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Kenyan XC Champs:
*Peter
Njenga Says 2005 Nationals Bode Poorly For Future
of Kenyan XC : "Kipchoge, barely in his
20s will therefore have to carry on as a one-man demolition team at the
world championships next month in Paris. His colleagues simply lack
what it takes."
*Top
Runners Want To Train With Their Own Coaches/Not
National Team.
Included in this list are the senior men's 4k
and junior men's winners who are coached by
the famous Bro. Colm. O'Connell.
*Eliud Kipchoge Defends Long Course Title, Favorites Upset in Women's Long Course, Men's Short Course Race
Unknown Rose Chepchumba wins women's long course.
*Kenyan Newspaper Recap (Big Names Upset at Kenyan XC Trials)
*Edith Masai named to team after twisting ankle.
Truly Unbelievable
*Kim Smith Runs 14:50 for 5k Indoors!!!!
The former Providence star won by nearly 2 minutes. Message board thread here.
More Friday Action:
*BU Valentine's Meet Men's Results
*Kim Smith Runs 14:50 for 5k Indoors!!!!! (BU Women's Results)
*Iowa State Men's Results (Brian Olinger of Ohio State 13:54 5k)
*Iowa State Women's Results
*Penn State Day 1 Men's Results
S Africa: LJ van Zyl Runs 48.54 in 400m Hurdles to Highlight S. African Absa Meet
USADA Announces 4th Quarter Testing Numbers
Anti Doping Officials Continuing to Probe Marion Jones Not to mention she's not nearly the athlete she once was and is being sued by her landscaper (see below for yesterday's news)
*Track and Field Promoters Wonder How Far Has Marion Fallen?
Olympic Triple Jumper Rayfield Dupree Pleads Guilty to Sexually Assaulting 13 Year Olds
Jana Pittman Trying to Be Less Emotional This Year, Will Run 800m on Jan 19th
Pole Vaulter Okkert Brits, 800m Dual Between Hezekiel Sepeng and Johan Cronje Highlight Friday's ABSA S. African Meet
Marion Jones News:
*Nursery Suing Her for $188,000
Says she didn't pay her bills. Those are quite expensive flowers.
*She says Victor Conte is stalling in defamation lawsuit
Sunday Roads: Haile Gebrselassie Run 61:33 to Pick Up His Second Half Marathon Win in a Week in Spain, Next Race is Lisbon Half in a Month
Then the Flora London Marathon.
*Satoshi Irifune Runs 2:09:58 For Beppu-Oita Marathon Win in Japan
Saturday:
Fast Times at Notre Dame:
*Notre Dame Results (Sean Jefferson 3:56.44 1st Sub 4, John Jefferson 3:57, Nick Willis 7:48)
*Articles: 3:56 was First Sub 4 For Last Year's NCAA Champ Jefferson
*Nick Willis 7:48 3k Opener Yeah he's back. And just imagine what he'll run in August.
Other Friday Action:
Notre Dame:
*Boaz Cheboiywo 13:38 at Meyo Invite, Michigan DMRs Get NCAA Qualifiers
*Notre Dame Results
Ny: Kiplagat Wins Armory 3k in 8:00
Germany: James McIllroy Continues to Impress after Another Win (800m) in Germany and Switch of Coaches
*James McIllroy Wants to Race in Leipzig Tomorrow After German Win
Reebok Boston Games
*LetsRun.com Distance Recap Quotes, splits, photos and more.
*World Record for Dibaba, Rare Loss for Bekele
*2005 Reebok Boston Results
The Reebok Boston Indoor Games had it all Friday night with the Ethiopian distance runners creating most of the drama. Tirunesh Dibaba started things off with a stellar world record 14:32 5k, and Kenenisa Bekele, the world's greatest distance runner, in his first race since the sudden death of his fiancee, finished things with a bizarre stunning loss in a thrilling men's 3k to Alistair Cragg, formerly of Arkansas, as Bekele stopped a lap short having miscounted the laps, perhaps due to the fact that Cragg launched his kick with 500m to go.
In between, Olympic 5k champ Meseret Defar just missed a 3k world record as lapped runners got in her way, Laban Rotich had a stellar kick to win the men's mile over Olympic silver medallist Bernard Lagat (Michigan's Nate Brannen just missed by a tenth of a second (in his opinion and that of the meet announcers) or just broke the 30 year old NCAA record in the mile (stat geeks), and Adam Nelson threw the shot far. Splits and photos to come later. Stories from other sources below.
