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The Monday Afternoon Debate

LRC 5 Months In, After 31:55 10,000m Win, LetsRun.com Analyzes Gwen Jorgensen’s Olympic Marathon Dreams Will Jorgensen be a force in 2020 in the marathon? We debate.
Discuss: After 31:55 10k Win in Stanford, how do you assess Gwen Jorgensen’s Olympic chances?

Sports Illustrated Q&A With Gwen Jorgensen On Her Move To Marathoning Asked to respond to the LRC analysis giving her no chance to win marathon gold, Jorgensen gave a great reply: “If someone else showed me my PRs on paper and said this person wants to win Olympic gold, I’d probably laugh [too].”

Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony Is Tomorrow

• BBC Video: Hurdler Eilidh Doyle Chosen As The First Scottish Woman To Carry The Flag At The Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony
  *InsideTheGames article
• Commonwealth Games Organizers Roll Out Red Carpet And Condoms About 225,000 condoms, 17,000 toilet rolls and free ice cream welcomed athletes to the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games village.
• CWG Schedule / Day-By-Day Guide *BBC Guide

Florida

• Florida Relays: Recommended Read: Sydney McLaughlin Talks About The Transition To College Running, Decision Not To Go Pro McLaughlin says the training workload has been “much more intense,” she isn’t homesick, and she’s “been to zero parties.”
• MB: Sydney McLaughlin 50.07 at Florida relays! She’s now #2 in the history of the NCAA and US Juniors.
• Sydney McLaughlin Opens Outdoor Season With 22.39 PR At Florida Relays That’s #4 all-time on the world junior list and .29 faster than she ran indoors but .01 slower than Gabby Thomas‘ indoor CR.
  *IAAF Article McLaughlin’s 22.39 is the fastest time in the world by an U20 athlete since Allyson Felix‘s 22.19 at the 2004 Olympics.
• High Schooler Caitlin Collier Is USATF Athlete Of The Week After She Ran 2:04.87 To Win The 800 By Almost 9 Seconds At Florida State Relays It was an impressive double for Collier as she also won the 1600 in 4:47.61.
• MB: Christian Taylor runs 45.48 at Florida Relays + Bershawn “Batman” Jackson isn’t retired afterall

Stanford Invitational *Stream / Results

LRC Gwen Jorgensen Wins Stanford 10,000m In 31:55, Easily Defeating NCAA 3,000/5,000 Champion Schweizer

• Nijel Amos 1:44.65 Season Opener At Stanford Drew Hunter doubled back from the 1,500 yesterday with 1:49.73 for 5th.
• Nick Miller Breaks British Hammer Record At Stanford With World-Leading 78.29m Brianna Rollins highlighted the sprints with a meet record 12.62 in the 100H while Olympic 400H champ Dalilah Muhammad won the 400 in 52.72.
• Stanford MB Talk: Official 2018 Stanford Invite discussion thread & play by play
  
• Why wasn’t Justyn Knight in the 10000m at Stanford?
• Carrie Dimoff (31:57) – a 34-year old Princeton alum whom you’ve never heard of – just beat Schwiezer (32:00) and almost beat Jorgensen (31:55) at 10k The mother of two ran 31:57 to Jorgensen’s 31:55 as Schweizer ran 32:00 (#8 all-time in the NCAA).
• Allie Ostrander Gets An Almost Three Second PB To Dominate Steeplechase In 9:38 The time puts her #8 on the collegiate all-time list.
  
• Alabama’s Vincent Kiprop Beats Out Lopez Lomong To Win 10,000 In 28:19
  
• Drew Hunter Runs 3:39 Hunter was 2nd. Peter Callahan won in 3:38.
• Gwen Jorgenson 10km Prediction Thread

Upcoming

• USATF Unveils Outdoor Broadcast Schedule The Pre Classic, USA Outdoors and 5th Avenue Mile will all be on regular NBC.
• May 4: Elaine Thompson Vs. Dafne Schippers Set For Doha Diamond League Here is a list of some of their best previous DL duels.
• May 12: 14 World And Olympic Champions Set For Shanghai DL Distance action will include David Rudisha in the 800 and last year’s DL winner Timothy Cheruiyot in the 1,500.

