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MB: Bob Beamon move over. Valarie Allman PRs by almost 10 feet to shatter US discus record by more than 3 feet!! The two-time US champ Allman PRd by 9’11” to set a new Amercan record of 70.15 (230′ 2″).

On – The Swiss Running Brand – Gets Into Pro Running In A Big Way

LRC On Establishes Pro Group in Boulder to Be Coached by Dathan Ritzenhein; Joe Klecker Is Group’s First Signing The group will be called the On Athletics Club and features eight athletes (the remainder will be announced soon) led by Joe Klecker, who was signed before Ritz and given veto power over the coach of the group. Klecker will make his pro debut at the Music City Distance Carnival on August 15 and Ritz says he’s in incredible shape. “I did that exact workout at sea level a month before I ran 12:56 and broke the American record…He’s doing the kind of quality work that I was doing at my best.”
*MB: Breaking: On is starting a new training group in Boulder coached by Dathan Ritzenhein and headlined by Joe Klecker

Sprint Stuff

Great News:False Alarm As Wayde Van Niekerk’s Second COVID-19 Test Turns Up Negative Unfortunately he still wasn’t able to compete in the Italian meet on Saturday which would have been his first international meet since 2017.
*Apparently Members From Van Niekerk’s Group Claim The 400m Star Never Tested Positive
August 23:Tokyo Olympic Stadium To Host The Seiko Golden GP; 100m Field Will Have Five Of The 11 Fastest Japanese Men Of All-Time Yoshihide Kiryū, the first Japanese man to go under 10-seconds (9.98), leads the field.
Noah Lyles On Christian Coleman’s Suspension: “You are just hoping for a little more responsibility. It hurts because we want to go to Tokyo and aim for the (4×100) world record.” Lyles says the whereabouts system has been “pretty easy” for him, although he admits to missing two tests in his career (in separate years).
A Look Back At The Career Of Carl Lewis The writer has some very high praise for Lewis.

The Olympics Needs An MVP

LRC The Olympic Track & Field MVPs, Part II: 1964-2016 The 2020 Olympic track and field action was supposed to begin this week and we’re feeling nostalgic. Football has a Super Bowl MVP. Baseball has a World Series MVP. We need to have an Olympic MVP. Today, we name an Olympic MVP for every Olympics from 1964 to 2016.
*MB: Let the debate begin. Here are our Olympic MVPs from 1896 to 2016.

LRC The Olympic Track & Field MVPs, Part I: 1896-1960

Sprint Stuff

Usain Bolt Says He Would Understand If His Daughter, Olympia Lightning, Chose Not To Follow His Path Into Track “It will be more difficult for her, because she will be in comparison with me. But if she wants to do it, I’ll support her.”
Ato Boldon On Wayde Van Niekerk:“You can look at a bunch of people that ran a PR in the beginning of their careers, like Bolt, or in the middle of their careers, like many other people, and never got back there. Sometimes the planets don’t align again.”
Sydney McLaughlin Features In Gatorade “Ready To Play Anything” Ad
World Athletics Talks To A Bunch Of African Sprinters, Including Wayde Van Niekerk, About How They’ve Been Impacted By Coronavirus
CJ Ujah Among Sprinters Announced For British Championships In September The event has been postponed twice, but is schedules for September 4-5 behind closed doors.

Pre-Meet News From Oregon

Donavan Brazier Gunning For A Fast Time And Maybe Even A Record In Today’s Portland Track Popup Meet Brazier might be trying to break his own 1:42.34 American record which he set last year at Worlds. The other events should be good as well with Craig Engels, Hassan Mead and Josh Kerr in the men’s 1,500, Shannon Rowbury in the women’s 1,500 and Brenda Martinez, Chanelle Price and Nia Akins in the women’s 800. *Meet Info
*LRC Official Thread Brazier Predictions
*MB:BTC & Portland Track Holding Separate Meets this Friday (7/31)

More Oregon News:

Ken Goe:“Long Hours, Short Nights And Ulcers: Portland Track Defies The Coronavirus To Stage Elite Meets” Portland Track president Michael Bergmann on BTC doing their own thing: “[Jerry Schumacher] knows what we’re doing. But they’ve been pretty successful doing it their way. He has his plan. I’m not going to beg him.”
Good Read:Portland Track’s Jeff Merrill Gives A Behind The Scenes Look At The Setup And Execution Of The Big Friendly 2 Includes a lot of great photos from the races and middle-of-nowhere setting.
Good For Them:The Scandia Run In Oregon Is Going Ahead Despite Coronavirus The race will be following social distancing guidelines and can accommodate as many as 600 runners.

