Huge Drama Already Coming Out Of London

LRC Haile Gebrselassie Fires Back At Mo Farah, Accuses Him Of “Disgraceful Conduct,” Says Sir Mo Was Reported For Attacking A “Married Athlete” In Hotel Gym We were expecting a titanic clash between distance legends in London – just not these two. Haile G also said Mo Farah refused to pay his $3,000 room bill and that Farah avoided a criminal charge for the alleged attack only after Gebrselassie’s intervention.
*Mo Responds To Haile With Statement: It reads in part, “Mo disputes all of these claims which are an effort to distract from the situation, where members of his hotel staff used a room key and stole money and items from Mo Farah’s room.”
*MB: Mo Farah says someone stole from while he was at Haile’s G hotel – Haile says Farah was reported for “attacking married athlete”

LRC Mo Farah Really Wants You To Know He Was Burglarized At Haile Gebrselassie’s Hotel Farah lost a sentimental watch, two phones and over $3,200 in cash and was upset with Gebrselassie for not doing anything or responding to his many text messages.

Outside London Coverage

• Mo Farah Admits That He’s “Addicted” To Running And Has A Very Competitive Personality “I’ve learned over the years no matter what race it is – or if I’m playing computer games with my kids – I just have that fight in me where I want to just win everything.”
• Mo Farah Says He Would Rank A London Marathon Victory Up There With His Marathon And World Titles Also, according to the BBC, Farah came “agonizingly close” to upsetting Kipchoge last year when he lost by 2+ minutes.

• Cool London Marathon Stats: Average Runner Loses 1/2 Inch In Height During The Race Each runner also burns enough energy to charge a smart phone for a year.
• Nike Zoom Vaporfly 4%’s Successor Is Here! ZoomX Vaporfly NEXT% Comes Out On Sunday In London And Will Cost $275 *AW
• IAAF Inside Athletics Interview With Eliud Kipchoge The full 5-minute interview is here.
• London Marathon Will Pass The £1 Billion Raised For Charity Mark This Year
• Recommended Read: Runner’s World Catches Up With Eliud Kipchoge Ahead Of His London Marathon Title Defense Kipchoge talks about several topics with some great quotes on training and doping. Comparing running to driving a Ferrari, he said, “If you concentrate on the rear mirror, you’ll crash and cause an accident.”
  *MB: Kipchoge: “I have been doing all things at 80 percent.”
• MB: Mo Farah will shock the world on Sunday
• MB: London marathon predictions

Sprint News

• USA Names Strong Squad For Next Month’s IAAF World Relays In Yokohama, Japan The roster has 800m runners Donavan Brazier and Ce’Aira Brown and many top sprinters, including Noah Lyles, Fred Kerley, Mike Rodgers, Justin Gatlin, Tori Bowie and Sharika Nelvis, but it doesn’t have superstar Michael Norman.
  *MB: Michael Norman not good enough for team USA
• Penn Relays’ USA Vs. The World Race Celebrates 20-Year Anniversary This Week
• IAAF: Injuries And Illness Behind Him, Andre De Grasse Ready To Pick Up Where He Left Off Asked given his injuries if he thought he was the underdog, De Grasse laughed and said no one had ever told him he was the underdog before.
• After Opening Season At 47.5 For 400H, Samba Wants To End It With A 46.5 WR

More Post-Weekend NCAA Rankings/Results

• North Carolina A&T’s Trevor Stewart Runs 44.54 At LSU
• Kansas Freshman Zach Bradford Clears 5.77m In The Pole Vault At Kansas Relays
• Big Changes To Women’s NCAA Rankings With Arkansas Jumping Two Spots To Take #1 Spot Kentucky moved up from 6th to 2nd while Texas A&M dropped to 3rd and Southern California from 1st to 4th.
• Shakeup With Men’s Updated Men’s NCAA Rankings, But Texas Tech Stays On Top LSU moved up to 2nd, Texas A&M down to 3rd and Alabama up to 4th.
• Event-By-Event Top-10 Marks From The NCAA Weekend
• Drake Relays College Start Lists

US Weekend Track Action *All NCAA Results *Mt. SAC Results

LRC Michael Norman Opens Up Season With Sensational 43.45 400 Meters The American is now tied with Jeremy Wariner as the fourth-fastest man in history and in the process he shattered Michael Johnson‘s record for fastest time ever run in April. Updated with Norman quotes.
*MB: Michael MF Norman!!! 43.45!
*MB: Michael Norman can break 1:40 in the 800. Change my mind 

Texas Tech’s/Nigeria’s Divine Oduduru Runs 9.95/19.76 Double (Wind-Legal) In Less Than 1 Hour At Baylor That’s VERY impressive. He’s the 10th man in history to do it on the same day.

Ryan Crouser Throws 22.74 (74′ 7¼”) – Best Shot Since 1990!

• Beach Invy At Long Beach State: Omar Craddock Gets Upset Triple Jump Win Over Christian Taylor With 17.68m Craddock moved to #9 on the all-time US list. In the PV, recent NCAA record setter Olivia Gruver won with a MR of 4.66m. Chris Nilsen broke the men’s PV meet record with 5.82m.
• Good Read: MileSplit: Cole Sprout Runs First Sub-9 3,200m On Colorado Soil With 8:57.15 The race wasn’t without controversy, though, as Sprout and some others were initially DQed for cutting in too soon before the break. The DQ was overturned, the time might still not count as the official state record.
• IAAF Mt. SAC Recap: Vashti Cunningham wins HJ at 1.97m, Sydney McLaughlin 50.1 relay at Mt Sac
• Dalilah Muhammad (51.62) Beats Kendall Ellis (51.75) In Women’s 400 “I’m disappointed,” Ellis said. “Tried to go but there was nothing left.”
• LA Times: Mt. SAC Relays Will Finally Return To Mt. SAC Next Year As Construction Is Almost Done
• DyeStat Mt. SAC Women’s Recap: Keni Harrison Runs 100H World Leading 12.63
  *DyeStat Men’s Mt. SAC Recap USC’s Isaiah Jewett ran the 2nd fastest NCAA 800m of the year with 1:46.11 to beat Georgetown’s Joseph White (1:46.31).
• MB: Japanese HSer Aaron Tatsunami Clay runs 3:44.86 1,500
• MB: Stanford CLEANED UP at Cardinal Classic 3 guys broke 13:40, led by Grant Fisher‘s 13:29.
• MB: Ex-High School Studs Cooper Teare and Thomas Ratcliffe Crush 5k’s at Stanford Both ran 13:32.
• 18-Year-Old Ayden Owens Of USC Scores 8,130 Points In Collegiate Decathlon Debut At Bryan Clay In the process, he beat the indoor NCAA multi champ, set a Puerto Rican NR, set a USC school record and moved to #3 all time on the U20 list.
• Oregon Freshman Max Vollmer Scored 7,840 Points At The Bryan Clay Invitational
• Georgia’s Denzel Comenentia Throws 76.80m NCAA Hammer Lead At Mt. SAC He also broke his own Dutch national record. Nike pro Marcel Lomincky won the competition with 77.15m.
• MB: More Proof That Track’s Regular Season Is Almost Totally Meaningless: NCAA Star Morgan McDonald Runs “B” Heat At Bryan Clay

Week That Was

LRC Edna Kiplagat Gets Her Green Card, Greg Meyer Gets His 10-Mile Record Back, Jordan Hasay Is Back, And An Indoor Marathon World Record Plus we compare the 2000 Boston finish to 2019 and look at how many sub-2:10 marathons have been run by Ethiopia, Kenya, and the USA.