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Archived Homepage For July 04, 2022
Archived Homepage For July 04, 2022
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RIP: D3 All-American Frank Csorba - who ran 13:56 in March - dead
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July 4 = Peachtree
- Ethiopia's Senbere Teferi (30:49) edges Kenya's Irene Cheptai to win women’s elite division at AJC Peachtree Road Race Marathon WR holder Brigid Kosgei (30:57) was third. Top American honors went to Annie Frisbie in 10th in 32:22.
- Rhonex Kipruto (27:26) beats Kibiwott Kandie (27:34) to win Peachtree men's race Conner Mantz took top American honors in 5th in 28:04.
Tygart needs to explain this more
The Oregonian reports USADA head Travis Tygart told them he's "more skeptical of the rival doping agency and the way it handled this case than he is of Houlihan"
The excerpt above summarizes Tygart's position on the Houlihan case but the article doesn't quote him directly on that key point (the rival doping agency is implied to be the AIU). "We know that these innocent sources are out there,” Tygart said. “We need to work just as hard to exonerate the innocent as we do pursuing the true cheaters
*MB: Travis Tygart doesn't think Shelby Houlihan is a doper
On The Boards
On The Boards
The Latest Distance News
MB: All 3 Tokyo 10,000 medallists - Barega, Cheptegei, Kiplimo to race Great North Run in September. Who you got?
It will be the half-marathon debut for the Olympic 10,000 champ Barega.
- MB: Sam Prakel (3;50.5) breaks Washington State soil mile record earns $15,000 at Downtown Yakima Mile 3:38/13:23 man Kieran Lumb, who was only 17th in the NCAA 10,000, was 2nd in 3:53.5. The women's race was won by Ella Donaghu in 4:31.6.
- Eilish McColgan is tired of people criticizing for being too skinny online “Just because I’m lean doesn’t mean I’m unhealthy. Yes, my body shape might be unhealthy for another individual to try and aspire to but to me there’s so many in between so you don’t have to fit. Just be confident in you."
- Meet Gabi Rooker - the 34-yr old American who didn't run in college but just dropper marathon PR from 2:54:57 to 2:34:57 That's 20-minutes.
- NCAA 10,000 champ Dylan Jacobs is following Sean Carlson to Tennessee as a grad transfer He's got 1 year of track and 2 years of xc left.
- Jacob Kiplimo was 99% satisified with his 7:29 in Stockholm
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Should Erriyon and Noah take notice?
- Cuba's Reynier Mena runs massive 19.63 (+1.2) pb in Switzerland The 25-year old had a 20.26 pb at the start of the year and his time converting to zero win and zero altitude is now wroth 19.79.
- Martyn Rooney remembers when he first broke 45 and how he almost won a medal in 2008 He also says the London stadium is too big but loves the Crystal Palace stadium.
- 105 year-old Indian woman shatters age group 100m record with 45.40
World Jrs Are in Colombia
- 1 month until World U20 champs and Cathal Dennehy previews it for you Erriyon Knighton won't be there but Emmanuel Wanyonyi is scheduled to compete for a 2nd straight year.
- After missing out on World U20s last year, Japan-based Samuel Kibathi wants to win U20 5000 gold this year
Previous Weekend Results
- Wayde van Niekerk Runs 44.58 400m Opener At American Track League In Atlanta This is the first race the 400m WR holder has finished this year (he had one DNF in a 200m) as he comes back from injury and prepares for Worlds later this month.
- American Lindsay Flanagan wins the Australian Gold Coast Marathon in a course record 2:24:43. The 31-year old began the year with a 2:28:08 pb but has now PRd twice.
*Japan Running News Recap Japan's Jo Fukuda won the men's race in 2:10:55.
- MB: Jessica Hull 4:19 Aussie Mile Record (Union Athletics Club Time Trial) *Race Video
*The Oregonian Article Hull had three pacers: US 1500m champ Sinclaire Johnson, Eleanor Fulton and Koko Klosterhalfen. - *MB: Wayde Van Niekerk - 44.58 @ ATL
- Sound Running Sunset Tour Results Morgan McDonald won the 1500m in 3:39.09, China's Wuga He the 3000 in 8:52.19 and Vincent Crisp the 800m in 1:45.03. *Discus
- Andrew Coscoran dives at finish line to win thrilling Morton Mile in 3:57.09 He's the first Irish winner in 18 years. *Video #1 *#2nd angle
More Teams Named For World Champs
- Recommended Read: Q&A With Keira D'Amato On Making Her First US Team: "There's No Greater Honor." "Everything I have been working for my whole life is to make the U.S. team, to be able to wear red, white, and blue and a Team USA jersey. ...I would regret it for the rest of my life, not saying “yes” to an opportunity like this. Are you kidding me?"
