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Picture Of The Day

– Iowa State’s Wesley Kiptoo marking himself as the NCAA XC favorite with a dominant win at the FSU Winter XC Classic on Friday.

*MB: Kiptoo wins, breaks course record, Stanford freshmen (Dudek, Sprout) impress in debut
*MB: Colorado-Iowa State-Stanford @ FSU Winter XC Classic (2/5)

**This Weekend’s US Action *ATL Entries, TV/Streaming Information**

Friday: FSU Winter XC Classic
Women: #8 Colorado edge #4 Stanford (72 to 77) Stanford’s Ella Donaghu was the individual winner at Stanford frosh Zofia Dudek impressed in 3rd in her debut.
Men: #12 Stanford wins with 67 as #6 Iowa State and #13 Colorado both score 98 Iowa State’s Wesley Kiptoo was DOMINANT as he won by 15 seconds.
*MB: Kiptoo wins, breaks course record, Stanford freshmen (Dudek, Sprout) impress in debut
*MB: Colorado-Iowa State-Stanford @ FSU Winter XC Classic (2/5)

Saturday MB: Saturday’s Prickly Pear Invitational Is LOADED – BTC, King Ches, Coburn, Quigley, Efraimson & More This is the distance meet of the weekend. If only one or two of the races could be run at Arkansas on ESPN….

Emergency Preview Podcast of Prickly Pear Invite For LRC Supporters Club Members Only. Reminder if you join our Club this week, 100% of the proceeds go to Jon Gault to celebrate his bday.

Sunday: LRC ATL #3 Preview: Bromell Vs. Baker & A Fast Men’s Mile On Super Bowl Sunday? The third ATL meet of 2021 will be held directly before Super Bowl LV, so you can switch over to the big game at 6:30 p.m. ET and not miss a second. Trayvon Bromell vs. Ronnie Baker is the big showdown, pitting two of the world’s fastest men at 60 meters.

Mid-D News

MB: It’s official. Colleen Quigley has left the BTC. The LRC message board has been vindicated yet again as for days people were saying the OP was making things up.
Virtue Signal UK Athletics Ethics Committee To Examine Charlie Grice’s Decision To Join Pete Julian’s Group Since Julian Assisted The Now-Banned Alberto Salazar Grice’s decision to work with Julian, who was Salazar’s assistant, has not been referred to the UK Athletics “new standards, ethics and rules committee.”
NCAA DII 800 Champ Thomas Staines (1:45.57) Of CSU-Pueblo Signs With UnderArmour’s The District Track Club While raised in the US, he’ll run for GBR as both his mom and dad were British Olympians. Linda was a 50.98 400 runner while dad Gary was a 3:53 miler and 13:14 guy.
Video Chat With Big 10 XC Champ And 3:39 1,500 Runner George Kusche
Catching Up With Puerto Rico’s 800 Stars Wesley Vazquez And Ryan Sanchez Vazquez reveals a sports hernia derailed him in 2020 while Sanchez reveals his step-dad has him on a new weight training program.
Laura Muir Will Not Defend European Indoor titles “In the year of the Olympics, we tend to focus on the outdoors,” said Muir, who will compete some indoors however.
Britain’s Jamie Webb PRs Again (1:46.45) To Win 800 In Ostrava
*Full Ostrava Recap By World Athletics Three-time world indoor champion Pavel Maslak won the 400m in a season’s best of 46.22.

Mid-D News

Cruz Culpepper And Father Alan Now On Father-Son Sub-4 List Bring Back The Mile keeps a list of the 13 father/son combos (the Culpepper’s are the 9th fastest).
RRW:Triple South African Champion Marius Van Heerden Has Died From COVID-19 The former middle-distance runner was only 46-years-old.
Laura Muir Skipping European Indoor Champs To Focus On The Olympics She says she didn’t do a big indoor season in 2016 either.

