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O'Keefee Speaks
- LRC Fiona O'Keeffe explains her Olympic DNF: "The deadline had passed and it would have been too late to sub in an alternate at that stage and ..I didn’t want to have that regret of not having tried and not having given myself a chance." In this Q&A with O'Keefe, she explains what went wrong in Paris.
More Recent Action / Upcoming
- Cooper Teare Runs 3:33.96 At British Milers' Club 1500m Afterward he joked, “My team-mate Cole just won gold at the Olympics in the 1500m and I won the BMC meet in the 1500m so I’m not really sure which one you’d rank higher, but props to both me and him.”
- MB: Cole Hocker Vs Jakob Ingebrigtsen Rematch Set For Lausanne DL 1500 On August 22
- MB: Mondo Duplantis racing Karsten Warholm over 100m on Sept 4th at Zurich DL Warholm's PB is 10.49 from 2017 while Duplantis ran a wind-aided 10.57 in 2018 as a high schooler.
- MB: Allie Ostrander finishes 32nd at Sierre Zinal mountain race
On The Boards
On The Boards
Other News
- The Telegraph: "Divisive Selection Policy 'Will Be The End Of Field Athletics In Britain' Team GB Warned" Most of the athletes who were denied an Olympic spot via rankings by UKA would have made the final in their event (based on PBs). Instead Team GB had no one representing them in those events.
- Paralympics Are Letting A 50-Year-Old Biological Man Compete Against Women Valentina Petrillo already won 11 national titles competing as a man, but then won two bronze medals competing against women at last year's World Para Champs.
- Seb Coe Will "Seriously" Consider IOC Presidency Bid Coe says, "Look, I've always made it clear that if the opportunity arose I would obviously give it serious thought. The opportunity has arisen and clearly I need to think about that." Even if he wanted to, IOC rules mean Coe couldn't officially announce his intention to run until three months before the election.
- RIP: 1952 Olympic Shot Put Champion (For The Soviet Union) Galina Zybina, 93
Recent Doping News
- Poland Anti-Doping Agency Hacked, Athlete Data Released However, Poland anti-doping officials say that the released documents linking Polish athletes to doping are fake and added that, "None of the mentioned athletes obtained a positive result and none of the dates presented correspond to anti-doping controls." *Discuss
- MB: Sedjati under investigation. L'Equippe says searches were conducted by police in Olympic Village.
- MB: Reuters and WADA Prove Travis Tygart and USADA Have Been Intentionally Shielding Some American Dopers
More Paris 2024 Distance News
- GB's Rose Harvey Finished The Women's Marathon In Paris With A Stress Fracture In her Femur What started as some tightness in her hip become "incredibly painful" just a couple miles in. But she finished anyway in a time of 2:51:03.
- Want To Know What The Thing Eliud Kipchoge And Sifan Hassan Were Wearing On Their Heads Was? It's an Omius cooling headband, is supposed to help keep you cool in hot conditions and costs $200.
- Sifan Hassan Says She's "Still Scared Of The Marathon" Even After Her Crazy Triple In Paris Hassan says, "Yes, I’m still scared of the marathon, I’ve only done four and they’re all different. You’re uncomfortable for two hours or more and the brain wants to protect you. I’ll still get nervous, but I’m not finished yet, I think I’ll do marathons until I die. I’m not going to stop. It’s a lot of fun."
- Last Place In The Women's Marathon Was Bhutan’s Kinzang Lhamo In 3:52:59. She was one of World athletics' "universality" athletes and has a PB of 3:26.
- DyeStat: Top 10 Moments From Paris 2024 Cole Hocker's 1500m gold is #1 on the list.
Post-Olympic Sprint Stuff
- RW: "If Team USA Had A Track And Field MVP, It Deserves To Be Gabby Thomas" Thomas won gold in the 200m, 4x100 and 4x400 (the most golds of any track athlete in Paris). An interesting note from Paris is that all the New Balance athletes ran in the same spikes, regardless of distance. So the sprinters like Thomas, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and Elle St. Pierre in the 1500m.
- Sha'Carri Richardson Explains Viral Stare Down During Olympic Relay Richardson says, "The look over was — it's almost like it was a mirror on that side of me, and I'm just looking at a version of myself that nobody but me could see."
- BBC: "Botswana Welcomes Letsile Tebogo Home With Stadium Spectacular" Tens of thousands of people packed a stadium to welcome Tebogo home with Botswana's first ever Olympic gold medal.
- Athletics Weekly's 10 Highlights From Paris Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone was first on their list.
More From The Olympics - Distance
- Aussie Sinead Diver Addresses Controversy After Dropping Out Of Olympic Marathon Just 1.2k Into The Race Diver says she had a plantar issue before the race, but that "it was manageable" and that she DNF'd due to an unrelated hamstring spasm.
- Eliud Kipchoge Explains His DNF Was Due To A Back Injury And Claims That The Hills "Didn't Affect Me At All" He didn't share any specific future plans, but said, “I don’t know what my future will hold. I will think about it over the next three months. I still want to try to run some marathons.”
- Jakob Ingebrigtsen Says Lost Finals Are Things That "Will Haunt Me For The Rest Of My Life" But Also Motivate Him In Future Races "It’s a big part of sports, I think many of the greatest athletes will have defeats that will haunt them for the rest of their lives, but hopefully, the reward of accomplishing things and creating memories outweighs them.”
- The Telegraph: "Georgia Bell Goes From Parkrun To Olympic Bronze While Working In Cyber Security" Bell took time away from work to train for the Olympics, but isn't sure if she'll be going back any time soon now that she's an Olympic medalist.
- French Runner Alessia Zarbo "Feeling Better" After Collapsing During Women's 10,000m
More From The Olympics - Sprints/Jumps
- Carl Lewis Bashes US Men's Botched 4x100 Relay Lewis says, "It is time to blow up the system. This continues to be completely unacceptable. It is clear that EVERYONE at USATF is more concerned with relationships than winning. No athlete should step on the track and run another relay until this program is changed from top to bottom."
