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NCAAs Underway:
*Live Results
Day 1:Virginia Powell Gets World Leader, NCAA Record in Hurdles, Texas Women, Florida State Men Falter Galen Rupp failed to qualify for the 5k final. Message board thread on Rupp
PreMeet:
*NCAA Men's Start Lists
*NCAA Women's Start Lists
*Texas Women, UTEP, Florida State Men Favored at NCAAs For once Arkansas is not favored on the men's side as Florida State or UTEP is supposed to win. (form charts here). Texas is favored on the women's side even without Marshavet
Hooker. And while the team battle is always interesting the NCAA meet really is about the thousands of individual athletes each with their own story. Some of which are highlighted below:
*Xavier Carter Sub 45 in the 400 and 10.08 in the 100 and a Pro Football Prospect to Boot Sacramento Bee
*Shot Putter Laura Gerraughty is Back Throwing Again After Every Doctor Told Her Her Career was Over Sac Bee
*Hurdler Virginia Powell of USC Has Tied Gail Devers Collegiate Record Twice Sac Bee
*Texas Title Hopes Have Reliance on Michael Carter's Daughter
*Robert Cheseret Will be Tough to Catch at NCAAs
*Profile on NCAA Steeple Favorite Andrew Lemoncello ncaasports.com
More on Freifoher's:
*Regan In Monday's Paper: "We don't want athletes to know when they're going to be tested" is his reason for not testing every year. But then he seems to come around to possibly testing every year by saying "My position and the position of this race is that we don't accept drugs
in sports. We don't want them. And we'll do whatever we can to stop them". Lornah Kiplagat says she likely won't come back to the race without drug testing.
*Editorial Criticizing Regan in the Albany Times Union
*First Article in Albany Times Unio in Explaining the Lack of Testing: "This was like an open invitation for people to come and cheat" -Peter Langerhorst, husband of Lornah Kiplagat on the lack of drug testing at the Freihofer's Road Race after the race director promised their would be testing. The director then passes the buck and says in competition testing is ineffective (if he feels that way then perhaps Freihofer's should donate a sum of money every year to WADA for out of competition testing)
Marion Jones To Race in Europe Before Nationals, Justin Gatlin to Rest Up
Bislett Games:
*Results
*Recap
Kenensia Bekele's shot at a share of $500,000 is gone as Isaac Songok upset him quite convincingly in the men's 5000m.. 16 or (18 year old according to this story) Abraham Feleke broke 13 minutes for 5k. Asafa Powell ran 9.98 to beat Shawn Crawford's 10.02 in the 100m.
*Rebecca Lyne is Britain's New 800m Hope Yahoo UK
*Recap of British Runners in Oslo
Doping News:
(More on these things soon)
*Independent Report Criticizes WADA, Says Armstrong Can't be Positively Linked to Positives at 1999 Tour de France The New York Times does a better job than most of explaining the situation.
*Major Doping Scandal Hits Cycling This is a big scandal. 2 years ago, Jesús Manzano, a cyclist who nearly died because of what he said was doping,came forward with doping allegations against one of the doctors involved, but the 'investigation' was eventually closed because of lack of evidence. Guardian
Lengthy Look at Frank Shorter and His Desire for Drug Free Sport www.rockymountainnews.com
Nice Steve Cram Profile: "Seb (Coe) was more likely to pull out because his blood tests were not right whereas (Steve) Ovett would just say `b******s' and so would I." -mid distance star Steve Cram looking back at the glory days of British mid d running.
World
Half Marathon Champs
LetsRun.com Coverage:
LRC Exclusive!!!!! 3.5 MB Quicktime Video of Crazy Men's finish.
*Results
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.
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
Also take a look at Amby Burfoot's look at Todd Williams' incredible American record at 15k in 1995, the same year he finished 9th at World Cross Country.
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
JK Speaks: Progressing
To Peak Fitness
LetsRun.com coaching guru John Kellogg talks
about progression runs and the art of the sport versus the science of
the sport.
LetsRun.com
Book Reviews 2 Good Reads on Milers 50 years apart:
Sub 4:00 and The Perfect Mile
"Paul
Maurer, in The Gift, not
only presents an interesting and captivating story, but he explores the
deeper questions of why runners run, why we compete, and what makes
such a simple sport, running, so rewarding to those of us who do it. The
Gift is one of the best running books
I have ever read.
"
-LetsRun.com's Weldon Johnson on
a new Running novel,
The Gift
(The
Gift is now available from Amazon.com)
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USATF Gives Out Foundation Grants
John Steffensen Criticizes Craig Mottram Getting Australian Athlete of the Year
This Weekend:
NY Mini: Lornah Kiplagat, Benita Johnson Headline Circle of Friends New York Mini This Weekend A very strong field.
