The NY Times reports that SafeSport ruled Alberto Salazar sexually assaulted a runner twice while giving a massage. We try and make sense of this shocking news. *NY Times Article *Discussion
Archived Homepage For February 01, 2022
Archived Homepage For February 01, 2022
Jonathan Gault's five big takeaways from the Millrose Games.
Elle Purrier St. Pierre and Alicia Monson got their 2nd Millrose wins, with Monson setting a meet record in 8:31.62
Geordie Beamish got the surprise 3k win to go with his teammate Ollie Hoare's win in the Wanamaker mile.
An embarrassing moment for the sport as a measurement error was not conveyed to the crowd, the national tv audience or even the results system.
In his first 60m since he started serving his 18 month anti-doping suspension, Christian Coleman got the big win over Trayvon Bromell and Noah Lyles. Video of race too.
What a talent. The 16-year old almost broke Sydney McLaughlin's 300m record earlier in the winter. Aleia Hobbs got the race win in 7.11.
- Cooper Teare and Cole Hocker to Target American Mile Record in ChicagoBernard Lagat's record could be in trouble in two weeks in Chicago.
Millrose MB Talk
- Teare takes down Hocker..... but leaves the rail open and gets beat by Beamish!!!!
- MILLROSE Live Thread?!
- Ryan Crouser 23.38 - World Record in Shot
- Millrose 3000 - better than Karlsruhe! 10 run under 7:50.00 (29/01/2022)
- Athing Mu just DROPPED OUT of the women's mile and showed her true greatness. I love her even more!!!!
- Athing Mu now running the mile at Millrose - let the predictions begin
- Hobbs Kessler is in MONSTER shape right now
- CONGRATS TO ONike ATHLETIC CLUB!!!
US Indoor Results
- MB: Unheralded American Brooke Feldmeier - the_blone_one - runs world leading 2:00.91 800 - wins by 3+ seconds at Razorback Invy!!! At Razorback Invy.
- MB: Nico Young 3:56.00 - 3rd collegian at UW. Pro Jake Heyward won in 3:53.25. Three NAU guys went sub-4.
*UW Invy Results Eleanor Fulton ran 8:56.75 to win the women's 3000m; Dillon Maggard won the men's race in 7:47.21 over Boise State's Dario De Caro (7:48.59). - Florida's Jasmine Moore Sets Collegiate Indoor Triple Jump Record With 14.55m At Clemson The mark puts her #3 on the all-time US indoor list.
- Arkansas' Ayden Owens Scores #2 All-Time NCAA Indoor Heptathlon With 6,272 Points At Razorback Invy The score also broke his own Puerto Rican national record and put him #24 on the world all-time list.
- LSU's Alia Armstrong Equals #3 On The NCAA All-Time List With 7.86 In The 60H At Razorback Invy
- USTFCCCA Weekend NCAA Recap FSU sprinter Trey Cunningham ran 7.46 at the Texas Tech Open to move to #4 on the NCAA all-time 60m list.
- Oregon's Alysah Hickey Jumps 6.66m School Record And Collegiate Lead At Razorback Invy
- MB: Don’t Look Now! Efraimson 4:29 Mile FTW
- MB: Steven Gardiner breaks Noah Lyles' indoor 300m WR with a 31.56!!
*World Athletics Recap - Arkansas' Women DMR Runs #3 Time In NCAA History With 10:51.63 At Razorback Invy The run was highlighted by Shafiqua Maloney who ran 2:01.95, the fastest indoor DMR 800m split in NCAA history. Oklahoma State won the men's DMR in 9:28.88 over Oregon's 9:31.07 and Matthew Boling lowered his own 200m world lead with 20.27.
- Ole Miss' Shey Taiwo Throws #4 All-Time 25.02m In The Weight Throw
More Millrose Coverage
- World Athletics: Nick Willis Becomes The First Man To Break Four Minutes In The Mile For 20 Consecutive Years The two-time Olympic medalist ran 3:59.71 at Millrose finishing just behind Hobbs Kessler's 3:59.66.
- World Athletics Recap: Ollie Hoare's 3:50.83 Oceanian Mile Record Highlights Millrose Games
- Shawnti Jackson Breaks 60m National Record At Millrose She was 3rd in the pro race with 7.18, beating out Olympians Briana Williams and Gabby Thomas. Alia Hobbs won in 7.11.
- Two-Time Olympian Rudy Winkler Opens Millrose Games With Hammer Throw Victory And 24.09m PB
On The Boards
On The Boards
Osaka Marathon
- Mizuki Matsuda Wins Osaka Women's Marathon In A Course Record 2:20:52 Lead by three male pacers, she was on mid-2:19 pace through 30k, but fell off in the last 10k or so. Post-race she said through tears, "I didn't meet my goals here."
- Hiroto Inoue (61:14) And Yuma Adachi (70:21) Win Osaka Half-Marathon Former NR holder Kayoko Fukushi finished the final race of her career 30th overall in 1:16:04.
World Athletics Gold Karlsruhe - INIT Indoor Meeting
Aregawi only needed a 57.9 final 400 to break Komen's 7:24.90 WR but settled for a 7:26.20. Other mid-d winners were Axumawit Embaye (4:02.12), Elliot Giles (1:46.78), Halimah Nakaayi (2:02.81). *Results *Race Video
*WA Meet Recap: Aregawi and Duplantis (6.02) put on a show in Karlsruhe Mondo had three attempts at a new WR height of 6.19.
