Tremendous Matchup In Chicago

It’s Official: Rupp Vs. Farah In 2018 Bank Of America Chicago Marathon With Pacers! link fixed We’ll find out how friendly the ex-training partners are on the streets of Chicago.
From The Archives: 5/28  Galen Rupp and Mo Farah: It’s more than you think!
*5/28 Okay so Mo actually does join Galen in Chicago, who wins?

Distance News

• Lengthy feature: Cross-Country coach Scott Beigel died a hero in the Parkland shooting Beigel was off during the period when the shooting happened but lost his life after herding a ton of students into his classroom.
• Results from 2018 HOKA NJNY Twilight : Travis Mahoney wins in 3:41, Nicole Tully wins in 4:09
• Scientific Studies: Pre-Race Sex Won’t Hurt Your Athletic Performance
• Aliphine Tuliamuk will try to defend Peachtree title; injured Leonard Korir will not but Chris Derrick and Sam Chelanga are racing The race is serving as the USATF 10k champs once again. Women’s race will also include Sara Hall and Emma Bates.
• Missouri coach Marc Burns calls Karissa Schweizer 5k victory her “best [title] yet, without a doubt, because everyone had thrown her out, everyone had left her for dead after Thursday”
• After running a solo 13:35, Kemoy Campbell is hoping to break Jamaican record at Jamaican Champs “It would be great to see if I could get the Jamaican record in Jamaica,” said Campbell who is now training alone. He set the current mark at 13 minutes 20.39 seconds in 2015.
• Former Providence runner Julian Oakley is thriving in his first year as a pro but it torn as to what is his event “My long-term future might be over 5k but I really like running the mile,” said Oakel who has run pbs in the 1500m (3:39.92), the mile (3:55.10) and 3000m this year (7:44.34)
• The Bowerman: 2018 Men’s Semifinalists A slew of collegiate record holders are on the list but we guarantee you two of them won’t win – Josh Kerr and Michael Saruni.

College News

• Edrick Floreal Leaving Kentucky To Take Head Job At Texas
• RR A Look At What Makes Georgia’s Petros Kyprianou So Special – Ambition, Organization And A Lot Of Knowledge Kyprianou, a former decathlon star, has a masters degree in exercise science and biomechanics and is a certified trainer and a competitive weightlifter. He promised the Georgia AD he’s win a national title within 3 years and was proven correct.
• RR The Original “Men Of Oregon” Take A Lap Along Memory Lane 11 men who ran for Bill Bowerman got together over NCAAs and reminisced about Bowerman. “I think he was one of the greatest leaders I’ve ever seen,” said Gordon Dahlquist. “He only wanted to be known as a teacher.”
• The Bowerman: 2018 Women’s Semifinalists Named A field event star has never won it but we feel it maybe should go to Keturah Orji or Maggie Ewen.
• Carl Lewis Recently Returned To His HS To Share Some Of His Coaching Secrets
• Jesse Squire Tries To Predict What NCAA Stars From This Year Will Make 2020 US Olympic Team

Demolition Of Historic East Grandstand At Hayward Field Has Begun

Ken Goe: Preliminary Work Begins On Demolition Of East Grandstand At University Of Oregon’s “Historic” Hayward Field Opponents say demolition is in violation of state law, UofO says everything is fine.

LRC  East Grandstand Supporters Issue Statement Saying Demolition Of Hayward Field Is Illegal Violation Of State Law “Noncompliance with ORS 358.653 constitutes a violation of state law, and so it is our opinion today’s work violates and invalidates the demolition permit issued by the City of Eugene for the Hayward Field Renovation Project.  The City permit office has been informed of our grave concern about the willful destruction of publicly owned historic property.”
*MB: Historic Hayward Field may soon be a thing of the past – Demolition of East Grandstands may have already begun 

• Ken Goe: Supporters Of Hayward’s East Grandstand About Out Of Options Goe writes, “I think they are about out of options unless they want to lawyer up and go to court.”
• Register-Guard: Dismantling Of Historic Hayward Field East Grandstand Starts With Removal Of Wooden Bleachers Work on demolishing the stadium is expected to begin next month.

Post-NCAA

• Recommended Read: LA Times: Inside The USC Women’s Track Team’s Relay Miracle At The NCAA Championship A great read.
  *MB: USC Star of the NCAA Women’s 4 x 400 relay, Kendall Ellis to Turn Pro Not a surprise considering she’s run 49.99 and was a senior.
• Kendall Ellis Is Turning Pro With a 49.99 PR and her epic 4 x 400 anchor, this isn’t surprising at all.
• Register-Guard: NCAAs Were Less Than Memorable For Oregon 7th and 35th place wasn’t how they were hoping to go out in the last meet at “historic” Hayward Field.
• The Inside Story On Sean McGorty’s Comeback From Achilles Surgery To An NCAA Title In Less Than A Year
• Alabama Men And Stanford Women Named USTFCCCA Programs Of The Year Stanford broke a 9-year streak by the Oregon women for the best team across all three seasons (XC, indoor, outdoor).
• USTFCCCA: The 2018 Outdoor Season And The Collegiate Record Book A rundown of the ten collegiate records that went down during the 2018 season.
• List Of The NCAA DI All-Americans For 2018 Outdoor T&F Season

Asian Junior Champs

• Two More Records Fall As Asian Junior Champs Conclude Japan 18-year-old Nozomi Tanaka dominated the women’s 3,000 to win by almost 10 seconds in 9:04.36 while Japan set a MR in the women’s 4 x 400 (3:38.20).
• Iran’s Hossein Rasouli Produces Major Upset To Win Asian Junior Champs Discus With A 62.29m Championship Record Japan went 1-2 in the women’s 800 with Ayaka Kawata taking the win (2:04.14).
• IAAF Recap: Sri Lanka’s Aruna Darshana Dazzles At Asian Junior Champs Breaking A 19-Year-Old Meet Record To Win The 400m In 45.79

Stockholm Diamond League Sunday *Results

LRC Stockholm Recap: Young Stars Duplantis & Echevarria Get First DL Wins, Echevarria 8.83!!!!!, Women’s 1,500 Goes Out In Sub-60 This meet was surprisingly entertaining with world leads in 5,000, 100H, 1,000 and discus. Jenny Simpson 4th in the 1,500.

• Stockholm Discussion: Echevarria Goes 8.83. Will He Get WR? With .1 less wind it would have been longest jump in world since Mike Powell‘s WR.
• First Time Ever A Women’s 1,500 Has Gone Out Sub-60? 59.96 For 1st 400 In Stockholm Turns out it was done 25 years ago.
•  Live Stockholm DL Thread