The 2020 Olympics Start In 2 Years – We Tell You Who Will Be There For Team USA

LRC Cancel The Trials: Here Are The U.S. Women’s Distance Runners Who Will Be Going To The 2020 Olympics Who will join Shelby Houlihan and Jenny Simpson on the 1,500 team? Can Shannon Rowbury return from pregnancy to make a 4th Olympic team at age 35? And who the heck is making this marathon team?

LRC Two Years To Tokyo: We Tell You Which U.S. Men’s Distance Runners Will Be On The 2020 Olympic Team The track and field action at 2020 Tokyo starts in exactly two years – July 31, 2020. We’ve got out our crystal ball and tell you who will be on the US Olympic team.
*MB: The 2020 Olympics start 2 years today – Who will make the US team 800 through 10,000? These are our picks

*IAAF Publishes Qualification System For Tokyo 2020 Olympics The qualifying window for the marathon and 10k opens January 1, 2019.

Upcoming Action

• September: Tirunesh Dibaba Leads Field Of Five Sub-2:20 Women For The 2018 Berlin Marathon Dibaba will be up against former two-time Berlin winner Gladys Cherono, former world champion Edna Kiplagat and Ethiopians Yebrugal Melese (2:19:36) and Aselefech Mergia (2:19:31).
• Not Starting Today: The Start Of The African T&F Championships Has Been Delayed After Hundreds Of Athletes Were Left Stranded At An Airport For Three Days Among those athletes stranded were Caster Semenya and world LJ champ Luvo Manyonga.
• Friday: Final Fields Set For Sir Walter Miler With Craig Engels, Lopez Lomong, Ben Blankenship, Sean McGorty, Sam Prakel And Hassan Mead Leading The Way The women’s race has Nicole Sifuentes, Charlene Lipsey, Amanda Eccleston, Sarah Brown, and Stephanie Garcia.
• Saturday: Ben True And Molly Huddle Lead Deep Fields For The TD Beach To Beacon 10k The men’s field includes Jake Robertson, Shadrack Kipchirchir, Stephan Sambu, Callum Hawkins and Lopez Lomong while Huddle will face Sandrafelis Chebet Tuei (30:57 PR), Emily Sisson, Ababel Yeshaneh (30:35 PR) and Gwen Jorgensen.

Weekend Distance Results

• Betesfa Getahun (65:10) Beats Out Olympic Silver Medalist Feyisa Lilesa (65:23) At The Bogota Half Marathon In Colombia Tokyo Marathon champ Dickson Chumba was 3rd with an identical time as Lilesa. Netsanet Gudeta won the women’s race (1:11:34).
• Belay Tilahun (32:37) Beats Out NCAA Champ Ben Flanagan And Leonard Korir To Become The First Ethiopian To Win The Bix 7 Miler Kenya’s Margaret Muriuki won the women’s race in 35:53. *Results
• Two Years After Midrace Scuffle, Competitors Return To Bix 7 As Friends Two years ago Silas Kipruto won the Bix 7 after a conflict with Teshome Mekonen mid-way through the race. But in 2018 they return saying they “are friends like brothers.”
  *MB Archive: Bix 7 Winner Silas Kipruto Attempts To Slap Competitor During Race
• Mexico’s Juan Luis Barrios Makes History On Opening Day Of Caribbean Games Defending His 10,000 Title In 30:07 Barrios set the record for most individual wins from the CAC Games with his 8th gold. Puerto Rico’s Beverly Ramos set a MR in the women’s 10,000 with 33:41 as 2012 Olympic silver medalist Yarisley Silva defended her title in the PV with a 4.60m and Jamaica’s Nesta Carter had the fastest time in the 100m heats with a barely wind aided 9.92.
• Sam Prakel (3:58.50) And Shannon Osika (4:20.81) Win Ryan Shay Mile Prakel won over Craig Novak (3:58.75) and three-time defending champ Jake Edwards (4:00.28) while Osika beat out Canada’s Nicole Sifuentes (4:22.28).
• Yuki Kawauchi Gets His 7th Win At The Kushiro Shitsugen 30K
• Andreas Kramer Breaks Swedish 800m Record With 1:45.03 At The Karlstad GP
• Shun Gorotani And Yuri Yoshizumi Defending Their Titles At The Fuji Mountain Race In Japan

Irish National Champs

• Ciara Mageean Becomes First To Win Irish National 800/1,500 Double Since Sonia O’Sullivan 18 Years Ago Mark English won a fifth consecutive 800m title in 1:50.82.
  *Cathal Dennehy: After A Rough 2017, Ciara Mageean Has Roared Back To Form Under Coach Steven Vernon And The Outlook Is Bright For Euro Champs Mageean knew she needed to make a change in her environment to advance and decided to leave Ireland and join Team New Balance Manchester.
• Thomas Barr Wins Record Eighth-Straight National 400H Title He also set a championship record of 49.56.
• Sprinter Leon Reid Faces Nervous Wait To See If The IAAF Will Allow Him To Transfer Allegiance From Britain To Ireland In Time For Euro Champs Last year Reid wrote an open letter to Seb Coe pleading to be allowed to represent Ireland at Worlds, but the freeze on transfers was maintained.
• Ireland Select Leon Reid For Euro Champs Team Pending Approval From IAAF The CWG bronze medalist won the 100/200 at Irish champs this weekend.
• 40-Year-Old Irish Olympic Bronze Medalist Rob Heffernan Retires From Epic Walking Career He will now crawl everywhere he goes. *BBC
• Stephen Scullion (29:25) Cruises To Irish 10,000m Gold
• Ireland Names Theri Team For European Champs

