US Indoor Champs Are This Weekend *Results *LRC Saturday Photos *Flash Sunday Photos *LRC Lomong American Record Photos *5k Record Was Friday Night In NY
Day 2: LRC Mary Cain Dominates & Wins Her First US Indoor Title Cain was simply brilliant and
thrashed the field. In
the process, she showed a technical savviness and closing speed way beyond her years.
*Finish Photos *Video Of Cain's Win
*LRC Rest Of Mid-D & Distance Action: Will Leer Completes Heart-Warming Double As Eric Sowinski's Dream Season Continues And Teen Phenom Ajee Wilson Joins Cain In Winner's Circle
The 2013 USA indoor meet ended up being fantastic from a fan's
perspective. With his cancer-stricken father in the stands, Leer found the guts to complete the 3k/mile double as Erik Sowinski just held off Robby Andrews and Wilson led throughout.
*Short On Time? Men's 800 Recap Only
*Women's 800 Recap Only
*Men's Mile Recap Only
*USATF Recap Of day 2
*AP Recap Of USAs From A Guy Who Clearly Doesn't Cover Track
More 2013 USA Indoor News
MB: Official 2013 USA Indoor Day 2 Discussion Thread - Watching On TV? Give Us Your Thoughts Here
Updated: LRC Day 1 Distance: Chelsea Reilly Wins National Title As Lisa Uhl Nearly Impales Herself, Will Leer Dominates
Chelsea Reilly won her first national title in NASCAR fashion as she and Lisa Uhl collided right before the finish with Uhl catapulting herself head first off the track. Fortunately, both women survived without serious injury. Will Leer dominated the men's as expected. Can he pull off the 3k/mile double tomorrow? In the 800,
the "names" - Mulder, Andrews, Centro, Sowinski - all advanced except for Mark Wieczorek.
*Photos
(Video of 3k finish in article or to right on homepage)
Jerry's Boys Take On The Big Apple
LRC Lopez Lomong Sets New American Indoor 5,000 Record - Runs 13:07.00!!! We recap the historic night in NYC that saw Lomong get the AR, Chris Derrick get the "A" at 13:12.00 and the rest of Jerry's boys struggle
a bit at the end as the pace was super hot. Includes exclusive post-race interviews that include Teg, Lomong, and Derrick, who talks about German Fernandez and Alan Webb.
*Photo Gallery *Race Video *Post-Race Interviews *Race Results Weekly
*Great News From Another Schumacher Stud: Chris Solinsky's 1st Track Race In Nearly Two Years Is Successful - Dominant 8:05 Win At UW
Non-Championship News
- Just Another Day: Double Olympic Wrestling Champ Goes On Hunger Strike In Protest Of IOC Decision To Cut It Will this really be any different from his normal pre-competition routine?
- The Guardian: "The Loss Of Jessica Ennis's Stadium Makes A Joke Of Olympic Legacy"
Previous Non-Championship News
- Will Anyone Big Go Down? Naming A Number Of "Leading Athletes" Who Tested Positive After Samples From 2005 World Champs Were Re-Tested
- Is This Why Most Runners Are Broke? Study Finds That Running May Reduce The Desire For Money
- Former Greek Sprinter Vassilis Papageorgopoulos Faces Life In Prison After Embezzling Almost $18 Million In State Funds
- The Stadium Where Jessica Ennis Trains In Sheffield Will Be Demolished Her coach said, "We're going to be all right for this coming season because it's open, but any sort of move towards the next Olympic games and retaining Jess's title has been dealt a hefty, hefty blow."
Previous US Indoor News
- LRC 2013 USA Indoor Track & Field Championships: A Fan's Guide: Does Mary Cain Win Her First Title? A Centro Double? Who wins the men's 800? Andrews, Mulder, Sowinski, Wieczorek or possibly Centro? Mary Cain tries to win US senior title #1 - Will she face fellow teen phenom Ajee Wilson?
- Alberto Scratches Mary Cain From 800 - Wants Her To Practice Running Tactical Miles A very smart move in our minds, as Alan Webb never seemed to learn how to run in a pack. "She needs to learn how to run in packs when the pace is slow. After this there are few meets that I could get her into that would be like that."
- Like Bolt, Aries Merritt Eager To Become Household Name Everyone knows who the world's fastest man is - few know the world's best hurdler.
- Sharon Day Defends Pentathlon Title As USA Indoor Championships Kick Off In Albuquerque
- USATF US Indoor Champs Preview On the women's side, Mary Cain vs. Ajee Wilson in the 800 should be interesting. Matt Centrowitz is in the 1,500 and 800; Jeremy Wariner is running the 400 in what will be his first time competing at US Indoor Champs.
- Alberto Salazar Having Mary Cain Race The 800 At US Indoor Champs Even Though "She is not really trained for it." Talking about whether she'd go to college, Salazar said, "She is so good she could turn professional right now ... but she hasn't decided that she wants to forgo the college experience. I think she will make that decision at the end of high school."
- Guest Column By A HS Coach The Salazar Effect: A Lasting Impact? West Genesee (NY) coach Jim Vermeulen: "My central question is whether the trends toward greater scholastic runner visibility (via meet sites, Flotrack, Milesplit,etc) and the increased potential of scholastic runners opting out of school programs is ultimately positive for ALL of scholastic running?"
Jamaican News
- Top Under-20 Male Sprinters Are Featured On Day 1 Of 2-Day Carifta Games Trials At The National Stadium.In Jamaica
- 3-Time Olympic Hurdler Richard Phillips, Who Broke His Ankle In London Olympics, Is Now Back With His HS Coach
- 2012 IAAF World Junior 100m Bronze Medallist Odean Skeen Is Declared Academically Inelegible For Upcoming "Champs" In Jamaica
Other US News
- Good Article From Ken Goe On Nick Symmonds And His Ongoing Battle To Improve Sponsorship Opportunities For Track Athletes Symmonds: "It's important to remember I'm not an employee of Nike. I'm an independent contractor, and toeing the party line and helping Nike get a monopoly hurts me in terms of renegotiations. It hurts the entire body of professional track and field athletes if there is a monopoly of one or two shoe companies."
- How Will This Affect Her Hurdling? Lolo Jones Talks About The Training/Eating Differences Between Track And Bobsledding She says she eats extremely healthy and races at 133, but with bobsledding she got up to 150 and was encouraged to eat junk food and put on muscle mass.
- USA Today Writer Says Jeff Demps' Decision to Return To Track & Field Could Put NFL Career In Jeopardy
- Good Interview With Trey Hardee: He Says The Focus For Him Is Winning Medals No Matter What Score That Means
- It's Back: DyeStat Is Back Online
- Good Q&A With Defending NCAA Mile Champ Chris O'Hare On NCAAs, Millrose, Coming To The US From The Uk And More Talking about pain while racing, he said, "When you think about it like that, you're expecting the pain, you know it's going to come, and I'm totally fine with that. I can handle it. I know I'm not going to keel over and die."
- Chairman/CEO Of Blackstone Stephen A. Schwarzman Has Donated $500,000 To The USATF Foundation
- Last Chance Meets At Columbia, Notre Dame And Washington Highlight Weekend NCAA Action
- LRC Meet The New York City 5th Grade Teacher Who Also Is The Coach Of An Olympic Medallist
Wrestling: Olympic Wrestler Returns Medal To IOC In Portest Of Wrestling Getting Cut He's the second to do this.
