Birmingham DL *Full Results *TV & Streaming

Results: Miller-Uibo Wins The Stacked 200, Emmanuel Korir Runs 1:42.73, Stewart McSweyn Continues To PR And Wins Mile, Muir Fails To Get British 1k Record The men’s 100 was VERY tight but in the end Christian Coleman was given the 9.94 win over Reece Prescod (same time). Disappointing days for people like Clayton Murphy (DFL but he earned our respect for going for it) and Drew Hunter (3:58).

• IAAF Full Men’s Recap: Coleman Wins 100m Sprint Showdown In 9.94
  
• IAAF Full Women’s Recap: Miller-Uibo Stops Asher-Smith’s Momentum By Crushing Her In 200
• The Telegraph: Reece Prescod Justifies The Hype With Stunning 9.94 Finish In Strong Field To Show Americans ‘The British Boys Can Sprint’ Prescod; “I always said once I dropped below 10sec, my body would get used to it – I can’t be running 10s now, it has to be 9s.”
• The Telegraph: “Dina Asher-Smith Must Settle For Second In The 200 While Laura Muir Keeps Up Winning Ways” Asher-Smith says she would have considered pulling out of this race if it wasn’t at home due to post-Euros fatigue. Muir on the other hand missed the GB 100m record by a bit over a second.
• Sifan Hasan Says She Was Just Happy To Get The Win Since SHe Was Sick A Couple Of Days Ago
• Germany’s Andreas Hofmann Wins Birmingham Javelin In 89.82m To Win Over A Deep Field
• MB: Live Birmingham Thread
  
• MB: Korir fails in record attempt/Murphy destroyed
• MB: DINA ASHER-SMITH: Best Sprinter In The World 2018 
• MB: My dad during 100m in Birmingham: ‘Who are these runners? I’ve never heard of them. Are they professional?’ 

Today’s Dose Of Random

Full-Time Job, No Shoe Contract? No Problem – Meet Our “Blue Collar Runner Of The Month”

LRC Travel Woes, A Finish-Line Fall, & A Full-Time Job: How Charlie Marquardt Went From A Zero-Time DIII Champ To A 3:55 Miler Marquardt, who was a three-time NCAA DIII runner-up at Haverford, has no shoe contract, works a full-time job and just broke 4:00 in the mile for the first time in style – skipping the 3:59s, 58s, 57s and 56s entirely – running 3:55 at the Sir Walter Miler on August 3.
*MB: Meet Charlie Marquardt – a guy with a full-time job and no shoe contract who just broke 4 for the 1st time in style @ 3:55
*MB: Dude dives at line to go sub 4 for the first time and comes up …. short

Doping News

• Kenyan World 800 Bronze Medalist Kipyegon Bett Suspended After Refusing A Drug Test Bett becomes the fourth Kenyan to be suspended in less than a month. *Discuss
• Caster Semenya Is Officially The 2012 Olympic 800m Champion This after CAS upheld the disqualification of Russian doper Mariya Savinova. Semenya now becomes the first woman to win two Olympic 800m titles.
• That’s Quite The Loophole: Russian Cyclist Thinking About Switching Citizenship To Uzbekistan Due To Fear Of Being Banned From 2020 Games The 38-year-old has a previous failed drug test and says she “doesn’t feel her age” … hmm, we wonder why?
• Canadian Marathoner Natasha Yaremczuk Gets 14-Month Ban For Testing Positive At The 2017 Dublin Marathon (Where She Was 10th)

The Latest On The Ingebrigtsens

• Jakob Ingebrigtsen Celebrated His Double Gold With His Girlfriend By Downing A Glass Of Bubbly Water Sorry, single ladies and/or gents, he’s apparently got a significant other.
• They Were A TV Hit 70% Of Norwegians Watching TV Tuned In To Jakob Ingebrigtsen Winning Gold  
• Henrik And Jakob Ingebrigtsen Get Hero’s Welcome Upon Return Home Even the Mayor showed up at the airport to greet them.
• Jakob Ingebrigtsen Is Given A Red Mercedes BY A Local Dealer
• Jakob Ingebrigtsen’s Agent Thinks The Brothers Should Get Appearance Fees For All 3 To Run At The Same DL Now

