Week That Was

LRCWTW: Frerichs And Houlihan Lead National Records Galore, Murphy Is Back, Berian Is On His Way, Cain Has A Ways To Go

IAAF-Related News

• Human Rights Watch Accuses The IAAF Of Discriminating Against Women With High Testosterone And Calls For Them To Scrap Hyperandrogenism Rule Too many people are making this a social issue when it’s not. This should be a scientific debate surrounding intersex athletes and “gender identity” isn’t relevant.
• Nairobi, Kenya To Host World Under-20 Championships In 2020 Nairobi hosted the last World Under-18 Championships last year which some countries like the USA skipped due to “security concerns.”
• No Russian Breakthrough Expected At IAAF Council Meeting Russia is expected to remain banned. Also on the table though is the possible announcement of the 2023 World Championships host. Budapest and Barcelona are possible candidates.
• IAAF And Qatar National Bank Announce New Partnership
  *As Part Of Agreement With The IAAF, QNB Will Roll Out A Country-Wide Program To Get More Qatari School Children Into Athletics Yeah, but will those “school children” include girls?
• Video Highlights From All This Season’s Diamond League Meets

11 Days Until European Championships

• LRC Singlet Shows Up On Official Team Netherlands Roster/Bio Page Cornell alum Benjamin de Haan (Rainero) will race the 5k/10k for the Netherlands next week at the Euro Championships.
• Five Reigning European Champions Named On Germany’s Team For Berlin
• Videos Published Of European Championships Marathon And Racewalking Courses

Other News

• 50-Year-Old Becomes One Of The Oldest Women Ever To Compete For A College XC Team Bego Lopez is a business major competing at the NJCAA level where there are no age limits. There are actually a 42-year-old and a 49-year-old also on the team.
• College Student Missing After Going For Nighttime Run In Iowa Police and the FBI have called off the volunteer search, and are pursuing other leads.
• Are You The Next Great Voice Of Track And Field? The IAAF Is Looking For An Announcer For The Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympic Games You can submit a clip of your own commentary for a chance at winning the contest and a trip to Buenos Aires.
• 103-Year-Old Who Set The 100 And Over 100m World Record Receives An Honorary ESPY Award

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.
  *MB: This is the workout that told Jerry Schumacher that Shelby Houlihan was ready to run the American 5000m record
• 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 DQed less than 10 miles from the finish for receiving water and ice from friends outside the aid 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’s 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.