July 18, 2019 | LetsRun.com

LRC Exclusives

Podcast: Podcast: Sifan Hassan World Record In Mile, Rojo Eats Crow, Nijel Amos Back In 1:41s, Will Jager Ever Break 8? NOP / Bowerman Talk Subscribe today on itunes.

WTW Shelby Houlihan Is An 800 Runner (Again), Anna-Emilie Møller Breaks 41-Year-Old Record, + Is Muktar Edris Getting Into Shape? Monaco lived up to its hype but we go beyond the headlines and also look at the state of affairs with the Japanese men’s 1,500 and listen to Lance Armstrong‘s latest justification excuse of you better bring guns to a gun fight.

LRC Evan Jager, Robby Andrews And Eric Jenkins Definitely Are Out Of USAs Three World Championships team members from 2017 likely will be MIA at USAs later this month. Wed. AM Update: Jager is definitely out as well.
*MB: 2019 USATF Outdoor Entries/Robby Andrews and Eric Jenkins Definitely Are Out of USAs; Evan Jager May Be As Well

Distance News

Amy Cragg Talks About Her Preparation For This Year’s Chicago Marathon After Having To Withdraw With Injury In 2018 Cragg says after she pulled out of Chicago she started doing some focus on shorter distances and was just “hanging on” during workouts at BTC practices. She says everything is now focused on “protecting the goal of the [Olympic] qualifying standard” in Chicago.
Jessica Ennis-Hill’s Former Coach Toni Minichiello Criticizes Kyle Langford’s Fine For Pushing An Official As Too Lienient “I’m gobsmacked at how lenient this is. It is a massive error of judgment by the disciplinary panel … I would have kicked them out of my training group.”
*Former UKA Performance Director Dave Collins: “If Kyle had done this in a bar, such behavior could have got him nicked. Yes, it’s on a sporting field but what really is different here? The fine is derisory.”
Outside: “Can The Oregon Project Change Its Image?” Many would consider Sifan Hassan‘s 8:18.49 the clean outdoor 3000 WR consider the only faster times were run by the Chinese women in 1993. But some still have questions on anyone associated with Alberto Salazar and NOP.

NCAA News

Bryan Fetzer Resigns as Virginia Director of Track and Field and Cross Country Fetzer announced that he is retiring from coaching after 25-years. Head XC coach Jason Dunn will take over as interim director. *MB Thread
D2 School Albany State Cuts Men’s XC Program

London DL Is Saturday And Sunday *Provisional Entry Lists

Recommended Read: GB Sprinter James Ellington Says Making It To Tokyo 2020 Will Be A “Walk In The Park” After Recovering From The Extensive And Life Threatening Injuries In His Motorcycle Crash He’ll be racing this weekend for the first time since that accident in 2016. This after doctors initially told him they didn’t know if he’d ever walk again.
*BBC Article: James Ellington: “I was thinking at the beginning that if I keep my leg, I will be back, and even if I don’t keep my leg, I will still be back competing in the Paralympics.” Ellington now has a carbon fiber rod in his right leg and his pelvis is held together by nails and a metal plate. One of the nails actually snapped when he was lifting weights in the gym.

Athletics Weekly: Sifan Hassan And Shelly-Ann Faster-Pryce Among Global Stars Set For London DL Hassan will take on Hellen Obiri and GB’s Laura Weightman in the 5,000m while Fraser-Pryce is up against Dina Asher-Smith, Dafne Schippers and Murielle Ahoure in the 100m.
*Former GB Greats To Run “Legends Relay” Race At Anniversary Games The line-up includes 2008 Olympic 400m champ Christine Ohuruogu, 2004 Olympic 4×100 champ Mark Lewis-Francis and 1984 Olympic 4000m silver medalist Wendy Sly.
*NBC Sports: Five Events To Watch At The London DL

Also This Weekend In Europe: European U20 Champs Preview
*Results/Startlists/Schedule *Live Streaming Info

Will Shoe Tech Ruin The Purity Of The Sport?

