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Quote Of The Day

“Solomon obviously ran awesome today. It was a history making performance, setting the conference record and beating times of some legends. He was completely by himself because we entered him as a no time performer. It was not perfect running conditions, being ahead the whole time, and it was a pretty impressive performance.”

– Duke director of track and field Norm Ogilvie talking about Olympian and Stanford alum (now grad student) Steven Solomon blazing to a 45.44 school, conference and Australian record at the ACC Conference Championships.

What A Crazy Low Key Meet

LRC Hoka NJ*NY TC Breaks 4 X 800 World Record As 3 Teams Run Under Old Record, Josh Hoey (1:47.67) Crushes 800 High School National Record, Emily Sisson (15:13) 5k World Leader, Japanese Mile Record, 1st Sub-4 By A DIII Guy This meet had it all, including only a few hundred fans for a race where three teams broke the 4 x 800 world record and featured an anchor leg by Olympic 1,500 champion Matthew Centrowitz (who got the baton in the lead and couldn’t maintain it).

World Indoors Are Next Weekend In Birmingham

World And Olympic Heptathlon Champ Nafissatou Thiam To Skip World Indoors To Focus On European Champs Skipping a world championship to focus on a continental one five months from now? Does anyone think that makes sense?
Greg Rutherford Targeting The One Global Title Missing From His Medal Collection At one point Rutherford was the Olympic, World and European champ, but hasn’t won a world indoor title.
Sally Pearson Heads Small Australian Team Of 7 For World Indoors Ryan Gregson is the lone distance runner.
Multi-Event And Relay Fields Announced For World Indoors France’s World decathlon champ Kevin Mayer and GB’s 2015 Euro indoor champ Katarina Johnson-Thompson leads the pentathlon.
Mid-Distance Star Konstanze Klosterhalfen Leads German Squad Of 21 For World Indoors

Doping Updates

Major Tension In The IOC As Notable IOC Members Dick Pound And John Coates Have Public Spat Over Russia Issue Coates criticized Pound said he didn’t deserve the title of “IOC doyen” after Pound said, “Only athletes can scare IOC old farts into beating cheats.”
IOC Tells Dick Pound He Can Get Lost Actually, what IOC spokesperson Mark Adams said was more obnoxious: “In the end, if you don’t like the coffee that’s served at the coffee shop, and you don’t like the décor and you don’t like the prices, then you maybe go to another coffee shop.”
Russian Husband And Wife Officially Stripped Of Their Curling Bronze Medals After The Husband Alexander Krushelnitsky Found Guilty Of Doping By CAS
*MB:Russian curler charged with doping at the Olympics
Second Russian Fails Drug Test At Pyeongchang 2018Nadezhda Sergeeva finished 12th in the women’s bobsled and now pretty much ends any hope Russia had of being allowed to walk under the Russian flag for the Closing Ceremony.
A Cheater And A Sore Loser:Russian Ice Hockey Player Previously Cleared Of Doping By IOC, Suspended For Kicking A Player At Pyeongchang 2018Anna Shokhina kicked (or tried to kick) a Finland player after Russia lost the bronze medal game.
Russian Curler Krushlnitckii Might Use Excuse That A Competitor Sabotaged His Drink
Norwegian Mixed Doubles Curling Team To Receive Bronze Medal Stripped From Olympic Athletes From Russia
IAAF Invite Seven Russian Athletes To The 2018 World Indoor Championships The athletes, led by high jump world champ Mariya Lasitskene, will compete under a neutral flag.
IAAF Doping Review Board Approves Applications Of Two More Russians To Compete As Neutrals Thrower Maksim Afonin and jumper Anna Krylova are now eligible to compete.

Week That Was

LRC WTW: Morgan McDonald Runs Fast Down Under, A Lot Of Americans Ran Fast And Missed Worlds, International Indoor Update, Drew Hunter Update Plus meet the woman who is the #1 800 woman in the world in 2018 after a 10+ year break from competition.

