Yaseen Abdalla anchored the Longhorns to the win; Notre Dame was 2nd as Yared Nuguse proved mortal.
Archived Homepage For March 12, 2022
Archived Homepage For March 12, 2022
NCAA Indoor Champs Are This Weekend
Katelyn Tuohy and Mercy Chelangat made it interesting in the 5k but Wayment was too good. All four of Arkansas’ DMR legs just missed qualifying individually but came together to win as a team.
On The Boards
On The Boards
America's newest superstar joined us to talk his American records, how tough it is to join the Bowerman Track Club, what's next, and a whole lot more.
Marathon News of Note
- Sad: Duncan Kibet - the world's 2nd fastest marathoner ever in 2009 - is now penniless and has attempted suicide 3 times Kibet, who is older brother of American Shadrack Kiptoo Biwott, says he was defrauded of his land after entering in a "property exchange agreement" needed to raise money to get treatment for his calf in Europe.
- Brigid Kosgei feeling good after Tokyo win, "I believe it is possible to lower [my WR] to 2:13 or even 2:12."
- Brigid Kosgei says her baby sister Pamela is a big talent and may be able to achieve even more than her She's already won the Kenyan junior xc title.
- Brigid Kosgei reveals she had to drop out of school in 11th grade (Form 3) as she couldn't afford it
- Japan collegian Yuka Suzuki wants to break the Japanese women's collegiate record (2:26:46) at this weekend's Nagoya Women's Marathon And to think the record predates the super shoe era.
- Welsh Marathon Runner Josh Griffiths ( 2:11.28 in Seville) Selected To Team GB For Worlds in Marathon
There Are Two US High School National Meets This Weekend
- DyeStat's preview of the New Balance Nationals Indoor at The Armory Colin Sahlman is dropping down to the 800 and he'll also be in the 4 x mile where Newbury Park looks to be the first team under 17:00.
- DyeStat's preview of the Nike Indoor Nationals at Ocean Breeze Will Sumner is in the 800.
- MB: Isn't our sport great? Top 2 boys HSers W Sumner and C Sahlman are running 800 at nationals this wknd - but at different meets!!
- Olympic Trials competitors Roisin Willis, Juliette Whittaker and Sophia Gorriaran lead loaded women's mid-d field at Armory Whittaker is in the mile, Willis is in the 800 and Gorriaran is in both.
- MB: Did you know there is a HSer faster than Colin Sahlman - meet Japan's Keita Sato (3:37/7:50/13:31) Sato is hopign to run the Eugene WCs in the 1500 and wants to break 13:00 before he's out of college. The top Japanese girl - Sendai Ikuei - isn't bad either (4:14/8:59/15:31).
Week That Was
Grant Fisher has run 12:53 and 26:33 in the last two weeks. What should we expect of him now?
Previous NCAA News
- The best mid-d runner in NCAA track may be a 27-year old French woman you've never heard of - Berenice Cleyet-Merle The latest piece from David Woods takes a look at the UIndy star who had quit the sport a few years back but now has pbs of 2:03/4:08.
- DyeStat.com: 10 Men's Storylines to Follow at NCAAs One of them is, can Randolph Ross break the 400m WR?
- DyeStat.com: 10 Women's Storylines to Follow at NCAAs Can Abby Steiner break the 200m WR?
Random Links That Make The Cut
Gatlin Review
Gatlin won global 100m titles 13 years apart and retired last month as the fifth-fastest man in history. He also served a four-year ban for doping and his reluctance to discuss it has made discussing his legacy a complicated issue.
Russia/Ukraine Sports News
- Coalition Of 37 Nations Back Sporting Sanctions Against Russia And Belarus They put out a statement calling for Russia and Belarus not to be allowed to host events, for athletes representing Russian and Belarusian national teams not to be allowed to compete abroad, and for steps to be taken "to limit sponsorship and other financial support from entities with links to the Russian or Belarusian states."
- Puma Temporarily Closes Its Stores In Russia They said they will continue to pay the full salary of their employees at the more than 100 retail locations across Russia.
- WSJ: Adidas Closes Its Stores in Russia "In 2020, sales in Russia and other former Soviet republics...made up 2.9% of Adidas's total revenues."
- Reuters: Nike To Temporarily Close All Stores In Russia
- Sochi 2014 Venues to Host Paralympic Games Replacement For Russian And Belarusian Athletes The two countries were expelled from the Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympic Games over Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
- Russian Gymnast Shows Symbol On Podium Supporting Russian Invasion Of Ukraine *Gymnast Says He Has No Regrets
Distance News
- AW Weekly Round-Up: Three British Women Broke 31:30 In The Same Race For The First Time Ever Olympian Jess Judd lead the way in a big PB of 31:06 at the Trafford 10k. Kadar Omar won the men's race (28:27).
- MB: The Barkley Marathons Has Begun!
Colin Sahlman Q&A
"I really want to race the mile -- like that's where my passion is at right now," said Sahlman in a Q&A with LetsRun after being named the 2021 Gatorade National Boys Cross Country Runner of the Year. Sahlman also said he'd "love" to do the Pre Classic mile like former HS teen sensations Alan Webb and Jakob Ingebrigtsen.
