September 07, 2019 Homepage Archive

**2019 Brussels – AG Memorial Van Damme Full Results TV & Streaming**

LRC On Top Of The World: Americans Ajee’ Wilson & Raevyn Rogers Go 1-2 In 2019 Diamond League 800m Final

LRC Women’s Recap: Sifan Hassan CRUSHES Field In 5k As Dina Asher-Smith Springs Upset In 100 Hassan was so good she now has a problem. Does she want to win 10k and 1,500 gold or 10k and 5k gold?

LRC Men’s Recap: Controversy In The Steeple, Dominance In The 1,500, & DL Titles For Young Stars Lyles & Norman Plus American Craig Engels becomes the 1st American to get the standard in the 1,500.

Brussels MB Talk

Non DL Action: Kirani James IS BACK!!! Runs 44.47 in 1st race of year (and just 6th race since 2016 Olympics) in Spain

Upcoming TV Action

Great North City Games With Allyson Felix Is Saturday (8:15 AM ET/13:15 Local- BBC 1)
Great North Run With Mo Farah And Kosgei vs Keitany is Sunday (4:30 AM ET/9:30 AM Local – BBC One)
“The Match” US Vs. Europe Is Monday/Tuesday And On 12-3 PM ET On NBCSN
Updated Team USA Roster For “The Match” – US vs. Europe Craig Engels is out as he’s in the DL final and Ben True is out as he’s going to Worlds.

Nike Getting Sued

Running Shoe Store Fleet Feet Sues Nike Over “Sport Changes Everything” Slogan Fleet Feet has filed a lawsuit against Nike over Nike’s use of phrases such as “Change Everything” and “Running Changes Everything” which Fleet Feet claims they have trademarks on. *Discuss

US Sprint News

Justin Gatlin Survives Hamstring Scare His manager says that he should be back training within a week after tests were negative for injury.
Michael Norman Says He Won’t Attempt The 200-400 Double At The Tokyo Olympics Norman also says he’s made a bet with his coach if he wins 400m gold in Doha and Tokyo he can focus on the 100m in 2021.
Worth A Watch: Videos One Year Apart Show Michael Johnson’s Amazing Stroke Recovery
Recent Baylor Grad Wil London Added To Team USA Doha 4 X 400 Relay Pool London ran the anchor leg on the US silver medal-winning team at Pan Am Games.

More Team GB News

UK Performance Director Neil Black Says Laura Muir Is “Progressing Her Training Well” After The Calf Injury In July Black says, “She’s at the stage of actually starting to run sessions.”
Sprinter CJ Ujah Pulls Out Of British World Squad With Back Injury
100m Sprinter Daryll Neita Happy To Keep Her Global Team Streak Alive After Making Team GB For Doha She’s made every GB team since 2015, but this year finished outside the top two at the trials so had a difficult “week of waiting.”
Dina Asher-Smith Hoping She Can End 36-Year GB Short Sprint Medal Drought Apparently no British woman has won an individual global medal in the 100 or 200 since Kathy Smallwood-Cook at the 1984 LA Games.

Bad News – These Stars Won’t Be In Doha

RRW:Foot Injury Forces Drew Hunter To Withdraw From IAAF World ChampsHunter was running through injury ahead of and during USAs, but didn’t realize his plantar issues had actually turned into a stress fracture. There has been no official announced replacement, but Ben True is the next in line to go to Worlds.
*MB:Tinman Elite Video Says Drew Hunter Ran USAs And Qualified For Worlds Racing Through Multiple Injuries The video says he ran through a plantar fascia tear, cuboid stress fracture and stress reactions in his 4th and 5th metatarsals.
Wayde Van Niekerk Won’t Defend His World 400m Title In Doha Van Niekerk raced in February (a 47.28 win in South Africa), but then suffered a “minor setback” which has ruled him out of Worlds.

Bekele Will Be In Berlin

Kenenisa Bekele Added To The Berlin Marathon FieldBekele will face a good field of fellow Ethiopians including Guye Adola (2:03:46), Leul Gebrselassie (2:04:02), Sisay Lemma (2;04:08) and Birhanu Legese (2:04:15). *Discuss

*Kenenisa Bekele Instagram Video About Running Berlin

NCAA XC

LRC How Did Transgender Runner June Eastwood Do In Her NCAA Division 1 College Debut? Eastwood made history becoming the first transgender NCAA D1 cross-country competitor and was the #2 runner on her team and made an impact on the team standings.

An LRC Exclusive

LRCHow Does The Whereabouts System Work For A Professional Athlete? We Asked Jenny Simpson To Explain It Simpson explains everything she has to do to file her whereabouts information and doesn’t believe it’s that much of a burden: “If you miss three tests, it’s either because you’re cheating or because you’re an idiot.”
*MB: Jenny Simpson’s account of how testing works is troubling

More Colorado News Denver Post‘s John Meyer Looks At How Runners And Cyclists Are Increasingly Fighting On The Colorado Trails

Our Weekly Podcast

LRC Podcast Christian Coleman Cleared, Donavan Brazier Makes History, Drew Hunter Out, Bekele, Farah, Rupp, Kipchoge Marathon Talk, Brussels Diamond League Final Preview Plus transgender running talk, ultra talk and the return of Rojo.