NYC Half On March 17th
- 2013 NYC Half Field Released - Meb, Abdi & Ritz (Plus Lagat) To Headline
- Q&A With Dathan Ritzenhein Ahead Of NYC Half On doing a half instead of World XC: "I wanted to do something that I would be excited for, people would care about. Right now, the half marathon is this rocking distance that people love."
NCAA Stuff
- Updated NCAA Rankings: Arkansas Men & LSU Women Stay On Top, But Florida And Oregon Have Closed The Gap From 2nd
- Running Times Praises New Kentucky Coaches: Under New Coaches, The Kentucky Women's Distance Program Catches Fire
*5 minutes With Kentucky Stars Cally Macumber And Chelsea Oswald - HS: Q&A With Michael Cherry, Who Recently Broke The High School National 300m Record
This Weekend: Three Big Japan Races On Sunday: Lake Biwa Mainichi Marathon Will Help Choose Last World Champs Spots The international field at Lake Biwa includes 2:05:13 man Vincent Kipruto, 30k WR holder Peter Kirui and 2012 Houston Marathon winner Tariku Jufar. Also Sunday are the National University Men's Half Marathon Championships and Yuki Kawauchi leading the field at the Tamana Half Marathon.
Milers In The News
LRC Meet Jacob Burcham: West Virginia's 4:02 High Schooler Wants To Go Sub-4 This Spring Joel Wolpert has produced a short film on the WV star, who while certainly very talented, is far from obsessed with running. Burcham, "I used to think of myself as a football player all of the time. I still kind of do in my head."
Distance News
- Tirunesh Dibaba And Imane Merga Surprisingly Named To Ethiopia's World XC Team
- Alberto: Mo & Galen Now Get A Few Weeks Totally Off "They have a couple weeks with no running whatsoever. Then Galen and Mo will start building up for outdoors."
- Another Doped-Up Russian Mid-D Woman To Be Banned, Marilyn Okaro To Receive European Bronze
- Former Providence Star David McCarthy Withdraws From Europeans With A Combination Of Flu, Laryngitis And An Ear Infection
- Catching Up With Canadian 5,000 (14:54.98) And 10,000 Record Holder (31:44.74) Courtney Babcock The former Michigan runner is now coaching at Montana.
- Palestinians Urge Boycott Of Israeli Marathon They say the marathon is another Israeli policy "aimed at exerting Israeli control over the occupied city.''
News From Kenya
- Family Affair: 2011 World Jr. XC Champ Faith Chepn'getich Is Pumped To Try To Defend Her World Jr. Title With Her Older Sis On Team For First Time With a 4:03 PR, we think she's got a great shot at repeating. Her older sis Beatrice Chepkemoi is on senior women's team.
- Kenyan Officials Praise Patrick Makau For Always Properly Doing Whereabouts Form For Doping Control
Jessica Ennis Is Prepared To Pay Her Coach Toni Minichiello's Wages We've never understood why agents get a ton of cash from runners but their coaches get often zero.
More From The Weekend
- IAAF Recap Of World's Best 10k: Kenya's Sammy Kitwara Won Men's Title For 4th Time (28:43) As Joyce Chepkirui Won The Women's Race In 31:40
*Results - Kazuhiro Maeda, Top Japanese Runner At The Tokyo Marathon For 4th In 2:08:00, Has Lashed Out At Yuki Kawauchi, Telling Him To "Stop Making Fun Of Corporate Runners" Maeda: "I don't know whether I'm going to be on the team, but if I am then I'll be running ahead of him. If I don't beat him he'll just go shooting his mouth off again. I want to leave him with nothing to say."
- Bobby Curtis Wins Sunday's Gasparilla 8k In 23:30 As Tune-Up For The March 9th USA 15K Champs Article includes a picture of him in a Hansons-Brooks singlet.
Under Armour Suing To Stop Nike's Use Of "I Will" Slogan
Rock 'N' Roll New Orleans *Top Results *Photo Gallery
LRC Farah
Outkicks Gebremariam, Meseret Defar Over Shalane Flanagan, Kara Goucher Way Back Meseret Defar's second half marathon was much like her
first one, a win (1:07:25) over Shalane Flanagan (1:08:31). Mo Farah doesn't lose and he found a way to beat Gebre Gebremariam 1:00:59 to 1:01:00.
*On The Boards: Cool Race Blow by Blow
*Mo Farah's 1:00:59 Is A New British Record This is actually slower than the 60:23 he ran in his debut at NYC, but NYC is not a record-eligible course.
*IAAF Recap Farah said he had a brief side stitch at the ninth mile which might have had to do with drinking too much water.
*Pre-Race Article On Mo Farah
*Farah Says Running The First Half Of The London Marathon Isn't About The Money
NCAA Conference Championships *All Meet Info/Live Results/Viewing Info
- Big 10: Cas Loxsom 1:15.42 American Record* For 600m At Big 10 Meet This was on a 300m track, so it isn't eligible for the record that may not even officially exist. IAAF doesn't recognize the
600m and USATF doesn't have it on its website. Regarless, it's the fastest 600m run indoors by an American and it was done without a rabbit at a conference meet. Pretty cool (and just as we predicted).
*That's A Track Meet: Illinois Runner Falls In 4 X 400, Wisconsin Wins Big 10 Men's Title As 4 Points Separate Top 5 Teams updated
*The Badger Herald: "Botched Relay For Illinois Seals Big Ten Indoor Championship For Wisconsin Men"
*Full Men's Results Japheth Cato scored 6,090 points in the heptathlon to win.
*In Another Close One, Illinois Women Take The Team Title Over Nebraska By 3 Points *Full Women's Results
*IU's Derek Drouin Sets Heptathlon HJ WR With 2.30m (7-6.5) This breaks the recently set mark by Washington's Jeremy Taiwo by two inches. - SEC: *Full Results *Arkansas Sweeps Men And Women's SEC Titles The women's competition came down to the final event as Arkansas was only 1 point up on LSU going into the 4 x 4, but won, extending their victory to 5 points.
*IAAF: Four World Leads At SEC Champs Deon Lendore set a Trinidad & Tobago NR with 45.15, Kimberlyn Duncan ran the fastest indoor 200m performance in the world for five years with 22.54 (#6 US all-time), World Junior 100/200 silver winner Aaron Ernest set the 200 WL at 20.53 and Marquis Dendy hit 8.25m in the LJ, which was the best indoor performance by an American for 9 years.
*Meet Site Other results: LSU's Charlene Lipsey won the 800 in 2:02.48 as Florida's Cory McGee won the mile in 4:35.33. Henry Lelei won the 5k in 13:54.33. - MPSF: Elijah Greer Runs Fastest 800 In The Nation This Year (1:46.73) As Oregon Women Take MPSF Title ASU won the men's title over Oregon. OU's Alexi Pappas won the 3,000 in 9:07.97 over Megan Goethals.
*ASU Men Win Men's Title Over Oregon In 2nd In the mile, 4 went sub-4 with Stanford's Michael Atchoo winning in 3:57.14; Mac Fleet was 7th (4:01.04).
