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European Champs Start Monday (August 15)

LRC 2022 European Athletics Championships Viewing Guide: Ingebrigtsen Doubles, Warholm Returns, Hodgkinson Chases Gold

The track world's eyes will be on Munich starting on Monday as Europe's biggest stars are out for continental glory.

Opposite Of Blue Collar: GB Marathoner Phil Sesemann Has Been Preparing For A Hot Euro Champs Marathon By Running In A Heat Chamber In Multiple Layers He's also used thermometer gastrointestinal pills to track his body temperature during sessions, a cryospa after runs and an altitude tent.
Italy's Marcell Jacobs Given The Green Light To Chase The Euro 100m TItle In Munich His coach say his "workouts are promising."
World Silver Medalist Femke Bol Wants To Win 400H/400 Double Gold At Euro Champs

1500m Champions In The News

Jake Wightman Jokes His Dad Will Be More Happy His Video Went Viral On Twitter Than His Son Won Gold Wightman reveals that his girlfriend his his world medal and bib to try and help him focus on the Commonwealth Games, but he still wasn't mentally motivated and "didn't really want to be there doing it."
Len Johnson: "Ollie Hoare Weaves The Strands Of History" Hoare was the first Aussie Commonwealth 1500/mile winner since Herb Elliott in 1958.

On The Boards

Distance News

Faith Kipyegon Wants To Make Another 1500m WR Attempt After Just Missing In Monaco “I trained well and ran well. I believe getting the record is achievable because I missed by just fractions of seconds. I will certainly try to lower that time."
MB: Eric Holt wins the West Chester Mile in 3:54.93
USATF Announce Roster For NACAC Open Championships In The Bahamas There are a slew of notable distance runners competing including Evan Jager (steeple) and Ajee' Wilson (800m).

LRC What to Watch For During the 2022 Fall Marathon Season - Gidey Debuts, Farah Returns, Kipchoge Chases the WR (Again)

With the major marathon fields are (mostly) set, it's time to get excited for another busy fall of road racing.|

MB: 26.2 fans, these are the storylines you want to pay attention to this fall according to Jonathan Gault
World Champ Tamirat Tola withdraws from London:"Unfortunately, since the World Champs I have had problems with muscle fatigue."

2022 Monaco

Full Results

LRC Grant Fisher Breaks The 3000 American Record in Monaco, Runs 7:28.48

Benard Lagat's record is history as Fisher judged things perfectly and then closed in 57.7.

GRANT MF FISHERRRRR

Monaco Recap Podcast and Video Show (Available to Supporters Club members)

LRC Faith Kipyegon Runs 3:50.37 (#2 All-Time) to Narrowly Miss 1500m World Record in Monaco

Kipyegon came just .30 shy of Genzebe Dibaba's WR in a valiant effort as Americans Heather MacLean & Elise Cranny broke 4:00.
*MB: Faith Kipyegon so close!

LRC Full Meet Recap Wightman, Lyles, & Fraser-Pryce Win Fast Battles of World Champs at 2022 Monaco Diamond League

Wightman (2:13.88), Lyles (19.46), and Fraser-Pryce (10.62) all set meet records as the action was great in Monaco once again.

Faith Kipyegon Near WR

SAFP 10.62

Men's 1k

W400

UPCOMING RACES / 2022 CHICAGO AND NYC FIELDS ARE OUT

LRC Conner Mantz To Debut / Defending Champs Ruth Chepngetich & Seifu Tura Set to Return to the 2022 Bank of America Chicago Marathon

Emily Sisson will lead the American women's contingent at the 2022 Chicago Marathon.
*MB: Conner Mantz to debut at 26.2 in Chicago - Full elite fields out

LRC World Champ Gotytom Gebreslase Will Challenge Olympic Champ Peres Jepchirchir at 2022 New York City Marathon

Hellen Obiri will also make her marathon debut and Americans Sara Hall, Emma Bates, Aliphine Tuliamuk, Des Linden, Nell Rojas, and Stephanie Bruce will compete.
*MB: Hellen Obiri is going to move to the US to train for 2022 NYC Marathon, why?

