We break down the return of the Diamond League, Noah Lyles calling it a season, and are joined by Mike Scannell, the coach of Grant Fisher.
Archived Homepage For August 21, 2024
Archived Homepage For August 21, 2024
This Week's Pod
NYC Marathon Field Announced
Conner Mantz & Clayton Young lead the US men's field, while Hellen Obiri will defend her women's title. Is the title of World #1 at stake in the men's race?
On The Boards
On The Boards
Lausanne DL Is Thursday
Jakob Ingebrigtsen vs Cole Hocker 1500m rematch highlights distance action along with Hobbs Kessler and Timothy Cheruiyot in the field. Emmanuel Wanyonyi, Marco Arop and Bryce Hoppel are in the men's 800m while the women's has Mary Moraa vs Georgia Bell. Letsile Tebogo vs Fred Kerley and Erriyon Knighton in the 200m and Mondo Duplantis in the PV.
Noah Lyles Making Waves
- Video: Noah Lyles Does Interview With Shannon Sharpe And Chad "Ochocinco" Johnson
- Noah Lyles Claps Back At Dolphins WR Tyreek Hill, Challenges Him to A Race Lyles: “Tyreek is just chasing clout. Anytime somebody fast comes up, he says he wants to race them. If he really wanted to race people, he would’ve shown up..."
*Tyreek Hill Calls Out Noah Lyles Hill claimed he would beat Lyles in a race and accused him of pretending to be sick in Paris. - NBA Star Josh Hart Admits He Wanted Noah Lyles To Lose At The Olympics Hart said, "I really wanted him to lose. I think it was the first time all of NBA Twitter banded together and was just hatin. I was hatin, and I was just like ‘Damn. You know what, respect. I can’t even hate anymore. You can talk as much as you want.’"
- MB: Noah Lyles says he can break 400m WR
- MB: Noah Lyles confirms he’s done for the season
Women's Sprint News
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- Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone Skips On Rematch With Femke Bol To Take Post-Olympic Vacation With Her Husband Bol will race at the Lausanne DL this week while McLaughlin-Levrone is on vacation in Greece.
*EssentiallySports: "McLaughlin-Levrone Angers Track and Field Community: 'Gone Back Into Hiding'" - Michelle Jenneke, Aussie Hurdler Famous For Her Warmup Dance, Getting Surgery After Dramatic Fall In Paris Jenneke ruptured her hamstring when she fell hard during the first round of the women's 100H. Despite the severity of her injury she still ran the repechage round the next day, although she failed to advance to the semis.
- Olympic 200m Bronze Medallist Brittany Brown Talks About Overcoming Endometriosis To Succeed As A Pro Athlete Endometriosis is a disease where tissue similar to the lining of the uterus grows outside the uterus and can cause severe pain. Brown says that when she was in college the pain at one point that she was crying and throwing up in the bathroom after a workout.
- Abby Steiner Gives Injury Update After Having Another Surgery Steiner returned from surgery last year to try to make the Olympics, but was curtailed by more injury issues and after not making the team got surgery again.
Leadville 100
- David Roche Breaks 19-Year-Old Leadville 100 Mile Course Record He ran 15:26:34 (9:16 pace) to break the record by more than 16 minutes. Mary Denholm won the women's race in 18:23:51 (11:02 pace), the second fastest time ever on the course. *Discuss
Keely Hodgkinson Updates
- Keely Hodgkinson’s 800m Was The Most Watched Event On BBC At The Olympics 9.1m people watched her win gold on BBC One and iPlayer. For comparison, 8.4 million watched Noah Lyles' 100m win.
*MB: The Brits love Keely - Keely's 800m gold medal run was most watched event in UK for Olympics - 9.1 million - Keely Hodgkinson Wants To Break The 41-Year-Old 800m Record, Says "I now believe I can do that." Czech athlete Jarmila Kratochvilova ran 1:53.28 in 1983 and Hodgkinson's best is 1:54.61.
Doping News
- Erriyon Knighton's Attorney Claims He Is "Collateral Damage" In The Anti-Doping Feud Between USADA And WADA WADA is appealing Knigton's ban being overturned and Knighton's attorney questions if it has to do with the current bad blood between USADA and WADA.
*MB: Erriyon Knighton Faces Possible 4 yr ban
- Kenyan 2:30 Marathoner Salina Jebet Gets 7-Year Doping Ban After Testing Positive And Forging Documents To Try To Cover It Up Seriously, how many Kenyans need to get nailed for trying to fake medical records before other dopers realize it's not going to work out for them? The hospital she claimed to go to didn't even stock the drug she tested positive for.
Two Final LetsRun.com Pieces On The Paris Olympics
Two Final LetsRun.com Pieces On The Paris Olympics
The Olympics produce the most incredible highs and lows. Which athletes overachieved and overachieved in the Paris track and field action?
Almost no one who emerged from the repechage made the final in Paris. World Athletics president Seb Coe admits, "It was an IOC creation. It wasn’t something that we chose ourselves."
Supporters Club podcast
One final look back at Paris, a look ahead to LA and we pay respects to Usain Bolt's 100m world record and ponder how Tyreek Hill could do in a race vs Noah Lyles.
The 1500 Guys Get Some Pub
MB: New docuseries on Ingebrigtsens coming out on Amazon Prime Video on Sept. 20 - Born To Run You can watch the trailer above.
- MB: Cole Hocker appears on Superfly with Dana Carvey and David Spade for 30 minutes We've cued it to start when Hocker shows up at at the 30-minute mark and his interview runs for 30 minutes. It's stunning how much of a track fan Dana Carvey is.
