Zagreb is Tuesday *TV & Streaming *Schedule

LRC Zagreb Preview: Bryce Hoppel Returns To Action & An Aussie 1500 Showdown Is Set On Tuesday, American Bryce Hoppel will look to earn the first European victory of his career when he takes on a super deep 800 field (8 men under 1:45 this year) in his second outdoor race of the season, while Stewart McSweyn, Matthew Ramsden, & Ryan Gregson square off in a de facto Aussie 1500 champs.

Weekend Distance Results

• MB: 16-Yr Old Rheinhard Harrison comes up well short of 4 – Runs 4:08.65 He’s run 4:01, 4:02 and now 4:08 in recent weeks.
• MB: Sir Mo wins Antrim Coast Half Marathon but falls well short of British Record With 60:27, Lily Partridge wins women’s race in 71:36 Marc Scott ran 60:39 in his debut to finish 2nd and move to No.3 on the UK all-time rankings. Ben Connor was 3rd in 60:55 (#4 all-time UK).
  *MB: What does Farah have to do at the Antrim HM to prove he’s back?
• MB: Huge Upset!! Army Women DOMINATE Syracuse in XC Syracuse men won their race handily. Syracuse’s JP Trojan and Amanda Vestri were the individual winners.
• Slovakia’s Tomas Veszelka Gets Upset TJ Victory Over Christian Taylor In In PTS Meeting In Samorin, Slovakia Veszelka jumped 16.69m to Taylor’s 16.53m. Ukraine’s Anna Ryzhykova ran one of the fastest times in the world this year with a 55.21 win in the 400H.
• MB: 60-Year old Tommy Hughes runs 71:09 to obliterate 60+ half record. A message board poster notes his time is only 35 seconds per mile off the mile age group record and would be the equivalent of a pro man running a half in 55 minutes.
• 2:11:50 And 2:17:01 Win Chaski Challenge Virtual Marathon Relay
  *Pre-Race: Chaski Challenge Virtual Marathon Relay This international team event has eight Olympians with a ton of sub-2:10 and sub-2:33 runners, including Jared Ward and Des Linden.
  *AP Article: Go, Avatar, Go: Icons Track Virtual Team Marathon Progress

Book Review

LRC “From Coal Mine To Finish Line” By James McLatchie McLatchie, one of eight siblings who grew up in a one-room house in Scotland, has lived a very interesting life and spent a lifetime in running, from winning age-group titles as a boy in Scotland, to beating Jim Ryun in the mile, to coaching Olympians. Most recently, at age 77, he and his wife coached a team to the NXN high school national title in the US. That being said, the book isn’t our favorite but maybe worth a purchase for high school coaches as he shares his entire final month of training prior to NXN. *Purchase Here

How Many More Programs Will Covid Cut?

MB: Minnesota Cuts NCAA Men’s Track And Field Program Minnesota has a $123 million athletic budget and a brand new track and field facility but Covid-19 has cost them dearly and they are cutting men’s track, tennis and gymnastics.

More NCAA News:

• Ken Goe: Coronavirus Pandemic Is Forcing College Track And Cross-Country Coaches To Rethink Everything Goe asked some coaches what they thought about the proposed late winter/early spring XC season. Oregon’s Robert Johnson was against it, saying, “Too important a year (with the Olympics) for that in the big picture.”
• Hurricane Laura Takes Toll On McNeese State University Athletics Facilities The Category 4 storm had winds as high as 150 miles per hour and did massive damage to many buildings on the campus.

