Lausanne Diamond League *Full Results *TV & Streaming Information

LRC Noah Lyles Rips 19.50 World Leader in 200 Meters in Lausanne to Become the 4th-Fastest Man in History 19.50 into a headwind (-.1 m/s). Wow.

Rest of the Meet
LRC 2019 Lausanne DL Recap: Gebrhiwet Miscounts His Laps, Cheruiyot Runs 3:28 and SAFP Runs 10.74 Lausanne entertained from start to finish as we saw a super-fast men’s 1500, a wild men’s 5000 with the fastest penultimate lap in history and a whole lot more.

MB Talk:

• MB: Official 2019 Lausanne Diamond League Live Discussion Thread
  
• MB: NOAH MF LYLES 19.50!!!!
  
• MB: TIM MF CHERUIYOT!!!
  
• MB: Jakob 3:30!!

Night Of 10,000 PBs Is Saturday In London *Live Results / Startlists *Live Stream

MB: It’s baaack! NIGHT OF 10,000 PB’s in London with sub-27:30 and sub-31 in the cards Germany’s Richard Ringer and Israel’s Lonah Salpeter are back to defend their titles at the race that also serves as the European Cup and British Champs/Trials. The race is known for it’s unique atmosphere with a bridge over the home straight, spectators on the track and infield and a beer bar.

• Nice Write-up From The BBC On The Night of the 10,000m PBs Includes praise from Seb Coe.
• Athletics Weekly Preview: Night of the 10,000m PBs: Who, what and when? *2nd article
• Last Year’s Video Highlights
• A Good Review From Outside Mag Of Last Year’s Meet

Catching Up On Recent Doping News

• According To A Report Published By French Prosecutors (And Seen By ARD), A Number Of British Athletes (Including A Gold Medalist) May Have Avoided Doping Bans Under Lamine Diack Allegedly an email contained a list of athletes whose blood passports showed clear signs of doping violations. *ARD Video Report
  *MB: British gold medalist & ‘sports icon’ implicated in blood doping at 2012 Olympics “An indictment by French prosecutors …has alleged that British athletes, including a Gold medalist and ‘sports icon’, were involved in blood doping at the London 2012 Olympics.”
• WADA Identifies “Target Pool” Of 298 Athletes From Russian Laboratory Samples These were the “most suspicious” out of the 2,262 samples taken from the Moscow lab. Of the 298, evidence for 43 athletes has been sent to their respective international federations.
• BBC Video Interview: East German Sports Tore Lives Apart Former East German sprinter Ines Geipel talks about how her youth and health was destroyed by a state sponsored doping program with steroids and male hormones.
• Russian Distance Runner Ilyas Nurgaliyev Gets 2-Year Doping Ban Nurgaliyev, who has mediocre PBs of 1:50 and 3:49 according to the IAAF, tested positive for oxilofrine last year.
• IAAF Approves The Application Of 37 More Russians To Compete Internationally As Neutrals

This Weekend And Beyond

• July 5-7: FloTrack Preview: NCAA Rematches Aplenty At NACAC U18 & U23 Championships In Mexico Includes a rematch of the top-3 from the women’s 800m final with Jazmine Fray, Nia Akins and Avi’Tal Wilson Perteete. NCAA runner-up Devin Dixon is also in the NACAC 800m.
  *Live Results, Startlists And Schedule
• July 26: Elaine Thompson And Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Lead Jamaican Squad For 2019 Pan American Games National 100H record holder Janeek Brown (12.40) and CWG discus champ Fedrick Dacres are also on the team.
• July 11: NCAA 100H Champ Janeek Brown To Make Pro Debut At Monaco DL
• July 6-7: Preview – Can Ukraine retain their European Combined Events Team Championships title?

Recommended Read And Listen For Your July 4th

LRC Podcast – Guests Matthew Boling And NY Times Sports Editor Matthew Futterman + Pre Classic Review, Peachtree Roadrace Preview & Western States

Recommended Read: Dr. Michael Joyner Reviews Matthew Futterman’s Running To The Edge An excellent new book and interesting read that uses the stories of Coach Bob Larsen, the Jamul Toads, Meb Keflezighi and Deena Kastor to highlight some of the recent history of distance running in the U.S.

