Mid-Day News: Edrick Floreal Leaving Kentucky To Take Head Job At Texas

Ostrava Golden Spike *Results

• LRC 2018 Ostrava Golden Spike Recap: Echevarria Soars To 8.66 World Leader In LJ, Gatlin Tunes Up For USAs With Win In 100, Barega Wins Again Juan Miguel Echevarria was sensational as the 19-year-old became the 1st human to record 3 jumps over 8.50 in the same competition in 21 years. American Ben True was with the leaders in the 3k at the bell and ran 7:41.86 and Genzebe Dibaba got smoked in the 800 and failed to break 2:00. Plus Gatlin won the 100, Kim Collins retired, Selemon Barega got a world lead in the 3,000, Dafne Schippers defeated Ahoure in the 200 and more.
• Ostrava Live Thread
• Wejo’s Thoughts On Ostrava: Ostrava Was Entertaining: Echevarria With 3 Bombs In Long Jump, Gatlin Wins 100 (Video)+ 25 Guys In The 3k, 13 Women In 800 

Comrades Was Last Weekend But We Didn’t Have Space For It Up Top

RRW 2018 Comrades Recap: Bongmusa Mthembu Repeated, Ann Ashworth Pulled Off Upset In Women’s Race Ashworth, a 2:48 marathoner, was a surprise winner in the women’s race but the men’s race went according to form as Mthembu became the first guy to repeat since Stephen Muzhingi did in 2010-11.
*Amputee Runner Completes Comrades Marathon On His Crutches A wound prevented Xotani Luvuno from using his prosthetic, so he did it on crutches instead, completing the the 56-mile ultra in 15 hours, 50 minutes.
*MB: Comrades Marathon (Ultra Pace)

Sprints And Jumps

• IAAF Profile: After Stockholm Stunner, The Sky’s The Limit For Juan Miguel Echevarria The Cuban long jumper is only 19 years old, but his earth-shattering 8.83m leap was 10 years in the making as he’s been doing track since elementary school.
  *Video Of Juan Miguel Echevarria’s 8.83m Long Jump (The Longest For The Last 23 Years) Which Almost Sent Him Flying Over The Entire Pit
• Coach Lance Brauman Speaks About What Makes Noah Lyles Great “Obviously he is a very gifted athlete, but he also trains very hard. That’s sometimes a very hard combination for a coach to find. I truly believe that he has the ability to be a force in this sport for a very long time.”
• IAAF Interview With Norway’s World 400H Champ Karsten Warholm Warholm is thinking of learning to hurdle off his other foot to improve his time as right now he leads every jump with his left leg.
• GB’s World 4 X 100 Champ CJ Ujah Talks About The Lessons He Learned From Competing At The 2012 U20 Championships Ujah also talks about the experience growing up with the British sprinter crowd who are all elite now, like Adam Gemili, Dina Asher-Smith and Jazmin Sawyers.
• Mike Powell Loans His Tokyo ’91 Long Jump World Record Vest To IAAF Heritage Exhibition In Ostrava

Kipchoge At Berlin 2018

MB: It’s Official: Eliud Kipchoge To Go For It Again At 2018 BMW Berlin Marathon He’ll be joined by Wilson Kipsang and Zersenay Tadese.

Non-NCAA Weekend Action

• RRW: Mary Keitany Dominates NYRR New York 10K Keitany ran 30:59 to win by more than a minute. Aliphine Tuliamuk (32:08) and Molly Huddle (32:25) were 2-3.
• LRC Saturday’s Racers Grand Prix: Results And Video – Noah Lyles Goes Sub-10 For First Time At Racers Grand Prix In Jamaica Ajee Wilson went sub-2 in the 800.
  *IAAF Recap: Zharnel Hughes Runs 9.91 World Lead Noah Lyles was 2nd (9.93) and Yohan Blake 3rd (10.00). Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce continued her comeback from childbirth with a 11.10 victory while Kirani James out-dipped Fred Kerley to take the 400m in 44.35.
• Genzebe Dibaba Runs 3:56.68 World Lead To Win The 1,500 In Chorzow, Poland The time was the third-fastest 1,500 of her career and a Polish all-comers record. Another Polish soil record went down to Ryan Crouser in the SP as he threw 22.27m to beat Tom Walsh and set the record for the most career throws over 22m. Renaud Lavillenie won the PV (5.81m), Sergey Shubenkov won the 110H twice, Canada’s Commonwealth champ Christabel Nettey upset Brittney Reese in the LJ (6.88m), and Poland’s Anita Wlodarczyk and Pawel Fajdek both had upset losses in the hammer as Gwen Berry threw 77.78m to take back her American record.

