The 2024 Diamond League season came to an end. Jakob got the win in the 1500, but we're more interested in breaking down his half marathon debut. Sydney McLaughlin made a rare Diamond League appearance. And we delve into the crazy fast times on the track in 2024.
Archived Homepage For September 18, 2024
Archived Homepage For September 18, 2024
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When Meets Compete, The Athletes Win
- Diamond League To Increase Athlete Prize Money To Highest Ever Level In 2025 The total prize pool will be over $9 million for the 2025 season which the Diamond League says "is almost a third higher than the sum paid during the pandemic-affected period of 2021-2024." It breaks down to $500,000 per meet and over $2 million for the DL final.
- Athlos NYC VS Grand Slam Track - Huge Prize Money Rewards For Track's New Leagues The Athlos meet has a prize pool of $500,000 with $60k for the winner of each race while Michael Johnson's Grand Slam has an overall prize pool of $12.6 million with $100,000 going to the winner of each race at each meet.
On The Boards
On The Boards
Distance News
- Legendary Japanese College Coach Steps Down Due To Abuse Allegations After 4 Athletes Taken To Hospital The 80-year-old coach Keisuke Sawaki apparently had the team race 10,000m in hot conditions as punishment for not qualifying for the Hokone Ekiden and 4 runners were taken to the hospital with heat stroke. Asked for comment, Sawaki said, "This is the way we've always done it."
- Jake Wightman Says He Feels "Motivated To Go" One More Olympic Cycle Rather Than "Disappointed And Downbeat" "I could easily have been crushed by it (missing Paris 2024) and not wanted to carry on. But that can't be how I leave my experience with the Olympic Games."
- Athletics Weekly: Keely Hodgkinson Is The Latest In A Line Of British Middle Distance Runners To Use Sand Dune Workouts In Their Training
- Paralympic Marathoner Who Was DQ'd For Momentarily Letting Go Of The Rope That Tied Her To Her Guide Says It Cost Her $33,000
*MB: What a joke: Visually impaired runners loses Paralympic marathon medal after trying to help her guide who cramped up (video) - Dewi Griffiths (28:21) And Calli Hauger-Thackery (31:57) Win Swansea Bay 10K In The UK
Anti-Doping News
- Kenyan Anti-Doping Agency Says Huge Government Budget Cuts Have Halted All Their Testing With the number of high profile Kenyan athletes being caught doping, this is absolutely not the time to cut back on testing. ADAK only got $155,000 in funding for the next financial year when it expected to receive $2.2 million.
- German Doping Ring Dismantled In Hanover The operation was run by two people who had an online sports nutrition and dietary supplement business. Police sized thousands of capsules and hundreds of kilograms of powder suspected to be PEDs.
- WADA Opens 2025 Social Science Research Grant Proposals WADA considers social science research an important part of the anti-doping system to help support doping prevention.
The 2026 Commonwealth Games Have A Home
- Glasgow To Host A "Scaled Back" 2026 Commonwealth Games After the Australian state of Victoria backed out due to rising costs, Glasgow has stepped up with the backing of the Scottish government. Glasgow hosted in 2014 (where Usain Bolt was the main attraction) with 17 sports and the Games cost $717 million, but the total budget for the 2026 is expected to only be about $150 million and there will only be 10 sports. Most of the $150 million will come from compensation paid to the global Commonwealth Games Federation by Victoria.
- The Independent: Can Glasgow revive the fortunes of the Commonwealth Games?
- Sean Ingle: "Smart Money Remains On Glasgow Being A Temporary Commonwealth Games Fix" "Nobody cares to play host to exorbitant mid-tier event and organizers are running out of time to convince otherwise."
Multi-Event News
- US's Michelle Atherley And Estonia's Johannes Erm Are The Overall Winners Of The 2024 World Athletics Combined Events Tour
- Estonia’s Johannes Erm (Decathlon) And Colombia’s Martha Araujo (Heptathlon) Win Decastar Meeting In Talence, France
- Columbia Hires Olympian Lawrence Johnson As Assistant Coach The 2000 Olympic pole vault silver medalist will coach Columbia's multi-event athletes and pole vaulters.
- French Police Searching For African Heptathlete Odile Ahouanwanou Who Has Been Missing Since September 10 Ahouanwanou, who represents the African nation of Benin, was last seen dropping off her child at daycare. Police are considering the possibility of voluntary disappearance.
Our Weekly Written Recap
Plus a big win streaks get snapped while others get extended. And Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone gets paid despite avoiding the Diamond League like the plague while Grant Holloway doesn't despite running it all the time.
RIP
- RIP Double 1960 Olympic Gold Medalist Otis Davis, 92 Davis won 400m and 4x400m gold at the 1960 Rome Olympics. He actually went to the University of Oregon on a basketball scholarship, but picked up track and won gold despite only having raced the 400m nine times before the Olympics. He won in 44.9, making him the first man to dip under 45 seconds.
- The Oregonian: Davis Was Oregon's First Olympic Gold Medalist And Is One Of The Five Icons Featured On The Tower At Hayward Field
- Kenyan Athlete Willy Chelawa Found Dead At His Training Base In Kaptagat He was the cousin of 2:05 marathoner Wilson Chebet (2:05 in the pre-super shoe era) who said "was promising in his [running] career" and in "good health."
NCAA Rankings
- NC State Women Ranked #1 In Week 1 NCAA XC Coaches' Poll They were tied with NAU in pre-season rankings, but now hold the #1 spot. NAU, Notre Dame and Oregon are ranked 2-4. *Regional Rankings
- No Changes To The Top 5 Men's Teams As OSU Still Ranked #1 In NCAA XC Coaches' Poll BYU, Arkansas and NAU are ranked 2-4. *Regional Rankings
- Washington State's Evans Kurui And North Carolina's Brynn Brown Are NCAA XC Athletes Of The Week Kurui won teh WSU Cougar Classic in a CR 22:46 (broke Edward Cheserek's record from 2015) while Brown won the Virginia Invy in 16:32.