Recommended Read: Toni Reavis Bemoans The Fact That Modern Running Shoes Are Becoming So Advanced, They May Kill The Joy Of Running “Soon we will begin to hear about the first sub-1 hour marathon before Eliud Kipchoge has a chance to fully recover from his first sub-2. And everyone will applaud but like the proliferation of home runs in Major League Baseball this year, the performances in one era will be impossible to compare against another and something fundamental will be lost.”
*MB: Sifan Hassan ran her world record in cheater spikes, does it count!?!?

Upcoming: Pan Am Games Start Next Week

You Had To Be There

LRC Boots On The Ground In Monaco: What Did Track & Field’s Stars Tell LetsRun.com After Racing On Friday? We had boots on the ground in Monaco on Friday. What did Noah Lyles, Justin Gatlin, Sydney McLaughlin, Ajee Wilson, Nijel Amos and the Ingebrigtsens tell us after Monaco?
*Timothy Cheruiyot After Monaco: “I was expecting a sub 3:29 but it wasn’t a fast race. I’m still happy for the victory.”

Great American Fields Set For Chicago 2019

LRC Chicago Marathon Announces Deep American Fields For 2019 Race: Cragg, Derrick, & Ritz Join Rupp & Hasay We break down what it all means as we we get closer to the 2020 US Trials. Plus, why we think Berlin might be a better option.
*MB: 2019 Chicago Marathon US field is out: Cragg, Derrick, Ritz Join Rupp & Hasay

Also In October 1st Canadian Across Line With Standard At Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon On October 20th Will Be Named To Olympic Team Former 4:02 1,500 runner Malindi Elmore of Canada, now 39, is hoping it’s her and she’s got reason to be optimistic as she ran 2:32 in her debut 6 months after giving birth.

This Week’s Action *Ethiopian 10,000 Trials Results & Race Replay

LRC Analyzing The Ethiopian 10,000 Trials: Last Night, Would Hagos G Have Beaten Mo Farah In His Prime? We compare the splits from Hagos G’s 26:48 race last night to Mo Farah‘s 26:49 race from 2017 Worlds and the stats look pretty good for Hagos. *IAAF Recap
*MB: Would Hagos G have beaten Mo Farah in his prime last night? Closed 26:48 race in 54.4, Farah closed 26:49 race in 55.6
*MB: Official 2019 Ethiopian 10,000 Trials Discussion Thread
*MB: Shouldn’t all of the 10k times recorded from Hengelo be disallowed due to illegal pacing? A computer paced the race!!! (video)

MB: Former Olympic 1,500m Champ Taoufik Makhloufi Runs 1:46.33 For Second Place In Sotteville les Rouen, France It was Makhloufi’s first race since 2016. Kenya’s Alfred Kipketer won the race in 1:45.59.
*IAAF Full Meet Recap: Cuba’s Yaimé Perez Throws World Leading 69.39m In The Discus Abdelaati Iguider got a dominating win in the 3,000m in 7:40.71. *Full Results

Nijel Amos Smashes His 400m PR With 44.99 In Padua, Italy Amos won his heat, but Nigeria’s Emmanuel Bamidele ran faster in the other heat with 44.78. Kenya’s former world 800m champ Eunice Sum ran 2:00.99 to hold off Ukraine’s Olha Lyakhova (2:01.16). Other winners included Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (11.00) in the 100m and Yulimar Rojas (14.87m) in the TJ.
Friday: Matt Centrowitz, Shannon Rowbury, Grant Fisher And Jessica Hull Among Top Entries For The Stumptown Twilight Track Meet In Oregon
*Meet Schedule

Sprint Stuff

Aries Merritt, LaShawn Merritt, Tyson Gay And Lolo All To Miss USAs This will be the first championship year USAs Gay has missed since 2004 and Aries Merritt since 2005.
Noah Lyles Says He Was Really Tempted To Go For The 100m At USAs But He And His Coached Decided To Stick To The 200m Only He says he definitely plans to double next year at the Olympic rials though.
Dutee Chand Says World University 100m Gold Is The “Highlight Of Her Career So Far” But That She “Isn’t Done Yet” Chand is able to compete as the IAAF’s XY rules only apply for the 400-1500. Her current goal is to qualify for worlds as she still needs the standard.