*MB:Christian Coleman’s Father Listens To LRC Podcast, Then Takes To Message Board To Slam LetsRun.com Co-Founder Robert Johnson For His Take On Coleman Situation – Calls Rojo “Unprofessional, Irresponsible Hack And An Idiot” He wasn’t happy that Rojo said Coleman should be drug tested every day for the rest of his career.

Kellerman Controversy

ESPN’s Max Kellerman Slams Track Athletes Saying They’re “Usually Failed Football And Basketball Players” Canadian Running Magazine hits back and explains all the things Kellerman got wrong about track.

Jamaican Sprint Stuff

Usain Bolt Promotes Olympe Rosé Champagne With New Music Video Bolt himself featured prominently in the video.
Sad News:Jamaican Sprinter And NAIA Indoor 400m Champion Twayne Crooks Dies From Cancer At Age 23
The Guardian Reviews New Track Movie, “Sprinter” “A Jamaican athlete’s career is jeopardised by problems off the track in this heartwarming tale of ambition and family ties.”

USADA Drops Case Against Christian Coleman

LRC Why Was Christian Coleman Cleared? We Explain Everything You Need To Know About His USADA Case Coleman was cleared after a careful reading of the WADA rules. But had one of his tests begun just one minute earlier, he could have been staring at a two-year ban. *Discuss

USADA Clears Christian Coleman To Compete In Whereabouts Violation Case

News From The IAAF

Bernard Lagat Among Candidates Announced For IAAF Athletes’ Commission Elections There are 15 nominees for 6 available seats. Other nominees include Valerie Adams, Kevin Borlée, Renaud Lavillenie, Aisha Praught-Leer and Katerina Stefanidi.
Chorzow, Poland Will Host The 2021 IAAF World Relay Championships
Economic Impact Study Reveals Success Of World XC Champs In Aarhus Earlier This Year The study found that there was a direct economic impact of more than $4.7 million.
IAAF Bans Russian Racewalker Yekaterina Medvedeva For 8 Years Medvedeva had a previous ban from 2013.
Need A Job?IAAF Hiring A Lead Counsel For Sports And Business Law

UK News

GB Name 72-Strong Team For 2019 Doha World ChampionshipsDina Asher-Smith, Zharnel Hughes and Adam Gemili lead the sprints while the distance squad includes Laura Muir, Andrew Butchart, Josh Kerr, Callum Hawkins, Eilish McColgan, Steph Twell and Lynsey Sharp.
Neil Black On Mo Farah Not Going To Doha In The 10,000:“Would I have been surprised if he had called me yesterday morning and said I really want to run in the 10,000? I wouldn’t have been. But he didn’t.”
Illness Forces Marathon Runner Dewi Griffiths Out Of GB World Team Griffiths says he’s been suffering from unexplained tiredness and headaches which have stopped him from training.
Kyle Langford Named To Team GB Despite Shoving Official Incident UKA performance director Neil Black said, “The discussions in the selection meeting focused purely on performance.”
Katarina Johnson-Thompson:“I moved to France, split up with my boyfriend, changed my coach … I changed my life.” Johnson-Thompson talks about the lengths she went to make a change after a string of disappointing championship performances, culminating with a sixth-place finish at Rio 2016.
AW Weekly Round-Up:Sprinter Asha Philip Got The World Standard To Secure Her Spot On Team GB By Tying Her PR With 11.10 At ISTAF Berlin Meet
Athletics Weekly Gives Highlights From The England Under-17 And Under-15 Championships

Running Training 101

LRC Running 101: Six Keys To Becoming A Better Runner The basics of running explained with a high schooler in mind from Wejo.
*Discussion Thread

Their Track Careers Appear To Be Over

Caster Semenya Joins Women’s Pro Football (Soccer) Team In South Africa
*MB: Caster Semenya hints on her Instagram that she may take up soccer

Kemoy Campbell Is Forced To Retire As Doctors Say He Could Die If He Tried To Compete Again

Hoka Long Island Mile *Results

Last Lap Burst Wins Morgan McDonald The Hoka One One Long Island Mile In A PR Of 3:54.63 McDonald ran his last quarter in 57.2. to beat Robert Domanic (3:57.41) and Riley Masters (3:57.59) as nine men went sub-4. Amanda Eccleston won the women’s race in 4:32.58 over Heather Kampf (4:32.79) and Katie Mackey (4:33.28). The meet also included a women’s 5,000m where Molly Huddle and Emily Sisson went 1-2 in 15:08.67 and 15:10.62.
*Full Meet Broadcast*Race Website*DyeStat Recap

