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David Moorcroft Quits As UK Athletics Boss Moorcroft helped turn around the finances of UK athletics but people criticized him for the performances on the track, especially considering how much money the government puts into it. In America, we don't need the government's cash. We've got Nike and great drugs.
*Steve Cram Says He Doesn't Want to be UK Athletics Head
*Seb Coe May Take Bigger Role in UK Athletics Now (Some are Suggesting some Sort of Chairman's Role)
Good Background: Original Article That May Have Brought Pressure on Moorcroft to Step Down Times of London
*Moorcroft, Perhaps Too Nice of a Guy Times of London
*Message board thread here
IAAF Issues Statement Clarifying Its Position on Gatlin We're glad to see they did this as the case is still active. Earlier a spokesman had said they wanted Gatlin out at least 4 years.
Justin Gatlin Wants to be Back Competing by Beijing If he spills the beans we hope he gets a 2 year suspension. And his lawyer Cameron Myler is a woman not a man as many articles and ourselves reported. She was an Olympic luger who carried the US flag at the 1992 Olympics. She also most importantly has defended the right of beautiful women athletes to pose in however little clothing they want.
*Gatlin and the NFL?
*Powell Glad Gatlin is Cooperating
*Daley Thompson Says Take Away Justin Gatlin's MedalsBBC
*Chris Huffins Has a Tough Time Telling who the Cheats Are
*Frank Dick Says Gatlin's Suspension Hurts Sport
More Drug News: Roids Found at Chinese Sports School
Justin Gatlin Agrees Not to Fight Test Result, USADA Gives Him 8 Year BanThis one is far from over. Gatlin's lawyer says he wants Gatlin competing in less than 2 years, yet Gatlin basically accepted a life ban yesterday unless he presents some evidence to reduce it at the arbitration hearing.
*ESPN.com Editorial: Gatlin Should Speak the Truth
Swedes Close Doping Investigation on Drugs Found at Europeans
Previous Doping News: Jamie Astaphan, Doctor Who Helped Dope Ben Johnson Dies at Age 60
*Marion's Coach Steve Riddick Says She Must Have Been Framed
*Diack says credibility of track and field hurt by drug cheats
*Double European Champ Kim Gevaert Upset With Jones' Positive
*Marion Jones' Career at Golden Crisis Point Independent
*Anti Doping Success of US Needs to Be Repeated in Eastern Europe Times of London
*American Sprinters React to Jones' Positive Test
*Lagat Doesn't Want to Condemn Marion as He Knows B Test Can Clear an Athlete
Weekend Road Action:
Italy: Former London and New York Marathon Champ Martin Lel Wins 10k in Italy as Gebrselassie's Plane Doesn't Make it
Minnesota: McGregor Reigns Supreme at Guidant Heart of Summer 10K
San Diego: Chebet, Chulakh Win America's Finest City Half Marathon, Brifontaine 3rd
Marion Jones Defiant Despite Doping "A" Positive
Marion Jones Tests Positive for EPO CJ
Hunter (reportedly)
and Victor Conte
said she was on a host of drugs back in 2000. We're pleased to see her
get busted but also feel her positive shows current drug
testing capabilities are lacking on a number of fronts. 1)
She only tested positive for EPO
(designer steroids and HGH are even more beneficial drugs for
sprinters) and not something else. 2) Her test result was
leaked
to the media before her B test has been tested. Drug testing needs to
catch more cheats but it also needs to be done in a 100% professional
manner.
Message
Board: Marion
Jones Tests Positive
*How
to Stop Drug Cheats
*Why I Believe Asafa Powell is
Clean
More
Marion:
*Marion Jones
Victor Conte Photo
*Rumors
as Marion Jones Pulls out of Zurich BBC
More Drug News: The
Guardian Reports on USATF Replacing Dennis Mitchell With Dennis Mitchell
Thursday's Action:
*Celtic
Cup RecapTyree Washington and Darren
Campbell brought down the curtains on their impressive
careers and Alan Webb won the mile.
