January 24, 2018 | LetsRun.com

2018 Dubai Marathon – The Richest Prize In Our Sport Gets Awarded Thursday Night (9pm ET)

LRC 2018 Dubai Marathon Women’s Preview: Former Champs Worknesh Degefa & Aselefech Mergia Battle World Champs Medalists Mare Dibaba & Senbere Teferi (Debut) The women’s race in Dubai this year race boasts two sub-2:20 women and a total of six who have run under 2:23 as well as super-talented debutantes Gelete Burka (10k silver at 2015 Worlds) and 22-year-old Senbere Teferi (5k silver at 2015 Worlds, 14:29 PR).

LRC 2018 Dubai Marathon Men’s Preview: Tamirat Tola Aims To Become First Man To Repeat Since Haile G In 2010 The Olympic bronze medalist at 10,000 is back to defend his crown but he’ll face five other sub-2:07 guys in the field plus four really interesting debutants: Yenew Alamirew (12:48/27:19 track PRs), Birhanu Legese (59:20 to win New Delhi Half Marathon in November), Leul Gebresilase (59:18 HM), and Fikadu Haftu (59:22).
*MB: Dubai is tmw!! Official 2018 Dubai Marathon Discussion Thread – Who you got?

The 2018 Winter Olympics Start February 9th

22 North Koreans To Compete At Pyeongchang 2018 They will compete in hockey, figure skating, short-track speed skating, cross country skiing and alpine skiing.
IOC Approves Joint Korean Team For Opening Ceremony And Women’s Hockey This despite objections from the South Korean coach who feels it will damage her players.
Good Read: InsideTheGames’ Nick Butler: “Thomas Bach Shouldn’t Start Clearing A Place In His Trophy Cabinet For The Nobel Peace Prize Quite Yet” Butler writes that Bach’s opening remarks on the unified Korean team on at a recent press conference “produced a collective wave of nausea” in the media room.
NY Times: Protesters In Seoul Burn Image Of Kim Jong-un During North Koreans’ Visit
North Koreans Face Protest During Pyeongchang 2018 Visit
North Korea To Hold Military Demonstration The Day Before The 2018 Winter Games Opening Ceremony
USA Today: Neither North Nor South Korea Want Defections During The Olympics South Korea normally encourages North Koreans to defect, but wants to avoid confrontation during such a sensitive time.
Exploratory Committee Claims Future Winter Olympics In Salt Lake City Could Cost Less Than 2002 Costs will be reduced because many of the 2002 venues have been well maintained.
Former Pyeongchang 2018 Minister Jailed For Two Years She was jailed for her part in the blacklisting of artists critical of the former president’s government.
USOC CEO Scott Blackmun May Miss Winter Olympics After Being Diagnosed With Prostate Cancer

Distance Updates

Good Read: SPIKES Profile Catching Up With Former NCAA Indoor Mile Champ Kaela Edwards, Who Is Now Part Of Emma Coburn’s Group In Boulder Edwards talks about how she visited Boulder and stayed in Coburn and Joe Bosshard‘s house when she hadn’t even met them before.
Former NCAA Champ And Jamaican Olympian Natoya Goule Ran A World-Leading 1:59.86 At The Clemson Invite Goule crushed her 2:01.64 indoor PR, although she has previously broken 2:00 outdoors.
MB: Emma Coburn runs fastest mile ever in Colorado – 4:38.08 at 7,771 feet no less!
February 3: Iceland’s Anita Hinriksdottir Shooting To Break Her Own National 800m Record At The RIG Games In Iceland At this meet last year, Hinriksdottir set a national indoor 800m record of 2:01.18.

Post-Weekend NCAA News

Florida’s Grant Holloway And Georgia’s Keturah Orji Are NCAA DI Athletes Of The Week Orji broke the NCAA and American TJ record (14.32m) while Holloway ran the 3rd-fastest 60H in NCAA history (7.49).
Florida Men Stay A Dominant #1 In The First Regular Season National Rankings Georgia and Texas A&M are 2-3.
The Oregon Women Top The First Regular Season NCAA Rankings Arkansas and Georgia are ranked 2-3.
Register-Guard: Ducks Have Plenty Of Options For Dr. Sander Relay Meet At The Armory This Weekend Last year the Oregon women broke the NCAA DMR record at this meet while the men ran an NCAA-leading time.
Event-By-Event Top-10 Marks Of The Collegiate Weekend

