Allen admitted that his touchdown celebration was something he had pre-planned with one of his teammates.
Archived Homepage For August 22, 2022
Archived Homepage For August 22, 2022
TOUCHDOWN!
European Championships
European Championships
Garcia took the lead before the bell and was able to hold off a challenge world 1500m champion Wightman in the final 100m to win 1:44.85 to 1:44.91. Italy's Yemaneberhan Crippa won the 10,000m in 27:46.13 beating out Norway's Zerei Kbrom Mezngi (27:46.94) and France's Yann Schrub (27:47.13)
- Jake Wightman Plans Celebratory Drunken Late-Night Swim After Third Championship Medal Talking about floating down the famous Eisbach river Wightman said, “I have not drunk for so long that it won’t take many beers. I want to go down the river. ...I’m going to try to get down the river tonight and hopefully be sober enough to enjoy it and not risk injury.”
- DyeStat: Ukraine's Yaroslava Mahuchikh Continues To Inspire Country With European High Jump Gold She won with 1.95m on countback over Montenegro's Marija Vukovic.
- Germany's Relay Heroics Propel Hosts To The Top Of The Medal Table In Munich The German women won the 4x100m in 42.34 to bring their gold medal tally to seven, one more than Britain.
- Athletics Weekly: Munich 2022 Ends With Ecstasy And Agony For British Relay Teams The men stormed to a 4x100m championship record in 37.67 while the GB women were a DNF as they dropped the baton.
*The Telegraph: "Dina Asher-Smith Ends Summer Without Single Gold After Relay Disaster"
*The Guardian: "Ghosts Of Relay Past Return As Britain's Women Suffer Baton Disaster In Munich" - Cathal Dennehy: Mark English Secures 800m Bronze Medal To Cap Memorable European Championships For Ireland
On The Boards
On The Boards
NACAC Champs Final Day
US's Kara Winger had her best javelin throw since 2019 (64.68m) to win her second NACAC title and break her own MR.
Falmouth Road Race
Flanagan beat out Biya Simbassa by 7-seconds while D'Amato came in 14-seconds ahead of former Boston Marathon champ Edna Kiplagat.
Doping News
- Richard McLaren, The Lawyer Whose Report Helped Uncover Russia's State Sponsored Doping Program, Says Blanket Ban On Russian Belarusian Athletes Is Unfair Mclaren: "The way they are treated is not fair. The athletes did not start this conflict and are not responsible for its course. Those are two good reasons to let them participate again."
- Russia's 2012 Olympic Shot Put Finalist Retroactively Banned Using Evidence From Moscow Lab Database Irina Tarasova was banned based on 10-year-old evidence. She is 35 and hasn't competed internationally since 2015.
- Norway Fears They Could Be Declared Non-Compliant By WADA For Not Doing Unannounced Drug Tests On Under-18 Athletes
European Championships
European Championships
After back-to-back championship silvers at Worlds and Commonwealths, Hodgkinson finally got gold in 1:59.04 ahead of France's Renelle Lamote (1:59.49). Albania's Luiza Gega won steeple gold in 9:11.31.
- Femke Bol Emulates Fanny Blankers-Koen With Third Gold Medal Of European Championships In The 4x400 Bol got the baton on the anchor in third, but was able to pass both the UK and Belgium to get the Netherlands the win in a national record of 3:20.87.
- Mondo Duplantis Clears Championship Record Of 6.06m To Take European Pole Vault Title
- British Men Bounce Back With 4x400 Win In Munich The team won a hard fight against Belgium's Borlee brothers, 2:59.35 to 2:59.49.
- The Telegraph: "Keely Hodgkinson Seals European 800m Gold To Cement Claim As Britain's Star In Waiting"
- Greek 38-Year-Old Antigoni Ntrismpioti Gets Second Gold Of The Championship In The 20k Race Walk
NACAC Championships Day 2
DyeStat: Shaunae Miller-Uibo And Shericka Jackson Shine At NACAC Champs With Ajee Wilson Among The Americans Taking 11 More Gold Medals
Jackson took the 100m in 10.83 as Miller-Uibo won the 400m in 49.40. In the 800m, Wilson won an extremely close battle with Allie Wilson, beating her out by just .01 in 1:58.47. Woody Kincaid closed in 53.2 seconds to win an extremely tactical 5000m in 14:48.58. Jonah Koech won the men's 800 in 1:45.87. Stephanie Bruce won gold in the 10,000m in 33:12.