*Darren
Campbell Wins 100 at Celtic Cup and Calls it Quits Guardian
*Alan
Webb Talks About His Present, the Past and the Future
www.theherald.co.uk
WADA
Medical Director Criticizes Doctors Who Dope Athletes
USA Today
*European
Athletics Chief Wants US Athletes to be Suspended after "A" Sample is
Announced
Doping News: Floyd Landis' Father in Law Commits Suicide
*Floyd
Landis Wants Open Doping Hearing
Message Board Post: Dick
Pound the Most Dangerous Man in Sport? We don't
agree with the poster but see the point he's making. We're as
anti-doping as anyone out there but feel a bit unnerved when Pound, the
man who helps sets the rules in doping cases, comments on unresolved
cases dismissing the arbitration process, seeming to be both the judge
and the jury.
*Golf
Still Refuses to Drug Test Ever hear of beta blockers?
US-GBR-Russia:
Dwain
Chambers and Darren Campbell to Race at US-Great Britain Meet
BBC
*Team
USA Taking on Britain and Russia This Weekend And they'll be coached by
Dennis Mitchell, not the drug cheat, who USATF
had quitely take the place of Dennis Mitchell the drug cheat.
*UK
Team for Meet
Great
Editorial:Sue Mott of The Telegraph:
Embracing a drug cheat
is no way to combat the curse
The Guardian Editorial: Campbell's Anti-Drug Stance Should Be Praised
Video Campbell
wants Chambers to expose cheats
*Campbell
Ready To Retire
European
10k Bronze Medalist Juan
Carlos de la Ossa To Make Marathon Debut At Berlin Against Geb
The
Spaniard who has a 27:27 10k pr has a clear goal - to break the 2:09:13
pr of his coach Antonio
Sanchez-Serrano
We admire his
courage
Darren Campbell Quit Sport Briefly When He Was 21 When He Was Told To
Be A Good Sprinter He Needed To Be On Drugs
Europeans: Results
or Go
Here To See Video Highlights
More On Darren Campbell/Dwain Chambers Feud
*Darren
Campbell Says He Would Have Forgiven Chambers If He Had Ratted Out
Those Behind His Drug Supsension Campbell Lost 2
Medals Cause Chambers Was A Cheat
*Long
Standing Animosity Between Linford Christie/Darren Campbell Played Role
In Feud
If
We Were Coaching Him, We'd Tell Him To Pass (But then again the $$
would be nice) Stefano
Baldini Invited To Compete In 2006 ING NYC Marathon
*Olympic
Champ Stefano Baldini Captures 2nd European Marathon Title The Italian ran a tactically brilliant race and
took the lead after 40k to prove he is the greatest championship runner
of his era..
*Former
UTEP Runner Ulrike Maisch Wins Women's Marathon In Big Upset Like
Baldini she took the lead past 40k in the race and won in a PB of
2:30:01.She is big proof you don't have to be the biggest college star
to be a success.
*Alistair
Cragg Forced To Drop Out With Less 1200 To Go as Spain's Jesus Espana
Wins 5k
Cragg had the lead before his achilles flared up. It's not quite clear
if it ruptured or not. John McDonnell took some of
the blame as he said if Cragg had been training in America he would
have noticed the seriousness of the injury.
*Britain's
Mo Farah Gets Silver and Has Bright Future He was pipped near the finish but was pretty happy
with silver and his season in general.
*Brits
4 x 100 Gold Turns Bizarre As Darren Campbell Refuses To Do Victory Lap Apparently he was upset that drug cheat Dwain
Chambers was included on the squad. We applaud him for
feeling that way (but disagree with him also being upset that drug cheat
Linford Christie was criticized for being a coach).
*More
On Campbell's Fit
*Radcliffe
Questions Christie's Role
*"Pitiful"
Drug Cheat Dwain Chambers Ripped in British Media A great read as the columnist rips into drug cheats
who come back to competition.
*Dave
Collins Analayzes Britains Efforts
*5
Pluses/5 Minuses For Brtain
Preview Of
Sunday's Final Day Of Action at Euros
*Favorite
Alistair Cragg Pumped And Ready For 5k Final The
Irish Examiner gives us an in depth look at the former
Arkansas great. Famed coach John McDonnell is at
Cragg's side for the 1st time as an international and Cragg says he'll
do 100% what McDonnell tells him.
