Weekend Distance Results

• Jake Robertson Wins Beach To Beacon 10k By Nearly A Minute With 27:37; Sandrafelis Chebet Tuei Wins In 31:21 As Molly Huddle Is Third (31:40) Stephen Sambu was second for the men (28:27) and Ben True the top American in 3rd (28:29). *Results
• Kenya Dominates Women’s African Champs 10,000 With A 1-2 Showing By Stacy Ndiwa (31:31) And Alice Aprot (31:36) Ethiopian Gete Alemayehu was a distant 3rd in 32:10.
• Austria’s Andrea Mayr And Italy’s Francesco Puppi Win PIZTRIVertical Mountain Race In Malonno, Italy
• USA 10k Champ Lopez Lomong Wins Sir Walter Miler In 3:53 As 13 Break 4:00, Charlene Lipsey Beats Sara Vaughn Props to Charlie Marquardt going sub-4 for the 1st time with a 3:55.97. Everyone who finished on the men’s side broke 4:00.
• Duluth News Tribune: Ben Cogger Breaks Scott Jurek’s 20-Year-Old Course Record At The Voyageur 50 Mile Trail Ultramarathon Despite Getting Stung By Hornets

Two Days Until European Championships *Watch LIVE

• Reigning Champions Dafne Schippers And Dina Asher-Smith To Clash Across Three Events At Euro Champs The two sprint stars will face each other over 100m, 200m and the 4 x 100.
• Men’s Sprinting Events Set To Sizzle In Berlin The four sub-10 second European men (lead by GB’s Zharnel Hughes) will clash in the 100m while Bruno Hortelano will try to defend his title in the 200m against world champion Ramil Guliyev.
• BBC: Great Britain’s Stars To Watch At Euro Champs Guide

Sprint Stuff

• NCAA 400m Champ Michael Norman Signs With Nike Norman will remain in LA and continue training with his USC coaches.
  *MB: Michael Norman signs with nike
• August 18: Noah Lyles Vs. Christian Coleman Showdown Set For Birmingham Diamond League South Africa’s Akani Simbine and Yohan Blake are also in the race.
• Sianni Wynn Wins USATF Athlete Of The Week After Taking Three Sprint Titles At USATF Junior Olympics Wynn won the 100, 200 and 400, setting a 9-10 age group record in the 400 (58.97) to win by almost 4 seconds.

The Latest From The African Champs – The 800’s Biggest Talents All Raced Friday *Watch Live

• Race Of The Week: MB: Nijel Amos takes down Emmanuel Korir to win African 800 gold 
• MB: Caster Semenya break 50.00 for 1st time – Wins African champs with dominating 49.96 
• IAAF Day 3 Recap: Caster Semenya Clocks 49.96, Nijel Amos Defeats Emmanuel Korir In the men’s steeple, World/Olympic champ Conseslus Kipruto kicked Past Soufiane El Bakkali to win in 8:26. Kenya’s Winny Chebet won a tactical 1,500 in 4:14.
• Hellen Obiri Wins 5,000 Title At African Champs By Nearly 10 Seconds In 15:47 Senbere Teferi was second in 15:56.

NCAA News

• NY Times: “How College Sports Killed Summer Vacation” Interesting read on how increased demands from college sports are leading to more and more athletes taking summer classes/internships so they can stay on campus and train. Distance running has always been a year-round sport, but it looks like other NCAA sports are becoming that too.
• NXN 2nd Placer And Top Recruit Brodey Hasty Will Be Going To NAU After Receiving Release From Oregon Hasty originally committed to Oregon, but changed his mind after Andy Powell left. Hasty: “The coaching change at Oregon allowed me to step back and re-evaluate my options.”
  *MB: Brodey Hasty to Northern Arizona!
• El Paso Times: 98-Year-Old Secretary Katie Jensen Has Been Heart Of UTEP Track Team For 30 Years Jensen retired this week after being an important part of the program since 1985.
• Ben Flanagan And Michael Norman Are 2018 DI Men’s Scholar Track Athletes Of The Year Mostafa Hassan (shot put) and Luke Vaughn (discus) were the field athletes of the year.
• Karissa Schweizer And Allie Ostrander Are Women’s DI Scholar Athletes Of The Year
• Florida Men, Southern California Women And Georgia Men/Women Take Scholar Teams Of The Year For Indoor/Outdoor

Eugene News

• It’s Official: Eugene Announced As The Hosts Of The 2020 Olympic Trials The Trials return to Eugene for the fourth consecutive time, but it will the first time for the new Hayward Field stadium.
  *Register-Guard: 2020 Olympic Trials Coming To New Hayward Field
• Previous: Ken Goe: USATF Expected To Award Eugene The 2020 Olympic Trials USATF needs to grow the sport outside of Eugene but at this point Eugene was the best option. *Discuss
• Register-Guard: Eugene To Plant More Than 2,000 Sequoias For 2021 World Championships The goal is to minimize pollution with “air-cleaning trees” that will cancel the effects of increased carbon emissions from the increased number of people.

