Nico Young Runs 13:50

MB: Nico Young Goes For Galen Rupp’s 13:37 US HS Record But Comes Up Short – Running 13:50 Young died big time over the last 1600 which he ran in 4:33 but moves to #4 on the all-time US HS list. Galen Rupp was supposed to rabbit but pulled out with an injury. Someone thought it was a good idea to set the event up with pacers, timers, and a live camera crew but only announce it an hour before it started and to hold it in 79 degree weather instead of waiting a day for it to be 10 degrees cooler. *Race replay here

Track is Coming Back (In Europe!)

Mo Farah Returning to Track to Target One Hour Record September 4th in Brussels

More General Coronavirus Stuff

• 193 Athletes Offered Grants From Athlete Welfare Fund To Help Them Through Financial Troubles Caused By Coronavirus Athletes from 58 member federations received $3000 each. Apparently Hicham El Guerrouj was one of the ones to come up with the idea for the fund.  
• World #1 Tennis Player Novak Djokovic Tests Positive For Coronavirus
• MB: Bowdoin College No fall Sports, wow!
• British Boxers To Resume Contact Training As Virus Restrictions Ease

Doping News

• Ethiopian Long Distance Runner Etaferahu Temesgen Wodaj Gets 12-Year Ban For Doping, Tampering With Evidence And Non-Compliance Wodaj tested positive for EPO and then tried to fake a TUE from a doctor that didn’t exist from a clinic that had been shut down for weeks. A tweet from LRC’s Jon Gault gets highlighted.
• AIU Bans Kenyan 2:10 Marathoner Japhet Kipchirchir After Failing A Drug Test
• Russia Says Its Athletes Should Be Allowed To Compete Internationally Even If The Russian Athletics Federation’s $5 Million Doping Fine Isn’t Paid On Time The Russian Athletics Federation was fined $10 million over the Danil Lysenko scandal, half of which is due July 1. World Athletics has said it will not grant a deferral of the payment of the fine.
• WADA Publish Final Version Of Athletes’ Anti-Doping Rights Act The Act will “outline equality of opportunity, fair testing programs, medical treatment, justice, accountability, education, data protection and other areas.”

More Lamine Diack Trial News

• Lamine Diack’s Lawyers Says That He Should Not Be Made Into A “Scapegoat” His lawyer asked judges to, “Resist the temptation to make this case an exemplary case, and Lamine Diack a scapegoat to purify the IAAF.”
• Diack’s Lawyers Argue The 87-Year-Old Will Die In Jail If Sentenced

Running Through Coronavirus

• London Marathon Organizers “Still Have Hope” The Race Will Go On In October Race director Hugh Brasher said he “hopes that the world will have found a way through coronavirus” by October. There will be another update on the event on July 28.
• Runner’s World Asks If You Should Be Running With A Mask? If you’re running solo and away from people, obviously you don’t need to. If you’re running in a more crowded area, maybe it could help.

Last Week Was The One-Year Anniversary Of Gabe Grunewald’s Passing

• Recommended Read: On The One-Year Anniversary Of Gabe Grunewald’s Passing, Her Husband Justin Reflects On Loss, Struggle And Resilience “The biggest thing I learned in the last year is that you can lose everything in one day, but it doesn’t mean everything will be gone forever. As time passed, those empty slots have been refilled. Not in the same way, but in different ways. Gabriele always was and always will be my North Star.”
• RR #2: Chip Gaines Tells The Story About How He Randomly Met Gabe Grunewald And How Even In A Short Time, She Had A Profound Impact On His Life Gaines ended up hosting a marathon to raise money for the Brave Like Gabe Foundation and Grunewald trained him to run it, but the whole friendship only formed because Gaines had randomly “heckled” Justin Grunewald running in Central Park.
• Carrie Tollefson Interview With Elite Runner And Best Friend Of Gabe Grunewald Ladia Albertson-Junkans
• Tollefson Podcast With A Friend Of Gabe Grunewald’s Who Also Had Super-Rare Cancer
• Interview With Cancer Survivor Who Raised Over $10,000 For The Brave Like Gabe Foundation

Since You Can’t Go To A Movie Theater, You Should Consider Watching This New Feature Film At Home While In Covid-19 Quarantine

LRC Sudanese Refugee Turned Olympian Guor Mading Maker’s Incredible Life Story Is Now A Feature Film: “Runner” 8 of his 9 siblings were killed in the Sudanese Civil War but Guor Maker (née Marial) somehow survived and eventually thrived despite the odds and competed in the 2012 and 2016 Olympic Marathons. Maker is the subject of a new feature-length documentary that will premiere this weekend in conjunction with World Refugee Day. *Click Here To Find Out How To Watch

Christian Coleman Could Miss Olympics After Three Missed Tests But The Drug Tester Didn’t Even Try To Call Him?

LRC World’s Fastest Man May Face An Olympic Ban For Missing Yet Another Drug Test Christian Coleman may be facing a two-year ban, but we’re not sure he should be banned as some significant questions remain about his case. The authorities ADMIT they made no attempt to call Coleman when they could not locate him.
*MB: Christian Coleman facing suspension for three missed tests

AP: Coleman Is Accusing AIU Of Making A “Purposeful Attempt” To Make Him Miss A Test For the test in question, Coleman says he was shopping for Christmas presents near his home and documents show the testers didn’t call him.

European News

• 2021 London Marathon Will Host The GB Olympic Trials This year’s London Marathon was supposed to be the trials before it was postponed until October due to coronavirus. UKA also said there would be no more pre-selections (2:08 man Callum Hawkins is the only man pre-selected and no women were).
• Good Read: Athletics Weekly Interviews GB Sprinter Adam Gemili Gemili talks about training during the coronavirus, proving he’s not “the forgotten man” and about wanting to go into sport governance after he’s done competing.
• Renaud Lavillenie Believes Mondo Duplantis Could Vault 6.25m Talking about Duplantis beating his WR this indoor season, Lavillenie said, “I knew he was a guy who was able to break my record, but I didn’t think he would do it in 2020.”
• Qualifying Standards For 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships Published