*Another
Great Article On Cragg
*Heading
Into 1st Round McDonnell Said He's Not Worried About Craig's Sub-Par
Buildup Cragg's been struggling with some blook
sugar levels since running 13:08 in NY and hasn't finished a 5k and
wasn't great in 3 1,500s..
*Britain's
Mo Farah Is Threat In 5k He has run 13:09 this
year and beat Cragg at 1,500 last month.
*More
On Farah: David Moorcroft talks
about the 2001 European jr. champ who someday may break his British
record.
*Women's
Steeple Recap/Men's Marathon Preview Alesia Turava won the steeple in
9:26. The men's marathon features Olympic champ Stefano
Baldini and Spain's Julio Rey, who ran
2:06:52 earlier this year.
*Marta
Dominguez Defends 5k Title The Spaniard closed in 63.1 (and 2:12) to get the
win. Britian's
Jo Pavey did a lot of the work but finished 4th.
*Pavey
went into the race expected to win gold by many in the press.
*The
IAAF's Recap Of Saturday's Action reveals
that Dominguez wasn't even planning on running the race but was
convinced by the head of the Spanish federation after she finished 7th
in the women's 10k (in a fine national record performance of 30:51).
Brits
Continue To Struggle (No Golds) And The British Press Is Having A Field
Day Analyzing The Failures
Dave
Collins: Innovative or Buffoon?
*Duncan Mackay: Brits
Can Do Better and Collins Says They Will
*Brendan Foster: "Ridiculous." The former great British distance runner
absolutely lets Collins have it and we have marked this as a
must read piece as its rare to see someone actually say what
they mean nowadays.
*Collins
Defends Decision To Have Sprinter Train W Gatlin
*UK
Athletics Director Dave Moorcroft's Job May Be In Jeopardy UK Athletics is in great financial footing but that
may not be good enough. We liked this article because it talked about
how track is the "flagship sport" of the Olympics
*Unheralded Jukka
Keskisalo of Finland Captures Country's First Ever Steeple Gold At Euros In other action, the men's 800
semis saw former Nebraska star Dmitrijs Milkevics
advance. In the women's 1500 semis, the Russian women dominated as
Commonwealth gold medalist Lisa Dobriskey failed to advance.
*Britain's
Struggles Continue For the first time since 1938,
Britain had zero people on the track for a night of finals. It's so bad
that the Brtish
press is having to take solace in determining it's not the worse
performance ever by a British squad.
*IAAF
Recap of Day 5 (All Events)
Previous
Action
*Portugal's
Francis Obikwelu Completes First 100-200 Sprint Double Since 1978
*Becky
Lyne Wins 800m Bronze For Britain The
Independent Last winter she was reduced to riding bike due to
an achilles injury. Click
here to see a great photo of Russia's Olga
Kotylyarova.
*Day
4 Preview of Europeans BBC
*More
On Jan Fitschen's Stunning10k Gold The 28 yr old is
a part-time student as he's still running but is hoping to finish his
degree after 10 years of college. Click on the article and see an
amazing picture of pure joy.
*Video
Highlights of Day 3 of European Champs (Including Men's 1500)
BBC
*Mehdi Baala
Defends His European 1500m Title
Baala's sub 53 last lap (probably close to 151 flat last 800) gave him
his second straight victory. Known closer Heshko was 2nd.
400: Marc
Raquil Runs 45.02 to Win 400 at Europeans
100: Kim
Gevaert Wins European 100m (With Link to Video of Race)
First ever gold for Belgian woman.
Javelin:
Greatest
Jav Thrower In History Jan Zelezny Will End Career With No Euro Titles
The
40 yr old has done it all, (won 3 wchamps amd 3 Olympics) but win at
Euros. He did get a bronze at age 40 as well as a masters WRecord.
