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Quote Of The Day

“We decided to put in some work. It feels better to take the gold feeling that you have earned it. I felt really confident going into today’s race, and also yesterday (when he raced and won the 1,500m). I know what I’m capable of, I know what shape I’m in. I was looking forward to racing here in Berlin, and it worked out pretty good.”

– 17-year-old Jakob Ingebrigtsen talking after leading the final 1,200 of 5,000 at the European Champs, which he won in 13:17.06 to complete the 5,000/1,500 double.

2018 Berlin European Champs Watch LIVELive Results/Start Lists*Schedule

Sunday: MB: Move over Jakob Ingebrigtsen, you’re not even the best junior in Europe. Mondo Duplantis clears 6.05m (19′ 10¼”)!
*Anti-Climatic: Sifan Hassan Wins Euro 5k By Nearly 7 Seconds, Laua Muir Wins 1,500 In the last distance final of the 2018 Euros, 2015 World Championships bronze medalist Gesa-Felicitas Krause, who came in with only a 9:39 seasonal best, ran 9:19 to win the women’s steeple.
*European Championships Women’s 5,000: Salpeter Stops A Lap Early Thinking She Had Won Silver She got going again and finished 4th in what would have been an Israeli NR of 15:01 but was DQed for cutting in too early at the start.

Saturday: LRC Final:The Best Distance Runner In Europe Is 17 Years Old: Jakob Ingebrigtsen Runs 54.09 Final Lap To Complete Euro 1,500/5,000 Double Jakob took the lead with 1k to go and never gave it up, cruising home to win in a PR of 13:17.06. Brother Henrik got the silver.

LRC17-Year-Old Jakob Ingebrigtsen Wins European 1,500m!!! There was only one Ingebrigtsen on the medal stand – the youngest one, Jakob, with the gold. *IAAF

The Inside Scoop / Coverage From Norway (Translated)

The Ingebrgitsens’ Father Says Ir Has Been Very Hard To Be Both Their Father And Coach Apparently, their main rule is the kids come up with the goals and the dad figures out a plan for them to achieve them.
Norwegian Journalist Raves About The Amazing Ride The Ingebrigtsens Have Given Him During The Last 6 Years 6 years ago, Henrik had so little funding he couldn’t afford to stay in a hotel in Flagstaff and had to sleep on a couch.
Dad/Coach Left Tactics Up To The Brothers But Is Stunned That Jakob Won, Saying It Was The Least Likely Scenario
Dad Says Jakob Will Celebrate 1,500 Gold With A Warm Glass Of Milk
Filip Ingebrigtsen Said He Knew Early On He Didn’t Have It But Wanted To Maintain His Good Position To Help His Brother He thinks if he was his normal self, the brothers would have swept the medals as he ended up boxing in Henrik who was following behind him.
Filip Ingebrigtesn Withdrew FromWith 5k Final With Back Injury

More Coverage

Filip And Henrik Ingebrigtsen Bask In Jakob’s 1,500m Success In Berlin Filip: “I told him he deserved it because he has been working every day since he was nine or 10 for this.”
Reuters:Oh Brother! Jakob Ingebrigtsen Beats Sibling For Historic Win It was also a good day for the Borlee twins as Kevin and Jonathan won silver and bronze in the 400.

Three Recommended Reads On Eugene 2020

Alan Abrahamson Also Isn’t Happy The Trials Are Going Back To Eugene “Eugene is on par with Fargo and Peoria. Who wants to argue that track and field ought to be grown out of Fargo or Peoria?”
Runner’s World Calls Out USATF For Lack Of Transparency On Eugene 2020 Olympic Trials DecisionErin Strout writes, “Track and field will remain stagnant if we continue to hide in a tiny Oregon bubble where we feel comfortable, nobody asks any questions, and we can so easily delude ourselves into believing it represents a broader fan base. It doesn’t. Eugene is an anomaly, built by the Nike neighbors up the street.”
Mario Fraioli On Why Eugene 2020 Isn’t Going To Elevate The Sport Of Track And Field In The US This was Thursday’s Quote of the Day.

