LRC Weekly Podcast

LRC Track Talk Podcast: Stockholm Diamond League, Transgender Athlete CeCe Telfer Wins NCAA Women’s 400 Hurdle Title, Guest Sage Canaday Before Comrades Marathon

Doping Or Diet?

• USA’s 2017 World Long Jump Silver Medalist Jarrion Lawson Facing 4-Year Drug Ban After Testing Positive For The Banned Steroid Trenbolone Lawson vehemently maintains his innocence saying the failed drug test was from eating contaminated meat. The low level of trenbolone in his sample and the evidence he provided from the restaurant seem to be consistent with this. Ajee Wilson and Will Claye have both been cleared by USADA in cases involving contaminated beef, but the AIU is being more strict with Lawson.
  *MB:Jarrion Lawson – TAINTED MEAT
• WADA Publishes Stakeholder Notice Regarding Clenbuterol Meat Contamination WADA is amending their code to allow valid meat contamination cases to be dealt with fairly and allow athletes to avoid DQs. Unfortunately for Jarrion Lawson, this rule change concerns clenbuterol, not trenbolone.
• More Doping News: Russia Files 296 Neutral-Athlete Applications With The IAAF In 2018 the IAAF approved 73 Russians to compete, 68 applications were denied and 6 athletes had their neutral status revoked.

NCAA Champs Start Wednesday *Startlists: *Men *Women

• Texas Tech Moves To #1 In T&F News’ Final NCAA Men’s Formchart LSU is ranked 2nd, 10 points back, with Florida and Texas A&M 3rd and 4th.
• T&F New’s Pre-NCAAs Women’s Formchart Has USC Just One Point Ahead Of Arkansas They have LSU and Oregon ranked 3rd and 4th.
• Ridiculous:UTEP 800m Runner Lilian Koech Forced To Choose School Over NCAAs Koech is a 5th year senior in the pharmacy school and would have to miss a few days of classes to run NCAAs. She was told she had to choose between NCAAs or withdraw from school and re-enroll at a later date.
• USTFCCCA Does Some Event Group Analysis For NCAAs Showing Which Programs Dominated Where BYU had the highest count with 12 qualifiers in distance events. They actually set an NCAA record for most final qualifiers in one event with six men in the 10,000.
• kxan.com: Texas Set To Host NCAA Championships
• Future NCAAs: Photo Updates On Hayward Field Construction

Mediocre As A Man, An NCAA Champ As A Woman

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 hurdles champion.
*MB: CeCe Telfer, who for her first 3 years was on the MEN’S track team, just won the NCAA DII title 

On The High School Level As Well: DyeStat Has Lengthy Profile On Terry Miller, The Transgender Sprinter Who Has Caused Controversy In Connecticut By Winning Championships In The Girls Division This isn’t about if Miller is a good person or dedicated student athlete. The complaints are about fairness in sport and it is blatantly unfair for Miller to win state championships titles as a girl. The article also dodges the question of hormone treatment, making it seem likely Miller isn’t taking any.

Resolution (?) In Nigeria/IAAF Money Controversy

• Seb Coe And Nigerian Sports Minister Solomon Dalung Reach “Amicable Resolution” On $135,000 Overpayment Issue The details of the agreement aren’t known, but the IAAF says it’s confident the full amount will be returned in the near future.
• Just Three Days Ago: Nigeria Sports Minister Solomon Dalung Accuses IAAF Of Blackmail Dalung had his own strange conspiracy theory saying, “I smell a rat in the whole thing and I believe that the whole thing is being orchestrated just to blackmail Nigeria. I think it is not about money erroneously accredited to Nigeria, but there is calculated attempt just to demean and destroy Nigerian athletics.”
• President Of Nigerian Athletics Federation Ibrahim Gusau Impeached Over IAAF’s “Missing” $135,000 There is going to be an investigation into how Gusau spent the IAAF’s money.

Some Recent Youth Results

• MB:Michigan MSer doubles 4:32/9:34. Second place 9:47
• 18-Year-Old Darragh McElhinney Becomes First Irish Junior To Break 14 Minutes For 5,000m He ran 13:54.10 to set a 19-second PR and take 8 seconds off the previous Irish U-20 record. At the same time, John Travers ran 13:28.86 (a 15-second PR), the fastest time by an Irishman since 2011.
• Taryn Parks Wons PA State Meet 1,600m In 4:37.07 After Epic Duel With Marlee Starliper (4:37.45) Parks was the underdog coming in and actually ended up winning leading from start to finish.

NCAA Champs Are Next Week

• Post-Regionals Men’s NCAA Rankings: Texas Tech Still #1 Florida moved up to #2, LSU down to 3rd and BYU up to 4th.
• Arkansas And Southern California Stay 1-2 In Post-Regionals Women’s NCAA Rankings FSU jumped four spots from 7th to 3rd while Texas A&M dropped to 4th. Alabama moved up six spots to 5th.

Bolder Boulder 10k

• In Drama-Filled Final Sprint, Ethiopia’s Hiwot Yemer Wins Bolder Boulder Women’s RaceMeseret Tola had the lead going into the stadium near the finish, but made a wrong turn that ultimately cost her as she finished 6 seconds behind Yemer’s 32:49. Aliphine Tuliamuk was the top American in 3rd (33:00). Ethiopia won the team competition over Team USA Red.
• Kenya’s Benard Ngeno Dominates Bolder Boulder Men’s Race In 28:29 He beat Ethiopia’s Terefa Delesa by 30 seconds. Reid Buchanan was the top American in 8th (29:46); Jared Ward was 9th (29:53). Ethiopia won the team competition over Tanzania as USA Red was only 5th.
• Bolder Boulder Race Video
• MB:Bolder Boulder Live Discussion Thread

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?