*Kenenisa Bekele Stops a Lap Short and Alistair Cragg Takes Advantage Boston Herald
*Dibaba Sets World 5k Record, Bekele Miscounts Laps and is Defeated, Defar Just Misses World Record Boston Globe
*Adam Nelson Throws Long to Win Shot Boston Herald
*IAAF Recap
*Reebok Boston Recap from Reuters
*Reebok Boston Photos
*Reebok Boston Recap from USATF
Sad Sad News:
Fiance
of Kenenisa Bekele Dies While Running Alem
Techale, only 18 and
a promising talent herself, dropped dead while
going for a run with Bekele, the Olympic 10k
champ and world record holder at 10k/5k. The
pair were scheduled to wed in May. The funeral
will take place Wed.
Footlocker XC Champs:
Aislinn Ryan and Ken Cormier Win Footlocker High School Champs Ryan was the runner-up in the northeast region and Cormier is from Arizona and was the West champ.
*Footlocker Cross Country Results, Photos and Video
2005 World Track and Field Championship "A" and "B" Standards Announced
The field events are generally tougher and the men's 800m became a lot harder to qualify in.
Previous ING NYC Women's News:
Paula
Radcliffe Wins Thrilling Duel Versus Susan Chepkemei
The two women battled stride for stride over the final miles neither
able to put more than a meter on the other. Finally, Radcliffe put in
one final kick over the final quarter mile to pull away and get the
victory and show she is still the top marathoner in the world, despite
her Athens misfortune, in the most dramatic women's finish ever at NY.
Athens bronze medallist, American
Deena Drossin dropped out and
world XC champ Benita Johnson only ran 2:38:03 in her debut. Link above
requires NY Times
registration, for a link that does not require registration see below:
More on Women's Race:
*Radcliffe
Gets Thrilling Victory in NY
Daily Telegraph
*London
Times Recap
of Radcliffe's Race
*Stomach
Problem Hindered Radcliffe During Race Guardian
*Radcliffe
is Brave Once Again
Telegraph
*Mile
by Mile Recap of ING NYC Marathon from Runnersworld
*Steve
Cram Talks About Paula's Win
Results, Prize Money: ING
NYC Marathon Recap, Top Results and Prize Money
Photos: Women's Photos\
Olympic Track
and Field:
*Track
and Field Results
Sunday: Meb
Gets Silver in Marathon, Leader Attacked by Deranged Spectator
American Meb
Keflezighi's silver medal was a
surprise in the marathon (first American medal in this event since
1976), but not the biggest surprise in the race, as the leader of the
race, Brazilian Vanderlei de
Lima, was attacked by a deranged Irish fan
near the 23 mile mark. de Lima would gamely hold on for the bronze
medal despite losing valuable time, not to mention his rhythm. Italian Stefano
Baldini got the gold. America
was the only country to leave with more than one medal in the Olympic
marathon after Deena Kastor's bronze in the women's race. Briton's
Jon Brown was 4th for the 2nd straight Olympics.
Great
Photo: Photo
of Man Holding De Lima as Cop, Fans Try to set Him Free
*It
was a Long Struggle for Meb to Return to Athens He was there
as a
10ear old refugree
*Brazilians
to Appeal to Court of Arbitration in Sport for De Lima to Get 2nd
Marathon Gold
*More
on Man Horan Who Disrupted the Athens Olympic Marathon Associated
Press
*Meb
Keflezighi Audio Clip about his Silver
*Editorial:
Vanderlei de Lima Represents Olympic Spirit Washington
Post
*Marathon
Mayhem and Triumph a Fitting End to Athens Games San
Francisco
Chronicle
*Photo: Athens
Olympic Marathon Leader Vanderlei de Lima is First Confronted and Tried
to Avoid the Fan Victor
Sailer
Saturday: El
Guerrouj, Kelly Holmes Get Historic Doubles Hicham El
Guerrouj triumphed
in a thrilling stretch run over Kenenisa
Bekele for his second gold medal
of the Games, while Kelly
Holmes sprinted to her second
gold and a national record in the women's 1500m. In other action,
Britain stunned the US 4*100 men's team
to get its only men's track and field medal of the Games and rectify a
horrible Games for the British men. In the 4*400, the US
men and women swept the 4*400 titles.
