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Quote Of The Day

“This is one of the toughest subjects my Council and I are discussing. This is not about cheating. No hyperandrogenic athlete has cheated. This is about our responsibility as a sport federation to ensure a level playing field. It is for us to decide the rules, to draw the lines for competition. We choose to have two classifications for our competition – men’s events and women’s events. This means we need to be clear about the competition criteria for these two categories. We have always believed that testosterone, either naturally produced or artificially inserted into the body, provides significant performance advantages.”

– Seb Coe talking about the controversy surrounding the hyperandrogenism issue. The IAAF hopes to have its new regulations (which only affect athletes from the 400m to the mile) in effect on November 1, 2018.

Until The 2018 NCAA Indoor Championships*Schedule/Broadcast Information

LRC$200,018 Running Warehouse Prediction Contest Get your picks in by 6:30 PM Eastern Friday, get your friends to play as well.

LRC Want to Know Who is Going to Win? NCAA Indoor Individual Event and Team Predictions: Heavy Favorites in Nearly All Track Races, Tight Team Battle on Men’s Side Georgia the big favorite on the women’s side. Texas Tech favored on men’s according to LRC nation.

LRC DMR Preview: Josh Kerr & New Mexico Are Favored On Men’s Side; Can Elise Cranny Carry Stanford To Title After String Of Near Misses? The men’s race could come to an anchor battle of a tired Josh Kerr vs. a fresh Grant Fisher. Who would have the edge? In the women’s race, Stanford and Oregon are our two favorites.
*MB: 2018 NCAA DMR Discussion Thread – Who wins if it comes down to a tired Josh Kerr vs fresh Grant Fisher? Oregon or Stanford?

LRC 3K/5K Preview: Justyn Knight & Grant Fisher Renew Rivalry; Can Karissa Schweizer Avenge NCAA XC Defeat To Ednah Kurgat? We can’t wait for the 5ks/3ks at NCAAs as a pair of NCAA champs will clash on both the men’s and women’s side.
*MB: 2018 NCAA 3k/5k Talk: Who wins Fisher or Knight in the 3k? Kurgat or Schweizer in the 5k & 3k?

LRC Mile Preview: Josh Kerr Favored To Repeat As Elle Purrier Tries To End Her NCAA Title Drought Josh Kerr is so good we might pick him to beat Edward Cheserek if they were racing again this year even though Cheserek ran 3:49 in the mile this winter.
*MB: 2018 NCAA mile: If Edward Cheserek were racing Kerr this year, who would you pick? Will Elle Purrier win NCAA title #1?

LRC 800 Preview: Sammy Watson Is Primed To Break Through; Can Isaiah Harris – Or Anyone Else – Hang With Michael Saruni? Raevyn Rogers, one of the all-time greats, is gone but an even bigger talent may already be on the scene to replace her in Texas A&M true frosh Sammy Watson.
*MB: 2018 NCAA indoor 800 – Who wins M. Saruni or I. Harris? Will freshman phenom Sammy Watson take over for Raevyn Rogers?

Mo Farah Airport Drama

Mo Farah Claims He Was Racially Harassed At Munich Airport Farah filmed the altercation with a German law enforcement officer and posted it on Instagram with the caption, “Sad to see racial harassment in this day and age. 2018…!!!! #airport #germany.”
*MB: Mo Farah claims in instagram live video he was racially harassed at airport
German Police Respond That The Officer Did Nothing Wrong A spokesperson says that Farah was upset by the security check performed on him at the airport and refused to leave the area and was filming in a sensitive area where recording isn’t permitted.

Four Of LetsRun’s Favorites Remember Roger Bannister

David Epstein: Magical Mile Was Just One of Sir Roger Bannister’s Myriad Accomplishments Epstein returns to his former employer Sports Illustrated to write about Sir Roger.
Malcolm Gladwell: The Ordinary Greatness Of Roger Bannister The New Yorker piece uses a recent thread on our world-famous message board to explain to non-runners how common 4-minute miles are nowadays.
Frank Litsky: Roger Bannister, First Athlete To Break The 4-Minute Mile, Dies At 88 The NY Times obit has a great quote from Seb Coe.

Want More On Bannister? Watch Bannister: Everest On The Track The film was produced by LRC friend and athlete agent Tom Ratcliffe.

