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Quote Of The Day

“I have a feeling that’s gonna happen (the Trials will get the gold standard), but I think in my perspective if I don’t think I can aim for a 2:11:30 or faster marathon, then I’m probably not going to be fast enough in the marathon to really be competitive enough in it. So you need to have that mindset. You can’t have the mindset… that the US team is going to be made by 2:15, 2:16 quality guys…..I need to be ready to run fast and do it and as of now I need to start planning how to try to run 2:11:30 at the Trials to to get that standard. And who knows, maybe even still, they let me go and I run on the best day 2:12 and get a top-three spot and I’m the guy that gets snubbed because I didn’t have the qualifier. Whatever, that’s like the coolest middle finger I could give to the marathon community and walk away. It would be equally as epic.”

-ultra marathon star Jim Walsmsley talking to LetsRun.com about the 2020 US Olympic Marathon Trials.

2019 USATF Distance Classic *Schedule And Results

LRC2019 Oxy Recap: Nikki Hiltz Stays Hot, Rachel Schneider Gets A Big 5K PR, Aisha Praught Leer Gets A NR And Is Lawi Lalang Back? Plus recent LRC podcast guest Stephanie Bruce ran a 27-second PR at age 35 to get the Worlds standard.
*MB: 2019 USATF Distance Classic Tonight – Official Discussion Thread
*USATF Recap:Rachel Schneider’s 15:06.71 World Lead Highlights

Retired Athlete News

USATF Suspends Former Two-Time Olympic Champion Angelo Taylor As A Coach Taylor was coaching a youth track club in Atlanta despite being arrested twice in 2005 for child molestation (which he pled down to delinquency of two 15-year-old underage girls).
Former Danish Olympic Shot Putter Puts Out Political Campaign Ad On Pron WebsiteJoachim B. Olsen said, “Yes, it’s me on Pornhub. … Half of the internet is porn. And you have to be where the voters are.”
The Athlete With The Oldest Men’s World Record Says He Wants It To Fall USA’s Kevin Young set the 400H WR with 46.78 back to the 1992 Barcelona Olympics but he thinks it should have already been broken.
Usain Bolt Jumps Into The Very Popular, But Controversial, Paris Scooter Market They are popular for commuting, but also seen as a nuisance and a danger by some.

Gender/Testosterone News

MB:Transgender woman CeCe Telfer currently sits at #2 in NCAA D2 100 hurdles – Watch her DOMINATE here (video) Last year Telfer was a low level athlete on the men’s team, but now is #2 in the NCAA as a woman.
Usain Bolt Urges Caster Semenya To Accept IAAF Ruling “I heard about her story without following it very closely. For me it’s just the rules. I don’t make the rules, but I enforce them … When there is a regulation [in the business rule] I never discuss it, I just bend over and move on.”
Organizers Announce Caster Semenya Won’t Be Competing At The Stockholm DL Meet After The CAS Testosterone Ruling No surprises there as Semenya has said she wouldn’t take testosterone lowering medication.
World Medical Association Reaffirms Its Opposition To IAAF’s Gender Rules Their statement said that treatment should be for medical need, not sports performance.
Kenya’s 800m Olympic Bronze Medalist Margaret Wambui Fears Testosterone Rules Will End Her Career Wambui says she will not take the testosterone lowering medication, nor does she plan to move to the 5,000m. She asks, “Why don’t we take maybe men with low testosterone and categorize them as women?”

More Distance News

RW Catches Up With Mary Cain After Her First Race Finish In 2.5 Years, At Win At NYRR’s Japan Run 4 Miler Cain says that she is “hoping to get on the track soon,” but doesn’t have any plans in place and has been doing strength work, not much speed.
*LRCA Behind-The-Scenes Look At Mary Cain’s Recent Training Camp In Mammoth Lakes, California
Laura Weightman (15:21) And Nick Goolab (13:34) Win English 5k Road Titles At The Ispswich Twilight

Sprint Stuff

Allyson Felix Eyeing Return At USA Champs After Her Comeback From Childbirth Felix had a C-section childbirth in November and has returned to full training and says she still wants to compete through at least Tokyo 2020 and maybe even Eugene 2021.
Good Read:T&F News Writer Gives A “Rant” About How The IAAF Doesn’t Get Splits Right Sieg Lindstrom explains how the splits aren’t accurate and the presentation in the results are horrible. We definitely agree; when the NCAA and Penn Relays can get results formatted so well, why are the IAAF’s so bad?
Gleaner Writer Rips Jamaica’s Performance At World Relays They put all their best sprinters (Elaine Thompson, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, etc.) in the women’s 4 x 200, but only managed third.
European Athletics Looks Back At Italian Pietro Mennea’s 200m World Record From 1979, Which Still Still Stands As The European Record Mennea’s 19.72 was actually the first of 272 world records set on a Mondo brand track.