- Noah Lyles' Coach Says He Had A 102 Fever When He Won 200m Bronze
- GB Long Jumper Jazmin Sawyers Criticizes Michael Johnson's Grand Slam Track For Not Having Field Events She said, "If you care about the sport, I think it makes sense to bring the whole sport with you" and also took a dig at sprinters saying, “The format Michael proposes is where athletes have got to commit to a certain amount of meets, and I can tell you that you’ll get bigger stars if you include field – because sprinters don’t often like to commit to things, they pull out of races a lot of the time."
- Messy Baton Exchange That Cost GB Women's 4x100 Gold Almost Cost Them A Medal All-Together Their was a protest over the exchange, but it was declined and Britain kept their silver.
- MB: Russian long jumper Darya Klishina was at the Olympics
Hassan set an Olympic record of 2:22:55 just 37 hours after earning bronze in the 10,000, outkicking Assefa by 3 seconds. Hellen Obiri took bronze in 2:23:10 as Trials third-placer Dakotah Lindwurm was the top American in 12th (2:26:44).
- 2024 women’s Olympic marathon thread
- SIFAN MF HASSAN - WINS OLY MARATHON GOLD
- No O'Keeffe in marathon? She was in there but not for very long. We saw her visibly limping and way behind the field 19 seconds in.
- Is Athletics Australia Corrupt and is Nic Bideau the leader? The Aussie selectors should be ashamed as Sinead Diver dropped out at 1.2km.
- Sifan Hassan: "My biggest goal is to complete the event, rather than the medal."
- Sedjati confirms move to 1500M in next World Championship
What a final night of track and field. Emmanuel Wanyonyi put on a masterclass in the men's 800 and was still nearly beaten by Marco Arop as Bryce Hoppel had to console himself with an American record. World record scares in both 4x400s, plus a jump-off in the high jump.
Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Faith Kipyegon are nearly untouchable in the 5000 and 1500 respectively and they showed that as Grant Fisher picked up medal #2 from Paris. Plus, Georgia Bell and Jess Hull's breakout years ended with Olympic medals.
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More Saturday Recaps
- World Record Threatened As USA Pips Botswana To Men's 4x400m Gold 400H champ Rai Benjamin anchored Team USA to 2:54.43 (#2 all-time) to beat Botswana's 2:54.53 and just miss the WR of 2:54.29 set by the US in 1993. GB won bronze with 2:55.83.
- USA Dominates, Winning Eighth Successive Olympic Women's 4x400 Gold Shamier Little, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, Gabby Thomas and Alexis Holmes ran #2 all-time 3:15.27 to win by more than 4 seconds over the Netherlands (3:19.50). GB took bronze in 3:19.72 just ahead of Ireland's 3:19.90.
- New Zealand’s Hamish Kerr Wins Olympic High Jump Gold After Thrilling Jump-Off With USA's Shelby McEwen After both men cleared 2.36m with identical records and failed at 2.38m, McEwen says that Hamish wanted to do the jump-off and he was "all for it." Tokyo co-Olympic gold winner Mutaz Barshim won bronze with 2.34m.
- USA's Masai Russell Wins Fierce 100 Hurdles Battle For Gold In Photo Finish Russel ran 12.33 to beat France's Cyrena Samba-Mayela by .01. Puerto Rico's Tokyo Olympic champ Jasmine Camacho-Quinn was a close bronze with 12.36.
- Japan's Haruka Kitaguchi Follows Up Her World Javelin Title With An Olympic Gold (65.80m
Tola, who was only named to the team less than two weeks ago, was sensational as he went 64:51/61:35 go get the win. Americans Conner Mantz (2:08:12, 8th) and Clayton Young (2:08:44, 9th) were fantastic. Kenenisa Bekele was 39th (2:12:44). Eliud Kipchoge was DNF.
Mantz (8th, 2:08:14) and Young (9th, 2:08:44) ran strong and surprisingly fast on a very tough Paris Olympic course.
Chebet edged Italy's Nadia Battocletti by .10 to win a tactical 10k, Benjamin blew away Karsten Warholm in the home straight, and the US women won 4x100 gold but the men faltered at the Olympics again.
More Friday Night MB Talk
- Wow. How NOT to run a 4 x 100. US men's medal drought in 4 x 100 is now going to extend to 24 years
- The announcers screwed up. Parker Valby is NOT going to be DQ'd
- Parker MF Valby 11th in Olympics!!!!!!!!!!!!
- How long until Nadia Battocletti gets busted. On what kind of stuff is she on? Batocletti's silver is WADA's biggest test.
- PARKER VALBY, OH MY!!!
- Where the did the Italian women come from
- Parker Valby LAPPED Megan Keith
- Karissa blocked and elbowed Valby
- Sha'Carri legendary stare down in the women's 4 X 100
- What explains Tsegay's decline?
- Hobbs Kessler 1:46 and eliminated - what happened?
- Who was the runner carried off the track on a stretcher in women's 10k?
- Quincy Wilson Post Race Quotes - What is going on?
More Friday Medals
- Dominican Republic's Marileidy Paulino Sets Olympic Record Of 48.17 To Win 400m Gold Paulino upgraded her silver from Tokyo, beating out Bahrain's Salwa Eid Naser (48.53) and Poland's Natalia Kaczmarek (48.98).
- Belgium’s Nafissatou Thiam Wins Historic Third Olympic Heptathlon Title She's the first multi-event athlete to win three Olympic golds. Thiam beat GB's Katarina Johnson-Thompson by 36 points. It came down to the 800m where Johnson-Thompson had to beat Thiam by 8 seconds, but only beat her by about 6. Belgium's Noor Vidts won bronze.
- Germany's Yemisi Ogunleye Wins Women's Shot Put With 20.00m On Her Last Throw New Zealand's Maddison-Lee Wesche took silver with 19.86m and China's Song Jiayuan bronze (19.32m).
- Spain's Jordan Alejandro Diaz Fortun Takes Triple Jump Gold With 17.86m Portugal's Pedro Pichardo (17.84m) and Italy's Andy Diaz Hernandez (17.64m) won silver and bronze.