Copenhagen Half
Kenya's Isaia Lasoi was a close third in 58:10. There was a lot of excitement around Jakob Ingebrigtsen's half-marathon debut, but after going through 10k in 27:27 (a Norwegian national record and on pace for 57:54) he pulled up and stopped running. He continued on (with a couple more stops) to finish in 63:13. World half silver medalist Margaret Kipkemboi won the women's race in 65:11 over Judy Kemboi (65:43).
- Efrem Gidey Breaks Irish Half-Marathon Record In Copenhagen (60:51)
- Copenhagen Half Marathon Discussion Board
- Jakob - "I won't try this again for another two years"
- Was running CHM the right call for Jakob?
- Jakob Ingebrigtsen 63 HM
- Copenhagen's half has made me appreciate Hassan's greatness even more.
- Could Jakob have won the 10k in Paris?
- Ingy is done
More Distance News
- Molly Seidel Had Emergency Surgery For Appendicitis While She Was In Paris To Watch The Olympics Now she has to take a month off of running and says she hopes the time off helps her reset with her other injury issues.
*MB: Is Molly Seidel update? - Pete Julian’s Union Athletics Club Is Moving From Oregon To Colorado The group includes Raevyn Rogers and Sinclaire Johnson, but it isn't clear if all the group will follow Julian to Colorado.
*MB: Union moving to Colorado - 2025 Tokyo World Championships Marathon Course Revealed The course is mostly flat after the first 5k until the last few miles where there is a "challenging climb" from around 38k to 40k. The course also includes two laps of a 13k circuit that has three 180 degree turns per lap.
- Kenya's Brimin Kipkorir Misoi (2:06:17) And Ethiopia's Workenesh Edesa Gurmesa (2:24:33) Win Sydney Marathon
Seb Coe For President
- Seb Coe One Of Seven Candidates For The Next IOC President Coe is up against UCI president David Lappartient as well as several other sports federation heads. The election will be held at an IOC session in ancient Olympian in late March of 2025 and the new IOC president will take over in June
- InsideTheGames Article Delving Into The Candidates And Some Of The Challenges Coe Faces With IOC Rules Normally there is a max age of 70 and Coe is 67, but he can get an exemption from the IOC members.
We recap the end of the 2024 Diamond League season.
We give you the highlights from day 1 of the Diamond League final where Georgia Bell's amazing year continued, SML ran faster than Paulino in the 400 and Ackeem Blake pulled off an upset in men's 100.
- Official 2024 Brussels DL Final Day 1 Thread
- Jakobs wins Diamond League Final in Interesting fashion
- Copenhagen Half - 57:00 pace requested for Aregawi(2'42"/km). Ingebrigtsen 100% in it
- Rumour in Norway that Jakob will run Copenhagen Half on Sunday.
- What's going on with Stewy McSweyn?
- Who coached Georgia Bell at Cal? They should hand in their coaching card, right?
Sprint Stuff
- Fred Kerley And Kenny Bednarek Join Michael Johnson's Grand Slam Track
- Justin Gatlin Thinks Noah Lyles Should Focus Just On The 200m For The 2025 Season Gatlin: "I think personally, I would like him to take that route of what 19.3 and beyond looks like."
- Saint Lucia Declares September 27th As Julian Alfred Day She won their first Olympic medal ever in Paris.
- Kenny Bednarek Uses Different Color Headbands During The Season Based On His Favorite Characters From Japanese Anime
- Letsile Tebogo And Fred Kerley Want World Athletics To Bring Back The Continental Cup The meet which saw Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe competing against each other in a team format was scrapped in 2020 due to lack of interest.
- Gabby Thomas Believes That Education is The Key Driver To Her Success A healthy dose of talent doesn't hurt either.
- Jesse Owens Honored With Two Oak Saplings Planted In Brussels
RIP Rebecca Cheptegei
- Thousands Mourn Rebecca Cheptegei At Her Funeral In Uganda She was buried in her father's homestead in eastern Uganda. As a member of Uganda's armed forces, soldiers carried the coffin and she was given a three-volley salute. Mourners included her mother, father and two daughters.
NCAA / HS News
- WSU's Evans Kurui Breaks Edward Cheserek's Course Record At The Cougar Classic Kurui destroyed the field to win by 51 seconds in 22:47, beating the record Cheserek's set at the 2015 PAC-12 Championships by 20 seconds. This is the course NCAA West Regionals will be on this year. WSU's Zenah Cheptoo won the women's race and team titles went to the Boise State men and Gonzaga women.
- Casey Clinger, Jenna Hutchins Lead BYU Sweep At Autumn Classic
- PAC-12 Poaches Four Mountain West Schools To Help Rebuild The Conference Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State and San Diego State will join the Pac-12 in 2026.
- MileSplit: #2 Ranked CBA Average Quick 16:03 During Holmdel Park Opener
Copenhagen Pre-Race - Jakob's 13.1 Debut
The race is at 3:30 am ET. You can watch it live.
*MB: Ingebrigtsen says he's not there for WR, plans to run first mile with leaders and re-evaluate.
- Jakob Ingebrigtsen Will Make His Half-Marathon Debut In Copenhagen - Two Days After Winning DL 1500m Title After Brussels, Ingebrigtsen posted on Instagram, “What a great way to end the season. Or…" WR holder Jacob Kiplimo faces Ingebrigtsen and world champ Sabastian Sawe in the men’s race; world silver medalist Margaret Kipkemboi leads the women’s race.
- MB: Copenhagen Half - 57:00 pace requested for Aregawi(2'42"/km). Ingebrigtsen 100% in it
What Does Jakob Think Of Grand Slam Track?
Hoare said he spoke with Ingebrigtsen about GST while cooling down in Zurich and that Ingebrigtsen said he was open to racing on the series but likely not in the 800/1500 group and that he did not like having to go race in the USA.
