Archived Homepage For August 8, 2023

Archived Homepage For August 08, 2023

Quote Of The Day

“There is what I will accept, and then there’s what my greatest expectation is. What I will accept is grabbing a medal in the 100m, whatever color, and winning the 200m. My greatest aspiration is that I will grab three golds, gain a world record in the 200m.”

‒Noah Lyles talking about his goals for Worlds. A ~~hype piece~~ documentary on Lyles will air on Peacock the day before Worlds.

Our Weekly Recap

LRC WTW: Will Athing Mu Really Just Walk Away, Addy Wiley Rocks It Again & Conner Mantz Gets Shoved

In his weekly recap, Rojo points out that lots of GREATS - Michael Jordan, Bjorn Borg, Simone Biles - have taken a break in their prime, but the good news is most of them come back. Will Athing Mu be the latest?

Worlds Teams Are Announced

LRC USATF Announces 2023 World Championship Roster

Sean McGorty is double-entered in the 5k/10k but there's still an outside chance Grant Fisher could run Worlds.
*MB: Team USA Roster announced

4 months post pregnancy, Shaunae Miller-Uibo entered for Bahamas on Worlds team
UK team finalized *Australia too team *Japan as well
Why UK Athletics' selection decisions for Budapest are wrong On the eve of reporting on my 13th World Athletics Championships, Steve Smythe argues the British governing body’s choice to send a stream-lined team benefits nobody apart from rival nations. Our outrage is directed towards them picking the 5th placer in the women's 800 at the UK champs, Isabelle Boffey, over the Olympic finalist Alex Bell in the 800 who was 3rd . *Bell gives UK Athletics the double bird after running 1:59.28 sb.
Pole vaulter Lavillenie misses worlds due to painful hamstring

On The Boards

More Hype for Noah

Noah Lyles says he will accept two medals at Worlds, but his dream is 100 gold and a 200 WR You can learn much more about Lyles plans the day before Worlds as a documentary will be aired on him on Peacock.
*MB: Noah Lyles has big plans for Hungary - get his nails done and get a hair-cut are #1 & 2, win the 100 and set 200 WR are #3 & 4

Latest Pre-Worlds News

We love it: Olympic Finalist Alex Bell Sticks It To UK Athletics After World Championships Snub She stuck out her tongue and stuck up her middle fingers after running 1:59.28 to hit the Olympic qualifying standard a day after it was announced she was left off the team for Budapest.
World Athletics: What's New At The 2023 World Championships? This year there will be a "q room" for non-auto qualifying athletes to wait and see if they advance on time. There will be TV cameras so fans can watch their reactions. Also a change to rules for running under protest that probably has to do with Devon Allen's controversial DQ last year.
Four More GB Athletes Get Into Worlds After World Athletics Ranking Invites Many more could have got in on world ranking, but UK Athletics controversially rejected invites for athletes that didn't meet their stricter standards.
MB: Australia announces World champs squad.
Full Kenyan Squad For Budapest Worlds
*Kenyan Men's 4x100, Men's 4x400m And Mixed 4x400m Get Nod For Worlds

Distance Drama

Norwegian press: It wise to scrap Gjert: Jakob Ingebrigtsen must be protected. It came out a few days ago that Gjert Ingebrigtsen will not receive a coaching credential for Worlds even though he's Narve Nordas' coach and a Norwegian columnist says it's the right move.
*MB: Gjert snubbed once again - no coach accreditation for Budapest 2023
Conner Mantz Confronts Beach To Beacon 10K Winner Addisu Yihune For Unsportsmanlike Move Mantz called him out on social media saying, “With less than 200m to go, I made a big surge to pass him again. There was a lot of room on the left, but he saw me passing him and ran me into the fence. My momentum was gone. I will look forward to my next chance to race Addisu Yihune.” *Video
*MB: Mantz pushed in to fence