European organizers warn fans to not expect sellouts for track action at Europeans They point out that the stadium is much larger than CGs at 69,000 and that recenty "the Rolling Stones and Guns N’ Roses didn’t sell out."
Ottawa's Terry Fox Athletic Park To Host 2025 and 2026 Canadian Track and Field Championships

Distance News of Note

NYC Men's Field Is Out

LRC Galen Rupp to make his New York City Marathon debut this year in November

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

Unpleasant News

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MB: 1971 NCAA champ and 1976 10,000 Olympian Garry Bjorklund Ticketed After DUI Crash The 71-year old was going the wrong way and hit another car and then collapsed while standing outside his car, telling the officer he wasn't drunk. "The officer administered a preliminary breath test, and it registered Bjorklund's blood alcohol content at 0.26%."
Day after being banned from coaching in UK, Toni Minichiello emphatically denies ALL sexual misconduct charges against him"For example, one of the most serious allegations was said to have taken place when I was in a different country to the person making the allegations. The tribunal refused to admit my evidence on this point and found against me as a result."
*MB: Lifetime Ban for British Coach Toni Minichiello

News From Europe

Marcell Jacobs is a Roma super fan and Roma coach Jose Mourinho says he'd be a great footballer
After CG success, some now are clamoring for Birmingham to host 2036 Olympics and at a minimum become the permanent home of the UK Diamond League meeting "After the success of this summer, a further refurbishment will mean the capacity of the stadium can switch between 18,000 and 40,000, according to demand."
Track crowds were big at Commonwealths but so was all other crowds as most venues were at least 90% full They sold more tickets than expected - about 1.5 million.

Our Weekly Recap

LRC WTW: Olli Hoare & Mary Moraa Win Big, Abbey Caldwell Gets Bronze, & Ethiopia Is Loaded For The Future

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

LRC 2022 Gyulai István Memorial Results: Erriyon Knighton 19.88, SAFP 10.67, Jasmine Camacho-Quinn 12.27w

Fast wins from Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (10.67, +1.3) and Jasmine Camacho-Quinn (12.27, +2.4) turned heads as did Erriyon Knighton getting his first European win in a 19.88 meet record (+0.8). *World Athletics Recap

UK News

Toni Minichiello, Jessica Ennis-Hill's Former Coach, Banned For Life For By UKA For Sexually Inappropriate Behavior The charges include touching an athlete's breasts and making inappropriate comments such as telling an athlete she could "suck my ****" if she didn't continue training and referring to his penis as his "spicy Italian sausage." Multiple anonymous athletes made accusations, but reportedly, Jessica Ennis-Hill was not one of them.
The Diamond League Will Return To The London Olympic Stadium Next Year It will be the first time in four years the stadium has been used for an elite track meet.

Laura Muir erases eight years of hurt by crushing 1500 field, England's 4 x 400 team controversially DQ'd

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

MB: Abbey Caldwell makes the Aussie selectors look like fools - Bronze in 1500 at CGs!! Aussie selectors, please take a look at the picture above and notice who's on the medal stand - the woman you left off your Worlds team. Well done.
MB: Wycliffe Kinyamal repeats as 800m CG Champion
Athletics Weekly: English Relay Success Delights Home Crowd Gold for the men's 4x100 and silver for the women behind Nigeria.
Matthew Hudson-Smith stunned by Zambian’s Muzala Samukonga in 400 final As a result, a grand total of 0 British men won golds on the track at a home CGs.
Alastair Chalmers Creates Athletics History With 400H Bronze For Guernsey The UK champ won the first track medal for the English Channel island, Guernsey.
World Athletics: NZ's Tom Walsh Retains Commonwealth Shot Put Title

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

LRC 2022 Silesia Diamond League Full Results

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

MB: Official Diamond League Silesia Poland Thread
MB: SAFP 10.66 in the Polish Diamond League
SC VIP: Super Saturday Instant Reaction Show & Bonus Podcast. Hoare the CG champ, Do we have a new women's 1500 star? Rojo thinks he's may have found the heir apparent to Faith Kipyegon.