Doping News

Kenyan 2:30 Marathoner Salome Biwott Gets 8-Year Doping Ban This was her second doping offense as she got a 2-year ban back in 2012. *Daily Nation article
Russian State Media Reports That Track Is Russia’s Most Drug Tested Sport 675 Russians were tested between January and June of this year. Weightlifters were second with 221.
Russian Olympic Committee To Fund Some Athlete Legal Expenses They’ve included $479,000 in their budget for athlete legal protection.
FairSport Slams CAS Decision To Rule In Favor Of Russian Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko In His Appeal Against His Lifetime Olympic Ban Their statement read, “The reinstatement of Vitaly Mutko is an absolute travesty and a mockery of justice.”
Apparently Doping Bans Are Just A Suggestion In Russia: RUSADA Confirms Two Russian Boxers Competed While Serving Bans

Kipchoge And Sub-2 Updates

Recommended Read: Patrick Sang Writes About His Coaching Relationship With Eliud Kipchoge And How It Has Grown Over The Years Sang shares a lot of interesting insights and stories about the greatest marathoner of all-time. Sang talks about the young 16-year-old version of Kipchoge coming up to him at a dirt track and asking for a training program.
Good Read: Eliud Kipcoge Heads To Training Camp After The First Block Of Training For His Sub-2 Attempt At Home In Eldoret Kipchoge says the main benefit of camp is allowing him to focus “with no distractions” and to train with his team. “For me, running with others is so important. You can run alone, but I believe that you cannot do the same level of work. Unless you are a genius, I think it is impossible to train on your own and achieve the same level of results.”
Patrick Sang: “To be honest, I did not know the capacity of the human mind until Eliud’s first attempt to break the two-hour barrier…” Sang says, “I knew the mind is strong but I didn’t realize how strong. On that morning, I looked into his eyes and he actually believed 100 per cent that he was going to do it.”
MB: Eliud Kipchoge loves Kelly Clarkson — thoughts?

The Rest Of The World University Games And Euro U23 Champs Results: WUG *Euro U23

IAAF: Japan Wins Four Golds On Final Day Of World University Games Japan impressively swept all six medals in the men’s and women’s half marathon (won by Akira Aizawa in 65:15 and Yuka Suzuki in 74:10) while Japan also got wins from Yuki Hashioka in the LJ (8.01m) and the men’s 4 x 100 (38.92). Germany’s Caterina Granz won the 1,500 in 4:09.14 and Algeria’s Mohamed Belbachir took the 800m in 1:47.02.
*Japan Running News Recap
*Haruka Kitaguchi Gets Javelin Silver At WUG
IAAF : Germany’s Niklas Kaul Wins European U23 Decathlon Title With Championship Record 8572 Points
Nadia Power (Bronze In The 800m) And Eilish Flanagan (Silver In The Steeple) Win Shock Medals For Ireland At Euro U23 Champs

**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 despite Hassan going out in 2:08. Unbelievable. *Updated with full analysis.

LRC The 1:41 Club Is Back: Nijel Amos Runs 1:41.89 In Monaco 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.

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

Field Event News

Retired Former Olympic LJ Champ Greg Rutherford Says He’s Fine With His “Dad Bod” Rutherford caught some flak after he posted a picture of him preparing to swim the English Channel. His response: “I very much realize I’m not in the shape I was as a professional athlete. I’m fine with that, I love cake and beer…”
August 1: Sam Kendricks And Sandi Morris Lead Fields For Street Pole Vault In Omaha
Poland’s Olympic And World Hammer Champ Anita Włodarczyk Will Miss Doha With Knee Injury And Surgery
Sweden’s World Silver Medalist Daniel Stahl Produces Four Consecutive Throws Over The 70m Barrier, With A Best Of 70.89m