It’s NCAA XC Season Too

Colorado Buffaloes Ready For Unusual XC / Indoor Season Mark Wetmore: “Every coach in the country is looking at that chessboard strategically … our distance runners are beginning the season as cross-country runners.”
MB:Colorado-Iowa State-Stanford @ FSU Winter XC Classic (2/5)
NCAA DI Men’s XC Regional Rankings
NCAA DI Women’s XC Regional Rankings

Olympic News

Tokyo 2020 President Yoshiro Mori Says The Olympic Will Go Ahead “However The Coronavirus Evolves” “We must go beyond discussion about whether we will hold it or not. It’s about how we will do it.”
Does He Get A Say In This?Bill Gates Claims Staging Of Tokyo 2020 Dependent On COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout Gates said having Tokyo was “still possible” if the vaccine rollout goes well.
Paris 2024 Already Working On Contingency Plan If COVID Crisis Is Not Over

Upset Alert / Monday Afternoon XC Action

LRC BYU Upsets #1 NAU As Conner Mantz Wins, Nico Young Impresses, & BYU Sweeps Team Titles At Silver State Collegiate Challenge In Las Vegas The #2 BYU men may have upset #1 NAU, but NAU held out one of the top runners in the country in Luis Grijalva. Young finished an impressive second as NAU’s Taryn O’Neill won the women’s race.
*Discuss: Luis Grijalva/NAU Vs. Yared Nuguse/ND @ Silver State Collegiate XC Challenge
*MB: Nico Young – top 10 guy at NCAAs?

Olympic News

President Of Tokyo Organizing Committee Apologizes For Suggesting Women Talk Too Much In Meetings. 83-year-old Yoshiro Mori suggested women’s speaking time in meetings should be limited “or else we’ll never be able to finish.”
*Tokyo Olympics Chief Says Women Talk Too Much At Meetings, Calls It “Annoying”
*MB: Business people, do men or women talk more in your work meetings? Or is it the same? (Re: Sexist Tokyo Olympic Comments)
Athletic Kenya Head Jack Tuwei: “I am hoping and praying that the (Olympic) games will not be cancelled.” He also says many Kenyans are depressed that RAK Half was cancelled as they wanted to make some money
Alan Abrahamson Calls On Thomas Bach And The Olympic Movement To Organize A Vaccine Drive To Rid The World Of Covid-19 By The Time The 2022 Winter Games Start He wants Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Oprah Winfrey involved and wants Mitt Romney to run the effort.
Jonathan Marks – Agent To Many Olympic Stars – Calls For Normal Olympic Format To Be Scrapped His somehow seems to think adding e-sports and mixed martial arts will save the day.

This Week’s Pod – Our New Intro Music Is Here

LRC Diamond Hands: Bryce Hoppel, Oregon DMR, Keith Gill And The Unveiling Of LetsRun.com Theme Song From Andrew Brick Johnson On this week’s pod, we start by unveiling a musical intro produced for us by Hollywood film composer and pianist Andrew Johnson. Then there was a ton to talk about as Keith Gill was tearing it up off the track while young Americans were tearing it up on the track. Plus in honor of Jonathan’s 30th birthday, we announce that 100% of all new VIP subscriptions this week will go directly into Jonathan’s bank account. Sign up now.

LRC A Ranking Of The US Father-Son Sub-4 Mile Combos: Alan And Cruz Culpepper Join The List At #3 Over the weekend, Cruz Culpepper joined his dad as a sub-4 miler. We’ve updated the rankings of US father-son sub-4 combos as a result.

