What a wild weekend. When it's all over, the North American record in the men's mile, w5000, and m5000 may be history. The NCAA record in the men's 3k also could go as well as the world record in the women's DMR. From Boston to Chicago to Spokane, stars like Moh Ahmed, Yared Nuguse, Cole Hocker, Cooper Teare, Raevyn Rogers, Courtney Frerichs andGabriela DeBues-Stafford will be going for fast times. We break it down for you.
Archived Homepage For February 10, 2022
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Midweek News of Note
The crowd loved the show in his "home" country.
- They're official: Letesenbet Gidey's (62:52) and Jacob Kiplimo's (57:31) are ratified as WRs
- Paul Chelimo added to Memorial Agnes Tirop World Cross Country Tour event in Kenya this weekend
*Letesenbet Gidey and Geoffrey Kamworor are the headlinders.
*MB: Paul Chelimo vs Geoffrey Kamworor this weekend. Who you got? - Stuart Weir went to the DNA Athletics event over the weekend in Glasgow and reviews the new meet format "It is nice to see innovations."
On The Boards
On The Boards
Kiprop Making News On Our Forum
Non Distance News
- Indian javelin champ is enjoying his training camp at the USA's Chula Vista Elite Athlete Training Centre so much he's oing to stay here until Worlds It was initially only supposed to be for 90 days.
- Runner's Tribe comes up with its top 7 fastest NBA players We barely watch the NBA but this is a really bad list.
Poll of the Day
Poll of the Day
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Kara Goucher Update
The rare neurological movement disorder caused her to fall while crossing a road into traffic and is threatening her ability to continue running, but she is relieved to know she doesn't have ALS or multiple sclerosis.
Week That Was
What a weekend for US distance fans. The future looks bright, the biggest problem American fans have is figuring out who is the #1 prospect for the future? How do today's teenage phenoms stack up against past teenage sensations like Jakob Ingebrigtsen, Alan Webb, Jim Ryun and Gerry Lindgren.
Distance News
- Geoffrey Kamworor And Letesenbet Gidey To Compete At Agnes Tirop Memorial XC Race On Saturday
*Kenyan Olympic Committee Holds Agnes Tirop Conference To Discuss Making Sport Safer For Women - DyeStat: Twins Gavin And Callum Sherry Pulled Double Duty On Sunday With Two Meets In Two States The high schoolers ran the mile at the New Balance Grand Prix in NY (4:05.10 for Gavin, 4:10.69 for Callum) and then drove back to Connecticut to race the 4x800 at their conference championships.
- Hellen Obiri Added To Field For The RAK Half-Marathon Set For February 19th She'll be up against marathon WR holder Brigid Kosgei. 60:12 man Titus Ekiru was added to the men's field which is led by WR holder Jacob Kiplimo.
Battling COVID Cancellations
- Tokyo Marathon Domestic Field Announced - 31 Sub-2:10 Men And 112 Sub-2:20 2:04:46 man Kengo Suzuki leads the list. However, it isn't 100% certain yet whether the race will happen or if it will have an international field (which was supposed to include Eliud Kipchoge). That decision is supposed to come on February 18.
- "COVID Police" Threaten, Then Allow Meet To Continue In The Bahamas It was an outdoor meet with no spectators and police still tried to shut it down.
- Himeji Castle Marathon In Japan Cancelled Less Than 3-Weeks Before The Race Due To COVID
A Non-COVID Battle
- Crowdfunding Page Set Up To Save The English Schools Track And Field Championships So far they've only raised $17,500 of the $135,000 they say they need to host this summer's championships.
Upcoming Indoor Action
- DyeStat Preview: Loaded Fields Of Pros And Collegiates Set For The 800m To 5000m At The Husky Classic This Weekend
- Despite Hosting The Tyson Invitational This Weekend, Arkansas Is Sending 15 Distance Runners To Race At The Husky Classic *Tyson Invy Entries
- Noah Lyles Will Face Off Against Ronnie Baker And GB Champion Andy Robertson At Muller Indoor GP On February 19
- Olympic Champ Mariya Lasitskene Vs GB Star Emily Borthwick In The Muller Indoor GP High Jump On Feb. 19
- Elaine Thompson-Herah Announced For The Copernicus Cup On February 22nd Gudaf Tsegay and Selemon Barega headline the distance events.