More Non-Distance News

Recommended Read:Nice DyeStat Profile On US Hammer Throw Record Holder DeAnna Price A funny story about Price and her coach/husband J.C. Lambert. Apparently Lambert was so impressed with Price on her recruiting visit to Southern Illinois that told his coach he’d give up half his full-ride to get her there.
US 400 Hurdler Georganne Moline Talks About Physical Therapy And Sports Psychology Helped Her Get Back From An All-Time Low She was on the verge of being done with the sport in 2016, but the therapy helped her bounce back to setting her first PR in 4 years in 2017.
USATF Profile On Former World Champion Shot Putter Reese Hoffa Who Says His Middle School Coach Thought He Was So Bad He Didn’t Want To Work With Him It’s a good thing we don’t choose our future Olympians at the age of 12 or 13.
Brazil’s South American Shot Put Record Holder Darlan Romani Talks About What He Loves About Throwing “I love that feeling of unleashing the shot knowing I have made a near perfect put – even before the shot has touched the ground.”
IAAF Inside Athletics Video Interview:Ato Boldon Talks To Young Star Jamaican Sprinter Briana Williams Williams won the 100/200 double at World U20 Champs last month.

Distance News

Good Read:Jake Robertson Will Run His Second Marathon At The Toronto Waterfront Marathon The 2:08 man says he isn’t putting limits on himself: “I would like to win the race, first and foremost. If the pacemaking is set up to run a 2:05, then I would like to run 2:05. If it’s 2:06 pace, then 2:06.”
*MB:Jake Robertson makes his marathon pick. #2 will be Toronto on October 21!
Is It Time For The Jamaican Men To Step Up To The 800m? With former NCAA champ Natoya Goule running well for the women, this writer from The Gleaner laments the fact that a the last time a Jamaican went sub-1:47 was nine years ago.
2:09:49 Debutant Dewi Griffiths Talks About How He’s Fought Back From Stress Fracture In His Hip Griffiths, who stunned the UK with his debut in Frankfurt last year but then got hurt, is on the comeback trail.
Thursday Night:Charlene Lipsey And Johnny Gregorek Lead West Chester Mile Fields
28 Americans Broke 4:00 For The 1st Time In 2018 – Most First-Timers Ever

Kenyan Updates – Sad News

RIP:Kenya’s Former 2015 World 400H Champion Nicholas Bett Has Died In A Car Accident Bett died on the scene when his car veered off the road into a ditch just a day after he returned from African Champs. Bett was the first Kenyan to win any short sprint medal on the global level. *IAAF Tribute
*MB:Sad news: Nicholas Bett
Third Kenyan Doping Bust In 10 Days As Athens Marathon Champ Samuel Kalalei Fails Drug Test The 2:10 marathoner has been suspended after testing positive for EPO.
*MB: Third Kenyan runner in 10 days fails doping test

More Euros

World Decathlon Champ Kevin Mayer’s Gold Medal Hopes Disappear As He Fouls Out Of The Long Jump Mayer had the fastest time in the 100m with a 10.64 PR, but no mark in the LJ ends his chances at gold.
Poignant Opening Ceremony Gets Berlin 2018 Underway
GB Captain Dai Greene Withdraws From Euro Champs Due To Hamstring Injury
Athletics Weekly’s Euro Medal Predictions They think there will be two Ingebrigstens on the 1,500m podium.
GB 800m Runner Lynsey Sharp Regains Her Hunger For Medals After Difficult 2017 Sharp says she had a rough time mentally last year and that carried over to early 2018 at the Commonwealth Games, but she says she’s “as hungry as ever” now.
The Telegraph:Dina Asher-Smith Targeting Breakthrough Win Over Dafne Schippers In Berlin Schippers is a world champion and Asher-Smith has never been on an individual global podium, but the bookies have Asher-Smith as the favorite in the 100m and 200m.
GB LJer Jazmin Sawyers Says She Gets “Imposter Syndrome” She says it’s the voice that asks, “Should I really be here?”
World Champions Mariya Lasitskene (HJ) And Ekaterini Stefanidi (PV) Highlight Women’s Jumps In Berlin
Athletics Weekly:Dai Greene Has Experience With GB Captain’s Speeches
BBC:“British Sprinting – What’s Going So Right?” They don’t have the fastest names in national history, but they have great depth.
InsideTheGames:Euro Champs Opened By Party In Glasgow As Federations Unveil Winner’s Trophy The trophy will go to the country with the most gold medals by the end of the Championships.
The Guardian:European Champs Launch Of New Spectacle Of Sport 11 days, 4 locations, 8 different sports.
The Guardian:Glasgow Gears Up For Inaugural Euro Championships 4,500 athletes from 52 nations competing in Berlin and the UK.
Dina Asher-Smith Is GB Performance Director Neil Black’s “One To Watch” In Berlin
The Telegraph:First Multi-Sport Euros Ready To Bask In The Limelight