*Atchoo's 3:57.14 Mile Win Was A Stanford And MPSF Record
*Full Results *Meet Home - Big 12: *Full Results *Texas Men Win Big 12 Title Over Oklahoma In 2nd; Kansas Women Beat Out Texas By Just 2.5 Points Kennedy Kithuka broke the Big 12 MR in the 3k with 7:53.
*Texas Article On Men's Victory
*University Of Oklahoma's Patrick Casey Wins Mile, 1,000 And Anchors Winning DMR Casey is only the second Oklahoma runner to win the conference mile, and the first since 1960, when Gail Hodgson did it.
*Impressive Triple For Betsy Saina - Takes Three Individual Big 12 Titles, Winning The 5,000, 3,000 And Mile
*Erik Kynard Wins Third Straight Big 12 HJ Title With 7-7 (2.31m)
*Meet Home - ACC: Virginia Tech Men Take ACC Title Over No. 12 Ranked Florida State
*Clemson Women Win Third Straight ACC Crown FSU's Amanda Winslow led won the women's 3,000-meter run with a record time of 9:08.13.
*Full Men/Women Results - Heps (Ivy): *Results *Men's Meet Comes Down To The 4 X 4 With Princeton Winning By .005 But Cornell Taking The Overall Team Title By 1 Point
*Harvard Women Win The Heps For The First Time In 13 Years As Cornell Finishes A Close Second, Losing 117 To 112.66 Abbey D'Agostino dominated a pretty good mile field, winning by 8 seconds in 4:32.42 with 3 others under the old meet record.
*Day 1 Highlight Video *Meet Home *Always Excellent Coverage From HepsTrack.com
More College News - Deadspin Responds: Ex-Coaches & Athletes Respond To Kevin Hadsell's Deadspin Denials & Say He Lied Numerous Times In TV Interview People who have watched or read the Kevin Hadsell denials and say Hadsell lied in the TV interview and claim he was drunk at times around the team, he didn't only have one-on-one meetings with women, he did use the term "muffin top" and he was involved sexually with a current student. *Discuss
Previous Conference Champs Coverage
- ACC *Day 2 Results - VTech Men/Duke Women Lead The FSU women set a new DMR record (10:57.41 #2 in NCAA for 2013). The Maryland men may have been saved from elimination but they have yet to get on the scoreboard.
- Big 10: MB: Maverick Darling FTW - 7:50 as 7 break 8:00 *Day 1 Full Results 4 PSU guys break 1:50. Cas Loxsom runs 1:16.33 in prelims - can he get AR in final? Never mind, it won't count as it's a 300m track. PSU 9:39 DMR. *Meet Home *Live Twitter Coverage
On The Boards: Big Ten Men's 3000: Just a Sit & Kick - NOT!
*Why Is The Big Ten Meet In Geneva, Ohio When There Are No Big Ten Schools In Geneva, Ohio? The quick answer is no one wanted to/could host and the new Spire Institute Facility is in Geneva. - Big 12: *Day 1 Recap: Texas Men, Kansas Women On Top After Day One Texas Tech's Kennedy Kithuka won easily in the 5k in 13:41. Iowa State's Betsy Saina won the 5,000 (16:07) over teammate Meaghan Nelson. *Day 1 Full Results
Winter Snowstorm Causes Meet To Be Postponed To Sat-Sun Instead Of Fri-Sat - SEC: Full Day 2 Results Henry Lelei won the 3k in 7:57.57 over Arkansas's Stanley Kebenei (7:58.58). Arkansas men and women both lead going into the final day.
*Florida's Marquis Dendy Sets SEC Record And World Lead In LJ With 27 Feet, 3/4 Inches Apparently his father promised to give him a car if he jumped 27-5. Could that be an NCAA violation? That's a joke.
*AP Recap Of Day 1: Arkansas' Makeba Alcide Sets Collegiate Record In Pentathlon (4,569) *Multi-Results - MPSF: Megan Goethels 15:58
- HEPS Men Day 1 Report: Harvard Has Slim One-Point Lead Over Cornell Harvard's Nico Weiler set an all-time Ivy record of 17-7 ¾ to win the PV.
*Heps Women Day 1 Report: Cornell Leads With 35 Points Over Harvard (29) And Princeton (26.5) Abbey D'Agostino won the 5,000m with a MR 15:47.02. - Preview: LRC 2013 ACC, Big 10, Big 12, PAC-12/MPSF, SEC & Heps Men's Conference Preview
Stockholm Meet *Results
LRC Friday Tidbits From Stockholm: Update On Galen Rupp's Record, Plus Dibaba News We've got splits for Galen Rupp's last 600m, plus news that Genzebe Dibaba is not now coached by Jama Aden, the coach to Taoufik Makhloufi, who has strong USA ties.
On The Boards: Jama Aden Coaching
Philosophy
LRC Galen Rupp 7:30.16 American Record! Aregawi Just Misses 1,500m World Record Galen Rupp's tremendous 2013 continued with his finest performance yet. Not only did he get the American record, but perhaps most importantly he got his first European win of note. The other big news was new Swedish citizen, Abeba Aregawi, just missing the world record by .12 in the women's 1,500m.
In
other action, Genzebe Dibaba blitzed an 8:26.57, Mohammed Aman ran a world leader in the 800m,
and Matt Centrowitz came up well short of the American 1,000m record. Flash recap.
*IAAF Recap: Olympic Silver Medallist Yarisley Silva Breaks Her Own Cuban Record And Sets World Lead In PV With 4.71m Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce set a PR in her 2nd-ever 60m to win with 7.04.
*Pre-Race Interview With Rupp
On The Boards: *Rupp 7:30.18!!! *GALEN RUPP NEW 3000 AR 7:30.18 *STOCKHOLM MEET updates! *Galen Rupp Will NOT Break U.S. 3000m Record In Stockholm
US Distance News
- Bernard Lagat's Agent Says He Wants Under 61 Minutes At NYC Half; Mileage Has Gone Up From 65 To Hitting 80 Lagat: "The way I can handle the longer stuff now in training, it feels like I made the right decision. When you think about it, I've been holding back for a long time, so I am basically getting to where I should have been maybe in real life four years ago."
- RR: Being Snubbed By UK European Selection Committee Motivated Chris O'Hare To Set The Collegiate Mile Record At Millrose "That's what makes athletes, their disappointments and their lack of success at some point. That's what drives every athlete to their success."
- Profile On Recent 600m AR Setter, Who Works 30 Hours A Week At A Shoe Store & Only Got Into Millrose After Kevin Borlee Pulled Out At The Last Minute
Kenya Gives The US Some Respect: Kenya World XC Team Reports To Training Camp: Mercy Cherono Says She "Relishes The Challenge From Ethiopia AND USA Athletes" Other good news for the US, it seems Kenya is going back to it's potential killing pre-championship training camps as 28 are at the camp, but only 24 make the team. The head coach said, "We will have a serious and tough training. And those who want to escape the axe must prove their mettle."