Jakob's Half Debut
When asked at the Brussels pre-meet press conference if he'd be making his half marathon debut on Sunday, Ingebrigtsen didn't confirm or deny he'd be in Copenhagen.
David Rudisha's 800m Record on Borrowed Time?
At the start of 2024, only five men had ever broken 1:42. Five have done it in 2024 alone, and David Rudisha's 1:40.91 world record looks poised to fall. What is going on? Jonathan Gault interviews coaches and scientists from all over the world and unveils Project 99 - the quest for the first sub-1:40 800 in history.
Brussels Preview
We'll get Ingebrigtsen v Hocker v Nuguse in the 1500 for the last time in 2024. Plus what to make of Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone's 200/400 double and Sha'Carri vs Alfred in the 100m.
Non-Brussels Distance News
- Jake Wightman is moving to Manchester to be closer to his physio as he realizes at age 30 health is #1 "I’ve now had time to re-evaluate and at 30 my priority has to be medical support so I am relocating to Manchester in a bid to squeeze as much as I can out of my remaining years in the sport. I feel I need to be closer to my physio there because I can’t have a third straight year like this in 2025 with a world championships in a year’s time," writes Wightman.
- Might the women's AR fall at the Chicago Marathon this year? “I have a special history with the Chicago Marathon,” said D’Amato who finished fourth in 2021. “The past two years I’ve run my mouth in the lead vehicle for NBC. I’m excited to get back to running my legs.”
- Dyestat's Boys Top 100 Pre-Season US HS XC Rankings Washingotn signee Josiah Tostenson, who ran 8:39.89 last spring, leads the list.
- Dyestat's Early Girls Top 100 US HS XC rankings - Elisabeth Leachman is #1, Addy Ritzenhein is #2
- Video chat with HS star Elizabeth Leachman The reigning Foot Locker Cross Country champion "sits down with DyeStat's Keenan Gray to discuss her upcoming junior year, entering the fall as the No. 1 ranked runner in the DyeStat Early-Season Cross Country Individual Rankings on the girls side."
Women In The News
- Yaroslava Mahuchikh: “I fight for Ukraine on the athletics track” “I jump for my country and the people there. They tell me that my achievements bring a little joy into their lives. My Olympic title brought joy in Ukraine for one day but then a rocket hit a children’s hospital . I cried a lot then," said the champ who called Brussel home for 1.5 years and is pumped for the DL final as a result.
- Julien Alfred: “I’ve always wanted to be Usain Bolt” Alfred moved away from St. Lucia and her family at age 14 to train in Jamaica but she has never met her idol. That needs to change.
- New Mexico's Gianna Rahmer had quite the 8th grade year last year In 8th grade last year, "she took the New Mexico running scene by storm, going undefeated and winning the New Mexico 5A state title by more than two minutes, breaking the course record. She went on to claim the NXR Southwest crown and capped off her inaugural prep season claiming All-American honors at Nike Cross Nationals with a sixth place finish."
- Eritrean marathon national record holder Nazret Weldu suspended for whereabouts failures The 2:20 marathoner was 4th at Worlds in 2022.
Might A Track Guy Head The IOC?
- Lord Coe weighs up bid to become IOC president despite puzzling election rules Normally there is a max age of 70 and Coe is 67. Plus they just passed a new rule you must be an IOC member for the whole term and Coe isn't scheduled to be an IOC member after 2027.
- IOC Rule Changes Create Legal Obstacles For Seb Coe's Presidency Bid These new election rules come just before Sunday's deadline to enter the race. It's worth noting that Coe has butted heads with current president, Thomas Bach, on a number of issues including the ban on Russia and World Athletics giving athletes prize money at the Olympics.
- 1976 Olympic 10,000m Bronze Medalist Brendan Foster Backs Seb Coe For IOC President Foster said, "Seb would be a fantastic choice. I would love him to stay on in athletics because the sport was corrupt before he arrived but he would have even more influence at the IOC."
Sprint Stuff
- Gabby Thomas Stuns At New York Fashion Week Thomas also announced her last track race of the season will be the female-only Athlos meet (hosted by Serena Williams' husband) on September 26 in NYC.
- Noah Lyles And His Girlfriend Junelle Bromfield Pose Together For The Dim Mak Collection At NY Fashion Week
- Olympic Champ Rai Benjamin Gets Hero's Welcome From his Home Town, Mount Vernon, NY Included being lead by motorcade to the Mount Vernon HS track which was renamed in his honor.
- Tokyo Olympic 100m Champ Marcel Jacobs Ends His 2024 Season
- Three-Time NCAA Champ And 2016 Olympic 4x400 Gold Medalist Arman "Gino" Hall Joins UCLA Coaching Staff
Non LRC Brussels Coverage
- Athletics Weekly: Top 10 Things To Look Out For At Brussels Diamond League With four sub-1:42 guys, including Emmanuel Wanyonyi and Marco Arop, the men's 800m should definitely be a highlight. Jakob Ingebrigtsen vs Cole Hocker and Yared Nuguse in the 1500m and a potential WR attempt by Beatrice Chebet in the women's 5000m.
- Sydney McLaughlin Says She Wants To Break Her 200m And 400m PRs In Brussels She noted that Worlds being in September next year might "open up more opportunities to race in Europe" during the regular season.
- Ethiopia's World U20 Steeple Champ Sembo Almayew Denied Visa For Brussels
- The Jesse Owens Rising Star Award Will Be Introduced At The Brussels DL Final The award will be given to the top performing male and female athlete under 23-years-old. Age 23 was chosen because that's how old Owens was when he won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Nazi-era Berlin.
- Letsile Tebogo shares emotional message in honour of his late mother “The day I lost you, I also lost me. I’ve been trying to find myself again but it’s hard. It’s hard because you were a huge part of my life. Not having you here is so painful. I’m just not me anymore.”
