LetsRun.com! LetsRun.com: The Week that Was (somebody please give us a new name for this column) USATF nationals, the future of the 800m, Powell, Wariner, Ritz, Webb, Olympic boycotts, masters running, and even race walking, we've got it all covered.
World's Best 10k: Women: Kiplagat Gets Her 6th Title A nice $20k payday for Kiplagat in the richest 10k in America. Men: Controversial Finish Likely Costs Benjamin Kipruto $18,000 He seemed to be on his way to a $30,000 payday until disaster struck. He followed a motorcycle on the course, off the course.
Most Popular Threads: *Christian Cantwell Drops F Bomb at Press Conference *Malmo what's the best way to structure a 100 and 110 mile weeks? *Top 10 All Time Running Rivalries *Lolo Jones & USATF *Why are Outdoor Tracks Red and Indoor Ones Blue?
John Drummond Says Don't Call Him Coach Yet But he's coaching quite a few people in Arlington, Texas and consults with Tyson Gay.
2008 AT&T USA Indoors: *Full Results Here*Event By Event Results Here
Sunday: LRC Thrilling Men's 800 Highlights, Rob Myers Proves He's Class of Men's 1,500 and Nicole Teter Takes Down Women's 800. Track races can't be any more exciting than the men's 800, which more than lived up to the hype and turned into an epic duel between KD and Nick Symmonds. *Controversy in Men's Shot Put Boston Globe The big story perhaps should have been Adam Nelson not making the team, but instead it is the feud between Cantwell and Hoffa. (We received news of Cantwell calling Hoffa a "f****** hypocrite" at the post race press conference) You think at this level the guys or Nike or someone would make sure they have the 16 lb shot they want. Nelson won't compete for $40,000 at Worlds but did get $25,000 for winning the Visa Championships series. *Day 2 Photos
*Winners Quotes From Day 2 Saturday: LRC Favorites Tegenkamp, Wurth-Thomas Win, Shannon Rowbury Surprise Winner of 3k Matt Taylor's recap of the 3ks (and how boring the meet was) for Letsrun above *Boston Globe Recap of 3k, 1500 It was Tegenkamp's first race of 2008, but he is at a level above the rest of the 3000/5000 m runners in America not named Lagat, and his class trumped the sharpness of his training partners as he led a 1-2-3 Wisconsin sweep, as he was followed by Chris Solinsky and Olympian Jonathon Riley (thread here). Wurth-Thomas blew away the field in the women's 1500, and Shannon Rowbury showed the benefits of training with Shalane Flanagan as she upset Jen Rhines in the 3k. More: *USATF Recap: Favorites prevail Saturday at AT&T USA Indoor Championships *USATF Wants New CEO by June 1, Weather Delays Caused Problems for Athletes *Madison 1-2-3 at USATFs * Brad Walker Wins Pole Vault at USATFs *Jillian Camarena Wins Her 4th Straight Indoor Shot Title *Photos of Day 1 of 2008 USATF Nationals *Athlete Quotes - Day 1 *Post Race interviews
Recap of Thursday's Great Action:
Indoors: Sweden: GE GALAN: Full Results
*Sold Out Crowd of More Than 10,000 Watches 19 Year Old Abubaker Kaki of Sudan Run 2:15 1k, Lagat Runs 7:34 The kid who ran a 1:43.9 last year to win the All African Games is ready to run in 2008. His splits were 25.4 27.1 28.1 28.7 26.5. He's going for the 1k world record on Sunday. He settled for the junior record on Thursday. Meanwhile, American Bernard Lagat continued his sensational 2008 indoor campaign with a comfortable win in the 3k. In the women's 800, Maria Mutola got the win in 1:59. In the men's 800, Dmitrijs Milkevics won the B race by 5 seconds in 1:46.09. In the A race, reigning world indoor champion Wilfred Bungei edged reigning Olympic champ Yuriy Borzakovskiy by .06 (1:47.16 to 1:47.22). In the women's 1,500, ex-Ethiopian Maryam Jamal edged current Ethiopian Gelete Burka in a 4:04 race.
Outdoors: Australia Powell and Wariner Dominate Powell came in at less than 100% but started cautiously and let up 10m before the finish and still ran 10.04. Wariner put aside his opening loss at 200m, and quieted the critics of his coaching change at least temporarily with a 44.82 400m. Craig Mottram pulled away the final 200m for the 13:11 win in the 5000, his 6th Aussie title. *IAAF Recap Here
*Andrew Baddeley Wins 1,500 in Melbourne *Powell Cruises to Grand Prix Record (With Photo) www.news.com.au *10.04 - Imagine if He Was Fit www.news.com.au *Powell Cuts to the Chase and Wins The Melbourne Age *Craig Mottram Runs 13:11 for His 6th Australian 5000m Title The Melbourne Age *Mottram sharp in 5000m win www.news.com.au PreRace: *Asafa Powell's Coach is Glad Powell Lost in Osaka He says Powell did not prepare properly in 2007 and that Powell's fundamental Christian beliefs had Powell thinking he could not be beat. *Craig Mottram Wants to Know Where the Aussies Are *Asafa Powell: "I would say I am the biggest deal in every sport there is"
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