2018 World IndoorsSchedule / Entries / ResultsTV/Streaming InformationLRCVideo InterviewsEvent-By-Event RecapsPrediction ContestPreviews: M800W800M1,500M3kW3kKen Nakamura’s Stats*All LRC Coverage

LRCCheck Your Running Warehouse Prediction Scores Hopefully you weren’t bragging too much about winning your group last night as there was an error in the women’s 1,500 scores which has been corrected.

MB:Official 2018 IAAF World Indoor Day 4 Live Discussion Thread

LRC FinalAjee Wilson Puts Up A Strong Fight, But Francine Niyonsaba Remains Perfect Indoors At 800Wilson ran a great race tactically but Niyonsaba is at another level still.

LRC Final Yomif Kejelcha Defends His 3,000m World Title With EaseHe crushed the field the final lap as season #1 as NOP ends on a high.

LRC FinalYoung Ethiopian Samuel Tefera Wins 1,500m Gold 36 Days After His First Indoor Race, Blankenship 5th, Engels 7th Could Tefera be the first Ethiopian 1,500 star?

Sunday Worlds Non-Distance

LRCHow Four Polish Guys Beat The US To Break The 4 X 400 World Record (3:01.77)This isn’t some April Fools prank.

MPV: Renaud Lavillenie Wins Pole Vault Battle With Sam Kendricks And Poland’s Piotr Lisek Lavillenie cleared 5.90m to Kendricks’ and Lisek’s 5.85m. It was a deep competition as seven athletes (including HSer Armand Duplantis who was 7th) attempted 5.90m.
WLJ:European Champ Ivana Spanovic Turns The Tables On US’s World Champ Brittney Reese To Take Long Jump Gold Two years ago in Portland, Spanovic was in the lead, but Reese won gold with her final jump. This time it was Spanovic who responded to Reese’s lead by jumping a world leading 6.96m on her last jump. *IAAF
W4 x 400: IAAF: Team USA Women Run 4 X 400 Meet Record 3:23.85 To Win World Indoor Gold It was a third-straight World Indoor victory for the USA women’s 4 x 400.
M60H:The Independent: GB’s Andrew Pozzi Wins Thrilling 60H Gold And Sets Sights On Olympic Glory Pozzi ran 7.46 seconds to beat out USA’s Jarret Eaton by one hundredth of a second. *The Guardian

MB:WTF Four Polish dudes broke the 4×400 world record
MB:US M4x400 got the order wrong
IAAF Sunday World Indoor Recap
Athletics Weekly:Poland Smash World Indoor 4×400 Record To Beat Out Team USA

Sunday Road Action

Lake Biwa: Macharia Ndirangu Wins In 2:07:53 In Debut As Jake Robertson Breaks Rod Dixon’s 34-Year-Old Kiwi Record With 2:08:26(link updated) After 34 years, 4 months, and 9 days, Dixon’s time from his 1983 NYC win has been broken. *Discuss

London: Mo Farah Runs 61:40 To Win Inaugural Big Half In London Farah won in a sprint finish over London Marathon champ Daniel Wanjiru (61:43) with Callum Hawkins (61:45) a close third. GB’s Charlotte Purdue (70:29) won the women’s race. *Results

Japan: Ryuya Kajitani Wins Japan National University Men’s Half Marathon In 63:20 Elsewhere in Japan, Kenyan Patrick Muendo Mwaka won the Tamana Half in 62:52 (Yuki Kawauchi was 12th in 64:49).

Saturday’s AM Session

LRC Women’s 800 Semis: The World’s Fastest Woman And Margaret Wambui Go Home As Ajee Wilson Cruises Ajee Wilson was masterclass but Francine Niyonsaba looked fantastic as well in her first race of the year. Raevyn Rogers snuck into the final after Wambui was DQed.

LRC Men’s 1,500 Semis: Americans Craig Engels And Ben Blankenship Both Advance As Tefera And Iguider Stamp Themselves As Favorites For Gold Two Brits, two Americans and two Ethiopians are in the final but Ryan Gregson was eliminated after getting an unlucky heat draw.

Tom Walsh Defends Shot Crown With Massive 22.31m Heave – The Longest Indoor Throw In 10 Years Walsh moves to #4 all-time in indoor history and erased the longest World Indoor CR – one that had stood since 1987.