Random Running Stuff

• Rotten Tomatoes: The More Tom Cruise Runs, The Better His Movies Are Movies where Cruise runs 1,000 feet or more tend to rate higher and make more money.
  *MB: Does Tom Cruz run that fast?
• British Man Runs Entire Tour De France Route (2,082 Miles) In 68 Days 2:25 marathoner Peter Thompson averaged 30.6 miles a day to become the second person to run the entire Tour De France route.
• Charity Runner Dressed As Bishop Runs Down A Purse Thief In London
• Mountain Runner Climbs Nine 12K Peaks In 20 Hours To Set New Record For Idaho 12er Challenge Cody Lind beat the previous record by more than 7 hours.
• MB: Matt Centrowitz Named Director Of XC/Track And Field At Manhattan College Centro Sr. goes to Manhattan after coaching at American University from 1999 to 2017.

The Next Diamond League Meet Is August 18th

• Last Qualifying Opportunity For Diamond League Finals Approaches At The Birmingham DL A rundown of which events will have battles for the final qualifying spots.
• World Champ Luvo Manyonga, World Leader Juan Miguel Echevarria And GB’s Greg Rutherford Will Star In The Birmingham Long Jump

• Video Highlights From All This Season’s Diamond League Meets

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

More Doping Updates

• IOC Criticizes Proposed Rodchenkov Act For Placing All Athletes Under US Law The IOC noted their concerns with the act while taking a dig at the lack of testing in professional US sports.
• A “High Profile” Kenyan Sprinter Has Failed A Doping Test The sprinter hasn’t been named, but it was revealed that they competed at the 2013 and 2017 World Championships and won a medal at the 2015 African Games. Considering the limited number of Kenyan sprinters it shouldn’t be hard to figure out.
• GB Javelin Thrower Goldie Sayers Will Finally Receive Her 2008 Olympic Bronze After Russia’s Mariya Abakumova Fails Her CAS Appeal It will be the retired Sayers’ first medal from a major championship.
  *CAS Also Dismisses Appeals From Two Russian Track Cyclists
• WADA Reveals 7.1% Increase In Samples Analysed In 2017 Testing Figures Report Out of 322,050 samples, 1682 resulted in an adverse analytical or atypical finding.
• MB: Ryan Lochte receives 14-month ban from USADA for improper use of IV — same thing USADA has tried to nail NOP for

Should Doping Be Criminalized? LRC Went To DC To Witness The Congressional Hearing On The Topic

• Yulia Stepanova And Travis Tygart Testify Before Congressional Hearing That Would Make International Sports Doping A Crime While Congress is at it, we also think they should make MLB, NBA and NFL doping a crime as well.
• We 100% Agree: Opinion: Why Rodchenkov Is The Wrong Name For Anti-Doping Bill “Given Dr. Grigory Rodchenkov’s admitted activities supporting drug use by Russian athletes, the name of this bill is akin to naming it the ‘Lance Armstrong Anti-Doping Act.'” LetsRun thinks the bill should be named for Yuliya Stepanova, who went undercover and risked her life to expose Russia.
• Statement From Rodchenkov Was Read At Hearing As He Didn’t Attend Out Of Fear For His Safety
• MB: Watch Travis Tygart and Yuliya Stepanova talk doping at US Congressional hearing live today (July 25) at 2 pm ET

European Championships Start August 7th

• Sifan Hassan And Dafne Schippers Lead Dutch Team For Berlin Euro Champs Hassan is stepping up to the 5,000 while Schippers is in the 100, 200 and 4 x 100.
• Laura Muir Scraps Plan To Attempt 800/1,500 Double Due To Achilles Issue Instead she’ll just focus on the 1,500. Apparently Muir’s indecisiveness has created some controversy as back at the British trials a rival accused British Athletics of favoritism and lodged a complaint when Muir decided to run the 800 only hours before the heats started.
• Great Britain To Send Record Number Of Athletes To European Championships GB named 102 athletes for August’s championship with it also being the first time there were more women than men (56 to 46). Full Roster
• GB’s Dina Asher-Smith Will Run The 100/200/4 X 100 Triple
• World Champions Kevin Mayer (Decathlon) And Pierre-Ambroise Bosse (800) Lead French Team
• Sprinters Bruno Hortelano, Orlando Ortega And Multi-Event Athlete Maria Vicente Lead Spanish Squad

USATF National Junior Olympics *Live Results *Schedule

• USATF Hershey National Junior Olympic Championships Day 2 Recap
• Recap Of Day One Of The USATF Hershey National Junior Olympic Championships
• USATF: Thousands Set To Compete At USATF Hershey National Junior Olympic Track & Field Championships

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”

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.