Mary Cain Races *Results

LRC Mary Cain Winds Up A DNF In Her First Track Race In 2 Years Mary Cain‘s return to the track after a 2-year hiatus did not go well. Kiwi Camille Buscomb got the win in 8:45 as Elinor Purrier also set a PR for second. Other results included Sam Prakel winning the mile in 3:56.09 (Ben True was 6th in 3:57.83), Puerto Rico’s Ryan Sanchez beating Eric Sowinski over 800m (1:45.73 to 1:46.09), a 2:02.45 win from Laura Roesler in the 800 and Aussie Brett Robinson winning the 3,000 in 7:59.65 over Jordy Williamsz.

Pre-Race LRCWatch Mary Cain’s Return To Racing Over 3,000m In Ireland Today At 3:05 PM ET*Discuss

Sprint Stuff

• BBC:Usain Bolt May Play Football In Australia Bolt will stay six weeks to try out with the Australian A-League club Coast Mariners. But apparently there are already negotiations over Bolt’s pay with the owner agreeing to pay 70% of his salary.
• Recommended Read:BBC Article And Video Interview WIth British 200m Champion Beth Dobbin Who Suffered An Epileptic Seizure As A Teen That Left Her Unable To Walk Or Talk Dobbin talks about her seizure and the road to recovery which involved not recognizing her dad and thinking microwaves were cupboards were microwaves.
• AP:Ohio’s Governor To Dedicate State Park Named For Jesse Owens

More From The Weekend

• Tanzania’s Gabriel Geay Runs 22:43 To Win Over Teshome Mekonen At The Crazy 8’s 8k In Kingsport, TN This just a week after Geay and Mokonen went 1-2 at the Boilermaker (where Geay also came out on top). 14-year-old Jenna Hutchins won the women’s race in 30:47.
• 2018 South Carolina TrackFest Results Highlights included wins from Katie Mackey (4:09.45) and Cristian Soratos (3:56.21) in the 1,500/mile and a Mexican national record of 1:45.04 for Jesus Lopez in the 800. *Videos: *1,500 *Mile
• Kenya’s Gikuni Ndungu And Austria’s Andrea Mayr Win At The Grossglockner Berglauf Mountain Race In Austria
• European Athletes Win 14 Gold Medals At The World U20 Champs

2018 IAAF World Juniors *TV & Streaming*Results

• MB:Official 2018 World U20s (AKA World Juniors) Thread
• Sunday: DyeStat: Tia Jones Takes Home USA’s Only Individual Gold In Thrilling 100H Final It was the narrowest margin of victory in meet history as she and Jamaica’s Britany Anderson had the same time to the thousandths place (13.012) so the tie breaker came to the 10-thousandths place.
• IAAF:Italy Gets Surprise Men’s 4 X 400 Gold As Dropped Baton Costs Team USA The Race There was also a huge upset in the men’s steeplechase as Kenya lost its first race since 1988 with Ethiopia’s Takele Nigate getting the win in 8:25.35. Ethiopia also took the women’s 1,500 as Alemaz Samuel ran 4:09.67 and deemed it a “very easy” and “slow” race. Kenya’s Solomon Lekuta won the 800 in 1:46.45.
• MileSplit Event-By-Event Sunday Highlights Team USA took their 9th-straight women’s 4 x 400 gold (they’ve won every edition since 2002).
• USATF:Team USA Finishes Atop The Medal Table At IAAF World U20 Champs The US had 18 medals and dominated the points standings with 155, 43 ahead of runners-up Kenya. But Kenya and Jamaica won more golds.

Athletics World Cup Saturday Coverage

• Clayton Murphy Beats World Indoor Champ Adam Kszczot In 800; Murphy Ran 1:46.52. The 800 is the 2nd-farthest event in the field event-rich competition (1,500 is the farthest).
• United States Has Big Lead After Day 1 Of Athletics World Cup The US (109) is dominating with France 2nd (85) while Poland & Jamaica both have 77. *AW Recap
• IAAF: Poland’s Anita Wlodarczyk Throws Hammer World Lead (78.74m) While USA Tops Overnight Standings USA got a surprise win from Ashley Henderson in the women’s 100 as she ran 11.07 to beat double Olympic champ Elaine Thompson. Jamaica got sprint wins from Janieve Russell (400H in 55.10) and Stephenie Ann McPherson (400m in 50.98). Team USA also got a close win over Jamaica in the women’s 4 x 400 and men’s 4 x 100.
• The Telegraph: Athletics World Cup Proves Mild Hit As “Fun” Event Attracts Sizeable London Crowd Despite all the star power at the Rabat DL, the number of fans that showed up there were dwarfed by the 30,000 at the World Cup.
• Former World 400H Champ Dai Greene Says He’s Starting From Zero After Four Year Battle Back To Fitness Greene has hardly raced over the past 4 years with just one DNF in 2017, but he’s having his best year in a while after winning British Champs.
• Host GB Only In 5th After Day 1 Of Athletics World Cup Despite Captain Lorraine Ugen’s LJ Win
• France’s Pascal Martinot-Lagarde Wins 110H As GB’s World Indoor Champ Andre Pozzi DNFs
• Athletics Weekly: World leader Deanna Price Of US Only 6th In Women’s Hammer
• Holly Bradshaw also won the pole vault for Team GB
• Reuters: Big-Name Absences Hang Over Inaugural World Cup Event One track writer criticized the team style event for its focus on countries rather than individual athletes.
• USATF: Five Golds Put Team USA In Lead At Athletics World Cup