*Molly Seidel Out, Keira D’Amato In For World Championships Marathon D’Amato was the alternate for the Worlds team so moves up after Seidel withdrew with a stress reaction. - All Five Of Their Reigning World Champions Named On Kenya's World Team Hellen Obiri is in the 5000 and 10,000, Conseslus Kipruto and Beatrice Chepkoech in the steeple, Timothy Cheruiyot in the 1500m and Ruth Chepngetich in the marathon.
- British Team named What a joke that the winner of the British 100 Trials Jeremiah Azu can't go as it was wind-aided and he doesn't have the standard.
- Jamaica Names Their Team For World Champs Elaine Thompson-Herah, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Shericka Jackson lead the way in the 100, 200 and 4x100.
- Japan's Final Team for Oregon 2022 World Championships 38 men and 26 women are on the team.
- CWG: Sprinter Ella Connolly On Australia's Team Of 85 For Commonwealth Games
*39-Year-Olds Eloise Wellings (Marathon) And Kathryn Mitchell (Javelin) Will Be The First Australians To Compete In Five Commonwealth Games
More News Of Note
- Oscar Pistorius Meets With Slain Girlfriend's Father As Prerequisite For Getting Parole Pistorius was supposed to have his parole hearing last year, but it was cancelled because he hadn't yet met with Riva Steenkamp's parents.
- US's 2016 Olympic Shot Put Champion Michelle Carter Announces Retirement The 36-year-old retires as a 12-time national champion.
- Outside: "What Makes a Pro Runner Valuable to a Brand?" Outside says that race performances still matter more than social media for now.
- 16-Year-Old Puripol Boonson Breaks Thailand National 200m Record With 20.19
Admin News
- NY Times: "Power 5? College Sports May Soon Be Dominated By A Mighty 2" "The Big Ten and the SEC are consolidating power. The rest of college sports, some fear, could become a muddle."
- IOC Defends Decision To Allow Sports To Form Own Transgender Rules The IOC has been heavily criticized for "passing the buck on the issue."
- Twelve Nominees Line Up For Six Places On World Athletics Athletes' Commission Nominees include Uganda's world 800m champ Halimah Nakaayi and Canada's 2015 Pan American steeple champ Matt Hughes.
- NBCUniversal's Olympic Channel Will Go Dark After September 30th
Get Hyped For 2022 Worlds
- University Of Oregon Student Creates Title Video For World Championships It's pretty good, especially when you consider it came from a 19-year-old college freshman.
World Champs Start In Less Than Two Weeks
- MB: SEIDEL IS OUT OF WC MARATHON, has stress reaction in sacrum + TUE not approved
- Lamont Marcell Jacobs Headed To Eugene Early To "Test The Waters" After Sitting Out Stockholm DL
- Nigeria Women's 4x100 Gets Back Into Worlds After France Decides Not To Enter A Team Nigeria originally lost their spot after Blessing Okabare's doping ban DQ'd their time. But France pulling out moved them up from 17th to 16th on the qualification list, granting them the last spot.
- Ukrainian Athletes Set Off For Eugene World Champs Funded By World Athletics And The IOC World Athletics assisted with $220,000 to help Ukraine athletes, their coaches and family travel to Eugene.
- Athletics Canada Selects Team Of 54 For World Champs Team Mohammed Ahmed in the 5000 and 10,000. Andre De Grasse in the 100/200.
- Edmonton To Host World Champs Warm-Up Meet On Sunday
Assorted Distance News
- IndyStar: Cheryl Treworgy Paved Pathway To Olympic Glory For Daughter Shalane Flanagan Some interesting insights into Flanagan's mother's running career. Flanagan rolls her eyes about how coverage of her mother from the 1960s were more about her looks than athletic achievements.
- Rhonex Kipruto And Kibiwott Kandie Added To Field For Peachtree 10k Kipruto is the 10k road WR holder at 26:24 and has the Peachtree course record from when he won in 27:01 in 2019. Kandie has the second fastest time in the world this year at 26:50.
*RRW: If Someone Breaks 27:00 at The Peachtree Road Race, They Will Make History and Potentially Win $53,000 From The Atlantic Track Club
- Stewart McSweyn Says He Wasn't Sure If He'd Ever Get Back To His Best After COVID Booster Heart Scare McSweyn has recently "turned a corner" after his bout of pericarditis and said, "It's a huge relief to know I can still do it."
- Laura Muir Says She Has "Unfinished Business" At The Commonwealth Games Muir was earlier in her career at the 2014 CWGs and couldn't compete in 2018 due to her final exam schedule.
- Switzerland's Maude Mathys Wins Fourth Straight European Mountain Running Championship Italy's Cesare Maestri won the men's race.