Other Assorted News

• High School Rules Changing To Allow The Assisting Of Injured Athletes Now the athlete receiving the assistance will still be DQed, but not the athlete providing the assistance.
• Mike Sands Of The Bahamas Elected New NACAC President
• Former USATF President Stephanie Hightower Elected As NACAC Treasurer
• Australian Prime Minister Backs 2032 Olympic Bid Australia last hosted in 2000 in Sydney.
• IAAF: RIP Longtime Track Journalist Atsushi Hoshino, 93

Distance News

• MB: Alan Webb hired at UA-Little Rock as new head coach
• Kenya’s Sheila Chelangat Destroys African 10k All-Comers Record At The 10K de Port-Gentil In Gabon She ran 30:55 to take 41 seconds off the previous mark. Uganda’s Abdallah Mande won the men’s race in 27:35, a CR and 35-second PR.

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?

Non-Pre US Track Action

• Will Claye Moves To #3 All-Time In The TJ With 18.14m To Win At The Jim Bush Track Meet In Long Beach, CA WR holder Jonathan Edwards (18.29m) and Christian Taylor (18.21m) are the only two who have jumped farther. Claye also won the LJ with 8.21m (his best jump since 2012). Brittney Reese won the LJ with 6.95m and Brianna McNeal won the 100H (12.71) and flat 100m (11.20).
• MB: Princeton Qualifier twilight meet – Official Discussion and Results Sam Ellison won the 800 in 1:46.46 over Isaiah Harris (1:46.61) while Olivia Baker won the women’s race in 2:01.21. Justine Kiprotich (3:39.57) and Lauren Johnson (4:09.81) won the 1,500s. Jordan Mann (8:26.65) and Laura Donegan (9:38.75) won the steeples. *Full Results
• Lopez Lomong Wins 1,500m Tune-Up At Lane Community College In Eugene Lomong won in 3:37.62 as Hassan Mead was 4th (3:41.87).
• MB: There was a pay pay per view race for $1 million last night. Guess who won it?
• Sprints and hurdles shine on the final day of the USATF Youth Outdoor Championship
  *Over 50 Athletes Crowned On Day 5 Of The USATF National Youth Outdoor Championship *Results
  *Field Events Highlight Day 4 At USATF National Youth Outdoor Championships

Western States *Live Coverage/Tracking/Results

MB Jim Walmsley Repeats As Western States Champion, Takes 20+ Minutes Off His CR, Wins In 14:09:28, Clare Gallagher Wins In 2nd-Fastest Women’s Tme (17:23:24) Message board poster Ap5000 is in awe: “I hope everyone appreciates the significance of running 8:30 pace for 100 miles with 18,000 feet of climbing. Only one guy in the world can do it!” For the record, he averaged 8:29.68 per mile. Runner-up Jared Hazen, Jim’s housemate, also broke the old CR of 14:30:04 by running 14:26:50. Defending women’s champ Courtney Dauwalter dropped out just before 80 miles and Camille Herron dropped well before that.
*News24: Jim Walmsley Defends His Title And Shatters His Own Western States Record Clare Gallagher won the women’s race in 17:23:25 (second fastest women’s time in race history).

Other Links That Passed Our Vetting Process

• Japanese National Day Two Highlights: Sani Brown Crushes Everyone In Wet 100 (10.02) As 17-Year-Old HSer Allon Tatsunami Clay Wins 800 Clay broke the high school, U20 and U18 national records with his 1:46.59.
• 22,000 Fans Showed Up In Belarus, Including The Belarussian President, To Watch The 2nd European Games It’s a team competition using the new DNA format. The Ukraine got the team title.
• 4 Australians Have Broken 28 In The Last 12 Months – A New Record
• JAAA Says It Will Pick Its 100H WC Team Based Off Of World Rankings After Jamaican Finals Were Abandoned In Chaos
• Divine Oduduru And Sha’Carri Richardson Win Bowerman Fan Vote Personally, we think Grant Holloway deserves it as both won 3 individual NCAA titles on the year but Holloway broke the oldest record on the books.
• After Some Bigots Ripped Nikki Hiltz Online Last Month For Being Gay, She Decided To Put Their Hateful Words On Loop On Instagram You can follow her on Instagram here.
• Jake Wightman Returns For 1st Action Since Suffering A Stress Fracture To His Sacrum In December At Watford Grand Prix

NCAA News

• Speaking Of Stanford – Another Stanford Head Coach Has Decided To Quit MB: Chris Miltenberg leaving Stanford to take over as director of T&F/CC at UNC
  *MB: 2019 College Track & Field Open Coaching Positions Discussion This is the most read thread on Letsrun year in and year out.
• Knoxnews.com: Tennessee Track And Field: Are Vols Running In Place Or Making Strides? The Author Focuses On How Tennessee Rarely Scores Many Points At NCAAs.
• Both Gatorade HS Track Athletes Of The Year Are Headed To Georgia Jumper Jasmine Moore won the girls award.
• UC Davis Track And Field Director Rahn Sheffield Steps Down

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