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Quote Of The Day

“I told the NCAA yesterday when they asked me if we could host in March, I said, ‘yeah, our term paper’s ready to be turn in and now you want us to extend to March. We can do that, but we could do it right now.’ So that’s kind of how I feel about it. …We are going to figure out some way to have a competitive season this fall, and then maybe a NCAA championship season in the winter or spring. So I told them, we are going to run a 10,000-meter race with the men, and 6,000-meter race for the women on our our home course on Nov. 21 – the date of the national championship – whether it’s just us or us and a couple other schools in a scrimmage or in some limited season that does not burn eligibility. We’re gonna have some competitive opportunity on that date and hopefully some others to go on with it.”

– Oklahoma State coach Dave Smith reacting to the NCAA’s decision to cancel all fall sport championships (OSU was supposed to host NCAA XC Champs this year).

Music City Distance Carnival Results Live Stream

16-Year-Old Rheinhardt Harrison Runs 4:01.34 At Music City Distance Carnival He broke Edward Cheserek‘s sophomore class record (Harrison is a rising junior) and finished 7th in the race was won by Harvard grad Kieran Tuntivate in a Thailand NR of 3:57.87.

MB: Music City Distance Carnival Discussion Thread The best times of the night came in the 1500m where Aussie Oliver Hoare (3:34.63) and Cory McGee (4:03.64) were the winners. McGee just beat out Emma Coburn by .18. Michael Saruni won the 800m in 1:46.13. and Ce’Aira Brown took the women’s race in 2:00.31.

Pre-Meet Monaco Coverage

LRC 2020 Monaco DL Preview: The 2020 Olympics Is Happening On Friday In Monaco What a meet! Sifan Hassan, Donavan Brazier, Noah Lyles, Joshua Cheptegei and many more stars will all compete in the best track meet of 2020 – in front of real live fans – on Friday in Monaco.
LRC World Champions Donavan Brazier & Noah Lyles Speak Ahead Of Monaco Diamond League Find out which double Brazier wants to attempt (hint: it’s not the 800/1,500), why he’d like to stay in Europe for a while, and what Lyles has been doing to get closer to Usain Bolt‘s 200m WR.
LRC Joshua Cheptegei Is Going For The 5,000 WR In Monaco – Can He Break It? Kenenisa Bekele‘s 12:37.35 WR has stood for 16+ years. the longest time for the men’s 5k record in history, but Cheptegei, the 10k & XC world champ, is 100% committed to trying to break it in Monaco on Friday. Can he do it? We break down his chances for you.
Podcast: Monaco Diamond League Preview + Guest Ok State Coach Dave Smith on NCAA XC 2020 Believe it or not NCAA XC practice is underway and the biggest one day track meet of 2020 is here.

Monaco MB Talk

Mid-Week Action

18-Year-Old Max Burgin Runs British Under-20 Record With 1:44.75 At British Milers’ Club Meet Burgin improved his own age group record of 1:45.36 which he ran last year.
*MB: Max Burgin 18year Old 1:44.75 800m…WOW
MB:Elle Purrier 4:00.77, Heather MacLean 2:00.29 in time trials
Andrew Pozzi Sets 110H World Lead And Breaks Meet Record At Paavo Nurmi Games With 13.17 GB’s Melissa Courtney-Bryant won the women’s 1,500m in 4.03.69 as Finland’s Topi Raitanen won the men’s steeple in 8:22.45.
Germany’s Johannes Vetter Throws 91.49m Javelin World Lead At The Paavo Nurmi Games

USATF News

USATF Foundation Celebrates $6.7 Million In Elite Grants Awarded To Athletes Since 2006 Over 14 years they’ve given $6.7 million to 406 athletes (so average of about $16,600 per athlete).
USATF Announces Partnership Renewal With Hershey’s

2020 London Is Set – Will It Be Great?

LRC Now That Kipchoge Vs. Bekele Is Set, The Question Is – Are They In Shape? How have the greatest marathoner and greatest distance runner in history been training during the pandemic? Where is their fitness two months before London? Superagent Jos Hermens gives us the inside scoop.
*MB: Bekele vs Kipchoge is on!! But will either one of them be in shape?

The Big Friendly 4

Nijel Amos Wins Tactical 800m Over In 1:49.23 Josh Kerr (1:49.29) At The Big Friendly 4
*Results Chanelle Price won the women’s 800m in 2:02.93. Ben Blankenship ran 7:56.53 to win the 3,000m over Chris Derrick (8:05.91). *Full Meet Broadcast

AAU Junior Olympics

Yahoo Sports:Is Erriyon Knighton The Next Usain Bolt? 16-Year-Old Runs 20.33 For 200m At AAU Junior Olympics Knighton broke an age group national record. For comparison, Bolt ran 20.13 a month before he turned 17.
*MileSplit Article The time was also a US sophomore class record.
MileSplit:AAU Junior Olympic Games Day 3: Records Start Falling *Day 2*Day 1
AAU Junior Olympics Are Going On In Satellite Beach, Florida

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.