Non Worlds News

Top Scoring Programs At NCAA Indoors By Event The Arkansas men lead 5 different events – mile, 3k, 5k, LJ and TJ.
Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) President Alexander Zhukov Says They Will Not Recognize The Conclusions Of The McLaren Report And that’s a requirement for them to be deemed complaint with WADA.
Mo Farah Said He’s Had No Contact With Alberto Salazar
Swedes Encourage People Not To Jog But To Plogga They want you to pluck and run at the same time – ie pick up trash.
Who Knew We Needed This? A National High School Track And Field Hall Of Fame Has Been Created

IAAF Admin News

IAAF Agree To New Stricter Rules For Transfer Of Allegiances And Give An Update On The Hyperandrogenism Issue To transfer countries will now require a three-year waiting period, a 20-year-old age limit and can only be done once. On hyperandrogenism, the IAAF hopes their new rules (only affecting events 400m to the mile) will take effect on November 1, 2018.
*Athletics Weekly Article/Analysis On IAAF Council Meeting The IAAF also set a global calendar for championship events.
What the D**Q happened at the World Indoors?
IAAF Adopting A New World Ranking System Like They Use In Tennis Or Golf Ratings will be averaged out based on an athlete’s weighted best five performances over the last 12 months and will affect qualification for championship events.
Slovenian High Jump Record Holder Rozle Prezelj Named Seb Coe’s Advisor Prezelj has just finished his term as head of the IAAF Athletes’ Commission.
Canada Former Race Walker Iñaki Gomez Elected Chair OF IAAF Athletes’ CommissionValerie Adams was named the vice-chair.

Upcoming On The Roads

Sunday: JRN Preview: Japan’s Marathon Season Wraps Up At The Nagoya Women’s Marathon Kenya’s 2:20:21 woman Lucy Kabuu and Valary Jemeli (2:20:53) top the entry list which includes a bunch of Japanese women in the mid 2:20s.
March 24: 10 Strong British Team Named For World Half Champs Gemma Steel and Charlotte Purdue lead the women’s squad.
*Spain Names Team For World Half Champs
April 8: Kenya’s Gilbert Kirwa (2:06:14) And Germany’s (Formerly Kenya’s) Defending Champ Fate Tola (2:25:14) Lead Fields For The Hannover Marathon Kirwa will face Cheshari Jacob (2:07:46) and Poland’s Henryk Szost (2:07:39).
April 22:Nancy Kiprop Will Return To Defend Her Title At The Vienna City Marathon The field will have four women who have gone under 2:25.

Russian Drug News

IAAF Extends Russian Ban, Warns Neutral Athletes Could Lose Permission To Compete “If Progress Is Not Made” Russia could even be expelled from the IAAF as they still haven’t met multiple conditions such as a plan “that shows an adequate amount of testing” and fixing legal issues which prevent coaches from being provisionally banned.
Kudos: Netflix Sports Film “Icarus” Wins Oscar For Best Documentary The documentary by Bryan Fogel is on the Russian doping scandal and focuses on whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov.
InsideTheGames Article With Quotes From Rune Andersen And Seb Coe RUSADA also hasn’t identified athletes who provided samples that showed up positive in the Moscow Law system data.
Vladimir Putin Thanked The Russian Ice Hockey Players For Singing The Russian National Anthem After Their 2018 Winter Olympic Gold The anthem was supposed to be banned as they were there as “neutrals.” Do you think the IOC took any action? No, they reinstated Russia.
The Russian Olympic Ban Was Lifted By IOC Immediately Following The 2018 Winter Games A short mostly inconsequential “ban” that let’s the IOC pretend they are doing something.
German Lawyer Representing Banned Russians Claims 2018 Olympic Medalists Do Not Have A “Complete Triumph” With The Absence Of Some Leading Russians He has a point, having to beat out Russian dopers is something of a rite of passage for Winter Olympic medalists.

