Middle Distance News

• September 8: Nick Willis, Edward Cheserek, Jenny Simpson, Nikki Hiltz Lead Fields For New Balance 5th Avenue Mile Men’s race also includes Izaic Yorks, Sam Prakel, Henry Wynne, while the women have Allie Ostrander, Cory McGee, Elinor Purrier, Lauren Johnson, and GB’s Jessica Judd.
• Caster Semenya Jokes About Her Absence From The Sport With Instagram Photo Her caption read, “Incase you are wondering how I am doing on my 800m absence…” with a photo of three plates of “pap,” a traditional porridge from South Africa.
• England Wins Team Competition At Manchester international Meet US’s Mikey Brannigan won the 1500m in 3:54.72.

Sprint/Field Stuff

• Good Read: After A “Miserable” Start To The Season, Omar McLeod Is Feeling Optimistic About Worlds Thanks To A Mid-Season Coaching Change Not many athletes change coaches and training bases in the middle of the season, but McLeod was not happy in Florida under Tony Ross and has switched to Rana Reider with his summer base in Germany.
• Germany’s Two-Time World Shot Put Champion David Storl Will Miss Worlds With Back Injury
• September 3: Allyson Felix, Sanra Perkovic And Olympic Javelin Champ Sara Kokak Announced For Hanzekovic Memorial In Zagreb
• IAAF Inside Athletics Video Interview With Croatia’s Olympic And World Discus Champ Sandra Perkovic Perkovic is 29-years-old, but says she wants to compete through LA 2028. “My wish is to go to five Olympic Games – one for each of the Olympic rings. I’ve been to two now, in London and Rio…”

Women Tracksters In The News

• Miller-Uibo Is Upset IAAF Wouldn’t Change Schedule To Make 200/400 Double Possible We think she’s got a good point and we blame the mixed-gender 4 x 400 and/or the fact that she’s not American.
• Q&A With New UConn Men’s And Women’s Cross-Country Coach Lindsay Crevoiserat, Who Got The Job At Age 26 Collegiately, she ran for UConn, Oregon and New Mexico.
• Nikki Hiltz Feature In Santa Cruz Sentinel: “I’m a good runner and also gay.”
• Eilish McColgan Urges Athletes To Talk More About Periods She’s also pumped to do well in Doha as her mom, the 1991 world 10,000 champ, now lives there.
• Female Track Stars Reveal What They Were Like In School From “shy” (Kendra Harrison), to “good” at school (Thiam), to “trouble-maker” (SAFP), lots of interesting responses.

And Some News About A Few Men

• Robert Ouko, Member Of Kenya’s 1972 4 X 400 Gold Medal-Winning Team, Dies At Age 70 He in recent years had been asking for help from the govt. with medical assistance with little success. “The last time I spoke with him was on Saturday. He told me if he dies, the government should release money meant for heroes to cater for his funeral arrangements because the money did not help him when he wanted.” *More
• Q&A: Coach Bob Larsen Looks Back At Career

Sprint / Jump News

• Olympic Long Jump Champ Tianna Bartoletta Finished 17th Out Of 17 At USAs – Here’s Why – How Heavy Periods Caused Olympic Long Jump Champion’s Shock Collapse A few weeks after USAs, she passed out in a doctor’s office. “The doctor told me I didn’t just have low iron, I essentially had no iron,” she says. “He wasn’t sure how I was functioning.”
  *MB: Cool story: Anti-doping authorities sent Tianna Bartoletta an email letting her know she had a SERIOUS medical condition
• Recommended Reads Will Claye Writes About Why He’s In The Form Of His Life And The 4th-Best TJer In History – Strength From Above He gives big credit to his recently deceased grandmother, who survived civil war in Sierra Leone, and wife Queen Harrison.
• Jamaica Puts Danielle Williams On WC Team Even Though She Was DQed At Nationals They are claiming since the Jamaican nationals were never completed in her event it’s perfectly legal. If this was the US, there would be a lawsuit.
• Dutch Athletics Reeling After 2 Sprinters Arrested In Separate Cases For Drug Dealing They were dealing recreational drugs and one of them had 29 pounds of crystal meth and 43 pounds of ecstasy.
• Sean Burrell, Who Ran 20.78/45.88 As A Sophomore In HS, Gives Up Football To Focus On Track This year as a junior he didn’t run as fast as he was injured a lot and figured it’s best to focus on just track as a result.

Articles That We Found Interesting

• Meet Joe Whelan – The Guy Who Was Working 30-70 Hours A Week As A Texas Ranch Hand – But Still Managed To Run 2:13 At CIM
• Alexa Efraimson Missed A Lot Of Time Before USA With An Injury – PRP Therpy Got Her Back For Medal At Pan Ams The article says she was in 4-flat shape based on her workouts.
• Sponsorship Scorecard From USAs: Nike 124, adidas 53, Hoka 30, Brooks 26, New Balance 21, Saucony 6, Asics 7, Puma 3, Under Armour 2, Reebok 2.
  *MB: How much longer must we tolerate New Balance’s sexism? NB sponsored 19 women, 2 men at USAs
• Sexism Is Real: Only 7 Of 54 African Athletics Member Federations Now Have Women In Top Decision-Making Positions – A Look At 2 Of Them
• 1972 Olympic Trials Marathoner Dave Russell Sells Pair Of 1972 Nikes For At Least $50k To A Eugene Hotel
• Catching Up With Britain’s 1st Olympic Black Gold Medalist, Tessa Sanderson, 35 Years After Her Javelin Gold In LA “Some think if you’re over 50, you’re done. No, forget it, we’re there to kick ass,” says Sanderson, who has fairly recently adopted children.
• Athletics Weekly: Older Runners, You Should Really Work On Your Balance

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