US Distance News

• Bryce Hoppel Announces He’s Turning Pro After making the world team, Hoppel has decided he will forgo his final year of eligibility at Kansas.
• Friday Night In Raleigh, NC: Final Fields Set For 2019 Sir Walter Miler Brit Chris O’Hare leads the men’s mile along with Eric Avila, Sam Prakel while the women are lead by Lauren Johnson, Heather Kampf, Stephanie Garcia and Cory McGee. *Live Results *Meet Home *Race Day Info (Live Stream With FloTrack Subscription)
• A US Road Race That Got Overlooked During USAs: World Half-Marathon Record Holder Joyciline Jepkosgei Wins Bix 7 Miler In 36:04 She beat out fellow Kenyan Vicoty Chepngeno by 4-seconds.
  *Kenya’s Leonard Barsoton Pulls Away To Win Bix 7 Miler In 32:34 He beat out Boilermaker winner Gabiel Geay (32:40) as well as 7:58 steepler Jarius Birech (32:51) and Stephen Sambu (33:05).
• Alexi Pappas Credits Her Father As Having A Critical Role In Her Career As She Trains To Try And Make Tokyo 2020 In The Marathon Pappas’ father raised her and her brother as a single parent after the suicide of her mother when Pappas was just four.
  *MB: Alexi Pappas article in SF Examiner

USAs Leftovers

• Ken Goe Complains That The Live NBC Broadcast Of USAs Ended Right Before Dalilah Muhammad Set Her WR If you were watching on NBC Gold you were fine, but if you were watching on NBC in Oregon, there was confusion as it wasn’t made clear by USATF that it would be shown on a 3-hour tape delay.
• Allyson Felix Says The “Fire Is There” As She Looks Ahead To Tokyo 2020 After Finishing Only 6th In The USAs 400m “I want to be back in the Olympics. I want them more than anything. I want to go out on my terms.”
• USTFCCCA: How Did The Collegians Do At USAs?
• Clip Of Everyone Piling On Sam Kendricks In The Pole Vault Pit After He Cleared 6.06m To Win USAs
• AP: Noah Lyles Leads New Cast Of Young US Athletes Eager To Make Their Mark 34-year-old Michael Rodgers envies the youth of guys like Lyles as he said, “They’re younger and they can get out of bed and feel nothing. I feel new stuff every day. But they push me to work harder.”
• Headline In The Kenyan Press: “East African Stars Dominate US Track National Meet”
• USATF: USAs By The Numbers Aside from Dalilah Muhammad’s world record, there were two other American records and a total of 14 Drake Stadium records.
• Dalilah Muhammad Says She Actually Got Injured In A “Crazy Fall” Two Weeks Before USAs She said she was just “hoping for the best” at USAs, but looks like the extra rest helped her.

Coaching / Admin News

• Athletics Weekly: Seb Coe Set For Unopposed Re-Election As IAAF President The IAAF council votes officially happen on September 25th, right before Worlds.
• Athletics Illustrated: Seb Coe To Be Re-Elected IAAF President Unopposed, But Record Numbers Standing For Other Positions A group of 11 candidates will be chasing the four available spots as vice-president, one of whom must be female.
• Athletics Kenya President Jackson Tuwei Running For IAAF Vice President
• If You Missed This Last Week: JJ Clark Named New Stanford Director Of Track And Field Clark has lead the Connecticut women’s program for the last five years.
  *MB: UConn’s JJ Clark New Coach At Stanford
• Purdue University Fort Wayne Adding Men’s Track As most news is usually about schools cutting track/XC, it’s nice to see one adding it.
• Asics Pro And Former Six-Time All-American Rachel Johnson Joins Liberty Coaching Staff
• Texas Club Track Coach Forced To Resign After Accusations Of Inappropriate Communications With Minors Article includes photos of the conversations between the coach and athlete via Snapchat.

2019 Toyota USAs *Schedule & Results *Check Your Prediction Contest Scores

LRC Video: Dalilah Muhammad’s 52.20 World Record In The 400m Hurdles What a run.
*IAAF: “If there was going to be world record in the 400m hurdles, the one to break it was supposed to be Sydney McLaughlin.”

LRC USAs Day 4 Men’s Distance: Brazier Beats Murphy (Again), Engels Takes Down Centrowitz, And Lopez Lomong Pulls Off A Stunner We analyze the three men’s distance finals from the final day of the 2019 Toyota USA Track and Field Outdoor Championships.

LRC USAs Day 4 Women’s Distance: Ajee Wilson And Shelby Houlihan Win As Expected As Emma Coburn Wins #8 The favorites delivered in a big way in the three women’s mid-d and distance finals on Sunday.

LRC Noah Lyles Defeats Christian Coleman And They Shake Hands, “Superman” Grant Holloway Dives To Make US Team Video and a lesson in sportsmanship.

