Chatting With The Stars In Boston – 2019 adidas Boost Boston Games And Street Mile Are Sunday (4:30-6:00 PM ET On NBC) *Track Schedule *Mile Schedule

• LRC Noah Lyles On Christian Coleman: “Some people just don’t like you. You can’t do nothing about it.” The world’s fastest 100 meter man also reiterated once again that he has zero plans to run the 100 at USAs and Worlds. Plus he says he’s “more excited” to train after losing to Michael Norman in Rome.
• LRC Shaunae Miller-Uibo Says She’s In The Best Shape Of Her Life, “I Just Feel A Whole Lot Stronger This Year.” In other news, Miller-Uibo declined to discuss what happened in the fight with Tori Bowie that led to Bowie’s exit from PURE Athletics.
• LRC Ajee’ Wilson Plans To Eventually Move Up To The 1,500, Perhaps As Soon As Next Year US 1,500 Olympic hopefuls, your nightmare may become reality in 2020.
• LRC Robby Andrews Is Trying To Come Back From Hell But He’s Not Making Any Excuses, “There’s no real excuse for running 1:54.” Andrews, who is coming back from Lyme disease and surgery, was horrific earlier this week when he ran 1:54 for 800.
• USATF Preview: Star-studded lineup prepares to take to Boylston at adidas Boost Boston Games

Going Pro

• Grant Holloway Signs With adidas Talking about winning NCAAs in a collegiate record, Holloway gave himself a ‘B+’ and said, “I watched the NCAA race probably 5,000 times just to see how I can get better.”
• Kentucky’s NCAA 110H Runner-Up (13.00 PB) Daniel Roberts Is Also Going Pro At the time of the announcement last week, Roberts said his contract is “still in the works.”

Hit Pieces from Daily Mail On Mo Farah? Or Justified Negative Press?

• Ethiopian Hotel Maid Who Was Jailed For 16 Days After Mo Farah’s Stuff Was Stolen In Haile’s Hotel Wants An Apology She also says Farah never tipped her in the 2 months she cleaned his room. (This article is from April but we only saw it with release of article below)
• Olympic Hero Sir Mo Farah And Family Dubbed “Neighbours From Hell” After They Move Out Just kids being kids and playing on the green or kids totally out of control? You be the judge.

News Of Note

• Swiss Court Denies IAAF Request To Immediately Re-Impose Testosterone Rules On Caster Semenya
• Divine Oduduru Reluctantly Says He’s Going Pro As He Can’t Turn Down $300-500k Per Year But Says He’ll Still Be Coached By Calvin Robinson “I feel more comfortable here than when I’m back home in my country,” he said, “because they’ve given me home here. They’ve accepted me. They’ve given me love. Everything I need, they’ve given it to me here.”
• Eunice Kirwa’s Brother, Felix (2:06:13 PR), Banned For 9 Months For Using Drug Often Found In Rat Poison
• Kara Goucher, Steph Bruce, Nick Willis, Molly Huddle And Others Remember Gabe Grunewald
• Great Run Company Launching A 55k Ultra – UltraLondon – In London
• A Look At The Leading Entries For The 2019 Japanese National Track And Field Champs

A Star Has Left This Earth

LRC Gabe Grunewald: Rest In Peace No one wanted to see this day come, but thank you Gabe for teaching us all how to live. You can pay your respects here or by donating to her foundation.

• Tim Layden SI Article
• LRC Discussion
• USATF: “She will be remembered as one of the bravest athletes we knew.” Also includes a compilation of tweets from Molly Huddle, Deena Kastor, Kara Goucher, Emma Bates and Chip Gaines.
• More: *Toni Reavis *Cas Loxsom *Runner’s World *IAAF *MileSplit *NY Times *AP

Pro Sprint News

• Ivet Lalova-Collio Writes A Letter To Her Younger Self Lalova, the fastest non-African woman in history (10.77), famously blew Employee 1.0 a kiss in 2011 in a video that has now been seen nearly 100,000 times.
• In Case You Missed It: Justin Gatlin Ran 10.01 On Tuesday Andy Bayer ran 8:18 in the steeple.

Non-Distance News

• Marquise Goodwin Says He’s Serious About Going For 2020 Olympic LJ During The NFL Offseason “It’s just off-season, same way I did it in high school, college, NFL. Just make it happen. It’s all on my off time. I use it as part of my training.”
• IAAF Profile: Slowing Down Is The Key To Michael Norman Going Faster Norman says he has a new “secret race pattern” that has been helping him and “unfortunately” will just do the 400m at Worlds.
• The Guardian: “No Can Live Without Love”: Dutee Chand, India’s LGBT Trailblazer Talking about the backlash, Chand said, “It is going to take time for people in my village to get used to the idea.”
• July 20: Omar McLeod And GB’s Andrew Pozzi To Clash In 110H At London Anniversary Games
• BBC Podcast Interview With Michael Norman And Kori Carter

Doping News

• Runs In The Family: Kenyan 2:06:13 Marathoner Felix Kirwa Gets 9-Month Ban After Testing Positive For Rat Poison Surprise, surprise, Kirwa is the brother of 2016 Olympic marathon silver medalist and EPO cheat Eunice Kirwa.
• Russian Athletics Federation Vice President And 2008 Olympic HJ Champ Andrei Silnov Facing Doping Ban For “Possible Violation Of Anti-Doping Rules” He’s being investigated by the Athletics Integrity Unit.
• GB’s Goldie Sayers To Receive Her 2008 Olympic Javelin Bronze At London DL Next Month – BBC Sport She was upgraded to bronze when Russian Mariya Abakumova was stripped of silver after a retest of her frozen sample.

Previous Gabe Grunewald News

• Justin Grunewald Shares Picture Of Gabe Resting Peacefully At Home On Her “Comfy Couch” In a tweet on Tuesday he said, “She’s still comfy on the couch sleeping, listening to stories and messages from friends and strangers around the world.”
• BBC: Pros Including Deena Kastor, Kara Goucher, Paula Radcliffe And Jo Pavey Tweet Messages To Gabe Grunewald Goucher said, “Thank you for showing me what bravery looks like.”
• MB: Gabe Grunewald “enters end of life care”