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Our Weekly Recap Includes One Final Look Back At 2019 USAs
LRC WTW: 2019 Is The Greatest Year in US Women’s 1500 History, Meet Two US Studs You’ve Never Heard Of – Heather MacLean and Robert Downs – And More Plus Andy Bayer actually made a US team, Mo Ahmed owns Justyn Knight and marathon madness at Pan Ams.
Sprint Stuff
People: Natasha Hastings Talks About Why She ‘Struggled’ to Accept Her Pregnancy At First She had fears of how it would affect her career, but says she was happy her sponsor, Under Armour, has continued to support her.- MB: Allyson Felix Signs Sponsorship Deal With Ahleta The contract includes “full protection during maternity.She wore Athleta clothing during USAs, but continues to wear Nike spikes.
- IAAF Inside Athletics Podcast Interview With Sydney McLaughlin
- Blessing Okagbare Slams Nigerian Federation For Shoddy Plans For All Africa Games And Not Enough Financial Support For Athletes
- Spikes:Noah Lyles Writes Letter To His Inspiration, His Mom
- AP:Allyson Felix competes for medals, campaigns for motherhood
- Briana Williams Wins 200m In 23.70 At Belfast International GB’s Adam Gemili won the men’s 200 in 20.63.
- BBC Podcast Interview With Michael Johnson Johnson talks about what it takes to be one of the greatest of all time.
Temperatures In Tokyo Hit 86 F (30 C) At 6AM One Year Out From The Olympic Marathon
The IAAF Look Back At Some Very Close Finishes At Past World Championships Just .01 separated the three medalists at in the 2003 world 100m final while Mare Dibaba won the 2015 marathon by just one second.
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 it 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
LRCVideo: 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.”
LRCUSAs 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.
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
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
Fall Marathon Season Will Be Here Soon
LRC Remember Amy Cragg? With the Olympic Trials Looming, the World Championship Medalist Is Heading to Chicago – Her 1st Marathon in 19 Months The 5th fastest American in history thinks she can still PR at age 35. She also reveals that that she thinks the Nike Zoom Vaporfly 4% shoes have helped her a lot.
*MB: Amy Cragg on Zoom Vapofly 4% Shoes: “I think they’re worth a lot..they kind of save your legs in training.”
More US Distance News
Bryce Hoppel Announces He’s Turning Pro After making the Worlds 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 led 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 fellow Kenyan Vicoty Chepngeno by 4 seconds.
*Kenya’s Leonard Barsoton Pulls Away To Win Bix 7 Miler In 32:34 He beat 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
Upcoming Summer Action In Europe
August 18:Christian Coleman Announced For Birmingham DL 100m He’ll be up against Andre de Grasse, Yohan Blake, Adam Gemili and Akani Simbine.- August 9-11:Final Entries Available For European Team Championships First League In Norway There will be a strong showing from the home team with Jakob Ingebrigtsen in the 1500m, Henrik Ingebrigtsen in the 3000m) and Filip Ingebrigtsen in the 5000m.
- August 9-11:Entries Available For Euro Team Championships Super League In Poland Gesa Felicitas Krause leads the German team in the steeplechase.
- August 10-11:Olympic Discus Champ Sandra Perkovic Highlights Entries At European Team Championships Second League In Croatia Euro 10,000m champ Lonah Chemtai Salpeteris doing the 3000/5000m double for Israel.
- September 7:Sally Pearson Announced For Great North CityGames
- This Fall In South America: GB Team Named For World Long Distance Mountain Running Champs In Argentina
More Post-USAs Analysis
LRC 2019 USATF Nationals Recap Podcast: What Really Happened? Dalilah Muhammad WR, Lopez Lomong Crushes It, Michael Norman Loses, Dennis Mitchell Is Baaaack Subscribe today on itunes.
LRC Tactics Matter: How Ben Blankenship Beat Johnny Gregorek To Take Home The Final Men’s 1,500 World Championship Spot Want to learn how to (and how not to) run the 1,500 or mile? Read this piece and watch the embedded video.
*MB: How to run the 1500 / mile – and how not to. Video analysis of men’s 1500 final at 2019 USAs.
Finland’s 1968 Olympic Javelin Silver Medalist And Former WR Holder Jorma Kinnuen Dies At Age 77Who Won The Shoe War At USAs?
LRCNike-Sponsored Athletes Dominate 2019 USATF Outdoor Championships, Take Home 71.67% Of Top-3 Finishes In Track Events We take a look at who won the shoe war at USAs. In an absolute sense Nike CRUSHED it, but not if you adjust it on a per dollar of revenue basis.