Previous African Champs News

• Ethiopia’s Jemal Yimer Mekonnen Cruises To 10,000m Crown As African Championships Begin In Asaba, Nigeria Yimer ran 29:08.01 to win in humid conditions with countryman Andamlak Belihu Berta 2nd (29:11.09) and Uganda’s Timothy Toroitich 3rd (29:11.87).
• Blessing Okagbare Disappoints Home Fans By Pulling Out Of African Champs 100 And 200 She is dealing with an injury, but still might compete in the LJ.
• Kenyan Sprinter Boniface Mweresa Dropped From African Champs Squad After Failing A Drug Test Mweresa won 400m silver at the 2015 African Games.
• Seb Coe Wants To Have Worlds In Africa By 2025 Coe: “I made a promise when I became president and that was to try and bring as many events as possible to Africa.”
• 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.
  *AP: Travel Chaos At African Championships As Athletes Stranded

What Motivates Someone To Start A Pro Track Meet?

LRC Q&A With Dave Milner, AKA The Guy Who Spent Thousands Out Of His Own Pocket To Put On A Pro Track Meet In South Carolina Would you spend thousands of dollars of your own modest income to put on a pro track meet? This guy would and did. Find out why.

LetsJump.com

• Sandi Morris Vaults World-Leading 4.95m And Threatens World Record At Liberty Bridge Jump Off In South Carolina The 4.95m was the second best of her career and she took some “solid” attempts at a would-be WR of 5.07m. World champ Sam Kendricks won the men’s PV with 5.80m.
• Good Read: Italy’s 2.02m High Jumper Elena Vallortigara Reflects On Her Struggles Coming Back From Injuries And Surgeries “I had endured some tough times which had tested my love for the sport. But even in the darkest times, there was a voice inside me which said, ‘try another time, learn from your past mistakes and find something better.'”
• Sweden’s Angelica Bengtsson Sets National PV Record With 4.73m At The Karlstad GP Mondo Duplantis won the men’s PV with a MR of 5.80m.
• Video Interview Catching Up With Italy’s 2016 World Indoor High Jump Champ Gianmarco Tamberi Tamberi talks about the origin of his trademark half beard and about how he tried the 400m once and ran 58 seconds and then collapsed on the ground for 10 minutes afterwards.
• Former World High Jump Champ And New Father Bohdan Bondarenko Has His Eyes Set On An Olympic Medal And Second Child “Now I asked my wife about second child, but she said that only after medal in Tokyo 2020. So, that is our arrangement.”

Sydney McLaughlin Joins The Rich And Famous

• Sydney McLaughlin Signs With Beverly Hills-Based Talent Agency William Morris Endeavor (WME) WME represents major athletes such as Allyson Felix, quarterback Cam Newton, tennis star Serena Williams, and big-time actors like Denzel Washington and Emma Stone.
  *MB: McLaughlin signs with big WME: Biggest shoe contract in track history about to go down.
• Audio Interview: Ato Boldon Says Sydney McLaughlin Has Left Her Coach Edrick Floreal Boldon talks about the importance of her signing with WME and that he thinks the women’s 400H world record’s “days are numbered.”
  *MB: McLuaghlin: beginning of the end?

2023 Worlds Looks Like They Are Headed To Budapest

LRC IAAF Unfreezes Transfer Of Allegiance Process, Wants To Fix Problem Of Identical Kits, Russia Still Banned, & Budapest 2023? We’ve got great news coming out of the IAAF Council meeting in Argentina. The IAAF agrees with us – runners should not wear identical uniforms in DL meets and Haron Lagat – a US citizen who has lived here for 16 years – should be allowed to represent Team USA soon. Plus it looks like the 2023 Worlds are going to Budapest.