World Marathon Majors News

World Marathon Majors Considering The Chengdu Marathon In China As A Seventh Addition To The World Class Series Of Races The WMM is also apparently considering the Singapore Marathon.
Chicago Marathon Charity Runners Raised An Event Record $22.7 Million In 2018

Shanghai DL Is Saturday *Provisional Entry Lists

Kenya’s Winny Chebet Expecting A Tough Test In Shanghai 1,500 The 3:56 woman said her training has been going well and is looking forward to racing against Sifan Hassan.
Blessing Okagbare Returning To The Shanghai Stadium For The First Time In 4 Years For Saturday’s Diamond League She’s racing the 200m against Olympic champ Elaine Thompson, US champ Jenna Prandini and Commonwealth Games champ Michelle-Lee Ahye.

More Weekend Results

Athlete Refugees Domnic Lokinyomo Lobalu (29:14) And Paulo Amotun Kokoro (30:32) Finish 1-2 At Geneva 10k
Kenya’s Alexander Mutiso (61:10) And Japan’s Keiko Nogami (69:27) Win Sendai International Half Marathon In Japan
Japanese Weekend Track Highlights At the Chubu Region Corporate Championships, Kenyans Rodgers Chumo Kwemoi and Macharia Ndirangu had a close 10,000m finish with Kwemoi winning in 27:55.27 to 27:55.73.

US Action Of Note *US 25k Results

LRC“White Lightning” Matthew Boling Runs Incredible 10.13/44.75 (Relay) Double At Texas State Meet – Just How Good Is The HS Sprint Phenom? We separate fact from fiction regarding the HS sprinter who is generating headlines worldwide. Yes, he is white, no he isn’t close to as good as Usain Bolt, and much more.
*HSer Matthew Boling Rocks At Texas State Meet He won the 100 in a wind-legal 10.13, the long jump in a wind-legal 25 feet, 4.5 inches, split 44.75 to bring his team to victory in the 4 x 400. He also anchored his 4 x 100 team to a win but they were DQed and his team lost the state meet by 2 points as a result.
*MB:Matthew Boling 4 x 400 Split 44.74 Includes race video.
*MB: Isn’t Matt Boling’s best event the LJ?
*MB:Why does everyone keep referring to Matt Boling’s 10.13 as the new national record? It’s the fastest time ever in HS-only competition during the regular season.

LRCA Behind-The-Scenes Look At Mary Cain’s Recent Training Camp In Mammoth Lakes, California Cain reveals that she got into an injury cycle after quitting the Nike Oregon Project which she said “wasn’t really a mesh” for her. As for her current training, she’s focused on staying healthy. “My new mantra for the next couple of months is to become an athlete again, not just a runner.” said Cain.
*LRCMary Cain Returns To Action, Wins 4 Miler In 21:50 In 1st Completed Race In 918 Days
*MB: Mary Cain is BACK! Cain runs (and wins) 4 mile race in Central Park.

LRC Parker Stinson Shatters American 25k Record, Emma Bates Wins At 2019 USATF 25k Champs Emma Bates ran the fastest time by an American ever in a 25k race.
*MB: Official 2019 USATF 25k Champs Discussion Thread. Parker Stinson breaks the American record!

**Shanghai DL Is Saturday Morning (7 AM ET) Schedule & Results TV/Streaming**

LRC2019 Shanghai DL Preview: OH BABY WHAT A MEET! Sydney McLaughlin’s DL Debut, A Loaded Men’s 5K, And (Finally!) Benjamin Vs. Samba In The 400H Track and field fans, set your alarm clocks or DVR as the Shanghai DL on Saturday is AMAZING and everything a track meet should be.

IAAF:High-Powered Head-To-Heads Galore On Tap In Shanghai
NBC’s Five Events To Watch In ShanghaiChristian Coleman vs. Noah Lyles 100m duel highlights.
MB:OH BABY WHAT A MEET. Official 2019 Shanghai DL Discussion Thread
MB:Kejelcha, Chelimo, Cheptegei, and Barega lead ??????? 5,000m in Shanghai

Wednesday Was HOKA Carbon X Launch Day (Sponsored)

LRC Big Talk Ultramarathon Legend Jim Walmsley Talks Olympic Trials, Hobby Jogging, Missile Silos, Eliud Kipchoge, The Best Records In The Sport, And MoreUltramarathon legend Jim Walmsley shares all. He talks about how he hopes to complete the Triple Crown of ultra running, what events he could beat Eliud Kipchoge in, how he’d rather be the top US marathoner rather than ultramarathoner, and more.

