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Tweet Of The Day

Outdoor world record for @mondohoss600 in Rome!! https://t.co/vB9oGR9Pyn pic.twitter.com/rbIacCjAw7
— LetsRun.com (@letsrundotcom) September 17, 2020

After failing 14 times this summer, Mondo Duplantis got the outdoor WR today in Rome.

MB: Mondo Duplantis Another World Record

Rome Diamond League Full ResultsTV & Streaming

MB: Official 2020 Rome DL Live Discussion Thread

LRC Mondo Duplantis Clears 6.15m In Rome To Break Outdoor Pole Vault World Record Duplantis now owns the world records indoors and outdoors, as after failing 14 times at the WR height this summer, he got the job done on #15. And he is still only 20 years old.
*MB: Mondo Duplantis Another World Record

LRC Jacob > Jakob: Kiplimo Tops Ingebrigtsen, 7:26 To 7:27, In Fast 3K Showdown In Rome The much-hyped duel between the youngsters didn’t disappoint, while Stewart McSweyn ran 7:28 to take down Craig Mottram‘s Australian record.
*MB: Jakob ran a 7.27,05 3000m tonight in Rome. What do do think about that?
*MB: Official 2020 Rome DL Live Discussion Thread – Jakob vs Jacob —We’re about to find out who’s better over 3000
*MB: Jakob Ingebrigtsen is NOT even the Best 19 Year Old Runner Named Jakob/Jacob

LRC Karsten Warholm & The Greatest 400-Meter Hurdles Season Ever Yet again, Warholm gave the WR a scare but came up a bit short tonight in Rome. Prior to this year, no man had run 47.10 or faster more than once in a season. Warholm has now done it four times in the last 35 days.

More From The Weekend

Fast Sprint Performances Highlight Swiss And French Championships Jason Joseph set a Swiss record in the 110H with 13.29 while William Reais ran the #2 all-time 200m with 20.24. Renaud Lavillenie won his 10th French outdoor pole vault title with a 5.80m clearance ahead of his younger brother Valentin at 5.70m and at the Spanish championships, Esther Guerrero pulled off a notable double, winning the 800m (2:06.23) and 1,500m (4:23.47) in the space of 15 minutes.
Slovakia’s Tomas Veszelka Gets Upset TJ Victory Over Christian Taylor 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.
Norway’s Henriette Jæger Breaks World U18 Heptathlon Best With 6301 Points

ISTAF Berlin *Results

Karsten Warholm Breaks Edwin Moses’ 40-Year-Old ISTAF Meet – Not World – Record In Berlin In other action, Laura Muir ran a world lead (3:57.40) and Jessica Hull (4:00.42) set a Aussie national record in the women’s 1,500 as Shannon Rowbury ran 4:02. In the women’s steeple, world record-holder Beatrice Chepkoech (9:10.07) was beaten by Hyvin Kiyeng (9:06.14). A pretty good meet in Berlin with fans. *Discussion

World Athletics Recap:Warholm Breaks Moses’ 40-Year-Old ISTAF Meeting Record In Berlin
BBC:Laura Muir Runs World-Leading 1,500m In Berlin For 5th Straight Win
Jessica Hull Breaks Australian National 1,500m Record With 4:00.42 She broke the 4:00.86 record set two years ago by Linden Hall.

World Athletics News

World Athletics Incurred $17.4 Million Loss In 2019 Despite RusAF Payment They had a 13% increase in revenue from 2018, but that didn’t make up for increased expenditures.
World Athletics Half Marathon Championships Gdynia, Poland 2020 Mass Race Cancelled The mass participation race was supposed to accompany the elite race on October 17th.
Cali, Colombia Chosen As The Hosts For The 2022 World Athletics U20 Championships
World Athletics Indoor Championships Belgrade 2022 Logo Unveiled
World Athletics’s 2020 Road Running Season Will Recommence This Month With Robust Anti-Doping Measures In Place

