Last week, both Hobbs Kessler and Cole Hocker PRd at 800 meaning all of the Big 4 in the US in the 1500 have PRd this year. So which of the Big 4 - Hocker, Teare, Nuguse, or Kessler - will miss out Team USA?
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We Wish This Wasn't The News We Were Breaking
After bumping into him at the NYC Grand Prix this weekend, Brazier told LetsRun.com that racing this season was not looking good coach Pete Julian has confirmed it, texting, "racing is unlikely this summer as Donavan won't race until he's back to 100% health."
- MB: Breaking: We wish this wasn't true: Donovan Brazier unlikely to race this year
- 800 fans might also enjoy this: LRC Meet Will Sumner, The 2023 NCAA 800m Champ In case you missed our podcast with Sumner who won NCAAs as a true frosh, we've typed up some highlights for you.
On The Boards
On The Boards
Early Release Pod For Our SC Members
In a great candid talk, Nordås talks about his incredible breakthrough in 2023, what he thinks about the LRC doubters who say the improvement is too good to be true, his relationship with Jakob Ingebrigtsen and much more. This interview will also be put at the end of our regular podcast at the end of the week but if you want instant access, join the SC today.
This Is Not The Way
- An Australian Entrepreneur Is Starting An Olympic-Style Competition For Dopers Called "The Enhanced Games" Aron D’Souza says, "Athletes are adults ... and they have a right to do with their body what they wish.” D'Souza added that he expects to see someone break 9-seconds in the 100m and 40 to 60 year-olds breaking world records. Their website even has a section celebrating "enhanced world records" from doped athletes like Lance Armstrong and Ben Johnson. Funny enough, they actually also list Flo-Jo's 100m and 200m world records.
The Performance Of The Weekend?
Belgium's hurdler pulled out injured, so team captain Boumkwo stepped up and ran (while stepping over the hurdles) the race in 32.81 seconds to keep her country from being DQd. She was also hoping the 2 points she scored would keep Belgium from being demoted from Division 1 to Division 2 at the Euro team champs. The bottom three teams are demoted and despite Boumkwo's points, Belgium finished one spot too low, 6.5 points short of what they needed to stay in Division 1.
European Team Champs Catch Up
- Italy Wins European Team Championships For The First Time Ever Wins from Gianmarco Tamberi in the HJ and Samuele Ceccarelli in the 100m lead Italy to their first victory since the start of the event in 1965. Other winners included Femke Bol in the 400m (49.82) and Ewa Swoboda in the 100m (11.09).
- MB: Bo Katir equals El Guerrouj - closes 1500 in 1:47.10
- Hungary Triumphs While Lithuania Pips Slovenia For Promotion In The 2nd League At Euro Team Champs
- Ireland Excels On Final Day To Clinch The 3rd Division Title At Euro Team Champs
Olympic News
- What A Joke: Alcohol Not To Be Sold At Paris 2024 Venues Apparently there is a law banning alcohol in sports stadiums. Organizers for the Rugby World Cup this year in France negotiated an exemption, but Paris 2024 organizers won't. Alcohol will still be served in VIP and corporate hospitality areas.
*The Guardian: "Let Them Drink Water - Alcohol Ban At Paris Olympics Does Not Apply To VIPs"
- IOC President Thomas Bach Criticizes Ukraine For Blocking Athletes From Some Paris Games Qualifiers Bach said, "It is hard to understand why the Ukrainian government is depriving their own athletes from their chance to qualify."
- Paris 2024 Torch Relay To Cross Atlantic By Trimaran (Boat)
- Paris 2024 Athletes' Village Apartments Put Up For Sale The athletes' village is going to be converted to housing after the Olympics. They did this at Tokyo 2020 as well and there was a lawsuit because the Olympics were delayed a year so people couldn't move into their homes.
- US Olympic Skaters Still Don't Have Their Medals 500 Days Later The hold up is because of the doping case surrounding Russia's Kamila Valieva.
The 2023 USATF Grand Prix is in the books
Athing Mu went wire-to-wire in 1:58.73, Zharnel Hughes ran 9.83 in the 100, and Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone ran a 400 pb of 49.51.
Stumptown Twilight
Brooks Beasts Devin Dixon got the win in the men's 800m over Cole Hocker (1:45.98 to 1:46.32). High schooler Daniel Watcke ran 1:47.70 to finish 2nd in the second heat and moved to #12 on the all-time prep list while Nia Akins won the women's race in 1:59.76. Sifan Hassan won the 5000m by a minute and a half in 14:55; Cole Sprout took the men's race in 13:39.