Pan American U20 Champs

Day 3: Shawnti Jackson And Ellie Shea Each Win Their Second Gold For The US On Final Day Of Pan Am U20 Champs She won the 3000m in 9:05, breaking the meet record from 1989. while Jackson took the 200m in 22.35. The US also swept the women's and men's 800m thanks to Sophia Gorriaran (2:04.68) and Daniel Watcke (1:48.86). Simeon Birnbaum won 800m silver in 1:49.31.
Day 2: Shawnti Jackson Anchors US To Gold And New US Under-20 4x100 Record Their time of 42.88 is #3 on the world U20 list.
Day 1: Ellie Shea Takes 1500m Title In 4:16.61 As US Wins 12 Golds On First Day Of Pan Am U20 Champs Other distance golds for the US were Notre Dame's Ethan Coleman in the 5000m (14:44) and Michigan’s Caleb Jarema in the steeple (9:05).
World Athletics Recap: USA, Costa Rica And Nicaragua Make History At Pan American U20 Championships

More Recent Results

MB: Cole Hocker 7:42 3k FTW at Flanders Cup in Belgium *Results
MB: Elzan Bibic takes down Cooper Teare (and George Mills) in Switzerland 1500m Bibic won in 3:34.20; Mills and Teare were 3rd and 4th (3:34.58 and 3:35.81). *Results
Switzerland’s Ditaji Kambundji Runs European U23 Record 12.47 100H To Win In Berne, Switzerland It was also a Swiss national record.
*Ireland's Sarah Lavin Smashes Her 100H PB With 12.67 For 5th In Bern She was just .02 off Derval O'Rourke's Irish record. In the 1000m, Australia's Abbey Caldwell won in 2:34.63.
Morocco And Romania Sweep Athletics Gold Medals At Francophone Games The Francophone Games are basically the French version of the Commonwealth Games - an event every 4-years for mostly French-speaking nations and former colonies of France.
World Athletics Recap: Championship And National Records Fall At World University Games
USTFCCCA: Collegians Continue To Star At International Championships A list of collegians who medaled at the recent World University Games and the Pan Am U20 Champs.

Japan High School Champs

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Freak Accident Stops Steeplechase Heat At Japan National High School Championships (Includes Video) Multiple runners hit the first barrier with enough force to actually knock it over and the race was called back and re-ran. In the boys' 5000m, Samuel Kibathis won in 13:41 as the top-10 all went sub-14.
Soma Nagahara Breaks Steeplechase High School NR At Japan High School Champs (8:32.12) Caroline Kariba won the women's 3000m in 8:43.
Caroline Kariba Breaks Japan High School 1500m Record With 4:06.54 At Japan National HS Champs Sherry Drury was 3rd in 4:15.50 (fastest time ever by a Japanese-born 10th grader).
Three Boys Go Sub-14 In 5000m Heats At Japan National High School Championships Samuel Kibathi had the fastest time with 13:56.21.

Pre-Worlds News

Mo Katir Chasing Historic 1500m/5000m Double In Budapest Katir has had a great season running 3:28 and 12:45, but he'll face Jakob Ingebrigtsen at both distances.
Injury-Plagued Emmanuel Korir Ready To "Fight" To Defend His World Title Despite His Poor 2023 Season Korir: "I’m very hungry. I am not going to let it (the title) go to someone else."
*Previous: Emmanuel Korir banking on past form ahead of World Championships
Recent HS Grad Hana Moll Selected To Compete For Team USA At World Champs She finished 3rd at USAs, but needed to get in on world ranking.
Irish Sprinter Phil Healy Skipping Worlds And Ending Season To Recover "Mentally And Physically" Ahead Of Next Year's Olympics She said it's been a very tough 16 months with the diagnosis of her autoimmune disease and she questioned whether she'd continue in the sport.
Irish 400 Hurdler Thomas Barr Withdraws From Worlds With Injury
Athletics Canada Reveal Their 2023 World Squad They announced a team of 50 with and have others who might still get a World Athletics invite based on world ranking.

