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Silesia DL = 2 WRs

LRC Jakob Ingebrigtsen Runs 7:17.55 to Obliterate Daniel Komen's Legendary 3000m World Record

Ingebrigtsen took more than three seconds off Komen's 7:20.67, which had stood for nearly 28 years. Berihu Aregawi ran 7:21.28 (#3 all-time) while Grant Fisher was last in 7:49.79. *Full meet results *Full meet recap by WA

Official 2024 Silesia DL Thread: Will the 800m and 3000m WRs Go Down?
7:17.55! Jakob Ingebrigtsen DESTROYS 3000m WR Jakob has done it. The oldest men's track WR is history.
Mondo upstages Jingy! He set another WR of 6.26 at the end of the meet.
How is 7:17 for 3000 even possible? The Greatest WR is 7:17
Komen is still better than Jakob
and some of you will still come out and scream “Kerr is better than Jakob”
Jakob MUST run a fast 5000m this season — why isnt he entered in Rome DL?
3000m; lights are set at 7:20.67
Jacob equivocal on M 3000M WR attempt at the Silesia DL press conference
Jessica Hull dropped out of Selesia Diamond league 1500m
Kessler running the 800 in Silesia

On The Boards

Non-DL Weekend Action

Cooper Teare Breaks Meet Record At Monument Mile Classic With 3:53.09 Victory He won over GB's James Gormley (3:53.69) while Taryn Rawlings won the women's race in a meet record of 4:27.91.
GB 17-Year-Old Matthew McKenna Runs 1:46.84 At British Milers Club Meet He finished 4th in the race won by Justin Davies in 1:45.37, putting him second on the all-time European under-18 list (only behind Max Burgin's 1:45.36 from 2019). Australia's Catriona Bisset won the women's race in 2:00.91.
2018 World Half Bronze Medalist Pauline Kamulu Kaveke (2:31:04) And Former Japan Marathon Trials Winner Shogo Nakamura (2:15:36) Win Hokkaido Marathon In Humid Conditionsd

Sprint Stuff

The Second Season Of Netflix Documentary SPRINT Releases On November 13 The second season will follow sprinters ahead of and through the Paris Games, focusing on Fred Kerley, Gabby Thomas, Kishane Thompson, Julien Alfred, Letsile Tebogo, Melissa Jefferson, Twanisha Terry, Marcell Jacobs, Kenny Bednarek, Shericka Jackson, Oblique Seville.
Noah Lyles Considering Joining Michael Johnson's Grand Slam Track Lyles says for him there is important that there is TV coverage and so far, Grand Slam Track hasn't specified a TV provider. Lyles: "I need to hear a TV provider and I need to know that it’s going to be seen consistently."
Olympic 400H Champ Rai Benjamin Wants A One Day Contract With The NY Giants Benjamin said: "That’s it — one day. I don’t need anything else. I would sign a one-day contract. I’ll play on offense, come on. That’s easy. Listen, if you guys (Giants) need me, I’m telling you right now just let me know. I’ve got some cleats in my closet at home."
Irish Sprinter Thomas Barr Leaning Towards Retiring After Ending His 2024 Season The 32-year-old 400 hurdler didn't make Paris as an individual, but competed for Ireland's mixed 4x400.

Bonus Podcast

LRC Kenneth Rooks Podcast: Rooks Racing Sunday's Silesia Diamond League, Could Evan Jager's American Record Go Down?