European Sprint Stuff

Recommended Read: GB 4 X 100 Gold Medalist Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake Doesn’t Want To Dwell On 2017 Success As He Moves On To A New Season “As much as what happened in the summer was nice, I want to forget about it now … I don’t want to just dwell on an accomplishment. I want to achieve more.”
GB’s World 4 X 100 Silver Medalist Dina Asher-Smith Writes About Her Work-Life Balance And The Sacrifices She Makes As A Pro Athlete Asher-Smith says she’s in bed by 10:30 and uses food as fuel “rather than pleasure.” She adds, “I don’t do cheat days and I don’t drink.”
Euro Weekend Sprint Round-Up: Germany’s Gina Luckenkemper Opens Her Season With A 7.11 PR To Tie The 60m World Lead

Mid-D And Distance News / Advice

Oh Baby, It’s On! Kenenisa Bekele Added To 2018 London Marathon Field, Meaning We’ll Get Bekele Vs. Kipchoge And Farah At 2018 London

Following Centro’s Lead, Nick Willis Is Also Skipping World Indoors To Race In Australia
Good Read A 1,600-Word Look At How Kiwi Matt Baxter Has Thrived At NAU The NCAA runner-up in XC was a 14:10 man before he went to NAU.
70-Minute Meb K Podcast – Meb Talks About Life After Retirement And Looks Back At His Career Highlights
IAAF Visits Eugene And Is Assured Hayward Field Renovation Will Be Done In Time For Worlds The article says the new plans for the track will come out in April.
If Austin, TX Hosts The 2020 Olympic Marathon Trials, It Will Be Held The Day Before The Austin Marathon
Free Training Advice: Mastering The Threshold Run By Sub-2:14 Marathoner Mark Tucker
Runner’s World: The 10 Best Onion Stories About Running Some might mistake RW for an Onion production itself.

High School Coaching Legends

LRC 10 Things I Learned From The Best High School Cross-Country And Track Coaches In America LetsRun.com’s Wejo flew to Boulder to hear from the high school top XC coaches in America Joan Hunter (#1 team), Dan Iverson (#2 team), Jonathan Dalby (#3 team) and John O’Malley (Foot Locker champ). What did he learn? A lot.
Discussion: “I attended a clinic with the top high school cross coaches in the country: ask me anything.”

Articles Interesting Enough To Pass Our Stringent Vetting

2,000 + Words On The Demise Of The Print Edition Of Track & Field News: Death Of A Bible? Track & Field News Ends Print Edition, Stuns Old Fans The article, a version of which appears in the San Diego paper, quotes both Rojo and Wejo, who are called “the Nelsons for a new generation.”
Even Rival Coaches Are Raving About Texas Tech’s New $48 Million Indoor Facility We’re pleased to report it features a legitimate (not oversized) 200 meter bank. What many love is the athletes in the warmup area can watch the action. Dennis Shaver of LSU says it’s “one of the best in the country.” Might it host NCAAs?
Omar McLeod Says Hurdling Is In His Blood “I recall from the age of nine or ten I used to set buckets up in the road and invite my cousins and my little brother to race over them.”
Edna Kiplagat, Sara Hall And Betsy Saina Will All Race At Marugame Half On Feb. 4th Zersenay Tadese leads the men’s field – but he hasn’t broken 60:00 since 2015.
Paralympian Samuel Muchai Wins 2017 Sports Personality Of The Year Award (SOYA) In Kenya The blind 1,500/5,000 man beat favorites Conseslus Kipruto and Hellen Obiri.
Spikes Mag Takes A Look Back At The Big Meets Being Offered In 2018 – “Things We Look Forward To In 2018” From World Indoors to the Continental Cup, they give you an overview of what to look forward to in 2018.

Sprints And Jumps

Mondo Duplantis’ New World Junior And Swedish National Pole Vault Record Invalidated All the men’s pole vault marks were invalidated because the pegs holding the crossbar were too long (75mm instead of the international standard of 55m).
Usain Bolt Says The One Regret He Has About His Career Is That He Never Broke 19 Seconds In The 200m “That’s my unfulfilled ambition and it’s going to stay unfulfilled for me. I couldn’t do it. No one can do it.”
Advice On Life And Track From Diamond League 400H Champ Kyron McMaster We liked his cooking tip: “My fav food is ribs. I could eat it all day every day. And in terms of a tip, I would get my mum to cook them!”
Shaunae Miller-Uibo Tells The “Story Behind The Picture” Of Her Dive At The 2016 Olympics “I just remember the complete silence before hearing my mum’s scream in the stadium followed by confirmation on the big screen I had won.”
From The Weekend: Texas Tech HJer Trey Culver And Kentucky Pole Vaulter Olivia Gruver Highlighted The Jumps Culver cleared 2.33m to tie the 4th best mark in NCAA history while Gruver went over 4.60m to equal the 7th best NCAA all-time.
February 10: World 200m Champ Dafne Schippers Confirmed For Ghent 60m Poland’s Marcin Lewandowski will be in the 1500.
Oregon Announces First Nine Additions To Next Year’s Recruiting Class