The World Starts To Name Their Teams For Birmingham 2018

Genzebe Dibaba Will Do The 1,500/3,000 Double At World Indoors World Indoor 1,500 silver medalist Dawit Seyaum is also doing the 1,500/3,000 double while the men are led by defending 3,000 champ Yomif Kejelcha, Hagos Gebrihiwet and former World 800 champ Mohammed Aman.
USATF Names Team Of 49 Athletes For World Indoor Champs
World Silver Medalist Adam Kszczot And Pole Vault World Leader Piotr Lisek Lead Polish Squad Of 25 For Birmingham 2018Angelika Cichocka will do the 1,500/800 double.
Renaud Lavillenie And World Decathlon Champ Kevin Mayer Lead Small French Squad For World Indoors

African News

Hagos Gebrhiwet Chooses And Talks About A High And Low Moment Of His Career Gebrhiwet says his high was setting the world under-20 5,000 record at 12:47 in 2012, only two years after switching to track from soccer.
Ethiopia Names Its Team For The 2018 World Half Marathon Championships Jemal Yimer leads the team after debuting in 59:00 at RAK earlier this month and Houston Half winner Ruti Aga (66:39 PR) leads the women.
Kenya’s 2015 World Javelin Champ Julius Yego Opening His Season In South Africa On March 22nd

2018 USA IndoorsSchedule / Results EntriesTV & Streaming Prediction Contest LRCPost-Race InterviewsPrediction Contest

MB: Official Day 2 USATF Indoors Discussion Thread

LRC Christian Coleman Breaks 60m World Record For Real This Time With 6.34 At 2018 USATF Indoors Usain Bolt‘s successor is here. His name: Christian Coleman. *Video & Post-Race Interview
*MB: CHRISTIAN MF COLEMAN 6.34 60M WR!!!

1,500s LRC Paul Chelimo And Shelby Houlihan Complete Doubles, Win 1,500 Titles At 2018 USATF Indoors In contrasting ways, Chelimo and Houlihan proved they were a step above everyone else in ABQ.
*MB: Ben Blankenship refused to tell us his age today The mysterious age of Ben Blankenship saga continues. Today’s interview in page #3.

800s LRC Donavan Brazier And Ajee Wilson Keep Up Their Winning 800m Ways At USATF Indoors Her soon-to-be training partner, Raevyn Rogers, was second as the fastest American woman in history, Charlene Lipsey, was dead last.
*MB: Kate Grace discusses whether goes home DEVASTATED
*MB: Cas Loxsom lays it all out in flotrack interview

LRC Rest Of Meet: Dreams Become Reality: Unheralded Katie Nageotte Upsets Sandi Morris AND Jenn Suhr, Takes WR Attempts, Sharika Nelvis Sets American Record In Hurdles Talk about 2 shockers, plus some crazy 400 action and more.

Check Your Scores LRC Check Your Scores In The $20,018 Running Warehouse USA Indoor Prediction Contest

Full Coverage In Our 2018 USA Indoor Special Section

Weekend NCAA / HS Results Alex WilsonAll NCAA Coverage

Stanford DMR Team With Grant Fisher And Sean McGorty Runs School Record And NCAA #1 Time With 9:26.91 At Alex Wilson Invy Fisher split 3:55 to give Stanford the win over Oregon (9:27.17) and Wisconsin (9:27.72). It was the first time Fisher and McGorty ran on the same relay.
*Wisconsin Shatters DMR Record At Alex Wilson Sophomore Ollie Hoare anchored with 3:54.05.
South Dakota’s Chris Nilsen Joins The 19-Foot Club With A 19-0.25 Clearance (5.80m) At Nebraska Tune-Up This moves Nilsen to tied for #5 all-time NCAA indoors. *Results
MB:10.36 100m HS junior Tyrese Cooper ran an 800 – Guess his time
University Of Cincinnati’s Annette Echikunwoke Moves To #2 All-Time IN NCAA History With 24.79m Weight Throw
USTFCCCA Says Last Weekend Was “Arguably The Greatest In The History Of Collegiate Indoor T&F” 66 top-25 marks were set with 10 inside their events’ top 10 and two were NCAA records.

