US Distance News

• Podcast Interview With Kara Goucher In this hour long interview Goucher talks about the ups and downs through her entire career from high school to pro and the Alberto Salazar doping scandal.
• MB: Former NXN Champ Brie Oakley Shares Her Story In this video blog, Oakley talks about struggling with an eating disorder and stress reaction in college.
• MB: Julie Culley has resigned as Georgetown Director of Track and Field/XC
• Podcast Interview With World Mountain Running Champion Joseph Gray Talking about the kneeling debate, Gray said he thinks, “We should all kneel in disrespect of [the national anthem] …because the guy who wrote our anthem was a bigot.”
• Peachtree Road Race Cancelled; Will Be Run Virtually It was initially moved from its July 4th date to Thanksgiving.

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• Kenyan Olympic Javelin Silver Medalist Julius Yego Says He’s Sceptical Of Competing This Year, But Still Has His Eyes On Tokyo 2020 Success Yego says he hasn’t been able to train well with COVID-19: “For track athletes, it’s easier because they can get a road and run, but for a technical sport like javelin, you need to do more – it has been difficult.”
• Jumps/Throws: Former WR Holder Bob Beamon And Olympic Champ Ryan Crouser Headline Induction Class For Texas Track And Field Hall Of Fame
• Video Interview With Two-Time Shot Put World Champion Joe Kovacs
• GB Shot Putter Sophie McKinna Reconsiders And Accepts British Athletics Funding Offer McKinna originally declined the funding because she wanted to continue working as a custody detention officer at a police investigation center.
• RIP Hungary’s Three-Time Olympic Javelin Medalist Gergely Kulcsar, 86

More From Cheptegei

LRC VIP Joshua Cheptegei Video Chat With LetsRun.com Cheptegei spoke to us Tuesday afternoon for 45 minutes about his shocking run. LRC Supporter’s Club members can watch the interview now. Join the LRC Supporters Club to get bonus content, enhanced access, and huge savings on running shoes. We’ll edit the zoom and release it as a podcast next week.

LRC How Joshua Cheptegei Became The World’s Fastest Distance Runner – A Look Back At His Career After 5,000m World Record He first made noise on the senior level by having the biggest blowup we’ve ever seen in a race. Since then he’s won 2 world titles and broken 4 world records.

• World Athletics: “After World 5,000m Record, Joshua Cheptegei Is On Track To Achieve Global Domination” “My ambition is to dominate the track for the next five or six years.”
• Joshua Cheptegei: “This record is a special moment for me and I like to thank Kenenisa for his inspiration.” On Instagram, Cheptegei replied to Bekele, saying, “You are forever my all time role model and idol. Your career inspires me the most. I am forever grateful to emulate and follow your footsteps.”

Assorted Distance News

• Beers, Bomb Suits And Blue Jeans: The 13 Weirdest Mile Run Records Known To Man Anthony Famiglietti has two of the records, but it isn’t the fastest mile in Death Valley wearing a Darth Vader suit.
• AIU Announces Sanction For Ukrainian Olympic Marathoner Vitaliy Shafar Shafar got a ban of 3 years and 7 months for a Athlete Biological Passport violation, but it started back in 2017 so he can compete again at the end of this month.
• Paula Radcliffe Looks Back And Reflects On The Athens 2004 Olympic Marathon Radcliffe famously DNFed this race after being the huge favorite, but admits if it hadn’t been the Olympics, she never would have taken the starting line. Includes podcast and written article.
• Short Interview Catching Up With Emma Coburn Coburn explains how she ended up as Christian Taylor‘s vice president for the Athletics Association.

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 which 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 1,500m where Aussie Oliver Hoare (3:34.63) and Cory McGee (4:03.64) were the winners. McGee just beat 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.

More Monaco Coverage

• Jakob Ingebrigtsen Eclipses European 1,500m 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 5,000m (#2 GB All-Time Behind Paula Radcliffe)
• Laura Muir Breaks British 1,000m 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 1,000m 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.