Christian Coleman Updates

• MB:Christian Coleman Issues Statement; Expects To Be Cleared In Hearing On September 4th “I’m not a guy who takes any supplements at all, so I’m never concerned about taking drug tests, at any time. What has been widely reported concerning filing violations is simply not true.”
• USADA Confirms Whereabouts Violation For Christian Coleman “We can confirm that he (Coleman) has been notified and charged under the USADA Protocol of a potential anti-doping rule violation for failing to properly file his whereabouts information.”
• Ato Boldon:“I think it is very premature to expect that Christian is not going to be at Doha because the more I investigate the situation, the more I believe that he will be in Doha.”

This Week’s Podcast

LRCTrack 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.

UK Champs Pre-Meet News

LRC5-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 ChampsCharlie 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

Assorted Admin/Other News

• Phil Knight Drops To #2 On List Of Top 25 Most Influential People In Oregon Sports For 2019 Jerry Schumacher was #16 on the list. Lopez Lomong was in the “near misses” list.
• Nigerian Athletes Reject Ministry Of Sports’ African Games Daily Allowance They say they won’t settle for less than $150 a day which is what they received at the 2015 African Games.
• Former Distance Runner Zara Hyde Peters Named New CEO Of UK Athletics Peters was the British Triathlon CEO from 2008-2014. She takes over at UKA for Niels de Vos, who left last year.
• NCAA Reprimands Texas A&M-Commerce For Misconduct At DII Champs Apparently an assistant coach and athletes engaged in inappropriate and unsportsmanlike behavior. The coach and one athlete ware suspended from the next two NCAA champs and the school had to pay $3,000.
• Need A Job?IAAF Seeking Candidates For Independent Member Of Athletics Integrity Unit Board Appointments Panel So they’re looking for someone they can hire for a panel to look for other people for a board. Sounds efficient.

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

• Geoffrey Kamworor To Skip World Championships To Focus On The NYC Marathon This after just saying earlier this month that’d he was going for a “third attempt” at the World 10,000 title.
  *MB: Have you ever heard anything like that? Geoffrey Kamworor won the 10000m at Kenya Trials but will skip the Worlds!!
  *Headline From March: “Kamworor Confirms He Isn’t Quitting The Track Anytime Soon”
• Fancy Cherono Wins Kenyan Steeple Title In 9:42.05 World 5,000 champ Hellen Obiri says she’s undecided on whether she wants to run the 5k/10k double in Doha.
• Alphas Kishoyian (45.55) And Mary Moraa (52.65) Win Kenyan 400m National Titles
• Mike Mokamba Wins Kenyan National 200m Title In 20.80

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.

Other Links That Caught Our Eye

• 4 Japanese National Records Fall In Single Meet In Japan – Shiroyama’s 8.40m Jump Leads Four National Records At Athlete Night Games In Fukui The men’s long jump NR of 8.25 had stood since 1992 but was broken twice by two different men and went from 8.25 to 8.40. Also the women’s 100H (13.00) and men’s 110H (13.25) NRs were broken.
• Bryce Hoppel Signs With adidas
• Kalle Berglund Crushes Swedish National Record In Göteborg, Runs 3:34.89 (Prakel 3:37 – Full Video)
• One We Missed Harry Summers Basically Tied Steve Moneghetti’s Legendary 40:03 Race Record At Last Weekend’s 80,000-Strong City2Surf (14k) Race Moneghetti has held the course record at the world’s largest race since 1991 but some thought Summers (27:56 PR this year) broke it as he ran 40:05 but his chip time said 40:00.
• Meet Brett Larner’s Dark Horse Pick For The Japanese Olympic Marathon Team – Naoki Okamoto The 35-year-old has been on fire of late. Larner is profiling every single Japanese Trials athlete. All 31 men and 12 women.
• Nike Says It Won’t Reduce Women’s Contracts For 18 Months While Pregnant They can’t be cut in the 8 months before the baby is due or 10 months after.
• Emmanuel Korir Bags Plans To Run 400 At All Africa Games