Engaged!!! A great Xmas gift for the couple.

Great News From Kenya

XMas Spirit Eliud Kipchoge, Marty Keiatny, Sally Kipyego, Matthew Birir Bring Loads Of Presents To Kids In Hospital In Kenya Birir is the 1992 Olympic steeplechase champ ahead of favorite Patrick Sang (now Kipchoge’s coach).

Elijah Manangoi, Faith Kipyegon, Helen Obiri All To Run World Indoors In March

LRC Rankings 800/1500 (All Rankings here)

LRC Women’s 1,500: Faith Kipyegon Is #1 Again; Jenny Simpson Ranks #3 Simpson gets credit for the silver at Worlds and winning USAs.
Discuss: World and US Women’s Rankings are Here: Faith Kipyegon #1 in World, Jenny Simpson #3 Give us your feedback

LRC Men’s 1,500: Training Partners Elijah Manangoi & Timothy Cheruiyot Lead The Way, Matt Centrowitz Still US #1 Sorry, Robby Andrews fans, Centro is still atop the US.
*Discuss: 2018 World and US 1,500m Rankings Here, Share your opinion

LRC Women’s 800: Caster Semenya’s Perfect Season Makes Her World #1 Again; Ajee Wilson Produces Greatest Year Ever By An American What a year for Semenya and Ajee Wilson, and the American women in general, who had three in the world top 10.
*Discussion: 2017 800m Women’s Rankings: Semenya #1, Ajee Wilson #3, 3 Americans in top 10

LRC Men’s 800: Nijel Amos Is Your World #1; U.S. Champ Donavan Brazier Is Top American World champion Pierre-Ambroise Bosse comes in at #5 with Clayton Murphy, who bombed out the back half of the season, still getting #2 in the US rankings.
*Discussion: 800 World Rankings Men: What do you think?

Check back as we unveil more rankings each day.

Justin Gatlin Scandal 2.0?

Justin Gatlin’s Entourage Caught Up In Undercover Doping Sting, Gatlin Fires Coach Dennis Mitchell The Telegraph from the UK went undercover and said they needed help training an actor to be an athlete in the film. Robert Wagner, an agent who occasionally works with Gatlin, and coach Dennis Mitchell both reportedly said they could get him steroids with the agent also saying Gatlin used them. *Discuss

• Gatlin’s Agent Robert Wagner Says He “Played Along” Because He Knew What Was Going On Dennis Mitchell said, “I never suggested in any way that any of my current athletes used any banned substances …”
• Justin Gatlin “Shocked And Surprised” At Doping Allegations Against Dennis Mitchell “I am not using and have not used PEDs. … I fired [Mitchell] as soon as I found out about this.”

NCAA News: The Bowerman Award

RIP Joe Newton *Joe Newton Archives

A Legend Has Passed: Joe Newton RIP 1929-2017 Newton’s York high school teams won 28 state XC titles and the first NXN title, but most importantly he shaped thousands of kids lives. *Pay Your Respects Here

• Chigago Tribune: Legendary York Cross-Country Coach Joe Newton Dies At 88
• Former York Runner Michael Newman Remembers The Lessons Learned From Being On A York Team
• Video Of Joe Newton Final Talk To York Team “There Is No Secret Workout”
• Coaches Bill Aris, Pat Tyson And Others Remember Joe Newton
• Sports Illustrated Profile On Joe Newton From 1993: Coach Newton’s Law
• Nuggets From The LRC Archives: Tinman Posts About Joe Newton In 2004
• Joe Newton On Dealing With Parents