October 2, 2019 | LetsRun.com

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LRC Post-Race Interviews
MB: Official 2019 IAAF World Champs Day Six (Wed.) Discussion Thread
MB: MICHAEL NORMAN DFL in Semi heat

LRC Grant Holloway Closes Out Epic 2019 Season With His First World 110M Hurdles Title In his 48th race of the year, Holloway won his 1st world title – the perfect cap to an amazing year which also saw him break the NCAA record and lead Florida to an NCAA team title.
*MB: Drama in men’s 110h: IAAF, Give Holloway the gold but re-run the hurdles for everyone else (save McLeod)!!!

LRC Women’s 5,000 Prelims: Karissa Schweizer Rips 14:52 To Become 7th-Fastest American Ever She had never even broken 15:00 before and didn’t even have the biggest PR of the night as two other athletes PR by more than 10 seconds.
*MB: Karissa Schweizer runs 14:52 – 7th all time in US history – IN THE HEATS

LRC Women’s 1,500 Prelims: The Big Names And All Three Americans Cruise To The Final After the heats, Shelby Houlihan said she wants gold, Faith Kipyegon talked about her struggles in 2019 and Sifan Hassan declined to speak to the media.

LRC Nikki Hiltz Talks About What It’s Like To Be Gay In Qatar After Advancing To 1,500 Semis At Worlds Nikki Hiltz is openly gay and competing in a country where homosexuality is illegal. She advanced to the semifinals with ease on Wednesday.

LRC Podcast: Doha Worlds Halfway Point: Alberto Salazar Has Left The Building, Kenenisa Bekele Is Back, And Donavan Brazier Is Sublime Subscribe today on itunes.

LRC 2019 Worlds Men’s 1,500 Preview: Can Timothy Cheruiyot Complete Near-Perfect Two-Year Run With His First Gold Medal? Cheruiyot has been almost unbeatable on the circuit but has never claimed a gold at any international championship. Can he change that in Doha?

The World Reacts To Salazar’s Ban

LRC Jenny Simpson Unloads On Alberto Salazar: “Get him out. I’m a believer in lifetime bans. I wish it was longer. Don’t cheat.” Jenny Simpson won’t shed a tear for the departure of Alberto Salazar from the sport. “Why anyone chooses to be a part of that group I have no idea. Anyone that is shocked isn’t involved in the sport.”

Recommended Read NY Times: Alberto Salazar Has Always Lived On The Edge “He nearly died as a competitive runner because he ran so hard. Did his competitive fire lead him to step over the edge of anti-doping rules?”
WSJ: Nike CEO Mark Parker Was Briefed By Banned Coach On Doping Efforts
AP: Suspicious Athletes Led To Coaching Great Salazar’s Downfall
Nike CEO Mark Parker Writes Open Letter To Nike Employees Defending Himself “Nike did not participate in any effort to systematically dope any runners ever; the very idea makes me sick.”
LRC Pro Runners React To Alberto Salazar’s 4-Year Ban; Nick Willis Calls It “Justice” Athletes seem glad that Alberto has been banned from the sport.

Monday At Worlds

LRC The King Remains On The Throne: Muktar Edris Surprisingly Repeats As 5,000 World Champ What drama. The men’s 5,000 had it all, including a bold bid for gold by Jakob Ingebrigtsen and a historic medal for Canada’s Mo Ahmed.
*MB: The Mo Farah slayer is back. Muktar Edris wins SENSATIONAL 5k. Pre would be proud of Jakob!!!
*MB: All Ingerbrigtsens no medals in 5k- go home devastated! There is a god
*MB: Filip Ingebrigtsen (DNF) and IAAF “bona fide” honest effort rule He dropped out while ahead of the eventual winner with just over 500 meters remaining. Should he be allowed in the 1,500?

Non-Worlds Distance News

Runner’s World: Joe Gray Wants to Tackle Distance Running’s Diversity Problem Gray says, “There have been few black role models to look up to in distance running” and that “young black runners (and other minorities) don’t seem to get the attention, media coverage, opportunities, or grassroots access to the sport white athletes do.” *Discuss
2:09 Man Scott Fauble Is Apparently Obsessed With Burritos Apparently his fans even send him photos of their burritos via Instagram and Twitter.
RRW: Eliud Kipchoge, Brigid Kosgei Win Abbott World Marathon Majors Series XII Each will receive $250,000 in prize money for winning the overall series.