Assorted Distance News

Good Read/Interview: The Fastest Runner On The Tour de France? Canadian Pro Cyclist And Sub-4 Miler Mike Woods Shares Some Interesting Insights On The Differences Between Running And Cycling Woods ran 3:57.48 when he was 18 years old, but was forced to stop running due to stress fractures. Now he’s gone to the Olympics as a cyclist and was in 9th place in the Tour until a crash a couple days ago.
GB Commonwealth Silver Medalist Kyle Langford Fined $1,200 Over Physical Altercation With Race Official UK Athletics also ordered him to complete one day of “athletics-based community service.”
*MB: Kyle Langford puts his hand on throat of official and pushes him at BMC meet
Four Kenyan Distance Runners Make Forbes List Of Top 30 Africans Under 30 They are Emmanuel Korir, Faith Kipyegon, Beatrice Chepkoech and “XY DSD” athlete Margaret Wambui.
August 2: Initial Women’s Elite Field Announced For The Sir Walter Miler In Raleigh, NC Top entries include Lauren Johnson, Heather Kampf, Stephanie Garcia, Emily Lipari and Cory McGee.
Multi-Time NCAA Champ Jessica Hull Joins The Nike Oregon Project Hull will be coached by Pete Julian and expects to train alongside Konstanze Klosterhalfen.
*MB: Jessica Hull to NOP!
Joan Benoit Samuelson Wants To Run A Sub-3 Hour Marathon Next Year At 62 Years Old If she does, she’ll break the 60-65 age-group WR of 3:01:30. She plans to run either Tokyo or London.

Previous Distance News

Good Read: Faith Kipyegon Is Preparing To Defend Her World 1,500m Title After Stopping Running During Her Entire Pregnancy And The 7 Months After Other interesting info from the article includes she is married to 2012 Olympic 800m bronze medalist Timothy Kitum and is now coached by Eliud Kipchoge‘s coach, Patick Sang, and wants to run the marathon one day.
Are They Saying No Underdogs Get To Make The Team? Athletics Kenya Announce Selection Criteria For World Championships According to this, it will be first three across the line who have the standard and who have had three out-of-competition and one in-competition doping test.
The IAAF Looks Back At Five Athletes Who Have Put Together Super-Long Winning Streaks There are some streaks that were 9 or 10 years long, but only one streak on this list is still going and that is Eliud Kipchoge‘s undefeated marathon streak – 10 marathon wins from 2014 to present.
Nick Willis Voted Into Michigan University Hall Of Fame

More Weekend Results

Kamworor DESTROYS Everyone In 10k At National Police Service Athletics Championships He won by 49 seconds in 27:50. “I have been longing for a gold medal in the World Championships and when I won silver in 2015 I am still motivated to go a step further and win gold.”
Results: Tanzania’s Gabriel Geay (43:36) And Former Boston Marathon Champ Caroline Rotich (49:07) Win Boilermaker 15k In Utica, NY Abdi Abdirahman was the first masters runners in 19th overall with 46:30.
*Sad News: Homicide Near Boilermaker Start Line Delays Race 20 Minutes A suicidal man with a knife killed his girlfriend and police stopped him from killing himself.
Bernard Kimeli (13:21.72) And Pauline Kamulu (15:01.25) Won The Hokuren Distance Challenge Shibetsu Meet In Japan On Saturday
USATF: Record Breaking US Masters Outdoor Championships Wrap Up In Iowa Distance action on the final day included an American record in the 70-74 division from Sabra Harvey in the 1,500m (5:59.18). This after she set an AR of 2:55.33 in the 800m earlier in the week.
Eritrea’s Filimon Abraham And Great Britain’s Sarah Tunstall Win At The Grossglockner Berglauf Mountain Race In Austria
Athletics Weekly Recap: Records Fall At English Schools Championships In Birmingham

IAAF CEO Jon Ridgeon Addresses “Alarming Decrease In Global Sports Participation” “If we only see sport as a product, then we are no different from washing powder, cereal or pencils. … We need to help young people to develop a sport habit that will lead to a healthy lifestyle when they become adults.”
*Athletics Weekly: Growing Athletics Is At The Top Of IAAF CEO Jon Ridgeon’s To-Do List