Camel City & 2018 IAAF World Indoor Tour *Full Karlsruhe Results

Camel City LRC Edward Cheserek Runs 3:53 On A Flat Track, Paul Chelimo Wins $10,000 And Rachel Schneider Wins Even More ($12,000) King Cheserek was sensational in one race and Schneider utterly dominant in two – just 35 minutes apart.
*MB: What’s the flat track WR? King Ches just ran 3:53.85 at Camel City!

Germany: Indoor Meeting Karlsruhe: Genzebe Dibaba Runs 2nd-Fastest Indoor 1,500 Ever (3:57.45) As Hagos G Takes Down Kejelcha In 3k The IAAF World Indoor Tour got off to a big start with 5 world leads. Next week, it will be in Boston at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix.
*Raphael Holzdeppe appears to be in form with a 19-3.5″ (5.88m) win over Lavillenie in Karlsruhe Video of jump here.

Other Indoor Action: Grant Fisher Races Indoors For 1st Time For Stanford Hard to believe the junior had never run indoors before. He ran 3:58 on the DMR.
*Stanford Women Put Up #1 Tine In NCAA In DMR At 10:58.93
*Navy Men, Army Women Win Dual Meets
*Chinese Teenager Shi Yuhao Jumps 8.16 WL At Asian Champs

Fantastic Read: Olympics Features: NEIL WILSON: The war on doping suffers a winter shock CAS’s decision to overturn the Russian doping bans is catastrophic according to Wilson. “The war on doping ended eight days before the Winter Olympic Games opens in abject surrender.”

Road Action From Japan

Beppu-Oita Mainichi Marathon South Africa’s Desmond Mokgobu (2:09:31) Outkicks Japan’s Hayato Sonoda On Track To Win In Thrilling Finish The video of the finish is here.

Murugame Half In Windy Conditions, Kenyans Edward Waweru (60:31) And Betsy Saina (69:17) Win Titles As Japan’s Yuta Shitara Runs 61:14 And Sara Hall 71:25 WR holder Zersaney Tadese ran his first half in nearly two years but only managed a 61:42. Edna Kiplagat was only 12th in 73:56.
*MB: Edward Waweru Runs 60:31 As Japan’s Yuta Shitara Runs 61:14 At Marugame Half (Tadese Runs 61:42 In His 1st Half In 2 Years) 

Outside Millrose Coverage

• Recommended Read: A Decade After Winning The Millrose High School Miile, Kyle Merber Shooting For The Wanamaker Mile Title “It’s humbling when you look back at the history books and you see all these guys who’ve run just as fast, or faster, than I have, and I don’t even – I don’t know who they are. It’s an unforgiving sport.”
• Good Read: Katelyn Tuohy Doesn’t Think She’s Ready To Run Her Fastest Mile In Millrose, But Wants To Go Under 4:40 On the subject of going pro, Tuohy says she plans on running in the NCAA.
• Brenda Martinez Scratches From Wanamaker Mile At Millrose
• Chris O’Hare “Ready To Roll” At Millrose O’Hare is looking forward to the Wanamaker Mile, but also seeing his wife and 16-month-old son as he’s been away from them in Flagstaff for the last month.
• New Mexico’s Josh Kerr Relishing Wanamaker Mile Experience Kerr says training has gone great and he’s “never been this fit this early in the season.”
• USA Today: World’s Best Hurdler Omar McLeod Will Try To Challenge The Top Sprinters At Millrose McLeod has spent this season focused on flat sprinting because as his coach says, “he doesn’t want to be known as a guy who just runs the hurdles.”
• A Rundown Of The Top Collegians Competing At Millrose

Eugene 2021 Under Investigation

• NY Times: Eugene’s 2021 World Championships Bid Under Investigation By The US Justice Department Prosecutors have issued grand jury subpoenas as they investigate possible racketeering, money laundering and fraud charges related to the 2019 and 2021 World Championships bids.
• The Oregonian: TrackTown USA Stands By Bid For 2021 World Track Champs In Wake Of Federal Subpoenas TrackTown USA CEO Michael Reilly said, “Our role was to put the best bid forward. We are proud of our bid and stand by it.”
• Register-Guard Article

