Archived Homepage For August 10, 2022
Archived Homepage For August 10, 2022
Plan Your Lunch Break Now - Monaco DL is Wednesday

What a meet. When this meet is over the American 3000 record may be history as well as the women's 1500 WR. Plus we get Noah Lyles vs Michael Norman and Erriyon Knighton in the 200, Emmanuel Korir vs Jake Wightman in the 1000, SAFP vs Shericka Jackson in the 200. *WA Preview

Will Faith Kipyegon break the 1500 WR in Monaco?

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Will Grant Fisher break the 7:29.00 3k AR in Monaco?

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Who wins the 200?

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NYC Men's Field Is Out

The field also includes defending champ Albert Korir and five guys with a pb under 2:06.

Unpleasant News
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News From Europe
Our Weekly Recap

What a week for track fans, worthy of an epic 3,000+ word WTW breakdown. In it, we tell the Aussies how to pick their team, guess what Sydney M can run for 400 and wonder if the next Ethiopian star has arrived.

WA Continental Tour Gold - 2022 Gyulai István Memorial Results
UK News
More From The Commonwealth Games
Other News
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Some Great CG Races
Some Great CG Races
W 1500 - Muir Wins
W800 - Moraa Goes From 1st to Last To 1st
M1500 Video - Hoare gets redemption
Awesome 4 x 400 Finish (Watch last lap although the winner was DQd)
Eilish McColgan Wins 10,000 Gold
World Under-20 Championships
US News
The 2022 Commonwealth Games
The 2022 Commonwealth Games
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8 years ago, "she was the young poster girl of the Glasgow Games in 2014, only to be devastatingly tripped coming into the home straight when in contention and to fall away to 11th."
*Ciara Mageean Wins 1500m Silver For Ireland

The 1st-Ever Silesia, Poland DL Was on Saturday

The World Champs came to play as SAFP capped the meet in style with a 10.66 100m win, plus Mondo, dos Santos and Michael Norman got wins. In the distances, Sifan Hassan returned to the winner's circle, Emmanuel Korir dug deep and won the men's 800 while the Americans struggled, and did Diriebe Welteji arrive as a star in the women's 1500 at the age of 20 as she took down Gudaf Tsegay? *WA Full meet recap

Beach To Beacon

Maine native Emily Durgin (2nd, 32:16) nearly made history as she led much of it and non American woman was has ever on Beach to beacon. Biya Simbassa (3rd, 29:01)was the top male American. Anthony Kioko bought his own bib, got picked up at 4:30 am and was the men's runnerup.
*Local tv: Maine native Emily Durgin almost made history as no American woman has ever won Beach to Beacon

Commonwealth Games


Previous Commonwealth Games Results

Commonwealth Games

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World U20 Champs

Despite the loss, Tebogo called it the best race of his life. “This is the best race that I have ever run in my life so far. I’m really grateful for the performance and it’s not everybody who can run these fast times, four days in a row.” Full Thursday night recap.

Previous World U20 Champ News

Roisin Willis joined the sub 2:00 club, broke the U20 Championships record and became the third American to win the U20 800m title since 2012 as American high school record holder Juliette Whittaker got bronze.

Previous Commonwealth Games

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US Distance News of Note
The Real Winners from Worlds

An Ethiopian-American woman dominated the Coros prediction contest, while a sports professor and two teachers took home the remaining prizes.

Brosnan until Monday was the coach of the greatest boys high school XC team ever. Now he's heading to UCLA. We spoke to him about the switch on our weekly LetsRun.com Track Talk Podcast. Before Brosnan, we spanned the globe talking American Track Leaguek, Commonwealth Games, World U20s and Rojo getting covid. Listen here on your favorite podcast app.

Times Are Tough - Considering Donating Now

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Previous Commonwealth Games News
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He ran 27:09.19 to beat out the three Kenyans who took 2nd through 4th. Daniel Ebenyo was second in 27:11.26.

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    Hmmmm.... The US Sprinters All Suddenly Got Way Better At Reacting to The Gun At Worlds?

    Are you still no convinced there was something massively different with the reaction times at Worlds? This should be the nail in the coffin.
    *MBOfficial Devon Allen False Start / 2022 Worlds Reaction Time Discussion Thread

    Worlds Post Mortem

    From Max Siegel scheduling a press conference in the middle of the meet while it was going on to Galen Rupp only finishing 19th in the marathon, Rojo reveals what stunned him at Worlds.

    Jakob Ingebrigtsen listens to the Letsrun podcast. Why don't you?

    Join the Supporters Club to get Daily podcasts from Worlds.

    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.

      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?

      The new and improved LetsRun.com forum is here. Read about the new features. Or just check them out yourself.

      Your latest American stars share their insights.

      Three legends of the sport.

      One of the greatest US runners ever.

      We chatted with Frank on the 50th anniversary of his Olympic Marathon gold

      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.

      Best of Jon Gault
      Best of Jon Gault
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      Take Your Love of LetsRun to the Next Level
      Take Your Love of LetsRun to the Next Level