Upcoming Action: Brazier Headed To Monaco

Donavan Brazier, World Steeple Champ Beatrice Chepkoech And Grant Holloway Announced For Monaco Diamond League Double Olympic sprint champion Elaine Thompson-Herah has also been confirmed for Monaco.
*MB: BRAZIER Confirmed for Monaco!!!
Portland Track Is Planning Another Popup Meet, This Time With Free Live Streaming Ken Goe writes that he thinks it will be Friday at an undisclosed location in the Portland area.
World TJ Bronze Medalist Hugues Fabrice Zango And World LJ Silver Medalist Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk Announced For Hungary World Athletics Meet On August 19 African record holder Zango will be up against Christian Taylor and Pedro Pablo Pichardo.

Trouble In Ethiopia

Haile Gebrselassie Demands Justice From The Ethiopian Government After Two Of His Hotels Were Burned Down As Part Of An Ethnic Uprising Gebrselassie estimated the properties were valued at over $8 million.
*MB: Haile G’s Hotels Are Burned Down as More Than 200 Are Killed in Ethnic Uprising in Ethiopia

Fast Sprinting In Clermont, FL *Live Results

Noah Lyles Runs 19.94 To Beat World 400m Champ Steven Gardiner’s 19.96 (Running In Different Heats) On Day 2 In Clermont In the women’s race, Shaunae Miller-Uibo dropped a world-leading 21.98. Grant Holloway ran 13.35 to beat Devon Allen in the 110H prelims by .01 (Holloway won the final in 13.46; Allen skipped).

Shaunae Miller-Uibo Dips Under 11 Seconds As Trayvon Bromell Beats Noah Lyles In Prelims With 9.90 (Lyles Wins Final In 9.93) Bromell ran 9.90 to in the heats (Lyles ran 10.04), but Bromell skipped the final, leaving Lyles to win over Andre De Grasse (9.97). Miller-Uibo won the final in 10.98 after running 11.03 in the heats. Akeem Bloomfield won the 400m in 45.07.
*MB: Clermont Track Meet #2: Noah Lyles, Michael Norman, and more. Live updates

European Non-Distance Stars

Kind Of Cool: Ivona Dadic Smashes The 6,000-Point Barrier In One-Hour Heptathlon In Amstetten Afterwards she said, “A normal heptathlon in two days is exhausting, a one-hour heptathlon hurts incredibly. But when I see my performance, the pain is gone in one fell swoop.”
The Netherlands’ World U20 Champ Femke Bol Runs European-Leading 51.13 In The 400m
World 400H Champ Karsten Warholm Eying The Long Standing European 400m Record When He Races In Stockholm Next Month The record is 44.33 (by East Germany’s Thomas Schonlebe from 1987) and Warholm’s best is 44.87 from 2017.

Distance News

MB: Elle Purrier Runs 4:01 1,500m Time Trial
Billy Mills Reflects On His Epic Victory At The 1964 Tokyo Olympics Mills talks about overcoming being an orphan from a young age, type 2 diabetes, suicidal thoughts and racism to win Olympic gold.
MB:Joshua Cheptegei Runs Solo 7:41 3,000m Time Trial Before Monaco
MB:Al Carius Steps Down As North Central College Coach

We’ve Brought John Kellogg Out Of Retirement – Our Summer Training Program Is Back

LRCHigh Schoolers And College Runners- Train Smarter This Summer With The LetsRun.com Summer Training Program If you aren’t sure what you should be doing for summer training and want to be your best this fall, sign up for our summer training program. Get a daily training schedule, interact with our team, and be your best this fall.

