July 12, 2019 Homepage Archive

**Monaco Full Results TV**

LRC 4:12.33 World Record for Sifan Hassan in Brave Like Gabe Mile in Monaco The 23 year old world record fell down despite going out in 2:08. Unbelievable. Updated with full analysis.

LRC The 1:41 Club is Back: Nijel Amos Runs 1:41.73 in Monaco Nijel Amos was the last man to go sub 1:42 back in 2012 until he did it again in Monaco.

Rest of Meet: Justin Gatlin Defeats Noah Lyles, Ajee’ Wilson Wins, Cheruiyot Over Ingebrigtsen, McLaughlin World Leader Monaco annually seems to be the highlight of the Diamond League season and the 2019 version did not disappoint.

Articles That Interested Us As We Head Into The Weekend

Jared Ward, Olympian And Professor, Is Helping Saucony Develop Faster Racing Shoes
*MB: Saucony’s Jared Ward publishes scientific paper showing that Nike’s 4% shoes really do work
Shelby Houlihan Is 3rd American In History To Have Gone Sub-2, Sub-4 And Sub-15:00
Sinclaire Johnson Is First Collegian To Go Sub-2:01 And 4:06 In Same Season
USATF’s Butchering Of Pan Am Games Selection Goes Mainstream: Indystar: USATF Accused Of Incompetence In Selecting Track Team For Pan Am Games
Nick Willis Tells Toni Reavis That At Age 36, His Speed Doesn’t Come Around Like It Once Did “When I was younger my 5 km and cross-country strength would automatically transfer to track speed,” Nick explained. “But my muscles don’t come around so easily anymore.”
How To Talk To Yourself In A Race New Research Suggests That Addressing Yourself As “You” Works Better Than Repeating An “I” Mantra – So Say, “You’ve got this,” instead of “I.”
This 70+ Star Is The Real Deal NYT: Meet The World’s Fastest (Old) Man Charles Allie, 71, ran a 400 in 57 seconds last year. Soon he’s likely to hold WRs at 100, 200 and 400.
Wyoming Track Promotes Scott Dahlberg To Head XC Coach Dalhberg had a heck of a year as the Wyoming men were 12th in the country. Former 3:35 1,500 runner Bryan Berryhill is the director of the program but he apparently coaches the sprints.

News From The Commonwealth

Regan Yee Thrilled After Winning Sunset Tour Steeplechase And Getting Standard In Last Race Before Canadian Champs
Zane Robertson’s A Little Disappointed With His 2:08:19 National Record Debut, Thought He Could Run 2:05/2:06 “Unfortunately, the weather was a limiting factor,” said Robertson who says he will now run the WC marathon.
New FKTs Have Been Set On Two Of Britain’s Three Most Epic 24-Hour Fell Running Quests
New Balance English Schools Championships Are This Weekend: Who, What And When?
Catriona Bisset Of Australia Wins World University Games 800 In 2:01.20

Doping News

Lance Armstrong Says He Would Have Won The Tour De France Even Without Doping Armstrong also talks about the very first time he took doped and says he first took fully banned substances in 1993. These highlights come from a 28-minute video interview with NBC Sports.
Moroccan Distance Runner Abderrahmane Kachir Provisionally Suspended By Athletics Integrity Unit The 60:21 half-marathoner tested positive for a type of grown hormone.
Ridiculous:Athletes implicated In Operation Puerto Scandal Will Not Be Names Or Sanctioned When Identification Process Concludes This is because the statute of limitations passed in 2014, but the reason it took so long was because the Spanish courts fought forever to keep the confiscated blood bags from being released.
There Is Obviously A Communication Problem Between The AIU And Kenya We don’t know who’s at fault, but the Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya CEO Japhhter Rugut said that he only found out about the recently banned distance runners from the media coverage, not an official notice.

Young Adult Championships WUG Live Results, Start Lists, ScheduleEuro U23 Live Results, Start Lists, Schedule

Victories By Italy’s Ayomide Folorunso In The 400H (54.75) And Bulgaria’s Tihomir Ivanov In The HJ (2.30m) Highlight Day 3 Of The World University Games Distance wins went to Australia’s Catriona Bisset in the 800m (2:01.20) and Poland’s Michal Rozmys (3:53.67) in the 1,500m.
Japan Picks Up Three Medals At WUG, Including Silvers In The Men’s And Women’s 10,000 Both were close races with Hiroki Abe running 29:30.01 to South Africa’s Mokorane Milton Kekana‘s 29:29.43 and Rino Goshima running 34:04.65 to China’s Deshun Zhang‘s 34:03.31.
AW Day 3 WUG:Former WUG Bronze Medalist Jess Judd Advances In The 5,000
European Athletics Preview:Berlin 2018 Medalists Headline At European U23 Champs
Athletics Weekly Preview:56-Strong GB Team Headed To Sweden For Euro U23
HJer Morgan Lake And Racewalker Callum Wilkinson To Captain Team GB For The European U23 Champs In Sweden
July 19:Team USATF Announces 2019 Pan American U20 Championships RosterAthing Mu, Matthew Boling, Lanae Tava-Thomas and Taylor Ewert highlight Team USA.
And The Old Too: July 11: More Than 900 Athletes Set For USATF Masters Outdoor Championships In Iowa

Is 40 Days Of Running Enough?

