October 21, 2018 | LetsRun.com

Amsterdam Marathon Tracking & Results TV & Streaming Info

Lawrence Cherono Shatters The Course Record To Win The Amsterdam Marathon In 2:04:06 Kenenisa Bekele was with the leaders through the half, but fell off and dropped out near his hotel at the 40k mark and walked back to his room. On the women’s side, Tadelech Bekele defended her title in 2:23:14. Making her marathon debut, two-time Olympic champ Meseret Defar was 7th in 2:27:25.

LRC An Examinaton Of Kenenisa Bekele’s Bizarre Day At The 2018 TCS Amsterdam Marathon The greatest distance runner in history had a bizarre day today in Amsterdam. We detail it for you here. Updated with quotes from Jos Hermens.

50 Years Ago – Bob Beamon Shocked The World

LRC Feature A Leap For The Ages: Bob Beamon’s 29-Foot Long Jump Turns 50 A half century later, there’s still only one way to describe the men’s long jump at the 1968 Olympics: Beamonesque. We take an in-depth look at one of the greatest singular accomplishments in sports history. Beamon improved the WR by 6.59% – that’s the equivalent of someone in 2018 lowering the marathon WR to 1:53:28 or the 100-meter record to 8.95.
*MB: 50 years ago, Bob Beamon made history. Where does his performance rank on list of greatest singular sports performances?

LRC Why Is The Long Jump World Record So Hard To Break? Mike Powell‘s WR has stood for 27 years and the #2 mark from Bob Beamon celebrates its 50th anniversary today. What explains their longevity? Are the best athletes in the NFL? Are the runways too soft? Is there a mental block?

BBC Video Looking Back On Bob Beamon’s WR The 3-minute video includes some cool old footage.
IAAF: The Perfect Jump – Bob Beamon’s 8.90m Celebrates Its 50th Anniversary The IAAF pays tribute to Beamon’s historic jump which broke the WR by a “staggering 55 centimeters.”
Mark Cullen’s Updated Story Of The 2014 Dedication Of The 1968 Olympic Trials Site/Training Center

The Latest From The Commonwealth

Legendary Kip Keino May Not Be Charged After All, Will Serve As A Witness In Corruption Case It’s not clear if he’s actually innocent or if this is the result of “what is seen as heavy political influence to have him set free.”
*MB: Kip Keino and six other senior Kenyan officials charged with corruption
InsideTheGames: Criminal Charges Against Kenyan Legend Kip Keino Dropped After Revealed He Never Received Any Money Instead, Keino will be a state witness against former Sports Minister Hassan Wario and the others who have been charged in the scandal.
Keino, Who Had Been Out Of The Country, Did Surrender To Police On Thursday Morning Keino is accused of letting his son travel to Rio at the cost of 2.5 million shillings, which is nearly $25,000.
Two-Time Canadian Champ Nicole Sifuentes Is Hanging Them Up After This Year Sifuentes was also former NCAA runner-up in the mile for Michigan.

Bolt Updates

Bolt Turns Down Malta Contract Offer Bolt is currently trying to earn a pro contract from the Australian team Central Coast Mariners.
Usain Bolt Offered Two-Year Pro Soccer Contract With Maltese Club but there are rumors he could walk out from his trial to take this offer.
BBC: Usain Bolt Questions Why He Is Being Drug Tested When He Isn’t Officially A Pro Soccer Player Yet Bolt doesn’t have an official contract yet, but is still registered with the club so subject to drug testing.
MB: Usain Bolt says his “Dreams become Reality” after scoring two goals