- MB: Cole MF Hocker 800m PR 1:46.39!!! 53.3/52.9!!!
- MB: Connor Burns goes home devastated. Blows up, runs 14:06. He was trying to run in the 13:20s to break the high school record.
- MB: Raevyn Rogers PR @ Stumptown - 4:11.16 for 1500m She finished 7th.
BAA 10k
Obiri let a 21-second lead shrink to 4 seconds. Emily Sisson was 4th in 31:35.
More Distance Action
- Courtney Dauwalter Crushes Course Record, Tom Evans Wins At Western States 100 Dauwalter ran 15:29:33 (9:18 pace) to break the previous course record by a ridiculous 78 minutes. Evans ran 14:40:22 (8:48 pace) for the 4th fastest time ever on the course.
*MB: Give Courtney Dauwalter a black screen! - GB Olympian Andy Butchart Breaks Parkrun Record With 13:45 At An Edinburgh 5k The previous record was 13:48 from a London Parkrun race in 2012.
Tinch Makes It Official
Tinch already had the all-conditions NCAA record at 12.87 when he won D2 Champs in last month. This also puts him #11 on the US all-time list (#19 world all-time). Tara Davis-Woodhall won the long jump with 6.99m.
Ethiopian 10,000 Trials
Aregawi outdueled Olympic champ Selemon Barega over the final lap while Tsegay blew out everyone in a historically fast women's 10,000. Full results included. Video above is last lap of men's race.
Friday 15 Bonus Pod
In our bonus Friday 15 podcast for our SC members, we note that Athing Mu will make her season debut in NYC on Saturday and debate what type of time will put us at ease and what type will make us panic. How fast do we think Sydney will run in the open 400? Can Will Sumner take down the pros in the 800? In college news, Mark Wetmore has kept his job and landed 3 huge transfers. Should USAs be moved out of Eugene? All of that and more in our bonus pod for our SC members.
The Latest Distance News
- 17-yr old Aussie Cameron Myers is pumped for his 1st European tour He moved up exams to head to Europe where he admits he wants to win races and run fast. Other than that, he'll have to follow his chaperones. "At the end of the day I probably have the least say in what we do," he said with a chuckle. "So I'll just be following everyone else around, I suppose."
*MB: 17 Year Aussie Cam Myers racing tonight in Germany. Update: He ran 3:36.10. - MB: Colorado lands another studly transfer - New Mexico XC All-American Samree Dishon transfers to Colorado Anyone thinking the body composition investigation was going to decimate them in recruiting appears to be wrong as they already had Natalie Cook and Marlee Starliper transfer in.
- Hard to believe but Olympic steeple champ Peruth Chemutai still doesn't have Worlds standard What the author doesn't get is her world ranking is easily good enough to get her into Worlds.
- Heather McLean hasn't raced since Feb. and Elle St. Pierre is out on maternity leave but New Balance Boston has a new 1500 ace in Emily Mackay The former Binghamton runner ran 4:01.52 over the weekend. Impressive since her college pb was 4:11. *Fastwomen profile of Mackay from last month
- Natoya Goule is pumped she might be able to medal and PR as she has never run this fast this early in the season “I worked more in the gym and my coach and I worked on my sprint mechanics. I did a lot of Olympic lifting compared to previous years.”
- Kenya govt wants o pay out $$$ to all great sportsmen - not just track world record holders Aren't there a lot of poor people who could use it more?
- A look at a sample Jakob Ingebrigtsen training week
Non-Distance News
- Friday is 'Olympic day' and this year's theme is 'Let's Move' - so be sure to get your kids and yourself some exercise This year’s Olympic Day theme of 'Let's Move', which aims to inspire people around the world to make time for daily physical activity, chimes perfectly with World Athletics' long-term strategy to use our sport to create a healthier and fitter world.
- This is The 40th Anniversary of Worlds and The 1992 Men’s 100m Final Was One Of World's Magical Moments Both Carl Lewis and Leroy Burrell both broke the 100m WR.
- Ferdinand Omanyala's fiance is also a sprinter but she's on the comeback trail from injury
2023 Chicago is going to be great
Hassan took down one of the gretest marathon fields in history in London but she'll have her hands full with defending champ Ruth Chepngetich (2:14:18 pb), just 6 weeks after Worlds.
Wetmore and Burrousghs Keep Their Jobs
The report did find that many women had problems with the testing and close to half of the female athletes didn't trust the coaching staff. Moving forward it will be allowed but only with restrictions. *Full 82-page report
Distance News
- Q&A with Patrick Sang - the mastermind behind Eliud Kipchoge and Faith Kipyegon Sang reveals Kipyegon hasn't even hit it hot yet and that she's aiming for a fast 800. "Psychologically we're not done what we’re doing towards trying to run a good 800m and a good 1000m. We have not gone there yet, but she knows it's coming."