LRCHOKA Pros Michael Wardian And Sabrina Little Tell Us What They View As The Best Ultra Races, Runners And Records In HistoryOur deep dive in the ultra scene continues as Sabrina Little and Michael Wardian reveal what they view as the best races, runners and records (Sponsored content by HOKA ONE ONE).
*MB: What are the best ultramarathon records?
*MB: What are the best ultras in the world?

More Distance News

48-Year-Old Mother Of Three Perry Shoemaker Qualified For The Olympic Trials She ran 2:43:33 at the Eugene Marathon to break her previous PR by over 8 minutes.
May 27:USA Rosters Announced For Bolder Boulder Team Challenge The men’s team includes Parker Stinson, Jared Ward, Tyler McCandless and Diego Estrada while the women are led by Aliphine Tuliamuk and 2012 steeple Olympian Shalaya Kipp.
GB’s Jo Pavey Says Nike Froze Her Sponsorship When She Was Pregnant “It was the joy of running that kept me going because you think, ‘What will be will be’ and I was focused on being a mum. But you don’t want to feel punished for being pregnant.”
Missed Result From The Golden Games In Japan: Strong Performances From Evans Keitany (13:12), Yuta Shitara (27:53) And Tomoka Kimura (15:19)

LetsThrow.com

Good Read:US Shot Put Olympian Darrell Hill Talks About Writing Down His Goal To Be World Champ, His Disappointing Rio 2016 And Losing Weight To Improve “It was tough to lose weight – I do love eating – but in our event you just can’t afford to not maximize your ability. Other guys have the opposite problem. I see Ryan Crouser on a daily basis and it’s funny to watch him at meals; he struggles to eat enough just to maintain weight.”
GB Shot Putter Sophie McKinna Denied World Qualifying Mark Because Meet She Competed At Was Denied Permit Because No Photo-Finish Kit “It’s just absolutely crazy. I was massively upset when I found out, because a photo-finish has nothing to do with my event.”
Elina Tzenggo Sets World U18 Javelin Best With The 500g Implement With 65.80m At The Greek Schools Championships

Four Good High School Reads

T&F News:Matthew Boling Creates New Legend At Texas State Meet They ask if Boling is the second coming of Johnny “Lam” Jones, who ran a 45.1 leg for 440y at the 1976 state meet.
MileSplit:Behind The Scenes Of Matthew Boling’s Memorable Texas State Meet A 10.13/44.75 (relay) double plus a win in the LJ has definitely left an impression.
MileSplit Profile:Cystic Fibrosis Hasn’t Stopped Angelica Rock From Success The high school senior needs seven hours of therapy and 170 pills to combat the genetic lung disease, but has still found success in running qualifying in the 800 for the North Carolina 4A State Championships.
T&F News:DeSoto Girls 4 X 100 Broke Their Own National Record With 44.25 At The Texas State Meet The school now holds three of the top six high school marks of all time.

NCAA Updates

The Bowerman Men’s Post-Conference Champs Watch List Watch list members Mondo Duplantis, Grant Holloway and Daniel Roberts all had big weekends at their conference champs.
T&F News’ Men’s NCAA Form Chart – LSU Increases Lead They rank Texas Tech 2nd, Florida 3rd and Oregon 4th.
T&F News’ Women’s NCAA Form Chart – Arkansas Sneaks By USC They rank New Mexico a distant 3rd and FSU and LSU tied for 4th.
Oregon 7-Time All-American Distance Runner Blake Haney’s Duck Career Ends With An Achilles Injury
Post-Conference Champs Updated Women’s Bowerman Watch List The ten women on the watch list combined for 16 conference titles.

More Doping News

Polish Sports Minister And Former Mid-D Runner Witold Banka Chosen To Succeed Craig Reedie As Next WADA President Banka was nominated ahead of Dominican Republic’s former swimmer Marcos Diaz and WADA vice president Linda Helleland. Banka’s plans include increasing the number of labs to address what he believes is a regional imbalance.
Mexico’s Olympic Racewalk Silver Medalist Lupita Gonzalez Gets 4-Year Doping Ban She tested positive for steroids which she claimed was from eating contaminated meat. South African TJer Reneilwe Aphane also got a 3.5-year doping ban.
Latvia’s 2012 London Olympic Long Jump 4th Placer Ineta Radevica Tests Positive For Steroids In Frozen Sample Retests She’ll get a 4-year ban, even though she’s already retired. An Armenian weightlifter also tested positive in the retests.

