NCAA & US News / Action *Stanford Stream / Results *Texas Relays Stream / Results *Florida Relays Stream / Results *Raleigh Relays Stream / Results *Other NCAA Results

• 2018 Cardinal Invite, Texas Relays, Raleigh Relays And Florida Relays Streaming Info & Results
• Unreal Coming Into The Year, NAU’s Ashley Taylor Had A 2:10 PR And Had Never Made NCAAs, But She Just Fnished 4th At NCAAs And Ran 2:03 The redshirt junior who used to focus on the 400H has had an incredible year.
• Triathlon Website Predicts Gwen Jorgensen Will Run 31:20-31:30 This Weekend At Stanford How she is doing this just months after giving birth is beyond our imagination.
• Stanford Invitational Preview: Gwen Jorgensen Vs. Karissa Schweizer Over 10K; Lopez Lomong Makes His 10K Debut Against Justyn Knight Oregon’s Katie Rainsberger is also in the women’s 10,000 while Allie Ostrander is listed in the steeple/5,000, Drew Hunter is in the 1,500 against Stanford’s Sean McGorty and Oregon’s Sam Prakel and former Olympic silver medalist Nijel Amos highlights the 800.
• Claudia Lane back on track after getting flu, will run first 3,200 of year at Stanford
• Mondo Duplantis Cleared To Compete Elite Men’s Pole Vault At Texas Relays His participation was up in the air for a week as the Louisiana HS Athletic Association was threatening to take away his eligibility if he did.
• Interesting Read: Florida 4 X 400 Leadoff Kunle Fasasi Came To UF Sight Unseen From Nigeria To Take His Scholarship “The day that Kunle Fasasi believes he’s one of the best 400-meter runners in the world,” coach Holloway said. “Watch out.”
• Mutaz Essa Barshim admits he almost came to the NCAA

The Commonwealth Games Start Next Week / Mid-Week Action In Australia *Brisbane Results

• Luke Mathews (3:37.16) Takes Down Kyle Merber (3:37.49) In Brisbane, Zharnel Hughes Smokes 20.23 Into -1.6 m/s Wind You can watch both races by clicking on the link.
• Yohan Blake And Elaine Thompson Won Their 100m Heats But Neither Ran Fast As They Were Running Into A Headwind
• Elaine Thompson Will Only Race 200 Meters at Commonwealth Games
• MB: The Commonwealth Games start next week does anyone care!  We certainly do.
• Kenyan president hosts gathering for departing Commonwealth Games, realizes they are all sullen as they haven’t been given any meal money He ordered them to be paid their allowances. Elijah Manangoi chimed in that many athletes dating to 2012 haven’t received their Olympic bonuses.
• Star Actor Russell Crowe Says Australia Desperately Needs Sally Pearson At CGs And Tweets, “We need you Sally. Hero’s are hard to find around these parts these days …” Pearson is battling an Achilles injury.
• Speaking of the Commonwealth: Jamaica Wants To Host The 2020 World Juniors

British MPs Have Threatened To Reopen Inquiry Into Seb Coe’s “Very Murky” $17 Million Deal During The 2012 Olympics There are conflict of interest concerns as Coe’s company “made a fortune at the Olympics” while Coe was the chairman of the London 2012 organizing committee.

US Winter Olympians And Paralympians Visiting The White House Next Month

Doping News

• Must Read: NY Times Expose On Arizona Man Who Used A Clever Online Business Model To Distribute PEDs (In The Form Of Peptides) Around The World Michael A. Moorcones‘ customers included professional athletes in the NFL, MLB, NBA, and track and field. In one year, he shipped to more than 8,000 people and had $1 million in sales.
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• WADA Still Pursuing Historic Allegations Of State-Sponsored Chinese Doping In The 1980s And ’90s This is in response to the accusations by a former Chinese Olympic team doctor who says athletes as young as 11 were forced to dope.
• Russian Whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov Meets With US Government Officials To Discuss Russian Doping But he wore a mask to “hide his identity”?
• WADA Propose Charter Of Athletes’ Rights To Improve Anti-Doping System Following Russian Scandal WADA Athlete Committee chair Beckie Scott said, “I think the Russian doping scandal exposed a lot more than doping in Russia. It exposed fractures and conflicting loyalties in the whole system.”
• WADA Annual Symposium Recap: “Compliance, Funding And Capturing The Athlete’s Voice”