Beach To Beacon

Results

Matthew Kimeli (28:38) And Fentyea Belayneh (32:06) Win Beach To Beacon 10k

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

The Guardian: Ollie Hoare Wins Epic Commonwealth Games 1500m Final For Australia Jake Wightman made a bid for victory, but was passed by Timothy Cheruiyot who then just lost out to a late charging Hoare. Hoare won in a Games record of 3:30.12, .09 ahead of Cheruiyot and .41 ahead of Wightman.
Athletics Weekly: Mary Moraa Wins 800m Gold With Fartlek-Style Tatics 1:57:07 to beat Keely Hodgkinson's 1:57.40 while Laura Muir just edged Natoya Goule for bronze in 1:57.87.
MB: Jacob Kiplimo Completes The 5k/10k Double Kiplimo ran his last mile in 4:00 to win a three-way sprint for gold in 13:08.08 to beat out Kenyans Nicholas Kimeli (13:08.19) and Jacob Krop (13:08.48).
Elaine Thompson-Herah Completes CWG Sprint Double With 200m Gold She ran 22.02 to dominate over Favour Ofili (22.51). Trinidad and Tobago's Jereem Richards won the men's race in 19.80 over England's Zharnel Hughes (20.12).
Jake Wightman "Relieved" To Win 1500m Bronze Wightman said, "I gave it a go to win it, but I didn't have it. I'm just relieved to get something for Scotland because one of us deserved to be on the podium and I'm lucky to be the one to be on it."
BBC: England's Matt Hudson-Smith Denied Gold By Zambia's Muzala Samukonga In Dramatic 400m Finish Hudson-Smith had a decent lead, but tied up at the end losing 44.66 to 44.81.
Australian Kurtis Marschall Beats English Duo To Pole Vault Gold With 5.70m
Eilish McColgan To Carry Scotland Flag At Closing Ceremony

Commonwealth Games MB: Discussion

MB: (Live thread) Mouth-watering CG 1500 final is set - Wightman, Kerr, Cheruiyot, Kipsang, Hoare - Who you got?
MB: One of the great 1500's won by Aussie Ollie Hoare!
MB: HOARE DOUBTERS GO HOME DEVESTATED
MB: Mary Moraa wins WACKIEST 800 we've ever seen. Has anyone else ever gone from 1st to last to 1st in a championship 800 before?
MB: Moraa beats Hodgkinson in 800m final
MB: Laura Muir Wearing Prototype Spikes. How is that legal and fair??
MB: One of the great 1500's won by Aussie Ollie Hoare!
MB: Fake Josh Kerr goes home DEVASTATED!
MB: JAKOB KIPLIMO COMPLETES THE DOUBLE Click to watch a thrilling last lap with a 3 way sprint for gold. Kiplimo closed in 4:00.

World Under-20 Championships

Schedule / Start Lists / Results

Jamaica Women Storm To World U20 4x100 Record With 42.59 To Beat Out Team USA (43.28) (Friday Night Recap) Ethiopia's Melkeneh Azize won the 3000m in 7:44.06.
Field Event Recap: Jamaica’s Jaydon Hibbert Wins U20 Triple Jump On His First Jump With A 17.27m Championship Record
Italian Runner Comes Last In Decathlon 400m After His Penis Falls Out Of His Shorts
World U20 Friday AM Recap

Previous Commonwealth Games Results

Kenya's Jackline Chepkoech Wins Commonwealth Steeple In 9:15.68
Decathlon Comes Down To The Final Event As Grenada's Lindon Victor Holds Off 2-3 Australian Charge Aussie Daniel Golubovic won the 1500m, but needed to beat Victor by ~23-seconds to steal the gold and only managed to beat him by about 21.
Laura Muir Sets Sights On Elusive Commonwealth Games Medal After Reaching 1500m Final She had to qualify while also saving energy for Saturday's 800m final. Muir said, “I went to the front and slowed down a wee bit and I got away with it for a while but I knew they would come round at some point. I latched on and did as minimum as possible to save the legs for tomorrow.”
England's Former NFLer Lawrence Okoye Takes Commonwealth Games Discus Silver Australia's Matthew Denny won the gold.
Birmingham May Bid To Host The Olympics After The Commonwealth Game

Sir Walter Miler

LRC 2022 Sir Walter Miler Results: Yared Nuguse (3:53.34) and Nikki Hiltz (4:21.89) Set Meet Records

Full results + post-race interviews with the winners.

