The Real Winners From USAs

LRC Californians Dominated: Meet The Winners Of The Running Warehouse LetsRun.com USAs Prediction Contest And get excited for the Worlds contest in September! Our winners got HOKA ONE ONE Clifton 6s and Running Warehouse gift certificates. You can get free 2-day shipping from Running Warehouse.

Jamaican Sprint News

• 10 Years Ago From Today, Usain Bolt Ran 9.58  – Bolt remember the historic race Looking back, Bolt says he really wishes he’d been able to break 19 flat in Berlin.
• Glen Mills (Bolt’s Coach) Recalls The Highlight of His Coaching Career Bolt had llimited training as Mills had to rush him back from injury so Bolt dedicated the win to his coach.
• Daniel Bailey – Bolt’s training partner and the man in the lane next to Bolt in Berlin – Remembers The Race ‘9.58 – Not A Joke Time!’ 
• MB: Video/Discussion Of Bolt’s 9.58
• Jamaica puts Danielle Williams on WC team even though she was DQd at nationals They are claiming since the Jamaican nationals were never completed in the 100 hurdles it’s perfectly legal. If this was the US, there would be a lawsuit.

4 Recommended Reads

• Fantastic Read: UT’s Jonathan Jones, Who Ran 44.63 As A Freshman This Year, Started His Career As A 1,500/3k Guy
  *MB: HOLY SHI*: UT freshman Jonathan Jones who ran 44.63 this year ran 1:48.16 at age 17!! And started his career as 1,500/3k guy 
• JRN: One Month Until The Japanese Olympic Marathon Trials – A Quick Breakdown Of Who Made The Trials And How It Will Work The top 2 are guaranteed to make the team but the third placer will get axed if someone runs sub-2:05:49 or 2:22:22 this winter.
• 3 Years Ago, Beatie Deutsch Was A Non-Runner And Mother Of 4; Now She’s The Israeli National Marathon Champ And Mother Of 5 With hopes of making it to Tokyo 2020.
• A Year Later: Dave Devine Takes An In Depth Look At The Senseless Death Of Kristian Marche He was set to depart for Penn State the very next day on a track scholarship but got between two teenage burglars behind his house and was murdered.

More Links That Meet The Standards Of The LRC Algorithm Human Editor

• Stephen Schwarzman Gives Out $829,000 To US Track Athletes, Including $25k Each To Brazier, Chelimo, Engels, Houlihan, Sisson He’s giving nearly $3 million out in total.
• Chip Kelly Is Happy Defensive Lineman Otito Ogbonnia Also Stars In Track And Field As A SP/Discus Guy “That track background that he has has been really beneficial to him as a football player, and I think his work as a football player has been beneficial to him as a track guy, so I think it really goes hand in hand,” said Kelly of the USATF and Pan AM U20 gold medalist in the SP.
• Akani Simbine Wants To Win World 100 Gold To Show “… the world that a South African boy can be the best in the world.”

Depressing Mid-Week News

• Former Welsh National Athletics Coach And UK Indoor 1,500 Champ Phil Banning Jailed For 7.5 Years After Admitting To “Regime Of Sexual Abuse” Against Teenage Girls In 1970s And ’80s He abused girls as young as 10, sometimes with his wife in the other room. *AW
• Kenya’s Track Team For African Games In Morocco Is Thrown Out Of Hotel Rooms (But Prevented From Leaving) For Not Paying For Rooms World champ Julius Yego was not happy.
• Doping Controversies Move To The Trail: 3 Of The Top 7 Finishers At Sierre-Zinal Had Tested Positive In The Past

NCAA Updates

• MB: NCAA 1,500m champ Sinclaire Johnson going pro Johnson finished 4th at USAs with a 4:03.72 PR and will be represented by Ricky Simms.
• Three Men’s 110 Hurdlers Transferring From Oregon USATF U20 champ Eric Edwards Jr. is transferring to Louisiana State, 2018 PAC-12 champ Braxton Canady to Florida State and NCAA qualifier Joseph Anderson to a school TBD.
• MB: Bobby Lockhart as new Cal XC/Distance coach

Coaching Controversy

• British Coach Jailed For “Regime Of Sexual Abuse” Against Teenage Girls Philip Banning will get 7.5 years in prison after pleading guilty to 18 indecent assault charges dating back to the 1970s.
• Russian Athletics Federation Promises To Enforce Stricter Rules To Prevent Banned Coaches Being Granted Licenses Some of this is so basic it’s amazing it wasn’t already in the rules. But we like the rule that says a coach can get denied a license if they have more than one athlete with a doping violation.
• ESPN: “44 years. 41 Allegations. How The Past Caught Up To A Former Olympian.” Conrad Montgomery Avondale Mainwaring was arrested after being accused of being a serial child molester dating back to the 1970s. He’s a former Olympian who coached Olympic athletes including two-time Olympic 400H champ Felix Sanchez.
  *MB: ESPN: Track coach busted for serial molestation: its not just a problem in gymnastics
• Lehigh Head Coach Issues Apology To Team Over Alleged Insensitive Comments
  *MB: Lehigh Track Coach Insensitive Comments

European Team Championships Super League *Results

• IAAF: Poland Triumphs At European Team Championships Super League Poland scored 345 points to beat defending champs Germany (317.5 points), which won a tight battle for 2nd just 1.5 points ahead of France and 2 points ahead of Italy. Poland got a pair of distance wins from Adam Kszczot in the 800m (1:46.97) and Sofia Ennaoui in the 1,500m (4:08.37).
  *European Athletics: History Is Made As Hosts Poland Are Crowned Champions For The First Time
• BBC: Richard Kilty Won The Men’s 200 In 20.66 To Lead GB To 5th Place At Euro Team Champs
• GB 4 X 400 DQed For Naming Reserve Shot Putter In Team Shot putter Youcef Zatat, who didn’t even travel to the meet, was included in the lineup instead of sprinter Rabah Yousif due to a technical error.
• IAAF Recap: Throwers Shine On Days 1 And 2 Of European Team Championships Michal Haratyk dominated the shot put with 21.83m and Julian Weber the javelin with 86.86m. Gesa-Felicitas Krause won the steeplechase in 9:36.24 while Marcin Lewandowski won the 1,500m unchallenged in 3:47.88. Yolanda Ngarambe won the flat 3,000m in 9:07.67 and Italy’s Yemaneberhan Crippa the 5,000 (13:43.30).
• Hosts Poland In Pole Position After Five Victories On Day Two Of Euro Team Champs Super League
• Julian Weber (Men’s Javelin) And Claudine Vita (Women’s Discus) Give Germany The Perfect Start At Euro Team Champs

Better Running Shoes

LRC Top 10 Most Comfortable Running Shoes As Rated By You We got over 1,500+ shoe reviews last month and decided to do something with them. People rate shoes different ways but when we ask them what they want they often say “comfort.”