European Championships
European Championships
Muir closed in 60.4 to win the title in 4:01.08 ahead of Ireland's Ciara Mageean (4:02.56). In the men's 800m semis, Jake Wightman advanced to the final by going from fifth to second in the homestretch. Finland's Topi Raitanen won the men's steeple in 8:21.80.
*MB: Euros Friday Live Thread
- Good Read: Cathal Dennehy: "Silver For Ireland! Cieara Mageean Produces Brilliant Run To Claim Second In 1500 Final"
- Keely Hodgkinson Qualifies For 800m Final After Winning Her Semi In 2:00.67
*MB: Keely Not Having Fun - Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk Wins Emotional European TJ Title For Ukraine With 15.02m
- Hosts Germany Lead Men's 4x100m Heats With National Record Of 37.97 Olympic champions Italy were eliminated after Turkey knocked them out in an individual re-run after protesting their earlier DQ. Italy ran without Marcell Jacobs who had an issue during his warmup.
- Lithuania's Mykolas Alekna Becomes Youngest European Discus Champion At 19-Years-Old
- GB's Former NFLer Lawrence Okoye Savours His Discus Bronze With His Biggest Throw In A Decade It was Britain's first European medal in this event ever.
Both set championship records as Warholm won in 47.12 and Bol completed the 400/400H double with 52.67.
- Zharnel Hughes Heads British One-Two In Munich 200m With 20.07 Victory His countryman Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake took silver in 20.17.
- Switzerland's Mujinga Kambundji Pips GB's Dina Asher-Smith For Euro 200m Title Kambundji ran 22.32 to win to beat Asher-Smith by 0.11 seconds. Asher-Smith said, "I came here to win, so I am not super happy."
- The Telegraph: "Britain Claim Five Medals In Two Hours But Dina Asher-Smith Can Only Manage European Silver"
- Karsten Warholm Pre-Race: “I’m not afraid of lactate, but I’m very afraid of having a bad race. I will always go out hard and try to give it everything I have. There’s this thing, the warrior doesn’t always win, but he always fights, and that’s what I live by.”
NACAC Day 1
Sean McGorty won the 10,000m in 29:23.77 ahead of Dillon Maggard (29:33.57). Natosha Rogers ran 15:11 to lead a US sweep of the medals in the women's 5000m. The US also went 1-2-3 in the women's steeple as Gabrielle Jennings won in 9:34.
2023 Standards
The standards are significantly tougher in most distance events. Plus you can now use mile times (track or road) to qualify in the 1500m.
NCAA News
- Pete Watson Leaves Head Coach Position At Texas; Hired As Boston College's Director Of Track And Cross Country
*MB: Pete Wilson to Boston College T&F/XC. Are they FINALLY putting real money into their distance running program
*MB: New TEXAS coach? - NY Times: "Topping $1 Billion A Year, Big Ten Signs Record TV Deal For College Conference" The deal is the richest annual deal for any college sports league.
European Championships
European Championships
Ingebrigtsen went wire-to-wire in a meet record of 3:32.76 to sweep the 1500/5000 for the second straight Euros.
- MB: Jacob MF Ingebrigtsen 3:32:76 CR solo run
- MB: The UNBEATABLE Jakob Could Lose Today
- MB: Can we talk about Jakob’s TERRIBLE tattoos??!
- MB: How much would Jake Wightman have beaten Jakob by today?
Koko bounced back from a subpar Worlds to keep Germany's success at Euros rolling.
Euro Field Event Medals
- Serbia's Ivana Vuleta Denies Germany's Malaika Mihambo A Home Soil Victory in The Women's LJ Vuleta beat the Olympic and world champ 7.06m to 7.03m.
- Italy's Gianmarco Tamberi Leaps To His Second European HJ Title With 2.30m
- Belgium’s Nafissatou Thiam Wins Her Second Consecutive European Heptathlon Title She has now won the Olympic/World/European triple two times.
- Poland's Wojciech Nowicki Wins European Hammer Gold With A 82.00m WL
More Euro Champs News
- Jake Wightman Sails Into 800m Semis He had the fastest time in the first around with 1:45.94. Keely Hodgkinson also easily qualified through the first round of the women's 800m.
- Dina Asher-Smith Reveals Cramp That Ruined Euro 100m Title Bid Was Caused By "Period Issues" Asher-Smith has called for more funding to help sportswomen deal with the effects of their period and claimed there would be “a million different ways to combat things” if it was a "men's issue."
