Distance News

• Oregon Hires University Of San Francisco Distance Coach Helen Lehman-Winters Lehman-Winters joins the Ducks after 15 seasons at USF. She and former Virginia Tech coach Ben Thomas replace the coaching duo Andy and Maurica Powell.
  *MB: USF HEAD COACH LEHMAN-WINTERS JOINS OREGON DISTANCE
• Recommended Read: Runner’s World Interviews Shelby Houlihan About Her Current “Hot Streak” And Why Things Are Coming Together Now Originally Houlihan was just going to go for sub-15 in Heusden, but as the season progressed Jerry Schumacher steadily dropped the goal which forced Shalane Flanagan to “cram fitness” to be able to pace her.
• Former NCAA Champ Brandon McBride Broke The Canadian 800m Record With 1:43.68 At The Monaco DL
• Hardrock 100 Leader Disqualified for Taking Water Outside Official Aid Station Xavier Thevenard was DQ’d less than 10 miles from the finish for receiving water and ice from friends outside the aide stations.Thevenard said that he felt the DQ was “excessive.”
  *MB: Hardrock 100 leader DQ’d for receiving aid outside aid station

Who Is The Next Bolt? Lyles? Coleman? A Soccer Player?

• The Guardian: Usain Bolt’s Soccer Dream Keeps Running But Reality Fails To Keep Pace Apparently reports that Bolt was going to have a six week tryout with an Australian club were premature as it is currently only being discussed.
• Washington Post: “Noah Lyles Is Out Front In The Race To Claim Usain Bolt’s Sprinting Throne” Like Bolt, the 200 is Lyles favorite event: “I definitely enjoy the 200 way more. It’s more of a chance for me to open up and show my endurance.”
• Reuters: Jamaica’s Latest Sprint Hope Akeem Bloomfield Says Not To Compare Him To Usain Bolt The 20-year-old said this after breaking 20-seconds for the first time to win the London DL 200m: “I don’t think he should be compared with mere mortals like me.”
• AFP: “Christian Coleman Eyes Chance To Shine In Post Bolt Era” Coleman says he considered the Rabat DL his “season reopening” but he may have to reopen again after re-injuring his hamstring warming up for the heats in London.

2018 London DL *Full Results *TV & Streaming

LRC Emmanuel Korir Blasts 1:42.05!, Murphy 1:43, Centrowitz, Ce’Aira Brown Get Wins, Akeem Bloomfield Joins Sub-44/Sub-20 Club London saved the best for last of the 4 days of international track and field at the Olympic Stadium in London.

• IAAF: Emmanuel Korir Scorches To 800m World Lead Sifan Hassan ran the #3 all-time mile time to win in 4:14.71 while Keni Harrison dominated the 100H with a world-leading 12.36. Mariya Lasitskene tied her world lead in the HJ to win in 2.04m.
• Laura Muir Falls Short In Bid To Break Zola Budd’s National Mile Record Muir ran 4:19.28 for 5th, missing Budd’s 32-year-old 4:17.57 mark.
  *Laura Muir Admits To Going Out Too Fast In Record Attempt
• The Mirror: Greg Rutherford Leaves London Stadium With Tears In His Eyes After Calling Time On Long Jump Career Rutherford joked that his 4-year-old son could jump further than he could as he struggled to jump through his foot injury.
• .Aussie’s Linden Hall Says She Was Inspired By Countryman Joseph Deng Before Setting Her National Mile Record Hall 4:21.40 to break the 11-year-old record.
  *MB: Aussie Deng breaks almost 50 year old 800m record in Monaco
• The Telegraph: “Emotional Greg Rutherford Jumps Through The Pain Barrier At Anniversary Games But Rules Out Defence Of European Title”
• Athletics Weekly: “Britain’s 4 X 100m Relay Men Find World-Leading Form In London” The GB squad ran 37.61 to win over Japan (38.09).
• The Guardian: “Laura Muir And Greg Rutherford Fail To Deliver Stardust At Anniversary Games”

