April 16, 2019 Homepage Archive

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.

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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 EditorialBoston: ~~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

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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2019 Boston Marathon*Tracking / Top 30 Results

LRC FinalLawrence Cherono Outkicks Lelisa Desisa To Win 2019 Boston Marathon; Americans Scott Fauble & Jared Ward Run 2:09 Marathons don’t get much better than this. 3 guys side by side tied for the lead with less than 800 to go. Two Americans under 2:10.

LRCAnalyzing The American Men At 2019 Boston: Fauble & Ward (Finally) Break 2:10, Ritz Struggles, & More An American-born runner not named Galen Rupp hadn’t broken 2:10 in more than 2,000 days but two men did it on Monday in Boston.

RRW:A Breakaway And A Sprint Deliver Boston Marathon Wins To Worknesh Degefa And Lawrence Cherono
NY Times: Boston Marathon Winners A Squeaker And A Runaway
Seven-Time NASCAR Champion Jimmie Johnson Runs Boston In 3:09:07 Johnson wanted to break 3 hours, but said he realized 7 miles in that “It wasn’t in the cards.”

More From The Weekend

Grenada Invitational Recap:Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Cruises To 11.20 MR; GB’s Miguel Francis Wins 200m In World Leading 20.19 Over Andre De Grasse (20.20) Justin Gatlin and rising Jamaican star Akeem Bloomfield were DNFs in the 200 while GB’s Adam Gemili won the 100m in 10.10. USA’s Evonne Britton ran a 12.81 world lead to win the 100H over Nia Ali in 3rd (12.99). *Results
USATF Weekend Highlights:Gabby Thomas Runs 100m World Lead With 11.10
Canadians Justin Kent (29:30) And Natasha Wodak (32:38) Win Vancouver Sun Run 10K
Hiko Tonosa And Catherina Mullen Win Great Ireland Run 10k

Boston Marathon Talk On Our Fan Forum / Message Board

MB: Official 2019 Boston Marathon Live Discussion Thread
MB:The American sub-2:10 (non Rupp) drought is over!! Scott Fauble runs 2:09:10, Jared Ward 2:09:25 in Boston!
MB:Let’s pump the breaks (a little) on Hasay’s 3rd place finish. On a day with good weather, only 2 women broke 2:25 in Boston.
MB:With 1 mile to go, Yuki Kawauchi and Dathan Ritzenhein had the exact same time. Guess who won the last mile battle?
MB:At halfway Ritz was on 2:09:22 pace. At 35k, Ritz was still on 2:12:12 pace. He ran 2:16:19.
MB: LRC Poster Gene “JustGene” Dykes — 2:58:50 in Boston at 71 years old
MB:Joanie 3:04
MB: Jimmie Johnson (NASCAR driver): 3:09 Boston finish
MB: Wired’s Nicholas Thompson on Boston: “It’s a terrible course if you want a personal best.” Agree or Disagree?
MB:“I thought I was fit enough to win last year,” Ritzenhein says
MB: US Commentary for BOSTON = ? The first half of the coverage was almost unwatchable. You can’t cover 4 events at once.
MB:Wow: Carrie Tollefson just said that Des Linden told her she made more than $1 million last year
MB:Guy on starting line wearing woman’s shirt belly shown- wtf?!!??
MB: BOSTON a flop? Not for us, we loved it.

Non-Boston News Of Note

Cherry Blossom 10 Miler Was Found To Be 240 Feet Short, So Stanley Kebenei’s AR Won’t Count The race organizers deserve kudos for figuring it out so quickly and for paying Kebenei the $10,000 bonus anyway.
Paula Radcliffe Has Sympathy For Semenya But Says “… it’s not possible to be fair to everybody.” “Maybe in the future there will be more than two categories,” said Radcliffe.
Should Steve Cram Be Eligible To Be Head Of UK Athletics If He’s Employed By Nike And BBC? The answer is no.
NCAA D2 800 Champ, Thomas Staines Of Col St. Pueblo, Is The Son Of 2 British Olympians – Gary And Linda Staines Mom ran 50.98 for 400 while dad ran 3:53 mile, 13:14 for 5,000m, 27:48 for 10,000m and 2:11:25 for the marathon.
Former Ole Miss Miler Sean Tobin Shares What It’s Like To Train With The Melbourne Track Club
Former Southern Illinois Coach And AD Lew Hartzog Has Died
Oregon Ducks Announce Recruiting Class They have recruits from 8 states and four countries, but only 1 Oregonian. The class includes Tyrese Cooper.
RUSADA reveals it tested track athletes the most, then weight lifters for 1st quarter of 2019
Doha DL Is May 3rd – Hellen Obiri Will Be There, As Will Ronald Kwemoi Renato Canova anointed Kwemoi as the 2020 Olympic 5,000 champ years ago.

