Sources Say Olympic Steeplechase Champ And World Record Holder Ruth Jebet Has Failed A Drug Test There is no official confirmation, but The Guardian writes that “a number of prominent sources” have reported Jebet tested positive for EPO.

RIP To The Original Sub-4 Miler

• RIP: Running Legend Roger Bannister Dies At Age 88 The first man to break the mythical 4-minute barrier in the mile has died peacefully in his sleep. Pay your respects here.
• Athletics Weekly Tribute To Roger Bannister Bannister was famous for more than his sub-4 as he also was a distinguished neurologist and he considered his medical achievements superior to his sporting success.
• BBC: Sir Roger Bannister: First Man To Run A Mile In Under Four Minutes Dies At 88
• AP: Roger Bannister’s “Life In Quotes” “It stood there as something that was waiting to be done, and I was in the right place at the right time and was ready to do it. My attitude was that it can be done, and it will be done soon, and I’d rather it were done here.”
• IAAF Tribute To Bannister With Quotes From Seb Coe

World Indoors Saturday

DQ Drama LRC Men’s 800: Poland’s Adam Kszczot Wins Much-Deserved Gold As Drew Windle Snags Silver Initially there was elation for the Brooks Beasts Drew Windle, then despair as he was DQed, and then elation again.
*MB: Officials change their mind. Drew Windle’s DQ is lifted. He’s won silver!!

What A Night For Team USA LRC Best Of The Mixed Zone: Christian Coleman’s Call From Maurice Greene, Will Claye May Skip Outdoors To Promote His Album, & Michael Cherry’s Unorthodox Medal-Winning Meal It was an incredible night for Team USA at World Indoors as it won 5 gold medals – m60, w60H, w400, mTJ and wPV – and set three new championship records in the process. We talked to all the gold medal winners and share the highlights. Find out which winner won after practicing only once all winter.

LRC Women’s 1,500: Genzebe Dibaba Remains Unbeatable Indoors, Muir 2nd And Hassan 3rd Dibaba was sensational once again over the last 1k – nearly beating the indoor 1k world record en route to her fifth indoor gold.

• IAAF Recaps: Friday Night Was Incredible For Team USA As It Won 5 Gold Medals The US picked up golds in the m60, w60H, w400, mTJ and wPV.
• M60: Christian Coleman Runs 6.37 To Win 1st World Title, Beating Maurice Greene’s CR In Process
• Women’s 60H: Kendra Harrison Crushes Her Demons And The Competition With Syle – 7.70 American And Championship Record Win
• Men’s 400m final: DQ Police Win Again And DQ Top Two Finishers After that happened, Pavel Maslak was elevated from bronze to a 3-time champ.
• W400: Courtney Okolo Crushes The Field As US Goes 1-2 Shakima Wimbley was the best of the rest but Okolo nearly won by a full second.
• Heptathlon: France’s Kevin Mayer Wins Heptathlon IN Thrilling Fashion – By Just 5 Points The 1,000 was legendary.
• MTJ: Will Claye Wins Men’s Triple Jump After Only 1 Practice Session
• WPV: Sandi Morris Wins 1st World Title With Thrilling 3rd Attempt Clearance, Then Breaks Jenn Suhr’s CR
• WTJ: Venezuela’s Yulima Rojas Defends Her World Indoor Triple Jump Title With 14.63m Despite Not Having Competed Since August USA’s world leader Keturah Orji only managed 5th.

Full Coverage: 2018 Worlds Special Section

College News

• UConn Men Leading After Day 1 Of IC4As *Live Results
• Liberty Women Lead Team Standings After Saturday At ECACs
• Wayland Baptist Men And Women Team Titles At NAIA Indoor Champs
• South Plains (Texas) Men And New Mexico JC Women Win JUCO Titles
• Men’s Updated Bowerman Watch List Distance runners on the current list are Josh Kerr, Justyn Knight and Michael Saruni.
• The Bowerman: 2018 Women’s Pre-NCAA Indoor Watch List Karissa Schweizer and Elinor Purrier represent the distance events.

Day 1 At Worlds

LRC Final Genzebe Dibaba Wins Thrilling 3k, Hassan 2nd And Muir 3rd Genzebe Dibaba’s mastery of the indoor oval continues. Dibaba was able to just hold on and secure a much-deserved gold after she made a big mid-race move. The question we have now is, “Should Hassan be DQed for cutting off Muir near the line?”

