May 26, 2019 Homepage Archive

2019 NCAAs D1 West Prelim ResultsD1 East Prelim Results D2 Results D3 Results *USTFCCCA Championship Central

IAAF Recap Of NCAA Regionals – Fast Sprint Times Lead The Way LSU frosh Sha’Carri Richardson became the 4th U20 athlete to break 11.00 with a 10.99, a time also run by Texas’ Teahna Daniels. Oregon’s Cravon Gillespie had the fastest men’s 100 at 10.01. Grant Holloway ran 13.10.

MB:Official NCAA Regional Discussion Thread – Who choked and who was clutch? Let’s hear it.
MB:BYU Qualifies SIX GUYS to NCAA finals in 10,000
MB: BYU Update: Men’s Distance Athlete Number 11 Punched in to NCAA’s..their only entrant in the 1500
D1: Oregon Ducks Do Well At Regionals
2019 NCAA DII Outdoor T&F Championships:Ashland Men Win By 1 Point Yet Again, Lincoln Women Win
2019 NCAA DIII Outdoor T&F Championships: UW-EAU Claire Men, Loras Women Win
2019 NAIA Outdoor T&F Championships:British Columbia Sweeps Team Titles

HS News Of Note: MB: HS jr Nico Young runs 8:47 at Cali state meet, destroys NXN champ Liam Anderson by 6 seconds The message board poster calls him the best CA HS talent since German Fernandez.

Runner Who Stopped To Pick Up Fallen Competitor Wins CA State Meet In 800 With Huge PR Soph Samantha Wallenstrom had never broken 2:11 but ran 2:08 to win. Last week, she picked up a fallen rival at the section meet.

News From Japan

22 Of Japan’s 49 Olympic Marathon Trials Qualifiers Compete During The 1st Weekend Of July – 2+ Months Out From Japanese Trials Yuta Shitara (Honda), the former Japanese NR holder at 26.2, is running a full marathon in Australia.
Japan’s Top Collegiate Meet Was This Weekend – 28:27 And 33:02 Win 10ks
First-Years Dominate 1,500m Finals At Kanto Region University Track And Field Champs You can watch some races via Youtube in the article.

LRC Content

LRC Weekly Podcast: LetsSprint & Guest Ben Rosario: Noah Lyles Over Christian Coleman, Sydney McLaughlin, Paul Chelimo In Trouble? Alysia Montaño Vs. NikeWe go in depth into the sprinting world, talk about another WMM, and are joined by HOKA NAZ Elite coach Ben Rosario for 1 hour to talk about his team.

LRCWeek That Was: Why Do The Kenyan Men Suck At 5,000? Kenny B Runs 19.49 And 44.83, Rachel Schneider Impresses In our weekly recap, we praise the “new” Kenny B, Rachel S, and wonder if steeple fans are outraged that one of their all-time greats was disrespected and forced to run in the slow heat at Oxy.
*MB: Why do the Kenyan men now “suck” at the 5000?

LRCIs The Next Great Sprint Rivalry Here? Noah Lyles Beats Christian Coleman At 100m, Coleman (And Girlfriend) Fire Shots At Lyles On Twitter

Sprint Stuff

Sprint Phenom Matthew Boling Is Skipping US Champs And Racing Junior Meets Instead Boling is only 14th in the US in the 100m this year, but he’s fifth in the LJ and his 4 x 400 split would rank him sixth.
IAAF Inside Athletics Video Interview With Michael Norman The interview takes place with him driving around Monaco in a Ferrari.
University Of Georgia Sprinter Elija Godwin Talks About Getting Impaled By A Javelin After surgery and a week-long hospital stay Godwin is recovering and hoping to be training again in the fall.
Olympic And Four-Time World Champ Dwight Phillips Donates His Spikes To The IAAF Heritage Collection

HS Championships

Tornado Disrupts Missouri State Meet A short video shows a ton of damage at the track including the roof missing from the press box.
10 Boys Story Lines To Follow At California State Championships
10 Girls Story Lines To Follow At California State Championships

Another Big EPO Bust Coming From Kenya

LRCEunice Kirwa Becomes Second 2016 Olympic Marathon Medalist To Test Positive For EPO Far from a surprise for insiders as Kirwa is the wife of Joshua Kemei, the coach of half marathon world record holder Abraham Kiptum, who last month was suspended by the AIU for a biological passport violation. Plus Des Linden said she thought at least two people ahead of her in Rio were dopers.
*Shalane Flanagan Tells RW That Two Is Nice But Three Is Better – She Has Suspicions About A Third Woman That Beat Her In Rio
*MB: Olympic Marathon Silver Medalist Eunice Kirwa Busted for EPO Doping.