Industry News

Track And Field News Ceasing Their Print Version They write, “These aren’t the best of times for ink & paper-based publications, but fear not, Track & Field News isn’t going away. The December 2017 edition was the last one you’ll ever find in your snail-mail box, or on a newsstand. From now on, it’s all-electronics-all-the-time.”
MB: RW sold to Hearst Publishing
European Athletics More Than Doubled Its Twitter Followers In 2017 They added more than 60,000 during 2017 and now have over 100,000.

Houston Marathon/Half *Results

LRC Official Houston Thread

LRC Final Molly Huddle Breaks American Record At 2018 Aramco Houston Half Marathon Huddle went out blazing fast – 66:29 pace at 15k – and held on to get the AR in 67:25. In the process, she beat Jordan Hasay by 73 seconds. Oh yeah, Huddle didn’t win. She was just 7th. Ruti Aga, the 2017 Berlin Marathon runner-up, won in 66:39. Updated with analysis, quotes and videos.
*RRW: Three USA Records For Molly Huddle At Aramco Houston Half Marathon
*Houston Chronicle: After AR In Houston, Molly Huddle Is Looking Forward To Boston And Another Clash With Hasay Huddle: “I think her recent marathon success is going to spark a good rivalry. She’s just at another level of running right now. Rivalries are good for the sport. I think we’re going to be finishing close to each other in Boston.”

LRC Final Jake Robertson (60:01) Crushes Stacked Field Over Final 2 Miles To Win 2018 Houston Half Marathon Kiwi Jake Robertson was dancing after this one was over as he got the biggest win of his career and took some huge scalps, including runner-up Guye Adola. American Sam Chelanga moved to #4 on the US all-time list with a 60:37 and Haron Lagat cracked the top 10 for the US all-time at 61:01.
Updated with analysis, quotes and videos.
*Post-Race Reaction: Jake Robertson Paid His Own Money To Top Up And Fly Business Class To Houston As He Knew He Was Ready To Run Fast

Marathon: LRC Bazu Worku (2:08:30) And Degefa Biruktayir (2:24:51) Win Full Marathons Wilkerson Given (2:15:52) and Sarah Crouch (2:35:22) were the top Americans.
*Houston Chronicle Recap Of Ethiopian Domination

IAAF: Ethiopians Dominate In Houston Once Again We think the Kiwis did incredibly well on a per capita basis.

Reads We Enjoyed

Former Providence Star David McCarthy Quit Running For 18 Months And Loved Not Being A Runner – But Now He’s Back Trying Again Thanks To Kyle Merber “I had the best 18 months of my life … It was great to wake up knowing I didn’t have to run. I could have more nights out, enjoy hanging with friends and family more and not feel guilty about it because I had a long run the next morning.”
Villanova Coach Marcus O’Sullivan Remembers When 20,000+ Showed Up In Indianapolis To Watch 1st World Indoors O’Sullivan won his first of 3 World Indoor golds in Indy at the Hoosier Dome.
RIP: Gene Cole – 1st Olympian To Break 47 And Not Make The Olympic Final – Has Died At Age 89
Recommended Read: Italy’s World Indoor Champ Gianmarco Tamberi Writes About His Comeback From Injury And The Support He Got From His Friend Mutaz Essa Barshim Tamberi tells the story of Barshim coming to his hotel room and consoling him after a disappointing competition where he couldn’t clear the opening height.