Collegiate News

University Of Nevada-Las Vegas Women’s Track Team Has Their Vans Robbed During A Road Trip In New Mexico Despite having all their belongings and equipment stolen, the team still won the Mountain West Championships, their first indoor title since 1993.
MB:Former high school sub 4 miler Michael Slagowski won an NAIA national championship today! Slagowski anchored the Eastern Oregon DMR to a win by .01 and finished 2nd in the mile in 4:10. *Results
Oregon Ducks Go To NCAA Indoors With Lowered Expectations The men’s team ranked 16th, the women’s team is 7th. Robert Johnson says he thinks if the women are “perfect” they could score 40 points and that might win the meet.
UConn Men Win IC4A Team Crown It was a close meet as they only beat Liberty by 4.67 points. *Results
Liberty Women Win Their First-Ever ECAC Title*Results
USTFCCCA Takes A Look At The Biggest One-Meet Scorers At An NCAA Indoor ChampionshipsEdward Cheserek holds the men’s record with 28 points in a single meet (2017) and also has the career scoring record with 91 points. Former Texas athlete Carlette Guidry has the overall meet record with 30.5 points from 1988.
Pre-Championship Men’s NCAA Rankings: Texas Tech Remains #1 Georgia moved up from 5th to 2nd and Florida down from 2nd to 3rd.
No Changes To The Top 5 Women’s Rankings Ahead Of NCAA Champs As Georgia, Arkansas And Kentucky Remain 1-3
NCAA DI Regional Award Winners For 2018 Indoor Season

Top Admin News

IAAF CEO Olivier Gers Resigns After Less Than 18 Months On The Job In his statement, Gers said, “While I’m sorry to be leaving, the pre-existing commercial framework makes it difficult for me to apply my talents and fully leverage the assets of the IAAF in the way I would like … I have resigned so the IAAF can pursue a different commercial strategy for the sport.”*IAAF Release
USATF Activist Becca Gillespy Peter Has A Five Part Series Of Posts Titled “The Undermining of USATF” Peter criticizes the Board for shooting USATF in the foot as she writes, “Why would any sponsor want to get involved with USATF now? Does this organization seem like a good investment?”*Part 4*Part 3*Part 2*Part 1

Doping News

UK Parliamentary Inquiry Wants L-Carnitine Injection Given To Mo Farah Investigated By General Medical Council The committee said they were “shocked to hear” that the chief UKA medical officer gave an injection he had never given without recording the dose in Farah’s records.
Seb Coe Accused By UK Parliamentary Inquiry Of Giving “Misleading” Answers Over Russian Doping Allegations They allege that Coe was dishonest when he claimed he was “not aware” of the Russian doping allegations before the ARD documentary in December 2014 as he had received an email from David Bedford that August.
*The Guardian:Seb Coe Criticized For Wilful Ignorance
Reuters:UK Parliamentary Committee Report Says British Cycling Club Team Sky Crossed An “Ethical Line” With Its Use Of Medication The committee believes Bradley Wiggins and others used steroids and that “the purpose of this was not to treat medical need, but to improve his power to weight ratio ahead of the race.”
*MB:UK Gov Drops a Bomb: New Investigation Finds Team Sky Uses PEDs
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.
*MB:RUTH JEBET EMBROILED IN DRUG SCANDAL!!!
MB: UK Gov Drops a Bomb: New Investigation Finds Team Sky Uses PEDs

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 TeamUSA 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.

Much Much More On The Late Roger Bannister

The Guardian:How Roger Bannister And Australian John Landy Raced To Break The Four-Minute Mile An interesting look at the rivalry and Landy explains how he didn’t want his sub-4 to be a paced effort like Bannister, he wanted to run it himself.
Did A Sheffield Paint Factor Worker Ken Wood Beat Bannister To The First Sub-4 By 29 Days? Wood claimed he ran 3:59.2 in a training session at Sheffield University, but “never really mentioned it to anybody.” Wood did eventually run sub-4 in an official race and went to the 1956 Olympics. *Discuss
The Guardian:Roger Bannister, A Gentleman Who Almost Didn’t’ Run Race That Defined Him Bannister famously almost called off the effort due to bad weather, but his coach convinced him: “If you pass it up today you may never forgive yourself for the rest of your life.”
Sp!ked.com Takes A Look At Some Controversy Surrounding Bannister’s Sub-4 Bannister was criticized for having pacers and this author claims that the record would have been broken earlier if it wasn’t for the rules of amateurism.
Sir Roger Bannister – A Life In Pictures
*Bannister Video Obituary
*Video Of Bannister’s Sub-4
Some Of America’s Greatest Milers Share How They Will Remember Roger BannisterJim Ryun,Alan Webb and others pay their respects to the late Bannister.
MB:LetsRun.com Visitors Pay Their Respects to Roger Bannister
David Epstein:“Magical Mile Was Just One of Sir Roger Bannister’s Myriad Accomplishments” Bannister would call up Epstein the last few years and talk to him.
Olympic Legend Steve Ovett Wonders When The First Woman’s Sub-4 Will Happen Probably the same day a man runs 3:30.
NY Times Obituary on Roger Bannister
BBC:Lord Coe and Steve Cram hail ‘inspirational’ athlete after his death
Bannister Quote On The Final 200m: “I drove on, impelled by a combination of fear and pride.”