- MB: Diamond League Final Entries Posted
Distance News
- MB: Did Ingebrigtsen only hit 93% of his HRmax during 5K Gold? We liked this quote from Ingebrigtsen talking about his training: "Many athletes want to test their fitness in training during peak seasons. We however have a different approach. We think of training as if we are farmers, and what we are harvesting are carrots. Many athletes want to pull the carrot out of the ground early to see what they have made, but in reality, once you test it, you can never put it back in. We won't pull the carrot out of the ground until race day, but trust that our preparation and experience will give us the best odds of success."
- What A Joke: Paralympic Marathoner Stripped Of Her Bronze Medal For Letting Go Of The Tether For A Second When Her Guide Almost Collapsed Visually impaired athletes run holding a rope that connects them to their guide. Spain's Elena Congost's guide almost collapsed in the last few meters and she apparently dropped the rope for a second to try and help him not fall which resulted in a DQ. Ridiculous.
*MB: Paralympic Marathon Bronze Medal - DQ'd ?! - MB: Athing Mu is engaged! Congrats to the happy couple!
- Marc Scott (13:56) And Calli Hauger-Thackery (15:35) Win UK Road 5k Titles
- MB: Wall Street Journal: Wanna find a boyfriend or girlfriend? Join your local run club
Monday Night Track In Switzerland
- Audrey Werro Beats Addy Wiley And Breaks Swiss 800m Record With 1:57.76 Victory In Bellinzona On Monday Night Wiley was 2nd in 1:59.23. France’s Sasha Zhoya got an upset win over Grant Holloway in the 110H, beating him by just .01. France's European champ Gabriel Tual won the men's race in 1:43.98. Italy's Gianmarco Tamberi took the HJ in 2.27m
- Ryan Crouser Gets Another Win With 22.25m In Bellinzona Olympic bronze medalist Jasmine Camacho-Quinn won the 100H in 12.52.
- Ireland's Sharlene Mawdsley Storms To Come From Behind Victory In Bellinzona 400m (51.35)
Cheptegei Story Update
- Rebecca Cheptegei's Ex-Boyfriend Dies From Burns Sustained During His Attack When Dickson Ndiema set Cheptegei on fire, he ended up sustaining burns on more than 40% of his body himself.
- Viola Cheptoo, Founder Of Kenyan Domestic Violence Support Group Tirop’s Angels, Says "Justice really would have been for him to sit in jail and think about what he had done." She said Cheptegei's attacker also dying "is not positive news whatsoever."
Olympic News
- Family Of Legendary Eiffel Tower Designer Will Fight Potential Plans To See The Olympic Rings Remaining On Tower The Paris mayor said she wanted the rings to stay up until at least 2028 even though the original plan was only until the end of 2024.
- Japan's Panasonic Ends 37-Year Contract As Top Olympic Sponsor
- InsideTheGames: "France Returns To Its Political Nightmare After Olympic Dream" A French history and sports professor said, "One of the positive aspects of the Games was that the political class respected the idea of an Olympic truce. There wasn't chaos, or demonstrations or strikes, and France's image has ended up being boosted."
- Copenhagen, Denmark Considering Bidding For The 2036 Olympics
Retirement News
- Belgium's 2016 European Decathlon Champ Thomas Van der Plaetsen Retires At Age-33 He competed at the 2016 and 2020 Olympics, but didn't make it to Paris this year.
- Spain's Race Walking Olympic/World Champ Alvaro Martin Announces His Retirement From Walking He will now crawl wherever he goes.
Fifth Avenue Mile
A tailwind helped Kerr and Schweizer to their fast times but they destroyed the competition.
Post-Race Videos
THOUGHTSLEADER breaks down the post-race comments from Kerr on Jakob and Grand Slam Track, Hoppel's hope to get elevated to bronze if Sedjati is popped for drugs, Emma Coburn's return to racing, Hobbs Kessler and more.
Zagreb
Arop missed the 25-year-old record of 2:11.96, but still set a North American record. Other distance winners included Kenya' s Leonard Bett (steeple - 8:06.33), Kenya’s Nelly Chepchirchir (800m - 1:57.00), Italy’s Sintayehu Vissa (1500 - 3:58.33) and Belgium’s Isaac Kimeli over Cooper Teare in the 2000m (4:54.29 to 4:55.42). In non-distance action Ryan Crouser had his bet throw of the season with a 22.93m victory and Erriyon Knighton took the 200m in 19.93.
- James West Runs Fastest 2000m By Brit Since 1988 4:56.23 for 5th on the UK all-time list, granted it is an event that is rarely ever run.
- MB: Marco AROP to go for 1000 WORLD RECORD at 1:40 pm ET in Zagreb
Rebecca Cheptegei Updates
- Neighbor Talks About Witnessing The Attack On Rebecca Cheptegei Agnes Barabara recounts, "When I came out, I saw Rebecca running towards my house on fire, shouting: help me. As I went to look for water and started calling out for help, her assailant appeared again and doused more petrol on her. But then he too got burned and he ran off towards the garden to try to put it out. We then went to help Rebecca.”
- Rebecca Cheptegei Funeral Will Be In Uganda On September 14 Another tragic detail of Cheptegei's death is that her children (aged 9 and and 11) reportedly witnessed the attack.
- Paris To Name A Sports Venue In Honor Of Rebecca Cheptegei
More Road Results
- Kenyans Abel Kipchumba (59:52) And Mary Ngugi-Cooper (67:41) Win Great North Run Half-Marathon Kipchumba dominated the men's race, beating GB's Marc Scott by over a minute, but the women's race was super close with the top-5 separated by just 5-seconds. Eilish McColgan was the top Brit in 5th (67:45).
- Kenyans Dennis Kibet Kitiyo (K27:17) And Diana Chepkorir (30:12) Win Prague 10k
NCAA / HS News
- NAU's Colin Sahlman And Maggi Congdon Sign NIL Deals With HOKA
*MB: Colin Sahlman to Hoka confuses me - #4 Ranked Oregon Women Beat Oregon State At Pre's Trail Run Anika Thompson and Mia Barnett went 1-2 for the Ducks (16:53 and 16:59 for the 5k). Oregon freshman Ali Ince ran unattached and finished 5th (17:21).