Live Video Show From Paris
Friday AM
Wilson said he was not 100% and credited his teammates for propping him up, while Hoppel is full of confidence and ready for a big PR in the final. We'll be doing out show tonight earlier - 5:30 pm ET as need to sleep for the marathon.
*Friday Aug. 9th Track and Field Morning Session Thread?!!
- Men's Marathon is Less Than 24 Hours Away: LRC An Epic Race on An Epic Course – Kipchoge, Bekele & A Monstrous Hill Oh baby, we can’t wait for this one. Kipchoge vs Bekele on an epic course as he seeks a historic 3-peat. Plus how will the field handle one of the toughest courses in professional marathoning history and could the runners be running sub-4 pace after mile 19 as it’s so downhill?
More Outside Olympic Coverage
- Athletics Weekly: "Kenenisa Bekele Poised For Fairy-Tale Finish To his Glittering Career?" The 42-year-old will compete at his 4th Olympics, 20-years after his first Olympic gold.
- GB's Eilish McColgan Speaks On Injury Comeback Ahead Of Friday's 10,000m She says doctors told her she’d “be lucky to ever run again”.
- Noah Lyles Talks About Decision To Race Despite Having Covid "I’m more proud of myself than anything, coming out here to get a bronze with Covid. I was going to compete. If I didn’t make it to the final, that would’ve been the sign not to compete."
- The Telegraph: "Noah Lyles Swept Into 200m Final Like A Whirlwind And Shuffled Away In A Wheelchair"
- The Telegraph: "Where is Usain Bolt? Estranged from the sport he elevated, his absence from Paris is striking." The writer compares Bolt and Noah Lyles, saying, "Lyles does not have Bolt's unforced charisma." Bolt said last year, “I’m still waiting on a position from [World Athletics]."
- Jonathan Edwards Believes His 29-Year-Old Triple Jump World Record Could Go Down In Paris His record is 18.29m and Spain's Jordan Alejandro Díaz has the top jump this year at 18.18m.
- The Telegraph: "Agony For Dina Asher-Smith As She Misses 200m Medal In Photo Finish" She missed a medal by .02
- Alyson Felix Elected To IOC Athletes' Commission
Heptathlon Comes Down To The Wire
- Heptathlon Will Come Down To 800m With Defending Champ Nafissatou Thiam Of Belgium Leading GB's Katarina Johnson-Thompson Thiam is up by 121 points so Johnson-Thompson will have to run 8 seconds faster than Thiam in the 800m. Johnson-Thompson's PB is 2:05.63 and Thiam's is 2:11.79.
- Day 2: Nafissatou Thiam In Pole Position For Heptathlon Gold After 54.04m Javelin
- Day 1: Katarina Johnson-Thompson Takes Early Heptathlon Lead After 1.92m High Jump
SML did it again with WR #6, running 50.37 to win the 400 hurdles as Femke Bol got bronze. Letsile Tebogo ripped a 19.46 for 200m gold as a COVID-stricken Noah Lyles was 3rd.
- USA's Tara Davis-Woodhall Wins Long Jump Gold With 7.10m She beat out Germany's defending champ Malaika Mihambo (6.98m) while US's Jasmine Moore won her second Paris 2024 bronze medal with 6.96m (she also won bronze in the TJ).
- Arshad Nadeem Wins Javelin Gold To Bring Pakistan Its First Olympic Track Medal He threw 92.97m to set an Olympic record and put himself #6 on the all-time list. Defending champion and world champion Neeraj Chopra took silver with 89.45m and Grenada's Anderson Peters bronze (88.54m).
- 8/8 PM Official Olympic Track and Field Live Discussion Thread - Grant, Sydney and Noah go for gold (Live reaction show at 7pm ET) Talk about it as it happens then come back at 7 pm ET to get our takes after we've had a shot to talk to the stars.
- Bol Goes Home DEVASTATED - Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone 50.37 She's done it again. Another WR and another gold.
- Grant Holloway gets his gold and deserves some love
- Noah Lyles goes home DEVASTATED - Bronze in 200m at TEBOGO runs 19.46!!!
- CONFIRMED: Lyles Has COVID, Was Reeled Off Track In Wheelchair
- Should USATF and/or Noah Lyles told the world before the race that Lyles was positive for Covid?
- Lyles only mistake was the post-race injury theatrics
- They let Lyles run with COVID?
Women's 1500m Final Is Set
It took 3:56 to make the final in the second heat and there is an NCAA athlete in the final but her name isn't Maia Ramsden. Plus we'll tell you who our "Cole Hocker" is in this race.
Thursday AM
- Olympics August 8 Morning Session Discussion The two US relays both put up the fastest times of the day but the Jamaican men failed to qualify despite running Kishane Thompson. In the 800 repechage, Brandon Miller won his heat with the fastest time of the day (1:44.21).
- Thoughts and prayers for Girma We have good news to report. His management team has posted a statement saying the doctors have determined he "doesn't suffer from any major head injury."
- Kenny B says, “ Never seen favoritism like this on a global scale.” Despite winning his heat, Bednarek was initially placed in lane 4 for the 200 final even though he won his heat and heat winners are supposed to get 6-7-8.
- Onlyfans model Alysha Newman wins Olympic medal
- Heptathlete Cherri Hawkins no-height in the HJ: Tried to open way too high
Rooks Becomes a Legend
Kenneth Rooks is now an American distance legend thanks to a huge gutsy race that results in him winning the sivler medal behind Olympic legend Soufiane El Bakkalli who repeated.
A New American Superstar
Hall's time ranks him #4 all-time and silver medalist Matthew Hudson-Smith's 43.44 is #5 as an American outkicked a Brit for gold in Paris for the second straight night.
- No Ties This Time As Australia's Nina Kennedy Wins Pole Vault Gold With 4.90m US's Katie Moon won silver on countback over Canada's Alysha Newman won bronze as both cleared 4.85m. At Worlds last year, Kennedy and Moon shared the gold medal rather than do a jump-off.
- Jamaica's Roje Stona Wins Surprise Discus Gold With Olympic Record 70.00m Stona, who is coached by Ryan Crouser, beat out Mykolas Alekna of Lithuania (69.97m) and Australia's Matthew Denny (69.31m).
