Paris DL *Full Results on 1 Page

Video Highlights of Paris: Hanna Green WINS 800!, Noah Lyles 19.65, Ronald Musagala Wins 1500, Brandon McBride Wins 800 Elaine Thompson won the 100, and Will Claye beat Christian Taylor in the triple jump. Clayton Murphy was 5th in 800 as was Conseslus Kipruto in steeple.
*MB: Official 2019 Paris DL Discussion Thread – Olympic champs Kipruto & Makhloufi return to the DL + The Ingebrigtsen Civil War

• IAAF Track Recap: Noah Lyles Breaks Paris DL 200m Record With 19.65 Ronald Musagala won the 1500 equaling his own Ugandan NR with 3:30.58. Ayanleh Souleiman was second and Filip and Jakob Ingebrigsten third and fourth. Karsten Warholm took the 400H (47.26), US’s Daniel Roberts won the 110H in 13.08 ahead of Spain’s Orlando Ortega (13.14).
• IAAF Paris Field Recap: Will Claye Sails To 18.06m TJ Win Tom Walsh threw a meet record 22.44m and had four consecutive throws over 22m. Sam Kendricks(6.00m) won the PV.

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 1,500 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 PRs At British Champs After Having Her “Best-Ever” Three-Week Training Block McColgan is the 5,000m favorite after running a 14:47.94 in June and a 4:24.71 mile PR last weekend. She’s also set PRs 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 1,500m 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 the 4th fastest GB runner this year, but doesn’t have the Worlds 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

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.

Pre-Paris DL News

• IAAF Preview: Stars Converge On Paris To Secure Tickets To Zurich And Brussels DL Finals Olympic and World steeple champ Conseslus Kipruto returns to action for the first time this season to take on Morocco’s Soufiane El Bakaali. Jakob and Filip Ingebrigtsen, Ronald Musagala and Ayanleh Souleiman in the 1,500. Noah Lyles vs. Ramil Guliyev in the 200m, Karsten Warholm vs. Kyron McMaster in the 400H, Elaine Thompson vs. Dafne Schippers in the 100m, Christian Taylor vs. Will Claye in the TJ.
• Conseslus Kipruto Pre-Paris: “I am proud to return to racing again after such a long time. The most important thing is that I am fully healed, and my target now is to take back my position at the top of the 3000m steeplechase.”
• Elaine Thompson Not Expecting A Fast Time In Paris, But Working On Having A “Good Technical Race”
• IAAF: Last Remaining Places In The Diamond League Finals Up For Grabs In Paris A quick event-by-event rundown of which athletes have already qualified and who will be battling for spots in Paris.
• Event-By-Event Highlights To Look Out For At The Paris DL

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.”