Quote Of The Day
– Olympic sports writer Alan Abrahamson talking about how there’s too much going on at track meets for a casual fan to follow and they need to change in order to become more spectator friendly.
Week That Was
LRC8 Thoughts About The 2014 World Champs: Chanelle Price Is Golden, 26 Years Old Is Over The Hill In Running, Bold Frontrunning Rewarded, DQ City, Love For Ashton Eaton, And Genze Bulut, Treniere Moser And Ajee' Wilson Were Far From Golden
We tell you why Chanelle Price's gold medal was even rarer than you think, why running is definitely a young person's game, discuss what gets your DQed on the international level, ponder how Ashton Eaton isn't a cross-over star, look at the disappointing runs of Ajee' Wilson, Treniere Moser and Genze Bulut, and share with you two message board gems.
Post-Worlds: *2014 World Indoors Section *Results*LRC Day 1 PM Photos *LRC Day 1 AM Photos*LRC Day 2 PM Photos*LRC Day 3 Photos
- Good Read: Alan Abrahamson Calls For Change To Track Meets, Which He Says Are Like A “Circus” As There’s Way Too Much Going On For A Casual Fan To Follow “In those four-plus hours you saw – deep breath now – 14 events, two semifinals and 12 finals, as well as 17 medal ceremonies. Essentially, you went to the circus.”
- A Year Ago, GB’s 60m World Indoor Champ Richard Kilty Almost Quit The Sport And Joined The Army And Now He Wants To Become The 2nd White Man To Go Sub-10 Kilty’s life has improved a lot as he’s also had run-ins with the law in the past, including 4 months ago paying a large fine for putting his fist through an estate agent’s window.
- IAAF Profile On US’s Omo Osaghae, Who Won A Surprise 60H Gold At World Indoors Osaghae almost gave up on the indoor season to focus on outdoors as he was dealing with early season injuries.
- At 39 Years Old, Bernard Lagat Became The Oldest Men’s Medalist Ever At World Indoors
- US 4 X 400 Anchor Leg Calvin Smith Carries On Family Tradition As He Breaks WR Smith’s father Calvin Smith Sr. is a former 100m WR holder (9.97).
- Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Says She Didn’t Do Any Special Training For The 60 She won gold at World Indoors, but says she’s been doing the same training she does for the 100 focusing on outdoors.
- IAAF “Work, Rest And Play” Q&A With World SP Champ Ryan Whiting
- AW Interesting Stats On Men’s Events From World Indoor Champs
*Women’s Events - GB Performance Director Neil Black Gives Big Praise To Multi-Eventer Katarina Johnson-Thompson After She Won LJ Silver At Worlds
updatedBernard Lagat Meets His Match As Caleb Ndiku Gets Gold, Lagat Silver, Rupp Fourth
Bernard Lagat at age 39 had a tremendous kick on Sunday, but he met his match in a younger version of himself as Caleb Ndiku was too good the final lap. Galen Rupp was a very respectable 4th.
New: Post-Race Video With Lagat, Rupp, Gebremeskel And Cam Levins
On The Boards:*Renato Canova Tell Us About Caleb Ndiku
*What was the message on Ndiku’s shirt?
*I finally understood what Rupp is lacking
LRCGenzebe Dibaba Remains Perfect, Hellen Obiri Gets Silver, Americans Non-Factors
(updated) Genzebe Dibaba dominated to remain undefeated in 2014 (like Mary Cain), defending champ Hellen Obiri got silver, and the Americans weren’t factors.
Non-Distance Worlds Results
- IAAF Final Day Recap: US World Record In X 400, SAFP Wins 60, Yarisley Silva Wins Vault, Barshim Over Ukhov The World Indoor Champs in Poland went out with a bang. Recap of all the final day action.
*Day 3 US Quotes - Three More Gold Medals For USA On Day 3, Including A WR In The 4 X 400 The men’s 4 x 400 ran 3:02.13 to set an official WR, although it’s not the fastest time ever run, as a US team that included Jeremy Wariner ran 3:01.96 in 2006, but it wasn’t ratified as there wasn’t drug testing. The women’s 4 x 400 also won gold with an AR of 3:24.83 and Omo Osagha won gold in the 60H. Overall, USA won 12 medals (8 gold) at these championships.
- Lemons Into Lemonade:UK’s Katarina Johnson-Thompson Wins LJ Silver After Missing Making Worlds In Pentathlon France’s Eloyse Lesueur took gold with 6.85m, beating out Johnson-Thompson’s 6.81m.
