The Latest On The USATF Pan Am Fiasco

LRC USA Track And Field’s Pan Am Debacle Gets Even Weirder – An Arbitrator Has Apparently Ruled Against USATF But Only In Certain Events Scott Simmons‘ Section 9 grievance was successful but it only applies to the men’s steeple and 10,000 which means he now has athletes going to Pan Ams based on both sets of rules – the ones he appealed against and the original ones. #Notjoking
*MB: USATF completely botches selection of 2019 Pan American Games team 

• Jamaica Names Superstar-Laden 56-Member Team For 20th Pan American Games 5 world leaders are on the squad, including Elaine Thompson and SAFP.
• Athletics Canada Names 2019 Lima Pan American Team 

Outside Prefontaine Classic News

• It Will Be Next To Impossible For The 2019 Pre Classic To Top The Last Big Non US Champ Meet Held At Stanford – The 1962 US Vs. USSR Meet 152,500 attended the two-day meet. More than 5,000 attended practices.
• All Seats For Pre Classic Are SOLD OUT – Standing Room Only Remains
• Timothy Cheruiyot And His Coach Bernard Ouma Were Pulled Off Plane In Nairobi, Forced To Go To American Embassy Whatever the issue was, he’s all clear now and in the US, although later than anticipated.
• Reigning US 100m Champ Aleia Hobbs Talks About What It Was Like To Flee Hurricane Katrina And Live In A Shelter At Age 9
• Ken Goe Feature On Clayton Murphy: Runner Clayton Murphy Has His Olympic Medal, And He Is Only Getting Started – oregonlive.com The article reveals that Salazar thinks Murphy’s best event will soon be the 1,500.
  *MB: Alberto praises Murphy’s values: “I’ve literally never heard Clayton say one cuss word … Little things tell you a lot.”
• Tons Of Stanford University Track Records Will Fall At Pre That’s what happens when you hold a pro meet on a college track.
• 8 NCAA Stars Will Race Pre
• NBC: 10 Events To Watch At Pre

Meet The Running Warehouse Prediction Contest Winners

LRC Previous Winners And NCAA Coaches Triumph In Our Running Warehouse NCAA Outdoors Prediction Contest Meet the winners and we’re reminded how the tiny little University of Tulsa is producing NCAA champions.

Previous USATF Pan Am Scandal News

LRC Up To 39 Athletes May Have Had Their Spots On Team USA Denied Thanks To USATF’s Incompetence; Hear Some Of Their Stories Here In December, USATF head Max Siegel and two others signed a 20-page document saying USATF would pick the Pan Am team off of 2019 times – then USATF didn’t do that and many are devastated as a result. Some of those athletes share the anguish of what it feels like to wrongfully be denied a spot on Team USA.
*MB: USATF completely botches selection of 2019 Pan American Games team 

• LRC USA Track And Field Tries To Hide The Fact That They Messed Up BIG TIME, Quietly Names New Pan Am Team 
• LRC USATF Makes It Up As It Goes Along (Again), Ignores Its Own Selection Procedures For 2019 Pan American Games
• Ken Goe: Bungling USATF Amends Pan Am Games Team Without Explanation

Non-Distance News

• SI Q&A With Matthew Boling, Who Won Gatorade National Track And Field Athlete Of The Year Boling talks about sprinting and the wind, the difficulty of doubling up with the LJ and the idea of racing Noah Lyles and Christian Coleman (plus an update on the Twitter challenge with Ted Ginn).
• Gatorade Announces Boys State Player Of The Year Awards No surprise, Matthew Boling won the award for Texas.
• Arkansas’ NCAA 100H Champ Janeek Brown Forgoes Her Final Two Years Of Eligibility; Signs Pro Deal With Puma Brown is also the Jamaican NR holder and world leader at 12.40.
• Chief Starter At Jamaican Champs Explains Why Former World 100H Champ Danielle Williams Wasn’t Allowed To Run Under Protest After She False Started The official explained that IAAF rules only allow racing under protest when there is a working “start information system” (which is used to electronically detect false starts). Last year Yohan Blake was allowed to run under protest despite this system being in place, but a source said that was a mistake they “vowed not to do again.”
• BBC: UK Hepathlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson Talks About How She’s Got Her Career Straightened Out Through Sacrifices And Moving To The South Of France
• Germany’s European And Olympic Javelin Champ Writes A Letter To His Younger Self “Thomas, you will perhaps come to regret some of those fashion mistakes you made back then. What were you thinking with those baggy clothes; you were definitely a kid of the 1990s!”

Caster Semenya Updates

• IAAF Submits Request To Overturn Temporary Swiss Court Order Allowing Caster Semenya To Compete Without Medication The IAAF has asked for the order for it to “super-provisionally suspend the implementation of the DSD regulations” with regards to Semenya to be reversed.
  *IAAF Statement
• IAAF Director Of Science And Health Says That They Check For Gender Dysphoria With Psychological Tests Stephane Bermon: “[Psychological tests are a] very important parameter that tells us if the person has a gender dysphoria, in other words … if they feel good about their gender or aspire to change it, or do not know.”

Upcoming Action

• July 9: MB: Donavan Brazier Entered In 1500m At The Sunset Tour Meet In Asuza, CA What do you predict he’ll run?
• Sunday: Christian Coleman Leads Pre 100m Field Against Justin Gatlin, Zharnel Hughes And Cravon Gillespie Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce faces Sha’Carri Richardson, English Gardner, double world silver medalist Marie-Josee Ta Lou in the women’s race.
• July 12: Genzebe Dibaba Will Take On Beatrice Chepkoech And Sifan Hassan In The Monaco DL Brave Like Gabe Mile The men’s 1,500 will have world champ Elijah Manangoi vs. indoor WR holder Samuel Tefera and Matthew Centrowitz. Also a stacked TJ with rivals Christian Taylor, Pedro Pablo Pichardo and Will Claye.
• August 6-10: USATF Announce 2019 Pan Am Games Roster Distance runners competing in Lima, Peru include Donavan Brazier, Garrett Heath, Allie Ostrander, Kim Conley, Alexa Efraimson, Nikki Hiltz.