- 13:29/28:07 guy Devin Hart leaves Stanford for grad year at Texas Also Andrea Markezich of UW will join her twin sis at Notre Dame.
- Backyard ultra world record goes down in Australia as Perth's Phil Gore ran 102 "yards" (almost 685 km) with a crucial assist from New Zealand's Sam Harvey That's 4+ days of running.
- Survivorfest 2023: Canadian six-hour and 50-mile records broke
- Sub-13 Man Dominic Lobalu Dreams Of Winning A Global Medal, But Doesn't Have A Country To Race For Lobalu fled civil war in South Sudan as a child and was part of World Athletics' refugee team, but abandoned the team when traveling in Switzerland for a meet. He's been living there since then and is currently working through World Athletics to change his allegiance so he can compete for Switzerland. However, he doesn't know if it will happen in time for Budapest 2023 or Paris 2024.
*The Guardian Article: Lobalu Says He's "Born To Suffer"
*Trailer For On Documentary On Lobalu Called "The Right To Race" - Hellen Obiri Says She's Focused On Winning More Marathons In The Future Rather Than Chasing Any Specific Time She gave a silly excuse for why she isn't running World Champs saying, "I will not be doing Budapest in August. I do not have the experience necessary to win a marathon race if I declare to compete because I have only run two marathons."
- Peter Bol Making Comeback From Drug Test Controversy And Injury He ran 1:45.81 at a low-key meet in France On Monday.
Sprint Stuff
- MB: Sydney McLaughlin-Leverone releases a 13-minute film on her 2023 season opener in Paris You can watch it above.
- Jaydon Hibbert & Julien Alfred named TFN's Collegiate Outdoor Athletes Of The Year
- Julien Alfred credit coach Flo for her success “My coach has been my biggest influence in my life, my 5 years here at Texas. Prior to beginning the championships, I went outside to speak to him, and he was like, ‘Let’s not focus on [you], focus on the team. I think that changing the pressure, moving the pressure from myself and doing it for my team instead made a huge difference.”
- Shhh. Is Jamaica quietely becoming a jumps powerhouse?
- Dominican Republic's 2012 Olympic 400m Silver Medalist Luguelín Santos Faces Suspension By The AIU For Age Falsification Santos is being investigated for falsification of documents. He won the World U20 Champs in 2012 when he turned 20 and has previously admitted to falsifying a passport when he was a minor.
- Sad News: 23-Year-Old Jamaican Sprinter (And Former New Jersey Prep Star) Died In A Car Accident Mario Heslop won New Balance Indoor Champs 200m in 2019 with the #4 prep time ever (at the time) and went on to run 10.12 for 100m after college.
- Karsten Warholm Announced For Monaco DL On July 21
Catching Up On Recent Results
- Marc Scott (13:47) And Mary Ngugi (15:25) Win Podium 5k In The UK Scott is planning a UK record attempt over 10k in South Africa next month.
- Andrew Coscoran Breaks His Own Irish 1500m Record With 3:32.68 To Win Nice, France Meet
- MB: TAS (Spencer Brown) 4:18 mile in crocs He broke the previous WR of 4:20.
- Amos Bett Leads National University Ekiden Kanto Region 10,000m Qualifier With 27:59 Win
- Shot Putter Anita Marton Sets The Tone For Dominant Hungary For Day One In The European Team Championships 2nd Division
- Three Victories Propel Austria To #1 Position After Day One Of The European Team Championships 3rd Division
Admin / Olympic News
- Thousands Gather As Budapest 2023 World Championships Stadium Opens More than 5,000 took part in races over various distances (from sprints to distance) while others took guided tours of the new stadium.
- Police Raid HQ Of Paris 2024 Olympic Organizing Committee In Suspected Corruption Investigation
- USA Today: Paris Olympics Could Join A Longer List Of Games Marred By Scandal From Salt Lake City 2002 to Tokyo 2020, scandals and corruption are nothing new for the Olympic movement.
- USA Today: The Messy, Bureaucratic War That Has Olympic Boxing On The Ropes
- Russian Wrestling Federation President Says Country Should Go To Paris 2024 In Tanks He said, "If they want to see us at the 2024 Olympics as a refugee team, then we need to go to Paris in tanks. There is no other option."