Kenyan Commonwealth Games Trials

World 1,500 Champ Elijah Manangoi And Olympic 800 Bronze Medalist Margaret Nyairera Beaten To Runner-Up Finishes At Commonwealth Games Trials World silver medalist Timothy Cheruiyot ran 3:34.01 to beat out Manangoi by a second and World Champs finalist Emily Cherotich ran 1:59.04 to beat out Nyairera. Other winners included World Under-18 silver medalist Edward Zakayo in the men’s 5,000 (13:28) and world junior champ Celliphine Chepsol in the women’s steeple (9:40).
World Junior Champ Rogers Kwemoi Wins A Close 10,000 In 28:46 Pre-race favorite Olympic silver medalist Paul Tanui DNFed with injury.
Steeplechaser Beatrice Chepkoech Upstages The Milers To Win Women’s 1,500 In 4:05.5 Over Winnie Chebet
World 5,000 Champ Hellen Obiri The Only Athlete Given A CWG Wild Card Entry It was supposed to be first three across the line, but Athletics Kenya made an exception for Obiri.
2015 World Youth 2000 Steeple Silver Medalist Sandra Chebet Wins Women’s 10,000 Chebet ran 32:41 to beat out Kenyan XC champ Stacy Ndiwa by .4 while Olympic and World 4th placer Alice Aprot was a DNF.
Jonathan Kitilit Wins 800 In 1:44.2 After Both David Rudisha And World 800 Bronze Medalist Kipyegon Bett Missed The Trials With Injury
2015 World Champ Nicholas Bett And His Brother Harun Koech Finish 1-2 In 400H
Africa Bronze Medallist Abraham Kibiwott Beats World Junior Champ Amos Kirui In Steeplechase
Decathlon/Heptathlon Recap

2018 Tokyo Marathon

LRC Dickson Chumba & Birhane Dibaba Win, Amy Cragg Runs US #5 A-T 2:21:42, & Yuta Shitara Runs 2:06:11 To Set Japanese Record And Win $936,000 The Japanese Corporate Track and Field Federation’s “Project Exceed” was offering 100 million yen ($936,000) to any man who could break the 2:06:16 national record. Shitara did it with a legendary run, mowing down the field after he was dropped at 32k.

LRCLive Official Thread, Stream, Results

More Distance News

The Guardian Has New Opinion Piece On Caster Semenya: “The Unequal Battle: Privilege, Genes, Gender And Power” The author tries to tackle the Semenya debate from political point of view, making it about women’s rights, racism and income inequality when it really should just be about the science.
Cas Loxsom On Depression And The Realities Of Chasing The Running Dream
*MB:Cas Loxsom lays it all out in flotrack interview
GB 800 Runner Lynsey Sharp Blogs About Being “Emotionally Drained” Due To Endless Traveling And Boyfriend Andrew Butchart’s Fractured Foot Sharp says it was strange that Butchart “dealt with [the injury] better than” she did.
Naming Of Australian Commonwealth Team Delayed Due To Seven Appeals Over Non-Selection Olympian Jeff Riseley is appealing after he finished 3rd in the 800, but an athlete in the “B” final ran faster and gained selection. A “B” final in an 800? How about just adding an extra round?
Schedule Announced For The 2018 Bring Back The Mile Grand Prix Tour They have five road miles planned for 2018 starting with the Grand Blue Mile in Des Moines on April 24.
Athletics Weekly Preview: English, Scottish And Welsh National Cross-Country Championships Are This WeekendDewi Griffiths will be going for his 7th consecutive Welsh national XC title.