- US's Olympic PV Champ Katie Nageotte Announced For Lievin Meet On February 17 She's up against world champ and Olympic silver medalist Anzhelika Sidorova. World indoor 1500m record holder Gudaf Tsegay is announced for the mile.
Hurdles And Throws
- Athletics Weekly Interview With Ryan Crouser On The Art Of The Shot Put Asked to explain the shot put to someone who'd never seen it he responded, "I would say go to a bowling alley, pick up the heaviest bowling ball (16lbs) and go to a basketball court. Stand on the free throw line, turn around and try to make a three-quarter court shot..."
- Russia's Irina Davydova Will Be Stripped Of The 400H Gold And Bronze Medals She Won At The 2012 And 2014 European Champs She was caught doping with data retrieved from the Moscow lab in 2019.
- World Athletics Profile On France's World 110H Bronze Medalist Pascal Martinot-Lagarde After finishing 5th in Tokyo, he is looking to win more medals at World Indoors and Outdoors this year.
Recent Results
- AW Weekly Round-Up: GB's Elliot Giles Runs Indoor 1500m PB Of 3:35.93 (#5 on the GB all-time list) In Ostrava. Poland’s Anna Kielbasinska set a world-leading and Polish record of 51.10 in the 400m. On the roads, Mike Boit (60:40) and Purity Jemutai (67:18) won the Granollers Half in Spain.
- Tatsiana Khaladovich (87.53m) And Aliaksei Katkavets (65.70m) Brave The Chill With World Leading Javelin Throws At The Belarusian Winter Throwing Championships In Minsk Khaladovich's throw was a national record, even in the sub-freezing temperatures.
- Woo Sang-hyeok Breaks South Korean HJ Record With 2.36m At Czech Republic Meet Heat beat out US's JuVaughn Harrison who cleared 2.34m.
- European Club Cross Country Championships Recap Burundi's Rodrigue Kwizera and Ethiopia's Likina Amebaw took the individual titles. Half-marathon WR holder Jacob Kiplimo was supposed to compete, but was a DNS.
The 2022 Winter Olympics Are Going On In Beijing
- Beijing 2022 Sets Record For Lowest Watched Opening Ceremony In History On NBC Only 16 million watched the live coverage, down 43% from the 28.3 million who watched the Pyeongchang 2018 Opening Ceremony.
- MB: Olympic Team Figure Skating Medal Ceremony Delayed Due To Urgent Legal Issue (Russian Failed Doping Test) That didn't take long.
- MB: Therese Johaug, (Norway), 31:30/10,000 runner, wins 15 km Nordic skiing cross country in Winter Olympics Beijing
- MB: Eileen Gu, world’s greatest free skier chooses China over the USA: agreement, outrage, indifference?
- MB: Most grueling Olympic sport? Marathon or cross country skiing
- NY Times: "Beijing Wanted the Winter Olympics. All It Needed Was Snow." "The environmentally unfriendly secret of winter sports is that many competitions take place on artificial snow. China’s water-scarce capital had to go to enormous lengths to make enough of it."
- Both The Reining Olympic And World Champions Are Out Of Nordic Combined Field Due To Positive COVID Tests
- Norway Skier Wins First Gold Medal Of Beijing 2022 Norway is projected to finish at the top of the medal tables.
- China Accused Of Using A Uyghur To Light The Olympic Cauldron As Propaganda While IOC Calls It A "Lovely Concept"
- Russia Cause Some Controversy By Wearing National Colors On Sleeve At Opening Ceremony But IOC Says They Didn't Break Rules
- 45 COVID Cases Were Reported On First Full Day Of Competition At Beijing 22
- Dutch TV Presenter Stopped By Chinese Security Guard While Broadcasting At Opening Ceremony The reporter was allowed to finish his broadcast afterwards and an IOC spokesman said he thinks the guard "was being overzealous."