- Amir Thompson, 10.50 Sprinter And Son Of Olympians Marion Jones And Obadele Thompson, Commits To Texas We really wish the author didn't write, "Thompson will try to follow in his parent's Olympic footsteps" considering Jones is a disgraced drug cheat who was stripped five Olympic medals.
- Reuters: Judge Questions Scope Of NCAA’s $2.7 Billion Student Athlete Settlement The judge is concerned about limits on how much athletes can be paid and sent the settlement back to the lawyers to re-work.
Zürich
Yared Nuguse passed Jakob Ingebrigtsen late to win the 1500 in 3:29.21 as Sha’Carri Richardson (10.84) topped Olympic champ Julien Alfred (10.88) in the 100 and Grant Holloway broke 13 in the 110 hurdles for the 12th time. *Full Results
Mondo Vs Warholm
Mondo got off to a great start and kept a narrow lead throughout.
Pre-Race:
- Karsten Warholm-Mondo Duplantis 100m Showdown Will Be Streamed For Free By World Athletics Watch on Wednesday at 3:30PM ET.
- Karsten Warholm Predicts A "Dog Fight" In 100m Head-To-Head With Mondo Duplantis Warholm says he's been getting advice on his start from Usain Bolt and Duplantis was seen practicing starts with Fred Kerley.
- Duplantis Talks About Practicing Block Starts With Fred Kerley “I just saw Fred in the lobby of the hotel in Lausanne and was like, ‘When are you doing blocks?’ And he was like 2 o’clock, and I said ‘bet.’"
Ingebrigtsen Family Update
The eldest Ingebrigtsen son has gone public to Norway's largest newspaper Aftenposten with some of the details of the alleged abuse Gjert inflicted on his children. Even though the statute of limitations has passed on many of the alleged crimes, Kristoffer wants the world to know what happened as he feels like Gjert has been "allowed to set the terms" of their separation. "It's still good that people know. When Gjert is hyped up as a God in all directions, as he was for a while, he in some ways only gets worse."
The Diamond League Puts Its Foot Down
According to multiple sources, Diamond League CEO Petr Stastny announced today at the technical meeting for the Weltklasse Zurich meet that Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone will not be allowed to compete in the two Diamond League finals next week as she's not eligible since she didn't compete in any regular season DL meets. Meet organizers are contemplating having her run in the pre-program presumably against less-than-stellar competition.
Our Written Weekly Recap
An unsponsored product engineer at HOKA took down UTMB over the weekend, Addy Wiley broke the American 1000m record, and this is the year of the women's 1500.
More Distance News
- Oct 27th's Valencia Half Marathon Fields Released - Kejelcha and Barega headline And Kenya's Agnes Jebet Ngetich, who ran sub-29 on the roads this year, will make her debut in the women's race.
- Ugandan athlete Rebecca Cheptegei to be airlifted to Nairobi for specialized treatment
- Kilian Jornet summits 82 Alpine peaks in 19 days Jornet embarked on a quest, dubbed “Alpine Connections,” to ascend as many of the 4,000-metre peaks in the Alps as possible, using only human-powered methods to travel between them. He broke the previous record by 43 days.
Distance News
The 49-year-old has been stripped of the silver medal she won in the women's 2012 Olympic 1500m (a race from which 6 of the top 9 finishers have received doping bans). Tomashova initially finished 4th in that race, but was upgraded to silver when the Turkish runners who finished 1-2 failed drug tests. With Tomashova's ban, Shannon Rowbury (who initially finished 6th) moves up to third.
*MB: Rowbury now an Olympic medalist !?!?
*MB: A 10 year ban for the "dirtiest race in history"
- MB: Cole Hocker And Yared Nuguse Sign With Grand Slam Track This means all three medalists from the Paris 1500m final will race each other four times in 2025.
- Josh Kerr Wants To Complete "The Full Set" Of Olympic 1500m Medals In Los Angeles 2028 With a bronze and a silver from 2020 and 2024 Kerr says, "One more medal across the men’s 1500m in the Olympics would, I believe, be unprecedented and be the most anyone has ever had in that distance."
- MB: Cooper Teare (13:15) Wins 5000m At Copenhagen Athletics Games GB's Hannah Nuttall (15:07) won the women's race over US's Elly Henes (15:08). US's Waleed Suliman won the mile (3:52.03) and Matt Boling won the 400m in 45.24.
Sprint Stuff
- Kishane Thompson And Shericka Jackson's Coach, Stephen Francis, Is Considering A Social Media Ban For His Athletes Francis says, "I believe I’m going to try to implement a policy for the athletes to delete social media before they start competing. It’s too much of a distraction, and they spend too much time on their phones."
- Second Season Of Netflix Documentary "SPRINT" Comes Out November 13 The second season is centered around the Paris Olympics and features Noah Lyles, Julien Alfred, Gabby Thomas, Letslie Tebogo and more.
- Athletics Illustrated Opinion Piece: "Letsile Tebogo May Be The New GOAT Soon" Tebogo's PBs are faster than Usain Bolt's at the same age, although Bolt did start out as a 400m runner originally.
Other News
- NCAA Considering Big Rule Changes Like Letting Athletes Compete In A 5th Year And Preserve Their Redshirt And Allowing Them To Earn Prize Money Before College
- More Than 30 Million Viewers Watched The Olympics Across NBC’s TV And streaming Platforms, Generating A Record $1.2 billion In Advertising Revenue
- RIP Former Decathlon World Record Holder Kurt Bendlin, 81 Bendlin broke the decathlon WR in 1967 and won Olympic bronze for West Germany in 1968.
Mike Smith Q&A
In this excellent Q&A with Sarah Lorge Butler, Smith talks about why he's leaving the NCAA, how he thinks his pros did at the Paris Olympics and reveals that Galen Rupp has had a major surgery.
