June 06, 2019 Homepage Archive

Rome DL *Full Results

LRC Full Recap: Michael Norman Upsets Noah Lyles, A Bekele Runs 12:52 For 5,000, Dibaba Over Muir A great Rome DL meet is in the books and Noah Lyles has lost a 200m for the first time ever. Huge PR for Elle Purrier and a national Canadian 5,000m record for Mo Ahmed. *Video Of Norman > Lyles

LRC What A Race Donavan Brazier WINS In Rome In 1:43.63 Great race, great win for Brazier to get his first Diamond League win.

Rome Discussion: Michael Norman TAKES DOWN Lyles @200
Wow: Donavan Brazier is the top 800 m runner in the world –
Ben True – 7 Straight Years 13:12 or Faster
Nick Willis 13:56 DFL?
Pre-Race Noah Lyles is Racing Michael Norman @ 3:25 pm eastern But Talks Christian Coleman: “He just never liked me” The rivalry continues to grow. Discuss

Pre-NCAA News

LRC NCAA Track And Field Preview Podcast: Texas, “Ballsyness,” Bill Simmons On Matthew Boling, Praise For IAAF & Gabe Grunewald We preview NCAAs, discuss guns in Texas, get sidetracked with more gender/sex talk, and discuss Bill Simmons’ take on Matthew Boling aka “The Blond Bomber.”

LRC $200,019 LRC Running Warehouse NCAA Outdoor Prediction Contest The NCAAs start Wednesday. It’s time to get down to business. Get your picks in.

LRC Get Ready For Holloway Vs. Roberts & Mondo Vs. Nilsen As The World’s Best Clash At 2019 NCAAsWorld #1 vs. World #2 in 110 hurdles and pole vault.

LRC Women’s Distance Preview: Dani Jones Goes For 5K Glory, A Repeat Bid For Jessica Hull & 3-Peat Bid For Allie Ostrander Some big names will be looking to win their 4th NCAA titles later this week in Austin.

LRCMen’s Distance Preview: A Classic 5K, Wide-Open 1,500 & 10K, & Bryce Hoppel Chases The Perfect Season Can Morgan McDonald become a legend? Will Grant Fisher go out a winner or loser? We tell you here.
*MB: 2019 NCAA men’s distance preview: Will Hoppel remain undefeated? Who will go out a winner – McDonald or Fisher? We tell you here

The Register-Guard: “It’s A Sprint To The Finish For Oregon Senior Venessa D’Arpino” D’Arpino, a transfer from Oregon State, had years of injury issues, but finally made it to NCAAs as an individual qualifier. She’ll also run the 4 x 100 with her twin sister Kerissa.
The Oregonian: Ducks Sprinter Cravon Gillespie Hits Warp Speed For NCAAs UO sprints coach Curtis Taylor thinks Gillespie can run “a lot faster” than the 9.97 he put down last month.
Interesting Stats Lists:Where Do NCAA Qualifiers Come From? 56 countries will be represented at NCAAs with 984 Americans (81%) and Jamaica coming in next highest with 42 (3.5%). Texas has the most on the “home state” list with 142. Vermont has the fewest with zero.
Pretty Impressive:There Are 31 Athletes Making Their Fourth Career Appearance At NCAAs The list includes eight former champions.
USTFCCCA:Athletes Doubling (Or Tripling) At NCAAs Are Expected To Score More Than Half The Points At The Meet
Men’s Pre-NCAA Bowerman Watchlist Morgan McDonald and Devin Dixon are the two distance men on the list.

Upcoming On The Track

Olympic And World 1,500m Champ Faith Kipyegon Making Her Return From Pregnancy At The Pre Classic Kipyegon hasn’t raced since September 2017 after she took time away to have a baby.
IAAF:Quality Oslo, Stanford (Pre) And Lausanne Fields Filling OutTimothy Cheruiyot will take on world indoor 1,500m record holder Samuel Tefera and Jakob/Filip Ingebrigsten in the Lausanne 1,500m, while Christian Coleman was announced for the Oslo 100m.
June 16:Tori Bowie, Aleia Hobbs And Murielle Ahouré Will Face Off In The adidas Boost Boston Games 100m
July 6:Eilish McColgan And Marc Scott Lead GB Euro 10,000m Cup Teams Men’s squad also includes Dewi Griffiths and Nick Goolab.