Millrose Games *Results For The 2013 Millrose Games *TV Re-Broadcast Online Here
LRC:
Records Galore At 2013 Millrose Games: Lagat, Mary Cain, 2 X 600, Chris O'Hare Mary Cain started the record-setting night in the women's mile and it continued all night after that until Chris O'Hare set a collegiate record in 4th place in the Wanamaker Mile. In between, Bernard Lagat barely got back his 2 mile record, unheralded Erik Sowinski upset Duane Solomon AND Nick Symmonds to set the American record in the 600, and Alysia Montano crushed
the field and the AR in the 600.
*IAAF Recap
Daring To Ask The PED Question
A Must Read: Daring To Ask The PED Question: "If everyone is secretly suspicious of so many athletic achievements, why aren't we talking about it?" In our last Week That Was, we said, "There are two types of runners - those that either 'get' letsrun.com or don't." Well, sports writer Bill Simmons might not be talking about running, but he definitely "gets" LRC as he explains why questioning today's professional athletic performances in is not only okay, but has become part of sports. As he says, "There is no such thing as 'the benefit of the doubt' anymore. Not in sports. Too many people took advantage. All the benefits are gone." It is for this reason that we allow threads like this one to exist: MB: Solomon suddenly world class and Rupp soloing 3.50 indoor miles - Come on Letsun, ask the questions!
2013 USA XC *USA XC Results/Splits *MB: Official 2013 USA XC Thread *LRC Photo Gallery
LRC Photo Gallery
LRC Chris Derrick!?! - National Champion! link fixed The wait is over. Arguably the greatest
American collegiate distance runner not to win an NCAA title, Derrick pulled away from Dathan Ritzenhein and Matt Tegenkamp to win his first national title in his first race as a sponsored pro. It was a good day for Jerry Schumacher's crew as they had 3 of the top 4 in the men's race plus Shalane Flanagan winning the women's.
LRC Shalane Flanagan Wins 2013 Women's US
Cross-Country Championships Flanagan was the class of the field (World XC bronze in 2011), but Olympian Kim Conley put up a brave fight. Afterwards, Flanagan said she will not run World XC as she prepares for the Boston marathon.
Jr. Races: *LRC 2013 Jr. Girls Results - William & Mary's Emily Stites Dominates
*LRC 2013 Jr. Boys Results - Ok. State's Craig Nowak Wins
*USATF Athlete Quotes
A MUST Read - One Of The Greatest Races Ever Run - The US Women's Version Of The Billy Mills 10,000 Win
RWorld Re-Introduces The World To Debbie Heald, Who 40 Years Ago Incredibly Ran The US HS Indoor Mile Record Of 4:38.5 Steve Friedman's piece on Heald is moving to say the least. Heald, whose father had committed suicide,
who had been molested and who was always battling injury (13 different running-related surgeries), somehow
at the US vs. USSR meet at age 16 in 1972 beat the greatest runners in the world, including the indoor 1,500 record holder and that year's eventual Olympic 1,500 champion, by running an a 8.5-second PR of 4:38.5. She came from way back to win thanks to a ferocious kick and she was known for having no kick. Her life since then has been full of struggles with schizophrenia but her HS indoor record still stands.
MB: Debbie Heald article in RW
Kenya Election Is Today (Monday) - Let's Hope It Turns Out Well
*Election Begins With Threats Of Violence Present
Jenn Suhr World Record *Photos
Jenn Suhr Breaks World Record Suhr was perfect all day until she broke the world record at 5.02 meters. She then attempted 3 times at 5.07 (The highest vault indoors or out).
*Video Of World Record Vault
*Reuters: "Gritty Suhr Happy To Finally Reach New Heights"
Al Sal Defends Mo's Lucrative London Payday "If they think this is in the best interests of their race, I don't know how anybody can criticize Mo."
2013 European Indoor Champs Conclude (Day 1-2 News Below) *Race Replays *Coverage Info
- Day 3: AP:
Portugal's Sara Moreira Of Portugal Dominates Women's 3,000-Meter Race At The European Indoor Athletics Championships On Sunday She led most of it and won by 2+ seconds. Euro XC champ Fionnuala Britton was third.
*Irish Independent: Fionnuala Britton Adds To Medal Haul With European Bronze - IAAF Recap: Poland's Adam Kszczot Defends 800 Title In 1:48.69 As Ukraine's Natalia Lupu Wins 800 In 2:00.26 France's Olympic steeple silver medalist Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad won the 1,500.
- French PV Superstar Renaud Lavillenie Wins In 6.01m After Having His Clearance Of 6.07m Ruled A Foul Because It Became Dislodged From One Peg He wasn't happy afterwards as he "raved with frustration and thundered a mighty kick of rage into the hoardings" and threw his victor's bouquet over the barriers. If legal, it would have been a 4cm PR and 2nd all-time indoors or out.
- The Other Mo: UK's Somalian Born Mukhtar Mohammed Wins Bronze In 800 He said, "In Kenya, I get mistaken for Mo Farah a lot. When I go for my run and I put on my British kit, I can hear everyone shouting 'Mo, Mo, Mo.' I'm saying to them, 'I'm not Mo, I'm not Mo.' I get all the kids coming up to me trying to run with me."
- UK's Perri Shakes-Drayton Wins Double Gold At Euro Champs In 400 And 4 X 4
- Russia Tops The Medal Stands At Euro Indoors With 14 Medals As Great Britain & Northern Ireland Finish 2nd And France 3rd
- Ireland Missed Out On One Of Their Greatest Medal Hopes As Euro 400m Leader Brian Gregan DNFed In The Semis With A Spiked Ankle
- GB Wins Double Relay Gold In Men's And Women's 4 X 4
- BB: European Champs Day 3 "As It Happened"
- European Athletics Recaps: Men's 800 *Women's 800 *Women's 3k *Men's PV *Men's 400 *Women's HJ *Women's TJ *Men's LJ *Women's Shot
NCAA Last Chance Meets *Results/Streaming Info *Arkansas: Compiled Men's Results *Women *ND Results *IC4A *ECAC
- UConn Sweeps IC4A/ECAC Champs: UConn Men Win IC4A Title *UConn Women Win ECACs
*IC4A Compiled Results *ECAC Complied Results - Austin Mudd Beats Out Mac Fleet In Alex Wilson Mile Mudd ran 3:58.59 to Fleet's 3:58.90.
- Notre Dame DMR Mania Yet Again: PSU Runs #2 DMR In NCAA History - 9:26.60 - Without Cas Loxsom And the scary thing is the team is led by two freshmen and a sophomore. Princeton also impressed with an Ivy record at 9:27 thanks to a 3:56 from Peter Callahan.
- Texas DMR Goes From #1 In The Nation To Not Going To Nationals After Notre Dame Is Run
- The Race Of His Life! Arkansas' Leoman Momon, Who Was Just 8th At SECs, Runs 1:46.07 A Beamonesque improvement as his SB was 1:50.21 and his PR was 1:48.73.
Man, 46, Suffers Massive Cardiac Arrest As He Starts Swim During Alcatraz Triathlon In Calif.