BMW Berlin Marathon

LRC The GOAT Is Back: Kenenisa Bekele Runs Stunning 2:01:41 At BMW Berlin Marathon What a run by Bekele, who just missed the world record by 2 seconds. Ethiopia’s Ashete Bekere won the race in 2:20:14 while American Sara Hall ran 2:22:16 to become the 6th-fastest American of all time and Matt Llano had a 4-year PR.

Pre-Race Article On How A Training Trip To The Netherlands “Provided The Long-Awaited Reboot” To Kenenisa Bekele’s Career Bekele spent two months in the Netherlands where he could get regular medical treatment to stay healthy, had a nutritionist prepare all his meals to lose weight, and had time to train away from his busy life as a businessman and family man to focus on training.

Day 1 In Doha

LRC Ruth Chepngetich’s Marathon Hot Streak Continues: 3rd-Fastest Marathoner In History Wins World Title In Brutally Hot Conditions You can’t always tell the story of a marathon by looking at the results, but in this one, you could. A woman who ran 2:17 earlier this year ran 2:32 today and still won by over a minute. 28 of the 68 starters (41%) dropped out of the race. These were truly miserable conditions to run a marathon but that didn’t stop Ruth Chepngetich from winning yet again.
*MB: Test of Will in Brutal Marathon Conditions-Perfect for a 40 something mother & full time nurse from Jersey Congrats to 41-year-old Roberta Groner, who was 6th.
*MB: “Feels like temp: 109F” for WC Women’s marathon start

LRC Jakob Ingebrigtsen, DQed And Then Reinstated In 5,000 The 19-year-old Norwegian phenom and betting favorite for gold is out after stepping inside the rail for at least 3 steps.
*MB: Jakob Ingebrigtsen DQ’d, then reinstated in men’s 5K at Worlds

Doping/Cheating Related Worlds Coverage

Michael Johnson Defends And Criticizes Christian Coleman Johnson thinks that USADA screwed up, but says Coleman did too and this “disqualifies him from ever being the face of the sport.”
Jamaica’s Briana Williams Has Been “Reprimanded But Without A Period Of Eligibility” After Doping Hearing Williams tested positive for a banned diuretic, but the hearing found that she had “no significant fault or negligence” and “had no intentions to cheat.” Still, she was withdrawn from the Jamaican team, although the reason why is unclear since she was initially named to the squad.
AIU To Have Wide-Ranging Bet Monitoring During Worlds They will identify betting patterns and any betting anomalies in order to prevent or identify any market manipulation.
Athletics Integrity Unit Announces Robust Program And Policy Updates For Doha World Champs One major policy change is to transfer samples collected from athletes of the host nation to a lab abroad to avoid potential conflicts of interest.

More Worlds Coverage

The Ingebrigsten’s Father Has A Book Out Called “How To Raise A World Champion” Article has some interesting insights like how Henrik and Filip were first national cross-country skiing champions and switched to running because skiing was too easy.
Kenyan 5,000m Runners Michael Kibet And Daniel Simiyu Won’t Be Allowed To Race In Doha The two failed to meet the AIU rule that athletes must have three out-of-competition tests and one out-of-competition test to be eligible for Worlds.
BBC Video: GB Sprinter Zharnel Hughes Explains Why He Is Becoming A Pilot And How Usain Bolt’s Helped His Sprinting Career He says it’s something flying is something he’d like to do professionally after his track career is done.
Olympic Channel Video: Ajee Wilson Explains Why The 800 Is So Hard Wilson says the last 300m really drags on and “it feels like you’re sprinting forever.”
GB Heptathlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson In A Confident Mood Ahead Of Worlds Will she she finally come through after disappointing performances at previous world champs and Olympics?

Before You Get Obsessed With Worlds, Take A Look At Our Weekly Recap

LRC WTW: Some Guy You’ve Never Heard Of Was On Pace To Break The 2-Hour Marathon But Came Up Short, NAU > Stanford The sub-2 hour marathon will have to wait a little longer. NAU looks primed to keep on dominating.

Our Annual Top 10 NCAA XC Countdown

Terre Haute – Men – MB: Hand them their 4th straight title right now? NAU holds out two runners, stlll DESTROYS Stanford in Terre Haute The final score wasn’t close, 31 to 51, but Stanford’s 5-man average was only 10 seconds back. *Arizona Daily Sun Recap
*Women: #5 Arkansas Edges #8 Stanford 49 To 54 #3 Washington had 66 and #4 Michigan 75.