- COVID And Human Rights Concerns Contribute To Low-Key Olympic Sponsor Activity
Q&A
We catch up with Cook, who made history by winning the RunningLane and Eastbay XC titles a week apart last fall, and will be going for Katelyn Tuohy's US HS indoor 5000 record this weekend
Financial News
- Nike Sues Shopping Platform StockX Over Sneaker NFTs Nike is suing them for creating and marketing NFTs based on Nike's shoes without permission.
- Oregon Secures $9 Million Grant From US Government For Eugene World Championships This was the final bit the state needed to fulfill their promised $40 million contribution to Worlds.
- On Becomes Exclusive Shoe And Apparel Sponsor Of Penn Relays In Multi-Year Contract
- NCAA Generated Record $1.16 Billion Revenue For 2021
Post Weekend NCAA News
- Texas Moves Up Two Spots To Top The Updated Men's NCAA Indoor Rankings North Carolina A&T and Texas Tech moved down to 2-3; Georgia stays #4.
- Florida Women Stay #1 in Updated NCAA Rankings; Texas Moves Up To #2 Arkansas and LSU are ranked 3-4.
- Michigan's Aurora Rynda Ran A NCAA Leading 2:02.89 At Notre Dame Meyo Invy
- Event-By-Event Top-10 NCAA Marks From The Week
2022 NBIGP
Mechaal & Mariano Garcia (1:45.12 800) both set Spanish records as Grant Holloway began 2022 with a world leader in the 60 hurdles (7.37).
Dr. Sander Columbia Challenge
The legend of Newbury Park continues to grow. Many pretty good college teams would be thrilled to have their top 3 at 3:58, 7:57 and 8:01.
Interviews With Two Distance Greats
- Athletics Illustrated Q&A With Hellen Obiri Obiri talks about signing with On and her plan to debut in the marathon this fall. She says she has two big half-marathons planned in February and March.
- Short/Random Interview With Paula Radcliffe Who Says She "Could Probably Still Beat [Her] Kids In A Race ...If It's Over 100m" Radcliffe talks about having asthma, her daughter beating cancer and meeting Sarah Jessica Parker randomly in a shop in NYC.
More US Indoor Action
The other elite winners were Ajee Wilson (800), Sam Atkin (m3000), Tonatiú López (m800) and Charlie Grice (mMile). *DyeStat Recap
- MB: Shelby Houlihan runs 4:03 1500 She posted a picture of the watch with 4:03.15 to her Instagram story (64.50 final split).
- Montana State's Duncan Hamilton Sets "The Podium" Facility Records In The Mile And 3000m At Washington State Indoor Open And Invy Hamilton won the 3000 in 7:56.86 on Friday and ran the facility's first sub-4 mile on Saturday with 3:59.64.
- One We Missed Last Week: Aidan Ryan Breaks Division III Mile Record At BU Terrier Classic With 3:56.88 He's just the second D3 runner to go sub-4 in the mile.
- USTFCCCA NCAA Weekend Recap: Texas' Jonathan Jones Moves To #4 On The NCAA All-Time List With 1:15.12 For 600m At New Mexico Invy At the Armory BYU's Zach McWhorter and Princeton's Sondre Guttormsen had a great pole vault battle which ended with McWorter clearing 5.85m (tied for #5 NCAA all-time).
- DyeStat Camel City Friday Recap
Japan Road News
- Japan's Yusuke Nishiyama Runs World Lead And Course Record 2:07:47 To Win Beppu-Oita Marathon Nishiyama, making his marathon debut, won a close battle with Tetsuya Yoroizaka by 8-seconds.
- February 27: Osaka Marathon Elite Field Has 22 Men Sub-2:10, 102 Sub-2:20 Yuya Yoshida (2:07:05) has the fastest time
- March 20th Japan National University Women's Half Marathon Canceled Due To 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.
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