Road Action

Hellen Obiri Wins Beach To Beacon 10k In 31:37

She just beat out Ethiopia's Fotyen Tesfay (31:38) and Keira D'Amato was 3rd (31:58). On the men's side, Ethiopia's Addisu Yihune won in 27:56 over Conner Mantz (27:58) and two-time world 5000m champ Muktar Edris (28:06). *Results
*MB: Mantz pushed into fence

Addy Wiley Wins Beale Street Murphey Mile In 4:37.7 Vincent Ciattei won the men's race in 4:04.6 while Sam Kendricks (5.82m) and Bridget Williams (4.58m) won the street pole vault event.
*MB: Addy Wiley wins Beale Street Mile in 4:37.7

Doping News

South African 100m Record Holder Carina Horn Gets Six Year Doping Ban This was the second doping ban for South Africa's first sub-11 sprinter. She'll be 40-years-old when her ban is up which means her elite career is effectively over.
AIU Provisionally Suspend 60:58 Kenyan Half-Marathoner Charles Kamau For Doping
AIU Reprimands Banned Kenyan Runner For Attending World Athletics' Online Courses He said he didn't know he wasn't allowed to take World Athletics online courses since you didn't have to attend in-person.

MJ on Sydney and WR

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Early Worlds Betting Odds

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Sprint Stuff

NY Times Profile On Ivory Coast Sprinter Marie-Josée Ta Lou Who Is Hoping To Finally Win A Gold Medal In Budapest Ta Lou has a lot of painful medal misses as she has two world championship silvers and was 4th in the 100m and 200m at the Rio Olympics and 4th and 5th in Tokyo.
Tori Bowie's Death Is Part Of A "Birthing Epidemic" Which Has Seen A 40% Rise In Maternal Deaths In The US The numbers are even higher for black women and many top athletes, such as Allyson Felix and Tianna Madison, have experienced traumatic childbirths.
Sha'Carri Richardson Shares That She Tried To Commit Suicide When She Was In Junior High She says her aunt saved her by bringing her to the hospital to have her stomach pumped.
RIP: Former University Of Texas Sprinter Wally Wilson, 86 Wilson was part of two world record relay teams in the 440-yard and 880-yard relays.

Coaching News

1988 Men's 800m Olympic Champion Paul Ereng Named To Texas A&M Coaching Staff Ereng was previously at UTEP where he coached top 800m runners Michael Saruni and Emmanuel Korir.
Q&A: Tommy Nohilly Hired As New Head Coach Of Atlanta Track Club Nohilly leaves the Empire Elite TC which he helped establish after he previously worked under legendary coach Frank Gagliano at the NJ-NY Track Club from 2009 to 2020.

Lots of big names competed in this one - Some were great, some not so great

LRC 2023 Ed Murphey Classic Results - Addy Wiley Runs 1:59.00

Other impressive results included Marvin Bracy-Williams 9.93 & 9.96, Henry Wynne 3:34.67, Dani Jones 4:02.83 pb, Jasmine Camacho-Quinn 12.43 and much more.

Sir Walter Miler

Results

Amon Kemboi (3:57.84) And Abby Nichols (4:26.80) Win Sir Walter Miler In Raleigh, NC Nichols won over US steeple champ Krissy Gear who ran 4:27.51 for second.

Switzerland: MB: Bibic takes down Teare (and Mills) in Switzerland All three ran 3:34.

Huge NCAA Conference Shakeup

NY Times: Oregon And Washington Leave The Pac-12 For The Big Ten

The Big Ten now has 18 schools while the Pac-12 has dropped to only 4 after Arizona, Arizona State and Utah have also left for the Big 12.