Brosnan Q&A

LRC Q&A Sean Brosnan Opens Up On Leaving the Greatest High School XC Team Ever for UCLA

Which Newbury Park stud does Brosnan compare to Galen Rupp, who does he think can win an NCAA 1500 title and who will be the best pro?

NCAA Coaching News

Jerry Schumacher meets with the Eugene media at introductory press event - ''It's a privilege and a wonderful opportunity'

MB: Million dollar man? Mike Holloway signs contract extension with Florida that will keep him through 2032. He made 734k last year.

Commonwealth Games

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MB: Mouth-watering CG 1500 final is all set as Wightman, Kerr, Cheruiyot, Kipsang, Hoare all advance- Who you got? We can't wait for this one (8:10 am ET Saturday morning, 13:10 local time)
Jake Wightman fulfils dream as dad announces him as world champion at Commonwealth Games - Mirror Online "That’s definitely the most that it's sunk in - because that’s what I was waiting for. To be announced as that and to be like, yeah, I have actually done that."
Colin Jackson thinks Eilish McColgan's 10,000m CG will be a career 'turning point'

World U20 Champs

Schedule / Start Lists / Results

Israel's Blessing Akawasi Afrifah upsets Letsile Tebogo to win 200 as both run 19.96 pbs (-0.6)

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.

Faith Cherotich (9:16.14) CRUSHED steeple field to win U20 gold Since they 18-year old has run 9:12 this year, we wonder if she could have medalled senior Worlds.
Meet Natalia Linares - Colombia's best hope for U20 gold - who moved away from home to try to be the best in the LJ Her talent is so big, it jumped out at a PE teacher 8 years ago.
Hana Moll defeats twin sister and US U20 record holder Amanda Moll to win gold in PV in Colombia Hana cleared 4.35 as Amanda, who has a 4.51 pb, only managed a 4.20 for 5th.
U20 1500 champ Reynold Cheruiyot dedicated gold to his parents who never got to compete abroad: “This gold is for my old folks,” "My ultimate dream is to become an Olympic champion,” said Cheruiyot who isn't related to Timothy Cheruiyot but is from the same county. Reynold just turned 18 on July 30 and has already run 7:39/3:34 and 13:33.

Previous World U20 Champ News

LRC USA's Roisin Willis Wins World U20 Gold in 1:59.13

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.

World JR MB Talk Discussion: Roisin MF Willis - 1:59.13 u20 World Champion
Tina Clayton repeated in wmoen's 100 as Jamaican went 1-2 as Shawnti Jackson was 3rd
UW frosh Nathan Green just got 5th at World U20s. Why didn't Hobbs Kessler run World Juniors? The race was won by Kenya's Reynold Cheruiyot in 3:35.83.
JJ Clark and Stanford Have Willis and Whittaker Next Year

Previous Commonwealth Games

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Eilish McColgan’s epic 10,000m triumph lights up Commonwealth Games

Guardian says it was the loudest roar since the 2012 Olympics.

US Distance News of Note

LRC HOKA NAZ Elite Signs NCAA Champ Olin Hacker + Krissy Gear, Abby Nichols & Adrian Wildschutt

Talk about the signings on our messageboard.
*MB: Hacker (and more) to NAZ Elite

9 pm ET Friday Night: Yared Nuguse, Lots of Female NC State Alums Headline Sir Walter Miler Plus they are bringing in Larry Rawson and Colleen Quigley to do the live stream, which requires a Runnerspace+ sub.

The Real Winners from Worlds

LRC Meet the Coros Worlds Prediction Contest Winners - Ethiopian-American Woman Dominates, Sports Professor Runner-Up

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

Worlds Post Mortem

LRC 9 Things I Can't Believe Happened at the 2022 World Athletics Championships

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

LRC Sports Scientist Ross Tucker Weighs in on the Shelby Houlihan Case

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.

Discussion: Sports Scientist Ross Tucker breaks down the Shelby Houlihan case for us

Are The Marathon Trials In Trouble?

SC Are the US Olympic Marathon Trials Broken? Examining the Business Model of America's Greatest Marathon

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?