*MB: Dina Asher-Smith says cramp that ruined 100m title bid was caused by 'period issues'
- GB's Daryll Neita Pulls Out Of Euro 200m And 4x100 She says she needs to recover after competing at Worlds, Commonwealth Games and the European 100m.
- Favorites Karsten Warholm And Femke Bol On Course For 400H Titles
Olympic News
- Germany Considering Bidding To Host Olympics After Hosting European Champs
- The German Athletics Federation Wants Berlin To Host The 2036 Olympics To Overcome Their Nazi Past Hitler's Germany hosted in 1936. German federation president Jürgen Kessing said, “Let’s show 100 years after such terrible events that we can do better and that we are peace-loving people. It would be nice to be able to convince the public to give it a opportunity."
- Former Tokyo 2020 Board Member Haruyuki Takahashi Arrested Over Bribery Allegations He allegedly received $380,000 in bribes from an Olympic sponsor.
- Tokyo 2020 Sponsor Aoki Holdings Accused Of Bribery Allegedly Securing Discount They have been accused of paying less than half the amount other companies did to the Olympic organizing committee.
Euro Sprint Actino
- MB: QUEEN FEMKE -- 49.44 for the 400 win
- The Telegraph: UK's Matthew Hudson-Smith Wins European 400m Gold A Year After Suicide Attempt He ran 44.53 to defend his European title and add to the world bronze and Commonwealth silver he won earlier this summer. After the race he said, "I’m testimony that there is always light at the end of the tunnel."
*The Independent: "Matt Hudson-Smith On Battling Adversity And ‘Going From Hunting To Being The Hunted’"
- Nafissatou Thiam Is On Course To Complete A Second Full Set Of Olympic, World And European Heptathlon Titles
Ultra News
- Ultramarathoner Dean Karnazes Attacked By Coyote During 150 Mile Race Karnazes shared a video of himself on Instagram with a bloody face explaining that he had been knocked down by a coyote, but hit it with his poles and it ran away.
*MB: Dean Karnazes survives coyote attack to finish 150 miler - Experts Question Dean Karnazes' Coyote Attack Story Karnazes says the coyote lunged at him when he opened an energy bar and that his fall is what caused his injuries. One expert said that this "would be extremely unusual, as coyotes do not sprint at people when they approach them for food."
- MB: Too funny - Kilian Jornet was busy giving people high 5's and Mamu ran past him at the line - he lost prize money and point
European Championships
European Championships
The Olympic champion showed he still knows how to run fast when it counts.
Jakob Ingebrigtsen crushed Mohamed Katir over the final 100m to win the European 5000m title.
- MB: So how do you beat Jakob in a championship 5,000m?
- MB: Katir goes home devastated. lol
- MB: Why isnt Jakob running the 10k as well?
- MB: Sam Parsons- impressive performance He finished 6th in the 5000m.
More From Euro Champs
- Home Favorite Gina Luckenkemper Wins 100m Thriller By A Whisker She lunged at the line to run 10.99 and beat Switzerland's Mujinga Kambundji by .005. GB's Daryll Neita was a very close 3rd in 11.00.
- Germany's Niklas Kaul Completes Stunning Comeback On Second Day To Clinch Dramatic Decathlon Gold Kaul was 500 points behind Simon Ehammer with two events to go, but had a big javelin throw and ran a 1500m PB of 4:10.04 to beat out Ehammer, 8545 points to 8468.
- Dina Asher-Smith's Injury Worries Return As She Pulls Up In Euro 100m Final Asher-Smith said she had cramping in both calves and slowed to a jog halfway through the 100m final.
*MB: Is Dina Asher-Smith done? - BBC: Laura Muir Strolls Into 1500m Final Muir won her heat in 4:06.41.
- Greek Race Walker Antigoni Ntrismpioti Wins Breakthrough 35km Race Walk Gold At 38-Years-Old
- Historic Shot Put Golds For Croatia’s Filip Mihaljevic And Netherlands' Jessica Schilder At Euro Champs
- Germany's Malaika Mihambo Opens Her Title Defense With 6.99m In LJ Qualifying
Euro Champs Day 1
- Richard Ringer Late Charge Seals Triumphant Marathon Gold For Germany Israel's Maru Teferi looked to have the race won, but a sprint finish by Ringer won him the race in 2:10:21, just two seconds ahead of Teferi. Poland’s Aleksandra Lisowska won the women's race in 2:28:36, six seconds ahead of Croatia's Matea Parlov Kostro. *2nd article
- Turkey’s Yasemin Can Regains Her European 10,000m Title With Masterful Surge To Beat Out GB's Eilish McColgan Can ran 30:32.57 to McColgan's 30:41.05.