- WADA Approves Term Extension For WADA Presidents To 9 Years The initial term is extended from 3 to 6 years with the possibility of a 3-year extension if reelected.
UK News
- Amazing Story: Eugene Amo-Dadzie Is 30-Years-Old, Only Started Sprinting At 26, And Just Broke 10 Seconds For The First Time He ran 9.93 in Austria to put himself tied for 4th on the UK all-time list and fastest in Europe this year. 4-Years ago his PB was only 10.93. Amo-Dadzie works a full-time job and calls himself, “the fastest accountant in the world."
- British Decathlete Complains That The Multi Events Are Being "Sidelined" And Disrespected By UK Athletics The decathlon and heptathlon won't be included as part of the UK Championships schedule this year and were also held separately in 2021 and 2022.
- UK LJer Jazmin Sawyers Talks About Finally Winning European Gold After Dealing With Many Setbacks "It was also relief. I knew I was right, that I could actually do this. The belief I had over the past 10 years wasn't misplaced."
Upcoming
- Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone Announced For USATF NYC Grand Prix On June 24 She'll face Gabby Thomas. Michael Nornam is in the 100m against Christian Coleman and Kenny Bednarek and the 200 vs Noah Lyles.
- MB: What is Athing Mu running (if anything at NYC Grand Prix)? There no longer is a W1500 on schedule
- MB: Now 17 Year Aussie Cam Myers racing tonight in Germany
- Indian Javelin Star Neeraj Chopra And Greek long jumper Miltiadis Tentoglou Announced For Lausanne DL On June 30th There is some great distance action previously announced as Jakob Ingebrigtsen faces Jake Wightman in the 1500m and Joshua Cheptegei vs Selemon Barega in the 5000m.
- MB: Molly Seidel's Next Race is the 'Women's 6km Festival' Next Month
- European Team Champs Start Tuesday In Poland: Who, What And When Guide
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The Latest JG Feature
What links Jakob Ingebrigtsen, the NAU cross country team, and Sebastian Coe? Double threshold training, which is having a moment in 2023. Note, most of this article is behind our SC paywall for 72 hours (until Saturday).
High School Phenom
18-year-old Niels Laros would have the American high school records at 800m, 1500 AND 5000m. The only reason you may not have heard of him is he is Dutch. Update. Laros just ran 3:32.89 for 1500.
2023 Bislett Games
What a track and field meet. Jakob Ingebrigtsen ran 3:27.95 as 8 men went sub 3:30 including Yared Nuguse in an American record time* of 3:29.02. In the men's 5000m, Yomif Kejelcha and Jacob Kiplimo both ran 12:41.73 with Kejelcha getting the win.
Oslo DL
WA recap of meet. Race videos further down. Plus Our live reaction show is here. *Full Results
- Seb Coe wasn't in Oslo, he was in Budapest racing kids to promote Worlds - buy your tickets now Seriously, accommodations are way cheaper than Eugene and who doesn't want a vacation to Central Europe? This is the first time Central Europe has hosted.
First 15 minutes is for everyone. Supporters Club members get the full thing.
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Lamecha Girma capped the Paris Diamond League with an impressive 7:52.11 world record on an night that saw 3 world records (see below). We break that down and the other non world record highlights including Sydney McLaughlin-Lavrone getting beat at 400, Keely Hodgkinson getting a PB and Noah Lyles a big 100 win.
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Faith Kipyegon is no longer just a legendary 1500m runner, now she's the 5000m world record holder.
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Jakob's run is one of the greatest men's times on the books as he obliterated Daniel Komen's world record.
Doping Polls are Baaack!
When track and field fans walk into a bar or go on a run, doping is often the topic of conversation. With that in mind, we want your thoughts on which current track and field stars you think are clean and which you think are dirty.
Doping Polls are Back
One of the worst things about track and field is you're not sure what you're watching is real. We polled you whether you think the world records are dirty or clean.
Woody Speaks
Woody Kincaid is charting his own path in the running world for the first time as a professional. He opens up why he left Bowerman, his desire for American records, and a lot more including Shelby Houlihan.
How do you explain the ridiculous indoor distance times?
Are all the fast times merely a product of supershoes? Or is it something more? We spoke to coaches Dathan Ritzenhein, Jason Vigilante and Dave Smith to figure it out.
Nuguse Dreaming of Olympic Gold
Yared Nuguse surprised the world by getting one American record last weekend. By the time, the winter is over, he may have 3. Nuguse joined the LRC podcast to talk about his dreams, goals, training with the OAC, and his unorthodox start in the sport.
Kipchoge loving the LetsRun Shirt in Berlin
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
