British Champs Are This Weekend *Schedule & Results *TV & Streaming

LRC 5-Minute Guide to the 2019 Müller British Athletics Championships With Josh Kerr, Jake Wightman, and Charlie Da’Vall Grice, the 1500 may be more competitive than at USAs last month. Plus there are key battles in the men’s and women’s 800 and women’s 5,000.
*MB: Official 2019 British Athletics Championships Discussion Thread. Top 2 make the WC team.

• Eilish McColgan Is Ready To Continue Her Season Of PBs At British Champs After Having Her “Best-Ever” Three-Week Training Block McColgan is the 5000m favorite after running a 14:47.94 in June and a 4:24.71 mile PB last weekend. She’s also set PBs this year at 10,000m (31:16.76), 1500m (4:00.97) and 10k road (31:51).
• Athletics Weekly Examines The Top Head-To-Head Matchups At UK Champs Charlie Grice (3:30.62 in Monaco last month) vs Jake Wightman and Josh Kerr in the 1500m highlights the distance action.
• Former 400H World Champ Dai Greene Hoping To Make GB’s World Team Greene has struggled through years of injury and only raced twice this year. He’s 4th fastest GB runner this year, but doesn’t have the World standard.
• After Running A Sub-20 200m In London, Miguel Francis Hoping To Book A Spot On Team GB For Doha Francis’ 19.97 is an equal third on the British all-time list and the fastest UK time this year.
• Dina Asher-Smith Wants To Keep Her Sub-11 Streak Going At British Champs She’s gone sub-11 four times this year and wants to break her own 10.97 British championship 100m record.
• Athletics Weekly’s British Champs Preview And Meet Info

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: World’s fastest man Christian Coleman faces potential whereabouts failure ban for 3 missed drug tests 

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.

Noah Lyles Says He’s “Shocked” By Christian Coleman’s Missed Tests Lyles said “you don’t expect anybody to be missing three [tests].”

Sprints And Jumps

• Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Dreaming Of A Sub-22-Second 200m SAFP has always been more of a 100m runner where she is #4 all-time while her 200m PR is 22.09, which is only 41st on the all-time list (26 women have gone sub-22).
• Jenn Suhr Reveals She Used To Be Self-Conscious About Her Height She says she was “a lanky 5 feet 9 inches at the age of 13.”
• USTFCCCA Looks Back 34 Years Ago When Jackie Joyner-Kersee Broke The US Long Jump Record With 7.24m Just A Few Months After Finisher Her NCAA Career She still has the AR, but moved it to 7.49m in 1994.
• World Indoor 60H Champ Andrew Pozzi To Miss British Champs With Injury
• September 7: GB’s Katarina Johnson-Thompson Doing The LJ/150m Double At The Great North CityGames
• RIP Australia’s 1956 Olympic 4 X 100 Champ Norma Fleming, 84

More Kenyan Distance News

• Organizers Reveal Starting Point For Eliud Kipchoge’s Sub-2 Marathon Record Attempt On October 12th The race will start on Vienna’s iconic Imperial Bridge, the Reichsbrücke, which is also the start line for the annual Vienna City Marathon.
• David Rudisha’s Manager Confirms He Will Miss World Champs With Injury The 30-year-old hasn’t raced at all since 2017.
• Boston Marathon Champ Lawrence Cherono Confirmed For Chicago

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

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.”