– Athletics Integrity Unit head Brett Clothier talking about the Abbott World Marathon Majors’ and AIU’s new out-of-competition investigation and intelligence-driven testing program.
LRC Team LetsRun Aarhus Report: Read About Kelsey Bruce & Matt Crowe’s World XC Experience When I woke up last Monday morning, I had never heard of Kelsey Bruce or Matt Crowe. Five days later, I was cheering them on at the World Cross Country Championships in Aarhus, Denmark.
LRC Podcast: What Really Happened at World Cross Country, Cheptegei vs Mo Farah, The Debut of Team LetsRun + Emily Sisson Has Arrived Full details and show notes above or you can listen in the player below or your favorite podcast service.
LRC Redemption: Joshua Cheptegei Conquers Kiplimo, Kamworor And The Course To Become World Champion 2 years ago, Cheptegei wilted in the heat while leading before the home Ugandan crowd. Today, he conquered the tough, magnificent Aarhus course that broke the US men’s team that finished 11th. Kirubel Erassa ran a good first leg for the US relay team that finished 4th.
LRC Won And Done: Hellen Obiri Wins Her First (And Last) World Cross-Country Title Obiri is not a 10k runner or a cross-country runner, but she showed why she is one of the best runners on the planet by winning on the tough course. Stephanie Bruce was the top American woman as the Bowerman women really struggled.
LRC One Week Later: How Will USATF Select The 2020 Olympic Team? No One Really Seems To Know We have a little good news to report. Amid confusion, USA Track and Field is refusing to confirm the statement they gave us last week that put US distance fans into a tizzy. And USATF tells us they are appealing to the IAAF to give the top 5 at the US Olympic Marathon Trials the marathon standard.
*MB: A Little Good News: USATF is appealing to get top 5 at US Olympic Marathon Trials the standard.
LRCWTW: 7 Final Thoughts About World XC + Emily Sisson Delivers Is Burundi on its way to being the newest East African distance power? How in the world did the US men lose to Tanzania? Plus Dom Scott went for it big time (and blew up big time) and a look back at Eliud Kipchoge‘s four runs at World XC.
LRC Abbott World Marathon Majors And Athletics Integrity Unit Announce Expanded Out-Of-Competition Testing And Investigation Program The WMMs are putting their money into keeping the sport clean. Others like agents and sponsors need to start joining them. *IAAF Statement
*Discussion: Good Idea/Bad Idea: What if marathons/races required agents to pay back the percent of money they earned from dirty athletes?
Day 3 – Press Conference Day: LRCSeb Coe Loves World XC And Wants More Participation – But If That Is To Happen, He Needs To Change His Approach
Day 2: LRC 2019 World XC: A Tour Of The Toughest Cross-Country Course We’ve Ever Seen It’s also the toughest course that Shalane Flanagan and Tim Hutchings have seen as well.
*MB: Boots are on the ground at World XC – The course is LIVING UP TO THE HYPE AND GETTING RAVE REVIEWS
LRC Denmark Podcast #2: The Most Difficult World Cross-Country Course We Ever Seen + Kelsey Bruce Speaks This podcast features a 20-minute interview with Kelsey Bruce, who has safely arrived in Denmark. Plus we reveal that we’ve also sent a man to compete at World XC.
*Denmark Podcast #1
LRC Goes To World XC Day 1 In Denmark: Bikes, A Strip Club, & The Little Mermaid We recap everything that LRC’s Weldon Johnson & Jonathan Gault got up to on Wednesday in beautiful Copenhagen.
US Lawyer Launches Legal Challenge To Get Women’s 50k Race Walk Into The Tokyo 2020 Olympics On Basis Of Gender Equality We have a better solution to achieve gender equality: remove the men’s 50k race walk.
LRC Redemption: Joshua Cheptegei Conquers Kiplimo, Kamworor And The Course To Become World Champion 2 years ago, Cheptegei wilted in the heat while leading before the home Ugandan crowd. Today, he conquered the tough, magnificent Aarhus course that broke the US men’s team that finished 11th. Kirubel Erassa ran a good first leg for the US relay team that finished 4th.
LRC Won And Done: Hellen Obiri Wins Her First (And Last) World Cross-Country Title Obiri is not a 10k runner or a cross-country runner, but she showed why she is one of the best runners on the planet by winning on the tough course. Stephanie Bruce was the top American woman as the Bowerman women really struggled.
LRCFrom 15:40 In College To 13:57 At Age 28, Meet Matt Crowe, The LetsRun.com Men’s Entrant To 2019 World Cross-CountryCrowe is 28-year-old American with a 13:57 PR who is currently living in London. The story of how he got there, going from 15:40 in college to 13:57, is incredible.
*MB:Team LetsRun.com just doubled in size – Meet Matt Crowe – We’re sending him to 2019 World XC as well
LRCFrom 15:40 In College To 13:57 At Age 28, Meet Matt Crowe, The LetsRun.com Men’s Entrant To 2019 World Cross-CountryCrowe is 28-year-old American with a 13:57 PR who is currently living in London. The story of how he got there, going from 15:40 in college to 13:57, is incredible.
*MB:Team LetsRun.com just doubled in size – Meet Matt Crowe – We’re sending him to 2019 World XC as well
LRC Meet Kelsey Bruce, The LetsRun.com Entrant At The 2019 World Cross-Country Championships This week, we’re doing something that the athletics federations of Belgium, Finland, and the Netherlands couldn’t manage. We’re sending an athlete to the World Cross Country Championships. Meet Kelsey Bruce. The former DII runner has chopped her marathon PR from 2:48 to 2:31 in less than three years, and is pumped to race the world’s best.
*MB: Meet Kelsey Bruce: We’re sending the former DII runner, who has improved from 2:48 to 2:31 in the marathon, to 2019 World XC
LRC Meet Kelsey Bruce, The LetsRun.com Entrant At The 2019 World Cross-Country Championships This week, we’re doing something that the athletics federations of Belgium, Finland, and the Netherlands couldn’t manage. We’re sending an athlete to the World Cross Country Championships. Meet Kelsey Bruce. The former DII runner has chopped her marathon PR from 2:48 to 2:31 in less than three years, and is pumped to race the world’s best.
*MB: Meet Kelsey Bruce: We’re sending the former DII runner, who has improved from 2:48 to 2:31 in the marathon, to 2019 World XC
LRC One Week Later: How Will USATF Select The 2020 Olympic Team? No One Really Seems To Know We have a little good news to report. Amid confusion, USA Track and Field is refusing to confirm the statement they gave us last week that put US distance fans into a tizzy. And USATF tells us they are appealing to the IAAF to give the top 5 at the US Olympic Marathon Trials the marathon standard.
*MB: A Little Good News: USATF is appealing to get top 5 at US Olympic Marathon Trials the standard.
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