Boston: MB: They’re back baby. #13 Syracuse DESTROYS #3 Washington and #21 Arkansas in Boston

LRC 2019 NCAA Men’s XC Preview: #5 Washington Through #1 Northern Arizona Who is going to win NCAAs? One of these five teams.
*MB: And your 2019 NCAA men’s xc team champion will be …

LRC 2019 NCAA Women’s XC Preview: #5 NC State Through #1 New Mexico #2 Colorado certainly has a chance to repeat but it’s an odd year and that means UNM is the team to beat.

Previous: LRC 2019 NCAA Men’s XC Season Preview: Men’s Teams #10 Oklahoma State Through #6 Notre Dame We begin our 2019 NCAA XC countdown by unveiling the back half of the LRC top 10, which includes some big names – #10 Okla. State, #9 Portland, #8 Colorado, #7 Oregon, #6 Notre Dame.

LRC 2019 NCAA Women’s XC Preview: #10 Michigan State Through #6 Washington In between those two we have #9 Oregon, #8 Michigan and #7 Stanford.
*MB: My gooodness. When did the NCAA start letting teams take pre-season altitude trips?

NAU Frosh Drew Bosley, Who Was Twice Top 10 At Foot Locker, Admits He Never Even Ran 7 Days A Week In HS

More Worlds Non-Distance Coverage

Dina Asher-Smith Wins World 200m Gold To Make History For GB Asher-Smith ran a national record of 21.88 to become GB’s first female world 200m champ. USA’s Brittany Brown took silver (22.22) and Switzerland’s Mujinga Kambundji the bronze (22.51).
Thrilling Battle Sees Sam Kendricks Become The Second Man To Ever Repeat As World Pole Vault Champion There was a ton of drama in this vault as Kendricks relied on a clutch clearance earlier on to even stay in the competition and later, both he and Mondo Duplantis cleared 5.97m, but Kendricks won on countback. Poland’s Piotr Lisek took bronze (5.87m).
*European Athletics Recap
Australia’s Kelsey-Lee Barber Wins World Javelin Gold With Clutch 66.56m Final Throw
Men’s Decathlon Day 1 Report “WR holder Kevin Mayer got off to a strong start in the defense of his title, but the fourth event threw up questions about his fitness.”
Day 1 Women’s Heptathlon Recap GB’s Katarina Johnson-Thompson has a 96-point lead over Belgium’s Olympic champ Nafi Thiam.
Karsten Warholm Wins 400 Hurdles Showdown With Three Of The Four Fastest Men In History Norway’s Warholm ran 47.42 to win over USA’s Rai Benjamin and Qatar’s Abderrahman Samba (48.03).
Russia’s Mariya Lasitskene Made It A Three-Peat Of World HJ Titles, But Was Challenged By Ukraine’s Yaroslava Mahuchikh Lasitskene cleared 2.04m to win on countback as Mahuchikh also cleared 2.04m, but only on her third attempt. USA’s Vashti Cunningham beat Yuliya Levchenko for bronze in the same way.
Poland’s Pawel Fajdek Dominates Hammer Throw With 80.50m Fajdek becomes the first man to win four world hammer golds.
Sweden’s Daniel Stahl Wins World Discus Title With 67.59m

More News From Doha

IAAF: Four Things To Watch Out For On Day 7 In Doha The only track final is the women’s 400m which should be a battle between Shaunae Miller-Uibo and Salwa Eid Naser.
40 Second SAFP Video: “I’m 32, I’m a mom and here I am breaking barriers.”
USATF Recap: Grant Holloway gold highlights Team USATF on day *Day 5 *Day 4 *Day 3 *Day 2 *Day 1
Ashton Eaton And Brianne Theisen-Eaton Donate 2016 Wrold Indoor Champs Kit To IAAF Heritage Collection In Doha
Video Interview With LJ Champ Tajay Gayle: “Words can’t explain how I feel.”

More Worlds Monday

LRC Halimah Nakaayi Of Uganda Stuns Ajee’ Wilson, Raevyn Rogers Gets Silver – Doha Women’s 800m Recap Halimah Nakaayi got the surprise win as Raevyn Rogers and Ajee’ Wilson went silver and bronze for the US.
*MB: Upset city!! Team USA takes home 2 800 medals but gold goes to Uganda’s Halimah Nakaayui.