*IAAF
Recap of Saturday
Event by Event from Saturday:
Men's 5k: Hicham
El Guerrouj Cements Legacy With 5k Gold after 1500m Win USA
Today
*El
Guerrouj Imitates Paavo Nurmi and Gets 5k, 1500m Double Independent
Women's 1500m:
*Move
Over Paula: Kelly Holmes is Golden Girl of British Track and Field
After Double Golds
*Kelly
Holmes Says If She knew She Had to Run a PR She Wouldn't Have Shown Up
*A
Look at Kelly Holmes, Her Upbringing and Career
Men's 800m: Yuriy
Borzakovskiy's Late Burst Gets 800m Gold over Wilson Kipketer
4*100 Men: Darren
Campbell Gets Sweet Revenge on Critics with 4*100 Gold
4*400: US
Men, Women Sweep 4*400 Titles
Women's High Jump: Russian
Yelena Slesarenko Upsets Hestrie Cloete American Amy
Acuff passed up a jump for a
bronze medal.
Javelin: Steve
Backley Comes Up Short Again 4th in His Final Olympics in Javelin
Friday: Liu
Xiang Gets Gold Medal, Ties Colin Jackson's World Record in 110 Hurdles
Pole Vault: Tim
Mack, Toby Stevenson Go 1-2 in Pole Vault for US
4*100: Botched
Relay Between Marion Jones and Lauryn Williams Costs US in 4*100
It sent Marion Jones home with 0 medals after failing to medal
in the long jump.
*Lauryn
Williams Dad Puts Blame on Marion Jones
Long Jump:
*Marion Jones
Doesn't Medal in Long Jump or 4*100
*Editorial:
Marion Jones a Long Way from Sydney
*Russia
Sweeps Long Jump
Qualifying 4*100:
*US
4*100 Men's Team Impresses in Qualifying
And the
winner is:
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US XC Champs:
*Young
Talent Shines on Sunday - Ritzenhein, Flanagan
Win Senior Races as Rupp Wins Juniors and Withrow
Makes Senior Team Ritzenhein
cruised to victory but Alan Webb did
make things interesting by jumping in the race
and at least making Ritz work a little for 5k
before dropping out.
Tim Broe Goes 3 for 3 in Vancouver, Colleen De Reuck Wins at Age 40 Broe showed he's still America's best 3k/5k runner, but will be skipping worlds once again. Colleen De Reuck dominated a the age of 40.
Adam Goucher got 2nd and Liberty freshman Josh McDougal was 4th.
*USATF XC Results
Professional Indoor Track
*Recap
Of British Nationals According To BBC
*Great
IAAF Meet in Germany - A New European Record
was set in men's 60m, plus a 3:33 1500, a 2:17
1,000 meters as well as Maria Mutola in the
women's 800m. *Top
3 Result Here and Full
Results here.
Ukraine: Yelena Isinbayeva Sets World Record at Sergei Bubka Vault Meet
British Trials: Recap of Day 1 of British Indoor Champs
*British Indoor Results
Finland: Freitag and Mokoena Jump High, Adam Nelson Disappoints, No 600m Record for Mulaudzi in Finland
Russia: Day 3 Recap of Russian Indoors
*Day 2 Recap of Russian Indoors
*Day 1 Recap of Russian Indoors (60m and 3k)
Powered by Tyson Invite
(in Arkansas): Full Results
*East Carolina Freshman La Shawn Merritt Runs 3rd Fastest 400 Ever, Bernard Lagat Misses Mile World Record Merritt and Lagat both ran the 3rd fastest times ever in their events. Pretty damn impressive for anyone much less an 18 year old freshman. Perdita Felicien was beaten in her comeback after her Athens disaster. Alistair Cragg won the 3k and Nate Brannen was way short of the collegiate mile record.
*USATF Recap
*Powered by Tyson Athlete Quotes
*Top 3 Results from Powered by Tyson Invite
*Full Results
Frank Shorter Track Dedicated at Yale
Cathy Freeman Says No to Comeback
Adam Goucher, Not Ready to Quit, He's Got US XC Champs This Weekend
Mac Wilkins to Coach at Concordia University
The Olympic gold medallist in the discus wants to implement his own thrower's academy.