We'll break down the crazy silver medal from Kenneth Rooks and the gutsy run from Quincy Hall. To get our bonus shows as a podcast, join our SC tonight.
We give you the higlights of the semifinals of the men's 110 and 400m hurdles, and the women's 400.
Wednesday AM
A total of six men fell across three different incidents in the 5k. Four of the six were advanced, but neither Nur nor 2021 silver medalist Moh Ahmed were put in the final.
- Weds. Aug. 7th Morning Session Thread?
- George Mills should be DQ’d
- 5000m heats falls, shoves and failures catch-up guide
- How many 5000 protests will advance to the finals?
- Graham Blanks 5000m finalist
- We have our Repechage heroine – Birke Haylom went out in 2:02.89 in a 1500. Is that the fastest 800 split in a women’s 1500?
The top four broke the Olympic record as Josh Kerr took silver, Yared Nuguse bronze, and Jakob Ingebrigtsen was 4th. Hocker and Nuguse (3:27.80) both smashed the American record.
The 4th fastest man in history did not run poorly tonight. In fact, despite serving as the unofficial rabbit for 1425 meters, Jakob Ingebrigtsen ran faster than when he won in Tokyo and only 1.51 seconds slower than when he was running behind rabbits in Monaco, but he lost to three different men who stepped up their games as Cole Hocker had the greatest close ever in a sub-3:29 race. What can Jakob try moving forward to get back on the podium?
- LRC Winfred Yavi Wins Steeple In Olympic Record As Gabby Thomas Dominates 200m
- Greece's Miltiadis Tentoglou Becomes The First Man Since Carl Lewis To Retain His Olympic Long Jump Title He lept 8.48m to win over Jamaica's Wayne Pinnock (8.36m).
- Canada's Camryn Rogers Wins Women's Hammer With 76.97m, Adding To The World Title She Won Last Year USA's Annette Echikunwoke won silver (75.48m).
Men's 1500m On The Boards:
- COLE MF HOCKER!!!!!!!
- Olympics Aug 6 Evening Session Live Thread
- Slow Race - Jakob gets outkicked; Fast Race - Jakob gets outkicked
- How does a 3.30 guy outkick a 3.26 guy in a 3.27 race?
- Jakob won’t medal in the 1500m at the Olympics What a prediction!
- Hocker is the best US 1500 runner of all time
- Hocker tries to pass Jakob, gets cut off, Jakob moves slightly outside to try to move Kerr, gives Hocker room to pass for the W!
- LetsRun Crashed!! We had to turn on a queue for about one minute to "let the server breathe."
- Kerr only lost to Hocker because Jakob cut Kerr off in the final 100m...
- Today Cole Hocker becomes a 3:27 man
- 2 hours until the greatest race of our lifetime
More Analysis/Commentary On Men's 1500m
- Jakob Ingebrigtsen Explains What Went Wrong After 1500m Loss “I opened with a 54-second lap. That wasn’t the plan at all. It was at least two seconds too fast. I was thinking about slowing down, but the next lap was almost the same speed. I ruined it for myself by going way too hard."
- The Telegraph: "Alpha Males Josh Kerr And Jakob Ingebrigsen Royally Upstaged By A Member Of The Chorus Line"
- Josh Kerr Already Thinking Ahead To LA 2028 (When He'll Be 30) "I'm so glad I was able to bring back a medal, even if it's not the color I want. Now I want to go through the journey again and get what I think I deserve in LA."
- The Guardian: "Hocker Has Last Laugh After Kerr And Ingebrigtsen's Tiresome War Of Words" The writer gives credit to a LetsRun message board poster who called Hocker's win.
- BBC Commentator Steve Cram: "The two of them tried to destroy each other. By destroying each other, Cole Hocker stepped up."
*MB: Fire up your VPN and listen to Steve Cram's call of Cole Hocker's 1500m win. It's fantastic
- The Telegraph: "How Jakob Ingebrigsen And Josh Kerr Focused On Each Other And Let Olympic Gold Slip"
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OAC Gets Medal
It was the first medal for On ever on the track. Plus, what would Dathan advice Jakob to do in the 1500?
For the most part, the runners' post-race comments were more interesting than the racing on the track, although it should be noted that 3:53 runner Birke Haylom was awful and ended up in the repechage round. Hull has an interesting theory as to how she’s been able to improve so much and Robert Johnson asked Nikki Hiltz some nuanced questions about how Hiltz’s participation in sport as a trans athlete differs from Lia Thomas’.
Keely Hodgkinson Is GB's Golden Poster Girl
- Keely Hodgkinson Plans To Treat Herself To A Beige Porsche And Family Vacation To Marbella, Spain After Winning 800m Gold She apparently had just two hours sleep after her 800m win due to late night celebrations in a local bar.
- Keely Hodgkinson Launches "Project 1:53" In Attempt To Break 41-Year-Old World Record Hodgkinson is coached by former European champ Jenny Meadows and her husband Trevor Painter. Meadows says, “She’s sixth of all time. Trevor and I believe she is in the shape to be third of all time. We believe she can run high 1min 53sec at the moment. Over the next couple of years she can get down towards that world record if she stays healthy, motivated and still enjoys it, which I’ve got no doubts about.”
- The Telegraph: "Inside Keely Hodgkinson’s Elite Training Group - South African Sprint Climbs And Twice-Daily Session"
Distance Withdraws - Men's 5k Field Just Took A Big Hit
According to the Ugandan head coach, they have pulled out because they "were unable to recover in time" from the 10,000m on Friday where Cheptegei won and Kiplimo finished 8th.
More News From Paris
- Noah Lyles Makes 2AM Detour To Get His Girlfriend's Spikes The Night Before She Qualifies For 400m Semis Lyles' girlfriend is Jamaican sprinter Junelle Bromfield. He says she called him to get the spikes when he was on his way back to the village the night he won the 100m final.