Weekend Recap

Full World Athletics Weekend Recap

MB: Bob Beamon move over. Valarie Allman PRs by almost 10 feet to shatter US discus record by more than 3 feet!! She PRd by nearly 10 feet – 9 feet 11 inches to be exact – to set a new US record of 70.15 (230′ 2″).
MB: Jemma Reekie runs 1:59.52 to edge Laura Muir (1:59.54) in Italy as four break 2:00 in Italy
*Athletics Weekly Recap
MB: 1:44.81 Edose Ibadin – District Track Club
Katie Nageotte vaults 4.92, takes a few good cracks at AR
Germany’s Johannes Vetter Wins Javelin At The Kuortane Games With A European-Leading 86.94m
18 year old Elina Tzengko of Greece breaks U20 javelin record with 63.96m.

The Big Friendly 3 / BTC Intrasquad IV *Results

LRC Donavan Brazier Runs 1:43.84 In His 800 Opener; Bowerman TC Breaks World, American 4 X 1,500 Records In his first 800 in 304 days, the 2019 world champ split 50.80 for the first lap and 53.04 for the 2nd.
*MB: Schweizer > Houlihan in 4 x 1500 – 4:04 vs 4:05? The BTC women’s splits appear to be 4:07 for Quigey, 4:10 for Cranny, 4:04 for Schweizer and 4:05 for Houlihan. Grant Fisher had the fastest men’s split at 3:36.

MB Discussion

We Wish Them A Speedy Recovery

400m World Record Holder Wayde Van Niekerk Tests Positive For Coronavirus Van Niekerk was supposed to run the 100m and 400m at a meet in Italy, but will have to sit out and quarantine after testing positive for COVID-19. *MB: Van Niekerk Covid positive

Flagstaff Running Community Launches Run With Rivs Fundraiser For Local Legend Tommy Rivers Puzey, Who Is Battling A Rare Form Of Cancer You can participate by logging (or donating to) an endurance challenge anytime through August 9. All funds go to the Puzey family.

LetsJump.com

World Athletics Podcast Interview With Mondo Duplantis Duplantis talks about the road to Tokyo and his record breaking indoor season.
Spain’s Pablo Torrijos Breaks Spanish Outdoor Triple Jump Record With 17.09m He already had the indoor record at 17.18m.

Olympic News

Qatar Hoping To Host The 2032 Olympics Qatar has been trying to host more and more sporting events, holding Worlds last year and the World Cup in 2022.
Opinion Piece: “It Is Absurd To Think About The 2032 [Olympics] Until Covid-19 Is Subdued” There may be legitimate reasons not to talk about who’s hosting the 2032 Games this early, but we don’t think coronavirus is at the top of that list.
Tokyo Olympics Marathon Course To Be Measured By End of Year, Test Event Planned For Sometime In Spring
Original Drawing Of Olympic Rings Sketched By Baron Pierre De Couterin Sells For $216,000 At Auction
Japanese Politician Says It’d Be Possible To Hold The Olympics Without Spectators There is also apparently talk of having the Opening Ceremony with one representative from each country rather than a large group marching.
AP: Tokyo Olympics Seek COVID-19 Defenses, But What Exactly?
Japan To Consider Easing Travel Restrictions For Tokyo 2020 Athletes
Paris 2024 Organizers Give Progress Updates At IOC Session

World Athletics Event News

Brussels Diamond League To Be Held Behind Closed Doors On September 4th Organizers explained that the Belgian government hasn’t decided if fans can return to stadiums so they’re erring on the side of caution.
New Dates Set For World Athletics Series Events Postponed Due To Coronavirus The 2020 World U20 Championships in Nairobi, Kenya have been moved to August 17-22 August 2021.

World Athletics Amends Shoe Rules; Opens Olympic Road Qualifying Early

World Athletics Updates Shoe Rules; Extends Maximum Height Limits To Track Spikes The 30mm maximum sole height for track spikes has been reduced to 25mm for 800m and above and 20mm for events under 800m. The new rules also add an “Athletic Shoe Availability Scheme” for unsponsored athletes, giving more specific requirements on shoes being reasonably available to athletes.
RRW:World Athletics Announces Olympic Qualification Window Reopens For Road Athletes September 1 This is three months earlier than the December 1 date originally announced. However the suspension on qualification for track events until December 1 remains.
World Athletics Statement One rule change stated that manufactures must “commit to making the new shoe available via a scheme to provide shoes to unsponsored elite athletes for free and/or for purchase …”

Irish Distance News

Ciara Mageean Becomes First Irish Woman To Break The 2-Minute Barrier In The 800m She broke her PR by over a second with 1.59.69 to win her race in Bern, Switzerland to break the 7-year-old 2:00.58 national record.
Top Irish Marathoner Stephen Scullion Says Nike Vaporfly Shoes Have “Ruined The Sport” “But if you don’t wear them, don’t expect to be competitive or you have to be three minutes fitter than everybody else and that’s impossible.”