*MB: Nike CRUSHES competition in sponsorship war at 2019 USAs. The swoosh sponsored 71.68% of top 3 finishers in track events.
Sprint Stuff
NY Times: Catching Up With Usain Bolt On Retirement, Pickup Soccer And Why He Would Never Play In The NFL Bolt misses competing, but says, “I don’t miss the training one bit. … I’ve learned from many people: A comeback never works out well.”- Good Video Interview:Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Talks About Her Struggles Returning To Competition After Pregnancy “A lot of people look at it like you have a baby so all of a sudden you’re finished. I do get asked that question a lot, especially in Jamaica. They’re like, ‘Oh are you still running?’ And I’m like, ‘Yeah, I just had a baby, that’s all.’ You know, it’s maternity leave.”
- Shida Leni Runs 23.46 To Break The 12-Year-Old Ugandan 200m National Record The former record holder, Justine Bayigga is now an Uganda Athletics Federation official and hugged Leni after the race.
- Racers Teammates Yohan Blake And Zharnel Hughes Feel Good About Where They Are At This Point In The Season Talking about running 9.97 at the London DL for 3rd behind Akani Simbine‘s 9.93, Blake said, “In the season, it’s a bit early with me running times like this right now, but, come Doha, I’m going to bring it.”
Outside LRC USA Coverage
- Des Moines Register: Iowa Natives Houlihan, Schweizer Go 1-2 In Women’s 5k
- Noah Lyles Wipes Away Tears From Having To Pull Out Of 2017 USAs In Des Moines With Hamstring Injury And Qualifies For 1st World Champs By Winning 200
- Lyles And Coleman Make Up After Race As Coleman Pats Him On The Back “I was really surprised on that,” Lyles said of Coleman. “The last time I tried to dab him up, he didn’t want to dab me up.”
- Des Moines Register: Noah Lyles Relieved After Win: “This is my first time going through three rounds in the 200.”
- USATF’s Full Day 4 Recap
- Ken Goe: “Shouldn’t USATF find a way to fill the stadium for a national championship?” “All the coverage on Felix detracts from 2019 stars such as Shelby Houlihan, Ryan Crouser, Sam Kendricks, Fred Kerley, Teahna Daniels, Christian Coleman, Rai Benjamin, Lopez Lomong, DeAnna Price – I could go on and on.”
- Not Done Yet: Erik Sowinski Says, “This Has Been The Biggest Year Of Challenges For Me” And That He Plans On Competing Through 2021
Toyota USAs
LRC Distance Day 2: Hoppel’s Winning Streak Ends, High Schooler Mu Makes First Final, Sowinski’s Final Streak Ends We break down all the distance action from day 2 (men’s and women’s 800 semis, men’s 1,500 semi, women’s steeple), plus hear from Alan Webb.
- On The Boards: USATF Outdoors Day 2
- The mystique of the 1,500 / 10,000 double grows – Lomong doesn’t start 1,500
- Christian Taylor shows again he doesn’t give a sh** about winning a US title, should he?
- ATHING MU: Prediction USA 800m Finals thread
- Huge endorsement of Nike shoes by Felix
- Lomong: Better career than Webb, Ritz, Tegenkamp, and Hall?
USATF’s Day 1 Thursday
Two 34-Year-Olds Just Won The 10,000s
LRC Relentless Molly Huddle Wins Fifth Straight US 10,000m Title Molly Huddle is still the best 10,000m runner in America as she turned the tables on training partner Emily Sisson and a strong challenge from NAZ Elite’s Kellyn Taylor.
LRC The Legend Of Lopez Lomong Grows: He Runs A 51-Second PR To Win 2nd-Straight USATF 10,000m Title Lopez Lomong can win a US 1,500 title, a slow 10,000m title and now a fast 10,000m title. Last year was definitely not a fluke.
*MB: Lopez Lomong Appreciation Thread
Drug News
Dutch Olympic Sprinter Madiea Ghafoor Arrested In Germany With $2.2 Million Worth Of Drugs She’s been arrested after police found 50 kilograms of methamphetamine and ecstasy in her car at a routine check near the German border.- Kenyan Government Again Quoted As Backing Measures To Keep Past Drug Cheats From Traveling Out Of The Country As Well As Criminalizing Doping
- North Korea Regains Compliance With WADA After Help From China Apparently Korea’s anti-doping program worked with China’s to correct its issues.
10,000 World Record Holder Almaz Ayana Opens Up About The Injury And Double Knee Surgery Which Kept Her Away From Racing For 19 Months Ayana wasn’t able to ditch the crutches until 3 months after surgery and didn’t start running at all until late last year. “I was afraid to run because I was scared of how my knees would respond. I didn’t know if I would feel pain.”