- US's Lashinda Demus To Receive Her 2012 Olympic 400H Gold Medal At Eiffel Tower Ceremony On Friday The medal reallocation ceremony will give Demus the 2012 gold medal that was stripped from Russian doper Natalya Antyukh. US high jumper Erik Kynard is also being upgraded from 2012 silver to gold after the DQ of doper Ivan Ukhov.
- Sprint Coach Rana Reider Has His Olympic Credentials Withdrawn By Canada Over Sexual Abuse Allegations Reider, the coach for Andre De Grasse and 2020 Olympic 100m champ Marcell Jacobs, has been accused of sexual and emotional abuse by three female athletes in a lawsuit in Florida.
- Cathal Dennehy: The 400m Puzzle Awaits Rhasidat Adeleke The Irish sprinter (4th fastest in the world this year) is among the potential favorites to medal in Paris.
- USATF Recap Of All US Performances On Monday In Paris
Keely Hodgkinson executed a brilliant front-run to win 800 gold in a negative-split 1:56.72 while Beatrice Chebet outkicked Faith Kipyegon in the final 100 to win the 5k.
Monday pod
Beatrice Chebet looks like track's newest superstar, Keely Hodgkinson joins the club as well, and oh year WR #9 for Mondo. We break it all down. If you want this as a podcast, join the Supporters Club today.
Monday Discussion
- LetsRun meetup -Tuesday 5:30pm in Paris near Stadium at L'Escargot next to Saint Denis Port De Paris Metro
- Paris Monday PM live thread: Women’s 5000 & 800 finals Talk about the action as it happens and then come back at 7 pm ET for our live reactions from Paris.
- Keely Hodgkinson is The Olympic Champion!
- Is Mondo The GOAT of Track & Field? He set another WR tonight.
- Peacock cut coverage right before Mondo's final jump
- Beatrice Chebet takes down Kipyegon, Hassan and Tsegay - 14:28 FTW. She ran 4:00.7 for her last 1500 and 2:33.5 for her last 1k to defeat Kipyegon who was DQd for jostling Tsegay (who bombed) with just over 800 to go. *Video of DQ
- FAITH KIPYEGON has been DQd from 5000 - What a joke.
- Kipyegon DQ was deserved.
- Italian 5000m Bronze. Crossed the line 4th but apparently upgraded.
- Nadia Battocletti Learn the name.
The men's steeple prelims had some drama as the #3 seed Amos Serem missed a water jump and had to turn around and go back and Geordie Beamish was eliminated. Kenneth Rooks was the only American to move on and he wants to run to win.
Mondo WR Video
- USA's Valarie Allman Retains Her Olympic Discus Title With 69.50m In Paris China's Feng Bin and Croatia's Sandra Perkovic took silver and bronze at 67.51m (Bin won the tie breaker with her second best throw).
Race of the Century is Here
The 2016 Olympic champ knows what he's talking about.
Monday AM In Paris
It was a DISASTROUS morning for the British vaulters as 2024 world #1 Molly Caudery was the only vautler to no-height and 2021 Olympic bronze medalist Holly Bradshaw also failed to make the 20-person final. US 400m champ Kendall Ellis also didn't run well and will find herself in the repechage round. Speaking of which, many male 400 guys didn't bother to show up for their repechage round as they get ready for the 4 x 400s.
- MB: Official Day 5 Morning Session Thread
- MB: 1500 men detailed predictions Tuesday's final is going to be amazing.
- MB: Women's Olympic 5000 Final: Can Anyone Beat Kipyegon? Can Cranny Break Up the Big-7?
- MB: Women's 800 final is tonight - Who you got?
- LRC Previews: W5k *W800
The Noah Lyles Show
- Wondering Why There Was Such A Long Delay Before The Men's 100m Start? Officials Had To Tackle A Protestor Who Was Trying To Run On The Track The protestor was wearing a "Free Palestine" t-shirt, but thankfully was stopped before he made it to the track.
- Both Kishane Thompson And Fred Kerley Had Their Foot Over The Line Before Noah Lyles Lyles' superior lean got his torso over the line first.
- How Much Prize Money Did Noah Lyles Win For His 100m Gold? In total, $137,500. $50k from World Athletics, $37.5k from the USOPC, and $50k from two former NFL stars who pledged to give US gold medalists $25k each.
- Noah Lyles Hopes His Win Can Raise Recognition Of T&F In The US Or At Least Get Him His Own Shoe "I want my own shoe. I want my own shoe. I really do. There's no money in the spikes of athletic shoes. Even Michael Johnson didn't have his own shoe."
- What Did Noah Lyles Say Kishane Thompson While They Waited For The Results To Come Up Lyles: "Me and Kishane were at the end waiting for our names to come up and I came back and I said, 'I'll be honest man, I think you got that one.'"
- Seb Coe On Noah Lyles: “He’s hugely important [to the sport]. If I’m wearing a promoter’s hat, then him winning last night was important, because he’s now creating a narrative that is heading us back into Usain Bolt territory."
More Outside Olympic Coverage
- Josh Kerr: “Expect one of the most vicious and hard 1500s in a while."
- Co-2020 Olympic HJ Champ Gianmarco Tamberi In The Hospital With Suspected Kidney Problems Tamberi had to delay his flight to Paris a day when he was admitted to the hospital three days before the HJ starts on Wednesday for what he said was probably a kidney stone.
- Dead Heat In Women's 400H Repechage Sees Extra Woman Make It Through To The Semi-Final Belgium's Naomi van den Broeck and Australia's Alanah Yukich were both timed at 55.107. To make room, lane one, which is usually left empty, will be used in one of the semis.
- GB's Pole Vault World Indoor Champ Molly Caudery Fails To Make The Final She no heighted after missing her third attempt at 4.55m. GB's Tokyo bronze medalist Holly Bradshaw also failed to make the final.
- Yaroslava Mahuchikh Dedicates Olympic HJ Title To Fallen Ukrainian Athletes
- The Register Guard: "Former Oregon Star Jessica Hull A Medal Contender In Paris"
- USATF Rundown Of All US Performances In Paris From Sunday
After thinking he lost, Lyles ended a 20-year American drought in the event in the closest men's 100 final since 1980 and the deepest 100 ever as all 8 man broke 10.00. Fred Kerley took bronze, medalling for the second Olympics in a row.
