It sounds like he and several other Brits were in close contact with someone on the plane who tested positive.
*MB: Doubled vaxxed British steepler is still stuck in Tokyo self-isolation
Archived Homepage For July 22, 2021
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It Certainly Doesn't Look Like The Olympics Will Be A Super Spreader Event
There literally are HUNDREDS of MILLIONS of senior citizens across the globe that aren't vaccinated by the twitter mob has decided to go after the super fit and healthy Hocker for not being vaccinated.
*MB: If we were actually following the data and science and weren't selfish, we wouldn't allow Cole Hocker to get vaccinated now
More Hocker News
- Cole Hocker: "Once I’m in the final, I think I just have just as good a shot as anyone." "We have really good recovery built into our training, which I’m really confident in. And that allows for these long seasons that me and Coach Thomas prepared for."
- Cole Hocker: "I feel content with [not being vaccinated]. Yeah, I’m not really too worried about it going in.”
- Hocker credits his success at Oregon to having world-class training partners and says he'll be ready to go in Tokyo
Meet the savant who has finished top 3 in 3 separate contests, doctor to be, and grad student who finished in our top 3.
Non-Olympic News
- Chris Derrick blog #2 on how to get track to be more popular: He wants Olympic qualifying to be 100% based on world-ranking
- Gary Hill: USATF should fill all 9 lanes for finals at new Hayward Field
- Pac 12 400m champ Johnnie Blockburger (44.71) transfers to USC with his twin sister Alyssa Their dad used to coach at USC but was coaching at Arizona last year.
On The Boards
On The Boards
The Latest Olympic News
- Onion (satire): IOC asks athletes not to have sex during competition to prevent spread of Covid-19 There shall be no "mounting a sprinter on the starting blocks, going down on a beach volleyball teammate, penetrating a horny runner with a relay baton, or participating in a masked orgy after suiting up in a fencing uniform."
- Tokyo 2020 social media posts won't show people kneeling in protest before Olympic contests
- Germany's Johannes Vetter likes Indian jav star Neeraj Chopra but says he's not going to let him win the gold medal India hasn't won a track medal since 1900 but Chopra has a good shot.
- Tokyo Olympics: Is Northern Ireland's marathon success by accident or design?
- Kansas track coach Stanley Redwine went to 5 Trials as an athlete and never made the team, now he's going as an assistant coach
Previous Olympic and Paralympic News
She didn't get USOPC funding and they are afraid to send Brannigan, who has the mental capacity of a 6 to 11-year-old, to Tokyo alone.
*MB: Mikey Brannigan is trying to raise $15k so he can go to the Paralympics - Donate here
- Athletics Integrity Unit to conduct 800 drug tests during Tokyo Olympics
- Britain's teen 800 phenom Keely Hodgkinson: ‘Is it ridiculous for me to win a medal? I don’t think so’ A nice profile reveals she's 95% deaf in one ear due to a tumor and that a British millionaire helps fund her and he's promised her she can drive his Bentley.
- Is he crazy: Richard Kilty thinks Britain's best chance for a gold medal in track and field is in the men's 4 x 100
- Tokyo 2020: Dina Asher-Smith and 10 Team GB stars to follow at Olympics
- Paul Tergat re-elected into IOC board, named in Tokyo Games Disciplinary Commission
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Women's Distance News
She says she is returning to the marathon and is being coached by Bobby McGee who helped her with run specific training when she was doing triathlons.
- Reuters: Sifan Hassan's Olympic Triple Agenda Raises Eyebrows Hassan is entered in the 1500, 5000 and 10,000, although could still pull out of one of them.
- Good Read: BBC: Can GB Distance Runner Eilish McColgan Add To Rich Family Memories In Tokyo? 30-years-ago in Tokyo her mother Liz became 10,000m world champion.
Team GB Pre-Olympic News
- The Guardian: "Cake And Call Of Duty: GB Sprinter Reece Prescod On Weight Battles During Lockdown" Prescod says he was a "serious gamer" during lockdown with eight-hour shifts a day.
- GB Discus Thrower Lawrence Okoye Isn't Dwelling On His NFL Past As He Makes His Olympic Return “It’s hard, it’s been a very interesting journey for me but I don’t think about anything from the past – at all. I’m just focused on performing well this year."