The World’s Biggest XC Fan

LRC Meet Mr. Cross-Country, The Sport’s Biggest Fan Cross-country’s biggest fan, Michael Mahon, resides in Massachusetts, where for the past 33 years he has traveled to over 1,747 career meets, bag of cans in tow. And he doesn’t plan on stopping anytime soon.
*Michael Mahon – Mr. Cross-Country – Share Your Favorite Story Here

More Upcoming Distance Action

April 22: Tirunesh Dibaba Will Return To The 2018 London Marathon Dibaba was runner-up last year with 2:17:56, making her the third fastest all-time. Marathon debut record holder Guye Adola (2:03:46) and Stanley Biwott (2:03:51) were announced for the men’s race.
February 4: RRW: Norway’s European Marathon Record Holder Sondre Nordstad Moen To Run Napoli City Half Marathon The 59:48 man is using the race as a tune-up for March’s World Half Champs.
February 8: Genzebe Dibaba And World Silver Medalist Adam Kszczot Will Highlight The Madrid Indoor Meeting Dibaba is in the 1,500 against former world indoor silver medalist Axumawit Embaye and Poland’s European champ Angelika Cichocka. Kszczot is in the 800 against former world champ Mohamed Aman.
Can XC Be Edgy? The IAAF Says It Wants To Move Cross-Country In A “More Extreme, Edgier” Direction To Attract New Audiences It’s anyone’s guess what that actually means. Does the IAAF even know?

Upcoming Road Action

February 25: Wilson Kipsang Will Defend His Title And Meseret Defar Will Make Her Marathon Debut At Tokyo 2018 Kipsang faces Dickson Chumba and former Dubai winners Tesfaye Abera and Tsegaye Mekonnen while the women’s race has 2015 world silver medalist Helah Kiprop, Berlin runner-up Ruti Aga, Paris Marathon champ Purity Rionoripo and USA’s world bronze medalist Amy Cragg.
*This Article Says Kipsang Will Be Going For The WR In Tokyo Last year Kipsang won in an Asian all-comers’ record of 2:03:58.
April: The London Marathon Is Announcing An Athlete Each Day This Week: Yesterday Was 2016 Runner-Up Stanley Biwott

It Was A Record-Setting Friday In Terms Of US Action *All US Indoor Track Results

LRC Spoiler Alert: Christian Coleman’s 6.37 60m Mark Most Definitely Won’t Count As A World Record The IAAF rules are VERY clear – start reaction times must be recorded for a world record in any event 400m or less.

Usain Who? MB: CHRISTIAN MF COLEMAN – COLEMAN OPENS 2018 WITH 6.37 WR!!! Coleman, who beat Bolt in London, opens 2018 with a stunner.
*Christian Coleman’s Coach Tim Hall: “I’m in disbelief. This was his season opener. It was totally unexpected.”
*Christian Coleman Had To Drive Two Hours Away To Meet Drug Testers So He Could Give A Urine Sample At A Rest Stop Even still, Coleman’s run might not be ratified as the WR as the IAAF requires electronic startling blocks which weren’t used.

MB: UTEP’S Michael Saruni Runs 1:14.79 600m WR Technically the 600m distance is a world’s best.

MB: ERIN FINN – NEW SCHOOL RECORD – 8:58
Texas Tech’s Vincent Crisp Runs Fastest 600-Yard Time In Collegiate History – 68.16 – The old record of 68.26 (Arkansas’ Roddie Haley) had stood since 1987.
Florida Star Grant Holloway Runs 7.49 60H To Move To #3 Collegian All-Time Omar McLeod is the collegiate record holder at 7.45.
Texas Tech’s Divine Oduduru Runs 20.49 200 On Their Scorching-Fast New Track

More Distance Updates

MB: Matt Centrowitz Still With The Oregon Project, But Now Based On East Coast Centro says Alberto Salazar is still his coach, but he’s living in the DC/Maryland area with Centro Sr. administering a lot of his workouts.
February 9: Deepest Field Ever Set For 2018 RAK Half Marathon With Fifteen Sub-60 Men Bedan Karoki returns to defend his title against 27:09 10K man Guye Adola, two-time Boston champ Lelisa Desisa and world indoor bronze medalist Augustine Choge.
Athletics Weekly: Laura Muir Says She Has “More To Give Over 5,000m” In what was just her second 5,000 final, she finished 6th in a 14:52 PR at Worlds.

Sprint / Field Event News

Justin Gatlin Chooses A New Coach – And He’s 84 Years Young! Brooks Johnson
Elaine Thompson Still Has No Idea What Happened In 100m Final Where She Was Just 5th It’s hard to explain as the double Olympic champ won all of her 100s in 2017 except for Worlds.
European LJ Record Holder Sebastian Bayer Retires At Age 31 Due to injury, he’s barely competed since 2014 but is best known for his Beamonesque performance in 2013 when he went from 8.17 to 8.71 in a single competition. He’s still the #2 jumper indoors thanks to this.
Sergey Bubka Is Really Impressed By Armand Duplantis “He was 17 and he jumped over 5.90. This is really amazing.”