NCAAs Friday

LRC Q&A: Houston’s Brian Barraza On His Daring Front-Running Strategy, Fall In NCAA Steeple Final, & Earning The Respect Of His Sprint Star Teammates The man who earned the respect of sports fans nationwide has no regrets. Barraza: “I don’t think that there’s any way that I could have run this race any differently. I gave it everything that I had and honestly, when you come down to this championship-style races or championship meets, all you can ask for is a shot, and I took my shot. And I will never be regretful of that.”

MB: Official 2018 NCAA Outdoors Day 3 Discussion Thread 

LRC Sprint Madness As Men’s 4 X 100, 4 X 400, 400, And 400 Hurdles NCAA Records Fall, Field Events Lead Georgia To First Team Title What a meet.

LRC Recap Of NCAA Distance Drama: Saruni And Kerr Upset, Barraza Falls In Steeple, McGorty Gets Title What a day at NCAAs in the distances. We recap it all.

LRC The Greatest Collegiate 400 Ever: Michael Norman Runs 43.61 To Defeat Akeem Bloomfield’s 43.94 And Nathon Allen’s 44.13 NCAA and facility record for Norman.

• Rai Benjamin 47.02 400m h (#2 ever) in pouring rain. WTF is in the air today? With video of race. #2 time ever.
• Isaiah Harris takes down Saruni in 800 w video: “I saw blood and I attacked” 
• The Big10 has won every distance event so far
• How much would Ben Saarel won the 5k by tonight if he’d been it 
• Explain this: 58 Degrees and Raining in Eugene and We’ve Seen 38.17 4×100 CR, 43.61 400m CR, 47.02 400 h CR
• Barraza goes down HARD in steeple ++ Where do you rank it in terms of agonizing defeats? 
• Video of Houston’s 4×100 NCAA Collegiate Record of 38.17

2018 Oslo Bislett Games *Full Results *TV & Streaming

LRC Women’s Steeple Barrier Set At Men’s Height At Oslo Bislett Games, Chaos Ensues Luckily no one was seriously injured. After things returned to normal, America’s world champ Emma Coburn nearly got the win.
*MB: Gender equity!? Barriers for women’s steeple set at men’s height!!!

LRC 2018 Bislett Games Recap: Elijah Manangoi Wins A Tactical Mile, Jakob Ingebrigtsen Beaten In 1,500 As Abderrahman Samba Amazes Again Norway is a rising power in athletics circles but none of their young stars – the Ingebrgitsens, Moen or Warholm – won today. In other action, the rabbit won the men’s 10k and the British record fell in the women’s 100.

• Robby Andrews Says The Crowd At The Oslo DL Was Louder Than The Millrose Games
• BBC: Dina Asher-Smith SEts New British 100m Record Ran 10.92 To Get 2nd Behind Murielle Ahoure In Oslo
• BBC: Jake Heyward Runs British #3 All-Time Under-20 1500m Time With 3:39.84 For 9th In Oslo
• Reuters: After 200 Win, Guliyev Says He Wants Pietro Mennea’s European Record The 19.72 record has stood since 1979.
  
• Recommended Read: New TJ American Record Holder Tori Franklin Credits A Lot Of Her Success To New Coach Andreas Pavlou, Whom She Met Thanks To A Random Airplane Encounter Franklin was 2nd in Oslo today.
• MB: Official 2018 Bislett Games/Oslo Diamond League Discussion Thread
• MB: Why isn’t Jakob Ingebrigtsen running the Dream Mile with his older brothers?
  
• MB: Julien Wanders vs Sondre Moen, Olso Bislett Games 10,000m

Have You Ever Seen The Last 2 Laps Of The 1964 Olympic 5,000m? (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.

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

Jail For Aden?

Jama Aden Update: He Could Get 4.5 Years In Prison, Prosecutors Say They Found Multiple Types Of EPO Pre-Loaded In Syringes And the crazy thing is no one has tested positive, showing how the smart people don’t test positive. Read and discuss at link above.
*The Guardian’s Headline: “Former Mo Farah Aide Jama Aden Could Face Prison Over Doping Offences” When Aden applies for jobs, do you think “former Mo Farah aide” is the first or second line on his resume? Probably first.