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Full Brussels Results

LRC Legendary Company: Selemon Barega Runs 12:43 (#4 All-Time) In Brussels To Join Bekele, Geb & Komen In The Sub-12:45 Club What a spectacular race. We hadn’t seen a sub-13 all year and now 18-year-old Selemon Barega has run 12:43.02 – only Kenenisa Bekele, Haile Gebrselassie, and Daniel Komen have run faster.
*MB: Holy sh**!!! The guy who couldn’t even medal at World Jrs or the African Champs just ran 12:43!!! Selemon Barega 

LRC 2018 Memorial Van Damme Full Recap: The Diamond League Season Comes To An End In Fine Fashion What a way for the season to end. A 9.79 100m win for Christian Coleman, a thrilling win by Laura Muir and more brilliance from Emmanuel Korir and Beatrice Chepkoech.

• Ibarguen Wins LJ To Complete $100,000 TJ/LJ Double
• Ibargüen Admits She Almost Retired After A Stressful 2017 Campaign (Translated From Spanish)
• Mondo Duplantis Wears LSU Jersey At DL Finale And Gets 7th
• Sandi Morris Got Engaged On The Diamond League Track

Brussels On The Message Board

• MB: Official 2018 Brussels DL Discussion Thread
  
• MB: Christian MF Coleman! 9.79! I never doubted you, bro. Never! If you adjust for wind, it was better than the AR.

Other News That Makes The Cut

• Usain Bolt Made His Pro Soccer Debut Today on Friday He nearly had a goal in the 6-1 mismatch.
• Don’t Forget ISTAF Berlin Is Sunday – Caster Semenya And Timothy Cheruiyot Will Be There At the meet, Robert Harting and Kim Collins will also both call it a career.
  *MB: Where the heck is Centro and why isn’t he racing Timothy Cheruiyot in Berlin on Sunday? 
• Report: Bedan Karoki Wants Sub-2:05 Time In Chicago
• Asian Games Final Day Recap: Qatar Ends Meet In Style With 3:00.56 4 X 400 Meet Record Kalkidan Gezahegne completed the 5,000/1,500 double.
• NAU Coach Mike Smith Signs 5-Year Contract Extension
• Irish 400 Record Holder David Gillick Says He Thought About Killing Himself After Retiring From Track
• Q&A With Beer Mile WR Holder Corey Bellemore

Collegiate XC News

• Oregon Men Take A Hit 1:47.67 HSer Josh Hoey Turns Pro And Joins Terrence Mahon In California Instead Of Going To Oregon Why a 1:47 guy would want to go pro is beyond our comprehension.
• Oregon Women Get Better Oregon Quickly Recovers From Rainsberger And Burdon Transferring Out As Two Top-15 NCAA XC Finishers TRANSFER IN In the game of transfer musical chairs, the Ducks end up winners as 2017 NCAA XC 5th placer Weronika Pyzik and 15th placer Isabelle Brauer have announced they will follow coach Helen Lehman-Winters to UO.
• 2018 Men’s DI XC Preseason National Coaches’ Poll NAU, BYU, Portland and Stanford top the list. Not too surprising as those were the top 4 teams at NCAAs last year.
• 2018 Women’s DI XC Preseason National Coaches’ Poll New Mexico, Colorado, Stanford and Oregon top the rankings while last year’s #2 San Francisco is down in 30th.
• 2018 Women’s DI XC Preseason Regional Rankings
  *Men’s Preseason Regional Rankings

September / October Action

• October 28  2:03:46 Man Guye Adola Makes His Fall Marathon Pick And It’s … Frankfurt
• October 21 Wesley Korir’s Little Brother John Is Excited To Be Racing October’s Scotiabank Waterfront Toronto Marathon The 22-year old debuted last year in 2:09.
• September 9: 2018 New Balance 5th Avenue Mile Fields Released – Fields Include Simpson, Centrowitz And Willis, But Not Shelby Houlihan Simpson and Willis will be looking to make history as if they win it will be titles #7 and #5 respectively.
• September 16: MB: 2018 Copenhagen Half Marathon – WR Attempt – Galen Rupp confirmed as he goes for the AR! Greatest Half Marathon of all time?
• September 8: Laura Muir Will Run The Mile At Great North CityGames The men’s mile has former Olympic bronze medallist Abdelaati Iguidar vs GB’s former Euro 800m silver medallist Michael Rimmer.
• September 8: Europe Names Team For The 2018 Continental Cup Jakob Ingebrigtsen is in the 1,500 and his older brother Henrik in the 3,000. Sifan Hassan highlights the women’s distance team in the 3,000.
• Asia-Pacific Team Announced For IAAF Continental Cup Aussie distance couple Ryan Gregson and Genevieve Lacaze are both on the team.

Doping: Asbel Kiprop Situation Gets Crazier And Sadder

Asbel Kiprop Publishes Video Of Him Making Out With His Pacemaker’s Wife As He Thinks The Pacemaker Set Him Up For EPO Bust 2008 Olympic champ Asbel Kiprop has published a salacious video of him making out with his pacemaker’s wife. Those in the know think Kiprop did so in retaliation for the pacemaker setting him up for the EPO bust out of anger for the affair. The woman has sadly tried to commit suicide.

• First WADA Approved Lab In East Africa Is Set To Open In Nairobi This will be big for African testing as samples will no longer need to be transported to Europe or South Africa. This will allow for more blood tests which previously were extremely difficult.
• Athletics Integrity Unit Confirms Kipyegon Bett’s EPO Positive Not surprisingly, GB 800m runner Kyle Langford (the runner Bett beat out for world bronze by just .04) hasn’t reacted too happilly on Twitter.
• Sandi Morris About Demi Payne On Twitter: “Well, I KNEW – but now it’s no longer just a suspicion.” She and Katie Nageotte had a brief exchange where they lament losing NCAA titles/records and a world team place to Payne.