USATF 20k Championships
Bor won in 58:09, breaking Matt Tegenkamp's championship record of 58:30 from 2012 and said he want to break Ryan Hall's 59:43 half-marathon record in Valencia. Nathan Martin was 2nd in 58:26 while D'Amato won in 1:06:25 over Jess McClain (1:06:50).
Terrible News From Kenya
Cheptegei suffered burns on more than 75% of her body when her boyfriend doused her in gasoline and set her on fire. The two were apparently arguing over a piece of land Cheptegei bought. Cheptegei finished 44th in the marathon in Paris and won gold at the World Mountain and Trail Championships in 2022.
More Recent Results
- New Competition Formats Tested At The "Track Lab" Meet In Switzerland The meet tried some new things like the mile steeplechase (won by Ethiopia’s Abrham Sime in 4:14.36), allowing 0.000 reaction time instead of 0.10 in the sprints and a bunch of field event alterations. There was also a team competition and a standard women's 800m, won by Switzerland’s Audrey Werro in 1:58.79.
- Clare Elms Becomes Oldest Woman To Break 5 Minute Barrier For 1500m The 60-year-old Brit ran 4:57.14 in London.
- Tulsa Men, Texas A&M Women Win Season XC Openers At Cowboy Preview
- Germany’s Felix Wolter And Poland’s Adrianna Sulek-Schubert Win Wiesław Czapiewski Memorial Multi-Event Meet In Poland
ISTAF Berlin
She broke the previous mark of 1:21.63 set by Caster Semenya in 2017. Sam Kendricks won the PV with 6.01m, Grant Holloway the 110H in 13.14.
Weekend Distance Action
Giles beat the mark of 3:54.6 set earlier this year (still pending ratification) by Olympic 800m champ Emmanuel Wanyonyi. Nuguse was second place in 3:51.9.
*MB: Road Mile World Record - Elliot Giles 3:51.3
- US's Katie Schide Wins UTMB Ultra In New Course Record She ran 22:09:31 to break Courtney Dauwalter’s course record by 21 minutes, just two months after she won Western States 100. France's Vincent Bouillard was the shock winner in the men's race in 19:54:23 after several of the pre-race favorites (including defending champ Jim Walmsley) dropped out.
*MB: *Official* 2023 UTMB Discussion Thread - Eilish McColgan Continues Her Comeback From Injury, Winning The Big Half In London In 69:14 GB's Jack Rowe won the men's race in 62:35.
- Kenya's Patrick Kipngeno And Austria's Andrea Mayr Defend Their Titles At The Vertical Nasego Mountain Race In Italy
2024 World Jrs in the Books
- Ethiopia’s Abdisa Fayisa Wins Thrilling 1500m Duel With Australia’s Cameron Myers At World U20 Champs Fayisa beat out Myers in the homestretch, 3:40.51 to 3:40.60. Kenya went 1-2 in the men's steeple with Edmund Serem winning in 8:15.28.
- Ethiopia’s Saron Berhe Lives Up To Favorite Status As She Wins Women's 1500m In A Tactical 4:16 In the women's 4x100, Alana Reid anchored Jamaica to gold while Team USA got DQ'd for a bad baton exchange. The US women won the 4x400.
- DyeStat: US 4x400 Victories Wrap Up World U20 Champs Individual golds from Vance Nilsson (400H) and Bryce Ruland (discus).
- USA Tops Medal Tables At World U20 Champs With 8 Golds And 16 Medals Total This after USATF said earlier this year they weren't sending a team at all before they backtracked due to heavy criticism.
- Czech Sprinter Lurdes Gloria Manuel Wins U20 400m Gold In 51.2
Addy Wiley Gets A National Record
She won the race in 2:31.49, breaking the 25-year-old American record of 2:31.80 set by Regina Jacobs.
*MB: How appropriate: Suspect Addy Wiley - who is deeply linked to Nick/Lauren Johnson - breaks doper Regina Jacobs US 1k record *Results
- MB: US's Elly Henes Runs 15:03 For Third Place Finish In German Meet; Katelyn Tuohy 6th (15:21) Ethipia's Molla Birtukan won in 14:59, US's Josette Andrews was 4th (15:07).
Teen Phenoms In The News For Good & Bad Reasons
Before Halvorsen's victory in the 3000, no non-African-born man had ever won a flat distance race at World U20s. After Spain's Jon Azkueta won gold in the 2k steeple in the first World Jrs in 1986, an African-born man had won 73 straight men's distance events.
The SEC indoor mile and outdoor 1500 champ has tested positive for EPO. We'd never seen an Indian mid-d runner with such an amazing kick and now it all appears to good to be true.
2024 World Jrs in Lima, Peru
- South Africa's Bayanda Walaza Completes Sprint Double By Winning 200m In 20.52 At World U20 Champs Australia’s Gout Gout won silver in 20.60 and the British Virgin Islands' Adaejah Hodge took the women's race (22.74). Distance golds went to Ethiopia thanks to General Berhanu Ayansa in the men's 800m (1:46.86) and Aleshign Baweke in the women’s 3000m (8:50.32).
- Czechia’s Tomas Jarvinen Threatens World U20 Decathlon Record To Take Gold In Lima He won with 8425 points, just 10 points off the record.
- DyeStat: Akaoma Odeluga, Ja'Kobe Tharp, Scottie Vines Win Gold For US At World U20 Champs
- Three Things To Follow On The Final Day Of World U20 Champs On Saturday Aussie 1500m phenom Cameron Myers leads the 1500m.
Rome Diamond League
Letsile Tebogo celebrated early and still ran 9.87 to win the 100 as Winfred Yavi ran 8:44.39 to miss the women’s steeple world record by .07. *Full results *WA Full meet recap
- SC: Rome Diamond League recap podcast + NCAA EPO Scandal The LetsRun.com crew broke it all down.
- MB: Official Rome DL Discussion Thread - Lights set at 12:35 in Rome - Will we see a world record? (Reaction show at 5 pm ET)
- MB: Winfred Yavi ALMOST breaks the steeplechase world record 8:44.39 in Rome! Chemutai 8:48.03
- MB: Ryan Crouser had six throws over 22m tonight - That's the 6th time he's done that. Who else has done it?