LRC Exclusive Evan Jager Will Attempt To Win His 8th-Straight US Title After Just 40 Days Of Running Injuries have kept Evan Jager from racing since last August. Jager is back running now – finally – and he’s ready to talk. So we listened.
*MB: Evan Jager Will Attempt To Win His 8th Straight US Title After Just 40 Days of Running – Is It Enough?

Good News For The US Olympic Women’s Marathon Trials

LRC Here’s What We Know About The 2020 US Olympic Marathon Trials The top 3 across the line in the women’s race on February 29th will definitely be going to the Olympics. As for the men, that’s still TBD.

MB:Frank mesas death has officially been ruled a suicide The Los Angeles County coroner’s office says Meza died from multiple blunt force traumatic injuries and ruled his death a suicide. This after there were reports last week that someone may have jumped from a bridge.

An Inside Look At The 2020 US Olympic Marathon Trials Course

LRC LetsRun.com Previews The 2020 US Olympic Marathon Trials Course — Where Cross Country Meets The Marathon Just how hard is this course? What are the pros saying? And why should Walking Dead fans be excited? We traveled to Atlanta to give you the scoop.

2 Good Reads From Athletics Weekly

Josh Kerr is on fire – He’s set 4 pbs in 4 straight races It’s not conventional for a 21-yr old Brit to be training in Seattle but Kerr is far from an ordinary talent. Can he medal in Doha?

Q&A with Laura Weightman who reflects on her “surprise” 8:26 3000m at Pre She says she’s undecided on whether she’ll run the 1500 or 5000 at Worlds.

Our Weekly Podcast + Recap

LRCPodcast: Evan Jager Talks Injury & Redemption, + A Look Back At Lausanne And The Sunset Tour, + Lagat’s 2:12 Subscribe today on your favorite podcasting app. Evan Jager is the special guest for the final 50 minutes.

Weekly Recap LRC WTW: Life Isn’t Fair / Brigid Kosgei Wins $58,000, Bernard Lagat 2020 Olympic Marathoner?, Bribes And Pro Daycare Dads In our weekly recap, we also analyze who looked older as a teen: Alan Webb, Eliud Kipchoge or Edward Zakayo?

Russian Doping Updates

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko Wins His CAS Appeal Against His Lifetime Olympic Ban However, this was not a vindication of Mutko. Basically CAS said that since Mutko isn’t an athlete, coach or member of the Russian delegation at the Games, the IOC doesn’t have the “jurisdiction” to keep him from attending the Olympics.
Top Russian Track Coach Vladimir Kazarin (Former Coach Of Maria Savinova And Whistleblower Yulia Stepanova) Admits To Breaking His Lifetime Ban He actually grew a beard to try and continue coaching without detection, but was caught by RUSADA and now the athletes he coached could (and should) be banned.

Boston Marathon News

Crews Begin Installing Boston Marathon Bombing Memorial On Boylston Street
Boston Marathon Breaks Their Record With $38.7 Million Raised For Charity Their previous highest was in 2014, the year after the bombing attacks.

More Mid-Week Results

Edward Cheserek Runs 7:43.47 In Lucerne, Switzerland For Second Place Behind Ethiopia’s Tadese Worku (7:43.24) European half marathon record holder Julien Wanders was third in 7:43.6. SA’s Akani Simbine (10.06) won the 100m ahead of European record holder Jimmy Vicaut (10.11) while Thomas Röhler (86.51m) and Kelsey-Lee Barber (67.70m) won the javelin. *Results
*MB: In Europe – Just Watched King Ches PR in 7:43
Genzebe Dibaba Runs 5:33.76 For 2,000m In Budapest
Christian Taylor Produces One Of The Farthest Jumps Of His Career (A Wind-Aided 17.93m) To Win In Hungary Over Rivals Will Claye And Pedro Pablo PichardoChristian Coleman (19.91) and Shaunae Miller-Uibo (22.18) won the 200m races while Grant Holloway (13.16 in his pro debut) and Keni Harrison (12.60) won the sprint hurdles. *Results
Masaki Toda Highlights Hokuren Distance Challenge With #2 Japanese All-Time 1,500 With A 3:37.90 Win He missed the record by just 0.48.
IAAF Recap:Poland’s Konrad Bukowiecki Breaks World University Games Record With 21.54m Shot Put Victory
India’s Dutee (11.32) Chand And Brazil’s Paulo Andre Camilo (10.09) Win World University Games 100m Titles
From The Weekend: Mao Ichiyama Runs 68:49 To Win Hakodate Half Marathon And Move To #8 On The Japan All-Time List Daniel Kayiok won the men’s race in 62:19.

Anti-Doping News

Biggest Ever Anti-Doping Raid Arrests 234 People The operation involved police from 33 countries and led to nine underground labs in European countries being shut down, with millions of illegal substances, including 24 tons of steroids, being confiscated.
WADA Confirms Involvement In Anti-Doping Operation Which Dismantled 17 Organized Crime Groups WADA provided practical support and intelligence during the investigation, which has led to the opening of 839 judicial cases.
Two More Kenyans Suspended For Doping, Including 2014 Commonwealth Games Champ Joyce Chepkirui Chepkirui was suspended for issues with her biological passport while 2:07:03 man Jacob Kendagor either evaded or refused a doping test.
*MB: Two More Kenyans Provisionally Suspended For Doping Violations