Some Missed National Champs Results From Last Week
- French Hurdler Wins National Title With One Good Eye After Warmup Assault Wilfried Happio was attacked 20 minutes before the race and had to run with an eye patch, but still ran a 48.57 PB to win the 400H.
*MB: French 400m hurdler attacked during Warmup! Has to wear eye patch and still wins national title in 48.57!!! - World Athletics National Champs Round-Up: Mario Garcia Wins Spanish 1500m Title In 3:35.52 Over Mohamed Katir (3:35.85) Jordan Alejandro Diaz Fortun broke his own TJ world lead with a 17.87m PB. At France's national champs, Renelle Lamote won the 800m in a championship record of 1:58.71.
- World Indoor 60m Champ Mujinga Kambundji Storms To 10.89 National 100m Record At Swiss Champs
- Angelina Topic Equals World U18 High Jump Best With 1.96m To Win Serbian HJ Title
- MB: Marcell Jacobs won Italian champs in 10.12 on Friday. Can he be a player at Worlds?
- 19-Year-Old Mykolas Alekna Throws 69.00m To Win The Discus At Lithuanian Championships
- Lorraine Ugen Eyes More Honors After Fifth British LJ Title
- European National Champs Round-Up
Irish Champs Were Last Weekend
- Irish Champs: Perfect 10 For Thomas Barr As Rhasidat Adeleke Edges 100m Thriller Barr won his 10th national 400H title while Adeleke won the 100m by .01. Mark English won his eighth outdoor national 800m title in 1:48.46.
- Sarah Lavin Coasts To 100H Victory At Irish Champs (Her 7th Outdoor National Title) Fionnuala McCormack won the 5000m.
- Props Deserved: Irish Championships Extend Their Unbroken Streak To 150 Years Even during COVID, they made it work.
- Mid-D Runner Ciara Mageean Had To Miss Irish Champs After Contracting COVID
Sprints / Jumps
- 2012 Olympic Pole Vault Champ Jenn Suhr Announces Her Retirement At 40-Years-Old Suhr actually wanted to retire in 2017 (after a disappointing Rio Olympics), but her husband/coach convinced her to keep going and she ended up setting her outdoor PB and being ranked #1 in the world in 2018. She just missed out on the Tokyo Games after finishing 5th on countback at the Olympic Trials.
- Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Vs Poland's Ewa Swoboda Over 100m In Silesia, Poland On August 6 Mondo Duplantis is in the PV.
- Daryll Neita After Beating Dina Asher-Smith: "There are two of us now and I have worked very hard for this, we all do. I’ve always been here, I’m here now and here to stay."
- Usain Bolt And Cathy Freeman Join Modern Slavery Awareness Campaign For The Commonwealth Games The campaign raises awareness of human trafficking, forced labor and exploitation in Commonwealth countries.
Stockholm Diamond League
Stockholm Diamond League
Mondo gave the Swedish fans exactly what he wanted - the highest vault ever outdoors (but he’s gone higher indoors). Meanwhile, refugee athlete Dominic Lobalu ran a 20-sec pb to stun Olympic bronze medalist Jacob Kiplimo. Also Olympic silver medallist Keely Hodgkinson was beaten as well.
- Stockholm Live Discussion Thread
- Keely H. Goes Home Devastated
- Major Props: Domnic Lobalu of Athlete Refugee Team outkicks Jacob Kiplimo to win 3k in 7:29
- Marcell Jacobs Pulls Out, Will Fly to Worlds Tomorrow
Instant Stockholm Reactions By The LRC Crew
At the 38-minute mark, both Rojo and Wejo ABSOLUTELY LOSE THEIR COOL when they are told that Kibiwott Kandie won't be at Worlds even though he just ran 27:33 at the Kenyan Champs as he doesn't have the standard.
We Loved This Article
The runners he coached, loved him. "“I totally believed everything he told me,” Beardsley often said. “If he had told me to go sit in a garbage can, I’d have done it.”
- MB: RIP Bill Squires: Legendary marathon coach has died at 89
- 2012 Toni Reavis: CELEBRATING COACH SQUIRES AT 80
NCAA News
- Good Q&A With Katelyn Tuohy Talking A Bit About Her Training, Team At NC State And Transition From HS To College She says her hardest workout in XC season is the Michigan (they call it the Brazier) where you alternate fast track reps with tempo on grass.
- USA Today: "PAC 12 Powerhouses UCLA, USC Joining Big Ten Conference In 2024" The USC athletics director said, "This is the most volatile and uncertain era in the history of American collegiate athletics. USC must ensure it is best positioned and prepared for whatever happens next ...Ultimately, the Big Ten is the best home for USC..."
