2019 Pre Classic *Results

LRC Women’s Prefontaine Recap: Hassan Wins Greatest Clean* Women’s 3,000 Ever, Faith Kipyegon Returns In Style, Caster Semenya Wins Again, Houlihan, Coburn Impress The 100 and 200 match-ups fizzled. Vashti Cunningham went 2.00 for 1st time.

Pre On Boards: Pre Classic 2019 (6/30) – Official Discussion Thread

• WHAT ARE THEY DOING AT THE NIKE OREGON PROJECT? The poster is raving about them but another poster says 40% of the team either was MIA or ran poorly.
• Bowerman Struggling Big Time We thought they had a good meet.
•  JESS MF HULL
• Paul Chelimo is BAAAAACK
• And America’s best miler is (temporarily) Craig Engels….. Pete Julian smokes Salazar!! 
• Did anyone see that Konstanze Klosterhalfen was doing some type of repeat workout on the track after the Pre Classic ended?
• Yomif Kejelcha goes home DEVASTATED!!!
• Glassy-Eyed Gatlin, 37, runs 9.87, says he hasn’t done any “real hardcore speedwork” 
• Centro is going to get lit up at Pre classic mile
• Allie O in Pre Steeple
• Here’s my question. Has there ever been a Diamond League meet without a LJ orTJ before today’s Pre Classic meet?

European Action

• GB’s Jake Wightman Returns From Injury With 1:45.55 Win In BMC Grand Prix 800m Sarah McDonald won the women’s 800 in 2:00.15 while Andrew Butchart took the 1,500 in 3:38.84. *Discuss
  *Darragh McElhinney Breaks Irish U20 3000m Record With 8:01.48 Victory At British Milers Club Meet In Watford
• Switzerland’s Alex Wilson Runs 19.98 National 200m Record In La Chaux-de-Fonds
• British Teenager Amy Hunt Speeds To World Under-18 200m Best With 22.42 In Germany She broke Dina Asher-Smith‘s UK junior record and actually moved to #3 on the all-time UK list.
• Sweden’s Daniel Stahl Moves To Equal 4th On The World All-Time Discus List With At 71.86m World Lead
• MB: Sarah True collapses as leader 1k before finish line at Ironman Frankfurt She had a 10 minute lead when she collapsed and was taken off the course by medics in the over 100 degree (F) weather.
• Kai Kazmirek And Verena Preiner Win IAAF Combined Events Meet In Ratingen, Germany Kazmirek got the Olympic standard while Preiner set the Austrian heptathlon record with 6591 points. *Day 1 Recap

Admin/Coaching News

• Ken Goe: Maybe It’s Time For Different Leadership At USATF Goe doesn’t believe that the current Pan Am Games controversy would have gotten so out of hand if Vin Lananna was actually allowed to do his job as USATF president instead of being forced on “temporary administrative leave.”
• Seb Coe Set To Be Re-Elected For A Second Term As IAAF President As He Stands Unopposed Sergey Bubka was talked about as a possible contender (he ran against Coe four years ago), but decided not to challenge Coe.
• 2004 Olympic 100m Silver Medalist Lauryn Williams Puts Out Book As A Resource For Pro Athletes In “The Oval Office” Williams writes, “If you want to be successful at the professional level you have to embrace entrepreneurship. If you have no interest in running a business, then professional sports are not for you.”
• USF Hires Erik Jenkins As New XC Coach No, not that Eric Jenkins.
• Longtime Fordham Coach Tom Dewey Announces Retirement

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 

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.