NCAA Action *Razorback Results

• MB:Cooper Teare (7:46.10) And Cole Hocker (7:46.44) Go 1-2 In Razorback 3000m Over Iowa State’s Wesley Kiptoo (7:a48.36)
• MB:Oregon’s Charlie Hunter (3:54.54) And Reed Brown (3:56.61) Go 1-2 In Razorback Mile Hunter moves to #2 on the Oregon all-time list and #4 on the NCAA all-time list.
• MB: Oregon 9:19.42 In The DMR At The Razorback Invite. They DESTROYED the collegiate record by 5+ seconds and set a new world record (world’s best). Are they at a new level or is it the super shoes?
  *Register Guard Recap
• LSU’s JuVaughn Harrison Jumps NCAA-Leading 2.28m HJ
• Florida State Takes Five Victories At Clemson
• Katie Izzo Breaks 20-Year-Old Meet 5000m Record With 15:36.22 At Razorback Invy
• Texas A&M’s Tyra Gittens Scores 4612 Points In The Pentathlon To Move To #3 On The NCAA All-Time List Less than an hour later at a different invitational, Georgia’s Anna Hall scored 4590 points to put herself 4th on the collegiate all-time list.

Big Ten XC Champs *Results

• Wisconsin Men Win Big Ten XC Championships Wisconsin came from behind over the final 1000m to beat Indiana by 11 points. Nebraska’s George Kusche won the individual race in 24:01.2 over Illinois Jonathan Davis (24:01.8).
• Michigan State Women Repeat As Big Ten XC Champions They defeated Minnesota by 28-points. Minnesota’s Bethany Hasz got the individual win in 20:13.2.

Field Event And Sprint News

• Tom Walsh Admits He Struggled A Lot Last Year After Covid Cancellations But Is Now Optimistic As He’s Breaking Lifting Records In Practice “When it matters, I generally show up and throw well, and there’s no reason why I shouldn’t be able to do that again.”
• Russian Media Outlet Reports Sergey Shubenkov Tested Positive For Making Agent And Is Facing A 4-Year Ban – He Says It’s Not True And Is “Brazen Defamation” He does admit he received a letter from the AIU but says he “cannot disclose the details of this confidential letter due to legal concerns.”
• Some Of The World’s Top Pole Vaulters Talk About How They Got Involved With The Event Katerina Stefanidi, Katie Nageotte and Holly Bradshaw talk about how they became vaulters.

NCAA / HS News

• Good ReadMeet BYU Super Frosh Easton Allred, Who Is Doing Well After Battling The Extremely Rare Median Arcuate Ligament Syndrome For 2 Years Many docs thought Allred, who was one of the top XC runners in the country as a junior in HS, was a total head case. A strange diagnosis for someone who started a podcast at 14, published a book at 16 and has a YouTube channel with 10k subscribers. More on him here. Or read his own writing about his surgery hell here.
• Oregon Will Compete For 1st Time In 336 Days This Weekend And Robert Johnson Says The Ducks Are Pumped Some stars may do both NCAA indoors and XC as Oregon is one of the few programs that is good at both. “It’s been a big topic of conversation,” Johnson said. “We want to put athletes and the U of O in the best positions to be the most successful.”
• University Of Washington Releases Indoor/XC Schedules The 1st of 3 indoor Dempsey meets is this weekend.
• TFN: A Look At The Top 10 HS Boys In The Country In Each Event
• TFN: A Look At The Top 10 HS Girls In The Country In Each Event
• With Most Marathons Cancelled, Feb. 22nd’s Lake Biwa Women-Only Marathon Is Overwhelmed With Entries Foreigners have been barred and only Japanese women with the following PBs will be allowed, sub 30:40.00, sub-1:07:29 and sub-2:27:30.

Distance News

• Recommended Read:Donavan Brazier Says He Wants To Make The US Olympic 4×400 Team In Addition To The 800m Brazier says he wants to move down to 400m before going up to 1500 (which he’ll save for when he’s older). He also talks about the prospect of 1:39 and when he may retire.
• Telegraph Writer Wants Men And Women To Run Equal XC Distances To Combat Those Who Label Women’s Sport “Inferior” She acknowledges that there are sometimes biological reasons for differences between men’s and women’s sports, but wants to ignore those in favor of “gender equality.”
• MB:Official discussion thread on HBO Real Sports’ feature/expose on Nike Oregon Project Features interviews with Mary Cain, Kara and Adam Goucher, and Dorian Ulrey.
• Q&A With Double Olympic Champ Kelly Holmes About Starting Her Own Home-Workout Program On YouTube

Admin / Other News

• Daily Mail:Pressure Mounts On UK Athletics CEO Joanna Coates After Multiple Coaches And Athletes Receive Anonymous Email Posing “Serious Questions” About Her Leadership The email claimed to be on behalf of an anonymous collective of coaches employed by UKA, but UKA thinks it is a former employee.
• MB:NBC will shut down NBCSN by end of the year. Where will track and field be broadcast moving forward?
• Glasgow Considering Bidding For The 2024 World Indoor Championships They hosted European Indoors in 2019.
• Italy To Avoid Tokyo 2020 Ban After Government Sport Reform Guaranteeing Autonomy For National Olympic Committee

Wejo Speaks / Week That Was

WTW Crouser Gets His WR, Walmsley Just Misses; Patrick Mahomes Gets His Super Shoes And Michigan Gets Cancelled We hope you were entertained over the weekend. We try to tell you what it all means in our Week That Was column.

LRC Why We Need The Olympics In 2021 The Olympics are not just the biggest sporting event in the world. They represent what is best about the world. They remind us of our shared humanity and never has the nations of the world coming together been more important than after a year in which we were isolated and cut off from one another.
Discuss: Official We Want The Tokyo Olympics Thread