Bekele's camp has revealed that the soon to be 40-year old isn't done. "[For his] next race after New York, he wants to be top [fitness] and show something special!"

At the 1995 Weltklasse Zürich meet, Moses Kiptanui became the first man under 8:00 in the steeplechase and Haile Gebrselassie took over 10 seconds off the 5,000m world record.  It was the Golden Age of one of Europe's finest meets. A quarter century later, those who were there reflect on the famous night.

How have the greatest marathoner and greatest distance runner in history been training during the pandemic? Where is their fitness two months before London? Superagent Jos Hermens gives us the inside scoop.

Jos Hermens' record of 20,944m from 1976 is the second-oldest European record on the books. Moen came close to it when he broke the European 25k record last month (he ran 20,703m in an hour, about half a lap short of the record record).

It's rare for an agent to speak honestly about an athlete but Jos Hermens didn't hold back in sharing his thoughts about the greatest distance runner in history, Kenenisa Bekele, after Amsterdam. "It all comes down to preparation. He has just as much talent as Kipchoge, but while Kipchoge will prepare for six months before a marathon, Bekele only started 7 weeks ago. That just can’t work...It’s extremely frustrating.... I think he has some kind of dyslexia, an inability to plan...It’s really hard with him."

Bekele is confident that the best is yet to come for him at the 26.2 mile distance. “I definitely will break it before my retirement. For all the skeptics, I will show them with my hard work,” Bekele said, waving his hands with confidence. “I want to seize my future. And I don’t want anyone to get into my way of proving myself.”

Agent Jos Hermens thinks Kenenisa Bekele is capable of much more in the marathon if he focuses on running and not his business empire. "Eight marathons, two wins, that’s not Kenenisa Bekele....What do you want to be, businessman or professional runner?"

Distance fans, it's time to get excited. Jos Hermens reveals that Kenenisa Bekele is healthy and going for the world record on Friday in Dubai. Bekele has his sights firmly set on Dennis Kimetto's 2:02:57 WR and plans to go out faster than any man in history. Will the weather cooperate?

We introduce you a German teen sensation and try to figure out if she's most like Cain, Efraimson, Hasay and Ostrander, prove to you that it's a real bad idea to just go for it in a race, talk about the end of NY Diamond League, and do something we almost never do - praise a doper.

CR holderAselefech Mergia leads the women’s entries.

Kenenisa Bekele, the worlds most credentialed distance runner, says we'll see a 2 hour marathon, "if the scientists create different human beings." His agent Jos Hermens is much more optimistic.

Two-time World Cross-Country champion Craig Virgin generated some heated debate when he took to his Facebook page after Galen Rupp's American two-mile record run and said among other things, "What is Galen taking or doing ... that is giving him such amazing recuperative/restorative powers?" Virgin called for more transparency in the legal supplements/medications athletes may be taking. LRC spoke with Virgin on his comments and with Galen Rupp's agent Ricky Simms about Virgin's comments and the calls for more transparency. Plus, Simms tells LRC Mo Farah has never been on thyroid medication.
*MB: Craig Virgin and Fam have interesting comments on Rupp and NOP