LRC Beatrice Chepkoech Delivers: World Record Holder Doesn’t Beat Herself, Wins Steeplechase World Title As Emma Coburn Gets Silver The world record holder got a much deserved gold as Emma Coburn PRed to get silver.
*MB: Beatrice Chepkoech dominates and wins much deserve gold, Coburn PRs and gets silver

The Media And Athletes Bash Doha Worlds

The Telegraph: “Poor Doha Champs Attendances A ‘Disaster’ For Qatar’s Chances Of Hosting The Olympics” A former IOC marketing director said, “At the end of the day, what’s the point of building big stadiums for the people in the country – it’s an empty cathedral.”
*More Telegraph Headlines: “World’s best athletes should not be the ones to suffer from sport’s desire to sell its soul to the Middle East.”
*“Doha World Championships highlighting difficulty in grafting international sport on to a culture with no interest in it”
Doha Organizers Respond To Criticism Over Attendance They are blaming the start of the working week in Qatar and TV Schedules for the poor attendance numbers.
Decathlon WR Holder Kevin Mayer Calls Doha Worlds A “Disaster” “We have to leave reason aside and more concentrate on the passion, because if not I would have boycotted these Championships. We haven’t really prioritised athletes when organising the Championships here. It makes it difficult.”
PA Media: “IAAF Under Fire For Doha Decision As Crowds Fail To Show For Worlds”

More Doha Coverage

Jamaica Observer: Tajay Gayle Wins Historic World Long Jump Gold With National Record 8.69m It was the #10 all-time best mark and the farthest jump in a decade.
Athletics Weekly: “Strong And Beautiful DeAnna Price Wins Hammer Gold With 77.54m Price broke into tears of joy after becoming the first American woman to win a world outdoor throws title.
Reuters: Yellow Hair And Hot Time Have Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce In Spotlight Fraser-Pryce ran the fastest-ever time in a heat of the women’s 100m with 10.80 on Saturday.
The Telegraph: Christian Coleman Proves Himself As Fastest Man On Planet – But He Is Hardly A Champion To Cherish
IAAF: Five Things To Watch Out For On Sunday In Doha Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce vs. Elaine Thompson and Dina Asher-Smith in the 100m plus Noah Lyles in the 200m highlights sprint action.
Blow To Ireland As Mark English (800m) And Thomas Barr (400H) Fail To Make Finals
USATF: Double Gold And A New WR On Four-Medal Night For Team USA The WR came from USA’s mixed 4 x 400m relay (3:12.42).
The Telegraph: In The Post-Usain Bolt Era, There Is No Quick Fix In Sport’s Restless Search For Its Next Transcendent Figure Oliver Brown writes that “This notion of Bolt as the last line of defense against the sanctity of athletics no longer applies.”

Day 1 Distance Prelim Recaps

LRC With One Shoe, Paul Chelimo Makes 5K Final, Calls Out LetsRun Doubters Chelimo looked very good despite only having one shoe the final mile.
*MB: Paul Chelimo calls out LetsRun: “LetsRun you never believe in me. Today I showed you. Wait for the final and you will see. “

LRC Women’s Steeple Prelims: Everything Goes According To Form As Coburn And Frerichs Cruise Through Courtney Frerichs enjoyed the easiest 9:18 of her career and Emma Coburn raved about the Doha setup, “The air conditioning works … I was very, very impressed with it. I think it’s gonna lead to some fast races. The track felt good, the crowd was loud. So it was a really good experience.”

LRC Women’s 800 Prelims: Ajee And Raevyn Cruise But 3 Of Top 6 Seeds Go Home Devastated, Including Hanna Green The women’s 800 heats were full of surprises but Ajee Wilson and Raevyn Rogers looked supreme.

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LRC Worlds Previews

LRC The Casual Track Fan’s Guide To The 2019 World Track And Field Championships: 6 Story Lines To Follow At Worlds Are you someone who used to be really into track and field but no longer is or maybe the kind of person who doesn’t pay attention to athletics until the World Champs? Then this is the preview for you. If you are a casual sports fan, we imagine you’ll like it as well.

LRC Who Are The Most Popular (And Least Popular) Favorites For Worlds? Here Are The Running Warehouse Prediction Contest Vote Totals Noah Lyles (99.1%) and Ajee Wilson (95.%) lead the way while Grant Holloway (37.2%) and Katerina Stefanidi (32.2%) are the least popular.