- BBC: Top Ten Days For Team GB In Tokyo Dina Asher-Smith and Katarina Johnson-Thompson are GB's big gold medal hopes for track.
More Olympic News
- IOC Officially Select Brisbane, Australia As Hosts For The 2032 Olympic Games It's been known for a while that Brisbane was the preferred choice.
*MB: Brisbane Australia 2032 Olympics - World Athletics Event-By-Event Olympic Previews
- Four Athletes Ruled Out Of Tokyo 2020 After Testing Positive For COVID A US beach volleyball player, a Chilean taekwondo athlete, a Dutch skateboarder and a Czech ping pong player have all had their Olympic dreams snatched at the last second.
- AIU Details Comprehensive Testing Program Ahead Of Tokyo Olympics
- Missing Ugandan Weightlifter Found By Police After Fleeing Hotel The athlete had left a note saying he wanted to remain in Japan.
NCAA News
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- Diljeet Taylor Promoted To Women's Head XC Coach At BYU Taylor becomes the first non-Mormon to be a head coach at BYU in around 50 years.
*MB: Diljeet Taylor promoted to head coach - Update On The Bowerman Fan Vote: JuVaughn Harrison (53.9%) And Athing Mu (44.4%) Lead Harrison has a sizeable gap over Cole Hocker (35.5% of the vote) while LJer Tara Davis is very close to Mu with 40.3% of the vote.
Tokyo 2020 COVID News
- MB: Hallelujah: The Olympics have started!! Will all the naysayers pipe down now?
*Hosts Japan Win As Softball Opens Tokyo 2020 Olympics In Front Of No Fans In Fukushima They defeated Australia 8-1.
- Athletes Question Why Fans Banned At Tokyo 2020 As Japan Holds Events With Crowds Nearly 9,000 fans attended a baseball game just outside of Tokyo last week.
- Doctor Advising The IOC Says The Number Of COVID Cases At Tokyo 202 Is "As Expected" There have been 58 cases linked to Tokyo 2020 so far.
- A Journalist Shares What It Takes To Get To Tokyo To Cover The Olympics We at LetsRun.com can tell you first hand that there are a lot of hoops to jump through.
- Top-Tier IOC Sponsor Toyota Withdraws Olympic-Related Advertisements Due To Tokyo 2020 Opposition Apparently they are afraid of their brand being damaged by being linked to the Olympics which have been controversial in Japan due to COVID.
*MB: Japan is officially insane about Covid. Toyota pulls ALL Olympic advertising in Japan - Bach Hails Healthcare Workers As "True Champions" Bach admits that the IOC had doubts about the Games going ahead, but explains why they kept those doubts to themselves.
- Team GB Athletes In "Panic Mode" Before Games After Teammates Forced To Isolate 800m runner Daniel Rowden: ‘There’s a fear the same could happen to us’
- IOC Health Adviser Says The Olympic Village Is Still Safe
- Czech Beach Volleyball Coach Tests Positive At Olympic Village
- Tokyo Organizers Weren't Ruling Out Cancelling Games Despite Thomas Bach Saying It Was "Never An Option" Tokyo 2020 chief Toshiro Muto: “We will think about what we should do when the situation arises.”
The Pre Classic Is August 20-21
World champ Halimah Nakaayi, GB's Jemma Reekie and Jamaica's Natoya Goule are also in the field.
Sound Running Sunset Tour
Norris beat out Jessica Hull by a second (4:00.73) while Luis Grijalva (3:35.32) was runner-up for the men. There were also miles where Daniel Herrera (3:57.40) and Taryn Rawlings (4:28.93) were the winners.
Penn Relays Summer Series
Wilson ran in the men's race at the Penn Relays Summer Series with splits of 57.33 and 60.52. She won the mile in 4:43.21.
Impressive Sprint Double
Wilson's 100m time breaks the European record and the 200m is a new Swiss record.
Sprint Stuff
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- Trayvon Bromell Describes Himself As A "Silent Killer" As He Isn't Known For A Big Personality Or Showboating Like Some Other Sprinters "You all see me race a lot of guys who do all (this) crazy stuff before the race - like the, you know, the intimidation stuff ... I don't look phased because I’m not."
- Usain Bolt Thinks Tokyo 100m Gold Is Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce's To Lose It would be her third Olympic 100m title.
