2019 BOA Chicago Is Going To Be Fun – Farah Vs. Rupp 24 Is On

LRC Galen Rupp & Mo Farah Are Running The 2019 Chicago Marathon; What Does This Mean For Farah’s Future On The Track? Does this mean that Farah is out of the 10,000 at Worlds since it takes place one week before Chicago? Can Rupp improve on his 1-22 record against Farah? Jordan Hasay is also going to the Windy City as well.
*MB: Mo and Rupp confirmed for Chicago Marathon 2019

Conference Championship Weekend *Conference Championship Central

• SEC: *Live Results/Schedule/Start Lists *Meet Home
• Day 1: Mississippi State Men And Auburn Women Lead After First Day Alabama’s Gilbert Kigen (29:27.77) and Florida’s Jessica Pascoe (34:08.41) won the 10ks.
• LSU Off To Strong Start With 11 Qualifiers On First Day Of SEC Champs

• PAC-12: *Live Results/Schedule/Start Lists *Meet Home
• Good Read: The Oregonian: 800m Runner Susan Ejore Has Come A Long Way In A Hurry For The Ducks Ejore is the PAC 12 favorite, but five years ago she graduated high school in Kenya never having run a race.

• ACC: *Live Results/Start Lists/Schedule *Meet Home
• Day 1: Several Records Fall As ACC Champs Get Underway Syracuse’s Iliass Aouan (29:01.13) and Notre Dame’s Anna Rohrer (33:30.73) won the 10,000s.
• FSU Men And Women Hoping To Sweep ACC Champs
• ACC Champs Preview

• Big 12: *Live Results/Start Lists *Schedule *Meet Home

• Big 10: *Live Results/Start Lists *Schedule/Meet Home

• Mountain West: *Live Results *Start Lists/Schedule *Meet Home

• Texas Tech And LSU Stay 1-2 In Most Recent Men’s NCAA Rankings BYU jumped from 6th to 3rd and Florida dropped down to 4th.
• No Changes To Top 4 Women’s Teams In Updated NCAA Rankings Arkansas, Texas A&M, Southern California, Kentucky lead and Oregon jumped from 8th to 5th.
• USTFCCCA Conference Championship Central

Random Running Stuff

• Dog “Bandits” One Of The Toughest Ultras In The World At The Marathon des Sables (Sahara Desert Ultra) The dog ran six days out of the seven day race and became very popular with the runners. All the social media posts altered the owner who had lost and was able to pick the dog up at the finish line.
• Mom And 8-Month-Old Daughter Shatter Stroller Half-Marathon Record By More Than Five Minutes Lauren Stroud ran 1:22:29. Alan Webb‘s wife, Julia Webb, apparently broke the record in 2016 with 1:22:57, but it was never ratified by Guiness.
• BBC: Belfast Marathon Organizers Admit Their Course Was .3 Miles Too Long They said it was “human error” as the lead car driver diverted from the route.

Olympic News

• Mondo To Supply Athletics Track At Tokyo 2020 For Eighth Consecutive Olympic Games The company has done the track surface and equipment for every Games since the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.
• Site Traffic Overwhelms Tokyo 2020 Ticket Website On Opening Day The website struggled from the moment it opened with long wait times due to the high volume.
• Head Of UK Sport Katherine Grainger Has Plans For GB To Host The Olympics Again And Top The Medal Tables GB was 2nd only behind the US at Rio 2016.
• Japan consider use of military airbase for commercial flights during Tokyo 2020
• Los Angeles Releases “Privately-Funded, Balanced Budget” For 2028 Olympics The budget is $6.9 million, which is up from the original estimate of $5.3 billion.

Russian Doping News

• Russia Mid-Distance Runner Who Used Identity Fraud To Get Around Russian Doping Suspension Gets 12-Year Doping Ban Kseniya Savina not only used a friend’s passport to compete, but then got caught forging medical documents trying to explain away her EPO positive test. Her husband also got a ban (4 years) for his part in the scheme. *InsideTheGames article
  *MB: WTF: 1:59 Russian EPO cheat busted both for using Crimean passport of childhood friend to get around Russian ban
• IAAF Revoke Neutral Status Of Russian Sprinter After Failed Drug Test Russian sprinter Igor Obraztsov failed an out-of-competition test last month.

