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Collegiate Action:
Mt. Sac Distance Carnival:
*Results *Webcast of Saturday and Sunday
*Bernard Lagat Runs 13:14 Meet Record
The new American won the 5k easily, entered the top 10 US ranks at 5k, and got an article in the LA Times to boot, showing the advantages of US citizenship.
*Marion Jones to Race Jana Pittman at 400m at Mt. Sac on Sunday
Pomona: Results Nicole Teter 2:04, Plus 3:41 in Men's 150
Sea Ray: Sea Ray Relays Results
Cornell's True frosh Jimmy Winer, coached by LetsRun.com's Rojo, run 1:48.64
Bucknell: Dave Berdan (He trained in Flagstaff) wins 5k, Sean Duffy 3:43
Kelly Holmes Training at Full Strength Eyes World Champs
Al Amri Khaled Wins 10k at World Islamic Games
Sonia O'Sullivan Near Getting Australian Citizenship
Rupp Has His Own Lawyers, and Oregon Athletics Staff Spending a Lot of Time Working on His Eligibility
25 Years Later, Athletes Remember 1980 Olympic Boycott
Mike Kosgei Lands Job With English Club
Bernard
Lagat Becomes US Citizen: Amazingly
nothing leaked before this took place and the
track and field world is shocked by the news.
Kenyan
Sports Minister Wants To Bar Defectors From
Kenya - Quote: "Once you have decided to sell your nationality, you have no business sitting here."
The only problem
is legally he can't do it.
Ethiopia Beats China in Beijing Ekiden
Alan Culpepper Brief Chat
He's the top American entrant in next Monday's Boston marathon.
Papa John's US 10 Mile
Championship
Abdi Wins It In 47:27 Brian
Sell a close 2nd, Graff, Lane, Downin 3 through
5.
Full Results
*Race
Preview Courtesy of USATF
Amy Rudolph Defeats Sonia O'Sullivan, Craig Mottram Wins BUPA Great Ireland Run
A Look Back at the London Marathon on Its 25th Anniversary
The 25th anniversary is this Sunday, followed by the Boston marathon on Monday, and the weekend gets kicked off with Mt. Sac on Friday.
LRC Exclusive:
Interviews
of Participants In This Weekend's Papa John's
US 10 Mile Championship
*Robert
Gary Interview - The Ohio St. cross
country coach has somehow managed to coach and
make the last 2 Olympics teams. Learn how he
does it.
*Matt
Lane Interview The 4th placer at the
last 2 OlympicTrials is running more road races
this year
*Abdi
Abdirahman Interview 2004 US Olympian
Abdi keeps it real and effortless shifts the
talk from his from his pimped out ride to his
pursuit of American records when he's interviewed
by 1996 Olympian Marc Davis.
*Chris
Graff Interview: The runner-up at last
year's race and winner in 2003 has quit the
Nike Farm Team and is training on his own in
Washington, DC. Read about some of his amazing
workouts in the Farm where he'd close workouts
with a 4:05 mile.
*Pete
Julian Interview The cancer survivor
shares he now trains by perceived effort.
Nelson
Mandela Backs London's Olympic Bid
More
on Galen Rupp Enrolling At Oregon
Mark
Carroll To Continue To Run For Ireland Despite
Losing National Funding Carroll:
"Running for Ireland means a lot more to me than 11,000 Euro."
Oregon
Makes Room For Galen Rupp
Last year's high school sensation is going to
Oregon for the spring semester and is expected
to compete this spring if he's declared to be
eligible but the Oregon compliance person thinks
he'll need to repay some expense first. He has
already missed a week of classes as last
week he didn't think he'd go to Oregon
this year as he was fearful he'd be resented
by current athletes but found that not to be
the case. His coach Alberto Salazar says he
may attempt the 5k/10k double at NCAAs.
World XC News: *Results
Sunday: All Results
Bekele Sweeps Again
*Long Course Results This guy is only 22 and he has won 8 world xc titles with ease every time. He led his team to the team title as Kenya would have still lost even if they used the "Qataris" in the race on their team. Dathan Ritzenhein went out with the leaders, developed bad blisters, and then struggled home in 62nd. True frosh Matt Withrow ended up leading the US in 60th.
More on Bekele: Bekele Says He Feels 'Naked' Without His Fiancee
Independent
*Bekele Says His Double Wins at This XC Champs are his Greatest Performance Ever Considering his Fiancee's Death Guardian
Women: Tirunesh Dibaba Gets Her Own Double
US Women Get Bronze
Ethiopia got a one point team victory over Kenya and Lauren Fleshman in 11th led the US women to a team bronze and a strong showing with 4 runners in the top 21.
*Dibaba's Double Surpasses Her Expectations
*Junior Boys Race Kenya swept the top 5 and Galen Rupp was the first non-African in 20th. Who says this isn't an African sport.