Doping News

• FIFA Claim All Doping Tests Before And During Russia 2018 World Cup Have Been Negative They say 3,985 samples have been taken with all players from the final 4 teams being tested an average of 4.41 times since January.
• Five More Russians Granted Neutral Status By The IAAF Includes a 2:13 marathoner in Artyom Alekseyev.
• Not A Good Idea:Apparently People Are Using Activity Trackers (Like The Apple Watch) To Monitor Their Heart Rate While Taking Illegal Drugs One Reddit user says his heart rate got up to 240 after snorting meth and drinking Mountain Dew.
• Vladimir Putin Claims FIFA World Cup Has Helped End Myths About Russia We’re not sure what he meant by “myths” but we’re assuming he didn’t mean institutionalized doping since that’s a fact.

Inspiring Record Attempt Or Too Good To Be True?

Guest Column LRC Co-Founder Of Trans American Foot Race Has Doubts About Current Trans-Canada Record Attempt Jesse Dale Riley, who served on the crew for Al Howie when he set the Trans-Canada record in 1991, has some doubts about Dave Proctor‘s record attempt which is ongoing.
*MB: Cross-Canada record attempt, 7200K – 66 days. Current record by Al Howie 72 days 

Big Semenya News

Researchers: Study Used For New Hyperandrogenism Rules Had Flawed Data In It The IAAF has issued an update to its study as it admits the original study had 220 errors in it. However, the NY Times headline of “Did Flawed Data Lead Track Astray on Testosterone in Women?” is misleading as the researchers who found the flawed data believe if it had been accurate it might have been more convincing against Caster Semenya.

Interesting Reads

• Recommended Read: Catching Up With 1972 NCAA 10k Champ Johnny Halberstadt The South African now lives in Boulder, CO and the article recalls how the eventual 2:11 marathoner made waves by turning down “a prized Springbok blazer in protest against the treatment of a black athlete.”
• 304-Pound Man Who Loved The 1980s Marathoners As A Kid Picks Up Running And Loses 130 Pounds
• Newton Running Co-Founder Danny Abshire Launches New Lightweight Shoe Brand With Colorado Flag Logo He’s starting with very small batches – like 500 pairs per batch.
• Q&A With James Templeton, Who Has Represented 4 Of The 37 Men In History Who Have Broken 1:43 – And He Thinks The Two Aussies Bol And Deng Might Join The List As Well
• 7-Time New Zealand National Champ & Olympian Angie Petty Shares Her Key Workouts The 1:59 runner shares her favorites.

Interesting Reads

• Did The 2004 Wisconsin XC Dream Team Choke? Chris Solinsky Says He “Kind Of” Did
• Athletics Illustrated: How Good Can Ben Flanagan Be Considering He Won NCAAs Despite Cross Training For Nearly 2 Months This Year He had a foot issue that kept him from running for much of January and then again for 4 weeks around indoor conference time.
• Sarah Barker Takes A Lengthy Look At How Gwen Jorgensen Went From Swimming To Running To Accountant To Triathlon To Running “I need to be confronted with the world standard on a daily basis. Yes, I am comparing myself with Mary Keitany.”
• Billie Jean King And Several Olympic Stars Demand Track And Field Officials Rescind Testosterone Rule 
• South African Journalist Thinks The Sport May Be Better Off Without Bolt “I would argue that the Bolt era was somewhat damaging to the sport as too much of the marketing of the sport relied on the iconic Jamaica … The men’s sprint events are no longer a question of who will finish second behind Bolt.”
• Runner That Was Coached By The Great László Tábori Writes A Glowing Tribute To The Former 1,500 WR Holder – “More Than A Coach” “He gave us all a chance. He considered himself once an underdog. All he expected of us was hard work. He was always ‘there for us.'”
• Mary Cain To Race A 3,000 In Ireland On Monday, July 16th

Previous World Jr Results

Day 1 PM: MB: Kenya’s Rhonex Kipruto breaks CR to win 10,000 gold in 27:22 The man who earlier this year destroyed the Central Park and US All-Comers road 10k mark has lived up to his favorite status and won World Jr. 10,000 gold.
*Beatrice Chebet Of Kenya Wins Women’s 5,000 In Sprint Finish In 15:30.87 As Ethiopia Grabs Silver And Bronze

IAAF Recaps: Full Recap Of Day 1 At World Juniors *Women’s 5,000m Recap *Men’s 10,000m Recap
*Expected Shot Put Duel Between South Africa’s Kyle Blignaut And US’s Adrian Piperi Lives Up To The Hype Blignaut won by 1 centimeter as Piperi set a new US U20 record of 72-4.50 (22.06m).