Tokyo 2020 News

Reuters:Japan Lines Up Half Billion Doses Of COVID-19 Vaccine Japan is signing multiple deals for vaccines because some of them could fail clinical trials or require more than one. This article says a vaccine could be produced between the end of this year and March.
Tokyo 2020 Advisor Claims Heat May Be A “Nightmare” For Next Year’s Games University of Tokyo professor Makoto Yokohari says “When it comes to heat stress or heat stroke, the problem is not only the temperature but also the humidity as well. When you can combine these two … Tokyo is the worst in history.”
Tokyo 2020 Face Sponsor Crisis With Contracts Expiring At End Of Year Some sponsors are not interested in renewing their contracts and some have said they expect the negotiations between Tokyo 2020 and sponsors to be “very difficult.”
Japan To Consider Allowing 20,000 Spectators Into Sporting Events This would be an increase from the current 5,000 spectator limit.

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

More Rome Coverage

LRC Rest Of Rome Recap: Jemma Reekie Earns Revenge, & Elaine Thompson Is BACK Reekie negative-split her way to a big 800 win, while Thompson obliterated the 100m field with a world-leading 10.85.

Mondo Duplantis Breaks Sergey Bubka’s World Outdoor PV Best With 6.15m “There has been a bit of confusion since they changed the rule to one world record (for both indoors and outdoors). Some people didn’t understand that the indoor world record I have is the world record, it covers both spectrums. I wanted to do the outdoor best just to clear the confusion – I have both!”
The Guardian:Jemma Reekie Savors Diamond League 800m Win Over Housemate Laura Muir Reekie won in 1.59.76 over Norway’s Hedda Hynne and Muir in third. *The Telegraph article
Jacob Kiplimo Beats Jakob Ingebrigsten In 3000m As Three Men Went Sub-7:30 Kiplimo and Ingebrigtsen ran 7:26.64 and 7:27.05 for the #8 and #9 fastest times ever.

Lamine Diack Found Guilty

Recommended ReadSean Ingle: How Lamine Diack’s 16-Year Reign In Charge Of IAAF Led To A Jail Term The article talks about a €3.2m payment for total protection and $15m being funneled to the company run by Diack’s company. In other news, USATF legally paid out more than $24 million to those who negotiated its no-bid Nike deal.
*MB: Lamine Diack goes down- going to prison for 2 years

Previous: Former World Athletics (IAAF) President Lamine Diack Found Guilty Of Corruption And Sentenced To Two Years In Prison He was also charged a $590,000 fine. It’s not clear if he will face any actual jail time as he’s been under house arrest for the past two years.

More Results: Van Niekerk Returns

Wayde Van Niekerk Makes International Return With 45.58 Victory In Bellinzona, Switzerland This was his first international race since 2017 London World Champs. Van Niekerk said on Instagram afterwards, “Forgot how to race for a moment, but it’s lovely being back on track.”
*MB: Wayde V NK: 45.61 tonight for opener
World Steeple Silver Medallist Lamecha Girma Wins Close 1500m With 3:35.67 PB In Bellinzona Girma beat out GB’s Piers Copeland (3:35.69) and world 5000m silver medallist Selemon Barega (3:36.07).
*MB: Barega goes home devastated!!
Norway’s Hedda Hynne Runs World-Leading 1:58.10 To Win Bellinzona 800m The time was also a new Norwegian record.
*MB: A 30-year old most of you have never heard of, Hedda Hynne of Norway, just ran a 1:58:10 world’s best
AW Weekly Round-Up: Dina Asher Smith Blasts To Fast 150m With 17.12 On Her Home Track She was just .06 off the UK record. Elsewhere in Poland, Piers Copeland won the 1,500m in 3:37.51.

Random Running Records

Good Read: NY Post:Meet Aaron Yoder, The World’s Fastest Backward Runner Yoder broke his own backwards mile record by 24 seconds with 5:30.
BYU’s Whittni Orton Breaks World Record For Running A Mile While Dribbling A Basketball She ran 4:58.56. It’s the third time this record has been broken in 2020.

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 o f 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.
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.