Orange Classic: Meb Running Orange Classic 10k This Weekend This race which is now just the Classic 10k (it used to be the Orange Classic and got greats like Frank Shorter to run) is back under new management.
*Classic 10k Gets Some Credibility by Pulling in Meb
Track: Asafa Powell Is Racing in Gateshead
*Asafa Powell Says Ban Cheats for Life, Says Gatlin's WR May Have Been Wind Aided Independent
*It's Official: Powell and Gatlin to Race on July 28IAAF
*Nick McCormick Racing Lagat at 1500m This Weekend
Weekend Road Action:
Rock N Roll Marathon: Ambesse Tolossa Wins Rock n Roll Marathon on His First Trip to the US, Alice Chelangat Wins her 2nd Rock N Roll Title
Freihofer's:Benita Johnson Picks Up $10,000 at Freihofer's Run for Women in Battle With Natalya Berkut and Lornah Kiplagat
Kansas City: Annie Bersagel Wins US Half Marathon Title in 1:14
Salt Lake City: Joseph Nguran and Ilona Baranova Pick Up Salt Lake City Marathon Titles and $12,000
Athletics Kenya Investigating Coach for Not Giving Funds Due to Athlete Caroline Cheptanui
*Some are Questioning Nike's Apparel Contracts With Athletics Kenya Nike pays roughly $600,000 a year to both Athletics Kenya and to the Kenyan Olympic Committee according to the article.
Unbelievably Good Reebok Grand Prix
Meseret Defar 14:24.53
Justin Gatlin Runs 9.87, Abraham Chebii Runs 13:04
*Results link fixed
*IAAF Recap
*AP Recap
*NY Times Recap
The meet in NY had it all. A world record in the women's 5k (Meseret Defar ran a 61 second last lap to break the old record by .15), the fastest men's 5k ever in the United States (Abraham Chebii 13:04.56), and great 100m sprints with wins by Marion Jones and Justin Gatlin with Gatlin running one of the best 100m races ever (Gatlin ran 9.87 meters into a .1 wind (fastest time by an American on American soil) which is a virtually identical performance to the world record time he ran a few weeks ago with a 1.7mps tailwind). Yet New Yorkers (who for some reason are supposed to save our sport) could not even pack Icahn Stadium. (Our apologies for missing the meet ourselves)
*Gebrselassie Inspired Defar to Record
On the boards:
*Alistair Cragg is back He ran 13:08 at Reebok.
*Famiglietti Continuing to Run Well
Married
Thanks to LetsRun.com:
"I don't want to say it. It sounds crazy but it was a dream come true"
-John Stiner, on getting married to his
wife, Sarah, who he met on the LetsRun.com message
boards. Read about their incredible story.
"Everybody in
Kenya is trying to come to America. I had
no dream about coming because I knew this was impossible. It was a
miracle," Kiplagat said. "That is why I take advantage of
every
opportunity. I came here, graduated in three years, and count myself
blessed"- Richard Kiplagat who graduated from Iona in 3 years and had a
3.75 GPA
"This
is not coming out of retirement, this is just me showing that
if you just enjoy what you are doing and stay in there and set little
goals. I do a lot of speaking, I've spoken to every group in Australia
and I
tell them back when I ran I set little goals and I think here I am
telling these guys, but I've got to do it myself and tonight was really
a chance to walk the walk"
-Steve Moneghetti, who at age 43, broke the world
best for the 1 hour run for master's, averaging sub 5 minute pace the
whole way as Ron Clarke, John Landy, and Robert
De Castella watched him run.
Paul Tergat
*"As the holy scriptures say, 'for whoever much is
given, much is
expected,' it is, therefore, my duty and privilege to help in any small
way in giving back to society."
-Marathon
world record holder, Paul Tergat, speaking after
founding a sports foundation that will help disadvantaged youths.
*Tergat's
hamstring injury has healed and he
says he's ready to go at NYC: "I expect good results as I am in good shape"
but he's
out of next week's Half Marathon in Britain, but
interestingly Gezahegne Abera (remember him,
formerly the greatest marathoner in the world) is running. www.registerguard.com
And the
winner is:
Best
Running
Movie of All-Time: Fire on the
Track
After
sitting on the results for months, we're proud
to announce that the best running movie of all-time as selected by our
viewers is a not an academy award winner, Chariots
of Fire, or a
highly publicized film produced by Tom Cruise (Without
Limits),
but rather a running documentary,
Fire on the Track: The Steve Prefontaine
Story. Read all about the
voting and see
the 10 best running
movies of all-time as selected by our viewers.
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