High School Corner

NXN Runner-Up Brodey Hasty Making Another Sub-4 Attempt At The BU Last Chance Meet This Weekend Hasty went after sub-4 at Millrose and ran 4:00.05.
NXN Champ Aidan Troutner Named Gatorade National Boys XC Runner Of The Year Troutner was surprised by family and friends when he went home for lunch during school.
*Video Of Presentation And Interview
*DyeStat Video Interview

Mid-Week Action

AIT Grand Prix:John Travers Runs 3:59.40 To Become The First Irishman To Go Sub-4 Indoors On Irish Soil Australia’s Ryan Gregson won the race in 3:57.86. Spain’s Kevin Lopez (1:47.43) beat out Ireland’s Mark English (1:47.48) in the 800 and Irish national 400H record holder Thomas Barr had a thrilling come-from-behind win in the 400 in 46.94.
*European Athletics Recap:World Champ Sam Kendricks Clears 5.70m To Win The PV Over Canada’s Former World Champ Shawn Barber In the women’s 1,500, Poland’s Sofia Ennaoui won over Germany’s Euro steeple champ Gesa-Felcitas Krause.
Serbia: Ivana Spanovic Sets Long Jump World Lead With 6.93m Leap In Belgrade Former world 800 bronze medalist Amel Tuka broke his own national record in the 400 with 47.14.

Recent International Results

IAAF:17-Year-Old Riley Day Highlights Youth Break Out At Australian National Champs By Winning The 100/200 Double In men’s distance action, Luke Matews took the 800 in 1:45.90, Ryan Gregson had a great kick to win the 1,500 in 3:39.66 over Jordan Williamsz (3:39.85), Morgan McDonald ran 13:19.95 in the 5,000 to beat out former NCAA champs David McNeill (2nd – 13:19.51) and Patrick Tiernan (4th – 13:26). On the women’s side, Sally Pearson won her 9th 100H title and Linden Hall outkicked Zoe Buckman to win the 1,500.
*MB:Ryan Gregson drops the hammer in Aussie Champs
USA’s Joseph Gray And Augustus Maiyo Go 1-2 To At Pan American Cross-Country Championships The women’s medals were swept by South American athletes as Ecuador’s Ecuador’s Carmen Toaquiza took the overall title. *Results
Morocco’s Soufiane El Bakkali And Home Favorite Salomé Rocha Win Almond Blossom XC Race In Portugal They didn’t have as stiff competition as expected as the Kenyan runners didn’t make it due to visa issues.
Kenyans John Nwangangi (63:49) Diana Chemtai Kipyokei (70:00) Win Guadalajara Half Marathon Nwangangi beat out his countryman Rhonzas Kilimo by just one second with Ethiopia’s Dawit Fikadu another three seconds back.

RIP News

33-Year-Old Irish Distance Runner Jamie McCarthy Dies In Car Accident In South Carolina McCarthy was a member of the Irish team that won silver at the 2004 Euro Junior XC Champs.
Russia’s Former Olympic And World Hammer Champion Sergey Litvinov Dies At 60 Litvinov’s 86.04 PR from 1986 is still #2 all-time.
*Nice Tribute To Sergey Litvinov By HMMR Media
Asbel Kiprop In Grieving After Losing His Brother At Age 35

UK News

Paula Radcliffe Reveals She Tore Her Colon While Breaking The World Record (2:17:18) At The Chicago 2002 (Where LRC’s Wejo Paced Her) Radcliffe: “In fairness, I actually don’t feel the pain so I wasn’t being particularly brave either. My pain threshold is quite high.”
*Full 58-Minute BBC Interview With Radcliffe
*3-Minute BBC Clip On Her Colon
Laura Muir, Greg Rutherford And Katarina Johnson-Thompson Lead GB Team Of 31 For World Indoors Muir and Eilish McColgan will both do the 1,500/3,000 double; Chris O’Hare in the 1,500.
GB’s Former World Indoor 60m Champ Richard Kilty Ruled Out Of World Indoors With Achilles Injury Kilty made the GB Champs final, but had to withdraw.

Day 1 At 2018 USA Indoors

LRC Men’s 3,000: Army Strong – Paul Chelimo Repeats As Shadrack Kicphirchir Outkicks Ryan Hill Chelimo showed why he’s one of the best in the world with a 26.09 final 200 as altitude-born runners took 4 of the top 5 spots.