Previous European Indoor Champs News *Coverage Info *Live Stream Info
Day 2:
*Former FSU Runner Ciaran O'Lionaird Takes Bronze For Ireland In Gothenburg *Discuss
*O'Lionaird Satisfied With 3,000m Bronze
*IAAF Day 2 Euro Recap: Sweden's Abeba Aregawi Takes 1,500 Gold With The Largest Margin Of Victory In The 42-Year History Of The Event She won in 4:04.47 as Spain's Isabel Macias was second place 9.72 seconds back in 4:14.19.
*European PV Comes Down To A Jump-Off Between Eventual Winner UK's Holly Bleasdale And Runner-Up/Defending Champ Anna Rogowska She was offered the choice between sharing the gold medal or a sudden-death jump-off and chose to gamble. Good for her; ties in championships are never popular with fans.
*AW Full Day 2 Recap
*Russia's Darya Kilishina Wins LJ With 7.01m World Lead
*After A Photo Finish In 60m, France's Jimmy Vicaut Gets The Win He shared an identical finish time of 6.48 with James Dasaolu; they now share the world lead.
*Disappointment For Ireland After One Of Their Top Medal Chances Derval O'Rourke Misses Medal Stand In 60H By One Hundredth Of A Second "It's not arrogant but my problem is that I don't believe any of those three girls are better than me. If I thought that I wouldn't be the woman that I am."
*Fionnuala
Britton Eases Into 3,000m Final After Controlled Heat
*Italy's Daniele Greco Takes TJ In World-Leading 17.70m
*PVer
Renaud Lavillenie And 60m Runner Verena Sailer Make Finals Easily
*IAAF Recaps Other Weekend Action World champ Mariya Abakumova wins javelin at Russian Winter Throwing Champs as Olympic champ Valerie Adams won the shot in the "Shot in the City" in Auckland.
Wow: British Columnist: TV Interviewer's Mo Farah Gaffe Is Typical Of The Self-Absorbed United States Of Amnesia "Large parts of the United States of Amnesia still exist in a cultural vacuum. If it doesn't happen between sea and shining sea, it doesn't make the cut."
*Video Highlights Of Day 1 Here.
*BBC Day 1 Recap: 2013 World #3 Michael Rimmer (1:46.55) Fails To Make Semis In 800 As Dwain Chambers Bombs In 1st Round As Well
*Athletics Weekly Day 1 Recap: Shubenkov Among First Winners In Gothenburg
*BBC Liev Blog: Day One As It Happened
*Dwain Chambers Is Upset After A 1st round Exit (6.78) In Men's 60
*World-Leading
7.49 60mh By Russia's Sergey Shubenkov And Nevin Yanit's European-Leading 7.89 60mh Bring First Day To Sizzling Conclusion
*Perri Shakes-Drayton Qualified For The 400m Semis In Gothenburg As The Fastest Athlete
*France's Nana Djimou Defends Pentathlon Gold At Euro Indoor
*2006 World Indoor Champ Derval O'Rourke Holds Back Tears As She Just Misses Medal After Finishing 4th With SB
*Pre-Race: After Getting Drug Tested, 31-Year-Old O'Rourke Out To Prove Age Is No Barrier
Related: *Many Top Athletes From 2005 World Champs - Lots Of Them Russian - To Be Banned After 2005 World Champs Re-Tests
*British Athletics Coach Peter Eriksson Concerned By Fact There Are 33 Russian Dopers Currently Serving Bans
*2nd-Largest Track Stadium In UK To Be Demolished To Make Way For Medical Facilities
Two New Lawsuits Filed Against Lance - Another Insurer Wants $3 Million For A TDF-Related Payout
News From Down Under
- Competing In Front Of 400 Fans, Double Olympic Shot Champ Val Adams Sets New NZealand All-Comers Indoor Record Of 20.75m That's better than the 20.70 which won her Olympic gold.
- Olympic 100H Champ Sally Pearson Has Grade 1 Hamstring Injury
Road Action This Weekend
- Former World Half Marathon Champion Wilson Kiprop And Defending Champion Philemon Limo Headline This Weekend's Half Marathon In Rome
- Former Worls Marathon Silver Medallist Vincent Kipruto Faces NY Half Champ Peter Kirui In Sunday's Lake Biwa Mainichi Marathon Kipruto hasn't broken 2:10 in two years, whereas Kirui was the victor in New York last March.
World XC Is This Month
- Ritz Ain't The Only One: World Junior XC Champion Geoffrey Kipsang Axed From Kenyan World XC Team After He Failed To Report To Camp Kipsang, who we said is currently the best runner on the planet, was given a wild card after he missed the Trials to race the RAK Half, which he won in 58:54.
- Kenya's 2010 World XC Champ Emily Chebet Not Fazed By The Inclusion Of Tirunesh Dibaba On Ethiopia's World XC Team Chebet: "I beat her in 2010 and I believe I have regained my strength and form to repeat the same."
- IAAF: Junior Women Carry Japan's Hopes For World XC Medal
- Other Kenya News: Kenya Sending A 4 X 4, 4 X 8 & DMR To Penn Relays
European Indoor Champs *Coverage Info *Live Stream All Day Friday
- After A Disappointment/Injury-Filled 2011-2012, UK's Jenny Meadows Thankful To Get A Chance To Defend Her 800 Title This Weekend "I did think maybe I have run my last race. My dad used to always say you're only as good as your last race. There's lots of clichés in sport - you never appreciate something until it's gone - all those things have been true to me the last 12 months."
- UK PVer Holly Bleasdale Doesn't Mind The Pressure Of Being The Favorite
- European Indoor Championships Will Get Over 250 Hours Of TV Coverage This Weekend Does the US get that much in a whole year?
- AW Preview: 5 Events To Follow
- After Coming Back From A Long Period Of Injury/Poor Performance, Irish 400 Runner Brian Gregan Is Hoping To Come Through With A Medal He's the current European leader.
- Olympian Sonia O'Sullivan Expects Success From Irish Team At Euro Champs
- New UK Head Coach Peter Eriksson Hoping Team GB Can Outdo Their Medal Tally From 2011
- Press Conference Highlights
- Gothenburg Hopes To Host The World Championships In 2021
- EA Shot Put Quals Recap
Other Action This Weekend
- IAAF Lake Biwa Preview International field at Lake Biwa includes 2:05:13 man Vincent Kipruto, 30k WR holder Peter Kirui and 2012 Houston Marathon winner Tariku Jufar.
- Palestinians Have Called For A Boycott Of Today's Jerusalem Marathon Because The Route Goes Through East Jerusalem, Their "Hoped-For Capital"
Foreign News: Nick Willis Misses The "A" Standard; Will Try Again Next Week
- Nick Willis Misses World Champs 1,500 Standard As He Wins With 3:36.51 (The "A" Is 3:35) He'll try again at next weekend's Sydney Track Classic.
- NY Times: Ethiopia Tries To Capitalize On Its Running Fame Recently top athletes including Haile Gebrselassie and Kenenisa Bekele have been using their wealth/fame gained on the track/roads to start successful businesses.
- Sally Pearson Will Miss Sydney Track Classic With Hamstring Injury
- Spikes-Mag Q&A With Olympic HJ Champ Anna Chicherova Asked about what event she would do if not HJ, she said, "The only thing I would never be able to do in athletics is to run long distances."