CBSSports: Arizona, Arizona State, Utah Join Big 12 They follow Colorado which left the Pac-12 for the Big 12 last week.
MB: RIP Pac-12 (Oregon and Washington leaving for Big 10)
MB: Pac12 is an Estate Sale and it's 5pm and all that's left Cal, Wazzu, and Oregon St. buyers walk home DEVASTATED
MB: Conference Realignment

A Doping Bust From Joshua Cheptegei's Camp

A legend speaks

LRC MJ Speaks: Michael Johnson on Noah, Sydney, Sha'Carri, His Double Gold, and Pursuing Greatness

Michael Johnson was the guest on the LetsRun.com Track Talk podcast on the anniversary of his 19.32 double gold world record to share his thoughts on the sport and its current crop of stars.

Hosting News

Seb Coe Says Holding The 2022 World Championships In Eugene "Wasn't Ideal" Coe said, "Eugene wasn’t ideal. It certainly posed us some challenges around broadcast numbers in Europe. We hemorrhaged quite a few millions of broadcasting hours."
Are The Commonwealth Games At Risk Of Going Extinct? Alberta, Canada Withdraws Its 2030 Bid They blamed the decision on exhaustive costs. This comes a week after Victoria, Australia pulled out of hosting the 2026 Commonwealth Games.
The Telegraph: "The Commonwealth Games Are Dying Before Our Eyes" Molly McElwee writes, "Last year the Commonwealth Games broke records in Birmingham, selling 1.5 million tickets. Now they may be at death’s door and the only way to save them could well be a complete overhaul."
French Government Will Force Airbnb And Other Renting Platforms To Notify Users Of Unfair Pricing During The 2024 Paris Olympics
More Than 1000 Athletes Competing At Youth Commonwealth Games In Trinidad And Tobago The event started yesterday and it's the first time it's being held since 2017.

This Would Be A Big Loss For Worlds

LRC LA Times: Athing Mu Considering Sitting Out 2023 Worlds

And here’s the kicker – she’s not injured.

MB: Athing Mu may skip 2023 World Championships to focus on 2024

Admin Red Tape Hurting Athletes

LRC Some Top American Athletes Will Miss 2023 Pan American U20 Champs in Puerto Rico Due to Passport Issues

World U18 100m record holder Christian Miller was among those kept off the team even though Americans don't need a passport to travel to Puerto Rico.

Countries Name Their Teams For World Champs

Sifan Hassan Entered In The 1500, 5000 And 10,000 For World Champs
Kibiwott Kandie Will Miss Worlds Due To Hamstring Injury Kandie is replaced on the team by Commonwealth Games 10,000m silver medalist Daniel Ebenyo.
Britain Announces Slimmed-Down Team For World Championships It's their smallest squad since 2005 after UK Athletics controversially denied places for around 20 athletes
*Previous: Technical Director Stephen Maguire Stephen Maguire Defends Selection Policy, Says It's Not About Cost He says they only want to bring athletes who can challenge for finals and medals. We would respond that if every country only brought athletes that they thought could make the top-8, it'd be a very small championships and there would be a lot less crazy surprise stories.
Defending Champions Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce And Shericka Jackson Lead Jamaican Team For Budapest
Rhasidat Adeleke And Ciara Mageean Lead Ireland’s Largest-Ever Squad For Worlds They are sending 23 athletes.
Ukrainian Team Prepares For Budapest World Champs With Financial Support From World Athletics

Sprint Stuff

Outrage After Untrained Somali Sprinter Jogs 100m At World University Games Nasra Abubakar Ali ran 21.81, more than 10-seconds behind the heat winner. *Discuss
Accusations Of Nepotism After It Was Revealed Slow Somalian Sprinter Is The Niece Of The Nation's Athletics Federation Chairwoman Somalia's athletics federation chairwoman Khadija Aden Dahir has been suspended after an investigation revealed she forged documents to allow her 21-second 100m niece to compete.
MB: Femke Bol 23.05 for 200 meters for 2nd place at Dutch Nationals She ran a 22.88 PB in the heats.

Tracksmith Is Sending Six Athletes To Worlds

LRC How Tracksmith Conquered the 100m at USAs: The Amateur Support Program

6 athletes representing Tracksmith qualified for Worlds this month, including men's 100m Cravont Charleston. How did it happen? An inside look at the Tracksmith Amateur Support Program.