Road Action

Both Course Records Fall As Mustapha El Aziz (60:16) And Yebrgual Melese Arage (67:18) Win Lisbon Half Marathon This even after the race had to be delayed and the starting line moved due to winds from Hurricane Leslie. The CR also went down in the men’s marathon as Limenih Getachew won in 2:07:34. Kuftu Dadiso Tahir won the women’s race in 2:24:56.
MB: Allie Kieffer runs 1:10:58 for the win at Staten Island Half as her last workout before NYC Bereket Alem Kidanu won the men’s race in 63:55.
Switzerland’s Julien Wanders Smashes European 10k Record With 27:32 In Durban As World Silver Medalist Joshua Cheptegei Wins In 27:16 Wanders broke Mo Farah‘s 8-year-old record of 27:44.
*MB: Wanders gets the European 10k record!
41-Year-Old Mother Of Two, Sinead Diver, Wins Melbourne Marathon In 2:25:19 She took 6 minutes off her PR to become the second-fastest Irish-born marathoner ever (although she runs for Australia). Aussie Liam Adams won the men’s race in 2:15:13.
Vincent Kibet Gets Upset Victory As Alina Reh Clocks Top European Time At The Bridgestone Great 10k In Berlin Kibet won in 27:21 to beat out defending champ Mathew Kimeli (27:38) while Reh ran the 12th-fastest European time ever with a 31:23 win.

Corruption News

Seven Kenyan Olympic Officials, Including Kip Keino And Former Sports Minister Hassan Wario, Are Facing Corruption Charges They are charged with stealing about a half-million dollars that was meant for athletes.
*InsideTheGames: Former Kenyan Olympic Official Stephen Kiptanui Has Been Arrested For Connection In Rio Olympic Scandal This article has some more details about the alleged corruption charges.
*MB: Kip Keino and six other senior Kenyan officials charged with corruption

Seb Coe Asks Senegalese President To Help Extradite Papa Massata Diack To France So He Can Face Bribery Allegations Papa Diack has been on Interpol’s most wanted list since December 2015, but the Senegalese government refuses to extradite him.
*Reuters: Thomas Bach Says That He Has Assurances French Authorities Can Talk To Papa Massata Diack, But They Have To Travel To Senegal

Ultra Running News

Zack Ornelas And Keely Henninger Win 2018 USATF 50 Mile Road National Championships Ornelas won in 5:55:13 (7:06 pace) and Henninger was first female, but also second overall in 6:37:14 (7:57 pace).
MB: 49 days after he started Phil McCarthy completes his Run Across America (3rd fastest) – I ran with him today AMA

More Sunday Road Action: Sub-2:10 For Cam Levins!

RRW: Benson Kipruto (2:07:24) And Mimi Belete (2:22:29) Win Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon As Cam Levins Breaks The Canadian Record With A 2:09:25 Debut Tanzania’s Augustine Sulle was a close second in 2:07:46 while Levins was 4th and Jake Robertson 5th (2:09:52). Levins broke the 2:10:09 Canadian record which was set by Jerome Drayton nearly 43 years ago. Belete broke the women’s CR in a close race with defending champ Marta Megra (2:22:35).

MB: Cam Levins SMASHES 43 year-old Canadian record with a 2:09:25 !!!
Live Stream
RRW Preview: Canadian Marathon Record Within Cam Levins’s Grasp On Sunday In Toronto

Debutante Tsehay Gemechu Breaks Delhi Half Marathon Women’s Course Record As She Beats Out WR Holder Joyciline Jepkosgei And Tirunesh Dibaba Gemechu won in 66:50 to beat out Jepkosgei by 6 seconds and her countrywoman Zeineba Yim by 9. Dibaba struggled early and finished back in 6th (68:36). Ethiopia’s Andamlak Belihu won the men’s race in 59:18 to win over Amdework Walelegn (59:22). USA’s Leonard Korir was 6th in 60:12.
*MB: Official 2018 Airtel Delhi Half Discussion Thread

Bolt Soccer News

Official Australian A-League Soccer Season Will Kick Off With Usain Bolt Question Left Hanging If the team gives Bolt a pro contract, he won’t be able to register until January 3rd, leaving “him a mere cheerleader for the first half of a season.”
Opinion Piece: “Usain Bolt’s Entitled Reaction To his Drug Test Unfairly Damages Trust In Anti-Doping Agencies” The Independent‘s Tom Kershaw writes, “Just like Serena Williams‘ outburst earlier this year, having the greatest athletes on the planet question why they are being drugs tested does nothing to promote the clean sport that they preach about.”
Former Australian Coach Ange Postecoglou Doubts Usain Bolt Can Make It As A Pro Soccer Player “If you haven’t done it from a very small age and hone your technique and skills, (it’s) very, very difficult at a later age to switch to our sport and play at the highest level.”
The Independent: Usain Bolt’s Complaints Fall On Deaf Ears As Australia Anti-Doping Authority Defends Decision To Test Him