400h: Russian
Yevgeniya Isakova Wins 400m Hurdles at Europeans BBC
*Jan
Zelezny and Merlene Ottey Defying Father Time
Previous Action:
*German's
Jan Fitschen Runs 28:10 PB To Shock FIeld/Win Gold At Euros
Heptathlon: Hottie
Carolina Kluft Wins In Front Of Hometown Crowd *Photos can be
found
here
100: Francis
Obikwelu Wins in
9.99 as drug cheat Dwain
Chambers fails to medal
LJ: 19
Yr Old British Long Jumper Greg Rutherford Proves He May Be Future
Olympic Hope By Grabbing Silver 4 Yrs ago
he was trying out with Aston Villa
UK
Athletics Performance Director Dave Collins Under Fire:
Lets see what he's getting ripped for - 1) Naming A Drug Cheat As
Mentor to Young Athletes 2) Stating 70 people skipped drug tests and 3)
Rating all the British Performances on a scale of 1 ot 10
Monday's Action: Exciting
Women's 10k Highlights Day 1 of European Champs
*Photo
of women's 10k from Europeans
100: Mark
Lewis Francis, Dwain Chambers Struggle to Make 100m Semis at Europeans
Heptathlon: Brits
Sotherton and Ennis are 2-3 in Heptathlon Behind KluftBBC
*Eunice
Barber out of Heptathlon With Injury
Other; Germany's
Ralf Bartels Wins First Gold at Europeans in Shot
*Jan
Zelezny Looking for Elusive European Javelin Gold
*Day
1 British RecapBBC
Christine
Ohuruogu, Poster Girl for London 2012, May Have Her Olympic Hopes
Dashed with 3 Missed Drug Tests Guardian
Seb
Coe Wants Drug Cheats Banned from Major Events for Life
Guardian
Drug Scandal:
*Patrick
Arnold Man Who Invented the Clear Gets3 Months Behind Bars
*Gatlin's
Mother Says He Was Not Asked to Withdraw from USATF Champs
*IOC
President Jacques Rogge Sees Positives to Doping Scandal
BBC
*Court
Ruling May Make it Difficult for WADA to Ban Cheats in Europe Sorry we don't believe athletes have a civil right
to cheat.
Previous:
*ESPN
Talks With Those Who Support Chris Whetstine Clearly whatever happened
there was some bad blood as Nike rep Llewellyn Starks beat
up Whetstine pretty bad.
*Trevor
Graham Goes Into Detail About His Accusations Against Chris Whetstine
Post of the Week: Demographics
of Dopers by Coach, Agent and Shoe Company
John Smith's HSI group getting some negative attention, plus
of course Trevor Graham.
*USATF
Wanted Gatlin to Skip Nationals
*Asafa
Powell Upset He No Longer Has a Rival With Gatlin's Drug Positive
*Harry
Aikines-Aryeetey Cuts Ties to Trevor GrahamBBC
AT&T
US Nationals
*LetsRun.com 2006 Nationals
Homepage
*Results
*Start
List
Sunday:
LetsRun.com
Recap Lagat
Outlasts The Return of Jennings and Manzano's Magic, Khadevis Robinson
Puts on an Exhibition, Hazel Clark Dives For the Finish, and Lincoln
ThreePeats This year's nationals was a great track
and field meet. Day 4 saw a
$100,000
and a world leading run by Lashinda Demus in the
400m hurdles, world leaders by Torah Harris in the
high jump, Walter Davis in the triple jump, Khadevis
Robinson in the 800, Dominique Arnold in
the hurdles, and Wallace Spearmon in the 200. But
you want to read about Gabe Jennings return,
Khadevis Robinson's domination, and the emergence of Nick
Symmonds. Plus you learn how stupid all the guys who give
out shoe contracts are.
*Final
Day Recap from USATF
*Lagat
Becomes First to Complete 1500-5k Double
.indystar.com
*Final
Day Recap from Indianapolis Star
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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Today Brussels Golden League:
*Brussels Golden League Preview IAAF It should be a great meet as usual. Nearly every event is stacked and Shaheen wants the steeple world record. Adam Goucher is the only American in the 10k, which a bunch of Americans talked about doing at the start of the summer.
*Brussels Golden League Start Lists
*AFP Brussels Preview
*Bekele Has His Sites on Staying in 2nd Jackpot Contention, Possible World Record IAAF
*Saif Saaeed Shaheen Wants World Record in Steeple in Brussels IAAF
Three Cheers for Trevor,
Another Athlete Tests Positive: Latasha Jenkins Tests Positive
No joke, she retired from the sport in 2003 because it was plagued by doping.