IAAF Releases More Info On New DSD Athlete Regulations

• IAAF Writes Open Letter To The World Medical Association In Response To Their Call For Physicians Not To Give Testosterone Lowering Drugs The IAAF laid out the many reasons (including non-athletic related) that the WMA’s stance could be harmful to individuals who are intersex.
  *MB: World Medical Association (WMA) urges its Members not to adminster testosterone-lowering drugs in females with DSDs The WMA President, Dr Leonid Eidelman, said: “We have strong reservations about the ethical validity of these regulations.”
• IAAF Releases FAQs And Briefing Notes On New Female Eligibility Regulations The IAAF lists Rojo’s viral Caster Semenya article in their “further reading” section.
• Alan Abrahamson: “In the matter of ’46 XY DSD’ cases: the IAAF is right.” Abrahamson points out that this case isn’t just about Caster Semenya, but the other DSD athletes and the women who have no chance of beating them.

Upcoming Action

• Defending World Champ And Two-Time World Champ Edna Kiplagat Lead Kenya’s Announced Team For Doha World Champs The women’s team also has Dubai champ Ruth Chepngetich while London and Berlin champions Brigid Kosgei and Gladys Cherono were surprising omissions.

• June 30: WR Holder Beatrice Chepkoech Vs. Emma Coburn And Colleen Quigley Highlights Pre Classic Steeplechase The field will actually have six of the eight fastest women in history including Hyvin Kiyeng and Celliphine Chespol.
• June 11: For The Second Year, Anyone Who Can Break The Finnish All-Comers Record In The Javelin Or The Discus At The Pavo Nurmi Games Will Win An Island USA’s 1976 Olympic champ Mac Wilkins has the discus all-comers mark at 70.98m and Finland’s Aki Parvianinen has the javelin mark with 93.09m from 1999.
• June 30: Omar McLeod And Sergey Shubenkov Lead 110H Field For Pre Classic At Stanford Devon Allen, France’s Euro champ Pascal Martinot-Lagarde and Jamaica’s Hansle Parchment are also in the race.
• May 25: Erica Bougard Leads US Cotingent Set For Gotzis Multi Event Meet Bougard was 3rd in the heptathlon at Gotzis last year. Seven-time NCAA champ Kendell Williams will compete in Gotzis for the first time.

More On Caster Semenya

• Caster Semenya Says She Won’t Take Hormone-Reducing Medication Her exact response was, “Hell no.” Semenya also said she wasn’t going to retire: “How am I going to retire when I’m 28? I still feel young, energetic. I still have 10 years or more in athletics.”
• AP: IOC President Thomas Bach Has “A Lot Of Sympathy” For Caster Semenya But Acknowledges The Issue Is “Extremely Complex” “The IOC respects CAS decisions, as we always do, but from a human point of view, yes, I have sympathy for her.”

LRC Post-Caster Semenya Articles

LRC What No One Is Telling You About Caster Semenya: She Has XY Chromosomes, The Usain Bolt/Michael Phelps Comparisons Don’t Work, And More After getting a confused email from his mom, Robert Johnson realized that the average person has no idea what’s going on with the Caster Semenya case because the mainstream reporting on the case is so poor. Somehow the Associated Press, BBC, NY Times, NPR, Reuters, and Washington Post all failed to tell you a very key fact about Semenya – she has XY chromosomes. Since the media’s reporting on Semenya has been so biased, Robert thought it was important to clear up three common misconceptions about the Semenya case. We encourage you to share this article with your friends that haven’t been following the Semenya case closely.

LRC Guest Column By Amby Burfoot: Let Semenya Run Free … In The 1,500 The 1968 Boston Marathon champ, who wrote a 5,000+ word piece in support of the IAAF’s regulations regarding Caster Semenya, says he felt “no joy” when he read the CAS decision yesterday and is now actually hoping the IAAF lets Semenya run the 1,500.