GB Racewalker Making Headlines

• Team GB’s Only Openly Gay Athlete, Racewalker Tom Bosworth, Says He Will Risk Prison To Speak Out For LGBT Rights In Qatar Bosworth is angry that Worlds will be in Qatar next year, a country that criminalizes homosexuality.
• GB’s Tom Bosworth Broke The World 3,000m Racewalk Record At The Anniversary Games

2018 Monaco DL Was Friday *Full Results *TV & Streaming

LRC What A Meet: Full Monaco Recap: Steeple World Record, Sub-8 For El Bakkali, Miller-Uibo Sub-49 400, Amos Is Back This meet had it all and we recap it all.

LRC 10 Crazy Stats From Absolutely Bonkers Monaco Diamond League Meet A 17-year-old Norwegian is now 3-0 vs. Matthew Centrowitz, and much more.

LRC Final Beatrice Chepkoech DESTROYS The Steeplechase World Record, Courtney Frerichs Sets American Record In Monaco Women’s Steeplechase In one of the greatest runs in women’s distance running history, Kenya’s Beatrice Chepkoech absolutely destroyed the WR by running 8:44.32. She wasn’t the only one to run fast as the race featured a record 7 women under 9:10 and three national records.
*MB: COURTNEY MOTHER FV<KIN FRERICHS

• Monaco Loves the Ingebrigsten Brothers Filip Ingebrigtsen ran 3:30.01 to break his brother Henrik‘s 1,500m Norway national record (3:31.46) which was set in Monaco 4 years ago. 17-year-old Jakob also broke Henrik’s record with 3:31.18.
• IAAF: Olympic Champion Shaunae Miller-Uibo Goes Sub-49 To Win Monaco 400m She set a new Bahmian record with 49.97 while in the TJ, Christian Taylor beat rival Pedro Pablo Pichardo with 17.86m.
• IAAF: Beatrice Chepkoech’s Steeple Was The Fifth World Record Set At The Monaco Diamond League There was also a meet record in the 200m where Noah Lyles ran 19.65 to beat world champ Ramil Guliyev (19.99) and world silver medallist Danil Lysenko equaled the MR in the HJ with 2.40m. Anzhelika Sidorova was the surprise winner in a very deep PV clearing 4.85m as Katerina Stefanidi and Sandi Morris were only 3rd and 4th. Marie-Jose Ta Lou won the women’s 100m in 10.89.
• Monaco Shot Put: Ryan Crouser Wins Deepest Shot Put In History In Monaco With 22.05 Heave It was the first time that 7 men threw farther than 21.20.

Distance News

• MB: Kenenisa Bekele to run 2018 TCS Amsterdam Marathon In October
• Good Read: Toni Reavis Chimes In On Nike 4% Shoes, Carbon Fiber Blades And Hyperandrogenism “The sport’s governors [must] continue to maintain a competitive balance where the medal or prize money distinctions are to be found in the common human condition, not in their equipment, or pharmacological advantages much less choices.”
• Sifan Hassan Likely To Do 5,000, Not 1,500, At European Champs The article doesn’t mention it but that way she and Laura Muir avoid each other and both get gold. The two finals are back back – 20 minutes apart – so the double is impossible.
• Podcast Interview With Road Mile Queen Heather Kampf Kampf talks with Carrie Tollefson about the frustrations of coming back from injury, shares her 2018 racing plans and her aspirations after she retires from the sport.

GNC Live Well Liberty Mile

• Robert Domanic (4:00.44) And Shannon Osika (4:33.14) Win GNC Live Well Liberty Mile Domanic won over Pat Casey and Cristian Soratos with Ben Blankenship and Will Leer finishing further back. Osika beat out Stephanie Brown by just over a second.
• Good Read: Q&A With Olympic Trials 4th Placer Amanda Eccleston Ahead Of Tonight’s Liberty Mile In Pittsburgh Eccleston explains that she always wanted to be a miler  and considers herself lucky that her talent actually lined up with the event she wanted to do.