Kenyan Doping News

Elijah Manangoi Speaks: Says His Missed Tests Were All In 2019 And Had “Nothing To Do With Prohibited Substances” “Last year was the worst period of my career when I was upset through injury which impacted everything on and off the track. I know I’ve let people down, in particular my coach and fellow athletes, and I also know that no matter what I say here I’ll be criticized.”
Separately From Manangoi, The AIU Also Suspended Kenyan Marathoners Kenneth Kiprop Kipkemoi And Mercy Jerotich Kibarus

Sprint / Field News

Wayde Van Niekerk Wants To Set An “Untouchable” 400m World Record As His Legacy Talking about his injury from rugby, he says it was a big mistake to play as his body was “conditioned for running straight – not zig-zags.”
MB:Allyson Felix and Usain Bolt are featured in a commercial for Sam’s Club. What do you think?
Video Interview: Russian LJer Daria Klishina Says She’s Received Escort Offers Via Instagram
Hungary’s Bence Halasz Throws World-Leading 78.86m In The Hammer

Miling Legends Pay Tribute To Jim Ryun

LRCBehind The Scenes: An Inside Look At Jim Ryun’s Presidential Medal Of Freedom Celebration Hear what mile legends Alan Webb, Matthew Centrowitz, Seb Coe and Steve Cram had to say about Jim Ryun when he was honored with the highest US civilian honor last Friday. Centrowitz said of Ryun, “He’s a legend everywhere” whereas Coe called him an inspiration and the “greatest prep athlete of all time, in front of LeBron James and Tiger Woods.”

Doping News

2:05:26 Moroccan Marathon Runner El Mahjoub Dazza Gets 4-Year Doping Ban The AIU found anomalies in his Athlete Biological Passport.
The International Testing Agency Confirms A Significant Fall In Sample Collection And Testing During The Pandemic Out-of-competition sample collection dropped by an average of 63.2% and in-competition tests by up to 100% between March and June.
Russia’s Former European HJ Champ Alexander Shustov Appeals Against CAS Decision To Uphold His 4-Year Ban
Mexico’s Olympic Silver Medalist Racewalker Maria Guadalupe Gonzalez Romero Facing False Evidence Charge After the AIU banned her for testing positive for a steroid and then submitted forged documents trying to blame the test on contaminated meat. *AP Article
WADA Extends Suspension Of New Delhi Lab For Up To Six Months After The Facility Failed To Correct Non-Conformities

Distance Running Podcasts And Interviews

Carrie Tollefson Interviews Karissa Schweizer On Her 14:26 And More
Podcast Interview With Legendary Distance Coach, Bob Larsen In part 1 Larsen talks about his career and training philosophies including why he’s a proponent of threshold runs. Part 2 of the interview talks about coaching Meb Keflezighi and altitude training.
Video Interview With 2019 NXN Runner-Up And 2020 Gatorade Athlete Of The Year Taylor Ewert “Running with the Toad” does an interesting format where they conduct the interview while on a run.
Interview: Abdi Abdirahman Speaks About His Life And Running Career From His Family’s Journey From Somalia All The Way To The 2020 Trials
Podcast Interview With World Mountain Running Champion Grayson Murphy Murphy delves into winning the world and US championships, having a boyfriend that is a pro Nordic skier and dealing with eating disorders.

XC News

MB: World Athletics proposes that cross country return to the 2024 Olympics as a mixed gender 4 x 2.5km race
MB: Australia’s World XC organizing committee recommends that the 2021 World XC champs be postponed March is a LONG way off. As of now, the event is still on the calendar.
Dartmouth XC/T&F – Barry Harwick ’77 Retires At 65 After 28 Years

Throwback Thursday #16 LRC I Was Bored, So I Watched The 2005 NCAA Cross-Country Championships After three straight runner-up finishes, Jerry Schumacher, Simon Bairu, Chris Solinsky, and the Wisconsin Badgers broke through to win their first title in 17 years. Plus a women’s race packed with future stars.