2020 Ostrava Golden Spike *Results

LRC 2020 Ostrava Golden Spike Recap: Jacob Kiplimo Comes From Behind To Stun Selemon Barega In Thrilling 5,000 As Both Men Break 12:50 No world records fell today in Ostrava but there was plenty of great action with a ton of BIG names picking up wins as the likes of Laura Muir, Faith Kipyegon, Jakob Ingebrigtsen, Ryan Crouser, Karsten Warholm, Christian Taylor and Sifan Hassan all vanquished the competition.

Is 36 Old? Or Young?

LRC With Olympic Marathon Dreams Dashed, Molly Huddle Refocuses On The Track To Chase Her Third Olympic Berth Jonathan Gault caught up with Huddle and her coach Ray Treacy to discuss Huddle’s marathon career and her transition back to the track ahead of Tokyo 2021. At 36 (the same age that Shalane was when she won NY), how much does Huddle have left? “I didn’t feel bad (physically) until I started marathoning,” Huddle says. “And I now feel bad.”
*MB: Molly Huddle just turned 36, how much does she have left? Will she ever rock the marathon?

NCAA News

NALathletics.com:Minnesota Cutting Men’s T&F “Will Not Save Much Money … But Will Cost The Sport In Athletes”
Alums Ben Blankenship And Hassan Mead Speak Out About Minnesota Cutting Men’s Track And Field Blankenship called the decision “disappointing and disheartening” as well as “shameful and embarrassing.”
Women’s Running Profile:“Maurica Powell Is An “In-The-Trenches” Coach Powell talked about how one of the great aspects of college coaching is getting to see kids grow into adults. “You realize they need you super differently over the course of that time. The way you talk to someone when she’s 17 and when she’s 22 is super different …”
Ken Goe:1940 Olympic 400m Champ And Former Oregon Ducks Great Otis Davis Gets An All-Star Tour Of The New Hayward Field *Register-Guard Article

US Athletes Deserve Better

USATF Brushes Off Athletes, Punts On Team USA For World Half Marathon Championship
*MB: Unreal: Max Siegel raises the white flag yet again. US WILL NOT send team to World Half

Miscellaneous News

European Athletics Cancels 2020 SPAR European Cross-Country Championships Due To COVID-19 The championships were due to take place in Dublin, Ireland in December.
Preparations Continue For Kip Keino Classic, Africa’s First Major Athletics Event Since The Pandemic Outbreak
UK Athletics Under Investigation For Corporate Manslaughter After Death Of Paralympian Discus Thrower UAE’s Abdullah Hayayei died in 2017 when a throwing cage collapsed at a facility in London.
RIP Former US 400m Olympian Sheila R. Ingram, 63 She finished in 6th place in the 400m at the 1976 Olympics.

Caster Semenya Loses Her Appeal

MB: Caster Semenya Loses Her Appeal She won’t be able to compete in women’s 800 in Tokyo w/o suppressing testosterone.

The Telegraph: Caster Semenya Loses Latest Round Of Legal Battle Against Rules To Limit Female Athletes’ Testosterone Levels Semenya said: “I am very disappointed by this ruling, but refuse to let World Athletics drug me or stop me from being who I am.”
World Athletics Statement On Semenya Decision “For the last five years World Athletics has fought for and defended equal rights and opportunities for all women and girls in our sport today and in the future. We therefore welcome today’s decision …”
The Swiss Federal Tribunal Said, “Fairness in sport is a legitimate concern and forms a central principle of sporting competition. It is one of the pillars on which competition is based.”

We Worked On Labor Day – Did You?

LRC Track Is Back, Baby! Molly Huddle And Eric Jenkins Win At LRC’s First Track Meet In 7 Months On Labor Day, there was no day off for LetsRun.com staffer Jonathan Gault as he attended his first track meet during the Covid-19 era. Molly Huddle and Eric Jenkins shined the brightest at the Forward Spine & Sport Labor Day Showdown with Jenkins declaring he’s confident heading into 2021. “I’m 100% and I’m very confident of where I’ll be able to end up,” Jenkins said.