LRC Men’s Steeplechase Preview: Will Kenya’s 31-Year Streak Of Dominance Come To An End? There have been few constants in the world since 1988 other than the fact that ever global track championship, a Kenyan-born man has won the men’s steeplechase title. 23 in a row. That streak could very well end in Doha.
LRC Men’s 800 Preview: Donavan Brazier Chases America’s First Gold Since Dave Wottle In 1972 Can Donavan Brazier end America’s 47-year gold medal drought in the men’s 800?
LRC Women’s 10K Preview: Sifan Hassan Chases First World Outdoor Title Under Alberto Salazar‘s tutelage, Hassan has put together a year for the ages in 2019; can she end it with a gold medal at Worlds against Hellen Obiri?
LRC Men’s 5K Preview: With No Clear Favorite, Could Jakob Ingebrigtsen Earn Europe’s First Men’s 5K Medal In 20 Years? Due to USATF’s foolish policy, a 12:58 American won’t be in this race. And a lot of the guys who could have won this race – Mo Farah, Joshua Cheptegei, Yomif Kejelcha – aren’t running it. Who will step up in their absence? Might it be Canada’s Mo Ahmed?
LRC Women’s Steeple Preview: USA & Kenya Duke It Out In A Grudge Match Two years ago, Americans Emma Coburn and Courtney Frerichs shocked the world in London. Now the Kenyans, led by WR holder Beatrice Chepkoech, are out for revenge.

Weekend Road Action

MB: Downhill Sub-2 Hour Marathon Attempt Fails After 59:30 First Half
Kenya’s Evans Kiplagat Chebet Smashes Buenos Aires Marathon CR With 2:05:02 Victory Reuben Kipyego was a close second in 2:05:19. Rodah Tanui won the women’s race in 2:25:46.
MB: Futsum Zienasellassie (29:35.49) Beats Donn Cabral (29:38.58) To Win At The Cow Harbor 10k Ann-Marie Blaney won the women’s race in 33:42.37; Natosha Rogers was second in 34:05.45.
Evaline Chirchir Wins Dam tot Damloop 10 Miler In 50:32, One Second Off The 31-Year-Old Course Record She beat Irene Cheptai by 3 seconds and also won the women vs. men challenge as the men’s winner, Solomon Berihu (45:49), wasn’t able to make up the 6:04 head start given to the women.
Ethiopia’s Aychew Bantie (2:08:51) And Marta Lema Megra Runs (2:24:21) Win At The Hengshui Lake Marathon

Tuesday At Worlds

LRC Updated Donavan Brazier Ends America’s 800m Gold Medal Drought In Style, Wins With American Record Time Of 1:42.34 No American man or woman had won a global 800 gold since 1972. Brazier ended that drought in dominant fashion with an American and Championship record time of 1:42.34.
*MB: Donavan MF Brazier ends America’s 47 yr gold medal drought, Wins 800m with 1:42.34 AR!!
*MB: From 2015: I just got a text from a top HS coach: “Grant Fisher is not the best kid in Michigan.” LetsRun, meet Donavan Brazier
*MB: Donovan Brazier has become skinny after joining NOP
*MB: HASSAN , BRAZIER , KEJELCHA, are all TAINTED now

LRC Noah Lyles’ Plan (Mostly) Comes Together As He Wins His First World Title Lyles planned to run faster but he ended up running the slowest he’s run in any 200 final all year. But it doesn’t matter as he’s the 200m world champ.

LRC Men’s Steeple Prelims: Conseslus Kipruto Looks Fantastic And Sends A Warning Shot – Discount Me At Your Own Peril Conseslus Kipruto looked fantastic and he’ll be joined in the final by all three Americans.

Salazar Gets Banned

LRC NOP Coach Alberto Salazar Gets Four-Year Doping Ban The decision doesn’t prove that Salazar doped any of his athletes. It concludes that Salazar carried out a testosterone experiment on his sons, that he misled some of his athletes on what they should tell USADA, and that he had conducted a test with L-Carnitine on NOP assistant coach Steve Magness that was over the legal limits. And it proves what many suspected, these things merit a doping ban. Plus it shows the CEO of Nike to be in the loop, and that Salazar has been fighting these charges for two years.
*Salazar Statement On “Unjust, Unethical And Highly Damaging Treatment From USADA.”

Sunday In Doha

LRC Worlds Day 3 : Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Is The GOAT, A Record 12th Gold For Felix, Lyles Doesn’t Rule Out Sub-19 – 2019 It was mom’s night in Doha as SAFP showed she’s the GOAT and Allyson Felix added another gold to her haul. Christian Taylor turned back Will Claye again and Anzhelika Sidorova won a great pole vault over Sandi Morris.