LRC An Improved LetsRun.com Forum Is Here

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LRC 2022 European Athletics Championships Viewing Guide: Ingebrigtsen Doubles, Warholm Returns, Hodgkinson Chases Gold

LRC What to Watch For During the 2022 Fall Marathon Season - Gidey Debuts, Farah Returns, Kipchoge Chases the WR (Again)

LRC Grant Fisher Breaks The 3000 American Record in Monaco, Runs 7:28.48

LRC Faith Kipyegon Runs 3:50.37 (#2 All-Time) to Narrowly Miss 1500m World Record in Monaco

LRC Full Meet Recap Wightman, Lyles, & Fraser-Pryce Win Fast Battles of World Champs at 2022 Monaco Diamond League

LRC Conner Mantz To Debut / Defending Champs Ruth Chepngetich & Seifu Tura Set to Return to the 2022 Bank of America Chicago Marathon

LRC World Champ Gotytom Gebreslase Will Challenge Olympic Champ Peres Jepchirchir at 2022 New York City Marathon

LRC Galen Rupp to make his New York City Marathon debut this year in November

LRC WTW: Olli Hoare & Mary Moraa Win Big, Abbey Caldwell Gets Bronze, & Ethiopia Is Loaded For The Future

LRC 2022 Gyulai István Memorial Results: Erriyon Knighton 19.88, SAFP 10.67, Jasmine Camacho-Quinn 12.27w

Laura Muir erases eight years of hurt by crushing 1500 field, England's 4 x 400 team controversially DQ'd

LRC 2022 Silesia Diamond League Full Results

Matthew Kimeli (28:38) And Fentyea Belayneh (32:06) Win Beach To Beacon 10k

LRC 2022 Sir Walter Miler Results: Yared Nuguse (3:53.34) and Nikki Hiltz (4:21.89) Set Meet Records

LRC Q&A Sean Brosnan Opens Up On Leaving the Greatest High School XC Team Ever for UCLA

Jerry Schumacher meets with the Eugene media at introductory press event - ''It's a privilege and a wonderful opportunity'

Commonwealth Games

World U20 Champs

Israel's Blessing Akawasi Afrifah upsets Letsile Tebogo to win 200 as both run 19.96 pbs (-0.6)

Previous World U20 Champ News

LRC USA's Roisin Willis Wins World U20 Gold in 1:59.13

Previous Commonwealth Games

Eilish McColgan’s epic 10,000m triumph lights up Commonwealth Games

LRC HOKA NAZ Elite Signs NCAA Champ Olin Hacker + Krissy Gear, Abby Nichols & Adrian Wildschutt

LRC Meet the Coros Worlds Prediction Contest Winners - Ethiopian-American Woman Dominates, Sports Professor Runner-Up

LRC 9 Things I Can't Believe Happened at the 2022 World Athletics Championships

LRC Sports Scientist Ross Tucker Weighs in on the Shelby Houlihan Case

SC Are the US Olympic Marathon Trials Broken? Examining the Business Model of America's Greatest Marathon

LRC An Improved LetsRun.com Forum Is Here

American Record Pod: Yared Nuguse and Wood Kincaid Open Up

Webb, Ritz, and Hall

Madeline Manning Mims

Frank Shorter

LRC American Marathon Record Podcast: Keira D'Amato and Deena Kastor

LRC Emily Sisson - The Next US Marathon Superstar?

LRC Woody Kincaid - On His American Record and Leaving Bowerman

LRC New Balance Boston's Mark Coogan

LRC Brooks Beasts' Danny Mackey

LRC OAC's Dathan Ritzenhein

The Rise of Syracuse: How a Cross Country Powerhouse Was Built From Scratch in 10 Years

26:59: The Story of Chris Solinsky's American Record and Upset of Galen Rupp

The Summer of Webb: An Inside Look at Alan Webb’s Magical 2007 Season

Dreams Become Reality: Jake Wightman Stuns Jakob Ingebrigtsen to Win World 1500m Title

Wejo Speaks: Why I Sucked in College

Escorting Paula - How LRC Co-Founder Weldon Johnson Paced Radcliffe To Her 1st World Record

American Strong: How American Teamwork Helped Meb Keflezighi Win Boston

LRC's Robert and Weldon Johnson Named as Two of “The 50 Most Influential People in Running”

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