Olympic Bronze Medallist Deena Kastor Makes LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon Her Only Marathon of 2005
400m Hurldes S. Afirca's Premier Event (4 Athletes Under 50 Seconds)
Trevor Graham Booted off NC State Track They want him to pay $250 a day to use the track. newobserver.com registration required but a message board thread discussing this is here. And if you believe this message board poster, HSI has been kicked off the UCLA track as well.
Michelle Freeman, Dealing with Age, Memories of Car Wreck That Killed Her Mother and Her Friend "I don't feel old, I don't look old. Age is just a number.” -Jaimaican hurdler Michelle Freeman, 35.
Millrose Games: Bernard Lagat Sets Wannamaker Mile Record This race wasn't a contest as Laban Rotich who beat Lagat last week was no where near Bernard Lagat, and neither was Alan Webb as they both failed to break 4 minutes as Lagat broke Eamonn Coughlin 24 year old record Wannamker Mile Record running 3:52.87.
*Millrose Games Results
*USATF Recap
*Athlete Quotes from Millrose
Kelly Holmes News:
*Kelly Holmes Has Lost the Fire? "I like the racing but I don't like the training any more"
*Kelly Holmes to Live in S. Africa After She Retires
*Gebrselassie Says Kelly Holmes Must Not Retire, He Thinks 2:03 Marathon is Possible
Terrier Day 2:
Alan Webb 3:59.80 Webb took over at the 800 and won easily after his fast 3k on Friday night.
*Message Board thread
*Women's Day 2 Results
Friday: Mark Carroll Defeats Alan Webb in Hot 3000m at BU Invite
The Irish veteran Carroll may be training for the marathon and may have slowed down some with age, but he's the 2nd fastest non-African ever at 3k and his veteran savvy showed on Friday night with his come from behind victory over Alan Webb in a great race at the Terrier Classic in a fast 7:46. Webb is schedule to race the mile today as well and then the fans can scurry across town for the Reebok Boston Games and Kenenisa Bekele.
*Photos from Carroll over Webb here Dan Wilson's 7:54 a 23 seconds improvement in 2 weeks.
*Men's Results here
*Women's Results here
Washington: Goucher Gets 3k Win in 7:50 at UW Invite
Former Spanish shot put champion Jose Luis Martin Dies of Heart Attack at 34
The Best Gets Better:
*Paula Radcliffe Running Flora London Marathon (This article Says Getting £500,000 to Run Which Is Nearly a Million $)
London is the top marathon because it doesn't rest on its laurels. It already has a tremendous men's field for its 25th anniversary. Now it added Paula Radcliffe, paying a nice sum to get her.
*This Article Says Radcliffe's Appearance Fee is £260,000
*Another Article Supporting the £500,000 Fee
USADA's Legal Tab High Thanks in Part to $250,000 in Extra Legal Fees fighting Regina Jacobs
We still wish Suzy Hamilton would sue her for the hundreds of thousands in dollars she lost to the cheat who now is a realtor in California
More on Lydiard:
*Lydiard's Son Remembers Peter Snell Getting Dropped on the First Run With Lydiard's Boys
Snell went on to win 3 Olympic medals, gold ones.
*Peter Snell Still Spreading the Lydiard Gospel Although it Wasn't Always Smooth Sailing
*Why Didn't Lydiard Get the Recognition he Deserved in New Zealand?
*More on Lydiard: He Was Greatly Appreciated Abroad, But Ironically Not as Much in New Zealand
*Arthur Lydiard Didn't Just Coach the Stars
*Lydiard Cartoon
*2nd Lydiard Cartoon
"Excuse me if I sound hoarse, but
I have a head cold. Usually head colds are due to changes in the
weather, but in my case, it is due to a change in attitude on
letsrun.com"
-Colorado Cross Country Coach, Mark Wetmore, coach of the 2004 Men's and Women's NCAA XC Champions, speaking at the Arthur Lydiard Tour Stop last night in Boulder, about the change in heart of many letsrun.com posters after Wetmore's unbelievable coaching job this year.
NCAA XC: CU Sweeps NCAA Men's and Women's Cross Country Crowns
Mark Wetmore worked his magic at Colorado again as both his squads captured upset wins. The men's win was the bigger upset of the day. Simon Bairu of Wisconsin won the individual crown to help the heavily favored Wisconsin Badgers, but in the end it was not enough as Colorado eked out a 4 point victory by moving up late in the race.