Field Event News

US Hammer Thrower Gwen Berry Gets 16-Month Doping Ban After Positive Test She says the positive test was the result of a topical medication cream she had a prescription for, but not a TUE. This is her second drug ban and she will miss both Worlds and the Olympics. *Discuss
BBC: "Why The 'Crouser Slide' Is The New Fosbury Flop" Crouser says the trade-off with his new technique is it increases power, but at the expense of consistency.
Two-Time World Heptathlon Champ Nafi Thiam Might Miss Worlds Due To Achilles Injury She pulled out after two events at the Belgium National Championships and hasn't yet confirmed her entry for Budapest.

2024 Trials Update

LRC Orlando Unveils 2024 US Olympic Marathon Trials Course, Announces Race Will Start at 12:10 and 12:20 pm ET

Are the mid-day start times great so it can be shown live on TV? Or too hot? We give you our thoughts.

Seb Speaks

LRC Sebastian Coe on UK Athletics Snubs, the Bye at Worlds, and How He'd Race Jakob Ingebrigtsen

Coe suggested changes could be coming after the 2023 Worlds. "There will be a laser-like focus on a lot of these questions, and particularly about the quality of product and having the athletes out there competing more."

Distance News

Grant Fisher Is Doing A Ton Of Cross Training And Hoping To Salvage His 2023 Season Fisher says he's maintained "decent fitness" through cross training and is up to 85% body weight on the Alter-G treadmill. Fisher is hoping that he can either still race at Worlds (if Sean McGorty doesn't get into the 10,000 off world ranking) or at the Pre Classic at the end of the season.
*MB: Grant Fisher cross training 2.5 hrs a day
Gabriela DeBues-Stafford Reveals That Her IUD Was The Cause Of Her Recent Injury Which Has Kept Her In Pain The Past 5+ Weeks Recently her sacroiliac (SI) joints became inflamed and painful to the point she couldn't even walk. She spent weeks trying to figure out what was wrong (MRI and bone scans showed her sacrum was healthy) before finally removing her IUD. She says she was nearly pain free 90 minutes after removing it.
Mo Farah Confirms His Last Race Before Retirement Will Be The Great North Run On September 10 He's also racing the Big Half in London on September 3.

College, High School. Youth News

Dyestat: Sophia Gorriaran Looks To Cap Exceptional Prep Career With 800m Gold At Pan American Under-20 Champs This will be her last prep race before going to Harvard and she's hoping to become the fourth high schooler to break 2-minutes (her PB is 2:00.58 from the 2022 indoor season).
A Round-Up Of Collegians Who Who Titles At Their Recent National Championships UW got two distance wins from Kieran Lumb in the 1500m (3:37) at Canadian Champs and Brian Fay in the 5000m (13:39) at Irish Champs. And OSU's Gabija Galvydyte won the Lithuania's women's 800m by over 10-seconds in 2:02.28.
DyeStat: Baylor Thrower Gary Moore Jr. Pursuing Multiple Medals At Pan American U20 Champs He's competing in both the shot put and hammer throw.
Day-By-Day Highlights From USATF Junior Olympic Champs
Final Entries For 2023 European Under-20 Championships In Jerusalem August 7-10

Anti-Doping News

Australia's Peter Bol Cleared Of Doping

Reanalysis of his sample "resulted in varying expert opinions" but now his original 'A' sample has been deemed negative and the case is closed. WADA has said they are going to review their EPO procedures as a result of this case.
*MB: Sport Integrity Australia clears Peter Bol, says his A sample should have been recorded as negative

Outside: "Shelby Houlihan Is Ruffling Feathers During Her Doping Ban" Houlihan has received a lot of attention during her ban for doing unsanctioned races like the beer mile and low-key road races. Beermile.com co-founder Chris Robertson said, “We got a lot of emails from both sides. People who loved seeing Shelby race and thought it was amazing and people who hated us for it."