Previous Big Administrative News

LRC Caster Semenya Free To Dominate For At Least 6 More Months As CAS Keeps IAAF’s Rules On Hypeandrogenism Suspended After a two-plus year wait, the IAAF got back to the court with what it hoped was proof that women with internal testicles and jacked up testosterone levels have an advantage over other women. The IAAF proposed new regulations that just cover the 400-mile. CAS has asked for more info. Sadly many following the case closely feel that ultimately the IAAF will lose.

Disgraceful: Fancy Bears Is Trying To Act Like The IOC Is Bribing Doping Whistleblower Yuliya Stepanova By Offering Her $$$ The latest Fancy Bears hack shows email correspondence where financial arrangements for Stepanova are discussed after she risked her life to expose Russian doping.

News From Europe

Former British Sprint Coach Claims Colin Jackson Was Called A N***** By His Own Hurdling Coach Jackson hasn’t confirmed or denied the report.
Two-Time Olympic Javelin Champion Barbora Spotakova Is Pregnant With 2nd Child, Will Miss 2018 Season The 36-year-old world record holder says she’s still aiming to be in Tokyo in 2020.
SPAR Convenience Store Group Agrees To Three-Year Sponsorship Deal With British Athletics
British Man Reflects On Running 75 Marathons In 75 Days At 75 Years Old

Russian Doping Updates

Just Another Day In Russia: 36 Athletes Withdraw From Siberian Indoor Championships After Surprise Drug Testers Show Up At The Event Some credit to former world 110H champ Sergey Shubenkov for calling them out on Twitter where he said, “Doping control drove in. … Is that why a couple doze withdrew before the beginning?”
The Guardian: IOC Accused Of “Backroom Deals” With Russia Ahead Of The 2018 Winter Olympics The film-makers behind the Icarus documentary claim that the IOC is going to allow the 42 Russians currently appealing their Olympic bans to take part as neutral athletes.

Assorted Distance News

Athletics Kenya Unveils World Half Marathon Squad Two-time defending champ Geoffrey Kamworor and World Record holder Joyceline Jepkosgei lead the teams.
There Is A Petition In The UK To Have Women Run The Same XC Distance As Men “Actually when you go to longer distances physiologically women have been shown to become more equal to men, rather than the other way around.”
Seven-Time US Road Champion Aliphine Tuliamuk Joins HOKA NAZ Elite Tuliamuk says she is focus on trying to make the US 2020 Olympic team in the marathon.
*Q&A With Tuliamuk She talks about being one of 32 siblings.
*Ben Rosario Talks About Tuliamuk Joining LRC video.
Nijel Amos To Train In Oregon Ahead Of Commonwealth Games Amos is looking to defend his title after he got a big win over David Rudisha at the 2014 CWG.
RRW: Comrades Marathon Champion Piet Vorster Is Dead At 66

Houston Half Chatter On The Message Board

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Men

Fancy Bears Puts Out Another Release

Fancy Bears Releases More Hacked Info And Says, “It is apparent that the Americans and the Canadians are eager to remove the Europeans from the leadership in the Olympic movement.”
Fancy Bears Leaks Claims McLaren Report Given “Clear Political Order” To Exclude Russia From Olympics If only this was true. Instead the doping Russians will be at the Games.

LetsJump.com

From The Weekend: Keturah Orji Breaks NCAA And American Triple Jump Record With 14.32m
Getting Started Early: There’s Going To Be A Documentary On High School Pole Vault Star Mondo Duplantis This is a 4-minute clip from the Reno National PV Summit two weekends ago.
February 3: Olympic Champ Tianna Bartoletta And Euro Champ Ivana Spanovic Will Clash At The Karlsruhe Indoor Meet
Sergey Bubka Warns Against Changes That May Put Athletes At Risk Last year the IAAF changed time given to athletes to make an attempt in the PV from 60 seconds to 30 to speed up the meet, but Bubka and Renaud Lavillenie have argued it’s not safe for athletes.
Greg Rutherford Withdraws From 2018 Commonwealth Games Rutherford says he has recovered from the ankle injury which kept him out of London Worlds, but wants to “ease back into competition.”

Fast High School Action – Tuohy Runs 15:37!