LRC Women’s 3,000: Shelby Houlihan Earns Convincing Win As Katie Mackey Makes Her First Worlds Team Shelby Houlihan looks unbeatable domestically right now but there was room for an underdog behind her as Katie Mackey snapped an 0-13 US Champs streak and made her first US team.

LRC Big Drama In Men’s 800 Prelims: Clayton Murphy Goes Home Early, Women’s Favorites All Advance While there was big drama in the men’s 800 prelims, the women’s race went very much according to form as the six fastest entrants took the six spots in tomorrow’s final.

MB Talk

British Indoor Champs

Laura Muir Eases To British Indoor 3,000 Title In 8:46 Muir now has a set of British indoor wins as she’s previously won the 800 and 1,500.
Greg Rutherford Back On Track From Injury With British Indoor Long Jump Title Rutherford only jumped 7.80m, but it was his first competition after having two surgeries and only starting to walk in November.
Rutherford:“I was terrified about this competition. Genuinely terrified. Last night I was lying in my bed in the hotel thinking I don’t know if I can do it.”
Asha Phillip And CJ Ujah Storm To 60m British Titles In the men’s 1,500, Jake Wightman outkicked Charlie Grice to win in 3:43.83 after Chris O’Hare had to sit out due to a foot issue. Paralympic shot put champ Aled Davies finished 6th in his first able-bodied championship.

Book Review

LRC Book Review: “Endure” By Alex Hutchinson – A Fitting Successor To “The Sports Gene” As The Next Great Sports Science Book Treat yourself to your own Valentine’s Day gift by buying Alex Hutchinson‘s new book Endure, which we give our highest rating – 5 stars out of 5. Purchase here.

LetsJump.com

Recommended Read:Photographer Tony Duffy Explains How His Photo Of Bob Beamon’s World Record Long Jump In 1968 Changed His Life Duffy was at the Olympics as a spectator, but dabbled in photography as a hobby and snuck down to the first row to take the now iconic picture. The attention it got motivated him to quit his accounting job and start his own photo agency (which he later sold to Getty for $29.4 million).
RR #2:World And Olympic Pole Vault Silver Medalist Sandi Morris Talks About The Highs And Lows Of Her Career Morris lows came at the start of her college career and her favorite high when she won an NCAA indoor title in her final year in 2015.
Stacked Pole Vault Field Set For All Star Perche Meet In France On Sunday Renaud Lavillenie, Sam Kendricks, Piotr Lisek, Shawn Barber and more. Recent upset surprise US champ Katie Nageotte will also be in action.
South Africa’s World Long Jump Champ Luvo Manyonga Explains His Love For Jumping “When I jump, it makes me feel like a super hero. … I don’t want to stop jumping until I have jumped out of the pit.”
LetsThrow:Valerie Adams Making Her Return To Competition At The Big Shot Meet In Christchurch On March 16th This will be her first meet since 2016 as she missed last year to have her first child.

Bolt / Powell Update

Usain Bolt Is Back In Training … For Soccer Bolt is training with a Jamaican team to prepare for a tryout with a German club. He claims he’s serious about trying to play pro soccer.
Asafa Powell Injured His Hamstring In Jamaican 100m Race Over The Weekend

NCAA News

Jesse Squire Examines Where The 2019 And 2020 NCAA Outdoor Championships Might Be Oregon is re-bidding for 2020, but Squire thinks 2019 will be at Drake Stadium in Des Moines although he also looks at Sacramento (Hornet Stadium), Philadelphia (Franklin Field), New York (Icahn Stadium) and several others.
Ken Goe Speculates On Hayward Field Renovations Even though no official announcement has been made, he’s heard from “usually reliable sources” that the stadium will be completely torn down. It’s also been reported that the state of Oregon is only contributing $10 million of the $40 million organizers were hoping for.
Oregon’s Three-TIme NCAA Champion Ariana Washington Still Doesn’t Have A Qualifying Standard For NCAA Indoors Washington is currently only ranked 57th in the 200 and 59th in the 60. Coach Robert Johnson says they’re “scratching their heads” over it as they don’t know why she’s not running up to her normal standards.
Men’s Updated NCAA Rankings Leave Texas Tech And Florida As The Top 2 Arkansas moved up from 5th to 3rd.
Latest Women’s NCAA Rankings Have No Changes To The Top 9 With Arkansas, Southern California And Kentucky As The Top 3
DI Athletes Of The Week Last Week Were South Dakota’s Chris Nilsen And Cincinnati’s Annette Echikunwoke Nilsen jumped 5.80m to put himself tied for 9th on the all-time NCAA list while Echikunwoke threw 24.78m to move to #2 all-time NCAA.
Event-By-Event Top 10 NCAA Marks From Last Week