Monaco Lived Up To The Hype TV & StreamingResults

LRC Joshua Cheptegei Runs 12:35.36 To Break 5,000-Meter World Record in Monaco Move over Kenenisa Bekele. The world record now belongs to Joshua Cheptegei.

LRC Full Meet Recap Rest of Monaco: A Crazy Fast 1500, Brazier & Hoppel 1-2 in 800, Kipyegon Scares WR, & Hassan Drops Out What a meet. A European record for Jakob Ingebrigtsen in the 1500, a near world record for Faith Kipyegon in the women’s 1k, a 1-2 finish by Americans Donavan Brazier and Bryce Hoppel in the 800, and much more.

VIP OnlyMonaco Joshua Cheptegei 12:35.36 Video Recap ShowWhat a track meet!

Monaco On The Boards:

More Monaco Coverage

Jakob Ingebrigtsen Eclipses European 1500m Record With 3:28.68 In Monaco The 19-year-old (now #8 on the world all-time list) broke Mo Farah’s European record of 3:28.81 which was set in the same stadium seven years ago.
Jake Wightman Storms To UK #2 All-Time With 3:29.47 Mo Farah is the only Brit to have run faster.
GB’s Laura Weightman Impresses With 14:35.44 In Monaco 5000m (#2 GB All-Time Behind Paula Radcliffe)
Laura Muir Breaks British 1000m Best With 2:30.82 In Monaco She broke Kelly Holmes‘ record of 2:32.55 from 1997.
Ciara Mageean Smashes Sonia O’Sullivan’s 27-Year-Old 1000m Irish Record Mageean ran 2:31.06 to break O’Sullivan’s 2:34.66 mark from 1993.
World Athletics Monaco Recap

More Monaco DL News

Good News:BBC Signs Last Minute TV Deal To Get Diamond League Meets Live Streamed In Britain There was outrage after a a report a couple days ago that revealed World Athletics had failed to secure a British broadcaster so Brits wouldn’t be able to watch the meets live. *2nd Article
Joshua Cheptegei’s WR Dream Still Alive After Weeks Of Arguing With The Ugandan Government To Allow International Travel
World Athletics Preview:Global Champions And World Record Holders Head To Monaco As Diamond League Action Resumes Donavan Brazier is excited to be racing international again saying, “I didn’t realize how much I missed coming to Europe and seeing all the athletes – it’s sort of like a mini-world championships.”
The UK Government Issued Elite Athlete Travel Exemptions Preventing Elite Athletes From Having To Quarantine
BBC Preview: Adam Gemili Takes On World Champ Noah Lyles In Monaco

The Shoes Have Ruined The Sport

World Athletics Issues Reminder About Their Amended Shoe Rules Which Went Into Affect Two Weeks Ago The new rules set a maximum sole height limit of 25mm for track events 800m and above. This means that road shoes with a higher sole height like the Nike Vaporfly can’t be worn for track races. However, anyone who ran a time or set a record before the rule came in effect two weeks ago will be grandfathered in.
*2nd Article Cross-Country also has a maximum sole height limit of 25mm.

Monaco Diamond League Is Friday

Monaco Provisional Entry Lists There is a solid women’s 5,000m with Sifan Hassan, Hellen Obiri, Letesenbet Gidey, Shannon Rowbury and Konstanze Klosterhalfen. The men’s 1,500m should also be good with Timothy Cheruiyot, Jakob and Filip Ingebrigsten and Craig Engels. The men’s 5,000 has Joshua Cheptegei, Julien Wanders and Henrik Ingebrigsten; Soufiane El Bakkali in the steeple. Brits Laura Muir and Jemma Reekie are in the 1,000m with Raevyn Rogers and Faith Kipyegon.
*MB: DL Monaco entries are up

World Athletics Fail:British Viewers Won’t Be Able To Watch The Diamond League Live This Year Eurosport opted not to extend its contract when it expired last year and World Athletics hasn’t secured a new British broadcaster. (The BBC can show meet highlights only.)
NBC Sports’ Five Events To Watch At The Monaco DL Three of the five on their list are distance races.
Meet Director Jean-Pierre Schoebel Talks About Putting On The Monaco DL Through The Covid-19 Pandemic “We’ve never worked as hard as this year. I can’t tell you how difficult the situation has been.”

