August 21, 2019 | LetsRun.com

**Matt Lawton of The Daily Mail Breaks It**

World’s Fastest Man Christian Coleman ‘has missed THREE drugs tests’ Potential anti-doping infractions don’t get any bigger than this. Matt Lawton says the world’s fastest human is fighting one of 3 missed test infractions but if his appeal is unsuccessful he’ll face a 1-2 year ban.
*MB: MASSIVE doping news coming soon regarding US star

LRC Analysis The World’s Fastest Man May Be Banned From The Olympics and World Championships: Analyzing The Christian Coleman Situation While Coleman is reportedly fighting his whereabouts infraction, 10 of the 11 fastest men in history have now been linked to a some sort of anti-doping infraction.

Kenyan 10,000 Trials Are In The Books

Geoffrey Kamworor And Agnes Tirop Win 10,000m Titles At Kenyan Championships Kamworor ran 27:24.76 to just win over Rhonex Kipruto (27:26.34) and former world U20 champ Rodgers Kwemoi (27:26.92). The women’s race was even closer as the top three finished within 1.3 seconds of each other. Tirop ran 31:25.00 (fastest-ever 10,000m at altitude) to Hellen Obiri‘s 31:25.38 and Rosemarry Wanjiru‘s 31:26.22.
*MB: Rhonex Kipruto and Hellen Obiri are beaten at Kenyan 10,000 Trials – Kamworor and Tirop FTW

More Mid-Week Action: 2019 Morton Games Results : Harris and Domanic win again as Tiernan wins 5000. Purrier wins women’s 1500

Cheating Headlines

Russian Track Official And Coach Vasily Shkurbitsky Under Investigation After Being Accused Of Forging Results To Boost His Athletes A Russian track writer says Shkurbitsky fudged the results so his athletes were eligible for higher status in the Russian state sport system. He claims one 800m runner had their time slashed by over 8 seconds.
Former Latvian Athletics Federation President Ineta Raevica Gets A 2-Year Ban After Positive Retest Of Her London 2012 Sample The retired long jumper was initially 4th in London before being DQed and resigning her position as federation president.
Morocco’s 2014 African 10,000 Silver Medalist Mustapha El Aziz And Indian Discus Thrower Karan Singh Both Test Positive For EPO

2019 Falmouth

LRC Leonard Korir Becomes First American To Win Falmouth Road Race Since 1988 On a hot and humid day in Massachusetts, Korir finally got the victory he so badly wanted after finishing in the top 3 each of the last 4 years. In the women’s race, Sharon Lokedi, the 2018 NCAA 10,000 champ, was the surprise winner and American Sara Hall the even more surprising runner-up.
*MB: 2019 Falmouth Road Race Thread: Edward Cheserek added to elite field
*Toni Reavis’s Falmouth Photos

LRC After A Year Of Ups And Downs, Josh Thompson & Cory McGee Stay Red Hot And Claim 2019 Falmouth Mile Titles Earlier this year, Thompson ran 9:02 for the steeple but now he’s one of America’s best in the 1,500. As for McGee, just weeks ago she was DQed at USAs. But both have been running amazingly of late and it continued tonight at Falmouth.
*MB: Official 2019 Falmouth Mile and Road Race Discussion Thread

Guardian Mile In Cleveland: MB: Nick Willis (3:58.12) and Shannon Oskia (4:27.20) win 2019 Guardian Miles in Cleveland Willis still needs the 2019 WC standard but he’s #45 on the descending order list and they take 45.

More Road Action: Suguru Osako Gets Ready For Japanese Trials With Dominant Half Marathon Win In Dallas, TX (62:23) 80 degrees with 76% humidity.

Listen On Your Sunday Long Run

LRC Shelby Houlihan Is Out Of DL But Is She Sitting Pretty For Worlds ? Shalane Flanagan Is Back Running But Will She Do Boston 2020 Or Olympic Trials? Birmingham Diamond League Preview, Pan Am Games Recap Subscribe today on itunes or listen at link above or in player below.

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.

Coaching News

Dennis Craddock,Who Coached At UNC For 27 Years, Has Died At 73
North Carolinas A&T’s Duane Ross Signs Contract Extension Through 2022-23 Well deserved as his sprinters were incredible this year.