Highlights From European National Champs

Germany’s European Silver Medalist Konstanze Klosterhalfen Runs 8:36.01 To Win National Title And Break German Indoor 3,000 Record Other interesting results included Tatjana Pinto running 7.06 to run the fastest 60m by a German since 1988 and the Lavillenie brothers (Renaud and Valentin) going 1-2 in the French Champs PV with 5.83m and 5.72m. At the Dutch Champs, Dafne Schippers won in 8.09.
*MB:Konstanze Klosterhalfen – 8:36,01 min for 3.000 indoor (solo)
Mujinga Kambundji Runs 7.03 World Lead And National Record To Take Swiss Indoor 60m Title
Former World Bronze Medalist Amel Tuka Wins Balkan Indoor 800 Title In A Tactical 1:49.49
41-Year-Old Triple Jumper Fabrizio Wins His 23rd National Title At The Italian Indoor Champs
MB:“LRC Singlet Guy” Benjamin de Haan Wins 3,000 At Dutch Champs He made a solo attempt for the 7:52 world indoor standard, but didn’t get it, winning in 8:07.
Cindy Roleder Clocks 7.84 To Beat World 100H Bronze Medalist Pamel Dutkiewicz And Win German Indoor 60H Title
Three-Time European Shot Put Champ David Storl Rounding Into Form With A 21.19m SB To Win German Champs
Poland’s Konrad Bukowiecki Breaks European Under-23 Shot Put Record With 22.00m
IAAF Full GB Indoor Champs Recap For more specific coverage scroll to the British Indoor Champs section further down on the LRC homepage.
Athletics Weekly’s Weekend Highlights

Vin Lananna Suspended

LRC Trying To Make Sense Of USATF’s Suspension Of Vin Lananna – Was This A Silent Coup? After reading USATF’s explanation for placing Vin Lananna on administrative leave, we were more confused than before we read it. So we try to make sense of it all.

The Oregonian:Vin Lananna “Taken Aback” By The USATF Board’s Move To Put Him On Temproary Leave USATF activist Becca Gillespy Peter slammed the decision, saying, “The board has been disregarding the will of the USATF membership for years, and this is just the latest slap in the face to the volunteers who have dedicated their lives to the sport.”
Register-Guard Article Apparently Lananna didn’t inform UO about the DOJ investigation either even though it is university policy, but a spokesperson said they didn’t consider the TrackTown contact with the DOJ a university matter.
MB: Vin Lanana being placed on “Administrative Leave” by USATF board!

Non-LRC USAs Sunday Recaps

USATF:Javianne Oliver Runs World-Leading 7.02 To Win Women’s 60 (Ties #6 All-Time US)Courtney Okolo edged Shakima Wimbley by a 51.16 to 51.17 margin in the women’s 400, while Jarret Eaton (7.43) edged Aries Merritt (7.46) and Devon Allen (7.49) in the 60H. Ryan Whiting won his 4th indoor men’s shot put crown in 8 years.
IAAF:Will Claye (TJ) Brittney Reese (LJ) And Vashti Cunningham (HJ) Win The Jumps It was Claye’s first competition of the year, Reese’s 11th national title and Cunningham’s third-straight US crown.
DyeStat:Sharika Nelvis Sets 60H American Record, #3 All-Time With 7.70Keni Harrison was beaten into second place and said, “[Nelvis] came out here and she got the job done. It’s only going to make me work harder. I’m pretty sure at Worlds, that world record is going to get beaten.”
AP:Christian Coleman: “When I transitioned and I stood up, I felt as good as I have ever felt. I kept running and saw that tape and got that line. It was a world record and it was pretty special.”
RRW:Shelby Houlihan, Paul Chelimo Complete Distance Doubles At USA Indoor Championships

