– Aliphine Tuliamuk speaking after finishing as the top American (third overall) at the Bolder Boulder 10k.
LRCWhat No One Is Telling You: An Athlete Who Ran NCAA Track As A Man For 3 Years Just Won An NCAA Women’s Title During his first 3 years of college, Craig Telfer was a mediocre men’s track athlete. Now competing and living as CeCe Telfer, she is the NCAA DII women’s national 400 meter hurdle champion.
* MB: CeCe Telfer, who for her first 3 years was on the MEN’S track team, just won the NCAA DII title
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?
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.
Talk about ultras on our messageboard as we’ll be focusing on it later this week.
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.
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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?
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.
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.”
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