Prominent Women In The News

Shalane Flanagan Ran Today For The 1st Time Since Her Surgery 4 Months Ago She did 12 minutes of 2 minutes running/1 minute walking. Is there enough time for her to get ready for the Trials?
Laura Muir Hurt Her Calf At London DL And Had To Take A Few Weeks Off As a result, she’s not doing the Birmingham DL. Reece Prescod has a hamstring injury and may miss Worlds.
*MB: Birmingham DL: No Muir? No Houlihan? *Birmingham Entries
Hellen Obiri Says She’s 90% Fit, Reiterates She Wants To Complete 10,000/5,000 Double At Worlds
Emily Infeld And Other Women Pros Talk About How It’s Fairly Common For Them To Lose Bladder Control When Digging Deep
How A CEO Of A Gluten-Free Beer Company, Mother Of Two, And Ultrarunner Balances It All

Pan Am Games Results TV And Streaming

LRC 5 Takeaways From Pan Ams: NCAA Stars Bounce Back (But Hoppel Struggles), Remember The Name Justin Robinson, & Why Did So Many Americans No Show? Redemption was sweet for Marco Arop and Carlos Villarreal, but where were US champs Donavan Brazier, Craig Engels, Teahna Daniels and more?

IAAF: Canada’s And Mississippi State’s Marco Arop Breaks Pan Am Games 800m Record (1:44.25) On Final Day Of Track Action In Lima There was another meet record from Canada’s Geneviève Lalonde in the steeplechase (9:41.45), beating US’s Marisa Howard (9:43.78) and from Grenada’s Anderson Peters in the javelin (87.31m). Brazil’s Altobeli da Silva won the men’s steeple in 8:32.34. Team USA got four gold medals on the final day from Gwen Berry (hammer), Omar Craddock (TJ), Chris Nilsen (PV) and the women’s 4 x 400.
Nikki Hiltz Sprints To Pan Am 1,500m Gold Hiltz ran 4:07.14 to beat Aisha Praught (4:08.26) and Alexa Efraimson (4:08.63). This was the first time an American has won this event in 20 years.
IAAF Friday Recap: Venezuela’s Yulima Rojas Jumps World-Leading 15.11m To Win The Triple Jump Brazil’s Ederson Pereira won the 10,000 in 28:27.47 while USA went 2-3 with Reid Buchanan (28:28.41) and Lawi Lalang (28:31.75). Mexico’s Laura Galván won the 5,000m in 15:35.47 just 40 minutes after she finished 4th in the 1,500m. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce won the 200m in 22.43. Ecuador’s Alex Quinonez took the men’s race in 20.27.
USATF Friday Recap: Kara Winger Wins Javelin Gold With 62.32m
Olympic Champ Caterine Ibarguen Pulled Out Of Pan Am Games TJ With Foot Injury
MB: 2019 Pan Am Games Official Thread

This Week’s Podcast

LRC Track Talk Podcast: Who Are The Favorites For Worlds, Craig Engels Is Skipping A DL Meet To Go To A Wedding, Will Alexa Efraimson Ever PR, The DL is Back, Max Burgin Bombs, and More There was a ton to talk about this week as the Diamond League has returned and Shaunae Miller-Uibo’s unbeaten streak has passed the two year mark. We spend a ton of time talking about how exciting and wide-open Worlds are going to be this year with few huge mid-d or distance favorites.

LRC In-Depth

LRC A Life On Pause: Jarrion Lawson’s Career Hangs In The Balance As He Fights His Four-Year Doping Ban – And The Global Anti-Doping System How do you prove something you ate over a year ago was contaminated with a substance banned for athletes – but not for cattle? That’s what Lawson, who in 2016 joined Jesse Owens as the only men in history to win the 100 meters, 200 meters, and long jump at the NCAA championship and came inches shy of Olympic gold, must do to prove his innocence and save his career.
*MB: Ajee Wilson, Will Claye and a 90 yr old cyclist got cleared after eating contaminated beef – Why not Jarrion Lawson?

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.

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

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, “In case 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 1,500m in 3:54.72.