Non-Ingebrigtsen European News

AW‘s Recap Of Friday’s Women’s Action: Nafi Thiam Wins Euro Heptathlon As Johnson-Thompson Secures Silver – Athletics Weekly
AW‘s Recap Of Friday’s Men’s Action: Matthew Hudson-Smith Strikes Euro Gold
*Matthew Hudson-Smith Wins Gold For Great Britain In 400m He was the only guy to break 45 at 44.78.
*MB: Warholm DFL in Euro 400 final
Laura Muir Wins Her 1,500 Heat With Ease
Ireland’s Ciara Mageean Eyes Medal After Cruising Into 1,500 Final

2018 NACAC Champs *Start Lists/Live Results

Saturday: NACAC Day 2: Jenna Prandini Wins 100 In CR Of 10.98 As SAFP Was A Disappointing 5th, Kendra Harrison Wins 100H In 12.55 In the pole vault, the winner was Katie Nageotte, not 2015 world champion Yarisley Silva of Cuba or Olympic silver medalist Sandi Morris.
Ajee Wilson (1:57.52) Over Natoya Goule (1:57.95) In Loaded Women’s 800 At NACACs, Raevyn Rogers Was 4th
Hassan Mead And Riley Masters Go 1-2 In NACAC 5,000, Justyn Knight 3rd
Brandon McBride Gets Revenge On Marco Arop As Canadians Go 1-2 In NACAC 800 Drew Piazza was 5th.
Marielle Hall (33:27) And Rochelle Kanuho (33:28) Go 1-2 In Women’s 10k At NACACs Canada’s Rachel Cliff denied Team USA a sweep.
Jamaicans Win 4 Gold On Day 2 – Men’s 100 (10.03), 110H (13.28), 400 (45.47), Women’s 400 (51.15)
Friday: Americans Mel Lawrence And Rachel Schneider Win Steeple And 5k At NACACs
Lopez Lomong Leads American 1-2-3 Sweep In Men’s 10k
MB:Are you kidding me? Every woman who started the women’s steeple and 5k at NACACs medalled? We have no idea why Canada forfeited in the women’s steeple.
NACAC Champs LIVE Updates

Previous Euro News

Recommended Read Ingebrigtsen Brothers Going For Historic 1-2-3 Sweep In Men’s 1,500 Final Friday (translated) Both Henrik and Jakob say Filip is the favorite and Henrik puts the odds of a sweep at 20%.
*German Runner Implies That He Thinks Filip Ingebrigtsen Is Doped (in German) He was blown away by how quickly he recovered from a fall in the 1st round. Some on the message board agreed.

The Guardian:Laura Muir Descends From St. Moritz Eager For 1,500m Euro Gold Muir wants to become the first British woman to win 1,500m gold while also winning her first outdoor medal.
Athletics Weekly:Laura Muir Will Feed Off Being The Favorite In The 1,500 “I’ve gone from not making the final to hopefully winning the championship. It’s crazy how far you can come in four years but I’m really proud of myself.”
Video:Behind The Scenes At A British Athletics Training Camp A 14-minute video with GB distance runners Laura Muir, Charlie Grice, Marc Scott and Charlotte Purdue training at their camp in St. Moritz.
RRW:Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad Wins Fourth European Steeplechase Title It wasn’t easy for him, though, as he ran 8:31 and was pushed by Spain’s Fernando Carro (8:34) and Italy’s Ethiopian born Yohanes Chiappinelli (8:35).
Norway’s World Champion Karsten Warholm Blazes 47.64 Win In The 400H While Turkey’s 200m World Champ Clocks 19.76 Victory At Euro Champs Warholm broke his own national record to complete the first half of his 400H/400 Euro double. Olympic PV champ Ekaterini Stefanidi cleared a championship record 4.85m. Belarus’ Elvira Herman was a surprise winner in the women’s 100H (12.67).
*Video:Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad Showboats In 3,000m Steeplechase Win Unfortunately the video is region locked to Europe.
400 Hurdler Thomas Barr Makes History With Ireland’s First Men’s Sprint Medal Ever At Euro ChampsCathal Dennehy writes, “Despite his form coming in being no better than mediocre, [Barr] conjured up a one-lap sprint that was akin to sporting sorcery.” Leon Reid couldn’t match Barr’s bronze, though, as he ended up only 7th in the 200 final.
*Irish Examiner:“Thomas Barr’s Bronze A Delightful Vindication Of His Talent”
Thomas Rohler And Andreas Hofmann Deliver One-Two For Germany In Javelin
Germany’s Former Olympic Discus Champ Robert Harting Was 6th In The Last European Champs Of His Career
GB’s Katarina Johnson-Thompson Storms To Lead After Heptathlon Day 1 She leads the favorite, Olympic champ Nafi Thiam, by 87 points.