*Eddie Pells AP Recap of Sunday
*WA Recap
Paris Podcast with Special Guest Matthew Centrwitz
2016 Olympic champ Matthew Centrowtiz joins the show 20 minutes in and breaks down the 1500 for you. He ultimately picks Ingebrigtsen FTW. Join the LetsRun.com Supporters Club to get our daily video show as a podcast from Paris.
An EPIC men's 1500 final is all set and 3 Americans will be in it. Hobbs Kessler tells us if he'll go with the pace in the final and Narve Nordas tells us what he meant when he told Josh Kerr "can beat" Ingebrigtsen and why it's important to stay off the Letsrun messageboards if you are an Olympian. Plus learn about how a woman has gone from being homeless to the Olympic final in less than a year thanks to 12 national record.
More Day 3 MB Talk:
- Official Sunday Night Olympic Discussion Thread
- Noah Lyles is Olympic Champion!!!!
- Kishane Thompson was robbed by the photo finish
- Josh Kerr is winning Olympic Gold in 1500m
- Lyles BLEW it!
- USA puts 3 in the 1500m Final
- This Olympics is full of LOOKERS
- Olli Hoare quits Social Media due to trolls criticizing his performance
- Why are most people on this forum cheering for Femke Bol over Sydney McLaughlin and other US athletes?
- QUESTION - Rule for finish line (part of the body)
- What the hell was that? Freddie Crittenden just ran 18 seconds in the hurdles
- Photo of the finish from the Lyles photo-finish?
- Fred kerley almost got DQed…
- Rojo goes home DEVASTATED
Sunday Field Event Medals
- Ukraine's Yaroslava Mahuchikh Wins HJ Gold On Countback From Australia's Nicola Olyslagers Both cleared 2.00m. There was also a Ukraine-Australia tie for bronze with Iryna Gerashchenko and Eleanor Patterson at 1.95m.
- At 22-Years-Old, Canada's Ethan Katzberg Becomes The Youngest Man To Ever Become A World And Olympic Hammer Champion He dominated with 84.12m while Hungary's Bence Halasz (79.97m) took silver and Ukraine's Mykhaylo Kokhan (79.39m) bronze
Sunday AM
2 of the 3 Americans have advanced in the steeple and Shericka Jackson has pulled out of 200.
Believe It Or Not, The Olympics Isn't The Only Thing Going On Right Now
Ewoi ran the 6th fastest time in the world this year to beat Sage Hurta-Klecker (4:19.89, #6 on the US all-time list) and Heather MacLean (4:20.41). Festus Lagat was 2nd in the men's race (3:52.63); Craig Engels was 5th (3:53.99).
- The Women's World Decathlon Championships Are This Weekend In Ohio We don't like the way the article is written, saying women are "barred" from the decathlon rather than explaining that they compete in the heptathlon instead. The word "heptathlon" isn't even in the article. *Results
Sydney Vs Femke
- Irish Distance Running Great Sonia O'Sullivan Picks Femke Bol Over Sydney McLaughlin She says, "I think Femke Bol has probably attracted a lot more fans around the world than Sydney McLaughlin. Sydney McLaughlin will have her pocket of fans in the US and they will think she's the greatest thing ever. Half of them, they probably will have never heard of Femke Bol until she beats her next week..."
- Femke Bol Records Fastest Ever Olympic 400H Heat With 53.38 Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone won her heat in 53.60.
- Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone Talks About How She's Tried To Overcome Her "Debilitating Fear" Of Competing She says the self-inflicted pressure and anxiety she felt made it feel "like torture trying to get to the [start] line."
- MB: Why are most people on this forum cheering for Femke Bol over Sydney McLaughlin and other US athletes?
More Outside Olympic Coverage
- NY Times: "Meet The Nations That Have Never Won An Olympic Medal (And Two That Just Did)" Nearly 70 countries have never won an Olympic medal, but thanks to Julien Alfred in the 100m and Thea LaFond-Gadson in the triple jump, St. Lucia and Dominica are no longer on that list.
- US Hurdler Freddie Crittenden Explains Why He Jogged The First Round In 18 Seconds Crittenden is nursing an injury and said he rather save himself for the repechage round.
- Going Into His Last Throw, Joe Kovacs Was In 4th Place In The Shot Put, But Came Through To Take Silver It's his third Olympic silver behind Ryan Crouser's three golds.
- NY Times: "Is The Men’s 100 Meters Still A Can’t-Miss Olympic Moment?" Big track fans might find more excitement in the rivalries in events like the men's and women's 400 hurdles, but for the casual viewer, we'd say the 100m is still on top.
- Interview With Top GB Sprinter Zharnel Hughes Talking About Being A Student Of The Sport And Learning From Usain Bolt Hughes says, “Many times I used to watch a lot of videos on YouTube and then when I go to training, I’ll try to emulate what I saw."
- Defending Olympic 400m Champ Steven Gardiner Withdraws From Paris 2024 Gardiner has struggled with injuries recently, pulling up in his semi-final last year at Worlds.
- GB's Charlotte Purdue Withdraws From Olympic Marathon With Ankle Injury The second fastest British woman of all-time (2:22:17 PB) has been replaced by Clara Evans (2:25:04 PB).
- The Telegraph: "Reigning Olympic 100m Champion Marcell Jacobs Struggles To Shake Off Jibe That His Victory Was A 'Fluke'" He claimed he was in his "best shape ever" ahead of Paris, but was only 13th fastest in the first qualifying round.
- Recap Of USATF Performances From Saturday
Alfred (10.72) buried the field with a great start and drive phase to give tiny St. Lucia its first Olympic medal ever while Richardson, who started poorly, took the silver in 10.87 with the US's Melissa Jefferson 3rd in 10.92.
- MB: Official Olympics Day 2 pm live discussion thread: Who is the fastest woman in the world? + Live Reaction show at 7 pm ET Talk about the action as you watch it live and then come back at 7 pm ET for a full breakdown.