Coaching News

LRC Sean Brosnan is out after one year at UCLA

Brosnan, who coached the greatest boys' HS distance team in history at Newbury Park, has confirmed to LetsRun.com that he won't be returning for a 2nd year at UCLA. "I'm disappointed. I'm bummed. I'm upset. I don't want to pretend like [I didn’t want to stay]. I wanted to be there. And I wish they would have kept me," said Brosnan.

US Results - USATF 7 Mile Champs

Results

Abbabiya Simbassa And Kellyn Taylor Win USATF 7 Mile Championships Hosted By Bix 7

Simbassa won in 32:34 (4:39 pace) over Clayton Young (32:52), Reid Buchanan (32:57) and Leonard Korir (33:00). Taylor ran 36:32 (5:13 pace) to beat out Aliphine Tuliamuk (36:38) and Ednah Kurgat (36:55).

Johnny Gregorek (3:53) And Tigist Ketema (4:28) Win The Guardian Mile This was Gregorek's third consecutive win. *Discuss
John Reniewicki Wins Pro Mile In 4:00.86 At Under Armour Sunset Tour Baltimore Event

Karsten Warholm Q&A

LRC An Inside Look at Karsten Warholm's Revolutionary Training

Recently Alex Geula sat down with Karsten Warholm and his coach, Leif Olav Alnes, at the IK Tjalve club in Oslo to understand Warholm's beginnings, his career, and the sprint side of Norwegian training.

MB: An inside look at Karsten Warholm's mind-blowing training.

Yet Another Big Drug Bust

LRC World Record Holder Tobi Amusan Is Latest UTEP Alum to Be Suspended For Violating Track & Field's Doping Rules

Amusan joins Blessing Okagbare and Michael Saruni as former UTEP stars to have been suspended in the last two years. Her and Saruni's agent has not responded to many LRC requests for comment.

MB 100H WR holder Tobi Amusan says she is being charged with whereabouts violations
MB: Former NC A&T sprinter Grace Nwokocha says Tobi Amsuan's suspension and hers is because people are trying to bring "Africans down""What I can sense here is that they are trying to bring Africans down because they look down on us too much,” said Nwokocha who is also suspended.

Rojo's Latest Exclusive

LRC Jakob Was Magnificent In Poland, But Remember: They Don't Run The 1500 Final In Lanes

Jakob Ingebrigtsen will enter Worlds after running two straight 1500 pbs, but should he be nervous as the 1500 is often cruel to the fastest man in the field? After his latest pb, Jakob raved about his rabbits, before saying there is no difference between the Diamond League and Worlds even though Worlds doesn't have rabbits.

His Arrest Got A Ton of Pub, But the Not Guilty Verdict Almost Zero

LRC ICYMI: Jama Aden Has Been Acquitted By a Spanish Court on All Doping Charges Stemming from 2016 Hotel Raid

Aden was finally cleared in Spanish court but he still may not be out of the woods with the AIU.

MB: ICYMI: Jama Aden Has Been Acquitted By a Spanish Court on All Doping Charges Stemming from 2016 Hotel Raid.

Kipchoge Speaks

LRC Eliud Kipchoge Explains Berlin Decision, Says He Will Eventually Run 3 Marathons Per Year

Kipchoge addressed the media on Saturday and also said he would rather win 3 Olympic golds than all 6 World Marathon Majors.

The Most Untalented 3:29 Guy Ever?

LRC Meet Narve Nordås, 24-Year-Old Norwegian 1500m Runner That Went from 3:36 to 3:29 in 1 Season

Is Nordås the least talented runner to break 3:30 in history? He thinks so, "I can guarantee you I'm the slowest sub 3:30 guy in history." Text highlights from his appearance on the LRC Track Talk podcast.

Valby Nabs Nike NIL Deal

LRC Q&A With Parker Valby On Her Historic NIL Deal With Nike

The NCAA 5000 champ is the first female track and field athlete to sign an NIL deal with Nike.

Paywall lifted!