Random Running Stuff

Interesting:Outside:There Is A New Machine That Will Actually Classify You As A “Competitive” Runner Or A Hobby Jogger Should help put to rest the debate in threads like this.
Grizzly Bears On Marathon Course In Canada Cost Race Leader The Win The bears on the course forced the leader to backtrack away from them and he ended up coming in second.
LeBron James Launches Mile-Run, “Ultimate Obstacle Course” Competition TV Show The Million Dollar Mile will have contestants cover an obstacle-filled mile for a chance at winning $1 million.
USATF Awards Elite Athlete Development Grants To 45 Elite Athletes

Week That Was

LRC Stars Impress At African Champs, Olympic Trials Are Back In Eugene, The Start Time For Tokyo Olympic Marathon Needs to be Changed Elijah Manangoi only beats Cheruiyot these days when it really matters. Amos over Korir and Semenya x2. Plus, we think it’s a mistake for the Olympic Trials to be in Eugene every time.

*Book Review LRC Book Review: “Racing The Hands Of Time” By Larry Hannon – Those New To The Sport Might Enjoy It, But Serious Fans Can Avoid This One Not every race can be your best and not every book can be our favorite. This one starts out fascinating but fizzles.

2018 Berlin European Champs

Screenshot 2018-08-07 at 17.12.08 Dina Asher-Smith (10.85) And Zharnel Hughes (9.95) Win 100m GoldHughes broke the meet record while Asher-Smith, who trounced Dafne Schippers, broke her own British record. Video of run here. *BBC Article *IAAF Recap

RRW Morhad Amdouni Wins First French European 10,000m Gold Ever
MB:Filip Ingebrigtsen Wins His 1500m Heat Despite Falling On Lap 3
Ingebrigtsen Boys Reach 1,500m Final After Scare, Keeping Dream Of 1-2-3 Podium Sweep Alive
Lynsey Sharp Leads GB Charge Into 800m Semi-Finals All three Brits advanced past the opening round.
Poland Cleans Up In The Throws, Taking Gold And Silver In Both The Hammer And Shot PutWojciech Nowicki beat out world champ Pawel Fajdek in the hammer and Michal Haratyktook the shot put.
DyeStat: Mondo Duplantis Isn’t The Only Recent Prep In The European Champs Pole Vault California’s Sondre Guttormsen is trying to become the first Norwegian to make the final since 1962.
DyeStat:New Mexico Signee Adva Cohen Is Ready To Represent Israel In Euro Steeplechase
Ireland’s Thomas Barr Below Par But Earns Place In 400H Final Barr had a late surge to go from 4th to 2nd in the home straight to qualify automatically for today’s final.
*Barr:“Put me into a dogfight and I’ll give it my best.”
Athletics Weekly: Enjoyment Is Key For GB Pole Vaulter Holly Bradshaw In Berlin Bradshaw says she lost “the love” for the sport, but has rediscovered it this year.
Ukraine’s Maryan Zakalnytskyy And Portugal’s Ines Henriques Defy Conditions To Win 50km Racewalk Titles
FloTrack:An American’s Guide To The European Championships
InsideTheGames: British Sprinters And Polish Throwers Corner The Medals On First Finals Eveing At European Athletics Championships
GB’s Reece Prescod Ahead Of Euro 100m: “I don’t wake up to be the best in Europe – what drives me is to be world champion.” He ended up with the silver behind Hughes.
The Guardian:Dina Asher-Smith Targets Three European Golds
British Trio Get Berlin Qualifying Done On First Day

Improved 2018 BOA Chicago Marathon Elite Fields Released

LRC Analysis Props To Chicago: Galen Rupp Will Battle Strong International Field As He Tries To Repeat At Chicago Marathon The international fields for the 2018 Chicago Marathon are out and this year we have no fears about whether Chicago is being watered down to ensure a victory by Galen Rupp. If Rupp is to defend his crown, he’ll have to defeat the winners of the following marathons in 2018: Dubai, Tokyo, Rotterdam, Paris and Boston. The American hopefuls on the women’s side, Jordan Hasay and Amy Cragg, also face increased competition as well.
*MB: 2018 Chicago Marathon elite fields are out and both are much improved from 2017 – Can Galen Rupp repeat?

Toni Reavis Is Upset That 2018 Chicago Field Is So Good He wants to see a Mo Farah vs. Galen Rupp grudge match.
Jordan Hasay Doesn’t Just Want To Win Chicago, She Wants To Run Fast “This year, I’ll definitely be trying to shoot for the win, but also trying to run fast. That American record is definitely in my sights.”