2018 Youth Olympic Games In Buenos Aires Schedule / Live Results Watch Live On The Olympic Channel

Kenya’s Jackson Muema And Uganda’s Sarah Chelangat Secure Gold In Historic Cross-Country Race At Youth Olympic Games It was a strange system where finishes in the XC race determined the medalists from the distance track events (1,500, 3,000m and 2,000m steeple), but it meant that XC was at an “Olympic” event for the first time in 94 years. Meanwhile, back on the track, Tasew Yada won the 800 in 1:50.38 and Luke Davids (10.15) and Rosemary Chukwuma (11.17) took wind-aided 100m titles.
Four Meet Records Fell In On Day Saturday At The Youth Olympic Games It was all about the field events as records went down in the men’s PV (Dmitriy Kachoanov – 5.20m), women’s TJ (Aleksandra Nacheva – 13.11m), men’s TJ (Jordan Diaz – 17.14m) and women’s javelin (Elina Tzengo – 63.34m).

New Balance Nabs A Big One

2016 Olympian Sydney McLaughlin Signs With New Balance Of course we don’t know how much she signed for, but the average guess in our agents’ poll from last month was $1.725 million per year.
*MB: Sydney McLaughlin signs with New Balance

Field Event News

Two-Time Olympic Shot Put Champion Valerie Adams To Have A Second Child She said that the pregnancy would not stop her plans to end her career at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Germany’s Former European Indoor And Outdoor Pole Vault Silver Medalist Silke Spiegelburg Announces Her Retirement At The Age Of 32

General Olympics / Sports News

New USA Gymnastics Chief Catching Flack One Day After Appointment For Tweet Criticizing Nike The tweet last month showed her blackening out the Nike logo on a pair of golf shoes during the Colin Kaepernick sponsorship controversy.
Tour De France Trophy Stolen From Cycling Show In Birmingham Doesn’t that trophy get stolen from clean athletes just about every year?
Indonesia Bidding For 2032 Olympics
Italian Government Will Not Fund 2026 Olympic Bid We’re noticing a trend where Italy likes to talk about the possibility of bidding for the Olympics before shutting it down completely.
There Will Be Another Refugee Team For The Tokyo 2020 Olympics A 10 member team from Syria, Congo, Ethiopia and South Sudan competed at the 2016 Rio Games.

Goals For Bolt

Usain Bolt Scores His First Soccer Goals As A Pro Soccer Player Bolt had two goals in in the Central Coast Mariners 4-0 victory (includes video).
*The Guardian Article Bolt: “I’m proud of myself. Scoring a goal in your first proper match is a big deal. It was a good feeling.”
Bolt Pre-Game: “This will determine … (what) the club want to do with my career, so it’s a very important game.”

Semenya Case Update

IAAF Delay Testosterone Rules Until Caster Semenya CAS Verdict The CAS verdict is expected on or before March 26th. This may cause hyperandrogenous athletes to gamble on the case since the IAAF rules (if enforced by CAS) requires them to reduce their testosterone levels for 6-months before racing internationally.
Seb Coe Says They Made A Deal With Caster Semenya And Athletics South Africa To Expedite The CAS Case The IAAF won’t enforce their testosterone rules until the verdict, and in return Semenya agreed not to prolong the process. Coe: “All athletes need this situation resolved as soon as possible.”
IAAF Statement “The IAAF remains very confident of the legal, scientific, and ethical bases for the Regulations, and therefore fully expects CAS to reject these challenges.”