Day 1 AM: Mouthwatering 1,500 Final For WU20s Is Set – Ingebrigtsen, Tefera And Soget All Win A 1,500 Heat American Cooper Teare also made final.
*George Manangoi Reveals After 1,500 Heat That He’s Recovering From Malaria But Still Thinks He Can Win Gold He said he didn’t feel good today.
*Jamaica’s Michael Stephens Runs 10.30 PR To Lead 100m Qualifiers

Recommended Read Legally Blind Jaryd Clifford Of Australia Finishes 8th In 1,500 Heat – Just Misses Final – Thanks To A Helping Hand From A Kiwi Clifford can only see directly in front of himself so he made friends with a Kiwi, who let him run strides just behind him, and then Clifford tracked him in the race.

A Slow Weekend In Terms Of Pro Action

• MB: Ben Bruce tries out for Worlds at USA Mountain Champs – Ends up eating a slice of “humble pie.” J. Gray and A. McLaughlin win 
• Utica Boilermaker Results: Gabriel Geay, Mary Wacera Win, John Crain & Allie Kieffer 1st Americans Wacera is now tied with Catherine Ndereba with most Boilermaker wins (4).
• Recap Of French Champs: Renaud Lavillenie Wins 8th Pole Vault Title Mahiedine Mekhissi won the steeple but world champ Pierre-Ambroise Bosse lost the 800 … to a guest Kenyan. Carolle Zahi completed the 100/200 double in 11.01 (1.5m/s) and 22.92 (3.6 m/s) as Jimmy Vicaut pulled out with an injury scare after running just 10.35 in the semis.
• Nigerian Champs Are Halted After Athletes Stage Protest Demanding Administrator Resign
• Full Results For The IAAF World Challenge Event In Brazil – The 2018 Grande Premio Brasil de Atletismo Bralon Taplin won the 400 in 44.67 as Brazil’s Andressa de Morais set a new South American record in the discus of 65.10m. *IAAF Recap
  *American Curtis Jensen Surpasses 70 Feet In Shot With Massive 1 foot+ PR In Brazile His mark of 70 feet, 11.75 inches (21.63m) is #5 in the world this year but not even in the top 20 all time in the US due to steroids.
• Kilian Jornet Breaks A Long-Standing 42-Peak Climbing Record On The English Fells

European Athletics U18 Championships *Entries / Seeds *Results *Schedule

• Free European U18 Live Stream
• 16-Year-Old Max Burgin Runs European Age 16 Record Of 1:47.36 To Win Euro U18 Gold We’re wondering if anyone knows what the US age 16 record is. If you do, post it here.
• Ireland’s Sarah Healy Lives Up To Hype And Wins Double European U18 Golds In 3k & 1,500 – Both In Championship Records Healy has PRs of 2:02, 4:09 and 9:10.
• European U18s – A Golden Night For Great Britain With Four Titles, Including Keely Hodgkinson’s 2:04 800 Win Sonia O’Sullivan‘s daughter Sophie was a well-beaten 2nd, which she was very happy with. *Race Video
• Watch: Heartwarming Moment As Proud Sonia O’Sullivan Reacts To Daughter Sophie’s Fantastic Silver
• Scotland’s Kane Elliott Wins European Junior 1,500 In Championship Record Elliott, 16, has already run 3:46 this year.
• Ireland’s Sarah Healy ((2:02, 4:09, 9:10 PRs) Lives Up To The Hype And Wins European U18 Gold In 9:18 CR She’s the first Irish athlete to ever win U18 European gold. She’s hoping for double gold as she’s also in the 1500 final.
• Athletics Weekly Recap Of Day 2 Of Euro U18 Champs
• 17-Year-Old Thomas Keen (8:14 PR) Wins Britain’s 1st Gold At European U18s In 8:27 Video of sub-60 last lap here.
• Sophie O’Sullivan – Sonia’s 16-Year-Old Daughter – Begins International Career With A Heat Win At European U18s Race video is here.

World U20 Champs Are Next Week In Finland

• Event-By-Event Preview For IAAF World U20 Championships
  
• LRC Television and Streaming Information for IAAF World U20 Championships in Tampere
• 10 Stars To Watch At World U20s From Barega to Duplantis to Sammy Watson, the IAAF has you covered.