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Quote Of The Day

“I missed so much training when I was 18 and 19, which a really critical time if you’re hoping to be good when you’re 21 and 22. When I came back, I needed to balance my expectations versus reality, because times I was hoping to run by now might not come so easily … [Coach Bonsey] told me to live every day like the elite athlete I wanted to be,” Crozier said. “Live like you’re going to race NCAAs next week even if you won’t qualify for Big East. And that was important to me – I wanted to perform on the track, not just be ‘good locker room guy’ because I stuck with it through all the injuries.”

– Georgetown sixth year senior Mike Crozier talking about his comeback from more than two and a half years of injury and the advice he got from distance coach Brandon Bonsey. In the end, Corizer’s persistence has paid off as he gets to finish his collegiate career tonight under the lights in the NCAA 10,000m at Hayward Field.

2018 NCAAs Schedule & Results TV & Streaming

LRC Upset City! Michigan’s Ben Flanagan Stuns Everyone to Win 10,000m Title Ben Flanagan had never broken 29 minutes in his life before Wednesday, but he believed in himself and he stunned the NCAA track and field world by winning the 10,000m title.

LRC Day 1 Recap: Terrific Field Action as Denzel Comenentia Leads the Meet by Himself, Josh Kerr Is Thinking NCAA Record, & Florida’s Title Chances Take a Hit A great day 1 is in the books and Comenentia won the hammer and the shot.

Full Day 1 Results on 1 page Ben Flanagan of Michigan pulled the upset in the men’s 10,000m, Chris Nilsen of South Daokota broke the NCAA meet record in the pole vault, and Georgia’s Denzel Comenentia won the shot put and the hammer throw. Grant Holloway of Florida was a non-scorer in 9th in the long jump.

*Official 2018 NCAAs Day 1 Discussion Thread
*What!? Some guy I’ve never heard of just won the ncaa 10k!!! The unheralded Ben Flanagan of Michigan via Canada is your NCAA champ.
*Men’s 10k Thread – Men’s 10k is on!!! 29 point first 200. The first lap was 60.94 as the three Alabama Kenyans tried to break free but they have been caught.
*BEN FLANAGAN IS SQUEAK FROM “BASEKETBALL”
*Josh Kerr says he may go for the collegiate record in the final
*Georgia’s 9.99 man Kendal Williams and Arkansas State’s 9.97 man Jaylen Bacon are OUT of NCAA men’s 100 after 1st round The Houston sprint squad is BRINGING it and have 3 guys in the final.
*LRCPost Race InterviewsWe’re uploading them as the meet takes place so mute ESPN and listen to this.

LRC $200,018 Running Warehouse Prediction Contest Is Here Simple to play. Give us your top 3 from our guide in the running events.

LRC Which Distance Races Should You Be Most Excited About at 2018 NCAAs? We Rank Them All, #1 Through #10 We’ve focused our 2018 NCAA pre-meet coverage on the non-distance events, until now. From the men’s 5,000 (#1) to the men’s steeple (#10), Rojo ranks the distance events at NCAAs this year and then gives out his predictions.

Women Start Thursday LRC What To Watch At 2018 NCAA Outdoors For Women: Schweizer & Orji Go For #7, The Sydney McLaughlin Show, & Could The Last Race At Hayward Be A Classic? We give you our top 5 storylines for the final NCAAs at Hayward as it’s currently configured, starting with the great Sydney McLaughlin.

Men Start Wednesday LRC What To Watch At 2018 NCAA Outdoors For Men: A Historic 400, A Battle Of NCAA Champs In The 5K, & The Brilliance Of Holloway, Saruni, & Kerr We give you our top 5 story lines starting with an unreal men’s 400.

Oslo Bislett Games Are Thursday 2-4 PM ET Schedule, Entries, Results TV & Streaming

IAAF Oslo Diamond League Preview: Men’s 400H Clash Set Between World Champ Karsten Warholm And 2018 World Leader And Asian Record Holder Abderrahman Samba The field also includes USA’s Olympic champ Kerron Clement. Distance action is highlighted by the Dream Mile with World champ Elijah Manangoi and Filip and Henrik Ingebrigsten. There is also a 1500 with Jakob Ingebristen (why isn’t he in the main race?), Robby Andrews and Chris O’Hare. Emma Coburn and Courtney Frerichs take on Kenya’s Hyvin Kiyeng in the steeple; Caster Semenya, Laura Muir and Francine Niyonsaba are in the 800. Other events include Mutaz Essa Barshim vs. Danil Lysenko (the guy who beat him at World Indoors) in the HJ, Tom Walsh vs. Ryan Crouser in the shot put, World gold and silver medalists Phyllis Francis and Bahrain’s Salwa Eid Naser in the 400m.
*MB: Why isn’t Jakob Ingebrigtsen running the Dream Mile with his older brothers?
A Look Back At The Oslo Diamond League’s Top Three Moments One of them goes back to 2010 when David Rudisha ran a 1:42.02 meet record beating out Abubaker Kaki (1:42.23).
MB:Julien Wanders vs Sondre Moen, Olso Bislett Games 10,000m Could the Norwegian record go down? The record is 27:32. Moen has a 27:55 road 10k PR and Wanders’ is 28:02.
Christian Coleman Will Miss Oslo And Stockholm Diamond League Meets With Hamstring Injury After his recent losses at the Pre Classic and Rome DL, Coleman said he was still feeling the effects of his hamstring injury last month.