- IAAF On US’s Nia Ali Beating Sally Pearson In Worlds 60H: “Through the early rounds she floated like something of a butterfly. Then, when it came to the final round, she stung like a bee.”
- Like Kissing Your Sister:Poland’s Kamila Licwinko And Russia’s Mariya Kuchina Tie For World Indoor HJ Gold Medal They both got 2.00m and tied at 2.02 and since they had equal misses, they tied. They had an option for a jump off, but both declined.
Other Weekend Results
- Ethiopians Gebo Burka (2:10:37) And Amane Gobena (2:27:37) Win 2014 LA Marathon Titles The race was pretty quick considering the hot conditions and fairly close on the men’s side as Lani Rutto was second in 2:10:48. Aaron Braun ran his debut marathon and finished in 2:19:51 for 7th place after going through 20K on 2:12 pace. *Full Results
- Sara Hall Wins Mountain To Fountain 15K In Arizona In 51:20Andrew Lemoncello won the men’s race in 45:49 over Nick Hilton (45:56).
- Full 2014 IC4A Results Cornell won the team title over UConn.
- Full 2014 ECAC Results It was the opposite of the men’s team scoring as UConn won over Cornell.
- All NCAA Weekend Results
- Russian 39-Year-Old Mariya Konovalova Wins Nagoya Women’s Marathon In 2:23:43
NCAA News
- 2014 NCAA Indoor Championships Accepted Entries – Men
*Accepted Entries – Women (link fixed) - Florida’s Men And Women Take Over #1 Rankings Ahead Of NCAA Champs Arkansas men and Oregon women both moved down to number 2.
- Oregon State Receives $2 Million Anonymous Donation For Phase 2 Of Their Track Construction
USATF Controversy Still Garnering News
- The Wall St Journal Goes Inside A Nike Family Feud: Alberto Salazar Calls Jerry Schumacher And Group His Mortal Enemies
*MB: WSJ- Salazar says Schumacher is ‘mortal enemy.'” - Gabe Grunewald DQ Controversy Gets Publicity In Deadspin
*… And ESPN - Nick Symmonds: “We basically allowed a young lady, Jordan Hasay, to save USATF’s butt.”
Some Weekend Reading Material
LRCFemale Track And Field Stars: "Dirty" Or "Clean" Doping Poll Results
Without further ado, we present to you the results of our current female stars doping polls - from Molly Huddle (8.4%) to Carmelita Jeter (89.4%) and everyone else in between, who do the most sophisticated track and field fans think are "clean" and who do they think are "dirty." *Discuss The Poll Here
Oscar Pistorius Vomits, Weeps In Court During Autopsy Testimony
Pistorius’ defense lawyer also produced cell phone records and said the security guard lied and that Pistorius actually called him first that night, not the other way around. The guard disagreed, but we don’t understand how there is confusion if there are actual cell phone records available.
Get Psyched For NCAAs This Weekend
Updated D1 Rankings Predict Close Championships Battles For Men’s And Women’s Team Race Florida men and women lead the rankings over Arkansas men and Oregon women.
US Road News
- Deena Kastor To Headline Rock ‘N’ Roll Dallas Half Marathon This will be her first race since the World Champs marathon last summer.
- Pittsburgh’s American Development Program Offers Bonus Prize Money To Olympic Trials Qualifiers
- 2014 Bank Of America Shamrock Shuffle To Host USATF Club Team 8K Champs March 30th
- More Than 3,500 Police Planned For Boston Marathon
Mo Farah On Verge Of Running Into A Scottish Storm? UK Independent article claims Commonwealth Games organizers are furious that Farah might be snubbing their championships, but still running the Glasgow Grand Prix a few weeks before for a big payday.
Saturday
LRCM 1,500 Final: Souleiman Arrives As A Star, Nick Willis Just Misses (And Gets DQ), Leer A Non-Factor, And A Possible Boycott Of USATFs?
World, meet the newest mid-d star Ayanleh Souleiman. Souleiman controlled the race from start to finish, as Nick Willis came up just short of a medal, Will Leer was a non-factor and talked about a possible boycott of USAs. Recap, results, and video and a dance by Souleiman.
*MBoards:Souleiman 3:37.52*Leer Ran Stupid
*LRC Post-Race Video With Souleiman, Willis, Leer
*DQ Cost Nick Willis $8,000
*Kenyan Papers Rip Birgen And Kiplagat:“Birgen scoops wooden spoon in Sopot.” That means last place.
