– Mississippi State’s Marta Freitas giving an inspirational interview after winning the 2016 NCAA 1,500m title.
Elise Cranny is Back, Baby!!!
HOW MUCH MONEY COULD CLAYTON AND BRAZIER MAKE IF THEY SIGNED TODAY?
It's official!!? Will Leer has been dropped by Nike!
Murphy wins again and goes pro.
Galen Rupp returned to the track in fine form and Clayton Murphy turned pro. Recap coming. Results here.
MB: Sean Torpy Runs Fastest HS 800 Of The Year With 1:47.95 His twin brother Chris was 2nd in 1:49.80.
Russian 3-Time Olympic Silver Medalist Tatyana Firova Suggests Athletes Should Be Able To Take Banned Substances As “Normal” People Do She asks, “How else can we achieve high results?” Firova recently failed a drug test when her 2008 Beijing sample was retested.
Olympic HJ Champ Anna Chicherova Records Clean “B” Sample After Her London 2012 Retest Initially Was Positive For Doping Her Beijing “A” sample also tested positive, but she for some reason has delayed the “B” sample retest until June 8th.
Russian Ministry Of Sport To Introduce Anti-Doping Classes In School Starting Next Year We’ll give them this, they’re trying really hard to look like they’re trying.
The Guardian: Russia Begins Charm Offensive Ahead Of Doping Ban Decision A good synopsis of how Russia started off denying and calling the WADA report a “political hit job”, but have now facing Rio ban have changed their tune to one of reform.
Madrid Doping Control Lab Has Accreditation Suspended By WADA The decision was taken as a response to WADA’s Foundation Board declaring the Spanish Anti-Doping Agency noncompliant.
What Is Wrong With Some Countries?
Canada: National Record Holder Lanni Marchant In A Battle With Athletics Canada To Go To Rio Despite far exceeding the Olympic standards and Canada’s extra tough standards, Athletics Canada may not send Marchant in the 10K and marathon, but only the 10K. And they won’t tell her until July 11th.
Athletics Illustrated Rips Head Coach Peter Eriksson For Tweeting On The Topic And Then Refusing To Comment To The Media Christopher Kelsall gives a good rundown of the situation and also explains why Canada’s “proof of fitness” qualifying requirement should be done away with.
Canadian Running Magazine Article That Broke The Story Marchant has reason to be sore at Athletics Canada. They didn’t send her to London 2012 in any event even after she ran 2:31.
Sweden: Sign A Petition To Help Get Swedish Marathoner Mikael Ekvall To The Olympics Ekvall is Sweden’s fastest marathoner in 25 years, but isn’t being sent despite running 2:12:07 (the Swedish federation’s standard is 2:12:00, the IAAF’s 2:19:00). Ridiculous.
MB: Morgan Uceny Runs Her Fastest 1,500 Since 2012 – 4:03.94 In Furman Elite Race Uceny just beat out Canada’s Nicole Sifuentes by .03. NJ-NY Track Club’s Colby Alexander won the men’s race in 3:37.32.
2016 American Track League – Atlanta Results Distance highlights included Jamaica’s former NCAA champ Natoya Goule winning the 800 in 1:59.38 from Justine Fedronic (1:59.86) and Rachel Johnson taking the steeple in 9:46. In sprint action, winners included Asafa Powell (100 – 10.01) and Queen Harrison (100H – 12.72).
Sanya Richards-Ross Carried Off Track After Pulling Up With Hamstring Injury It was also a rough day for Dee Dee Trotter, who had to receive treatment for an asthma attack and Lolo Jones, who was a DNS with injury.
2016 Music City Distance Carnival Results Charles Jock ran 1:14.92 in the 600m to beat out Cas Loxsom (1:14.96) and Eliud Rutto.
WTW Molly Huddle And Emma Coburn Open Up Fast, NCAA Regional Flops And Kim Collins Breaks 10 At Age 40 Who flopped at NCAA Regionals? Does your state let transgender athletes compete without treatment? We answer those questions and more.
The Denver Post: “Surfer Dude” Pierce Murphy Goes From “Recruited Walk-On” To Star Runner At Colorado” The surfer from Hawaii was ignored by most schools he contacted when he was a recruit and never imagined he’d even compete at an NCAA championship.
BYU 800 Runner Shaquille Walker Might Turn Pro After NCAAs Walker is a junior, but coach Ed Eyestone says has been getting offers from shoe companies.
Oregon Unveil New Steve Prefontaine / Bill Bowerman Inspired Uniforms For NCAAs The tie-dye uniforms feature Pre’s and Bowerman’s silhouettes.
USTFCCCA Breaks Down The Race For The Team Titles At NCAAs Oregon men will try to three-peat while the women will try to defend, but Texas A&M and Arkansas are ranked #1.
Register-Guard: NCAAs Is A Homecoming For Former Local HS Stars South Eugene HS alum Paige Kouba (Harvard) and Erin Clark (Colorado) will compete in the steeple.
Register-Guard: “Oregon In For A Battle At NCAA Champs” Men go in ranked 3rd while the women are only ranked 6th.
San Diego: Shalane Flanagan Runs Huge PR Of 67:51 At San Diego Half Marathon She beat Trials champ and training partner Amy Cragg by 2 minutes.
Thomas Poston And Alycia Cridebring Win Hoka One One State Street Mile Poston just edged Scott Bauhs as both were timed at 3:53 on the downhill course Cridebring set the women’s CR at 4:23. Brian Duff and his dog Kaydom won the dog mile in 4:13.
World Health Organization To Hold Emergency Meeting To Discuss Rio 2016 Zika Threat Some experts have called for the Games to be postponed or canceled.
IOC Set Out Process To Choose New Events Within Existing Sports For Tokyo 2020 No mention of XC unfortunately.
Hmmm … Genzebe Dibaba Pulls Out Of Oslo Dream Mile The race had been touted as a WR attempt by Dibaba who gave no reason for her withdrawal and hasn’t raced since World Indoors. Ruth Jebet also canceled her WR attempt as she pulled out of the steeple.
June 16: Christian Taylor And Teddy Tamgho Will Highlight Stockholm Triple Jump Also 2008 Olympic champ Nelson Evora and 3-time NCAA champ Omar Craddock.
There Was An Epic HS Pole Vault Clash Over The Weekend As Chris Nilsen And Mondo Duplantis Both Went Over 18 Feet Nilsen followed up his recent oudoor NR with the win in 18-3 as Duplantis, the indoor record holder, cleared 18-0.
Two Russians Register Negative B Samples After Failing Initial Beijing 2008 Retests Apparently there is concern “that doping agents are gradually disappearing from samples after they are thawed” and HJer Anna Chicherova has delayed the testing of her B sample until June 8th.
Barselius Kipyego (60:30) And Ashete Bekere (70:40) Win Ceske Budejovice Half Marathon Geoffrey Mutai‘s first race in 8 months did not go very well as he was 6th place in 64:28.
*MB: OK girls what say you about competing against Semenya?
Duathlete Chris Mosier Will Be First Known Transgender Athlete To Represent US Men’s Team In International Competition Mosier has a TUE to take testosterone injections every 10 days to get within the normal male range.