*Alvin Harrison Writing a Book about Being in Trevor Graham's Camp
NCAA Star Johanna Nilsson Decides Not to Run Her Senior Year She's a phenomenal talent but apparently is not that interested in running around in circles for a career.
Hope He Knows Something About TV Contracts: Greek Shipping Magnate Is Going to Challenge Lamine Diack for Head of IAAF
Currently There is No Way to No They are Clean: "And that's great news for our clean athletes like Craig Mottram and
Bronwyn Thompson who can compete knowing they are on a level playing
field" -Athletics Australia head, Danny Corcoran.
Christian Olsson's Season Over with Knee Injury
Athletics Kenya to Have Half Marathon to Select Team for Standard Chartered Greatest Race on Earth Series
Matt Tegenkamp Talks About His 7:34 3k
Culpepper Trying to Decide on a Fall Marathon
Tuesday's Action: Linz Austria Results IAAF
*Galan Sweden Reults (Koborsi in 3k)
China Led Way at World Juniors in Medal Count
Sunday's Action: Summer of Tegenkamp Continues:
*Herculis Monaco Recap IAAF
*Herculis Monaco Results (Tegenkamp 7:34 for 3k) While others get the fanfare, Tegenkamp has put togetehr an incredible 2006 to be the brightest young hope in American distance running.
*Mbulaeni Mulaudzi Wins 800 in Monaco
UK: USA, Russia, Great Britain Recap IAAF
*USA, Russia, Great Britain Results (Gabe Jennings Wins Mile in 4:10)
More Weekend Action: Ricardo Williams Gets Sprint Double in Switzerland IAAF
*Lauryn Williams Gets Sprint Double in Switzerland IAAF
Russia Leads After Day 1 of US, UK, Russia Meet
Zurich Golden
League: *Results
Asafa
Powell Ties World Record Tyson Gay came in second
running 9.84, while the 3 other Golden League contenders
Tirunesh Dibaba, Sanya Richards, and Jeremy Wariner all won. IAAF
Yelena
Isinbayeva Back on Form for US, Russia, UK Meet Yahoo UK
Carolina
Kluft Out for Season With Thigh Injury BBC
World
Juniors: *Results
*World
Juniors Day 4 Recap
*World
Juniors Day 3 Recap IAAF
*Caroline
Chepkurui and Remmy Limo Get Gold at World Juniors
*Trinidad
and Tobago Win Gold in 4*100 at World Juniors The
best young talent in track and field broadcasting, Ato
Boldon, is proud no doubt.
*Britain's
Matryn Rooney Gets Silver at World Juniors in 400
Previous:
*World Junior Day 2
IAAF
*Harry Aikines-Aryeetey Wins 100 at Junior Champs BBC
*China Has Strong Tradition in High Jump
On the
boards: World
Juniors is NOT a Free Vacation?
Mark
Lewis Francis to Have His Olympic Ban for Marijuana Positive Lifted
Guardian
Drugs/Drugs/Drugs
Judge Says SF Chronicle Reporters Must Name Sources Thee reporters said they would protect their
sources who leaked Barry Bonds testimony and other elite athletes in
the Balco scandal. We still don't know why the gov't blacked out all
the names of athletes in the released Balco documents. One major source
is already believed to be Victor Conte himself.
Twist In European Drug Controversy
*The
Materials May Have Just Been Vitamins - We Won't Know For Two Weeks - Whether those items were vitamins or not, we say
keep a close eye on the Russians (as does the Spanish federation head)
as the Russians won 50% of the medals
*Bag Full of Syringes and Supsected Illegal Drugs Found In Trash
Outside Hotel At Europeans
*No
Way Gatlin Will Avoid Lifetime Ban If Guilty
World
Jrs. Started Tues - Coverage
Here - Live
Results Here
Heats in the 800s, men's 1500, wsteeple and the
final of women's 5k occurred. Rebekah Noble, the top
seed in the women's 800, easily advanced but no American men did, AJ
Nation was eliminated but Bumbalough squeaked
into the men's 1500 final.
*Pre-Race
Feature on Noble
*Ugandan
Abraham Chepkirwok With 1:45.0 PR Is Favorite For World Juniors
The article was right on the money as the phenom
ran a 1:45.97 by himself in the prelim.