More Hayward Field News

Bill Bowerman’s Sons Are So Against The Hayward Field Design They Made Phil Night Take Take Their Father’s Name Off The Nine-Story Tower Knight admitted that the criticism from the Bowermans and Steve Prefontaine‘s sisters has been disappointing and hard to take.
Daily Emerald:40 Advocates Of Preserving Hayward Field’s East Grandstand Host A Discussion To Take Action Former Oregon coach Peter Thompson: “We’re not against the renovation at all. … The university right now is not working with the community. We don’t need something sleek and glitzy – we need something Eugene.”
Ken Goe Says Phil Knight And His Wife Should Get Final Say On The Hayward Field Reconstruction Since They Are Putting Up Most Of The Money He should get say, but it’s at a public university on their property and will affect thousands of athletes and fans for years to come. It should not just be his call.
Oregon Campus Will Lose One Street And 115 Parking Spots Due To Hayward Field Reconstruction
Final Track Town Tuesday Of 2018 Season Will Be At Hayward Field With A Tribute To Former Oregon Coach And Three-Time Olympian Bill Dellinger

Sunday Action

Hengelo:Full Results 2018 FBK Hengelo Games: Jenny Simpson Wins The Mile, 400 PR From Chrsistian TaylorDafne Schippers, Sam Kendricks, Luvo Manyonga and Mariya Lasitskene with wins and Erik Sowinski a SB.
*Russia’s Mariya Lasitskene Extends Her HJ Winning Streak To 41 With 2.03m World Lead
*IAAF FBK Games Recap
*MB:Jos Hermens’ agency has taken over FBK Hengelo Games – will feature new, innovative format this weekend but 0 distance races
Two-Time Olympic Champ Meseret Defar (68:26) Wins Rock ‘N’ Roll San Diego Half; Titus Ekiru (61:02) Upsets Olympic Silver Medalist Feyisa Lilesa To Win The Men’s Race

International Results

Sprints And Jumps

Recommended Read:Dawn Harper Nelson Tells The Story Behind Her 2008 Olympic 100H Gold Harper talks about coming back to the athlete village and sharing a room with teammate Damu Cherry, who was 4th. “All night she was crying in bed and I am in the other bed knowing I am Olympic champion, bursting with emotion.”
Bahamas 400 Runner Steven Gardiner Shares The High And Low Of His Career Apparently third time was the charm for Gardiner as e won World silver last year after having the two lows of his career at Rio 2016 and Beijing 2015.
IAAF:100 Years After Her Birth, Francina “Fanny” Blankers-Koen’s Legacy Lives On She is most remembered for winning four golds at the 1948 London Olympics in the 100, 200, 80m hurdles and 4 x 100.
Jamaica’s Commonwealth Games TJ Champ Kimberly Williams Explains Her Love For The Sport “The best thing about triple jump is that it is very technical and it feels easy when you do it right. I often know it is a good jump when I’m going into the jump phase because it feels like I have been in the air forever.”

IAAF Continental Cup Is This September

100 Days To Go:IAAF: Continental Cup Ostrava 2018 Set To Be A Battle Of Champions Each team will have a legendary athlete as an honorary captain; LJ world record holder Mike Powell heads the Americas team.
IAAF Heritage Exhibition Opening In Ostrava On June 5th The exhibition will be open 7 days a week for three months until the last day of the IAAF Continental Cup in Ostrava on September 9th.
IAAF:More Than 24 Centuries Of Athletics History Will Be On Display At The Heritage Exhibition The most valuable exhibit will be a series of eight coins, one of which dates back as far as 460 BC.
IAAF Heritage Collection Will Have Medals From The 1896 Olympics (The First Modern Games)
Exhibit Will Show Off One Of The Original IAAF World Cup Trophies From 1977

Have you Ever Seen the Last 2 Laps of the 1964 Olympic 5000m? (We hadn’t either until this article)

LRC On the Eve of the Final Meet at Hayward Field, a Tribute to American Track and Field Legend, “The Magician,” Bill Dellinger Dellinger may be most known for coaching at Oregon but he got an Olympic medal in 1964 as well. Worth a read/quick watch.