NCAA Updates

NAU, BYU And Wisconsin Men Still Sit 1-3 In The Post Pre-Nats Coaches’ Poll Stanford moved up to 4th. *Regional Rankings
No Changes To The Top 4 Teams In The Latest Women’s NCAA DI Rankings Colorado, Boise State, New Mexico and Oregon are ranked 1-4. *Regional Rankings
Grant Fisher And Weini Kelati Are NCAA Athletes Of The Week After Their Pre-Nats Victories

XC News: Pre-Nats *Live Results

LRC 2018 Pre-Nats: BYU (29 Points) & NAU Men (41 Points) Go Super Low; Grant Fisher Earns Narrow Win In 2018 XC Debut The teams were divided into two roughly even races as Arkansas (51 points) & New Mexico (67 points) claimed the women’s team races. Fisher (23:48), Rory Linkletter (23:54), Weini Kelati (19:33), and Jessica Hull (20:03) earned individual titles.

Grant Fisher: “I went way too early. I was really fortunate to come away with it.”
USTFCCCA Pre-Nats Recap
Q&A With Maurica Powell On Her First Season At Washington On getting the job, Powell said, “I was absolutely not trying to leave Oregon. Andy and I had really never tried to leave, we’d been there for 13 years and would have stayed probably forever. But we got a call …”
USTFCCCA: Putting NAU’s Lengthy Reign Into Perspective In the last 20 years, NAU is one of only four teams that have topped the NCAA DI coaches’ poll for more than 15 consecutive weeks.
Do You Want To Race World XC? IAAF: Six Months To Go Until World XC Championships In Aarhus, Denmark The event has open entry into the championship race so recreational runners can “measure yourself against the top runners from nations all over the world.”
December 9: Two Months To Go Until European XC Championships In The Netherlands

High School XC

Katelyn Tuohy Crushes Another Big High School Course Record, This Time At Sunken Meadow Tuohy ran 16:52.97 to absolutely destroy the record held by former Foot Locker champ Aisling Cuffe at 17:45. Tuohy’s time would have put her third in the varsity boys race.
*MB: Katelyn Tuohy takes on Sunken Meadow
MileSplit Notes From Manhattan Invy
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MileSplit: Athletes And Coaches Find Relief In Return To XC After Dealing With The Floods From Hurricane Florence Wreaked Havoc On Their Town And Homes

Distance News

The Oregonian: Nike Signs Oregon Runner Justin Gallegos As Their First Athlete With Cerebral Palsy Gallegos is a junior club runner who is trying to break 2 hours in the half marathon.
Mo Farah Thinks He’s Capable Of Running 2:04 Low Or 2:03 High “What I’ve learned [in Chicago] is I’m definitely better off going slower and finishing fast towards the end of the race. That definitely suits me a little better. It just depends how much slower I need to go the first half.”
October 21: MB: New Bekele Video!!! The pre-Amsterdam Marathon video has Bekele talking with training footage in the background.
November 11: Former Boston Champ Wesley Korir Faces Ethiopia’s Bazu Worku (2:05:25) At The Beirut Marathon

Previous Youth Olympic Games News

IAAF Youth Olympic Games Day 2 Recap Ethiopia’s Abrham Sime took the men’s 2,000 steeplecahse in 5:34.94 while Kenya’s Fancy Cherono won the women’s race in 6:28.08. Ethiopia’s Melese Kefale (3:52.95) and Kenya’s Edina Jebitok (4:16.68) came through as the favorites in the 1500. Argentina’s Nazareno Sasia highlighted non-distance action with a 21.58m victory in the shot put.
IAAF Youth Olympic Games Day 1 Recap Uganda got double wins in the 3,000s from Oscar Chelimo (8:08.20) and Sarah Chalangat (9:11.63) to highlight the distance action.
A Rundown Of The Top US Athletes Competing At The 2018 Youth Olympic Games In Buenos Aires
Entries For 2018 Youth Olympics Games There are some cool innovations this year, including a XC race for athletes from the 1,500, 3,000 and steeple as well as a mixed 8 x 100m relay.
MB: 144,000 Condoms For 4000 Under-18 Athletes In Youth Olympic Village