2024 World Jrs in Lima, Peru
- WA Thursday Recap: Norway's Andreas Fjeld Halvorsen wins 3000 (8:20.56) as Ethiopia's Sembo Almayew (9:12.71) wins steeple Czechia’s Lurdes Gloria Manuel (51.29) and South Africa’s Udeme Okon (45.69) won the 400s.
- Field event recap: Iosif Kesidis wins hammer by 7+ meters
- LRC: What to Watch for in the Final Three Days at the 2024 World U20 Champs Australia has one of its best U20 teams ever with 800m Olympians Peyton Craig and Claudia Hollingsworth and 1500 phenom Cameron Myers.
- MB Official Thread: World Juniors Starts August 27th, Cameron Myers Doubling, Awesome M/W 800s
- Three things to watch on Friday at World Jrs
Odds & Ends
- Deepest-ever UTMB starts Friday - UTMB preview: Walmsley, Schide vs. everyone It features "an elite field that’s deeper, faster and more competitive than ever before."
*MB: Official* 2023 UTMB Discussion Thread J - NCAA 100m champ Louie Hinchliffe goes pro, won't use final year of eligibility at Houston
- Berihu Aregawi, Eilish McColgan and Marc Scott to run Great North Run on September 8
- World Athletics and Mondo extend their sponsorship for 5 more years Mondo has been the official track of WA since 1987.
Olympic medallists in the news
- Olympic silver medalist Kenneth Rooks talks about fall in Poland “I am still getting it evaluated, and it hasn’t been diagnosed. I have got X-rays with no breaks. I’m still waiting on an MRI,” said Rooks who is about to go back to school to finish up his civil engineering degree. Rooks got a hero's welcome when he returned to Utah earlier this week (see video above).
*‘What the heck just happened?’: What Kenneth Rooks had to say following his silver medal run
*MB: Ed Eyestone goes crazy as Kenneth Rooks wins Olympic silver (video) - Jakob Ingebrigtsen completes 4-hour police interview regarding allegations against Gjert
*Filip Ingebrigtsen opens up on Jakob's comeback from injury - says a "good dose of luck" has helped
Previous World Jrs
- Jamaica’s Alana Reid (11.17, 0.0m/s) and South Africa's Bayanda Walaza (10.19, -0.9m/s) win 100m gold Walaza's win was a surprise as he only had the 7th best pb in the race.
- Was 10.03 man Bradley Nkoana the 100m favorite? He'ds already won an Olympic 4 x 100m silver this year.
- Wed am recap: Women's heptathlon heats up
- Australian won mixed gender 4 x 400 gold on day 1 For some reason, TEAM USA didn't even have a team. *Discuss
- Thursday World Jr Preview: 400 and steeple finals to highlight
NCAA XC Starts This Week
- Ok State Cowboys begin NCAA XC title defense against #3 Arkansas on Friday
- MB: UCLA accepts sanctions for recruiting violations - Former assistant Sean Brosnan disputes allegations
- NCAA runner Yaseen Abdalla talks about how he wasn't scared of the marathon in Paris The Texas/Tennessee/Arkansas runner ran 2:11:41 and was 33rd in the Olympics.
- OSU Men Start Off #1 In NCAA D1 Cross Country Preseason Coaches' Poll BYU, Arkansas and NAU are ranked 2-4.
- NC State And NAU Are Tied For #1 In Women's Cross Country Preseason Coaches' Poll Notre Dame and Oregon are ranked 3rd and 4th.
- NCAA.org: Oklahoma Track Guilty Of NCAA Violation The former head coach Tim Langford told a female athlete to give some of her scholarship money ($2020) to two athletes on the men's team.
Cole Hocker Gets Shoutout On Joe Rogan Podcast
- MB: Cole Hocker's 1500m Gold Gets Airtime On Joe Rogan Podcast Neuroscientist Andrew Huberman brought up how he met Hocker and he and Rogan watched part of the 1500m final together on the podcast.
Previous World Jr News
She broke the 14-year-old record by Genzebe Dibaba by more than 28 seconds and dominated the race, lapping most of the field. Kenya’s Andrew Kiptoo Alamisi won a tight men's race in a sprint finish with 13:41.
- WA: Three Things To Watch On Day 2 Of World U20 Champs The men's and women's 100m finals are today. South Africa's 10.03 sprinter Bradley Nkoana (who won 4x100 silver at the Paris Games) is the favorite in the men's race.
- DyeStat U20 Champs Day 1 Recap Including How Team USA Did
- World Athletics Day 1 AM Recap
- The Netherlands' Jarno Van Daalen Gets Upset Victory In Shot Put At U20 Champs
- AW: Five Highlights From Day One At World Under-20 Champs
- MB: Official Thread: World Juniors Starts August 27th, Cameron Myers Doubling, Awesome M/W 800s
Marathon News
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- Did You Catch Eliud Kipchoge's Moment Of Sportsmanship At The Paris Olympics? Kipchoge dropped out at 30k, but first stood and waited for the last place runner (Mongolia’s Bat-Ochiryn Ser-Od) to pass him.
- Two-Time Olympic Marathoner Suguru Osako Makes It Through His First Trail Race At UTMB MCC Two Weeks After Olympic Marathon He was in 4th place at the first checkpoint, but struggled on the technical descents and finished 52nd (behind 49 men and two women).
- Boston Marathon Changes Finish Cutoff Time To 5:30PM In Response To Complaints Previously, runners had 6 hours from the time the final starter crossed the starting line, which created a "moving target" for some runners who were running slower than 6 hours.
Coaching News
Smith won five NCAA XC titles from 2017-22 but will leave the school at the end of the 2024-25 school year.
- Mike Smith Considering Offer to Be a Nike Coach in 2025 - Update it’s a done deal.
