text: Racing News: August 27 Morning Report | Runner's World
  Can Jenny Simpson Win Another Diamond League 1500?
  Simpson won a perfect tactical race in Stockholm last Thursday; if she can defeat top rivals Sifan Hassan, Abeba Aregawi, and Hellen Obiri in Zurich on Thursday, a #1 ranking for 2014 in the event could be hers. In Zurich, Emma Coburn will face the same Ethiopian pair, Hiwot Ayalew and Sofia Assefa, who've been her keenest rivals all year. Galen Rupp, once again hoping to break Bernard Lagat's American 5000-meter record, will face a field including Ethiopia's Muktar Edris, who won in Stockholm in the fastest time of 2014, 12:54.83 More
  High School Star Efraimson Turns Pro, Signs With Nike
  Alexa Efraimson of Camas, Washington, the Nike Cross Nationals and USA Junior 1500-meter champion, is skipping her final year of high school eligibility and foregoing college competition for a professional running career. She'll continue to work with her high school coach, Michael Hickey. Efraimson, who broke one of Mary Cain's scholastic indoor records, acknowledges that Cain's successful transition from high school to the professional ranks influenced her decision to take the same route. More
  Christo Landry Hopes His Consistency Continues at USA 20K
  Landry tells the New Haven Register that a lack of injuries over the past four years has enabled him to build himself into the dominating American road racer he is now, a winner of national road titles this year at 10K, 10 miles and 25K. He'll be in New Haven on Labor Day seeking to add a national 20K crown to his resume. The race is Landry's final competitive tune-up for the Chicago Marathon on October 12. More
  Dathan Ritzenhein Has Plans for a Fall Marathon
  He'd been out of competitive action for all of 2014 until a ninth place 49:12 at last weekend's Crim 10 Mile in Flint, Michigan. Ritzenhein, the fastest American marathoner of 2012 and 2013, hopes for a better result at the Rock 'n' Roll Philadelphia Half Marathon, and tells Competitor.com that he is going to do a fall marathon but can't say which one it'll be yet. More
  The Missouri town was torn by strife after the fatal shooting of a black teen. After the worst unrest, residents resumed their normal running routines. A phenomenally successful local race called the Twilight Run and running clubs that gather in town on weekends all cross racial and gender and age group lines. Participants claim the running community is an integrated one, and more of a true reflection of the town than what is seen in newscasts. More
  Runner's Citizenship Switches; Kenya Loses, Spain and France Gain
  An interactive map put together by TrackStats.com shows that, between 1998 and August 2014, Kenya lost 45 of its elite runners via swtiches to citizenship in other countries and Ethiopia has lost 29. Spain and France, on the other hand, each gained 27. Despite some well-publicized switches of allegiance to the United States, the country has a net loss of seven elite runners since '98. More