2019 IAAF World Relays *Results

LRCMiss Watching The World Relays? Here’s Video Of All The FinalsDonavan Brazier and Ce’Aira Brown won the new and bit crazy 2 x 2 x 400. US men got walked down in 4 x 400. US women lost 4 x 400 (but won 4 x 100).

*Sports Writer Rips Bahamas Track Federation For Men’s 4 X 400 DNS At World Relays Bahamas’ 4 x 400 has been among the best in the world in recent years, but World silver medalist Steven Gardiner was dealing with an injury and somehow the BAAA didn’t put in for a substitute in time.

RIP

Renowned Track & Field Historian Roberto Luigi Quercetani Passes Away At Age Of 97 Quercetani was a founding member of the Association of Track Field Statisticians (ATFS).
European Athletics’ First Female Vice President Strasser Passes Away At 85 Strasser was also a 1960 and 1968 Olympian for Austria in the javelin.

Is Being A Pro Runner Mom A “Crazy Dream?”

Recommended Read And Watch:Former USA Olympian And World 800m Bronze Medalist Alysia Montaño Stars In Video About How Nike And Other Sponsors Don’t Support Pregnant Athletes: “Nike told me to dream crazy, until I wanted a baby.” Montaño, Kara Goucher and Phoebe Wright all speak out about how Nike (and Asics) have contract policies that penalize women for taking time off to have a baby.

Say Hello To The Eastern Track League

Five Clubs Announce Formation Of The Eastern Track League The Atlanta TC, NJ-NY TC, Furman Elite, Nashville TC and District TC have combined forces to form six race series for athletes to chase qualifying marks. It started with Swarthmore Last Chance meet on Monday and ends with a final on June 13th in DC.
Ajee Wilson Ran A 4:08.17 To Beat Out Elinor Purrier (4:08.49) At The Swarthmore Last Chance Meet
Friday: Start Lists For The Georgia Meet Of Champions In Atlanta

WADA Updates And Drama

First Anti-Doping Case Based On Retrieved Moscow Lab Data Could Be Opened “Within Weeks” A WADA official said the process of preparing “a number of strong cases” had begun.
*Previously:WADA Retrieves More Than 2,200 Samples From Moscow Lab
WADA Agree On Change Of Procedure For Low-Level Clenbuterol Cases The steroid causes a problems for testers since it’s often found in meat consumed in some countries like China and Mexico.
WADA Executive Committee Members Cleared Of BullyingBeckie Scott and Edwin Moses alleged that two other WADA members bullied Scott over her objection to the reinstatement of RUSADA, but an investigation found that while the responses “could be viewed as aggressive or disrespectful,” they “did not rise to the level of bullying or harassment.”
The Telegraph:WADA Accused Of Double Standards After Executives Cleared Of BullyingEd Moses and Beckie Scott accused WADA of “whitewashing.”
*Scott And Moses Express”Extreme Disappointment” At Outcome Of WADA Bullying Investigation
*Previously:Scott And Moses Decline To Participate In WADA Bullying Investigation After Claiming Process Is “Fatally Flawed”
Marcos Diaz Vows To Collaborate With Former Rival And New WADA President Witold Banka; WADA Vice President Linda Helleland Formerly Withdrew From Election

More Upcoming Track Action

Next Weekend:NCAA Regionals Entry Lists
June 6:Paul Chelimo Vs. World Champ Muktar Edris And DL Champ Selemon Barega In The Rome DL 5,000m Also announced: Laura Muir is in the 1,500 and Nijel Amos in the 800m. Katerina Stefanidi vs. Sandi Morris in the PV, Elaine Thompson vs. Dafne Schippers in the 100m.
July 12:Shaunae Miller-Uibo, Noah Lyles, Kevin Mayer Confirmed For Monaco DL Meet Miller-Uibo will be up against Dafne Schippers and Marie-Josee Ta Lou in the 200m. Lyles vs. China’s world indoor silver medalist Su Bingtian in the 100m.
June 16:Quartet of the world’s best hurdlers to take to the streets of Boston at adidas Boost Boston Games Sharika Nelvis, Christina Clemons, Danielle Williams and Tobi Amusan will face off in Boston.
June 16:Omar McLeod And Sergey Shubenkov Will Go Head-To-Head At The Rabat DL 110H
May 25:World Silver Medallist Carolin Schäfer, 2015 Hypomeeting Winner Kai Kazmirek, Worlds Silver Medalist Rico Freimuth Among Latest Additions To Gotzis Hypo Multi-Event Meet