- The Oregonian Has A Lengthy Profile On Sprinter Jenna Prandini Ahead Of The Tokyo Olympics Prandini is going to her second Olympics, this time in the 100 and 200 thanks to Sha’Carri Richardson's one month ban.
- Shaunae Miller-Uibo Says She Thinks She Has Another Olympics In Her After Tokyo Looking ahead to next season, she says she wants to try the pentathlon indoors and maybe the heptathlon or 400H outdoors.
Javelin / Pole Vault Results
- Maggie Malone Throws 67.40m American Record At American JavFest Michael Shuey broke the men's MR with 85.67m. *Results
- Collin Burkhart Throws Meet Record 66.12m To Win American JavFest High School Competition Shea Greene won the girls HS competition with 49.22m.
- Club Teammates Amanda Moll, Hana Moll And Ally Neiders Became First Prep Competitors To Each Clear 14 feet In Same Event Moll won the Vaulter Club Vaulter Magazine meet with a first time clearance of 4.27m while Logan Kelley won the boys competition with 5.18m.
Pre-Tokyo Field Event News
- Sioux City Journal: PVer Chris Nilsen Navigates Path To Tokyo Summer Olympics
- Video: GB's World Heptathlon Champ Katarina Johnson-Thompson And Former Spice Girl Melanie C Interview Each Other
- Discus Thrower Alex Rose Chosen As Samoa's Flagbearer For Tokyo Opening Ceremony Rose was born in Michigan where his Samoan father settled. Only international-based athletes are in Tokyo for Samoa as the government prevented domestic athletes from traveling due to COVID.
More Tokyo 2020 (COVID) News
- Czech Beach Volleyball Player And US Gymnast Test Positive For COVID At Tokyo The Czech player will miss the opening match and could be out of the entire event.
- MB: US Tennis Player Coco Gauff Test Positive For COVID. Out of Olympics.
- Six British Athletes Forced To Isolate Ahead Of Olympics After Positive COVID Case On Flight To Tokyo
- Missing Ugandan Weightlifter Spotted In Nagoya After Leaving Tokyo 2020 Camp He left a note behind that said, "I want to live in Japan because my life in Uganda is difficult."
ATL Meet On Sunday
Brannon Kidder won the 800m in 1:45.26 with Craig Engels 3rd (1:47.15) as Sinclaire Johnson took the women's race in 2:00.63.
Tweet Of The Day
Tweet Of The Day
European U20 Champs Final Day
- Three Relay Titles Propel Great Britain To The Top Of The Medal Table At Euro U20 Champs GB took men's 4x100, men's 4x400 and women's 4x100 gold to win twelve medals overall at the championships. Germany won the women's 4x400.
- Cathal Dennehy: "Rhasidat Adeleke’s Olympic Omission Stings Even More After Her Golden Haul" Dennehy laments that Adeleke was overlooked for an Irish 4x400m spot despite splitting a 50.96 leg at NCAA Champs.
- Sweden’s Maja Askag Completes LJ/TJ Double Gold On Final Day Of Euro U20 Champs She won the LJ with 6.80m and 14.05m in the TJ.
- Athletics Weekly: Gold Rush For Britain At The European U20 Champs Final day distance winners included Polish 800m runner Krzysztof Roznicki (1:47.44) and Spanish 5000m runner Carla Dominguez (16:16.57).
- Irish Times: Four European Gold Medals Signal Promising Future For Irish Athletics
Weekend Road / Trail Action
Werner ran 18:21 to beat out Emily Durgin by 6-seconds.
- François D'haene, Sabrina Stanley Win First Hardrock 100 In Three Years The race has been cancelled the last two years due to snowfall and COVID. D'haene won the men's race in 21:45:51, breaking Killian Jornet's course record while Stanley won the women's race in 27:21:48.
Tokyo 2020 / COVID Stuff
- Crazy: Olympic Village Rooms Have Flimsy Cardboard Beds To Discourage Athletes Having Sex The small beds only support the weight of one person and apparently will break due to sudden movements.
*Paul Chelimo's Twitter Reaction: "I see no problem for distance runners,even 4 of us can do." Chelimo posted a series of hilarious tweets on the issue. - Pair Of South African Soccer Players Are First Athletes To Test Positive For COVID At The Olympic Village The South Africa squad is now in quarantine.