*MB: UCLA and USC reportedly joining Big Ten as early as 2024 - NY Times: "UCLA And UCS Poised To Join Big Ten, Rattling College Sports Anew" In a statement, the Pac-12 (the conference UCLA and USC are leaving) said it was "extremely surprised and disappointed" by the move.
- Results From The Bowerman Fan And USTFCCCA Membership Vote Trey Cunningham and Abby Steiner came out on top in the fan vote.
International Distance News
- Selemon Barega, Joshua Cheptegei And Jacob Kiplimo Announced For The Great North Run Half-Marathon On September 11 It will be the first time the three have raced each other on the roads.
- Laura Muir And Josh Kerr Lead Scotland's Team Of 33 For Commonwealth Games Eilish McColgan is in both the 5,000m and 10,000m.
- 100th Hakone Ekiden To Be Opened Up To Universities Throughout Japan The Hakone Ekiden is traditionally only open to university men's teams from within Kanto Region (Tokyo area).
- Toyo University Wins 69th Ogi Ekiden
High School / Youth News
- MileSplit Review's Cade Flatt's Season, Names Him Their Boys Athlete Of The Year While Flatt missed the HS 800m record by .03, he did come away holding the second, third, fourth, sixth and seventh fastest prep times ever.
- MileSplit Names Juliette Whittaker Their Girls Athlete Of The Year This year she became just the second high school girl to go sub-2 (she did it twice) and broke Mary Cain's high school record with 1:59.04.
- Future Stars Light Up The Track On Day Two Of USATF National Youth Outdoor Champs 9:44 won the boys 11-12 year-old 3000m.
- Field Events Shine On Day One Of The 2022 USATF Youth Outdoor Championships
- 2022 USATF National Youth Combined Events Invitational Recap
- State-By-State Gatorade Outdoor Boys Player Of The Year Winners
African News
- Athletics Kenya Issues Strict Rules For Athletes At Pre-Worlds Camp No athlete will be allowed to leave without permission.
- Ugandan Federation Doesn't Choose Its Two Fastest Marathoners For Worlds They skipped over Stephen Kissa and Victor Kiplangat who ran 2:04:48 and 2:05:09 at the Hamburg Marathon (the two fastest times in Ugandan history), instead choosing guys who ran in the 2:07-2:08 range.
- NY Times: "The Kipchoge Ripple Effect: Sub-7 And Sub-8 Hour Triathletes" Kipchoge's sub-2 hour marathon inspired similar projects in the triathlon where they used otherwise illegal strategies (like drafting on the bike) to help some athletes break major time barriers.
- MB: INEOS Eliud Kipchoge Cycling Academy opens in Kaptagat Kipchoge posted on Instagram that they were "expanding" their training camp to a "wider kind of sports academy" and this would help young cyclists make the next step in the sport.
One Final Look at USAs
Plus thoughts on pacers in the men's 5,000 final and will an American man win a distance medal at Worlds?
UK News
- Stephen Maguire Returns To UK Athletics As Technical Director Maguire was considered the favorite for the job in 2020, but was overlooked in favor of Christian Malcolm. Maguire was so angry that he left for a job as head of Sport Ireland and had to be "coaxed" back to UKA.
- GB Names 64-Athlete Team For Worlds Keely Hodgkinson, Laura Muir, Eilish McColgan, Max Burgin, Josh Kerr lead the distance squad.
*GB Adds Several Athletes To World Squad With Qualification Via World Athletics Rankings - GB Heptathlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson Has A New Coach Ahead Of World Champs/Commonwealth Games This is her third coach in a year.
- Steve Vernon New Endurance Performance Manager For UK Athletics He left his coaching position at Team New Balance Manchester.
Meet Gary Martin's Coach
Streleckis was diagnosed with prostate cancer in March but didn't let that stop him from engineering one of the most memorable seasons in prep mile history.
Looking Ahead To The Rest of the Year
From world record chases to era-defining rivalries, here are the eight stories Jonathan Gault will be following closely throughout the 2022 track season.
Are The Marathon Trials In Trouble?
As USATF searches for a bidder for the 2024 Trials, those in charge of recent Olympic Marathon Trials in Houston and Atlanta believe the Trials' financial model is unsustainable. Will anything change?
Ross Tucker Speaks
We paid one of the top sports scientists in the world to analyze the Shelby Houlihan doping case and CAS ruling. He has 2 pieces for us, the piece above is an opinion piece where he answers our questions. In a 2nd more technical piece, Ross goes through the CAS decision step by step and outlines in clear terms exactly what Houlihan argued and why he thinks CAS ultimately (correctly) ruled against her.
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RIP: D3 All-American Frank Csorba - who ran 13:56 in March - dead
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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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