Ritz And Emily Sisson Speak

LRC A Reinvigorated Dathan Ritzenhein Talks NYC Half, Hansons-Brooks, L-Carnitine, And His Upcoming Return To The Marathon When asked if the supplementation practices of the NOP is one of the reasons why he left, Ritz replied in part. “I guess we all do things over the course of time that you can look back on and say, ‘I wish I had done this or I wish I had done that differently,’ but I’ve always tried to compete with as much as honor and dignity as I can and I’ll continue to do that.” Plus Emily Sisson talks about when she’ll make her 26.2 debut.
*MB: Ritz Talks NYC Half, Hansons-Brooks, L-Carnitine, And His Upcoming Return To The Marathon in Boston.

More From World Indoors

Laura Muir Says She Won’t Speak To Genzebe Dibaba Ever Since Jama Aden’s Arrest In Spain Linked Her To EPO Muir’s coach said he thinks Sifan Hassan feels the same way and that she was “expressing her contempt” on the medal stand. *The Telegraph Article
*MB:Muir calls out Genzebe Dibaba
*MB:Check out what Sifan Hassan thought of her bronze medal in the 1500…. (Video)
Alan Abrahamson:“A Wave Of DQs: Why Does Track And Field Insist On Such Self-Inflicted Buzzkill?” “So dumb. So unnecessary. So counter-productive. In the NBA Finals, the refs let them play. Same for the NFL … in the fourth quarter of the Super Bowl, you basically would have to commit a felony to get called for a penalty.”
Spain’s Oscar Husillos Found Out He Went From 400m Gold To DQed During A TV Interview The interview is in Spanish, but you can see his demeanor change dramatically at the 1:07 mark when he finds out.
Cathal Dennehy:“No one watching World Indoor Championships through a green-tinted lens could have considered it a success for the Irish.”
AP:Laura Muir Goes From The Podium To The Abattoir This Week An abattoir is a slaughterhouse.
GB’s Katarina Johnson-Thompson Says Pentathlon Gold Gives Her Confidence To Take On The World’s Best “I knew it was mental in the fact that sometimes in my training I was a lot better than I was in competition. And still to this day it’s the case.”
Past Bowerman Award Winners Shined At World Indoors Bowerman winners got two golds in Christian Coleman and Courtney Okolo.
Runner’s World:In an Event Marred by DQs, Team USA Finds a Few Silver LiningsCraig Engels on his thoughts during the 1,500: “The whole time I was thinking: don’t get DQed,” Engels said. “Everyone was trying to be safe.”
Team USA Superlatives At World Indoors There was only one American record, but Team USA set four championship records.
USATF:Meet Record By Women’s 4 X 400 Leads Team USA To 18-Medal Haul
European Athletes Won 11 Gold Medals At World Indoors

Distance News

Bummer:Nick Willis Ruled Out Of Commonwealth Games After Failing To Recover From Recent Stress Reaction In His Fibula He says his leg hasn’t even healed enough to start training again.
IAAF London Big Half Recap On expectations for the London Marathon Mo Farah said, “I think that’s the priority, personal best for sure but also the British record if possible and then from where we’ll see.”
How Much Tax Will Japan’s 2:06:11 Man Yuta Shitara Have To Pay On His 100 Million Yen National Record Bonus? After taxes, Shitara’s 1 million yen ($946,000) gets reduced down to 72,637,500 yen (~$687,000).

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

More World Indoors Outside Coverage

Athletics Weekly:Sandi Morris Breaks “Silver Streak” With World Indoor Gold Morris broke the “silver Sandi” streak as well as Katerina Stefanidi‘s 19 meet winning streak.
The Guardian:Katarina Johnson-Thompson Believes World Indoors Gold Will Banish Demons
*The Independent:Johnson-Thompson Now Wants A Golden Hat Trick In 2018 She has one gold down with Euro Champs and Commonwealth Games to go.
Sally Pearson Not Making 60H Final Tops Disappointing Meet For AustraliansRyan Gregson (1,500) and Michelle Jenneke (60H) also failed to make it out of the rounds.
FloTrack Asks If The British Officials Are Playing Favorites At World Indoors They compare a video of Chelimo’s DQ to one of Mo Farah at Worlds last year where he wasn’t DQed.