Kenya’s Athletics Team Manager From Rio 2016 Gets 10-Year Ban Michael Rotich was caught on tape (in a report by ARD and The Sunday Times) asking for money in exchange for giving athletes advanced warning about drug tests. *BBC Article
India’s Asian Games 800m Winner Gomathi Marimuthu Will Lose Her Title After Failing Drug Test The Indian federation is angry, as should be a lot of people, that Marimuthu was even allowed to race the Asian Games as she had failed a test a month before, but no one informed them.
Asian Games Steeplechase Champ Hossein Keyhani Tests Positive For EPO
Belarus’ Olympic Hammer Silver Medalist And Drug Cheat Ivan Tsikhan Carries Flame For Part Of European Games Torch Relay Tsikhan was chosen despite having been stripped of his 2004 and 2005 Olympic/World medals after testing positive in retrospective testing.

Pro Action

Katarina Johnson-Thompson Breaks PR And Wins Gotzis At 6813 That’s enough points to win 4 of the last 6 Olympics. Her previous PR was 6759.
Damian Warner Wins With 8711, His 2nd-Best Point Total On day 1, he ran 10.12 for 100m – the fastest ever in a decathlon.
Day 1: Katarina Johnson-Thompson Puts Up 2nd-Best Day 1 Score (4,034) To Lead Heptathlon Field At Götzis
IAAF Weekend Road Roundup: Dorcas Kimeli (31:09) And Mohammed Ziani (28:12) Win Ottawa 10k Natasha Wodak (32:31) and Dylan Wykes (29:56) won the Canadian national titles.
Brazil’s Darlan Romani Shot Put Win Is Highlight Of Day 2 Of South American Champs
South American Champs: Day 1 Highlights Brazil’s Andressa de Morais won the discus at 62.42 m.

Lawyers, Take A Look At This

LRC Book Review: “The Complete History Of Cross-Country Running” Is A Fraudulent Piece Of Plagiarism We first alerted author Andrew Hutchinson and publisher Skyhorse Publishing about the issue in January 2018 after Hutchinson ripped off pieces from LRC, Running with the Buffaloes, Runner’s Word, Sports Illustrated and more. Sixteen months later, the book is back up for sale and full of plagiarism.
*MB:Lawyers of LetsRun, anyone want to sue Skyhorse and Andrew Hutchinson for statutory damages?

Administrative News

Sprint News

Kenny Bednarek Says He’s Going To Do The 200/400 Double At USAs *Bednarek Doesn’t Rule Out Going Pro Trivia fact – His fraternal twin was a distance runner in HS, running a 4:54 1,600.
Akeem Bloomfield, Who Has Gone Sub-20 In The 200 And Sub-44 In The 400, Says He’ll Only Run One Event A Jamaican Champs
Men’s Lifestyle Mag Tries To Figure Out Which Young Sprinter Might Be The Next Usain Bolt Their candidates – Christian Coleman, Reece Prescod, Noah Lyles, Hakim Sani Brown and Zharnel Hughes.

Sprint / Throw News

Filippo Tortu Of Italy Runs Windy 9.97 (2.4 m/s)
*MB: Matthew Boling ain’t got nothing. White Italian runs windy 9.97
Meet Jeremiah Azu – The British Teenager Who Has Run 10.27 This Year
Sandra Perković Says Her Coach May Leave Croatia Next Year As He’s Got A Big Coaching Offer; She’s Not Sure What She Will Do
Katarina Johnson-Thompson Is Headliner At This Weekend’s Hypo-Meeting In Götzis But Says She Feels Like An “Impostor” “Those who suffer from impostor syndrome doubt their accomplishments and have a persistent, often internalized fear of being exposed as a fraud.”