- MB: Laura Muir calls it a season
- MB: Nia Akins and Brooks appear to have parted ways Akins has unfollowed Brooks and most of their runners on social media.
News From The Commonwealth
- Interesting: 2024 was the first Olympics since 1964 that a male Kalenjin runner didn't win gold for Kenya 800m champ Emmanuel Wanyonyi is from the Bukusu sub-ethnic group of the Luhya
- Kenyan president hands out cash to Olympic medallists A gold was worth $23.3k, silver $15.6k, and bronze $7.8k and yes Beatrice Chebet got paid twice.
- Sharon Lokedi is very proud of her Olympic marathon effort despite finishing just 4 seconds off of a medal “I wish I could have done better but I am really proud of my performance. I really thought I was in the medal bracket. I wish there was a medal for number 4. I want Kenyans to know that I worked hard and gave it my all.”
- Two-time Worlds medallist Rushell Clayton remains ‘grateful’ despite not medalling in Paris Her pb of 52.51 would have left her short of a medal.
Upon Further Review, Jakob Actually Won 1500 Gold As Well
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- MB: Scientific researcher has analyzed the Olympic 1500 data and has "startling" conclusion - Jakob would have run near WR if he'd had a rabbit in Paris Oh wait, that mean little as they don't run the 1500 in lanes.
- Coros publishes Jakob Ingebrigtsen's heart rate & cadence data for Olympic 5000 win - His HR peaked at 183 They actually have published a lot more data than that as they have data starting in February.
*MB: Jakob's traning data from Coros leading up to Olympics
A New era begins in Berlin
For the first time since 2014, neither Eliud Kipchoge or Kenenisa Bekele will be in the men's race as they are getting old and recovering from the Olympics so new stars will shine. Can what former half marathon WR holder Kibiwott Kandie get the job done? What about the fastest debutant in history Tigist Ketema for the women?
*MB: 2024 BMW Berlin Marathon Elite Fields Released - And for the first time since 2014, neither Kipchoge or Bekele will be there
ASICS Falmouth Road Race elite fields released - Ben Flanagan, Jake Riley, John Korir, Emma Bates, Edna Kiplagat, and Everlyn Kemboi are in it The race is Sunday.
LRC Exclusives
LRC Exclusives
Was this the best Olympic track & field competition ever? Why did the US men run so well? Plus the greatest unanswered questions from Paris 2024 and why Jakob Ingebrigtsen should not abandon the 1500m.
A lot to talk about on this week's LRC podcast. We couldn't get to it all so join the Supporters Club to get Friday's bonus podcast.
News From The UK
- Georgia Bell's return from bad at the Pac-12 level to Olympic bronze medallist is CRAZY "When I quit after college it was just so clear I hadn’t reached my full potential and it wasn't a happy ending. There was something left but I thought it would always be that way. I just didn’t know journeys like this existed," Bell, 30, told BBC Sport after winning the UK Trials, but before the story got even wilder and she won Olympic bronze.
- Recommended Read Paris Olympics statistical review - Britain won its most medals since 1984 but shh... half its athletes weren't even top 12 Can you name all 8 people who repeated from 2021? Did you know that even though Ethiopia was horrific in terms of winning medals, they were still #4 overall ahead of Jamaica if you score the top 8? An interesting read from Athletics Weekly's Steve Smythe.
*A record 27 countries won gold medals in athletics at the Olympics, two more than the previous record Botswana, Pakistan, Dominica and Saint Lucia obtained their first ever Olympic medals in athletics, taking the total number of countries to 105 now.
Sprint / Jump News
- Ridiculous: An Italian sprinter who won 11 national titles as a man is now set to become the first openly transgender athlete to compete in women’s races at the upcoming Paralympic Games in Paris. The Paralympics rules are differnet than the Olympic rules governed by WA.
- Jamaica's Andrenette Knight, who dropped baton in 4 x 400 and then didn't pick it up, talks about what went wrong
- WADA is appealing Erriyon Knighton's ban being overturned and USADA head Travis T. Tygart has no problem with that In the US, the rules are followed. In China, they are not and yet WADA won't admit it.
- Phillipines EJ Obiena won't be defined by his 4th place finish in PV in Paris “I finished fourth in Paris, close but not good enough. I am not measured by this. I am measured by my career.”
No American Gets This
Marathon News
- Peres Jepchirchir says her preparations for Paris were good and she was expecting Kenya to sweep the marathon podium "The weather was not good for us, especially for me. I was well prepared, competing in all those races ahead of the Olympics and even smashing the women-only record. The race was tough but I thank God I managed to finish the race. I managed to finish 15th, something I have never experienced before but all in all I am grateful.”
- Emile Cairess says his 4th place run in Paris was his best marathon ever Before you say "Of course", realize he also was 3rd in London this year.
- Patrick Tiernan Q&A - He's now thriving thanks to a psychologist Tiernan, who calls the 2:07 in ran in Houston + his 2016 NCAA xc title as his highlights, is really enjoying racing after getting some mental help. "One of the biggest things I had to remind myself of through this period was that I am a very good athlete, but also that running was simply just running."
To the Victor's go the spoils
- Beatrice Chebet gets promoted - You should call her "Corporal Chebet" from now on Kenya's National Police force jas raised the rank of double Olympic gold medallist Beatrice Chebet as well as steeplechsae bronze medallist Abraham Kibiwot to corporal.
- Ethiopia's Tamirat Tola promoted as well to Deputy Commissioner by Oromia Police Commission
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
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.
Final day pod
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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"
Tuesday Video
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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.
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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.
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