More USA Indoors Coverage

Erik Kynard Wins A Record 5th-Straight US Indoor High Jump Title But Doesn’t Make Team USA Kynard was so mad when he failed to get the 2.33m standard that he “ripped off his number and spiked the crossbar.” But since no other Americans in Albuquerque have the standard, Kynard could probably still go via IAAF invite.
IAAF: World Silver Medalist Jarrion Lawson Impresses In The LJ With 8.38m To Defeat World Indoor Champ Marquis Dendy In the women’s 60H, Christina Manning (7.84) led the way ahead of WR holder Keni Harrison (7.87), Sharika Nelvis (7.91) and Olympic bronze medalist Kristi Castlin (7.94).
Scott Houston Gets Upset Pole Vault Victory Over World Champ Sam Kendricks Houston cleared a PR of 5.83m to Kendricks’ 5.78m.
USATF Recap:Jeremy Taiwo Wins Heptathlon; Christian Coleman Leads 60m Heats With 6.46 In the “our sport is weird” category, there were three heats of the men’s 60 hurdles to eliminate one guy.
DyeStat: Will Claye Seeks His First USA Indoor TJ Title Since 2012
Colorado High Schooler Emily Sloan Runs #2 All-Time HS Mark In 60H Prelims With 8.07 The performance also qualified Sloan for today’s final.
Some Interesting (AKA Glitchy) Reaction Times In The Men’s Heptathlon 60m A negative reaction time means you time traveled right?
Albuquerque Journal Saturday Recap
RRW:Shelby Houlihan, Paul Chelimo Retain USA Indoor 3,000m Titles
Texas’ Wolf Mahler Comes Away With Runner-Up Heptathlon Finish After PRs In 5 Of 7 Events

Previous USAs News

Colleen Quigley Says That Even Though 3K Steeple Is Her Race, She Prefers The Mile Over A Flat 3K “I think [3,000m] is so stinking hard without hurdles; it’s so fast.”
New Mexico Native Curtis Beach Isn’t Competing Due To Injuries But He’s Changed Course & Plans To Give Heptathlon Another Shot Once Healthy In 2016, he said he was done with the multis but now says he’d like to give the Hep but not the decathlon another shot. But for 2018, he’s training for the 800.
Erica Bougard Defends Her Pentathlon Title On Day One OF USATF Indoor Champs In the heptathlon, Devon Williams and 2015 national champ Jeremy Taiwo are in a close battle for first.
*AP Recap Bougard was 45 points off the AR and said that she wanted to hit high marks in her first four events “so when I got to the 800, I wouldn’t have to be all out.”
Register-Guard‘s Oregon-Centric Preview*USATF Preview
DyeStat’s 10 Storylines To Follow At USATF Indoor Champs The 60H should be great races as the men have the past three national champs in Aries Merritt, Jarret Eaton and Aleec Harris, and Keni Harrison leads the women after tying the AR with 7.72 earlier this season.
USATF Awards Elite Athlete Development Grants To 65 Athletes

RIP David Torrence

LRC David Torrence’s Death Ruled An Accidental Drowning, But For His Family Questions Remain Because Of Death Threats While the medical examiner’s report and the Scottsdale PD ruled Torrence’s death an accidental drowning, David’s mother, Bianca Torrence, is frustrated because she feels investigators didn’t seriously consider another possible cause of death: murder. Bianca said that multiple people told her that David had received death threats in 2016 and said she does not believe that Scottsdale PD has taken the information about the death threats seriously.
*MB: David Torrence’s Death Ruled An Accidental Drowning, But For His Family Questions Remain Because Of Death Threats