Katelyn Tuohy Runs 15:37 To Smash The High School 5,000m Record The previous indoor mark was 15:55 by Brie Oakley and Tuohy’s time is also faster than Mary Cain‘s 15:45 outdoor record.
*MB: Katelyn Tuohy – 15:37 High School Record
Fresh Off Her Great Edinburgh Win, Kelsey Chmiel Wins New Balance Games Mile In 4:48.94 Chmiel then doubled back to anchor the Saratoga DMR team to a win/meet record (11:59) with a 4:48.75 leg.
Brian Herron Runs 32.64 To Break National High School 300m Record The previous record holder (Tyrese Cooper) was actually in the race and finished 3rd (33.12).
Bullis High School Girls Break World Junior 4 X 200 Record With 1:35.40
Lanae-Tava Thomas Breaks NY High School Long Jump Record And #2 All-Time With 21-8 (6.60m)

International Distance Results

Uganda’s World 10,000 Silver Medalist Joshua Cheptegei And Kenya’s Former World XC Champ Agnes Tirop Prevail At Seville XC Meet Tirop beat a field that included world 5,000 champ Hellen Obiri (3rd place) and steeplechase WR holder Ruth Jebet (4th).
Amane Gobena (2:25:49) And Solomon Deksisa (2:09:34) Win Mumbai Maraton
Ethiopia’s Gulume Tollesa Defended Her Title With A CR 2:29:37 At The Hong Kong Marathon 44-year-old Kenneth Mungara won over opponents half his age to win in 2:13:39.
IAAF Weekend XC Round-Up: Kenya’s 9:03 Steepler Norah Tanui Wins Rovereto XC Meet By Over A Minute Ethiopia’s Telahun Bekele won the men’s race. Meanwhile in Kenya, Joan Chelimo won over 66:25 half runner Valary Jemeli at the Elgeyo-Marakwet XC Champs. Benard Kimeli won the men’s race.
Belgium’s Soufiane Bouchikhi Beats Out GB’s Andy Vernon To Win At Home At The Easykit Cross Cup
South African XC Champs: Thabang Mosiako and Kesa Molotsane Win

Administrative News

Plan Your Winter/Set Your DVRs Now 2018 USATF Indoor Championship Series TV Broadcast Schedule Released – Millrose Leads Way With 2 Hours Live On NBC

USATF’s Annual President’s Report To The Board Of Directors This is the first report of the Vin Lananna era.
Kenya Paper Writes About How No Big Name Stars Are Doing Commonwealth Marathon Tim Hutchings has a GREAT solution – ax the marathon and run a half marathon. Big stars like Kipchoge could do it in their buildup for London.
So Much For Punishment – Russia To Have Nearly As Many Athletes At 2018 Winter Games As In 2014 When They Hosted The Games

Upcoming Winter Action

LRC Exclusive Reigning Olympic And World Indoor Champion Matthew Centrowitz Will Skip 2018 Indoor Season, Race In Australia Instead In other Centro related news, we have learned that Like Father, Like Son, the memoir by Matt Centrowitz – Matthew’s father – may be turned into a feature film.
*MB: Breaking: Reigning world indoor champ Matthew Centrowitz will NOT defend his crown – will race in Australia instead One LRCer is disappointed that Americans tend to really get up for Worlds only when it’s in the US.

Feb. 3rd: Ajee’ Wilson, Charlene Lipsey, Raevyn Rogers And Chrishuna Williams Will Be Going For Russia’s 8:06.24 4 X 800 World Record At 2018 NYRR Millrose Games

Feb. 10th: Raevyn Rogers Will Race 800 And Christian Coleman, Noah Lyles And Cameron Burrell Will Clash In 60 At 2018 NB Indoor Grand Prix The women’s 800 also includes Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands and Great Britain’s Lynsey Sharp. Get your tickets now.

Say It Ain’t So – Hayward Field To Be Demolished?

Ken Goe In The Oregonian: “IAAF Visit To Oregon Ahead Of 2021 World Track Champs Leaves Unanswered Questions” A big issue is the necessary renovations to Hayward Field which were supposed to start in 2016, but haven’t even begun. And now sources say the project will be a “complete teardown” instead of the original plan to preserve the iconic East side of the stadium.
*MB: So long Hayward Field…

Will London’s Crystal Palace Also Be Demolished? The future of Crystal Palace as an athletics facility hangs in the balance with a sports consultancy company due to deliver its verdict on the venue next month.