- UK Teen Olympic Sprinter Adam Gemili Says He Gained A Lot Of Confidence From Finishing 3rd In London Heats To Usain Bolt And Tyson Gay
- IAAF Online Diary: Mitchell Watt Says He's Looking Forward To Going Up Against Olympic LJ Champ Greg Rutherford At Australian Meets This Spring
- Jessica Ennis Among Olympians Who Received CBE From The Queen At Buckingham Palace Yesterday
*Video With Ennis: Says Meeting The Queen Was "Nerve-Racking"
Interesting International News
- Mo Farah Tweets Asking People To Stop "Being Nasty" To News Reporter Who Asked Him "Haven't you run before? This isn't your first time?"
*TV Station Apologizes For Its "Unfortunate Phrasing" Of Questions To Mo Farah
*MB: Reporter asks Mo Farah if he's ever run before - Last Weekend, Ryan Gregson Paced Collis Birmingham 3k Through A 5k In 8:00 And Then Continued On To Run A 19-Second PR Of 13:37
- Follow-Up Interview With German Journalist Who Broke The Initial Story About Possible Doping In Kenya He says he knew about Wilson Erupe Loyanae's anti-doping violation before it was published officially and that there is a female runner who won a very important race in Kenya, but hasn't been announced yet.
- Paris DL Shelling Out $300,000 To Get Bolt There In The 200
- Caster Semenya Denies Rumors That She Is Pregnant She also said that she will only be focusing on the 800 this year; nothing else.
- Good Read: A Look At The Town Of Bekoji, The "Iten Of Ethiopia" Which Has Produced Amazing Runners Including Tirunesh Dibaba And Kenenisa Bekele Dibaba: "You should bring back gold when you compete for Ethiopia. The people don't accept anything less ... Silver and bronze in our country is no better than finishing fifth or sixth."
- Nike Appoints Sebastian Coe As Advisor
- Hope? IOC Preisdent Jacques Rogge Meeting With International Wrestling President Next Week To Discuss The Future Of The Sport
- March 9th: Sally Pearson Opening Her Season With A 100 & 200 At Sydney Track Classic Olympic LJ silver medalist Mitchell Watt will also compete.
Sprint News
- Jeff Demps Returns To Track, Fate With Patriots Unclear He wants to do football; the question is whether the Pats will cut him. After watching Jacoby Jones in the SBowl, we sure hope not.
*Jeff Demps Will Race For Team USA, Wants To Be Two-Sport Athlete
*MB Discussion: Jeff Demps is a confused man - Yohan Blake Seems VERY Confident In His Fitness
Top Weekend HS Action
- Full Brooks PR Recap: Erin Finn Wins 2-Mile In 10:08 As Bernie Montoya Took A Competitive Boys Race In 8:54 One of the highlights was the boys 800, which was won by defending champion Tyler Smith, who led wire-to-wire in a new MR 1:50.88. Smith said, "Nobody likes to lead it. Everyone wants the win, and I thought it was going to be tactical, but it's my last year and I wanted the record but I didn't really know what I was going to do until I got on the track. Once I stepped on the track I decided, 'Screw this, I'm just going to run it by myself. I can do 1:50.'"
- Impressive: Felecia Majors Scores The Most Points Ever In The History Of The Virginia High School State Champs As She Scores 49 Points Over 6 Individual Events She single-handedly won her team the state team title as she helped add another three points by anchoring their 6th-place 4 x 4 with a 56-second split. She also won the pole vault and long jump, was 2nd in the triple jump, 500, and 300, and 4th in the high jump.
Salazar's Prodigies
- Alberto Salazar Says How Mo Farah's Marathon Debut At The 2014 London Marathon Goes Will Decide What Events He Does At Rio 2016 "He's the best distance runner in the world right now on the track but to go to the marathon at some point, there is no guarantee that he will be the best in the world there."
- IAAF Profile On Mary Cain, Who Says Along With Her Record-Breaking Races, She Got A Lot Of Confidence From The Workout She Did After The Boston 2-Mile Talking about the workout, she said, "Afterward, being able to turn in a really good workout and a solid effort, I closed my last 200 of the workout really fast, I was like, 'Wow! I still have this left.' That really builds confidence."
Ethiopian XC Champs And Tokyo Marathon *Results *Tokyo Marathon 2013 Photo Gallery
- Ethiopian World XC Trials: World Marathon Bronze Medallist Feyisa Lilesa Wins After Hard-Fought Battle With World Junior 10k Champ Yigrem Demelash Defending World XC champ Imane Merga dropped out in the later stages of the race. Steeplechaser Hiwot Ayalew won the women's race easily over a deep field. 12:47 5k man Hagos Gebrhiwet (who beat Galen Rupp in the Boston 3k) won the junior men's race.
- WMM Make Japanese Debut: Dennis Kimetto Holds Off Sally Kipyego's Brother, Aberu Kebede Wins Women's
Kimetto
is the guy who was runner-up to Geoffrey Mutai at the Berlin Marathon in a very bizarre finish where many speculated that Kimetto lost to Mutai on purpose so Mutai could pick up the
$500,000 WMM bonus. Well, Tokyo is now a WMM major and Kimetto may be wishing he had won in Berlin as he would be the frontrunner to win $500,000 himself after winning on Sunday. *Top Results
*IAAF Recap Kimetto: "The pace maker was little slow for me and I thought of leaving them behind at times, but I decided to stay with the pace." He also said if he doesn't run World Champs, he'll go for the WR in Berlin. *RRW Recap
*2012 Berlin Marathon Finish Photos
Other Weekend Action: Bolt And Blake Race Again
- Gibson Relays In Jamaica: Usain Bolt Splits 45.7 On Racers 4 X 4 As Team Times 3:06.9 He skipped the final, where Yohan Blake anchored the team, but got the baton 10m down and couldn't close the gap and finished 2nd. Another Racers Track Club squad won in 3:03.74 with Blake's team in 3:04.00.
*Racers Lions Club Team Sets 4 X 100 World Lead At 38.50 With Yohan Blake Running The Third Leg - World's Best 10k: Kenya's Sammy Kitwara Won Men's Title For 4th Time (28:43) As Joyce Chepkirui Won The Women's Race In 31:40
- High School:
Brooks PR Meet: MileSplit Weekend Coverage: Michael Cherry Breaks National HS Indoor Record With 33.19 Sasha Wallace won the Brooks PR 60H with a US #3 all-time mark as Cameron Burrell won the 60m in a US #2 all-time 6.61.
*Full Brooks PR Results
*MB: SEAN MCGORTY LOSES 3200M STATE RACE TO A JUNIOR! - France's Olympic PV Champ Ups His Own World Lead To 5.94m At The National Indoor Meeting in Metz Kim Collins won the 60m in 6.53 as Bethwel Birgen won the 1,500m in 3:36.66.
- Almond Blossom XC In Portugal: Three Top Kenyans, Including Defending Champ Josphat Kiprono Menjo, Miss Their Flight, Allowing A Portugese Victory Portuguese XC champ Manuel Damião won, becoming the first Portuguese winner since 1995. Defending women's champ Gorreti Chepkoech won easily, beating Portugal's European 10k champ Ana Dulce Felix by 27 seconds.