Birmingham DL Full Results TV & Streaming

LRC Mid-D/Distance Recap 2019 Birmingham DL Recap: Ajee’ Wilson, Beatrice Chepkoech & KoKo Keep Rolling; Craig Engels Runs 3:35 Wilson and Chepkoech got wins in the 800 and steeple as expected, while KoKo held off Gabriela DeBues-Stafford in the mile. Engels was 3rd in the 1,500 behind Ronald Musagala and Stewart McSweyn. Updated with race videos.
*MB: Official 2019 Birmingham DL Discussion Thread
*MB: Calling it now: Kate Grace – Grace will beat Ajee Wilson and win Birmingham DL 800 This certainly did not happen.
*Just 4 Days After Dropping Out Of Race In His Native Ireland, Mark English Wins Birmingham 800 – “A right old funny sport, eh?”

IAAF Recap Part 1: Miller-Uibo Comes From Behind To Win Stacked 200
Asher-Smith Is Pumped With 2nd In 200 As Miller-Uibo Will Only Be Doing The 400 In Doha Whoever came up with the idiotic schedule in Doha should be reassigned. The 200/400 double isn’t doable, nor is the 1,500/5,000 for women.
IAAF Recap Part 2: Chepkoech And Klosterhalfen Set Meet Records In Steeple And Mile
After Being Named To Jamaican WCTeam Despite False Start At Jamaican Nationals, Danielle Williams Cemented As World No. 1 Hurdler As She Hands Kenda Harrison Her 1st Loss Williams won by .20 in 12.46.
Nafi Thiam Wins Long Jump By 1 cmOver Fellow Heptathlete Johnson-Thompson And Španović In Belgian NR Of 6.86
Yohan Blake Pips Adam Gemili In Sprint Thriller In Men’s 100 It was tight at the finish. Somehow, the winning time was only 10.07 despite a + 2.0 m/s wind.
*Andre de Grasse Is Disappointed Ater 5th-Place Showing In 100
McLeod Wins 110H In 13.21 (-.2 m/s)
Omar McLeod Is Feeling Confident After Winning In Birmingham And Dumping Coach Tony Ross For Rana Reider Mid-Season Earlier this year, he lost 4 races in a row so he made a coaching change and all is well now.
Akeem Bloomfield Wins 400m In 45.04

2019 Leadville 100

46-Year-Old Magdalena Boulet Leads Virtually Entire Race, Wins Women’s 2019 Leadville 100 Boulet’s strategy was to run the downhills and generally hike – rather than run – the uphills. 2018 Western States winner Cat Bradley was 2nd.
49-Year-Old Ryan Smith Wins Men’s Leadville 100 With Consistent Pacing Jared Hazen, the runner-up at this year’s Western States 100, set out a blistering early pace, intent on breaking the course record of 15:42 but dropped out before halfway.

Javelin News

Meet The Architect Of Mississippi State’s Javelin Domination: Throws Coach April Thomas And to think the javelin was the event she was least confident in coaching when she started.
USTFCCCA Feature: Mississippi State Is The Real #JavU – They Went 1-2-3 At NCAAs

10 Years Ago, Bolt Made History

10 Years Ago From Today, Usain Bolt Ran 9.58 – Bolt Remembers 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 limited 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

Distance News

Q&A With Eliud Kipchoge About The Sub-2 Challenge Kipchoge held a teleconference to talk about his sub-2 exhibition.
*Filip Ingebrigtsen Is Expecting Kipchoge To Break 2 If He’s In The Same Form As He Was In Berlin Last Year
*MB: Agree or Disagree? Kipchoge compares breaking 2 hrs in the marathon to the moon landing: “It’s like the first man to go to the moon.”
Semenya Speaks To Women’s Conference And Falsely Claims, “I’m targeted because I’m undefeated … I’m the best at what I do.” Caster, it’s also believed the IAAF targeted Pamela Jelimo for the same reason. You are XY and have no ovaries nor womb but do have internal testes.
*MB: Caster Semenya admits she has an advantage, but dismisses by adding “so what?”
2019 Diamond League Finals Set For Men’s 800/5k And Women’ 5k – Murphy, Brazier And Chelimo Make The Cut
Stephen Sambu Looking For Record Fifth Falmouth Road Race Title This Sunday Last year, Ben Flanagan shocked and won. The article calls Sambu the favorite but we think that title belongs to Edward Cheserek.

Trying To Stop The Conspiracy Theories One At A Time

LRC Sorry Conspiracy Theorists, Rosie Ruiz Has Actually Died – Here Is Her Death Certificate Some had wondered if Ruiz’s death might have been another hoax. After all, she did fake her way to the 1980 Boston Marathon crown.

Random Links That Make The Cut

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.”