Big NCAA News

Thank You, Title IX New Mexico Cuts Lots Of Men’s Sports And Neiters Its Men’s XC/Track Program The men’s program wasn’t totally eliminated but the roster size for track has been reduced from 32 to 20 and for XC its gone from 16 to 10. They want the male-female ratio of athletes to mirror that of the student body (55% female). Meanwhile, no one insists the student body male-female % mirror that of society or cares if the ratio of academic majors mirrors that of society.

Coach Chris Fox Steps Down At Syracuse He’s retiring from collegiate coaching to become a pro coach – more on that soon.

Evaluating The Athletics World Cup

• The Telegraph: “Athletics World Cup Makes Up For Lack Of Big Names WIth No Shortage Of Excitement – But Changes Are Needed” The biggest thing needed is better athletes. Hopefully they are given more incentive (individual rather than team prize money) next time around (China and the US have expressed interest in hosting in 2020 and 2022).
• Athletics Weekly Video: USA And GB Athletes React To The Athletics World Cup Includes Sam Kendricks and 100m winner Ashley Henderson.

Vin Lananna Resigns From TrackTown USA

• Reuters: Vin Lananna Resigns As President Of TrackTown USA And Chair Of Eugene 2021 Worlds Organizing Committee Lananna denies that this is related to the DOJ investigation into the Eugene 2021 bid. Lananna was put on temporary leave as USATF president by the USATF board while the investigation is ongoing.
• Register-Guard: “Vin Lananna Steps Down From TrackTown USA” “I can’t do that and everything else. I already feel like I’m spreading myself too thin and felt like I needed to get focused on a particular mission, something I’m passionate about.”
• Ken Goe Reports That Vin Lananna “Felt He Had Spread Himself Too Thin” And Was Concerned About His “Effectiveness And His Health” Goe also says Lananna will maintain his position as UO associate athletic director.
• MB: Lananna resigns as TrackTown President, Eugene

The IAAF Is Not Discriminating Against Women

IAAF Responds To Open Letter From The Women’s Sports Foundation And Athlete Ally As they say in their statement, “The IAAF has been one of the foremost advocates for women’s sport for almost a century.” There are few sports out there that have as much sex equality as track and field.
*From Last Week: Women’s Sports Foundation And Athlete Ally’s Open Letter The most notable track athlete to sign the letter was Suzy Favor Hamilton. T&F women won’t speak out publicly due to fear of backlash, but we’re sure most support the IAAF’s new regulations.
*IAAF Hammering In Their Point: “IAAF Supports Push For Gender Equity In Leadership Positions”

Upcoming Action

• October 7: Olympian Amy Cragg And 2015 U.S. Cross-Country Champion Laura Thweatt Join 2018 Bank Of America Chicago Marathon American Women’s Elite Field With Cragg, Thweatt and Jordan Hasay, organizers say this is the deepest American women’s field in Chicago history.
• July 20: BBTM Prediction Contest For The Liberty Mile Top athletes competing include Ben Blankenship, Will Leer, Amanda Eccleston and Shannon Osika.
• July 26: Liberty Bridge Jump-Off Will Feature Olympic Silver Medalist Sandi Morris
• August 4: Molly Huddle And Ben True Lead Fields For 2018 TD Beach To Beacon 10K Both fields are very deep as sthe men’s side has Jake Robertson, Stanley Biwott, Stephen Sambu, Chris Derrick, Callum Hawkins, Shadrack Biwott, Lopez Lomong and more. The women are lead by 65:07 half-marathoner Caroline Kipkirui, NYC Half champ Buze Dirba, Emily Sisson and Gwen Jorgensen.
• August 25: Ed Murphey Memphis Mile Added To The Bring Back The Mile Grand Prix Tour Last year’s inaugural event was won by Craig Engels in 3:58.35.
• August 7: More Than 250,000 Tickets Sold For Next Month’s European Championships In Berlin