Swiss Supreme Court Temporarily Suspends IAAF Regulations

Swiss Supreme Court Lifts IAAF Regs On Semenya Until At Least June 25th
IAAF Vows To Fight On After Caster Semenya Cleared To Run In Swiss Court Appeal An IAAF statement said, “We will continue to fight for what we believe is in the best interests of all female athletes in our sport.”
MBSemenya wins in court, is able to race all distances without lowering her testosterone
MB:Email of the day: Why in the hell does a Swiss court have jurisdiction over the IAAF which isn’t based in Switzerland?

Interesting Reads

MB: Twitter spat between Christian Taylor, Will Claye, Rome meet director and Carl Lewis is getting interesting The Rome meet director says Claye wanted a $10,500 business class ticket to compete but Claye says it’s only that much as the meet director insisted he show some fitness.
MB: Russian continues to be Russia: Sunday Times says Russia faked documents from bogus clinic to reduce Danil Lysenko’s ban
The Ascent Of Shelby Houlihan The article reveals that Houlihan finds it hard to say motivated at the end of a season and that she missed some time after indoors with a foot injury.
After Retiring After Leading The Minnesota Track/XC Program For Nearly 20 Years, Gary Wilson Is Now A Volunteer HS Freshman XC Coach
Eldred Henry, Who Came Up With The First 70-Foot Shot In DII History Last Week, Sarted His Track Career After A Guy Who Picked Him Up While Hitchhiking Told Him To Try It Now he’s #9 in the world.
After Running 2:08:14 In London, Callum Hawkins Now Says Doha WC Marathon Is HIs #1 Goal Some are probably a little surprised he’s apparently not scared off by the heat given what happened to him last year.
The State Of Running 2019, By Jens Jakob Andersen For IAAF And RunRepeat.com An interesting read full of fascinating facts. Participation #s are on the decline worldwide for the first time and men have never been slower. The fastest women in the world run in Switzerland. *IAAF Summary
*85.33% Of Chinese Cities Held A Marathon Last Year
Jessica Ennis-Hill Thinks Katarina Johnson-Thompson Is Ready To Take On Olympic Champ Nafi Thiam

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.

2019 NCAAs Schedule, Start Lists, Results Women’s Distance PreviewMen’s Distance Preview TV & Streaming

MB: Official Day 2 2019 NCAA Outdoor Discussion Thread

LRC Clayton Young And BYU Earn Redemption, Young Sprints To 2019 NCAA 10K Title A year ago, BYU runners took the last 3 spots in the NCAA men’s 10,000. Tonight, they took 3 of the top 4, led by Clayton Young‘s national title.

LRC Mondo Duplantis Is BEATEN At 2019 NCAA Outdoor Track And Field Champs, Chris Nilsen Wins By Breaking His Own Meet Record LSU’s Duplantis, the #2 outdoor jumper of all time and 2019 world leader at 6.00m, was beaten as South Dakota’s Nilsen got PRs at 5.90 and 5.95 to score the upset – and break his own meet record.

LRC 2019 NCAA Men’s Distance Prelims: Bryce Hoppel Gets A PR, A Terrific 1,500 Final Is Set, & The Heat Claims Some Victims In The Steeple What we know after day 1: Hand the men’s 800 NCAA title to Bryce Hoppel.

IAAF Responds To Swiss Court

IAAF Seeking A “Swift Reversal” Of Swiss Court’s Suspension Of Testosterone Rules The IAAF says the suspension only applies to Caster Semenya (so Francine Niyonsaba and Margaret Wambui still can’t run) and it only applies until June 25th.
Full IAAF Statement In Response To Swiss Federal Tribunal “The IAAF is convinced there are some contexts, sport being one of them, where biology has to trump identity.”
IAAF Defends Itself Against Women’s Sport Groups That Attacked Intersex Rules “The DSD Regulations were introduced precisely because the IAAF is committed to protecting the rights and opportunities of female athletes. The IAAF is entitled, indeed required, to give male and female athletes an equal chance to excel …”

Russian Doping News

The Sunday Times Reports That Russian Officials Tried To Cover Up A Doping Case For World HJ Silver Medalist Danil Lysenko They claim Russian officials forged medical documents to the AIU to cover-up Lysenko’s whereabouts violations last year.
The Telegraph: “Russia Infighting Could Lead To World Championship Expulsion As Officials Turn On Each Other” A source claims that a series of damaging stories have been leaked internally to the Russian and international press.
WADA Director General Olivier Niggli Claims RUSADA Is A “Worthy Anti-Doping Organization” Niggli praised RUSADA improvements, but added, “We do not have to be naive, because many things change, we must remain alert, we must see how RUSADA will develop.”