Field Event News

Ukraine 19-Year-Old Yaroslava Mahuchikh Soars Over 2.06m At Slovakia HJ Meet It is the best mark in the world since 2012 and moved her to a four-way tie for third on the all-time list. *Video
Recommended ReadAn Interesting Q&A With HJ Star Mutaz Barshim – The Only Man In History To Have Defended A World Title In The HJ Barshim talks about his remarkable performance at home at the 2019 Worlds and how he recently got Covid.
Ashton Eaton”s Old Coach Harry Marra Talks Training, Culture And The Secrets To Success
T&F News Analyzes The State Of The US Women’s PV Scene The writer compares Sandi Morris, Jenn Suhr and Katie Nageotte to “three stately trees in the forest.”
2012 Olympic LJ Champion Brittney Reese Is Member Of USOPC Reform Panel
GB’s World Heptathlon Champs Katarina Johnson-Thompson Out Until March With Achilles Injury She said she’s been in a walking boot for the last three weeks.

NCAA News / Rankings

Oregon Men Move To The Top Of The NCAA Indoor Rankings Arkansas, LSU and Texas Tech are ranked 2-4.
No Changes To Top Three Women’s NCAA Ranked Teams As Arkansas, Texas A&M And Georgia Sit 1-3 Southern California moved up to #4.
One We Missed:KC Lightfoot Breaks NCAA Pole Vault Record Again With 5.95m He broke his own record after jumping 5.94m two weeks ago.
Ken Goe:Coronavirus Keeps Olympic Trials, NCAA Championships Up In The Air At Hayward Field Oregon coach Robert Johnson said they are looking at holding at least one regular season meet at Hayward. But it’s not looking good for having big crowds at Hayward this year.

Sprint Stuff

Athletics Weekly Looks Back At The Best Races Of Ed Moses’s Career The two-time Olympic champ won 122 successive 400H races between 1977 and 1987.
9.98 Man Yoshihide Kiryu Talks About Preparing For A Home Olympics And The Rise Of Japanese Sprinting Kiryu is hoping to make the 100m final and for Japan to win another medal in the 4 x 100 after taking silver in Rio.
Tommie Smith To Appear On Special Edition Of Wheaties Box To Mark 1968 Olympic Protest
*Tommie Smith The Subject Of New Documentary, “With Drawn Arms” You can watch it now on Starz.

Admin News

WADA Confirms It Will Not Appeal CAS Decision In RUSADA Case WADA said it was “disappointed” that CAS didn’t uphold the 4-year ban for Russia, but said they didn’t think an appeal would be “useful” because the Swiss court wouldn’t overturn the ruling.
USATF Board Elects New Officers, Including New Chair Michael Conley
*MB: USATF at it yet again! Lananna out as Chairman of Board – Replaced by Mike Conley
Colin Hutchison Is New Scottish Athletics CEO

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Tokyo 2021 – No Bars And No Verbal Cheering?

MB: Tokyo Organizers publish 1st “playbook” for Olympics so Games can go ahead, verbal cheering will be banned as will trips to restaurants and bars during one’s 1st 14 days in the country The 1st set of rules which are supposed to evolve over time are technically for international federation and technical officials.

More Administrative News NCAA Division III Cancels Winter Championships

Very Disappointing News

RRW Much-Hyped 2021 RAK Half-Marathon Is Cancelled Two Weeks Out Due To Covid-19 The race was scheduled for February 19th and was to feature stacked fields, including Kibiwott Kandie, Jacob Kiplimo, Geoffrey Kamworor, Ababel Yeshaneh and Brigid Kosgei.

More COVID Cancellations:

LA Marathon Postponed Again Due To COVID Concerns The race was originally scheduled for March and then pushed back to May. Now it’s been moved to later in the year, date TBD.
Nagano Marathon In Japan Cancelled The race was scheduled for April.
2021 USATF Youth Indoor Championships Cancelled
2021 European Throwing Cup In Portugal Postponed

Save Men’s Track

Clemson University’s Cutting Of Men’s Track Prompts Federal Civil Rights Complaint The complaint alleges that Clemson University is violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination.
Committee To Reinstate Central Michigan Men’s Track And Field Hosts Virtual Town Hall The committee says they’ve had multiple meetings with the university over the last few months and that men’s track and field is still on the table as an option at CMU.