- The Mike Smith debacle shows everyone is for sale. Nike bought Citius, Mike Smith, etc. The Brojos would sell out too.
- Is Ed Eyestone next?
- What will Adidas think about letting a Nike coach work with Nico Young
- Ben Thomas is so disrespected
RIP
- RIP Jamaica's 1952 Olympic 400/4x400 Champ George Rhoden, 97 Rhoden set the 400m WR at 45.8 in 1950, but also had success in the 100m (competed at the 1948 Olympics) and up to the 800m (won silver at the Central American and Caribbean Games).
- RIP Former World Athletics Vice President Amadeo Francis, 82 Francis was a two-time Olympian, competing for Puerto Rico in the 400H at the 1948 and 1952 Games.
Fast Times By British Youngsters
- Brit Evan Grime Runs Fastest Mile Ever By A 15-Year-Old With 4:05.48 At British Milers Club Meet He just broke the previous record of 4:05.77 set two years ago.
- British Teenager Divine Iheme Runs World Age-14 100m Best Of 10.30 He crushed the previous record held by Jamaica's Sachin Dennis at 10.51.
Non-Distance News
- Jamaica's 2020 Olympic 110H Bronze Medalist Ronald Levy Gets 4-Year Doping Ban Levy tested positive for multiple banned substances.
- Javelin Thrower Arshad Nadeem Made Bank After Winning Pakistan's First Olympic Gold Medal In Paris A million dollars, a couple of cars, an apartment and a buffalo.
- Recent Irish 100m National Record Setter Israel Olatunde Joins Relocates To Florida To Train With Noah Lyles' Group Under Lance Brauman
- IPC Backtracks On Controversial Olympic Rings Tattoo Rule Before Paris Paralympics They had previously DQ'd athletes for not covering up their Olympic rings tattoos, calling it "body advertising.
Upcoming Action
- Olympic Medalists Letsile Tebogo, Kishane Thompson And Fred Kerley Will Go Head To Head In Rome DL 100m On Friday Marcell Jacobs and Christian Coleman are also in the field.
- Cole Hocker, Josh Kerr, Yared Nuguse And Jakob Ingebrigtsen 1500m Rematch Set For Zurich DL On September 5
- Beatrice Chebet, Mary Moraa And Karsten Warholm Announced For Zurich DL In the 800m, world champ Moraa will face Olympic silver medalist Tsige Duguma.
- Olympic Champions Ryan Crouser (Shot Put) Ethan Katzberg (Hammer), Haruka Kitaguchi (Javelin) Highlight Zagreb Throws On September 6
- European Athletics' Six More Things To Look Forward To In 2024
NCAA News
- USTFCCCA Stands Alongside Other Collegiate Coaching Bodies Demanding Action From Congress In Protecting Collegiate Olympic Sports Part of their statement reads, "The composition of Team USA in Paris is proof positive of the importance of our (collegiate athletic) programs, and yet they are currently in danger of disappearing entirely in the midst of massive changes to the college sports landscape. ... We are gravely concerned about the possibility of recasting college athletes in Olympic sports as employees. ...The costs that could come with such a shift would undoubtedly lead to drastic cuts, and likely the elimination of most college Olympic sports programs altogether."
- NCAA DI Men’s XC Preseason Regional Rankings
- NCAA DI Women’s XC Preseason Regional Rankings
Previous World U20 Champs News
- World Athletics World U20 Previews: Distance *Sprints *Steeple/Hurdles *Jumps *Throws *Relays *Multi-Events/Race Walk
- Three things to watch on day 1 Ethiopia’s Medina Elisa (14:16 pb) is expected to defend her 5000 crown
- USATF Roster Set For World Athletics U20 Champs
- Record number of 1700 athletes from 130 teams to compete in Peru
- Japan's Team For Lima U20 World Championships
Silesia DL = 2 WRs
Silesia DL = 2 WRs
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
Distance News
- Kenyans Mock "Hideous" Statue Of Olympic Champ Faith Kipyegon In Eldoret The statue was removed after residents complained, but not before pictures went viral. It's pretty bad.
- Daily Mail: "US Olympian Colleen Quigley Goes Viral For Bizarre Tongue Exercises To Release Tension In Her Pelvic Floor" It's a weird video for sure, but apparently it's backed up by the science as "tongues and jaws are both linked to the pelvis through the body's myofascial system of connective tissues."
*MB: Colleen Quigley makes Daily Mail headline - USATF To Supplement Prize Money For Their Road Race Championships In 2025 San Diego won the bid to host the World Road Running Championships (mile, 5k and half-marathon) in 2025 and USATF is giving a total of $150,000 in prize money for the selection events for each of those.
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.
- Kenya's Alex Nzioka Matata (59:48) And Ethiopia's Yalemzerf Yehualaw (65:34) Win Antrim Coast Half Marathon Matata beat out a field that included two-time Tokyo Marathon winner Birhanu Legese (3rd place, 6:30) while 2021 London Marathon champ Joyciline Jepkosgei was 3rd place in the women's race (more than a minute behind Yehualaw).
- 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 Conditions
- MB: Anne Gilshinan first 60 yo woman to run a sub 5 minute 1500m
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
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.
- 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
Diamond League Returns Thursday in Lausanne
Diamond League Returns Thursday 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.
- Jakob 3:27.83
- What did Jakob say to Cole after reestablishing his dominance at Lausanne DL?
- Jakob will NEVER get 1500m WR
- What the heck was Marco Arop doing in Lausanne?
- Wanyonyi 1:41.11
- Cole Hocker cocky on the Lausanne DL Press Conference is Jakob losing another 1500M?
- Lausanne DL 1500m
- Why I think Jakob can break the 3000 WR now
- Mondo Duplantis Beats His Own Meet Record With 6.15m In Lausanne Street Meet
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.
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
- 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
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
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
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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.
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?
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
Best of Jon Gault
Take Your Love of LetsRun to the Next Level
Take Your Love of LetsRun to the Next Level
LetsRun Classics
LetsRun Classics