More Non-Distance News

Brianne Theisen-Eaton And Ashton Eaton Announce Pregnancy They are expecting in February.
IAAF Inside Athletics Interview With The Borlee Brothers The Belgium 400m stars Jonathan, Kevin and Dylan Borlee talk about the prospect of one day having an all Borlee 4 x 4 and trying to live up to their sister, who has an Olympic medal.
The IAAF Looks Back At Five Dramatic Moments From Past World Championship Finals USA’s Tianna Bartoletta and her 2015 long jump win makes their list.
USA’s Olympic Shot Put Champion Michelle Carter Donates Her Rio Qualification Kit To IAAF Heritage Exhibition In Doha

Upcoming Action

Sunday:Mo Farah Going For His Sixth-Straight Victory At The Great North Run Half Marathon Farah is up against Olympic bronze medalist Tamirat Tola and GB’s Callum Hawkins. The women’s race has a clash between Mary Keitany and London Marathon winner Brigid Kosgei.
Athletics Weekly Great North CityGames PreviewAllyson Felix in the 150m and Tianna Bartoletta in the LJ.
September 9-10:European Athletics: Five Anticipated Highlights At The Match USA Vs. Europea Meet Some good jump action with Mariya Lasitskene in the HJ, Mondo Duplantis vs Piotr Lisek in the PV and Ekaterini Stefandi vs US’s Katie Nageotte in the PV.
Good Read:Profile On Spain’s Fernando Carro, Who Ran A Huge 10-Second PR Earlier This Summer To Finish 4th In The Monaco Steeplechase With 8:05.69 The national record holder says “it is a huge honor” to represent Europe at The Match.
Previously:Team Europe And Team USA Announced For “The Match” In Minsk The meet is a scored competition between Team USA and Team Europe. Top athletes competing for the US include Craig Engels, Hilary Bor, Ben True, Kate Grace, Athing Mu, Shannon Rowbury, Brianna McNeal, Allyson Felix and Brittney Reese. *USATF Release
October 20:Belaynesh Oljira (2:21:53) And Bruktayit Degefa Eshetu (2:23:28) Hoping To Lead And Ethiopian 1-2 Punch At The Toronto Waterfront Marathon The two are in the same training group, but say they aren’t friends as Oljira is new to the team, but maybe after this they will be.

Zagreb And Other Recent Results *Zagreb Results

Kate Grace (4:07.91), Phyllis Francis (51.02), Michael Rodgers (10.04) Among American Winners At Zagreb IAAF World Challenge Meet 2015 World bronze medalist Amel Tuka won the 800m in 1:44.78 over Marcin Lewandowski (1:45.28) as Taoufik Makhloufi was 4th (1:45.54).
*MB:Justin Gatlin Pulls Up Injured In Zagreb He still finished the race in 4th place (10.29).
*Tom Walsh Dominates Zagreb Shot Put With 21.98m
Ivet Lalova-Collio Sets 200m Meet Record With 22.45 Victory At The Balkan Championships She also won the 100m in 11.23.
Last Sunday:Eunice Sum (2:00.94), Justin Gatlin (9.97 In The 100m) And Ryan Crouser (21.48m In The SP) Highlighted At The Galà dei Castelli In Bellinozona, Switzerland Probably the most interesting thing, though, was Lashawn Merritt running his first 400m since 2017 (he won in 45.82). Sam Prakel won the 1500m (3:37.59). *Results
*Switzerland’s Lea Sprunger Victorious On Home Soil In The 400H In Bellinzona (55.24) There was also a home victory from Mujinga Kambundji, who got an upset win over Tori Bowie in the 100m in 11.12 (Bowie was only 5th in 11.29).
IAAF National Championship Round-Up: Darlan Romani Dominates Shot Put With 21.21m At Brazilian ChampsPaulo André de Oliveira won the 100m in a wind-assisted 9.90, Swedish champs were highlighted by throws including Daniel Stahl‘s 69.23m discus win and Orlando Ortega ran 13.33 to win the 110H at Spanish Champs.

Recent Ultra/Trail News *UTMB Results

Last Week: Kilian Jornet Falls Short Of Pikes Peak Marathon Record As He Wins In 3:227:39 He was almost 11-minutes off Matt Carpenter’s record from 1993. In the women’s race, Maude Mathys broke the 1-year-old CR in 4:02:45.
*MB:Sage Canaday 2nd at Pikes Peak!
GB’s Alyson Dixon Wins 50k World Champs And Breaks WR In Her First Ever Ultramarathon Dixon (a 2:29:06 marathoner) ran 3:07:20 (6:02 pace) to break the previous record from 1989 by over a minute. Spain’s Iraitz Arrospide won the men’s race in 2:47:42 (5:24 pace), breaking the previous European record by over a minute. *IAU Race Recap
Courtney Dauwalter Dominates UTMB Wins By Nearly An Hour, Beats All American Men But 1 Very impressive.
*Spain’s Pau Capell Wins UTMB
*Official UTMB Discussion thread

USATF 20k Champs *Results

RRW:Leonard Korir And Sara Hall Dominate USA 20K Championships At New Haven Road Race Both got comfortable wins as Koror won in 59:06 by 26 seconds and Hall won by almost 2 minutes. *USATF Recap

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.”