• New IAAF Transfer Of Allegiance Rules In Effect A minimum 3-year waiting period, athletes can only transfer once and not before they are 20 years old.
• Budapest: One Of The Most Beautiful Capital Cities In The World
• Seb Coe Confirms Budapest Is The Preferred Choice For The 2023 World Championships Coe: “Although the bid process is ongoing I have no doubt Budapest 2023 can and will be a great Champs.”
• IAAF Release On Buenos Aires Council Meeting

LetsSprint.com

• US Soccer Team USL Austin Is Among Those Interested In Usain Bolt (translated) However, there is the question if the club could afford to pay the high salary he would demand.
• Good Read: Canada’s Commonwealth Games 200m Silver Medalist Aaron Brown Found Out He Was Fast From Playing Soccer Brown says his team’s strategy was to kick the ball behind the other team’s defense and have him sprint after it.
• Trayvon Bromell Donating $50,000 In College Tuition Via An Essay Contest To win you need to write 1,000 worlds about “your ambitions, goals, the adversity that you’ve dealt with. Pretty much telling me your life.”
• Tori Bowie’s Letter To Athletes 50 Years From Now “To be successful as an athlete, on any level, requires a ton of time, hard work and dedication. It’s basically like a marriage, something you have to be committed to 100 percent.”

Time To Throw Away The Stopwatch And Pick Up Your Phone?

LRC Willamette Valley Meets Silicon Valley: Three Running “Startups” Are Trying To Revolutionize The Stopwatch Coaches for years have struggled to time multiple athletes and workouts groups at once. Three different apps have recently come out that hope to solve the problem.
*MB: Want to time multiple athletes and workouts at once? Three running “startups” are trying to revolutionize the stopwatch 

Distance News

• MB: USAs 3rd Placer Ce’Aira Brown Sets 1:58.01 PB At Lowkey Meet In Sweden This just a few days after she got her first international win at the London Diamond League. Laura Roesler was a distant second in 2:00.63.
• IAAF Inside Athletics: Ato Boldon Does Video Interview With Gabriele Grunewald Grunewald talks about how she’s balanced her career as a pro runner while battling cancer.
• July 28: Fields Released For The 11th Running Of The Ryan Shay Mile Three-time defending champ Jake Edwards faces Sam Prakel while the women’s race has Canada’s Nicole Sifuentes and USA Indoors mile third placer Shannon Osika.
• October 21: Kenya’s Philemon Rono Going For His Third Consecutive Victory At The Toronto Waterfront Marathon Last year the Patrick Sang-coached man won in a Canadian soil record of 2:06:52 and says he wants to better that mark this year.

Reebok Is Launching A New US-Based Pro Team

LRC Exclusive Reebok Is Launching A New Pro Track Club; Chris Fox Tabbed As Head Coach, Justyn Knight Signed As Star Athlete Though the group will be called the Reebok Boston Track Club, the club’s training base will actually be in Charlottesville, Virginia. This marks a big move for Reebok, which had basically gotten out of running over the last decade.
*MB: Justyn Knight and Chris Fox to Reebok – New Reebok pro track team announced! 

Rojo Speaks Déjà Vu: Reebok Starts A Pro Track Team – Let’s Hope They Stick To It This Time Reebok is starting a pro track team and basing it near Washington, DC? Sound familiar? They did this 25 years ago as well.

2018 London DL *Full Results *TV & Streaming

London Day 1

LRC  American Paul Chelimo Earns The Biggest Win Of His Career – London Diamond League Day 1 Full Recap And Video Highlights  There were also wins for Ronnie Baker (9.90) and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (10.98) in the 100s and a big 5.92-meter clearance for Sam Kendricks to win the pole vault and a 44.07 Qatari national record in the 400 for Abdalelah Haroun.

• IAAF Recap: Ronnie Baker Hottest In London Sprint Showdown Baker won the 100m in 9.90 to Zharnel Hughes‘ 9.93. Akani Simbine (9.94) and Yohan Blake (9.95) were 3-4.
• The Independent: New Mom Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Back Under 11 Seconds She won in 10.98, her first sub-11 since giving birth last year.
• World 400H Champ Karsten Warholm Improves His Norwegian And European U23 Record With 47.65 Win In London
• Athletics Weekly: GB’s Shara Proctor Soars To Long Jump Win With 6.91m
• The Telegraph: Britain Reaps Benefits Of Anguilla As Zharnel Hughes And Shara Proctor Impress Both Hughes and Proctor are from the British territory Anguilla. *The Guardian Article
• BBC: GB’s Zharnel Hughes Edged Out At Olympic Stadium