The Latest JG Feature

SC From Norway to Flagstaff: How Double Threshold Training Is Taking Over the World

What links Jakob Ingebrigtsen, the NAU cross country team, and Sebastian Coe? Double threshold training, which is having a moment in 2023. Note, most of this article is behind our SC paywall for 72 hours (until Saturday).

MB: The secrets of double threshold training are revealed. From Norway to Flagstaff: How Double Threshold Training Is Taking Over the World

Doping Polls are Baaack!

LRC Male Track and Field Stars Doping Polls: "Clean" or "Dirty"?

When track and field fans walk into a bar or go on a run, doping is often the topic of conversation. With that in mind, we want your thoughts on which current track and field stars you think are clean and which you think are dirty.

Doping Polls are Back

LRC 2023 Track & Field World Record Holders Doping Polls Results

One of the worst things about track and field is you're not sure what you're watching is real. We polled you whether you think the world records are dirty or clean.

How do you explain the ridiculous indoor distance times?

LRC Super Spikes? Raised Expectations? A Look At How The NCAA & American Distance Running Record Books Have Been Rewritten in Just 4 Years

Are all the fast times merely a product of supershoes? Or is it something more? We spoke to coaches Dathan Ritzenhein, Jason Vigilante and Dave Smith to figure it out.

MB: What do some of the top coaches in the USA think of the ridiculous times? Is it just the shoes? Or is someting else going on?

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Quote Of The Day

LRC WTW: Will Athing Mu Really Just Walk Away, Addy Wiley Rocks It Again & Conner Mantz Gets Shoved

LRC USATF Announces 2023 World Championship Roster

Hellen Obiri Wins Beach To Beacon 10k In 31:37

LRC 2023 Ed Murphey Classic Results - Addy Wiley Runs 1:59.00

NY Times: Oregon And Washington Leave The Pac-12 For The Big Ten

LRC MJ Speaks: Michael Johnson on Noah, Sydney, Sha'Carri, His Double Gold, and Pursuing Greatness

LRC LA Times: Athing Mu Considering Sitting Out 2023 Worlds

LRC Some Top American Athletes Will Miss 2023 Pan American U20 Champs in Puerto Rico Due to Passport Issues

LRC How Tracksmith Conquered the 100m at USAs: The Amateur Support Program

LRC Orlando Unveils 2024 US Olympic Marathon Trials Course, Announces Race Will Start at 12:10 and 12:20 pm ET

LRC Sebastian Coe on UK Athletics Snubs, the Bye at Worlds, and How He'd Race Jakob Ingebrigtsen

Australia's Peter Bol Cleared Of Doping

LRC Sean Brosnan is out after one year at UCLA

Abbabiya Simbassa And Kellyn Taylor Win USATF 7 Mile Championships Hosted By Bix 7

LRC An Inside Look at Karsten Warholm's Revolutionary Training

LRC World Record Holder Tobi Amusan Is Latest UTEP Alum to Be Suspended For Violating Track & Field's Doping Rules

LRC Jakob Was Magnificent In Poland, But Remember: They Don't Run The 1500 Final In Lanes

LRC ICYMI: Jama Aden Has Been Acquitted By a Spanish Court on All Doping Charges Stemming from 2016 Hotel Raid

LRC Eliud Kipchoge Explains Berlin Decision, Says He Will Eventually Run 3 Marathons Per Year

LRC Meet Narve Nordås, 24-Year-Old Norwegian 1500m Runner That Went from 3:36 to 3:29 in 1 Season

LRC Q&A With Parker Valby On Her Historic NIL Deal With Nike

SC From Norway to Flagstaff: How Double Threshold Training Is Taking Over the World

LRC Male Track and Field Stars Doping Polls: "Clean" or "Dirty"?

LRC 2023 Track & Field World Record Holders Doping Polls Results

LRC Super Spikes? Raised Expectations? A Look At How The NCAA & American Distance Running Record Books Have Been Rewritten in Just 4 Years

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