Post-Euro Champs News

• Mondo Duplantis’ Epic Leap Highlights Flaws In American Record Rules Currently dual citizens can set American records even if they represent another country. This issue was brought up to the USATF rules committee last year, but the issue wasn’t taken seriously.
  *MB: Thoughts on Mondo’s AMERICAN pole vault record?
• Laura Muir Happy To Finally Win A Medal In Front Of Her Parents “Every single time they’ve been there, I’ve not delivered the medal for them. So I knew I had to get them a medal this time.”
• Tianna Bartoletta Blogs About Being A Spectator At Euro Champs She says she had a ton of fun and was particularly impressed with the multi-eventers.
• Dina Asher-Smith Knows She Needs To Get Faster If She Wants To Win Olympic Gold In 2020 She correctly points out that her main competition (USA and Jamaica) weren’t at Euros.
  *The Independent: Dina Asher-Smith Turns Attention Towards Tokyo 2020 After Berlin Success
• British Athletics Head Neil Black Says Dina Asher-Smith’s Competitors Should Be Afraid After Triple Euro Gold Black: “When you put Dina’s multiple gold-medal-winning and world-leading, world-class times together, if they are not fearful, if they are not respectful, then they must be crazy.”
  *The Guardian: Dina Asher-Smith’s Triple “The Performance Of A Generation”
• IAAF’s Top 10 Memorable Moments From Euro Champs The most impressive distance performance was definitely 17-year-old Jakob Ingebrigtsen‘s 1,500/5,000 double.
• T&F News’ Top Five Women’s Moments From Euro Champs Sandra Perkovic made meet history by becoming the first athlete in history to win 5 European titles in the same event (although Mahiedine Mekhissi would have beaten her to it if it wasn’t for his shirtless celebration DQ).
• T&F News’ Top Five Men’s Moments From Euro Champs Ramil Guliyev‘s 19.76 tops the list.

2018 Berlin European Champs *Watch LIVE *Results

• Sunday: MB: Move over Jakob Ingebrigtsen, you’re not even the best junior in Europe. Mondo Duplantis clears 6.05m (19′ 10¼”)!
• European Athletics: Mondo Duplantis Shatters Championship Record With An Incredible 12cm PR Duplantis’ jump broke the 24-year-old meet record (6.00m) and was a world U20 record as well.
  *Good Read: Armand Duplantis Wins PV Competition For The Ages Duplantis: “I just hope I wake up tomorrow and it’s still real.”
• Belarus’ Volha Mazuronak Survives Nosebleed And Wrong Turn To Win Euro Marathon Her nose started bleeding profusely just 30 minutes into the race and a slight wrong turn made the race close, but she still won by 6 seconds in 2:26:22.
• Belgium’s Koen Naer Wins Marathon In A Championship Record Of 2:09:51 It was a pretty fast race for a championship marathon (at Europeans) as Switzerland’s Abraham Tadesse was 2nd (2:11:24) and Italy’s Yassine Rachik (2:12:09) 3rd.
• MB: 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.
• The Telegraph Bashes Laura Muir’s Competition At Euro Champs Ben Bloom wrote, “The only possible way any of her inferior rivals could even consider winning was if the race came down to a sprint finish …”
• Dina Asher-Smith Goes From Fourth To First On Final Leg Of 4 X 100 To Complete The Euro Champs Triple Gold Asher-Smith: “When I got the baton I was like ‘not today, today is our day’ and I’m very happy to finish that off for the girls. I saw people and thought ‘not on my watch.'”
  *The Guardian: Dina Asher-Smith Snatches Victory For 4 X 100 Relay Team To Claim Third Gold
• GB Men Win A Third Consecutive Euro 4 X 100 Title The team of CJ Ujah, Zharnel Hughes, Adam Gemili and Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake ran 37.80 to just miss the championship record by .01.
• IAAF Recap: Mondo Duplantis Vaults 6.05m While Dina Asher-Smith Completes Sprint Triple As Euro Champs Conclude Germany’s Gesa Felicitas-Krause got a huge roar from the home crowd kicking home to a 9:19.80 win in the steeple. Poland’s Anita Wlodarczyk took her fourth European hammer throw title with a 78.94m meet record. Portugal’s Nelson Evora won the men’s TJ (17.10m).
• MB: 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.
• RRW: Volha Mazuronak, Koen Naert Win European Marathon Titles
• RRW: Distance Favorites Win On Final Night Of European Athletics Championships
• Michael Johnson Explains Why He Thinks Dina Asher-Smith Could Win Olympic Gold At Tokyo 2020 He thinks she’s probably better at the 100m than the 200m, but the 200m has less competition so she has a good chance in both.
• Sean Ingle: “Dina Asher-Smith Has Stunned Berlin, Other Britons Must Now Grab Baton”
• Athletics Weekly’s Top 10 Moments From Berlin Javelin champ Thomas Rohler celebrating with a swim in the steeplechase pit makes the list.
• GB Tops The Track And Field Medal Standings After Double Sprint Relay Gold
• Russia Tops GB In Final Euro Champs Medal Tally (All Sports)
• BBC Video Highlights From Euro Champs (All Sports)
• European Athletics President Sven Arne Hansen Calls Berlin 2018 “Best Ever” Euro Champs