More NCAA News

Recommended Read:Georgetown Runner Mike Crozier Finds Closure In NCAA 10k After Years Of Injury After more than two years of limping around with injuries, it took Croizer until a 6th year, but he’s going out in the best way with at trip to NCAAs.
RR #2:Toledo Runner Janelle Noe Makes Comeback From Catastrophic Burns To Qualify For NCAAs Noe suffered life threatening burns over half her body and has battled over the last 2+ years to make her comeback and qualify in the heat at Regionals, despite her burns affecting her temperature regulation.
*MB: “Burns Covered Half Her Body. Now She’s Running in the Country’s Most Prestigious College Meet”
GoFundMe For Geoffrey Cheruiyot’s Funeral Expenses Donations will cover flight expenses to Kenya for his brother and sister as well as other funeral expenses.
*MB: RIP: Geoffrey Cheruiyot – Middle Tennessee State steepler dies just days after running at NCAA regionals after car accident and being hit by bus
Men’s Bowerman Award Pre-NCAA Watch List Distance runners on the list are Josh Kerr, Justyn Knight and Michael Saruni.
Women’s Bowerman Award Pre-NCAA Watch List Karissa Schweizer is the only distance athlete to make the list.

Go Out And Run: Today Is Global Running Day *IAAF 24:1 24-Hour Live Stream

IAAF Is Celebrating Global Running Day With Series Of 24 One Mile Races In Cities Throughout The World The IAAF Run 24:1 starts in Auckland New Zealand and ends on the other side of the world in Vancouver, Canada. The USA run is in Los Angeles.
More Than 600 European Race Oranizers Have Signed Up To Take Part In Global Running Day

Prague On Monday And Other Results

Ryan Crouser Remains Undefeated (22.31m), Mike Rodgers Runs WL 9.92, Paralympian Blake Leeper Runs 44.42
*MB: Blake Leeper double-amputee 400 WR 44.42 in Prague Swimmers aren’t allowed to compete with fins on. Wheelchair racers don’t race Eliud Kipchoge. We have no idea why Paralympian 400 runners are allowed to compete against able bodied athletes in official competitions. If they want to do it as an exhibition, we are all for it but this is getting ridiculous.
Rikenette Steenkamp Breaks 21-Year-Old South African 100m Hurdles Record With 12.91 In Prague Steenkamp has an impressive story as it was just 2016 when she had to relearn how to walk after having surgery to remove an extra bone in her ankle.
Czech Republic’s Jakub Vadlejch Approaches The 90m Barrier With 89.02m Javelin Win In Prague
Greg Mitchell (1:100:36) And Melissa Gacek (1:25:03) Win USATF Masters Half Marathon Championships
USATF Weekend Round-Up A good run-down of the top USA results from the weekend for anyone who wasn’t reading the LRC home page the past few days.
AW Weekly Round-Up

Hayward Field May Soon Be Changed Forever

LRC With Hayward Field Set To Be Demolished, Pros Alan Webb, Matthew Centrowitz, Nick Symmonds, Christian Coleman And Jenny Simpson Recall Their Favorite Races At Hayward Some top pros of the post-2000 era recall their favorite Hayward races.
*We Want To Hear From You: MB: What was your favorite race at Hayward Field? The top pros share their favorite Hayward field memories

Eugene Register-Guard Exclusive: Phil Knight Walked Away From Paying For Hayward Field Renovations Last Year; Worlds Weren’t Coming To US Until He Changed His Mind Great read that talks about some of the infighting behind the project. Read and discuss at link above.
Oregonian Exclusive: Nike Vice President Of Design Tinker Hatfield Blasts New Plan For Hayward Field Hatfield says the new design will have a negative effect on performance and attendance. In a way, he also blasts Phil Knight and Seb Coe. It can’t be a coincidence that this story and the one above came out on the same day. Discuss Here

LetsThrow.com

DeAnna Price Breaks U.S. Women’s Hammer Record With 254’9″ (77.65m) mark She had two throws better than Gwen Berry‘s old national record of 251-10 (76.77m)

The IAAF World U20 Championships Are This July In Tampere, Finland

Coaches Kim Dismuke And Sandy Fowler Named Coaches For Team USATF At The IAAF Under-20 Championships Dismuke becomes the first female head coach of a USATF men’s junior or senior national team.
South Africa Names Team For This Summer’s World Under-20 Champs

2018 Rome Golden Galan Pietro Mennea DL *Full Results

MB: Official 2018 Rome Golden Gala DL Discussion Thread

LRC Rome Recap: Ronnie Baker Is The Real Deal, Coburn Nearly Wins But Falls, Samba Sizzles, Manyonga And Echevarría Soar Ronnie Baker took it to Christian Coleman again, there was a great 400m hurdles and long jump, and Emma Coburn might have won the steeple if it wasn’t for a fall on the final water jump.

Video:2018 Rome Diamond League Race Replays And Video Highlights

Previous Outside NCAA Coverage

A Look At UTEP’s Forgotten Man – Jonah Koech Koech, who beat NCAA record holder Michael Saruni twice at conference, has opted for the 800, not the 1,500, at NCAAs as that’s where his passion is.
USF’s Charlotte Taylor Tries For Another NCAA Title In 10,000 Taylor, who grew up playing soccer with boys, describes herself as a “vicious” as a child, is 1 of 13 foreigners on the team and they are getting 6 more for next year.
Oregon Women Will Fight To Retain Their NCAA Women’s Track Title This Week They are seeded 3rd – 4 points out of 1st – but easily could win if Arianna Washington, the 2016 NCAA 100 and 200 champ, returns to form (but she’s not projected to score).