- No Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce?!WHAT THE WHAT She did not start her semi.
- ShaCarri Chokes
Paris Daily Podcast
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More Day 2 MB Talk:
- FEMKE F***KING BOL 47.93 split to give Netherlands gold.
- Femke Bol has no shot at Gold
- US goes home devastated!
- Ryan MF Crouser is immortal - Becomes first 3 x Olympic Shot Put Champion
- Repechage 1500 Men's
- How much does someone like Ryan Crouser make? Why not join the NFL?
- Will Femke Bol give her all in the Mixed Relay? 1
Bol ran 47.9 on her leg to give the Dutch 4x400 gold over the USA.
- DyeStat: "Ryan Crouser Stands Alone After Unprecedented Third Straight Shot Put Gold" Crouser dominated with 22.90m while Joe Kovacs took his third consecutive silver (22.15m) and Jamaica's Rajindra Campbell won bronze (also at 22.15m, but Kovacs' second best throw was farther). *WA Recap
- Norway's Markus Rooth Wins Dramatic Decathlon Gold He set a NR 8796 points to win over Germany's Leo Neugebauer (8748 points) and Grenada's Lindon Victor (8711 points).
- Thea LaFond Becomes Dominica's First Olympic Medalist With Triple Jump Gold In Paris LaFond won with a 15.02m national record ahead of Jamaica's Shanieka Ricketts (14.87m) and USA's Jasmine Moore (14.67m).
Noah Lyles was upset in round 1 of the men's 100 as Americans Fred Kerley and Kenny Bednarek had the fastest times of the day with 9.97. If you need a VPN to watch the videos click here.
- Official Morning 03 Aug Olympics Thread
- LRC Allie Wilson Leave the Olympics in Tears but Proud Of Herself Allie Wilson showed how much the Olympics mean and the "agony of defeat"
- Thoughts on Thompson, Lyles 100m Round 1
- Noah Lyles is wearing a mask, sunglasses and a hit in the Athlete Village to not get recognized
Men's 10k Final
Cheptegei set an Olympic record of 26:43.14 as the top six all finished within a second and the top 13 all broke 27:00 -- easily the most ever in one race.
What a start to the Olympic Track and Field action.
Friday MB Talk
- Official Olympics Day 1 Friday Evening Session Thread: Men's 10,000m Final, Women's 800, 5000 More
- GRANT MF FISHER MEDALS
- STANDING OVATION FOR GRANT AND NICO
- Is Grant Fisher Amerian Indian?
- NICO MF YOUNG 26:58 IN THE OLYMPIC FINAL
- Grant Fisher is Canadian-Born, Not Native to America
- Never thought I'd say this: I thought Fisher was going to win it
- Josh Kerr is THIN!
- Uodate: Nordås to Kerr in the interview zone: "You can beat my countryman"
- Has Fisher surpassed Rupp as the American distance GOAT?
- US distance runners will come back with ZERO medals
- Thank you Peacock!!!
- Yomif Kejelcha CANNOT perform when it matters
- The Greatest 10000m of All-Time
- After best 10k in Oly history: could Farah have won the race?
- Kincaid needs to go to longer distances
Faith Kiypegon and Keely Hodgkinson got underway and 5 of the 6 American women advanced in the women's 800 and 5000.
Outside Olympic Coverage
- The Telegraph: "Louie Hinchliffe: GB’s New Sprinting Hope You Don’t Know – And His Teammates Didn’t Either" After a year being coached by Carl Lewis, the Brit is a NCAA champ and an Olympic medal threat.
*Louie Hinchliffe Wins Heat In 9.98 Over Noah Lyles' 10.04
- Serbian HJer Angelina Topic Out Of HJ Final After Fracturing Ankle The 19-year-old European silver medalist fractured her right ankle during qualifying.
- Kenyan 4x400 Runner Kevin Kipkorir Sent Home From Paris For Not Having Enough Out-Of-Competition Drug Tests The AIU said that seven athletes from several countries fell afoul of this rule, although the two Ukrainians had their appeal for exceptional circumstances accepted.
- Runner's World: The Best Track Rivalries To Watch At The Paris Olympics Sure Jakob Ingebrigtsen vs. Josh Kerr is spicing up, but nothing beats the longtime rivalry between the USA men's 4x100 and the baton.
- Jeremiah Azu Appeal Against 100m DQ Rejected The 9.90 Brit was DQ'd for a false start and not allowed to run under protest.
- Sprinter Favour Is Super Angry After A Nigerian Federation Fails To Enter Her In The Olympic 100m An apparent clerical error means she will only compete in the 200m and 4x100 in Paris. She also missed the Tokyo Olympics after Nigeria failed to meet anti-doping testing requirements.
- NCAA Champ Leo Neugebauer Leads Decathlon For Germany After Day 1 In Paris
- Former Olympic Heptathlon Champ Jessica Ennis-Hill Gives Her Guide To Team GB Medal Hopes For Paris
- Rundown Of USATF Performances So Far In Paris
- Euro Athletics: European Champions Ease Through Olympic Qualification
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Day 1 AM Recap
All 3 Americans advanced in the 1500 while Sha'Carri Richardson made it through in the 100m prelims.
- Day 1 Discussion: Olympics Day 1 Live Thread: Morning Session, Men's 1500m Heats, Women's 100
- The 1500 final is over before it even starts, the gold is already Kerr's
- Josh Kerr from 10th to 1st in 1 200 thanks to 25.9 200
- Hobbs Kessler got COVID at Wild Duck: "You've got to watch out for the Wild Duck. It will get you"
- Nordås to Kerr in the interview zone: "Beat my countryman"
- Jakob was condemned by TV commentator for fist pumping
- Jakob Ingebrigtsen - Confidence or Disresepct?
- AUSTRALIAN 1500M RUNNERS GO HOME DEVASTATED. Incorrect. Repechage round.
- Rough morning for OAC
LRC In Paris
We have boots on the ground in Paris and Jonathan Gault's first two days in Paris included trips to see Simone Biles, Carlos Alcaraz, and Léon Marchand and offered a reminder of how fans can elevate the Olympic experience. Jonathan writes about the loudest sporting event he's ever attended.
