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’ Commission Valerie 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 Championships Edward 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 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.