*“Kiplagat’s habit of choking at the big stage continued.”
Other International News
- UK Opinion Piece: “Dwain Chambers has done more than enough to deserve forgiveness.” Chambers tested positive 11 years ago, but his former coach says, “In a world where the default setting for a doping positive is denial, Dwain did not only own up to his mistake, but he went out of his way to atone for it.”
- Winter Paralympics 2014: Ukraine Will Compete Despite Growing Unrest As Russia Sends Troops Into Crimea
- Sorry, Sergey Bubka:Renaud Lavillenie’s 6.16m PV World Record Officially Ratified By IAAF
Non-LRC Day 2 Coverage
- Ashton Eaton Just Misses 4th Hep WR – 1.18 Seconds Short Of WR Eaton: “I tried. I’m not a robot.”
*Abrahamson: Is Winning Gold Ever “Failure”? - Day 2 IAAF Recap: A Night Of Big Surprises As Sally Pearson Is Beaten Team USA’s Nia Ali pulled a huge upset in the women’s 60H over Sally Pearson, but there were also stunners all over the place.
*Pearson: “I stuffed up out there tonight.” - Team USA Has Great Day 2 PM – Wins 3 Golds Eaton, McCorory, Ali. *USA Quotes
White Guy Richard Kilty – Who Only Came To Worlds As Dasaoulu Was Injured – Wins 60m For GBR He was a 33-1 long shot.
*MB:White people finally have an international sprint champion White guys won the 60 and 400m. *MB:White sprinters dominate WC- Mauro Vinicius Da Silva Defends Long Jump Title in Dramatic Fashion Da Silva was out of the medals until his final jump when he snatched gold.
- Valerie Adams Wins Third World Indoor Title
- Yekaterina Koneva Wins Women’s Triple Jump With Shortest Winning Mark In History
Day 1
- Hometown Paper: “Ajee’ Wilson’s run of success in international 800-meter racing has hit its first roadblock.”
- Laura Muir’s Young Hopes End In Failure
- Bronze Is Pure Gold For Tom Walsh In Shot Put
- Ryan Whiting Overcame Nerves To Win Shot Put Gold
- AFP Day 1 Recap: Nadine Broersen Wins Pentathlon Gold For USA, Ryan Whiting Defends Shot Put Title For USA, Brianne Thiesen Eaton Gets Silver In Pentathlon
UpdatedCHANELLE PRICE GETS THE GOLD!!!!!
Chanelle Price took it out really hard and hung on to win gold at 800 at the World Indoors. Wire-to-wire, world-leading time for the win. Impressive. Updated with analysis, comments, video interview.
New:Video Interview With Chanelle And Race Video
On The Boards:*CHANELLE MFin PRICE!!!
*Official Chanelle Price Splash Page Request Thread
New Final Day Photo Gallery
Saturday Night
Updated With Post-Race Reaction1,500 Final W: Aregawi Dominates For Gold, Treniere Moser Misses The Medals, And Heather Kampf Falls
Abeba Aregawi went out and crushed the field. There have now been 3 2 DQs after the race. Moving Canada’s Nicole Sifuentes to bronze and Treniere Moser to 4th 5th. (3rd DQ reversed on appeal).
On The Boards: Womens 1500m – 3 DQs – Sifuentes Bronze?
LRCCould a Little More Distance Training Earned Ashton Eaton $50,000? Eaton Wins World Heptathlon Title In Almost World Record Missing It By 1.18 Seconds
Eaton was ahead of WR pace going into the heptathlon 1000m, but came up a bit short and missed breaking his WR by 14-points. We decided to take this opportunity to talk distance running with Eaton and see what kind of a training a double-multi-event WR holder does.
Oscar P Trial Updates
Security Guard Says Oscar Pistorius Lied And Told Him Everything Was Fine After The Gunshots Went Off Things aren’t looking good for Oscar P, who then called back and just started crying.- Neighbor Testifies That Pistorius Tried To Revived His Girlfriend After He Shot Her The neighbor arrived on the scene and found Pistorius trying to give her CPR, but she was already dead.
- Oscar P Cheated On His 18-Year-Old Girlfriend With Woman He Eventually Killed He
- Oscar Pistorius’ Friend Took The Blame For Him After A Restaurant Gunshot Incident
- Neighbor Says: “I thought he was going to hurt himself” Of Pistorius
- Neighbor Said He Heard Screams, Then Shots – Bangs Were Too Quick To Be Bat
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