Doping News
Kenyan Athletes Speak Anonymously To Explain Why Hey Resort To Doping “If people stop cheating, I’ll stop. I cheat because others have cheated,” said one runner who also admitted to purposely finishing outside the top-3 if there was drug testing at a race.
*MB: ‘I cheat because others cheat’: Kenya struggles against doping- Premier League Soccer Player Mamadou Sakho Is Suing WADA For $16 Million Over Claims A Doping Test Damaged His Career Sakho was suspended in April 2016 for testing positive for the fat-burning substance higenamine, but the United European Football Association (UEFA) cleared Sakho saying that higenamine wasn’t explicitly on the banned list.
Multi-Event News
IAAF Profile On Germany’s Euro U23 Decathlon Champ Niklas Kaul Kaul talks about how important it is for multi-eventers to work on their weak events because that’s where the most points can be gained.- August 18:World And Olympic Champion Nafissatou Thiam Will Take On World Indoor Pentathlon Champ Katarina Johnson-Thompson At The Birmingham Grand Prix Long Jump
Semenya Won’t Race In Doha
Caster Semenya Out Of World Champs After Swiss Supreme Court Reverses Its Ruling That Suspended The IAAF Testosterone Rules Pending Her Appeal She said that she will continue on with her appeal despite her “disappointment” at not being able to defend her world title.
- MB: “Caster Semenya to miss World Championships after court ruling”.
- IAAF “Welcomes” Swiss Federal Tribunal’s Decision
- Caster Semenya’s Appeal Unlikely To Succeed? “The Swiss Federal Supreme Court concludes, in a first summary examination, that Caster Semenya’s appeal does not appear with high probability to be well founded.”
- NY Times: Ruling Leaves Caster Semenya With Few Good Options
Tokyo 2020 News
Fears Grow Over Tokyo 2020 Temperatures After 11 Died And More Than 5,000 Were Taken To Hospital Due To Heat-Related Medical Issues Last Week Of those people, 52.6% were 65 and older.- Kenya’s New Tokyo 2020 Chef De Mission Promises Every Coin Will Be Accounted For After Rio 2016 Scandal
- IAAF Marks One Year To Go Until Track Action Begins At Tokyo 2020 They give a day-by-day rundown of which finals are on each day.
Assorted Distance News
Good Read:Canadian Steepler Matt Hughes Explains Why He Left The Bowerman Track Club Hughes says a combination of falling “out of love with running” and living long distance from his fiancee made him realize he needed to make some changes.- Former Kenyan Marathoner Speaks Anonymously About The Health Issues Caused By His EPO Use “I feel pain in my chest, my muscles are sore and I cough a lot. All I knew, was that once you dope, you end up running well. I never knew there would be such problems.”
- World XC Silver Medalist Jacob Kiplimo Giving Up On The 5k/10k Double In Doha Due To Injury And Illness He hasn’t raced all track season so won’t be qualified in the 5,000, but automatically qualified in the 10,000 by finishing top 15 at World XC.
- Sad News:Norwegian Runner Dies After Being Struck By Lightning During Italian Ultramarathon The 44-year-old woman was between aid stations during the 75-mile race which was called off 30 minutes before the lightning strike.
USAs Wasn’t The Only Championship Last Weekend – Canadian Champs *Results *Meet Home
Brandon McBride Wins Canadian Champs 800m With 1:44.63 In the women’s 800m, Madeleine Kelly ran 2:02.37 to get an upset win, outkicking world silver medalist Melissa Bishop-Nriagu (2:02.40).- Beer Mile WR Holder Corey Bellemore Was Second In The 1,500m At Canadian Champs
- Aaron Brown Beats Andre De Grasse In Thrilling Photo Finish In The 100m At Canada National Champs Brown ran 10.021 to beat De Grasse by three-hundredths of a second. This after both had gone sub-10 (9.96 and 9.98 respectively) in the heats. Crystal Emmanuel won the women’s race in 11.17 seconds.
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Mohammed Ahmed Outlasts Justyn Knight To Win Canadian Champs 5,000m Ahmed ran 13:54.92 to Knight’s 13:56.68. Post-race, Ahmed said, “It’s very good, (Knight) is pushing me, I’m pushing him, we’re definitely pushing all of Canada which is good.” Former NCAA champ Matt Hughes won the steeplechase in 8:45.85.