Rooks stunned the world by nearly winning the gold medal in the steeple at the Olympics. Up next on Sunday is his first Diamond League meet ever (and only one expected this year).
Discussion

Doping News

World Athletics Sanctions Bahrain Athletics Association Over Anti-Doping Violations (Including Hiring A Banned Coach) Because of this, Bahrain was limited to just 10 athletes at Paris 2024 and will be for 2025 World Champs as well and they are banned from competing in any other World Athletics Series events for the next year. They still managed to win two medals in Paris, steeple gold from Winfred Yavi and 400m silver from previously banned Salwa Eid Naser.
*Ireland Isn't Happy Sanctioned Bahrain Was Allowed To Run Athletes At Paris Games It meant that previously banned Salwa Eid Naser was allowed to run in the 400m where she took silver, relegating Ireland's Rhasidat Adeleke to 4th.
2012 Olympic 800m Silver Medalist Nijel Amos Planning "Powerful Comeback" From Doping Ban Next Season Amos has been banned since 2022 and his ban ends in July 2025, meaning he'll be eligible to compete at 2025 Worlds in September.
Two Former Dublin Marathon Winners Test Positive For EPO Morocco's Taoufik Allam (2:07:43 PB) and Ukraine's Nataliya Lehonkova (2:28:58 PB) face 4-year doping bans.

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LRC A Stacked 800, Rooks DL Debut, Ingebrigtsen 3K WR Attempt? What to Watch in Silesia

Wanyonyi faces Marco Arop and Bryce Hoppel in the 800m, Ingebrigtsen is up against Selemon Barega, Berihu Aregawi, Yomif Kejelcha and Grant Fisher in the 3000m. Letsile Tebogo vs Erriyon Knighton and Kenny Bednarek in the 200m and Kishane Thompson vs Fred Kerley and Marcell Jacobs in the 100m.

Olympic News

This Is Extremely Dumb: Paralympians Face Disqualification For Olympic Ring Tattoos The IPC considers this "body advertising" and in 2016 actually DQ'd a swimmer with cerebral palsy for not covering the Olympic rings tattoo on his chest.
Chile Plans To Bid For The 2036 Olympics
Poland Plans To Bid For The 2040 Or 2044 Summer Olympics

Pole Vault News

Diamond League Returns Thursday in Lausanne

Results

LRC Jakob Ingebrigtsen Defeats Cole Hocker in Olympic 1500 Rematch in Lausanne

Ingebrigtsen crushed Hocker over the final 200 to win in 3:27.83 as Americans Hocker (3:29.85) and Hobbs Kessler (3:30.47) finished 2nd and 3rd.

LRC 2024 Lausanne DL: Wanyonyi 1:41 Again, Broadbell Beats Holloway, & Akins Leaves Brooks Beasts

Olympic champ Emmanuel Wanyonyi ran 1:41.11 in the 800 to move into a tie for #2 on the all-time list and scare David Rudisha's world record. Rasheed Broadbell handed Grant Holloway his first defeat of 2024 and US 800 champ Nia Akins, who competed in a logoless kit in Lausanne, has officially left the Brooks Beasts. We broke down Lausanne down right after the meet, click on the video to hear LRC's post-meet analysis.

LRC Missed Lausanne Diamond League? Watch Race Videos Here

If you missed the action from Thursday's Athletissima Lausanne Diamond League meet, you can catch up by watching the major events here.

More Recent Results

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National Mile Record For Sweden’s Samuel Pihlström (3:52.20) Highlights Folksam Grand Prix In Sweden He beat out Ky Robinson by .59. There was another NR for Netherlands’ Nick Smidt in the 400H (48.36). US's Olivia Markezich won the women's mile in 4:24.06 over Maia Ramsden (4:24.79), Sage Hurta-Klecker (4:25.60) and Katelyn Tuohy (4:26.66).
*MB: Folksam (Sweden) Grand Prix 8/21
Israel Olatunde Breaks Irish 100m Record With 10.12 In London

Mid-D News

MB: 21-Year-Old Kenyan Olympian Koitatoi Kidali (1:42.66) to Oregon Kidali made it out of the first round, but didn't make the final in Paris.
Keely Hodgkinson Ends Her 2024 Season Due To A "Small Injury"
*MB: Keely Hodgkinson shuts down her season due to small injury
MB: Yared Nuguse Racing Road Mile In Dusseldorf On September 1 (World Record Attempt) The road mile WR is 3:54.56 by Emmanuel Wanyonyi from earlier this year.