OAC Full Team Revealed – Monson & Hoare Added To The Mix

LRC Full On Athletics Club Roster Announced, Led By NCAA Champs Geordie Beamish & Alicia Monson On has announced more NCAA signings this summer than every other shoe company combined. We reveal the full squad and analyze the roster, which is made up of 6 NCAA champs (4 DI) and led by Joe Klecker, Ollie Hoare, and Alicia Monson.

Covid Needs To Back Off

Olympic And World Steeplechase Champ Conseslus Kipruto Tests Positive For Coronavirus; Will Miss Monaco Diamond League Meet Kipruto says he doesn’t have any symptoms and was planning on going for the WR. *Discuss

Track Results – Last BTC Time Trial

MB:BTC Time Trial – Mo Ahmed Runs 5:00.72 For 2,000m; Shelby Houlihan Runs 2:01.08 For 800m Over Karissa Schweizer’s 2:02.77 This one was much more tame than BTC’s previous time trials.
*Full Results You’ll notice some bizarre results like Matt Centrowitz running 3:03 for 800m. These results are athletes fulfilling contract obligations. For more of an explanation on that, read our article here: Why Did Michael Norman Run 9.86 – And Then Races Four More Times? A Look At How COVID-19 Is Affecting Elite Track & Field Contracts
*MB:BTC Ran The 2000m As An Elimination Race

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

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RIP NCAA Fall Sports

MB:It’s Official: There Will Be No NCAA Championships This Fall This was pretty much already a given for XC as more than 50% of the teams had cancelled their fall season and the NCAA was requiring at least that to hold NCAA Championships.
Big Sky Postpones All Fall Sports Until Spring 2021
Big 10 Cancels Fall Sports
*MB: Big Ten cancels football season
MB: NCAA DI Cancellation threshold
MB: Is NCAA fall XC going to be totally wiped out? B1G just cancelled football and P5 will follow

More Upcoming Action

August 23:Strong Cast Of World And Olympic Champions Confirmed For Stockholm DL Highlights will include all three 800m medalists from 2019 worlds, Donavan Brazier, Amel Tuka and Ferguson Rotich.
August 19:World 110H Champ Grant Holloway Will Take On Pascal Martinot-Lagarde At The Gyulai Memorial In Hungary The 200m is also good with Kenny Bednarek (who recently ran 19.80), US indoor record holder Elijah Hall and African 100m champ Akani Simbine.
August 25:Five European Champions Confirmed For Janusz Kusocinski Memorial In Poland Polish rivals Marcin Lewandowski and Adam Kszczot are in the 800m along with Kenya’s world bronze medalist Ferguson Cheruiyot Rotich.

North American Sprint Action

US’s Kenny Bednarek Blazes 19.80 200m World Lead In Florida Less than an hour before he took third in the 100m (10.02, wind assisted) which was won by Trayvon Bromell in 9.87 over Justin Gatlin (10.02). Sha’Carri Richardson won the women’s 100m in a slightly wind-assisted 10.83 after running a wind-legal 10.95 in the prelims. She went on to win the 200m in the #2 time this year with 22.00. *Results
Elaine Thompson Runs Season’s Best 200m With 22.19 In Kingston Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce also won her section in 22.57. This followed their 10.87 (SAFP) and 10.88 (Thompson) from the day before and once again, it’s pretty lame that these two aren’t being put head-to-head.
After Weekend Sprint Double, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Optimistic About 2021

European Results

Johannes Vetter Highlights German Championships With European-Leading 87.36m Javelin Win
Sweden’s World Champ Daniel Stahl Throws 71.37m World Leading Discus
Switzerland’s Simon Ehammer Sets World Decathlon Lead Of 8231 Points
AW Weekly Round-Up British indoor 400m champ Jessie Knight moved to 10th on the UK all-time 400H list with 55.27 at the Brussels Grand Prix.

Fast Sprint Action In Jamaica

World Athletics Weekend Recap: Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce And Elaine Thompson Drop Fast 100m Times At The Velocity Fest Meet In Jamaica World 100m champ Fraser-Pryce won her section in 10.87 while Olympic champ Thompson-Herah won the second section in 10.88. A real shame they weren’t in the same race.

Road Results: Sara Hall Sets Half Marathon PR

Sara Hall Runs 68:17 Half Marathon PR (6th On The US All-Time List) Hall ran the race on a bike path in Oregon with just her and two male pacers. She says she’s really encouraged by the PR as she prepares for a fall marathon (which she couldn’t name, but is likely London). *Discuss

Marc Scott Breaks British National Record With 13:20 At The Podium 5k In The UK Triathlete Beth Potter won the women’s race in 15:24 (5th UK all-time).
*MB: Marc Scott new British record for road 5k

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.”

LetsRun.com Founders Named as Two of “The 50 Most Influential People in Running”