*The Telegraph: "Eilish McColgan Continues Memorable Summer With Euro Champs Silver" McColgan fended off a challenge from Lonah Salpeter to add silver to the gold and silver she won at the Commonwealth Games. - Irish 1500m Runner Ciara Mageean Says She's In The "Shape Of [Her] Life" And That "Nobody Is Unbeatable" And That Includes Laura Muir Mageean also talks about getting covid in June and how it made her have three periods in one month (something she says the vaccine booster did to her as well).
- The Telegraph: "Olympic Champ Marcell Jacobs Sets Sights On 100m European Title With Point To Prove"
- Simon Ehammer In Early Command Of Decathlon After 8.31m Long Jump
*World Decathlon Champ Kevin Mayer Pulls Out Of Euro Champs After Just One Event His right ankle was heavily wrapped and he pulled up towards the end of his 100m heat finishing 7th in 11.67. - Athletics Weekly European Champs Men's Preview
- Athletics Weekly European Champs Women's Preview
Russian - Ukraine News
- Ukraine Athletics Federation President Yevhen Pronin Is Taking A Break From The War To Go To Euro Champs When war broke out, Pronin signed up for the Ukrainian army and now he uses drones to drop bombs on Russian soldiers and posts videos of his kills on Instagram. Asked how he feels about it he says, “I feel great because I am doing this for my country. If we do not kill them, they can kill our children, they can kill us. Of course, I’m not a killer in real life."
- IOC President Thomas Bach Says The IOC's Position On Russia And Belarus Remains The Same Bach: "We still do not recommend inviting Russian or Belarusian athletes to competitions, still no anthems, no flags, no national colors."
Other News
- Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Shericka Jackson And Elaine Thompson-Herah Headline Lausanne DL On August 26 They will all go head-to-head in the 100m. Timothy Cheruiyot is in the 1500m, Sifan Hassan in the 3000m.
- Kenyan 1:08 Half-Marathoner Tabitha Gichia Wambui Banned For Seven Years Over Positive Test And Cover-Up Wawmbui said she was injected with testosterone at the hospital when she was being treated, but it turned out she faked the documents.
- Takashi Doi Wins Trans Japan Alps Race In CR Time
Previous European Champs Coverage
The track world's eyes will be on Munich starting on Monday as Europe's biggest stars are out for continental glory.
- RRW: Stepping Down In Distance, Jake Wightman Hopes To Show His Range "Coming here to do the 800 is just something I'm actually excited to do. ... I've never actually done an 800 championship. I want to show I can be as competitive over eight as fifteen. I think if I were to do a fifteen here I wouldn't have come. So, 800 meters is just a real re-fresh. I'm like, I'm actually looking forward to racing again."
*MB: Ingerbrigsten on the rivals absence: If you ask everyone else, it's completely idiotic
*MB: Jake Wightmen Dodges Jakob…
- GB Sprinter Asha Philip Ruled Out Of Euro Champs 100m Due To Covid Positive Test
- Opposite Of Blue Collar: GB Marathoner Phil Sesemann Has Been Preparing For A Hot Euro Champs Marathon By Running In A Heat Chamber In Multiple Layers He's also used thermometer gastrointestinal pills to track his body temperature during sessions, a cryospa after runs and an altitude tent.
*MB: European Marathon starts Monday AM - Italy's Marcell Jacobs Given The Green Light To Chase The Euro 100m TItle In Munich His coach say his "workouts are promising."
- World Silver Medalist Femke Bol Wants To Win 400H/400 Double Gold At Euro Champs
- MB: Is Klosterhalfen race-fit enough to double in Munich?
- MB: European Championship stadium attendance
1500m Champions In The News
- Jake Wightman Jokes His Dad Will Be More Happy His Video Went Viral On Twitter Than His Son Won Gold Wightman reveals that his girlfriend his his world medal and bib to try and help him focus on the Commonwealth Games, but he still wasn't mentally motivated and "didn't really want to be there doing it."
- Len Johnson: "Ollie Hoare Weaves The Strands Of History" Hoare was the first Aussie Commonwealth 1500/mile winner since Herb Elliott in 1958.
Distance News
- Faith Kipyegon Wants To Make Another 1500m WR Attempt After Just Missing In Monaco “I trained well and ran well. I believe getting the record is achievable because I missed by just fractions of seconds. I will certainly try to lower that time."