*France's Pascal Martinot-Lagarde Runs 7.54 60H World Lead In Karlsruhe
Letsrun catches up with the new Union Athletic Club
The Union Athletics Club has a new name in 2022. Donavan Brazier is back after surgery and Craig Engels has a lot to prove.
*MB: C. Engels: "I should have never ever lost to Yared... Hopefully, I can prove indoors that I’m still...the best miler in America"
We're Glad Millrose wasn't cancelled
Big Pro Sprint News
Jacobs talks to Ben Bloom in his first post-Olympic interview with a non-Italian member of the media. Bloom reveals Jacobs' former adviser, Giacomo Spazzini, has been cleared of all wrongdoing by an Italian court. *Vanity Fair cover shoot
Pick Your Parents Wisely
- Catching up with new US HS 600m record holder Will Sumner whose dad also held the US HS 600 record Dad ran 1:46/3:49 and mom was the NCAA runner-up in the 800 and ran 54/2:00.
*MB: Like father, like son. New HS 600m record holder Will Sumner's dad also held the HS 600 record and went sub-4. Mom ran 2:00. - HS sprint phenom Shawnti Jackson is coached by her dad, former W400h champ Bershawn “Batman” Jackson Jackson said he knew she was a star at age 3. As a 10th grader, she ran 11.28, 23.06 and 52.54 and just recently missed Sydney McLaughlin's 300m record.
LRC Pro Coaches Tour
Danny Mackey has taken the Brooks Beasts from an unproven club to the Olympic podium in its first decade.
Administrative News
- CAS hits back at "lack of expertise" criticism that it received in Tokyo by WADA's independent observer team
- Ferdinand Omanyala beats of Kipchoge and is named Kenya's 2021 Sportsman of the Year, Faith Kipyegon wins women's award
*Sky is the limit for Omanyala, marathon legend Kipchoge says - Elaine Thompson-Herah to race at Müller Indoor Grand Prix in Birmingham on February 19
- UK Athletics to review all historical sexual activity / grooming cases that didn't result in a permanent ban
Read About An Olympic Mile Legend and A D3 Legend
A fantastic read by Simon Turnbull. And Snell did it after going out in 61.3. A week earlier he had run a 22-mile long run. A week later he ran a 1:44.3 800 WR which stood as the Oceania record until 2018.
- D3 3k record holder Aidan Ryan (7:55) loves to run and ran 13:51 while taking a year off from school at altitude "It’s hard to pin down, but I feel like I still just have that sort of playground feeling when I’m running, and when we (Williams) do workouts, it still just feels so much like play, and it’s just fun." *MB: Congrats to Williams' Aidan Ryan for running fastest DIII 3k time in history - 7:55
- Japanese Ultra Runner runs up Tokyo's Mount Takao 50 times in 3 days
The Final Award Winners from 2021
A guy who ran at NCAAs in March and a super fan who has been DRIVING to NCAAs for 30 years came out on top.
Stars in the News
- Hellen Obiri signs with On and will be moving to the USA (Boulder) as she prepares for her marathon career The article says she will receive a "warm welcome" from the OAC and coach Dathan Ritzenhein but LRC has learned for the time being she will continue to be coached by Ricky Simms. *Discuss
- Karsten Warholm decides to drop all indoor competitions in 2022 mainly due to uncertain coronavirus situation
- A detailed look into famed Italian Renato Canova’s approach to periodization Fast Running looks at the 3 types of progression runs he likes to use and quotes from Canova's 1999 book, "IAF Marathon Training. A Scientific Approach".
Racing down under
It looks like it was around 87 (31 C) for the women's race and 81 (27 C) for the men's. The 22-year-old Davies competed in the Olympics in the 5000 while the 26-year-old Rayner was in the marathon. Women's finish above, men's finish here.
Week That Was
Nico Young blitze a fast mile if you give him a big conversion, Yared Nuguse ran one without a conversion, we've got 2 new high school superstars and more.
Odds & Ends
- Eugene Symphony Orchestra will honor Prefontaine with an original piece composed in his honor by David Schiff The performance is June 4th.
- Javelin trailblazers Neeraj Chopra (India) and Julius Yego (Kenya) talk to 3-time Olympic medallist Steve Backley on World Atheletics video show
- After making Olympic 100 final but false starting, Brit Zharnel Hughes has big goals for 2022 after Tokyo disappointment Hughes, who became the first British man to make the Olympic 100-metre final since 2000, wants to medal at Worlds and break Linford Christie's NR of 9.87.
Sprint Stuff
- Kenyan 9.77 Sprinter Ferdinand Omanyala Signs Big Sponsorship Deal With Adidas The article says it was a "multi-million four-year" deal and it's pretty safe to assume that is millions of Kenyan shillings, not dollars. (A million shillings is worth about $8,800.)
- World Athletics Profile: Marileidy Paulino, From 400m Newcomer To Olympic Silver Medalist In One Year
- Sha'Carri Richardson Documentary To Premiere At Sundance (Which Is Running Now Through The 30th) The short film is titled Sub Eleven Seconds and was filmed during the Olympic Trials.
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.
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