World Indoor Champs Are Next Week
- Olympic 100m Champ Marcell Jacobs Ready For World Indoors; Says He's In Better Shape Than When He Won Gold In Tokyo Jacobs is undefeated this season except for a DQ for a false start over the weekend. Jacobs claims this was the "first false start of my life."
- Australia's Olympic 1500m 7th Placer Stewart McSweyn Withdraws From World Indoors After Struggling Post-COVID He's going for respiratory and cardiac tests after DNFing a 5000m race last night. Australia will still have some top distance runners on the team in Ollie Hoare, Linden Hall and Jess Hull.
- World Athletics Indoor Tour Winners Secure Wild Card Entries For Belgrade World Indoor Champs This means some countries will get three entries in an event rather than just two.
- Two-Time World Medallist Danniel Thomas-Dodd, World 60H Leader Danielle Williams And multiple Olympic Medallist Shericka Jackson Lead Jamaican Team For World Indoors
- Three-Time World Indoor Silver Medalist Hurdler Pascal Martinot-Lagarde Leads French Team For Belgrade
- Spain Selects Team Of 26 For World Indoors
Tuesday Was International Women's Day
- Kenyan Marathoner Joan Chelimo Writes About Starting "Tirop's Angels" To Try And Prevent Domestic Violence In Kenya She says, "We want to celebrate Agnes’s life and we want women athletes to be given access to safe places so that if they are violated, they can still train and feel secure."
- Athletics Weekly Celebrates Women's Day By Talking To AW Managing Director And Olympic 3000m Silver Medalist Wendy Sly
- Oregon 22 Celebrates International Women's Day; Announces Sessions Dedicated To Putting Women In The Spotlight
- World Athletics Claims To Be On Track For Gender Equality In Council By 2027
- World Athletics Celebrates International Women's Day
Mondo Does it Again
- World Athleitcs Meet Recap: GB's Elliot Giles Won The 1500m In 3:37.49 In A Close Race With Serbia's Elzan Bibic (3:37.84) Olympic 100m champ Marcell Jacobs ran 6.56 in the 60m heats, but was DQ'd for a false start in the final.
- Duplantis: "I think I've tried 6.19m 50 times. It's been a long time coming. I've never had a height that has given me that much trouble, so it's a very good feeling."
Non-Distance News
- Olympic Decathlon Silver Medalist Kevin Mayer Will Miss World Indoor Champs; Blames COVID And/Or The Vaccine? Mayer: "I felt a pain in my right Achilles after my second vaccine in September. I have no comment to make on the vaccine though. Everything was alright until I got Covid in January and after that I had more and more trouble shaking off residual pain after an event."
- Catching Up With Former Olympic 400m Champ Jeremy Wariner On Life As A High School Coach "During my career- obviously I took it real serious- I was focused, I was driven, and I worked hard, but I kind of got away from the fun aspect of it. Now that I'm out here with these kids, I'm laughing all the time. I'm having fun and I'm enjoying what I'm doing."
- GB Head Coach Christian Malcolm Isn't Worried About Athletes Skipping World Indoor Champs “A lot of these guys that have chosen not to do the indoor season, and with the World Indoors being a little bit later in March, I think it’s a good decision. But what we find is you have people to step up and take opportunities.”
- The Diamond League Best Of: Valerie Adams Adams has the top 11 furthest shot put throws in Diamond League history.
NCAA Indoor Champs Are This Weekend
- Arkansas Men Move Up To #1 Spot In Pre-NCAA Champs Rankings Georgia moved down to #2 and Texas Tech and Oregon moved up a couple places each to 3-4.
- No Changes To The Top 7 Women's Teams In Pre-NCAA Champs Rankings - Florida Still #1 Arkansas, Texas and LSU are ranked 2-4.
RIP To Two Beloved Coaches
- Mt. SAC XC/Track Men's Coach Ron Kamaka Passes Away After Complications From COVID The tribute says that Kamaka was a former high jumper and "after a bodysurfing accident in Hawaii left him a quadriplegic, he turned to teaching and coaching."
- Longtime Air Force Academy Track Coach Ralph Lindeman Passes Away Starting in 1989, he was in his 33rd season.
Grant Fisher CRUSHES AR, Elise Cranny Just Misses
Fisher ran a 13:10 2nd half and came from behind in the final 200 to edge Mo Ahmed (26:34.14) for the win.
- Jack Rayner Breaks Australian 10,000m Record With 27:15.35 At Sound Running Patrick Tiernan had the previous record of 27:22.55, set at the same track in December 2020. (Tiernan finished 14th in this race with 27:45.95.)
2022 Tokyo Men
Kipchoge now owns 3 of the 4 fastest times ever and has 14 wins in 16 marathon starts. Only Boston and NYC stand between him and a WMM sweep.
Tokyo 2022 Women
Kosgei didn’t win a marathon in 2021 but started 2022 in dominant fashion as she won her fifth World Marathon Major and enters into the GOAT talk.
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American Record Holders
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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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