- Tokyo 2020 Confirm First COVID-19 Case In Olympic Village Organizers say that the official didn't test positive upon arrival at the airport and has been placed in a 14-day quarantine.
- It Begins: Two South Korean Baseball Players Forced To Withdraw From Tokyo 2020 For Breaking Social Distancing Rules Apparently they met "outside guests" for drinks at their hotel.
- Mirror.uk: Tokyo 2020 Plunged Into Further Turmoil With 10 More Covid Cases At The Olympic Village
- Australian Track Team Was Quarantined For Several Hours After A Staff Member's COVID Test Was Inconclusive The team is still in training camp in Australia. The staff member tested negative in two subsequent tests.
- NY Times: A Ugandan Weightlifter Has Gone Missing In Japan He was due to be sent back to Uganda on July 20 before the Games opened, though the reason is unclear.
- Man Arrested For Alleged Rape At Tokyo 2020 Stadium The man works for a contractor serving on part of the "Games operation."
- South Korea Told To Remove Banners At Athletes' Village With Anti-Japanese Political Message The banners had a quote from a famous Korean admiral who defeated the Japanese navy in 1597, apparently using 12 warships to take out more than 300 Japanese vessels.
More Olympic Team News
- MB: Unreal: Sweden refuses to take 1:58 800 runner to Olympics as she's unlikely to make final Lovisa Lindh ran 1:59.76 this year and has a 1:58.77 PB, but Sweden turned down her invite so she won't be going to Tokyo.
- MB: Taoufik Makhloufi Will Lead The Algerian Team For Tokyo 2020
- Usain Bolt Doesn't Have Positive Predictions For Jamaican Men In Tokyo "Well, it's really disappointing to see this. I felt like we had a good crop of (male) athletes for the last couple of Olympics, so for me, it really bothers me to know that this is where we are right now, where most of the world is ahead of us."
- Team USA By The Numbers The US is sending 621 athletes across all sports including 100 medalists and 54 gold medalists. The oldest US Olympian is 57 (male equestrian at his 7th Olympics) and the youngest is a 15-year-old swimmer. There are also six sets of Olympic siblings.
- New Zealand Confirms 211 Strong Team For Tokyo Nick Willis will compete on his fifth Olympic team. So will shot putter Valerie Adams.
European U20 Champs
- Rhasidat Adeleke Leads Irish Gold Medal Rush By Completing 100/200 Sprint Double At Euro U20 Champs She ran 22.90 to dominate the race by .65 and set an Irish national record. Ireland also won golds from Nicholas Griggs in the 3000m (8:18.19) and Cian McPhillips in the 1500m (3:46.55).
*Video Of Men's 1500 Finish Griggs is only 16-years old and lost his older brother in a car accident last month. - Sasha Zhoya Breaks 110H Championship Record With 13.05 Euro U20 Victory He ran 12.98 in the semis, but that wasn't wind legal. After breaking the meet record in the semis, Finland's Silja Kosonen won hammer gold and broke the record again with 71.06m.
- Athletics Weekly: Ireland Top Euro U20 Champs Medals Table After Three Golds On Day Three
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American Record Holders
American Record Holders
Keira D'Amato, the new American record holder in the marathon, was joined by Deena Kastor, who held the record for 15 years.
Sisson was the guest on the LetsRun.com Track Talk podcast after she became the first American to go sub 67 in the half marathon on a record-eligible course. Podcast highlights above. Full pod here.
Woody Kincaid joined us after he broke the American record indoors at 5000. He talks above why he left the Bowerman Track Club. Podcast highlights and link to full podcast here.
Coogan's New Balance Boston team had 3 Olympians in 2021 and 2022 could be the biggest year yet for the program with 2 new additions and the TRACK at New Balance coming on March 1st.
Danny Mackey has taken the Brooks Beasts from an unproven club to the Olympic podium in its first decade.
Dathan Ritzenhein is the first of the top pro coaches to sit down and talk about his club heading into the 2022 campaign.
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Take Your Love of LetsRun to the Next Level
LetsRun Classics
LetsRun Classics
‒Rhys Mcclenaghan proving that the rumor that the Olympic Village's beds are "anti-sex" beds is false.