LRC Should Sifan Hassan Have Been DQed For Veering Out And Obstructing Laura Muir? In our minds, the IAAF rule book needs to be reworded as a DQ is very harsh. We’d prefer to have seen Hassan moved back to third for fouling Muir.
*MB: Should Sifan Hassan be DQd?
*MB: Houlihan @ the worlds
*MB: Official 2018 IAAF World Indoor Day 1 Live Discussion Thread

• Magnificent Laura Muir Savours First Global Medal At World Indoor Championships “We had to put yesterday behind us; six hours in the car, windscreen wipers were frozen but we got here and I’ve won a medal, I couldn’t be happier. I ran the race as hard I could; I was so tired at the end. It means so much to me to get the win; it bodes well for the rest of the year, especially the Europeans.”
• Laura Muir Earns World Indoor Bronze After £1,500, Seven-Hour Taxi Ride And Is Happy “I raced smart and came away with a medal, which was the main thing.”
• Dibaba: “I wasn’t good in 2017, but 2018 is my time.”

LRC Danil Lysenko & Maria Lasitskene Claim High Jump Titles On Opening Night at World Indoors Lysenko’s win streak is now at 38 while Mutaz Essa Barshim, who hadn’t lost at all in 2018, was upset.

Crowd Souce: Here Are The Picks  Of The LRC Nation From The Running Warehouse Prediction Contest You can check your scores in the $200,018 Running Warehouse Prediction Contest here.

Sad News

RIP: Dr. Dave Martin – Marathon Physiology Expert – Has Died At 78. Post Your Tributes Here He was instrumental in Meb and Deena winning medals in the hot Athens Olympics.

Interesting Reads

• 800 World Champion Pierre-Ambroise Bosse Has Been Charged For Instigating The Incident Where He Had The Crap Beaten Out Of Him Last Summer Bosse’s attacker says Bosse started it by throwing a beer can at him.
• Sports Gene: Meet The HSer Who Went 7 feet In The Third Meet Of His Life When The Head Coach Didn’t Even Know His Last Name
• Jeff Riseley Loses Appeal & Won’t Be At CGs Despite Finishing 3rd At Australians Instead, the winner of the B final, 19-year-old Joe Deng (1:45.71), will be going. We actually think Deng should go but think it’s absurd he was in the B final to begin with as that was the result of them having 5 heats of semis. STUPID.
• Now That Thomas Barr – Ireland’s 400H Star – Is A Full-Time Pro Athlete, He Does “A Regular Groin Squeeze Test” To See If He’s Too Fatigued To Train Hard
• 53-Year-Old British Javelin Coach David Burrell Gets Four-Year Suspension For Refusing To Take A Drug Test Burrell is now principally an assistant coach, but still competes “from time to time.” After one of his athletes was popped, UKAD tried to test him as well and he refused.

The US HS And College Nationals Are Next Weekend

• Full New Balance Nationals Indoor Entries
• NCAA DI Indoors: Breaking Down The Qualified Entries When you break it down by conference, the SEC (144) has nearly twice as many entries as any other conference. The PAC-12 is 2nd with 75. Full NCAA Entries

Assorted Distance News

• World 800m Champ Pierre-Ambroise Bosse Charged With “Intentional Violence With Use Or Threat Of A Weapon” After The Brawl That Left Him Injured Last Year Bosse sustained multiple facial fractures in what he described as “a violent assault,” but the suspect claimed Bosse threw a beer bottle at his face.
  *MB: Bosse assaulted!!
• Oregon Men Only Qualified Distance Runners For NCAA Indoors They’ll send five individuals and a DMR.
• The Telegraph Writes That “Cross-Country Is The New Battleground As Women Step Up Bid For Equality” We agree women should run the same distance, but we disagree that this is a sexist issue. It may have been in the ’70s, but today women run shorter because of tradition and/or because they want to, not because anyone thinks they can’t handle an extra kilometer or two.
• Runners Are Literally Begging For Entries To The Cherry Blossom Ten Mile The race has a message board where those who missed the lottery registration can get a big transfer from someone who can no longer race.
• Aussie Jeff Riseley Loses His Appeal Over Commonwealth Games 800 Selection Riseley was 3rd at the Aussie Trials, but a 19-year-old in the “B final” ran faster and was selected instead.
• Jon Olson And Traci Falbo Claim USATF 100 Mile Road Championships Titles Olson won in 13:39:32 (8:11 pace) and Falbo ran 17:03:15 (10:14 pace).
• Caster Semenya “Overwhelmed” By Laureus Award Nomination