*Mud No Problem for Kim Smith as She Dominates
*Bairu's Win Sweet and Sour Wisconsin State Journal
*Wetmore, Buff's Work Wonders Boulder Daily Camera
*Stanford Men, Women Disappoint San Francisco Chronicle
*Stanford Inexperience Showed
Results:
*Men's Individual (Simon Bairu of Wisconsin Wins)
*Men's Team
*Women's Individual (Kim Smith of Providence Wins)
*Women's Team
Photos: *Track And Field News
*Fast-Women
*Men's Racing
ING
NYC Marathon Men:
Ramaala
Finally Gets It Right, Meb 2nd
Hendrick Ramaala of
S. Africa is a tremendous half marathoner but had never put it together
in a full marathon. As he said, "I am notorious for being a bad
marathoner."
On Sunday, that changed, as he held on to win the ING NYC
marathon despite being dazed at the finish, while American
Meb Keflezighi wrapped up an
incredible 2004 with a second place finish, just 2 and a half months
after his Athens silver medal. For a recap that does not require NY
Times registration, click
here.
More on Men: A
Look at Top American Men from Runnersworld
*Mile
by Mile Recap of ING NYC Marathon from Runnersworld
Results, Prize Money: ING
NYC Marathon Recap, Top Results and Prize Money
Photos: Men's Photos
LetsRun.com
Book Reviews 2 Good Reads on Milers 50 years apart:
Sub 4:00 and The Perfect Mile
Read the review of story on Alan Webb's (and Nate
Brannen's) first brush with adversity. Plus, read
about 3 great milers trying to be the first under 4 minutes 50 years
ago.
More
isn't always better:
"I had over-trained. I put too much pressure on myself because I wanted
that gold medal too much. If I had trained 15 per cent less, I would
have won. I was training like a crazy person. There was a lack of
self-confidence and a lack of maturity. An athlete does not only train
with his body. He trains with his mind."
-Hicham El Guerrouj on
why he didn't win Olympic gold in 2000
Must
Read(s):
"I think that the sports in which you read about doping tend to be the
cleaner sports. I mean, I think if you put Major League Baseball
players and NFL players through lie detector tests [about whether they
use performance- enhancing drugs], fully 50 percent would fail..I did
this bike race, 75 hours. But I didn't feel any sense of achievement. I
found it depressing. Because, to me, athletic endeavors should be one
of the most pure of endeavors. Why else do it? It's a sense of testing
yourself."
-author Stuart Stevens,
who for 8 months got on just about every performance enhancing drug
imaginable to see how it would affect him, and wrote about the ordeal
for Outside Magazine. The
results were simply amazing as he put on 14 pounds without lifting a
weight, had increased endurance, better vision, and less soreness. The
quote above is from a Newsday
piece where Stevens says the ordeal left him more ardently opposed to
drugs in sports. The entire article from Outside
Magazine where Stevens recaps
his experience is
a must read and is now available in its entirety on line and can be
found here.
(If you'd like to subscribe to
Outside Magazine you can do so
here for only $15.99 a year
(cover price is $47.40)
In case you
missed it:
Todd Williams Hangs them up
In our lengthy 3 part interview, Todd Williams, the premier 10,000m
runner in the US, talks about his illustrious career and the sport of
running in general.
Part I
here, Part II
here, Part III
here
Drug Scandal:
(click
here for a LetsRun.com behind
the scenes look at what this means for the track and field world)
1981
Grandma's Marathon
Dick
Beardsley who had run 2 sub 2:13 in 3 weeks defeated
Garry Bjorklund in a great duel as two Minnesotans were under 2:10
Mr.
Martin Franklin Revealed
Thanks
to the viewers at our site we've got some photos
and information on Martin Franklin the fraud who for a brief moment on
Sunday was the 5th American and $4,750 richer at the New York City
Marathon.
Problem was he took the subway from the start to the finish.
A
Legend Passes: "I
don't train; never have. I don't think of running as training. I just
go out and run each day, and let the racing take care of itself"-
Jack Foster of New Zealand, who
ran a 2:11:17 marathon at the age of 41 to win silver at the
Commonwealth Games in 1974. He died in a bike accident yesterday at the
age of 72.
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