- IAAF Recap Of German Indoor Champs: Olympic Silver Medallist Björn Otto Was Challenged But Won The PV In 5.85m, Making A Good Attempt At 6.01m Carsten Schlangen won the 3k unchallenged in 7:55 and Christina Schwanitz set the World lead in the shot.
- After A Runner-Up And Close 4th Place Finish The Last Two Years, Kenya's Julius Maisei Wins Hong Kong Marathon In 2:14:18 Misiker Mekonnin Demissie defended her women's title in 2.30.49.
- Turkey's Ilham Tanui Ozbilen Wins Balkan Indoor Championships 1,500 With 3:37.49
- Aussie Collis Birmingham Wins Graeme Briggs Classic 5,000 For 6th Time In Seven Years With A 13:27
- Kenya's Charles Ndirangu And Japanese Olympian Hitomi Niiya Take Titles At Fukuoka Cross-Country Meet Ndirangu also won the Chiba International XC meet two weeks ago. The race serves as Japanese selection for World XC.
*Japan Running News Recap - At 101 Years Old, World's Oldest Marathoner Fauja Singh Finishes His Last Race At Hong Kong Marathon 10k He ran 1:32:28.
- NFL: adidas Offering Shoe Contract To Fastest Player At NFL Combine
International Stuff
- BBC Publishes Documents That Indicated They Were Thinking Of Doing A Program On Him Leading Up To London 2012 But Were Worried He Could Fail Drug Test We think this is the Telegraph making a big ado over nothing.
- Daily Nation: "Kenya's Squeaky Clean Image Is Under Scrutiny As Cheats Pop Up" In addition to the 3 recently-banned athletes, apparently there is another unnamed runner who is in trouble for taking a "booster" meant for people seeking help getting pregnant, which he says was prescribed to him for an injury.
- Q&A With Athletics Ireland's Chief Executive John Foley On The State Of Ireland Track And Field And Some Of Their Controversial Policies
Dathan Ritzenhein Blogs About Why He Decided On The Chicago Marathon So Early And How He Will Structure His Year With That In Mind He gives some good coaching advice, saying, "I think for the majority of the season you should never be too far away from racing any one distance."
Two Big Doping Developments
LRC Analysis: The World Marathon Majors Introduce Tougher Anti-Doping Penalties - What Does It Mean? In our minds, the move is a nice symbolic step, but now it's key that the Shoe Companies Need To Follow Suit ASAP.
*Paula Radcliffe Praises New London Marathon Doping Penalties
*AP Article On Increased Anti-Doping Penalties *Athletics Weekly: World Marathon Majors Gets Tougher On Doping Cheats
NY Times: Government Joins Floyd Landis' Federal Whistleblower Suit Against Armstrong link fixed "In today's economic climate, the U.S. Postal Service is simply not in a
position to allow Lance Armstrong or any of the other defendants to walk away with the tens of millions of dollars they illegitimately procured." - Ronald C. Machen Jr., US attorney for the District
of Columbia.
*Unreal: Lance's Lawyers Respond - We Don't Care That We Defrauded The Public - It Actually Helped The USPS The sponsorship contract expressly prohibited the use of performance-enhancing drugs and was worth about $31 million, but the lawyers are trying to claim that yes, he doped but
it generated $100 million worth of publicity.
*WADA Supports The Decision
Three Kenyans, Including 2:05 Marathoner Erupe Loyana, Get Drug Suspensions Well, at least the people who say Kenyans wouldn't use drugs can now be quiet. Every country, including America, has people who would dope. We're still waiting for a big name to fall (not sure what Wejo was thinking - 58:46 half marathoner M. Kisorio was busted
last
year).
*Discuss: Three Kenyans Busted For Doping
Oscar P Updates From Thursday: Nike Cuts Ties
- Friday: Oscar Granted Bail - Is A Free Man Until June There is no doubt that Oscar killed his girlfriend by shooting her in the toilet. The only doubt is how intentionally did he do it. The prosecutors bumbled much of the evidence at the bail hearing and still do not even have phone records from the evening, but there is now a new lead detective on the case.
- Thursday Court Case As It Happened No major new developments. The decision on whether or not to grant him bail should be made today.
- Nike Severs Payment And Suspends Its Endorsement Contract A company statement said: "We believe Oscar Pistorius should be afforded due process and we will continue to monitor the situation closely."
- Lead Investigator In Pistorius Case Dropped After It Was Revealed That He Faces Seven Charges Of Attempted Murder From 2011 The charges had actually been previously dropped, but were reinstated 10 days before Steenkamp's death.
Bolt/Blake/Powell Opened Up On Saturday *Results
- Usain Bolt Wins His Section In 46.71 Yohan Blake (46.64) 2nd to Warren Weir (46.23) in SEPARATE section. *Video Of Bolt's Heat
- Bolt: "I felt a bit nervous. I just came out here to win and I'm glad I won injury free." Blake said, "I'm happy with the run, despite the time. I'm just looking forward to the rest of the season."
*Warren Weir: "Speed endurance for me is one of the main things because you can be very fast in the 200m, but if you don't have speed endurance, you won't do well ..."
*IAAF Recap - Milo Western Relays: Asafa Powell And Nesta Carter Lead Their MVP 4 X 1 Team To Victory With 38.06 Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce led the MVP women's 4 x 1 team to a win with 44.03.
*Interesting Article On What Asafa Powell Is Up To Outside Of Track And What He Wants To Do When He Retires He collects expensive cars, invests in real estate, has started an online shopping company and has his own clothing line called "Sub-10 King."
2013 New Balance Indoor Grand Prix *NBIGP Results LRC Photo Gallery
LRC Photo Gallery
Men's 3k: LRC Galen Rupp Is Defeated
As Hagos Gebrhiwet Sets New World Junior 3,000 Record Of 7:32.87
Women's 2-Mile: LRC Mary Cain Runs 9:38.68 For 2 Miles - The Greatest Distance Performance In US HS Girls History Tirunesh Dibaba
was way ahead of the field as she won in 9:13.17.
LRC The Rest Of The 2013 New Balance Indoor Grand Prix - Centro, Lakhouad And Wright Win As Suhr Takes Crack At AR
Run, Recover, Run More
LRC Runners Recover Better And Hopefully Stay Injury Free With These Two Products From The 2012 Running Event Wejo talks about some of the injury prevention products he saw at the The Running Event, which include better methods for massage, icing, and compression.
The Running Event Is In The Books *Photos
LRC The 2012 Running Event Is In The Books: Five Takeaways On The Industry Shark Tank's Daymond John Speaks The trade show for specialty running shops was last week in Austin, Texas and LRC's Wejo was there plus Ryan Hall,
Meb Keflezighi, and most of Saucony's top athletes. The running industry should be renamed the "how to not get injured" industry. Some take-aways from the convention.
*Press Release: The Running Event 2012 Attracts 2,100 To Austin
Rest In Peace Will Steele - aka "The Cancer Guy"
LRC Celebrating The Life Of "The Cancer Guy" Will Steele Will Steele was running 18-minute miles last year. And never has there been a more inspirational runner on LetsRun.com. We pay our respects to this great man who contributed so much to the LetsRun.com community and lost his battle with cancer one month ago on Christmas eve.
