Jamaican Champs Highlight Weekend International Action *Results

• Elaine Thompson Beats Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce To Win Jamaican 100m Title As Both Clock 10.73 Thompson got the win by three-thousandths of a second (10.726 to 10.729) in the first race in history in which two women broke 10.75. Briana Williams set a world U18 best of 10.94 for third. Yohan Blake won the men’s 100m in a SB of 9.96 while Kemar Mowatt (48.70) and Rushell Clayton (54.73) got upset victories in the 400H. *MB: Elaine Thompson – 10.73 +0.6 WL
  *Video Of Yohan Blake’s 9.96 Win
  *Despite Loss At Jamaican Trials, SAFP Is Thrilled With How Things Are Going “Coming back from having a baby, I am doing for some people the impossible. … I hope that I can leave this as inspiration for the young women and men who are coming up to understand that it doesn’t matter what your setback is as long as you come back and you keep fighting and you endure until the end.”
  *MileSplit: Briana Williams Smashes US High School 100m Record With 10.94 Williams said she’s sick with a fever and will seek medical exemption from the 200m, but “chase a top-3 Jamaican time” later on to try to get a Worlds spot.
  *Jamaican Junior Championships Recap: Shaquille Lowe Wins Boys LJ With 7.33m
• Rushell Clayton And Kemar Mowatt Pull Off Stunning 400m Hurdles Upsets At Jamaican Nationals Mowatt was 4th at 2018 NCAAs for Arkansas. Pre-race women’s favorite Janieve Russell was stunned when she only finished 4th.

Other News That Passed Our Vetting Process

• Despite His Nike Ties, French Newspaper Reports Seb Coe Had Told French Police He Voted To Hand 2019 World Championships To Doha, Not Eugene
• Callum Hawkins Is Not Scared Of Doha Heat, Vows To “Get Monkey Off Back” After CG Collapse He correctly points out that the sun is the thing to be feared at the the Doha WC marathon starts at 11:59 PM.  Plus training with “heat chamber therapy” will get him ready.
• Mutaz Essa Barshim Has Recovered From Ankle Injury, Will Compete For 1st Time Since Last July Today In Poland
• Tokyo 2020 Tickets Are Next To Impossible For Japanese Fans To Get – Less Than 3% Get Tickets In Lottery Brett Larner had a little better success at 3/28 (10.7%) but stadium seating for the men’s marathon wasn’t one of them.
  *MB: My goodness, how can this possibly be true? Stadium seating for 2020 Olympic men’s marathon finish is SOLD OUT. 
• The 5 Kinds Of Strava Posters Braggart isn’t an option.

It’s Pride Month

A Pride Month Ode To Nikki Hiltz And Therese Haiss Former Cornell runner David Melly praises Hiltz as a LGBTQ role model 50 years after the Stonewall Inn raid in New York City.

Distance Stuff

• Recommended Read: IAAF Profile On Refugee Runner Jamal Abdelmaji Eisa Mohammed, Who Fled The Violence In Sudan To Earn Money To Help His Family At age 17, Mohammed traveled by foot for over a week, including three days crossing the desert, to reach Israel. Now he’s a 28:47 10,000m runner and dreaming of the 2020 Olympics.
• MB: Morgan McDonald Goes Pro, Signs With Total Sports
• From Last Week: 17-Year-Old Ryuji Miura Breaks 30-Year-Old Japanese Citizen High School Steeplechase Record With 8:39

Mid-Week Track Action – Ostrava Golden Spike *Full Results

LRC Shaunae Miller-Uibo Sets World Women’s 300 World Record* Of 34.41 In Ostrava, Andre De Grasse (19.91) Nips Christian Coleman In Men’s 200 Watch both races in this article. Meet also included a win by Amel Tuka in the men’s 800 (1:44.95), a win by Charlie Grice in the men’s mile (3:56.95) and Gudaf Tsegay in the women’s 1,500 (4:02.95). *IAAF Full Meet Recap

• MB: Coleman v De Grasse over 200 in Ostrava tonight
  
• MB: Shaunae Miller-Uibo Runs 34.41 300m world record in Ostrava

Youth News: USATF U20 Champs Start Friday

• Matthew Boling Nominated For “Best Record-Setting Performance” ESPY Award He is up against tough competition with Saints’ Drew Brees and Golden State’s Klay Thompson nominated in the same category.
• USATF Preview For This Weekend’s USATF Under-20 Outdoor Championships In Florida
• Kayla Davis’ 51.17 In The NBNO Last Weekend 400m Was An Age-15 World Best

163 Pages Of Info On The Caster Semenya CAS Case

LRC What You Need To Know From The 163-Page Caster Semenya Vs. IAAF CAS Decision Veteran journalist Amby Burfoot has read the full 163-page decision, which was released on Tuesday, in its entirety, and offers his take on the most interesting details that were revealed.

• AP: IAAF Claimed Caster Semenya Was “Biologically Male” With A “Female Gender Identity” *Discuss
• IAAF Releases Statement Thanking CAS For Releasing Full Findings From Caster Semenya CAS Case “Having the arguments of all parties and the detailed findings of the CAS Panel in the public domain will help to foster greater understanding of this complex issue …”
• Caster Semenya Accuses IAAF Of Using Her As A “Guinea Pig” Semenya claims they’ve used her to “experiment” with how the medication affected testosterone. She also says taking the medication caused her to feel sick and gain weight.
• Full 163-Page CAS Award On Caster Semenya Case

LetsThrow.com

LRC Greatest Of All Throws: Michael Carter’s Unbreakable High School Shot Put Record Turns 40 One of the greatest records in all of sports is now 40 years old and no one one has even come within four feet of it. Read all about it here. We’re so amazed by it we had Jonathan Gault write more than 5,000 words about it.
*MB: Jonathan Gault on Michael Carter a must read. Definitely the greatest high school record