This Week's Pod

LRC Diamond League is Back with Cole vs Jakob in Lausanne, Noah Lyles Calls it a Season, Grant Fisher's Coach Mike Scannell

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.

NYC Marathon

LRC 4 Thoughts on 2024 NYC Marathon Elite Fields Headlined by Olympic Champ Tamirat Tola

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?

Cheating News

Interesting Read: BBC: East v West - Germany's Drug Fueled Cold War For Medals A state sponsored doping regime enforced by the East German secret police, the Stasi, a doping doctor that "treated" almost all West German athletes, and the devastating health effects suffered by athletes from taking years of drug cocktails, sometimes against their will.
World Athletics And The AIU Are Investigating The "Rising Cases Of Age Cheating" In Kenya As of last month, Athletics Kenya said 26 cases of age cheating were under investigation and apparently the Kenyan team for 2024 World U20 champs was "subjected to an enhanced scrutiny."
*MB: 'Kenya shouldn't bury head in the sand over age cheating scandal

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

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

LRC The 5 Biggest Winners & Losers From The Paris Olympics

The Olympics produce the most incredible highs and lows. Which athletes overachieved and overachieved in the Paris track and field action?

MB: My 5 biggest overachievers and underachievers in Athletics at the Paris Olympics

LRC Repechage at the 2024 Olympics: How Many Repechage Athletes Actually Made the Final?

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

LRC Usain Bolt's 100m World Record is 15, Tyreek Hill vs Noah Lyles?

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.

College / HS News

Upon Further Review, Jakob Actually Won 1500 Gold As Well

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

LRC Berlin Marathon Elite Fields Released: Here Are The Leading Contenders For The 50th Edition of The Storied Race

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 Jonathan Gault's 9 Final Thoughts on the 2024 Paris Olympics

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.

LRC POD Olympic Recap Show - Who Are Olympic MVPs? Sifan Hassan OMG + Will Jakob Break The 1500m WR This Year?

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

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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

The Olympics are fantastic because a country like Botswana will celebrate its first-ever gold medal by announcing a public holiday and filling the country's largest stadium with 30,000 people pic.twitter.com/OqXfq6X8S1
— Joe Pompliano (@JoePompliano) August 13, 2024

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LRC Jakob Ingebrigtsen Runs 7:17.55 to Obliterate Daniel Komen's Legendary 3000m World Record

LRC Kenneth Rooks Podcast: Rooks Racing Sunday's Silesia Diamond League, Could Evan Jager's American Record Go Down?

LRC A Stacked 800, Rooks DL Debut, Ingebrigtsen 3K WR Attempt? What to Watch in Silesia

LRC Jakob Ingebrigtsen Defeats Cole Hocker in Olympic 1500 Rematch in Lausanne

LRC 2024 Lausanne DL: Wanyonyi 1:41 Again, Broadbell Beats Holloway, & Akins Leaves Brooks Beasts

LRC Missed Lausanne Diamond League? Watch Race Videos Here

LRC Diamond League is Back with Cole vs Jakob in Lausanne, Noah Lyles Calls it a Season, Grant Fisher's Coach Mike Scannell

LRC 4 Thoughts on 2024 NYC Marathon Elite Fields Headlined by Olympic Champ Tamirat Tola

LRC The 5 Biggest Winners & Losers From The Paris Olympics

LRC Repechage at the 2024 Olympics: How Many Repechage Athletes Actually Made the Final?

LRC Usain Bolt's 100m World Record is 15, Tyreek Hill vs Noah Lyles?

A New era begins in Berlin

LRC Berlin Marathon Elite Fields Released: Here Are The Leading Contenders For The 50th Edition of The Storied Race

LRC Jonathan Gault's 9 Final Thoughts on the 2024 Paris Olympics

LRC POD Olympic Recap Show - Who Are Olympic MVPs? Sifan Hassan OMG + Will Jakob Break The 1500m WR This Year?

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