Non-Ingebrigtsen European News (Fri./Sat.)

• Full IAAF Recap Of Saturday
• Dina Asher-Smith Completes 100/200 Double In Style With 21.89 British Record
• Sandra Perkovic Wins 5th Straight Discus Title
• Ghosts Of Owens And Hitler Equally Felt In Berlin’s Olympiastadion

• 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

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.”

Pre-NACAC News

• Sandi Morris, Keni Harrison And Lopez Lomong Lead Team USA For NACAC Championships
• CBC’s Preview Of The 2018 NACAC Champs They focus the preview on the top Canadians but also tell you about the top pros not from Canada.
• Hassan Mead Is Running NACACs As He Finds It Hard To Say No To Opportunity To Wear Team USA Jersey “For me, it’s tough to deny a chance to wear the USA uniform. It means a lot to me and shows you are doing something right.”
• Fraser-Pryce Looking For Great Returns At NACAC Championships Her main goal appears to be sub-11.
• Andre De Grasse Talks Setbacks And Fatherhood Prior To NACACs

NCAA News: Multiple Ducks Are Jumping Ship

• NCAA XC 4th Placer Katie Rainsberger And NCAA 5,000 3rd Placer Lilli Burdon Leaving Oregon Track Program Tanner Anderson and Mick Stanovsek are also transferring as they confirmed they will follow Andy and Maurica Powell to Seattle. Multiple sources have said Rainsberger and Burdon will do the same.
  *Ken Goe: Katie Rainsberger And Lilli Burdon Lead Exodus From The Oregon Ducks’ Track Program
  *MB: Katie Rainsberger, Lilli Burdon Others Not On Oregon’s 2018 Roster
• World Junior 200 Silver Medalist Lauren Rain Williams Has Also Left The Ducks She is transferring To rival USC.
• Previous News: WITH POWELLS GONE, BRODEY HASTY FLIPS FROM OREGON TO NAU
• Missouri Distance Runner Austin Hindman Turns Pro In Triathlon Hindman (a 4:04 high school miler) leaves Missouri after his freshman year to join Project Podium, a triathlon group in Arizona.
• 2018 USTFCCCA Coaches Hall Of Fame Class Announced
• MB: Coaches, if an athlete screws up, please try to follow this advice from Chris Fox and Justyn Knight on how to handle it
• MB: Inside The Allegations Against Former UW Track Coach (WBUR Radio Show)