Olympic XC? Yes Please.
Seb Coe said WA is exploring a joint proposal to have cross country and cyclocross share a course at the 2030 Winter Olympics in France. Plus Coe shares his thoughts on Grand Slam Track.
2025 Worlds Will Be Here Before You Know It
We have good news to report - the Weldon Johnson Rule - has been accepted. Additionally, the women's 10,000 standard is no 30:20 and the # of xc qualifiers in the 10,000 has been reduced from 8 to 3.
Non-Track Olympic News
- Olympic Men's Triathlon Postponed At Last Minute Due To Pollution In The The Seine River So much for the Paris mayor's publicity stunt swim to prove it wasn't a concern for the Olympics.
- MB: Australian Gold Medalist Swimmer Bashes Conditions In The Olympic Village She blamed not breaking the WR on the eco-friendly conditions in the Olympic village. Many athletes have complained about the small cardboard beds, food and no AC.
- Video: Aussie Athlete Tests Out Durability Of "Anti-Sex" Beds In Olympic Village Another Aussie athlete posted a video showing and complaining about the "rock solid" mattresses.
- Why The Brownlee Brothers Aren't Competing At The Paris Olympics It will be the first time since 2004 that Team GB did not feature one of the brothers on their Olympic triathlon squad.
- Cool Surfing Photo/Video From The Olympics
- Controversy Over Reaction To Women's Volleyball Players Wearing Pants In Paris
- Chants Of 'Heil Hitler Shouted At Israel Olympic Soccer Game
- Fencer Wins Ukraine's First Medal Of Olympics
Coaching Update
Carlson, previously the distance coach at Tennessee, will replace the legendary Mark Wetmore, whose contract was not renewed this summer after 29 years in charge in Boulder.
*MB Sean Carlson to Colorado Official.
It's Time To Get Pumped For The Olympics
Before today, the Ingebrigtsens were solely known for their athletic process. Now they have a single that is incredibly catchy. Listen/watch by clicking on the youtube embed.
*MB: Ingebrigtsen brothers release incredibly catchy Olympic music video (listen here + full lyrics)
The Latest on A Very Important Anti-Doping Case
Asinga, who ran 9.89 and 19.97 last year, says he tested positive for the banned substance GW1516 due to a contaminated batch of Gatorade Recovery Gummies that he got from Gatorade at an awards ceremony. The gummies were falsely marked with the NSF Certified for Sport label which would mean they were contaminant free but have since tested positive for G1516. The AIU didn't buy it, banning him for four years & suggesting Asinga or someone close to him doctored evidence to cover up his doping.
Olympic Tattoos
From Kara Goucher to Clayton Murphy, Evan Jager to Andrew Wheating, dozens of US Olympians have the Olympic rings on their body. Here are their stories.
Michael Johnson's Plan
The league has signed up Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, who has only run 4 Diamond Leagues in her life, to commit to doubling at 4 meets a year. There will be six event groups per sex (no field events) with 48 athletes getting base contracts to double in all four meets (one in LA, other locations TBD). Winners of the combined events scoring will get $100k per meet down to $10k for 8th. The first meet is scheduled for April 2025. What's surprising is the events groups are totally siloed off. So with this format, Michael Johnson would never have faced his 200m rivals Frankie Fredericks or Ato Boldon in the 200 as Johnson would be in the 200/400 group and Boldon/Fredericks in the 100/200 group. So Sydney will never face Marileidy Paulino or Athing Mu in the 400 as they'll be in the 200/400 and 800/1500 groups while she'll be in the 400h/400 group.
RIP
Competing against legends Kipchoge Keino and Ron Clarke in the 1964 Olympic final in Tokyo, Schul used a 38.7-second final 300m to win an iconic gold medal. His daughter confirmed his death to LetsRun.
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10 Years With LRC
This weekend's Prefontaine Classic marks 10 years since Jonathan Gault's first meet for LetsRun.com. He reflects on what he learned from his first trip to Eugene to cover David Rudisha and Galen Rupp in 2014.
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Time Flies When You Are Having Fun
After a decade with LetsRun.com, Jonathan Gault counts down his 10 favorite races he has seen in-person. Usain Bolt, Matthew Centrowitz, and Jakob Ingebrigtsen all make appearances - who claims the #1 spot?
Other Links That Passed Our Human Vetters
- Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone to run the 400m hurdles for the first time since August 2022 next weekend at Edwin Moses Legends Meet
- Kenny Bednarek is very thankful for his mom who adopted him and 3 others + reveals he wants to meet Usain Bolt to pick his brain
- Serbian long jumper Ivana Spanovic has won gold everywhere but the Olympics - can she do it at age 34 in her 5th Olympics
RIP Kelvin Kiptum
In just three races, Kiptum turned the marathon world upside down, setting a world record, and running the three fastest second halves ever in a marathon. Jonathan Gault recaps his life and career.
- MB: RIP: Marathon WR Kelvin Kiptum has died in a car accident at the age of 24
- MB: Kelvin Kiptum's final 2 training sessions - 35km long run on Thursday, 18.6 km fartlek on Saturday
- MB: Kiptum's father: "Strange people looked for him 4 days before his death" Kiptum's father says the four men said they were from the State House, but could not produce identification to prove it. He now wants the Kenyan government to investigate.
BetterRunningShoes.com Presents
We present to you the LetsRun.com Shoe Awards for 2023. What is the best shoe of 2023, the supershoe of 2023, the newcomer of the year and more?
Everyone's still looking for an edge
Kelvin Kiptum, Faith Kipyegon, Keely Hodgkinson and everyone in the OAC are among the stars who experimented with Maurten Bicarb System in 2023 ($65 for 4 doses). The big question: does it work? (paywall lifted)
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The Latest JG Feature
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).
Your latest American stars share their insights.
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
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Take Your Love of LetsRun to the Next Level
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LetsRun Classics
LetsRun Classics
‒US Marathon Trials champ Fiona O'Keeffe explaining in a Q&A about why she dropped out of the Olympic marathon.