*Kenyan Newspaper: Kenyan Juniors Dominate, Kenyan Men Lose Again
*On the boards: How often are the Africans tested out of competition?.
Saturday
Men's Short Course: Kenenisa Bekele Wins and Then Breaks Down in Tears afterwards Due to Memories of His Former Fiancee The XC king overcame the death of his fiancee to defend his crown and lead Ethiopia to the team title. The USA's Jorge Torres was the first non-African in 13th and Adam Goucher dropped out on the first lap with a calf injury.
*IAAF Recap of Men's Short Course and Bekele's Victory
*Canada Men Disappointing 12th in Short Course at World XCs
*Women's Long Course: Tirunesh Dibaba Wins, so Does Ethiopia Ethiopia went 1, 3,4 with the indoor 5k record holder leading the way. Colleen De Reuck led the US team in 13th at the age of 40.
*Alice Timbilil's Silver Medal Briefly Taken Away from Her in Mix Up
Junior Women's Recap Ethiopia's Gelete Burika Bati Absolutely Dominated, but Kenyan Women Win Team Title
More XC News:
*USATF Recap of Day 1 at World XCs With Quotes from Each Runner (Heat Bothered a Lot of Runners, Goucher Injured Calf)
*Recap from Kenyan Paper of Day 1 of World XCs
Photos: Photos From World XC
A Look Back at a Truly Great Run: Todd Williams American Record at 15k
Williams was on fire in 1995, and his 15k is one of the best American records. He finished 9th at World XCs that year when all the best in the world raced in one race. Nice read by Amby Burfoot.
Great Interview With Pete Julian
He wants to bring US cross to Boulder in 2007 and has a nice outlook on life after surviving cancer.
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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Flora London Marathon News:
It's the top marathon in the world and it takes place on Sunday:
*Men's Race Preview You've got the top two marathoners in the world Paul Tergat and Evans Rutto set to battle the Olympic champ Stefano Baldini.
Women's Race Preview: Paula Radcliffe the heavy favorite, but she'll be facing NY challenger Susan Chepkemei.
*Running Has Made Radcliffe Delay Having Kids BBC
*Former NY Champ Martin Lel Says He Can Win London Kenyan Nation
*London Race Director Dave Bedford Ran 1981 London Marathon With a Hang Over Reuters
*Evans Rutto Ready for the Run of His Life in London Kenyan Nation
*Ingrid Kristiansen Backs Paula for Win, Women's Only Record on Sunday
BBC
*Steve Cram Says Paula Radcliffe Must Rise to the Occasion BBC
*Nike Dropped Jon Brown after He got 4th at the Olympics Second Olympics in a row he finished 4th.
Previous:
*London Marathon Odds: Radcliffe 1/3 Favorite, Tergat Slightly Favored over Rutto
*Paul Tergat's First Priority is Winning
*Chepkemei Says She May Try and Run Away from Radcliffe Early on Sounds stupid to us.
*Benita Johnson Hopes 2nd Marathon Much Better than First
*Twice 4th in the Olympics, Britain's Jon Brown Ready to Smash His PB
Men: Tergat Says World Record a Possibility
*Tergat 5-2 Favorite for London on Men's Side
*Olympic Champ Baldini Ready for London, He Grew Up in Rural Environment Like Kenyans
Women: Radcliffe Could Earn $1 Million at London Marathon
*Radcliffe Believes She Can Run Faster Than 2:15:25
*London
Is Sunday and Olympic Champ Baldini Wants The
European Record: Baldini: "2:07 is okay, but 2:06 would be nicer."
A little known fact from the article, Baldini
is married to the Italian 400m record holder.
Do you think their kids will run the 800 or
mile?
*Nagano
Marathon Is Sunday: The women's field
features 2001 world champ Lidia Simon versus
3 time Olympic medallist at 10k Derartu Tulu.
The men's field includes Japan's Ryuji Takei,
the first Japanese hschooler to break 14:00
for 5k, in the last race of his career.
*Boston
Marathon Is Monday: 2003 Champ Robert
Cheruiyot
is late addition to the field.
IAAF Likely to Adopt No False Start Rule
*Jason Gardener Backs No False Start Rule
Jon Rankin of UCLA 3:57 Mile
Sunday Road Action:
Rotterdam: 4 Time Honolulu Champ Jimmy Muindi Wins Fortis Rotterdam Marathon, Lornah Kiplagat Wins Easily
*Top Rotterdam Marathon Results
Paris: Kenyan Salim Kipsang and Russian Lidiya Grigorieva Surprise Winners of Paris Marathon
*Paris Marathon Results 2005
Stamilano: Wilson Kebenei Kiprotich Wins Stramilano Half in 1:00:11, Season Leader on Flat Course
Hot
HS Action at Arcadia Distance
Perhaps the premiere non post-season meet
of the year includes wins on boys side in 1:51,
4:12, 8:56 and girls side in 2:06, 4:48, 10:27.