Drug News: A Sad Day For The Fight Against Doping

• CAS Fails Clean Athletes: 28 Out Of 39 Russians Have Their Sochi 2014 Disqualifications Overturned By CAS, Which Said The Evidence Against Them Was “Insufficient” Not only that, but the 11 athletes whose bans were upheld were reduced to a 4-years rather than lifetime bans.
• IOC Criticizes CAS Decision, Saying, “This may have a serious impact on the future fight against doping.”
• WADA Says CAS Decision Will “Cause Dismay And Frustration” USADA’s Travis Tygart bashed the IOC saying they failed to “swiftly and decisively deal with Russia” and tried to “slam dozens of cases through the process on the even of the Olympics.”
• WADA Backs Potential IOC Appeal Of CAS Russia Decision To Swiss Federal Tribunal The IOC have reiterated that “not being sanctioned does not automatically confer the privilege of an invitation” to the Olympics on the neutral Russian team.
• Russians Hail “Triumph Of Justice” As IOC Doping Bans Are Overturned The court’s ruling on the 28 athletes reinstates their results at the 2014 Olympics, returning Russia to the top of the Sochi medals chart.
• New ARD 35-Minute Documentary On Russian Doping With Whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov, Who “Raises Serious Accusations Against President Vladimir Putin”
• Vladimir Putin Calls Whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov An “Imbecile With Obvious Problems”
• US Triple Jumper Atlanta Westbrook Gets 4-Year Doping Ban For PED Use

US Non-Distance News

• Lolo Jones Bashes NBA Player Blake Griffin Jones tweeted, “I went on a date with him. Worst date of my life and he’s a terrible kisser.”
• Pole Vaulting Isn’t Sandi Morris’ Only Talent; She’s Also A Great Singer Morris recently sang the national anthem before the Pole Vault Summit and plays the guitar and violin.
• At 31 Years Old, World LJ Champ Brittney Reese Says, “I still feel like I’ve got a lot more left in me to win some more medals.” Reese has four world golds and an Olympic gold and silver and thinks “2020 is probably going to be it” for her.
• Sam Kendricks Reflects On His Perfect 2017 Season Which Culminated With A Celebration Photo With A Bunch Of Randoms After Winning The Zurich DL Kendricks: “This photo is very special to me. I don’t know any of the faces in the photo but the fact that they got to share in my success means that they are as much in the moment as I am.”

NCAA Updates

• No Changes To The Top 3 Men’s NCAA Rankings Florida, Georgia and Texas A&M stay top 3 as Oregon moved up from 14th to 4th.
• Updated Women’s NCAA Rankings: Arkansas Takes Over As #1 As Oregon Drops To 3rd
• Event-By-Event Top 10 NCAA Marks From The Weekend
• Karissa Schweizer And Michael Saruni Are NCAA Athletes Of The Week

Doping Updates

• WADA Launch Investigation After New ARD Report That Doping Sample Bottles Can Be Manipulated Without Detection Apparently the bottles can be opened manually after being frozen.
  *ARD Report (In German)
• IOC Urge WADA To Ensure Anti-Doping At 2018 Winter Games Is “Credible And Reliable” After Sample Bottle Integrity Issue WADA is currently in contact with the bottle manufacturers after the latest ARD report.
• Italian Athletics Federation Doctors Who Helped Racewalker Alex Schwazer Avoid Being Caught Using Drugs Get Two-Year Prison Sentences Another official also got a 9-month sentence.
• IPC Will Allow Russian Athletes To Compete As Neutrals At The 2018 Winter Paralympics
• Germany Criticize “Incomprehensible” IPC Decision To Allow Russians At Pyeongchang 2018
• Banned Former Head Of 2018 FIFA World Cup Vitaly Mutko Is Apparently Has A Net Worth Over $1 Billion Mutko appeared on a US “oligarchs list.”
• UK Anti-Doping Given $86 Million Public Money Increase To Help Catch Drugs Cheats Ahead Of 2020 Tokyo Olympics This is a nearly 50% increase in their funding.