Running Comebacks

Canada’s Melissa Bishop Is Feeling Good On The Comeback Trail From Pregnancy In her first race in 2 years she won a 1,500m in 4:09 in Windsor, Ontario and is racing at the Harry Jerome Classic next month.
Gwen Jorgensen Undergoes Same Surgery As Galen Rupp To Repair Bony Growth On Back Of Her Heal Jorgensen will be out three or four months to recover. Includes a post-surgery update video with some funny clips of her still very groggy after surgery.
*MB: Gwen Jorgensen has surgery
Former World 5,000m Silver Medalist Mercy Cherono Making Comeback From Pregnancy She’s racing a 5,000 in what will be her first race since 2016.

Admin News

The IOC Names 10 Candidates For New Board Members But Omits Seb Coe This article says that the fact Coe is still the president of a sports marketing company makes it hard for him to be an IOC board member.
So How Was The IAAF’s “Missing” $135,000 Spent By The Nigerian Athletics Federation? Apparently one source is saying that $108,000 of it was used to buy kits for Team Nigeria.
IAAF Launching Second Edition Of Its Global One-Mile Run In 24 Countries Over 24 Hours (IAAF Run 24-1) Again On June 2nd

More Upcoming Track Action

Lausanne DL will feature world’s top 6 men’s pole vaulters and top 4 women’s HJers World leader Armand Duplantis is confirmed.
May 25-26:IAAF Preview Of This Weekend’s Gotzis Hypo Multi-Event Meet World indoor champ Katrina Johnson-Thompson vs. Worlds silver medalist Carolin Schäfer. Olympic bronze medalist Damian Warner leads the decathlon field.
May 30:World Silver Medalist Timothy Cheruiyot Vs. All Three Ingebrigtsen Brothers In Stockholm 1,500mKeni Harrison and Michael Norman were also announced for the meet.
June 11:Laura Muir Confirmed For The 800m At The Meeting de Montreuil In France
June 13: Sydney McLaughlin Will Run Her First Diamond League 400 Hurdles In Oslo The meet is full of teenage stars as Jakob Ingebrigsten is running the Dream Mile and Mondo Duplantis leads the pole vault field.
June 13:Oslo DL Steeplechase Clash Set To Make A Splash WR holder Beatrice Chepkoech faces Emma Coburn, world U20 champ Celliphine Chespol and 2015 world champ Hyvin Kiyeng.
June 16:Omar McLeod And Sergey Shubenkov To Renew Their Rivalry At The Rabat Diamond League 110H They’ll also face Euro champ Pascal Martinot-Lagarde. Morocco’s Soufiane El Bakkali is in the steeple and Abdelaati Iguider in the 5,000.
June 30:Stacked Field With Five Global Champions Set For Pre Classic 3,000mHellen Obiri, Genzebe Dibaba, Sifan Hassan, Almaz Ayana plus Caster Semenya.
Men’s Preview For This Weekend’s European Club Championships Turkey’s world and European 200m champion Ramil Guliyev is running the 100/200/4 x 100. *Live Results
Women’s Preview For This Weekend’s European Club Championships Bulgaria’s Euro silver medalist Ivet Lalova-Collio leads sprint action in the 100/200. *Live Results

Olympic News

Report Claims There Is A “Culture Of Fear” At Tokyo 2020 Construction Sites And Alleges Poor Pay And Long Hours The group that did the report say that two deaths have been linked to the Olympic preparations.
More Than Four Million Register For Tokyo 2020 Domestic Ticket Lottery
Tokyo 2020 To Send Satellite Into Orbit During Olympics Tokyo 2020 is collaborating with the University of Tokyo to deploy a small satellite in orbit around the earth to promote the Games.

Ultramarathon Exploration (Sponsored By HOKA ONE ONE)

LRC A Former Crew Member Of Ultramarathon Legend Yiannis Kouros Shares Some Stories Kouros holds the #1 ultramarathon record in the books – the men’s 24 hour record of 188.68 miles (303.506 km). This crew member reveals Kouros wanted to break 320 km and much more.