Event by event coverage can be found here.
Boston Marathon Relying on Tradition to Not Become a Dinosaur in the Marathoning World The CEO of John Hancock admits they and Boston are not getting the top athletes in the world because they are not willing to pay out the money. And John Hancock is a sponsor until 2018. Hopefully, they are not guaranteed to be the main sponsor for that period of time. The article has one glaring untruth, "the men's race has been the most competitive in the world for the last
two years, based on the average times of the top five entrants". This simple is not true at all.
More Notable Track Action:
*Gabe Jennings 14:45 5k
*Khadevis Robinson 1:45.2 Opener
*Robert Cheseret of Arizona, Bernard Lagat's Brother, 13:31 5k
Lebid
Wins 8k In Italy In 23:19 The
race has a cool history as it was started in
1980 by a group of journalists as Seb Coe wanted
a road race the day after Easter in Ittaly to
test his fitness leading up to the 1980 Olympics.
IAAF To Have Increased Drug Testing Leading Upto Inconjunction With World Champs
Rotterdam
Marathon Is Sunday:
Last year's champ Felix
Limo (who had the
fastest time of all of 2005 with his 2:06:14)
is the favorite on the men's side and Lornah
Kiplagat is favored
on the women's.
Deena Kastor, Jorge Torres Win US 8k Champs
*Results link fixed. Kastor was just 3 seconds off of Lynn Jennings' American record and a $25,000 bonus. Jorge Torres picked up the win in his first pro road race.
*Photos
PreRace: Jorge Torres, Deena Kastor Talk About Today's 8k Champs
*Race website
US 15k Champs: Ryan Shay Wins US 15k over Alan Culpepper, Jen Rhines Gets Win Shay got $15,000 grand for the win thanks to a $5000 equalizer bonus.
*Top Results and message board thread.
NCAA Indoors: *Results
Post Meet News: Arkansas Bids to Host NCAA Indoors Another 3 Years They get 5000 fans every day and deserve the meet again.
*Kerron Clement Has a World Record in the 400m, but Says He's a Hurdler
*Nice Distance Recaps from NYRR:
*Men's Day 1 *Men's Day 2
*Women's Day 1 * Women's Day 2
*Women's Photos *Men's Photos
Saturday: World Record for Kerron Clement in 400
*Arkansas Wins 40th Title, Tennessee Gets First Crown
Clement was known as a hurdler before this meet (or an xc runner to some). He came back to anchor the Florida 4*400 to an NCAA record. Unbelievable performances. (Download the world record video fast as we think the NCAA will want it taken down) LaShawn Merritt looks like a genius for turning pro before this meet. In case you didn't know, the Arkansas track is super fast. Arkansas won despite its DMR getting DQd, and not having its best sprinter Tyson Gay score, but picked up extra points in the 400, 800 and 3k. Tennessee won under JJ Clarke despite Nicole Cook going out with injury in the 800.
Distances: In the 800, Kevin Hicks (who won the USATF indoor title) ended Nate Brannen's dream of a a threepeat, but Brannen's teammate Nick Willis made it look easy in the mile. Nebraska's Anne Shadle won the women's mile, Wisconsin's Chris Solinsky picked up his first NCAA title in the 3000 and Colorado's Renee Metivier bounced back after a subpar 5k to win the 3k in a race where Sara Bei was leading and fell with 300 left and Marina Mucan also fell
*Mt Sac Director Scott Davis the announcer at NCAAs
Friday: Wallace Spearmon Breaks NCAA Record in 200 to Win Before Hometown Crowd, 2nd Fastest Ever 20.10
He also broke the record with 20.21 in the prelim
Distances:
DMR: Men: Michigan Wins DMR as Arkansas Nips them at the Line But is DQq Nate Brannen was closing fast and Said Ahmed moved wide to hold him off and was DQd.
*Arkansas DQd Without Looking at Video
Women: Michigan Women Win DMR
5ks: Stanford's Ian Dobson won't be overlooked anymore. Dobson was 6th at the USATF nationals at 10k in 2003 and came through big time in the 5k, getting the "upset"win. The women's 5k also had a suprise winner with NAU's Ida Nilsson getting the win in her final race to go with her outdoor steeple title.
800s: NCAA record holder Nicole Cook tried to run on a bad hamstring and did not advance.
More:
200: Walter Dix Breaks World Junior Record in Finishing 2nd to Spearmon
*Spearmon Did Distance Runs in Fall
*Brief Event by Event Coverage from Trackshark
*Trackwire men's individual predictions
*Trackwire women's individual predictions
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.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
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.
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
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