London Is Still The Last Major Left Standing

Are They Delaying The Inevitable Or Do We Dare To Dream? London Marathon Decision Due By August 7 The decision was supposed to be made July 28th, but an announcement has been delayed another 10 days. Race director Hugh Brasher said they are coming up with “innovative ways” to socially distance the event.
London Marathon Organizers Hopeful Of Staging Elite Race For Olympic Qualification In October With Boston, Berlin, New York and Chicago all cancelled, London could be one of the few opportunities elites will have this fall to qualify for Tokyo.

Distance Action

LRC Rhode Island High Schooler Darius Kipyego Runs U.S. #3 800 (1:48.82) Kipyego, a rising junior at St. Raphael Academy in Pawtucket, earned Pan Am U20 silver last year by running 1:49.46.

Cory McGee, Dani Jones And Emma Coburn Become First American Trio To Run Sub-4:24 In The Same Race At Team Boss Indiana Mile McGee won in a world-leading 4:21.81 (#8 US all-time outdoors) while Tripp Hurt won the men’s race in 3:56.18 over Nick Harris (3:57.11) and Mason Ferlic (3:58.87). *Discuss *Results
MB:Jessica Hull Runs 8:41 For 3000m In Terrible Conditions

More Dates To Cross Off Your Calendar

Shanghai Diamond League Cancelled After Chinese Government Suspends All International Sporting Events For The Rest Of The Year Shanghai was originally rescheduled for September 19th. It is now the sixth DL meet to be completely cancelled.
RRW: Drake Relays Officially Cancelled Drake was originally scheduled for April 22-25 and postponed without a new date when coronavirus hit. Now it’s been completely cancelled.
RRW: Marine Corps Marathon Forced To Cancel The race was scheduled for October 25th. Runners can defer their entry to request a refund.
Gateshead Grand Prix Cancelled Because Stadium Renovations Won’t Be Complete The meet was rescheduled for September because of coronavirus, but now it’s been cancelled all together after coronavirus restrictions delayed renovations.
Nanjing World Athletics Continental Tour Meeting Cancelled

Olympics-Related News

Tokyo 2020 President Yoshiro Mori Says Fans Are Essential For The Olympics Thomas Bach suggested reducing the number of fans at the Games, but Mori sais Bach’s comments were a “worst case scenario.”
AP:From Zeus To Athens, How The Modern Olympics Came To Be The Associated Press takes a look back at some highlights from the first modern Olympics in Athens in 1896.
Japan Airlines To Give Away 100,000 Free Domestic Tickets During Postponed Tokyo 2020 Games The goal is to encourage tourism in other areas of Japan. the same incentive was offered before the Games were delayed.
Former Assistant US Attorney Appointed USOPC Chief Ethics And Compliance Officer Holly Shick is the first to take on this new position created in response to abuse scandals.
US Olympic And Paralympic Museum To Open On July 30th In Colorado Springs

Trail / Ultra News

Praying For Him And His Family:Pro Trail Runner And Marathoner Tommy Rivers Puzey Battling A Rare Form Of Lung Cancer Puzey has been hospitalized since early July as doctors struggled at first to figure out what the source of respiratory problems were. There is a GoFundMe page to help him and his family with medical costs.
*MB: Tommy Rivs in ICU?
MB:Jim Walmsley going for Kilian Jornet’s Hardrock 100 Record, by himself July 22nd An unconfirmed report says Walmsley dropped out of the attempt.
Kyle Curtin Sets The Unsupported FKT For The Tahoe Rim Trail He ran the 165-mile route in 41 hours and 9 minutes, the unsupported record and second fastest time ever on the trail. The women’s FKT was also broken twice with Candice Burt ending up with the unsupported record with two days, 12 hours and 47 minutes.
British Ultra Runner James Stewart Runs FKT (Fastest Known Time) For The John Muir Way (134 Mile Coast-To-Coast Route Across Scotland) He ran 21:53:22, beating the previous record of 29:29:00.