Full USA Coverage

Pan Am Games *Results, Schedule

• Hosts Peru Gets Dream Start At Pan Am Games As Christian Pacheco And Gladys Tejeda Sweep Marathon Titles Pacheco won in 2:09:31 while Tejeda broke a 36-year-old Games record with 2:30:55. Bethany Sachtleben (2:31:20) won silver for Team USA while Augustus Maiyo was the top American in (2:12:25).
• The Dance Ends, The Pan American Games Party Begins Saturday In Peru
  *MB: Pan Am Games Marathon Discussion

Day 3 at USAs

SI: Leo Manzano Will Watch 1,500 Final As A Retiree Manzano has retired according to Sports Illustrated’s Chris Chavez.
*MB: Leo Manzano has retired – Official Leo Manzano appreciation thread

LRC Shelby Houlihan Repeats Over Jenny Simpson, Hillary Bor Gets USA Title #1 Shelby Houlihan looks to have Jenny Simpson’s number. Recap, analysis, video of race.

LRC Sam Kendricks Goes Really High To Get American Record, Fred Kerley Defeats Norman, Dennis Mitchell Is Coaching Justin Gatlin Sam Kendricks is the American record holder and #2 vaulter EVER outdoors. And believe it or not, Fred Kerley is your USATF 400m champ.
*Nike Sent Kenny Bednarek To Train With Justin Gatlin And Dennis Mitchell … Here Is Why That Is A Problem

MB Buzz: 

• USATF Outdoors Day 3 Discussion Thread
• Will Jenny Simpson ever beat Shelby Houlihan again?
• Nikki Hiltz @ Next level
• Christian Taylor shows again he doesn’t give a sh** about winning a US title, should he?
• Fred “MF” Kerley , takes down Micheal Norman!!!
• Let’s hear it for Andy Bayer
• Lomong: Better career than Webb, Ritz, Tegenkamp, and Hall?

More Weekend Distance Results

• Olympic 10,000 Bronze Medalist Tamirat Tola (62:35) And Dubai Marathon Champ Ruth Chepngetich (70:39) Win Bogota Half Marathon
• Brett Meyer (3:58.18) And Anna Shields (4:30.74) Win The 12th Annual Ryan Shay Mile In Charlevoix, Michigan Meyer beat Craig Huffer by .40 as the top 3 went sub-4 while Shields won comfortably by almost 7 seconds.
• Bahrain’s Eunice Chumba (2:32:25) And Kenya’s Robert Kipkemboi (2:14:58) Break Course Records At The Liupanshui Marathon
• Ben Bradley (13:57) And Jess Judd (15:37) Win English 5,000m Titles

More Outside USAs Coverage

• Recommended Read: Runner’s World: Long Jumper Kate Hall Wants To Be The First American With Type 1 Diabetes To Make The Olympic Track Team
• Des Moines Register: The Streak Is Over: Erik Sowinski’s Run To The Finals Comes To An End Including indoors, Sowinski had made 13 straight US Champs finals.
• Ken Goe: “Vin Lananna Watches From The Sidelines As USATF Stumbles And Fumbles” Goe wonders if at this point Lananna will ever assume the role of USATF president again. He’s been on “temporary administrative leave” since February 2018 and has filed a grievance.
• RRW: Most Favorites Advance On Day Two Of Toyota USATF Outdoor Championships
• IAAF Day 2 Recap

Jamaican Sprint News

• There Was Some Minor Controversy Over The Re-Awarding Ceremony For The 2012 Jamaican Olympic 4×400 Team At The London DL Meet We think the bigger issue might be, does it really make sense for the IOC to spend thousands of dollars flying these athletes and family members from Jamaica to London to get a medal from 7 years ago? We’d imagine the athletes rather receive it at the Jamaican national stadium with more family/fans present anyway.
• Statue Of Veronica Campbell-Brown To Be Unveiled Later This Year In Jamaica

Championships For The Young And Old

• US Masters Athletes Win 45 Medals At The North America, Central America, Caribbean Outdoor Champs In Canada
• Day 5 Recap: 16 Athletes Crowned Champions At USATF Hershey National Junior Olympics
  *Day 4 Recap
  *Two National Records Set On Day 3
  *Wire-To-Wire Finishes On Day 2
  *Day One Recap

LRC Articles

Rojo Rants USATF’s Unprofessionalism Continues – New Pan Am Team USA Roster Is Released But Press Release Fails To Mention 36.8% Of Team Was Changed The unprofessionalism many have come to expect from USATF continued today when they failed to admit that they messed up one of their major duties as an organization. An athlete’s right to participate in the Pan American Games is protected by US federal law. It’s one of four competitions covered by the Ted Stevens Olympic and Amateur Sports Act. Shame on you, USATF.
*MB: USATF completely botches selection of 2019 Pan American Games team 

WTW King Ches Breaks His PR (Finally), Fake News Coming From Kenya, And Laura Muir Makes History? There was a lot of really good stuff last week – from Laura Muir to Matthew Boling and from the Ethiopian Trials to Pan Am Juniors – and we break it down for you.

Justice Is Served

LRC USATF Ordered To Re-Pick Entire 2019 Pan Am Games Team Based On 2019 Comprehensive List LetsRun.com put up the $2,000 for this arbitration case to be held and with the help of pro bono lawyer David Greifinger prevailed. Those of you who wanted to contribute can now do so here.
*MB: USATF completely botches selection of 2019 Pan American Games team