LRC U-S-A! U-S-A! A Star-Spangled Men’s 800-Meter Final Is Set In Doha As 3 Americans Make Final Donavan Brazier cruised, Clayton Murphy made it in on time and in the final heat, Bryce Hoppel, who was running XC races a year ago, auto qualified.

LRC Christian Taylor Wins Gold Again Wearing #13 Odell Beckham Jr. Tribute Shoes Christian Taylor gave some love to OBJ.

LRC Post-Race Interviews
MB: Official 2019 Doha Worlds Day 3 Discussion Thread
MB: 800 Nation Baby!!! “Look for the sweep” – Team USA with 3 in the 800 Final

Day 2 In Doha

LRC Not A Typo: Sifan Hassan Wins 10,000 World Title With A 3:59 Final 1,500 The women’s 10,000 may have just been broken by the remarkable Sifan Hassan.
*MB: Sifan MF Hassan just closed the 10k with a 3:59.09 1500!!! 4:17.15 last 1600!!
*MB: Hassan could have paced Jenny Simpson to a 1500m SB at the end of that 10k

LRC Christian Coleman Is The New King Of The 100 Meters – And All That Comes With It After Usain Bolt‘s retirement, Coleman had to wait two years to officially take over as the king of track and field’s marquee event, but after a dominant victory tonight in 9.76, he is officially the fastest man in the world. *Video

LRC World Champ Christian Coleman Responds to Michael Johnson’s Comments: “I Don’t Necessarily Care What He Has to Say”

LRC 2019 Women’s 800 Semis: Ajee’ Wilson, Raevyn Rogers and Ce’Aira Brown All Advance To Potentially Historic Final An American woman has never won an 800-meter gold medal in the 37-year history of the IAAF World Athletics Championships. That’s likely to change in two days’ time.

LRC Men’s 800 Prelims: Nijel Amos Is A DNS As All 4 Americans Advance Once the action got underway, all of the top seeds advanced with all of the top 14 seeds advancing to tomorrow’s semifinals. All four Americans made it safely through as well.
*MB: NIJEL AMOS IS OUT OF WC

Video: Deanna Price Wins Hammer Gold

More Day 1 And General Worlds Coverage

Guinea-Bissaui’s Braima Suncar Dabo Helps Aruba’s Jonathan Butsby Across The Finish Line During Men’s 5,000m Heats The two were wild card entries from countries that had no Worlds qualifiers and received a huge ovation as they crossed the line in a little over 18 minutes (Butsby was DQed for receiving assistance).
Reuters: Christian Coleman Off To Hot Start As Marathoners Set To Sizzle Coleman had the fastest time in the first round of the 100m with 9.98 seconds.
Cathal Dennehy On Having Worlds In Doha: “This event is one of the last vestiges of [Lamine] Diack’s dire reign, which can feel as hard to shake as a Sunday hangover.”
BBC: Team Ingebrigsten – Not Your Average Norwegian Family
IAAF Inside Athletics Podcast – World Champs Preview Includes interview with South African sprinter Akani Simbine, Jamaican TJer Shanieka Ricketts, Aussie HJer Brandon Starc and Japan HJer Naoto Tobe.

News From The IAAF

Chinese Multinational Conglomerate Wanda Group Signs Ten Year Title Sponsor Deal With The Diamond League Th deal includes “the future organisation of an annual Diamond League meeting in China.”
Ximena Restrepo Elected As First Female IAAF Vice President Restrepo won 1992 Olympic 400m bronze competing for Colombia.
Asics Extends Partnership With IAAF Until 2029

Sprint / Field News

Kevin Young Doesn’t Want To See His 400 Hurdles World Record Go Down In Doha “I want to own the record as long as I can because it makes me relevant. After someone breaks it, I go from world record holder to simply hurdles fan.”
Sad News: US Discus Olympian Jarred Rome Dies At 42 Rome was back in his hometown in Washington for induction into the county sports hall of fame earlier in the week.
*MB: Jarred Rome, USA National Champion, Olympian passes away
BBC: Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Talks About Motherhood, Hair And Medals After a year of motherhood, Fraser-Pryce says, “My son is exhausting but it’s something I wouldn’t trade for anything else because he’s actually made me better at what I do …”
Will The 27-Year-Old 400 Hurdles Record Go Down In Doha? The WR is 46.78 and Karsten Warholm (46.92), Rai Benjamin (46.98) and Abderrahman Samba (46.98) all have PRs under 47 seconds.
Grant Holloway Is Honorary “Mr. Two-Bits” At Gator Football Game It was Holloway’s job to get the crowd hyped before the game (includes video).