Day 2 Action

LRC Day 2 PM Recap: There Was A Huge Upset In An Incredible Long Jump Competition, KJT Wins Pentathlon Gold On Home Soil, And Murielle Ahoure Leads Ivory Coast To 1-2 Finish In 60 The Brits got a much wanted gold, but the biggest story of the night was the incredible men’s long jump which was won by a 19-year-old from Cuba, Juan Miguel Echevarria, who snapped Luvo Manyonga‘s win streak thanks to the longest leap in 8 years.
*IAAF: Juan Miguel Echevarria Is The Youngest Field Event Gold Medalist In World Indoor History
*Women’s Shot: Anita Márton Wins Her And Hungary’s 1st World Indoor Gold
*“A Glorious Night For The Ivorians In Birmingham”

LRC Women’s 1,500 Semis: Dibaba, Hassan, Muir Set For 3,000 Rematch As Americans Quigley, Houlihan Make Final If you enjoyed the 3k final, then you’re going to love the 1,500 final as all the major players are back plus the world’s #1 steepler in Beatrice Chepkoech.

LRC Colleen Quigley Criticizes World Indoor Meet Management, Cites “Brutal” Officiating, Says “They’ve Forgotten That It’s All About the Athletes” Quigley says the athletes haven’t even been allowed to get used to steeper than normal turns or do strides before their races.

LRC Men’s 800 Semifinals: Donavan Brazier Goes Home, Drew Windle PRs And Advances Recap, analysis, post-race video.
*MB: Donavan Brazier goes home devastated – Brazier is out of the world championships Brazier bombed in the 2nd semi but said he had nothing to run for as he knew he’d be DQed for stepping on the line on the first turn. He was right – he got the DQ.

LRC Q&A With The World’s Fastest Man Christian Coleman

Heavy Favorite Kevin Mayer In Command After A Strong First Day Of Heptathlon
Getting Eliminated In 400 Semi Is A Huge Accomplishment If You Are From Ireland Phil Healy was the 1st Irish sprinter to get out of the 1st round since 2010.

Friday’s Morning Session

LRC Editorial After Ridiculous DQs At The 2018 IAAF World Champs: The IAAF Rule Book Needs To Be Modernized & The Visa Issue Is A Disgrace If you were hoping to see the stars compete in the finals at the World Indoor Champs, you are out of luck. Six big stars, including Paul Chelimo, won’t be in there either because of ridiculous DQs or the inability to get a visa and that’s a disgrace. Can’t some bureaucrat flex some muscle and get the Olympic champion Omar McLeod into Britain within 24 hours?

LRC Morning Session Recap: Paul Chelimo Is DQed In 3,000, As Is World Leader Bralon Taplin (& His Entire Heat!) In The 400 History was made at the 2018 World Indoors as we saw something we’ve never seen before – an entire heat DQed!
*MB: PAUL CHELIMO GOES HOME DEVASTATED – DQed IN 3K AT WORLDS –

LRC Kenyan 800 Star Emmanuel Korir OUT Of World Indoors Due To Visa Issues According to his agent Karen Locke, the IT system has shut down in the U.K. consulate in New York.
*Update: 1,500 favorite Ayanleh Souleiman is out as well with a visa issue.
*MB: Men’s 800: Anyone think with Korir out that Brazier’s chances for gold just went way up but so did his odds for no medal? While his #1 rival is out, Brazier now has no one to help him set the pace and he’s a heavy favorite.

Non LRC Worlds Articles We Enjoyed

Recommended Read ESPN: Fantastic Profile Of Christian Coleman Prior To 2018 World Indoors We loved this piece and particularly this anecdote – Christian Coleman’s dad realized he was going to be a great athlete when Christian got scared and ran away from a vacuum cleaner at age 2.
Chris O’Hare Raves About Terrence Mahon Before World Indoors “ I think that kind of is a testament to Terrence’s coaching ability because all three of us are entirely different athletes in the way that we race, train and live. So it’s a testament to Terrence’s versatility as a coach, I think.”
Outside Mag: How Katie Mackey Made Her First Worlds Team After Going 0-For-13 A little psychological advice from Dan Pfaff helped her out greatly. Not mentioned is the fact that Shannon Rowbury‘s pregnancy certainly didn’t hurt.