- MB: Eric Holt wins the West Chester Mile in 3:54.93
- USATF Announce Roster For NACAC Open Championships In The Bahamas There are a slew of notable distance runners competing including Evan Jager (steeple) and Ajee' Wilson (800m).
*MB: BTC races NACAC
More On Banned UK Coach Minichiello
- Jessica Ennis-Hill "Shocked And Upset" After Her Former Coach Toni Minichiello Banned For Life Ennis-Hill said, "The allegations are awful and although I was never on the receiving end of any sexual physical behavior, any such inappropriate behavior or language has no place in any coaching or work environment."
- UK Athletics Accused Of Ignoring Complaint About 'Malicious' Toni Minichiello In 2007 Former Commonwealth heptathlon champion Louise Hazel says she reported Minichiello, but the issue was "brushed under the carpet."
- The Telegraph: "Toni Minichiello Became Britain's First Celebrity Coach But His Legacy Will Be Forever Tarnished" Minichiello gained fame as Jessica Ennis-Hill's coach and was named UK coach of the year when she won heptathlon gold at the 2012 London Games.
Previous Euro Champs News
- Jakob Ingebrigtsen Launching Another 1500/5000 Double Bid At Munich 2022 He already won this double as a 17-year-old at the 2018 European Champs. But unfortunately there will be no rematch with Jake Wightman as Wightman is doing the 800m at Euros.
- Keely Hodgkinson And Laura Muir Lead British Distance Charge At Euro Champs Hodgkinson will be looking to win gold after finishing runner-up in her last three major championships (Olympics, Worlds, Commonwealths).
- Laura Muir Going For Medal Treble At European Champs Muir will be looking to medal at all three championships after winning 1500m bronze at Worlds and 1500m gold/800m bronze at Commonwealths.
- Germany's Olympic And World Long Jump Champ Malaika Mihambo Could Be Vulnerable At Euros After Getting COVID She caught it after Worlds and says she missed 10 days of training.
- GB Sprinter Adam Gemili Pulls Out Of Euro Champs He hasn't yet given a reason. He went out in the 200m semis at the Commonwealth Games.
- Sandra Perkovic Primed To Go For A Sixth European Discus Title In Munich Starts August 15th.
Looking Ahead To Marathon Season
With the major marathon fields are (mostly) set, it's time to get excited for another busy fall of road racing.|
- MB: 26.2 fans, these are the storylines you want to pay attention to this fall according to Jonathan Gault
- World Champ Tamirat Tola withdraws from London:"Unfortunately, since the World Champs I have had problems with muscle fatigue."
2022 Monaco
2022 Monaco
Benard Lagat's record is history as Fisher judged things perfectly and then closed in 57.7.
Monaco Recap Podcast and Video Show (Available to Supporters Club members)
Kipyegon came just .30 shy of Genzebe Dibaba's WR in a valiant effort as Americans Heather MacLean & Elise Cranny broke 4:00.
*MB: Faith Kipyegon so close!
Wightman (2:13.88), Lyles (19.46), and Fraser-Pryce (10.62) all set meet records as the action was great in Monaco once again.
Faith Kipyegon Near WR
SAFP 10.62
Men's 1k
W400
Brosnan Q&A
Which Newbury Park stud does Brosnan compare to Galen Rupp, who does he think can win an NCAA 1500 title and who will be the best pro?
Worlds Post Mortem
From Max Siegel scheduling a press conference in the middle of the meet while it was going on to Galen Rupp only finishing 19th in the marathon, Rojo reveals what stunned him at Worlds.
Jakob Ingebrigtsen listens to the Letsrun podcast. Why don't you?
Ross Tucker Speaks
We paid one of the top sports scientists in the world to analyze the Shelby Houlihan doping case and CAS ruling. He has 2 pieces for us, the piece above is an opinion piece where he answers our questions. In a 2nd more technical piece, Ross goes through the CAS decision step by step and outlines in clear terms exactly what Houlihan argued and why he thinks CAS ultimately (correctly) ruled against her.
Are The Marathon Trials In Trouble?
As USATF searches for a bidder for the 2024 Trials, those in charge of recent Olympic Marathon Trials in Houston and Atlanta believe the Trials' financial model is unsustainable. Will anything change?
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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.
Best of Jon Gault
Best of Jon Gault
Take Your Love of LetsRun to the Next Level
Take Your Love of LetsRun to the Next Level
LetsRun Classics
LetsRun Classics