Other Weekend Action
- World Silver Medalist, Kenya's Vincent Kipruto, Wins Lake Biwa Mainichi Marathon In 2:08:34 After Outprinting Ethiopia's Tariku Jufar (2:08:37) Masakazu Fujiwara was the top Japanese runner in 2:08:51. 30k WR holder Peter Kirui led early, but faded badly and finished outside the top 10.
*Japan Running News: Kipruto Wins Cold/Windy Lake Biwa - 2010 World Half Champ Wilson Kiprop Wins Roma-Ostia Half Marathon In 59:15 As Filomena Cheyech Wins Women's In 67:39 The men's race was fairly close with Edward Kwemoi Chomesin 2nd in 59:19 and Simon Cheprot 3rd in 59:20.
- Other Japan Weekend Action: 19-Year-Old Daichi Kato Beats Yuki Kawauchi At Kanaguri Hai Tamana Half 1:03:01 To 1:03:12 Shogo Nakamura won the National University Men's Half Marathon Championships in 1:02:41.
Saturday USATF Photos, Jenn Suhr World Record
Lopez Lomong 13:07.00 American Record Photos
Crazy Finish Of Women's 3k (More Here)
Jenn Suhr's World Record (Larger Here)
Chris Derrick After 13:12.00 (Full Coverage Of AR Here)
Lopez & Derrick After Lopez's AR
Teg Does 25 Laps Indoors
Tygart/Landis Discuss Doping At Yale Law School
Bloomberg News Recap: Tygart Calls For Amnesty In Cycling "Until we've done an amnesty-type program and cleaned out the system as much as we can, it's not yet time for zero tolerance."
Well Deserved: Travis Tygart Gets Standing Ovation At Yale Law School For His Work In Bringing Down Lance Vaughters said he cooperated after being disgusted when Landis was attacked after coming clean.
*Guardian: Live Blog Of Yale Law School Event
Week That Was *New Orleans Photos *Tokyo Photos
LRC TWTW Part II: College: A Look Back At The 2013 NCAA Indoor Track And Field Conference Championships In part II of our weekly recap, Arkansas' Chris Bucknam gets praise, the nation's longest winning streak is snapped, we talk about the arbitrariness of victory and Mississippi State's one-woman track team, and introduce you to Nick Rivera, a freshman
at Texas Tech who
hasn't broken 1:52.03 this year but is a Big 12 champ. Plus props for the Virginia Tech and Washington State men, Betsy Saina, Abbey D'Agostino and Johns Hopkins in the D3 ranks.
LRC TWTW Part I: Pros: Galen Rupp Runs 7:30, Japan Over US At The Marathon, New Orleans, Chris O'Hare, Dennis Kimetto And More We span the globe from New Orleans to Tokyo to Stockholm to give you some perspective
on our sport. From analyzing Galen Rupp's incredible 7:30.16 to the awkward interview of the week, we've got it covered.
Jerry Schumacher's Group
- Correction: Jerry Schumacher's Runners Are No Longer Part Of Nike OTC, They May Get A New Group Name Or May Just Run For Nike Note: We apologize for the misleading headline earlier. Explanation provided on the link. *What Should Schumacher's Group Be Named?
- Shalane Flanagan Says She's Happy She Ran A PR At New Orleans Half (1:08:31) Despite A Strong Headwind And Pothole-Full Roads She also said she'll be running the Stanford 10k on March 29th as a tune-up for Boston and to get the World Champs "A" standard.
- LRC Jerry Schumacher's Oregon Track Club Guys Will Race A 5,000 This Friday At The Armory Bumby, Derrick, Heath, Jager, Lopez and Teg will all run in New York on Friday and we wonder if Lagat's 13:07 AR could be under assault. *Discuss
Latest Oscar P News
- Substance Found In Pistorius' Home Was Testis Compositum And WADA Says It Isn't Banned It's called Testis Compositum and his lawyers say it's a "herbal remedy used in aid of muscle recovery." It may have many other uses to including male sexual enhancement.
- Experts Say Even If Pistrious Is Acquitted Of Premeditated Murder He Will Still Face Charges For Manslaughter Sentences for that have a large range from a fine to significant prison time.
- Family: National Enquirer Is Lying - Reeva Was NOT Pregnant The Enquirer reported he thought she cheated on him and then he totally lost it when she said she was pregnant.
- Who Is Telling The Truth? Will Pistorius Train While On Bail? Publicist: "Absolutely not. He is currently in mourning and his focus is not on his sports," versus police commisioner: "It's his wish to continue to practice."
- We Thought His Dad Had Never Met Her: Oscar Pistorius To Hold His Own Memorial Service For Reeva Steenkamp Oscar has asked for a private service with people who share his loss, including his family members who knew and loved Reeva as one of their own.
- Oscar Pistorius Has First Mandatory Meeting With South African Authorities As Part Of His Strict Bail Conditions He met correctional officers at a secret location, which disappointed the tons of media hounds who had stood waiting at the police station hoping to see him.
- SA Official Says That Oscar P Wants To Resume Training While Out On Bail However, a spokeswoman for Pistorius denied that he was making immediate plans to return to the track.
- Video: Conflicting Accounts Of Pistorius Murder Case
- Pistorius The "Mystery": NZ Journalist Joins The Many Who Try To Compare The Oscar On Trial With The "Nice Guy" They Had Met And Interviewed Many Times "Pistorius' narrative is partly an exploration of how hard it is to truly know someone who lives so much in the public eye."
Updated!: Rock 'N' Roll New Orleans Photo Gallery
2013 Tokyo Marathon Photos
Oscar P
- Police Deny Reports Saying That Pistorius Crushed Reeva's Skull With Cricket Bat Also, the father of Reeva's best friend has come forward saying he told Pistorius to "back off from Reeva" because he was coming on too strong in the early days of the relationship. He described Oscar as "impatient and very moody."
- Pistorius' Brother Is Facing His Own Manslaughter Trial Over The Death Of A Female Motorcyclist From A 2010 Traffic Accident His trial is in March, 3 months before Pistorius'.
- Prosecutor Spokesman: "We still believe we have the evidence to convict Oscar Pistorius, but I cannot give details regarding what it is."
- It Starts Already: BBC Doing Special Documentary On Oscar Pistorius Case They trial doesn't even start until June.
- Audio Of Judge Making Announcement Granting Oscar Pistorius Bail
- Reeva's Family Speaks Out; Her Father Says Pistorius "Will have to live with his conscience if he allows his legal team to lie for him." He also said, "But if he is telling the truth, then perhaps I can forgive him one day."
- Pistorius' Brother's Twitter Account Hacked To Send Out Fake Tweet
2013 Millrose Games Photo Gallery
Usain Bolt Does The Harlem Shake
New Balance Boston Grand Prix Photo Gallery
2013 USATF XC Nationals Photo Gallery
Ryan Hall Speaks
LRC Ryan Hall Talks About Cam Levins' 190-Mile Weeks And Is Impressed Hall: "It's working for him. My hat's off to him. He inspires me. That's why I started following him on Twitter. I feel like I'm training hard and I'm not doing nearly that kind of training."
LRC Ryan Hall Talks About His Running Shoes Hall says he has different shoes for every speed he runs and that he has an "unhealthy attachment" to the Asics Gel Hyper Speed.