African Federation Woes

IAAF May Ban Nigeria From Major Championships Including Worlds Over “Missing” $134,000 In 2017, the IAAF mistakenly paid $150,000 instead of $15,000 to the Nigerian federation and thus far, Nigeria has refused to return the excess payment.
*InsideTheGames:Nigeria Given 2-Week Deadline To Repay Debt Or Face Sanctions
Cause For Concern As Preparations For The 2020 Under-20 Championships In Nairobi Are Way Behind Schedule This Kenyan writer was harsh as he said, “Tokyo’s faultless work ethic [preparing for the 2020 Games] puts to shame Kenya’s lethargic, bureaucracy-laden run-up to next year’s competition.”

Women’s Distance News

Kara Goucher Has Run-In With A Mountain Lion On Her Run In Boulder Goucher said that it sprinted in front of her inches away and they both startled each other and ran off in opposite directions.
Podcast Interview With 2018 US Half Marathon Champ Aliphine Tuliamuk Tuliamuk talks about her 2:26:50 third-place finish at the Rotterdam Marathon last month and her plans to try and make the 2020 US Olympic team.
The Telegraph: “Laura Muir Still Shocked By Metoric Rise – ‘I was no prodigial youngster … running was a hobby and it went from there.'” She says she didn’t realize her talent for running until college when she was 20 years old.

Upcoming Action

May 26:Laura Muir And Chris O’Hare Lead Fields For Westminster Mile O’Hare is hoping to become the first person to go sub-4 at the race.
Mo Farah And Steph Twell To Defend Their Titles At The London 10,000 Farah is up against Andy Butchart while the women’s race also has Lily Partridge and Gemma Steel.
June 22:Olympic HJ Champ Mariya Lasitskene Will Highlight Tubingen Soundtrack Meeting In Germany She’ll face Ukraine’s world silver medalist Yuliya Levchenko.
June 30:Abderrahman Samba Vs. Rai Benjamin Leads Quality 400H Field For Pre ClassicKerron Clement and Kyron McMaster are also in the field.

Post-Conference Weekend NCAA News

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USTFCCCA’s Conference Weekend-In-Review There is a ton to keep track of during conference weekend, but this is a solid rundown of the highlights.
MB: How come no one is talking about the fact that Grant Fisher lost twice last week? + Oliver Hoare lost as well.
Texas Tech And LSU Men Still Sit 1-2 On Post-Conference NCAA Rankings Florida moved up to 3rd and BYU down to 4th.
Arkansas Remains On Top In Updated Women’s NCAA Rankings Southern California moved up to 2nd, Texas A&M down to 3rd and Kentucky remained 4th. New Mexico had a big jump from 9th to 5th.
IC4A/ECAC: Navy Men, Albany Women Win IC4A/ECAC Championships *Results
*MB: Army West Point Broke the Honest Effort Rule at IC4A Champs
LSU’s Mondo Duplantis And Florida’s Yanis David Are NCAA Athletes Of The Week Duplantis vaulted 6.00m to break the collegiate record while David won the SEC TJ with 14.35 (#2 all-time NCAA).
The Oregonian: Pat On The Back For The Ducks’ Performance At PAC-12s; Now What About NCAAs?
USTFCCCA List All The Collegiate Leading Marks From Conference Weekend The lack of distance marks on the list isn’t surprising given championship tactical racing, but Texas A&M’s Devin Dixon did run an NCAA-leading 1:44.76.
Event-By-Event Top 10 Marks From The Collegiate Weekend

Anti-Doping News

WADA Might Choose Its Next President To Replace Craig Reedie Today The final vote is in Nov., but that might be a “formality” as 21 WADA board members will pick their candidates today. Top candidates are former Polish mid-d runner Witold Banka and former Dominican Republic swimmer Marcos Diaz. Outspoken WADA vice pres. Linda Helleland was once a leading contender, but is now most likely out of the running.
Russian Anti-Doping Chief Yuri Ganus Calls For Dismissal Of Athletics Federation Head Dmitry Shlyakhtin Ganus called for the removal of multiple officials who were in anyway tied to the past doping scandals and said, “The Russian athletics federation needs real change. We have to stop deceiving not only all those around us, but ourselves first and foremost.”
Scottish Hammer Thrower Mark Dry Suspended By UK Anti-Doping The Commonwealth Games bronze medalist is charged with “tampering or attempted tampering with any part of doping control.”
*BBC Reports This Is Likely Out-Of-Competition Whereabouts Related