The First Leg Of The World Mountain Running Association World Cup Was Held Friday In France Read all about it here.
South America Will Host World Mountain Champs For The First Time Later This Year You too can host if you pony up $300-400k.
Previous: LRCGOAT: Yiannis Kouros’ 24-Hour Record Of 303.306 KM (188.68 Miles) From 1997 Is The Greatest Ultramarathon World Record There’s no world record easier to understand in the ultramarathon world than, “How far can you run in a day?”
*LRCThese Are 7 Of The Greatest But Not THE Greatest Ultra RecordsCamille Herron‘s 24-hour record, Jim Walmsley‘s Western States, Francois D’Haene‘s UTMB mark and a couple from Comrades all make the cut.
MB:What are the best ultramarathon records?

Corruption/ Scandal Corner/ A Lot Of Corruption Charges Surround Doha’s 2019 World Champs Bid

Qatari President Of French Soccer Club PSG Charged With Corruption Over Bidding Process For 2019 World ChampionshipsNasser Al-Khelaïfi made a $3.5 million payment to Papa Massata Diack’s company. *2nd Article
BeIN Sports Chief Yousef Al-Obaidly Another Suspect In Doha Worlds Bidding Scandal Apparently it takes a lot of bribes to buy a world championships.
France’s Financial Prosecutor Calls For Former IAAF President Lamine Diack To Stand Trial The French investigation has been going on since 2015 with Diack being under house arrest and charged with corruption and money laundering.

Lance Armstrong On His Doping Scandal: “It wasn’t legal – but I wouldn’t change a thing.” Armstrong did say however, that he wishes he handled the doping questions differently. “I never should have taken it on, especially knowing that most of what they said was true.”

More Intersex Controversy News

LGBTQ Sports Website Rips Nick Symmonds For Not Supporting Caster Semenya Competing Untreated Against Women Their original headline was, “Pro-LGBTQ Runner Nick Symmonds throws Caster Semenya under the bus.”
Caster Semenya Representative Says It’s “Safe To Say” Semenya Will Be Racing 3000m And Up During Appeal ProcessDr. Seema Patel, a supporter of Semenya’s at Nottingham Law School, says her grounds for appeal remain “very limited”.
Margaret Wambui Does Another Interview About IAAF Testosterone Rules Apparently she is considering competing in the 100/200 since the IAAF’s rules only cover the 400-1500.

More Distance News

Worlds Silver Medalist Timothy Cheruiyot Looking Forward To Stockholm 1,500m Next Week Cheruiyot wasn’t thrilled with his 3:32 season opener in Doha earlier this month, but stays he’s only been doing speedwork for three weeks.
Video:Take An Inside Look At Emma Bates “Off The Grid” Life In Southwest Idaho She talks about not being happy when she was living and training in Boston and her life was just about running.
Carrie Tollefson Does Podcast Interview With Roberta Groner Groner, a mother of three, ran 2:29 at the age of 41 and wants to go for the Masters American record (2:27:47 by Deena Kastor).
RIP:Former Marathon World Record Holder Dale Greig Dies At 81 Years Old Greig ran 3:27:45 in 1964 and won the inaugural World Masters Marathon in 1974 (3:45.21).
MB:Mo Farah now doing Instagram Ads for a random bathroom product? LOL

Some Midweek Results

Gudaf Tsegay Highlights Nanjing World Challenge Meet With A 3:59.57 Victory In The 1,500m Tsegay beat out Axumawit Embaye (4:00.17) and Sifan Hassan (4:00.53). Nijel Amos impressed in the 800m with a 1:44.38 win over Kenya’s Cornelius Tuwei (1:44.91). Nelly Jepkosgei ran 1:59.98 to win the 800m .04 ahead of Shanghai DL winner Rababe Arafi. Benjamin Kigen won the steeple in 8:08.94. Non-distance action was highlighted by the sprint hurdles where Orlando Ortega beat out Omar McLeod by .01 in the 110H and four women finished within .02 of each other with Brianna McNeal winning. *Results
Jamaica’s Tajay Gayle Wins Street Meet Long Jump In Nanjing With 8.21m
World Javelin Champ Barbora Spotakova Competes For The First Time In Almost 2 Years With A 63.85m Victory In The Czech Republic Spotakova didn’t compete at all last year as she took time off to have a baby.