Sprint News

Recommended Read Lengthy TFN Q&A With Fred Kerley – The World’s Best 400 Man The article reveals that Kerley is easily the tallest and heaviest sub-44 man in history. He weighs more than 30 lbs more than anyone in the top 10 in the world right now.
Canada’s Andre De Grasse ready for first individual race since last July And last year, he didn’t run faster than 10.15 or 20.46, but he’s hoping to get back to his old form under new coach Rana Reider.
Former Olympic And Worlds 400m Medalist Roger Black Talks About How He’s Managed To Have A Successful Post-Athletics Career
Athletes Converge On Iten For Relay Trials – Daily Nation Remember, there are no distance relays as the IAAF seems to hate distance running.
Edwin Allen And Twin Sisters Tia And Tina Clayton Are Ready To Rock Penn Relays

Our Weekly Recap

WTWWeek That Was: Africans, Americans, And Europeans Run Fast In Rotterdam, 8:40.00 High School 3,200m, Kebenei American 10-Mile RecordIt was a great week to run fast – and an American record finally fell after 13,160 days – but don’t tell that to Noah Droddy, Amy Cragg or Dennis Kimetto.

TrackFlix

Short Film On Eliud Kipchoge Premiering Saturday You can watch the film for free here at 2PM ET on Saturday.
Trailer For New Documentary On US Hurdler Johnny Dutch The documentary will follow Dutch as he pursues his Olympic dream as well as his goal of being a filmmaker.

Admin News

IOC President Thomas Bach Tells Athletes To Begin Negotiations With National Olympic Committees Over Rule 40 Restrictions Rule 40 is the controversial restriction on advertising during the Olympics which hinders athletes ability to make money off their own brand. New rules in Germany though have scaled back some of the restrictions after a court case.
Daily Mail:Former Rugby Player Nigel Walker The Favorite To Be The New CEO For UK Athletics Walker was also a 110 hurdler and made the semi-finals at the 1984 Olympics. UKA has been without a CEO since Niels de Vos stepped down in September.
2019 Sees Mondo Celebrate 50 Years Of Making Top Tracks Mondo started in 1969. They provided the track for the 1976 Montreal Olympics and have done every Olympic track since.
Need A Job?IAAF Seeking Candidates For Positions In Four Of Its Bodies

US/NCAA Track News *All NCAA Results

Event-By-Event Top 10 Collegiate Marks From The Weekend Mississippi State had the top 3 men’s 800 times, led by Marco Aropso with 1:45.50.
2019 Heps Mile Champ Sam Ritz Transfers From Columbia To Washington
Video Of Sydney McLaughlin’s 49.60 Relay Split For some reason she was racing with/against men and held her own.
LSU Gets NCAA Leads From JuVaughn Harrison In The LJ (8.17m) And Their 4 X 400 Relay (3:02.88)
South Carolina Get Three NCAA Sprint Leads At Gamecock Invitational There was a 400m world lead from Quincy Hall in the 400m with 44.53 while Demek Kemp ran 10.03 in the 100m and Wadeline Jonathas 51.56 in the 400m.
Former University Of Arizona Distance Runner Files Lawsuit Against Coach And UniversityMichael Grabowski alleges a toxic team culture and assault by coach Fred Harvey.
*MB: Ex University of Arizona steepler says he was assaulted by coach, threatens to sue for $10 million after being kicked off team
Student Editorial Rips UCLA Admins: “UCLA Has Lost Integrity Failing To Hold Officials Involved In Bribery Accountable” “This is straight-up bribery. And the fact that it was permitted and even allegedly encouraged by administrators makes it obvious UCLA is comically corrupt.”
USTFCCCA Weekend Collegiate Recap Ohio State’s Nick Gray had an NCAA lead in the 200m with 20.20.
Aggies Sweep Team Titles At The Texas A&M Invitational

A Major Bust In Kenya?

LRCKenyan 5,000m Runner Cyrus Rutto Suspended For ABP Violation – What Does It Mean For The Sport And For His Coach Patrick Sang? The 13:03 runner, who is coached by Patrick Sang, has been provisionally suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit. Up until this year, no East African had ever been hit with an ABP violation but he’s #2 on the year. *MB: Another Kenyan Charged With Doping

News From The UK

Steve Cram Is The Leading Candidate To Be The New UK Athletics Chairman, But Would Need To Quit His BBC Commentary Job Former UK Athletics chairman Ed Warner feels it would be a clear conflict of interest. “It would be like he was marking his own homework, commentating on the team he chairs.”
GB Parliamentary Chair Stands By Original Seb Coe ConclusionDamian Collins said, “Lord Coe either knew more than he suggested he did when he gave evidence to the committee, or he knew enough about the Liliya Shobukova case to have asked more questions about it within the IAAF at the time.”
Former UKA Head Ed Warner Talks About Cheating In The Sport And How It’s “Inevitable” Warner says to combat doping you have to “look at it through the eyes of the cheat” and that the “consequences” are key.
July 20:Stellar Quartet Will Face Off In The Anniversary Games Women’s 100m The field includes Jamaica’s double Olympic champ Elaine Thompson, two-time World champ Dafne Shippers, GB’s double Euro champ Dina Asher-Smith and double world medalist Marie-Josee Ta Lou.