Gabe’s Still Fighting – Grunewald’s Husband Says The Fact That She Didn’t Die Over The Weekend Is “Divine Intervention Or Miracle”

LRC Gabe Grunewald Nearly Died On Saturday: “It Can Only Be Explained As Divine Intervention Or Miracle” On Saturday, Gabe Grunewald‘s husband told her she was dying and said goodbye. What happened next was remarkable.
*MB: Justin Grunewald reports that he thought Gabe Grunewald was dying yesterday before miraculous recovery

Music City Distance Festival Live Results Meet Home

Emma Coburn Just Misses Her 4:05.10 PR, Runs 4:05.24 To Win Music City 1,500 5 other women, including 4 Americans, hit the the WC standard of 4:06.50.
Cole Sprout (4:04.19) And Jenna Hutchens (4:43.33) Win HS Miles At Music City Cruz Culpepper ran 4:04.82 for 2nd.
HSer Athing Mu Runs 2:01.38, Moves To #6 All-Time In US HS History
Sammy Watson Runs 2:05.11 We wish we were wrong in our prediction that any shoe company signing her had made a mistake.
MB: Duane Solomon Is Back Baby!?! – 1:55.04 at the Music City Distance Carnival It was the 2012 US Olympian’s first 800m in over 2 years. Puerto Rico’s Wesley Vazquez won the men’s 800m in 1:44.68 over former NCAA indoor champ Brandon McBride (1:45.04).

Ultramarathon Exploration (Sponsored By HOKA ONE ONE)

LRC Q & A With Sage Canaday One Week Out From Comrades – A Race An American Man Hasn’t Won In 25 Years Can Canaday possibly defy the odds and end America’s 25-year Comrades Marathon drought?

LRC Weekly Podcast

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

High School News / Controversy

News

Double World Jr. Sprint Champ Briana Williams Sizzles To 11.10 Jamaican U20 Record She goes to HS in the US so that’s the #2 time in US HS history. She also ran 22.95 fro 200.
*MB: US HSer Brianna Williams sets Jamaican jr girls 100 record of 11.10
Katelynne Hart Runs New Illinois All-Time High School Best Of 4:39.57 To Win Women’s Magis Mile At the Illinois state meet, she pulled off the 800, 1,600, 3,200 triple.

Controversy

MB:Will Kelsey Chmiel be disqualified from the NYS Championships? She and a fellow Saratoga runner pulled over into lane three at the end of the NY State Qualifier meet so the third and fourth place runners could pass and qualify for states (Chemiel and her teammate were already auto qualifiers).
MB:WI 1,600m female state meet runner refuses DQ, has to get pulled off track The “one and done” false start rule should not apply to distance races. Especially at the high school level.

2019 Stockholm DL *Results

LRCStockholm Recap: Ajee’ Wilson Kicks Off Post-Caster Semenya Era With Win, A Guy From Puerto Rico Nearly Wins/Blows 800, Cheruiyot, Ingebrigtsen Impress, Michael Norman, Dina Asher-Smith Triumph On a cold and windy day the stars still put on a show in Stockholm. We break it down, including Hellen Obiri losing a 5,000 that was nearly won by a Canadian.

LRCRhonex Kipruto (26:50) Crushes Everyone In Stockholm 10,000 As Paul Chelimo Misses Worlds Standard A tough day for the Americans.

Long Distance Running News

Sports Science Expert Yannis Pitsiladis Says The Two-Hour Marathon Could Be Broken Soon But will it be an athletic accomplishment or a scientific one? Pitsiladis said, “We need to develop tools to inject carbohydrates into the runner’s body effectively and to provide them with intelligent sensing systems that monitor physiological variables and provide feedback on their condition in real time.”
RW: Are Elite Men Or Women Better At Pacing A Marathon? New data analysis shows elite men are much more likely to speed up at the end of a marathon and women keep the same average pace.
USATF 24-Hour Running Team Named For 2019 World 24-Hour Championships