Ryan Hall Runs His First Ultra + Other Results

• Ryan Hall Has Run Six Times In 2020; One Of Them Was His First Ultramarathon Hall ran the 43-mile Grand Traverse Mountain Run in Colorado in 12 hours, 47 minutes.
• Italy’s Yemaneberhan Crippa Runs European-Leading 3:52.08 Mile; Just Misses NR By .12 Elsewhere, Belarus’ Nastassia Mironchyk-Ivanova won the LJ with 6.94m.
• World LJ Champ Malaika Mihambo Flies To World-Leading 7.03m In Germany Johannes Vetter won the javelin with 86.17m.
• Laura Muir Ran 3:58.24 To Win The 1,500m In Chorzow, Poland
  *World Athletics Recap: Ryan Crouser Wins SP In 22.70m; Daniel Stahl Wins 13th Straight Victory In Discus (67.28m)
• AW Weekly Round-Up

Assorted Distance News

• Mo Farah Is Asking For Pacing Help As He Tries To Break His Own 59:32 British Half Marathon Record This Weekend Kind of strange that this isn’t something that was organized further in advance.
• We Haven’t Heard This Excuse Before: 2:08 Kenyan Marathoner Philip Kangogo Gets 2-Year Drug Ban; Blames Mother’s Dietary Advice Kangogo says he may have accidentally ingested a banned dietary supplement from herbs he had been taking on the advice of his mother.
  *MB: Banned Kenyan marathoner blames mum’s dietary advice
• 2020 USATF 100k Road Championships And 25k Championships Cancelled
• Parkrun Set To Return To England In October After Six-Month Hiatus

Tokyo 2020 News

• IOC Vice President John Coates Says Olympics Will Go Ahead Next Year With Or Without COVID-19 “The Games were going to be, their theme, the ‘Reconstruction Games’ after the devastation of the tsunami. Now very much these will be the Games that conquered COVID, the light at the end of the tunnel.”
  *MB: IOC VP: Covid or no Covid Tokyo 2021 will proceed.
• Japan’s Olympic Minister Seiko Hashimoto Says Tokyo 2020 Should Be Held Next Year “At Any Cost”
• Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee Reports Fourth COVID-19 Positive Among Staff

Brussels DL *Results *TV/Streaming Information

LRC 2020 Memorial Van Damme Recap: Mo Farah Breaks One-Hour World Record, Mondo Duplantis Clears 6.00m Again Mo Farah had accomplished a lot in his career but before tonight he’d never held a track world record.

LRC Sifan Hassan Breaks One-Hour Run World Record At 2020 Memorial Van Damme The battle between the WR holder in the mile and marathon ended up being pretty entertaining even if the pace they were running was modest compared to their own lofty standards.

• RRW: One-Hour World Records Fall at Brussels Diamond League Sifan Hassan: “I didn’t felt good before the start of the race; I even puked. After thirty minutes of racing, I finally felt better. …When there were only two minutes left on the clock, the fun began.”
• The Telegraph: Mo Farah breaks one-hour world record set by Haile Gebrselassie
• World Athletics Recap

Brussels DL Talk On The Message Board

• Official Brussel DL Discussion Thread
• Fair or foul? Brigid Kosgei gets DQd for stepping on rail in 1 hour world record attempt
• Mo Farah Will FAIL in His Quest to Break the One Hour Record
• Is Mo Farah now the GOAT. Farah gets his first WR, taking Haile G’s last track record!
• Why is that strange man running in lane 3 in Brussels.
• Jakob is running the 1500 in Brussels. Will he go under 3:30 again?

WADA Vs. USA Drama

• Reuters: US Threat To Pull WADA Funding Could Leave Americans Out Of Olympics Several governments have urged WADA to introduce legislation that would find the US non-compliant with the WADA code, which would keep US athletes out of international competition. It sounds like they couldn’t do this under current rules, though.
• WADA President Witold Banka Reacts To US Funding Threat; Says WADA Is “Not For Sale” Banka hit back at the US and said he wouldn’t let WADA get sucked into “political attacks and games.”

Bolt And Covid

• Opinion Piece From The Jamaican Observer: “Usain Bolt Should Have Known Better” This writer criticizes Bolt as being “reckless and dangerous” for having a big birthday party ignoring coronavirus regulations.
• Kevin Hart Slams NBC For Mistaking Him For Usain Bolt NBC says a technical error put Hart’s picture instead of Bolt’s on a story about Bolt having coronavirus. Hart joked, “I must of (sic) gotten really fast & tall overnight.”