2020 Olympic Track And Field Schedule Released

LRC Want To Watch Olympic Track And Field In 2020? We Hope You Like Getting Up Early Before Work Track fans on the East Coast will be able to watch most distance finals from the 2020 Olympics live as they get ready for work. West Coast fans, we suggest you take the week off as it’s going to be super early for you.

• Tokyo 2020 Marathons To Start At 6AM To Avoid The Heat Japanese medics warned that running the race mid-morning could “lead to deaths” from heatstroke.
• IAAF Competitions Director Paul Hardy Says The 2020 Schedule Is “Substantially Different” From Past Olympics The schedule will still allow for all the traditional distance and sprint doubles.

Boston Women *Tracking / Top 30 Results

LRC Final Worknesh Degefa Takes Off Early, Holds On Late To Win Her First Boston Marathon Title, Jordan Hasay 3rd, Des Linden 5th Degefa led by as much as three minutes but in the end she held on for a 42-second win in 2:23:31.

LRC Jordan Hasay Sends Message With 3rd-Place Finish At 2019 Boston Marathon, But The Best May Be Yet To Come Hasay was happy with 3rd place, but is already looking ahead to the Tokyo Olympics.

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• May 3:  Olympic Champ Ryan Crouser And World Champ Tom Walsh To Resume Rivalry At The Doha DL They competed against each other nine times in 2018 with Crouser coming out on top in five of them (but Walsh won the DL final with a DL record of 22.60m in Zurich).
• IAAF Profile: Maddison-Lee Wesche Is New Zealand’s Latest Shot Put Star The 2018 world U20 champ is adding to NZ’s shot put tradition.
• Ole Stunes Isene Smashes PR And Sets Discus World Lead With 67.78m In Portugal
• IAAF World Hammer Challenge Starts In Two Weeks In Brazil Poland’s Anita Wlodarczyk and Wojciech Nowicki will try to top the standings again this year, which would be a seventh straight series win for Wlodarczyk.

Weekend Results

3:58 1,500 runner Gelete Burka – The Former World Indoor 1,500 Champ – Wins Paris Marathon In 2:22:47 Abrha Milaw of Ethiopia won the men’s race in just 2:07:05. We say “just” because the first half was 62:15. *IAAF Recap
*MB: Clemence Calvin – who allegedly refused a doping test in Morocco last month but got a court order to stay her doping ban – sets new French NR of 2:23:41 in Paris

•  Regasa Mindaye (2:09:42) And Sheila Jerotich (2:26:06) Win Warsaw Marathon
• Andrew Ben Kimutai (2:10:06) And Fantu Jimma (2:28:25) Win Dongfeng Renault Wuhan Marathon In China
• GB’s Nick Goolab (28:22) And Steph Twell (31:58) Win BM 10k Titles In Brighton
• 2019 BAA 5K: LRC Hagos Gebrhiwet (13:42) Repeats As Monicah Ngige (15:16) Runs Away From Women’s Field Ben True (13:44) and Justyn Knight (13:46) were 2nd and third as Kim Conley took top American honors in the women’s race in fourth (15:36).
• 2019 BAA 1 Mile: LRC 2019 BAA Mile: Robert Domanic (4:06.4) & Nikki Hiltz (4:40.1) Win Close Races Mission Athletics Club team members Nikki Hiltz and Emily Lipari ran the exact same time (4:40.1) but Hiltz got the win. In the men’s race, the Reebok Boston Track Club’s Domanic won by half a second over Chris O’Hare.
• CJ Albertson Runs 2:17:59.4 As Indoor Marathon World Record Fall For 4th Straight Year At Armory Albertson, a 25-year-old cross-country coach at Clovis Community College in Fresno, Calif., turned in a time of 2:17:59.4 to surpass two-time champion Malcolm Richards‘ previous record of 2:19:02. Richards beat his previous mark with a time of 2:18:47.9 time to finish as runner-up.

More Boston

LRC Editorial Boston: The People’s “Olympics” The Elitist Marathon Did you know that for the first time in history Boston has banned the amateur runners from competing with the pros? When the gun goes off in Hopkinton at 10:00 a.m. on Monday, a select few “elite” men will begin their 26.2-mile journey to Boylston Street. Everyone else in the mass race will just stand there for two minutes. Pretty sad for a race known as the “People’s Olympics.”
*MB: Boston Separates Elite Men’s Start from Wave 1 Corral 1 by two minutes

In Case You Missed This Controversy Last Week

• MB: Bizarre: USATF calls US indoors in NY a “success” but then announces it won’t be going back in 2020 like it was supposed to
• Staten Island Advance: Source Says That USATF Took 2020 Indoors From Ocean Breeze Athletic Center Because “USATF Made Beyond Exorbitant Money Demands” The source said they gave the local organizing committee an “ultimatum to comply” which the organizers said was unacceptable. *USATF Release

More Drug Busts

• Kenya’s Cyrus Rutto Gets Doping Suspension Based On Evidence From The Biological Passport Rutto was 13th in the 5,000 at 2017 Worlds.
  *MB: Another Kenyan Charged With Doping
• Strange Story: French 2:26 Marathoner Clemence Calvin Suspended For “Obstructing A Doping Test” In Morocco Calvin denies any wrongdoing and claims the testers were violent and pretended to be police officers, never identifying themselves as testers.

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