Commonwealth Games Start Next Week

• Kenneth Mungara Is Ready For Commonwealth Games Marathon At Age 44 The Master WR holder in the marathon and former barber didn’t pick start racing until he was age 32 when he came to the realization he could beat the pros in his barber shop.
• Caster Semenya Is Confident She’s An Improved 1,500 Runner In 2018 As Compared To 2017 And Is Eyeing Double Gold At CGs “I’ve run a 4:10 and a 4:02 on my own, taking the lead from the start, which shows I have improved.”
• Eva Cherono Is Excited To Represent Kenya For 1st Time At Senior Level In CG 5k The other members of the team are  much more experienced – 2017 World champion Hellen Obiri and 2015 All African Games champion Margaret Chelimo.
• Lynsey Sharp: “I will relish Commonwealth Games atmosphere.” 4 years ago, she had an incredible CGs as she won silver after spending the night in the hospital.
• Trackalerts Has The Inside Scoop On Why Sprinter Simone Facey Pulled Out Of The CGs Her proposed 30-hour travel time was just the straw that broke the camel’s back. She also was falsely told she’d be running the 100 and 4 x 100 so she had been training for the 100 only to realize they entered her in the 200.
• Even Though 2011 World 400H Champ Dai Greene Hasn’t Been To A Global Champs Since 2012, It “Never Occurred To Me To Pack It In” Greene has had a slew of surgeries to try to make up for a botched hernia surgery.
• Might Luvo Manyonga Break The LJ WR In The CG Final On April 11th? He’s hoping to history’s first 9-meter jumper.

News From Japan

• After Getting Guinness WR Certificate For Most Career Dub-2:20 Marathons (78), Yuki Kawauchi Says He Wants To Do More Than 100
• Two Japanese HS Stars Say They’ll Join A Club Team After Graduation, Won’t Run Collegiately Or For Corporate Team They reason is simple, they want to focus on the track. “Corporate leaguers and university runners seem like they’re focused on ekidens, so we’ve chosen a way that’ll give us more freedom to run track.”

Previous US News

• Time To Stop The Silent Coup? Ken Goe: Wouldn’t It Make Sense For USATF To Reinstate Vin Lananna? We loved this line. “If there is more to the USATF board’s move against Lananna than a struggle for control at the top, the board should explain. If not, it’s time to reinstate him and get to work.”
• Working For Nike Has Its Benefits Cal Poly Dedicates Steve Miller And John Capriotti Athletics Complex The two donated a lot thanks to the Nike money they’ve earned over the years.
• NYTimes: Do Higher Testosterone Levels Increase Your energy And Libido? They say “probably not” assuming your levels are in the normal range.
• NYT: It Doesn’t Matter How You Get Your 30 Minutes Of exercise Per Day If you want to do 15 episodes of 2 minutes each, it still benefits you.
• Brave Like Gabe: Q&A With Gabriele Grunewald – Athletebiz Grunewald reveals that an immunotherapy clinical trial “didn’t work quite as well as my doctor hoped” but her most recent scan in January was encouraging.
• Recommended Read US Pole Vault Champ Katie Nageotte Credits Her Big Breakthrough To Moving To Be Coached By Former US Vaulter Brad Walker Nageotte was a shock winner at USAs as she made her first international team and went on to finish 5th at World Indoors. She says a large part of it is Walker helping change her mental approach to vaulting.

Week That Was

WTWHow Does Kamworor Stack Up Versus Bekele And Farah? ESPN Overrates Allyson Felix, Bernard Lagat Isn't The Fastest Masters Half Marathoner

Drug News

• WADA Considering Changing Its Name To Generate More Funding WADA wants to expand it’s brand to be more about fighting drugs in society, not just sport. They hope they can reinvest in their scientific research budget which has taken an 80% cut over the last 10-years.
• InsideTheGames’ Nick Butler Hits The Nail On The Head: “Cheating Still Goes On In Sport Because Rewards Often Outweigh The Risks” $$$ … need we say more?
• The Guardian Opinion Piece: “My Dad Used Performance Enhancing Drugs – It Nearly Killed Him” A British woman explains how her dad’s PED and cocaine abuse as a professional powerlifter almost cost him his life and wrecked havoc on their family. We enjoyed the piece except for the end when she says the drugs didn’t really help him much.
• Cycling: Chris Froome Could Be Banned From This Year’s Tour De France If His Ongoing Drug Case Hasn’t Been Resolved