Other National Champs
IAAF National Championships Round-Up: Shaunae Miller-Uibo Highlights Bahamas National Champs With 49.59 Victory She dominated the race by almost 4 seconds. Steven Gardiner won the men’s race in 44.90. At the Greek National Championships, Olympic and world champ Ekaterini Stefanidi won the PV in 4.83m. Euro champ Miltiadis Tentoglou won his 4th Greek LJ title with 8.22m.- Stefano Sottile Equals The 2.33m HJ World Lead To Highlight Italian National Champs At the Dutch Championships, Dafne Schippers won the 100m in 11.33 while Pierre Ambroise Bosse (1:48.82 in the 800m) and Renaud Lavillenie (5.86m in the PV) won French national titles.
Day 4 USAs On The Boards
- Official: WORLD RECORD 52.20 FOR DALILAH MUHAMMAD DISCUSSION THREAD
- ? why ? is ? no ? one ? talking ? about ? Dalilah ? Muhammad ? World ? Record ? on ? here!!!
- Sydney M and Delilah Muhammed should be on the 4x400m team
- Sorry Allyson. Its Sydney’s spot……
- Bowerman TC for the win
- THREE Bowerman guys won be going to Worlds because they don’t have the standard
- ENGELS! LETS GO!
- Julian coaches Brazier and Salazar coaches Murphy –
- CHELIMO GOES HOME DEVASTATED! LOMONG IS A LEGEND!
- BROOKS BEASTS GO HOME DEVASTATED
- Drew MF Hunter just made Team USA for WC!!
- How did Allie O qualify?
- If Lyles wins DL final (likely), K Bednarek who pulled his hamstring and ran 45 sec at USA’s will go to World’s
- ATHING MU: Prediction USA 800m Finals thread
USATF Friday
LRCChristian Coleman Cruises, Upstart Teahna Daniels Wins USA 100m, Allyson Felix Makes Final, And Blade Runner 2.0 Into 400 Final Christian Coleman is the man and Teahna Daniels believe it or not was the top woman. Plus a little blade runner controversy.
Road News
Good Read:Magdalyne Masai Targeting 2:22 To Break Her “Family Record” At The Toronto Waterfront Marathon This October Currently her sister Linet Masai has the fastest family PR at 2:23:46. Magdalyne also talks about how she and husband Jake Robertson rarely run together.- Sunday:Dubai Marathon Champ Ruth Chepngetich (2:17:08) Faces Olympic Bronze Medalist Mare Dibaba At The Bogota Half Marathon They also face 2:21:37 woman Visiline Jepkesho while the men’s race is led by defending champ Betesfa Getahun, Olympic marathon silver medalist Feyisa Lilesa and Olympic 10,000 bronze medalist Tamirat Tola.
One Year Until Tokyo 2020
Former Olympic Medalist Swimmer Sharron Davies Asks If It Will Take Female Athletes “Being Thrown Under The Bus” At Tokyo 2020 Before Changes Are Made To Transgender Rules “I think it will take some situations at the Olympics and people being very distressed with what they see before we see any changes. Once we start seeing well-known female athletes being beaten, then people will start standing up and understanding the situation.”- IAAF:One-Year Countdown To Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Begins A lot has changed since Tokyo last hosted the Olympics in 1964 when no man had gone sub-10 in the 100m, they still did the straddle and scissor HJ technique and the longest women’s event was the 800m.
- A First Look At The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Torch Which Is Made From Materials Recycled From Fukushima Disaster
- Huge Traffic Test Held As Part Of Bid To Avoid Tokyo 2020 Congestion To test how traffic would respond, they closed down certain roads/entrances, shortened the time of green lights and closed down certain lanes going to the center of Tokyo.
- NBC Confident Tokyo 2020 Advertising Sales Will Top Rio 2016’s $1.2 Billion Record NBC says they are “significantly ahead” of its position at a similar point before Rio 2016.
More USAs Day 1
LRCBest Of USAs Day 1: Unsponsored Allyson Felix, Brazier Still Hasn’t Run For More Than An Hour, And Why Kate Grace Chose The 1,500 (And Clayton Murphy Didn’t) All that, plus updates from Ronnie Baker, Kerron Clement, Ce’Aira Brown, and your daily dose of Jordan Mann.
The IAAF Needs To Take A Stance On Shoe Tech
Rojo Speaks Track And Field’s Shoe Rule Makes No Sense – Might Sifan Hassan’s WR Need To Be Invalidated? The fairness of the 2016 Olympic marathon was jeopardized because some athletes were wearing shoes way better than what anyone else was wearing. We can’t afford for history to repeat itself in 2020. The IAAF’s shoe rules need a re-write.
*MB: Track and field’s shoe rule needs to be rewritten
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