*USATF
Recap of Day 1's Action
*Fei
Xu Gives China Upset Gold In Women's 5k (IAAF
Recap of PM Session) She passed Kenya's Florence Jebet
Kiplagat in the fnal 10m as the top two seeds going into the
race from Ethiopia failed to medal
*IAAF
Recap of Morning's Non-Distance Action
*Athletics:
New Zealanders struggle at Junior Worlds
*With Age Cheating Scandal Behind Them, Kenyan
Athletes Ready For World Jrs.
Favorites Brian Sell and Hiromi Ominami Win LaSalle Bank Distance Run Sell described the race as a 'training run' as he
supposedly was trying to run marathon pace, wel that's great as he ran
64:25. Former Olympic Trials marathoner Jenny Crain was 2nd in the
women's. Top 15 Results *Pre-Race Profile of Sell
Falmouth Road
Race (One Of America's Finest)
*Gilbert
Okari Joins Bill Rodgers and John Korir as Only 3 Time Champions as
Russian Alevtina Inova Defeats Ndereba
*Okari
Thrilled With Victory Says He May Shut It Down And Prepare For Cross
Country This
is a must read article as it along with a
different race preview article shows a true champion listens
to his body. Last week, Okari was going to win Beach To Beacon but felt
a twinge in his hamstring so he backed off and got 4th. Now he's
overraced so is most likely shutting it down til xc.
*Amy
Rudolph Is First American (5th) and Wins $5,000
*Top 25 Men's and Women's Results -
Jorge Torres first American male in 10th.
*Carrie Tollefson Runs Fastest Mile In World For 2006 And Wins $1,500
at Falmouth Mile In 4:27.95
Tiffany McWilliams took it out hard as usual (212 and 3:21)
and hung on for third as Erin Donohue got 2nd*Amy
Rudolph Ready For Falmouth Debut
Sunday Mail Scottish Champs
*46
Yr. Old Merlene Ottey Wins In Record Time (11.34)
*Full
Results
*American Alan Webb Finishes 3rd In His Heat In 1:51.59
We're pretty sure he advanced to Sunday's final. Webb
will run a mile on Thursday in Ireland.
*Preview of Scottish Champs
*Catherine Ndereba To Run 2006 ING New
York City Marathon
The reigning Olympic silver medalist has won Chicago and Boston but
never New York. She's never lost to anyone in the field and must be
considered the favorite.
Drugs
*Trevor
Graham Tells Washington Post He Makes All His Athletes Sign An
Anti-Doping Pledge
The New York Times Explores The Obvious
Does
Testerone Make You
A Better Athlete? The
article (despite the stupid headline) is actually prety good and asks
really whether testosterone would help you in the short term like on
one stage for Landis.
A
Detailed Look at the Synthetic Testosterone Test www.mercurynews.com
*Kenenisa
Bekle Outsprints Mike Kigen to Win Tactical 5k at African Champs
We'd like to see a video of this exciting race as
the winning time was 14:04.
*Bekele
Says He'll Go After His Own World Record in 10k On August 19th in
Zurich The
problem is the Zurich meet is August 18th and there is no 10k at the
meet. Perhaps he's going for the 5k record (thanks malmo for alerting
us to this)
*Moses
Kipsiro of Uganda Pleased With 5k Bronze, But He Wants to Defeat Bekele
in the Future www.newvision.co.ug
We Agree WADA's
Dick Pound Urges Sports To Clean Up Their Acts Pound: Recent big name positives may only be "tip
of iceberg"
*Linford
Christie Brushes Off Criticism That Former Banned Runner Should Coach
Team Christie:
"Have you ever stopped for one minute and thought I could be innocent?"
*Linford Christie Defends Christine Ohuruogu for Missing Doping Tests BBC
*Trevor
Graham Says He Passed Lie Detector Test That He Hasn't Doped Athletes
so Let Him Backin USOC Facilities msnbc.msn.com
*Justin
Gatlin to Present 'Exceptional Circumstances' Defense to Drug Positive
LRC
Story: Drug Cheat
Dennis Mitchell Bows to Pressure That We Helped Create and Does Right
Thing And Steps Down As US Coach For British Meet Instead
of focusing on whether there was or wasn't a coverup, we'll be positive
and give USATF the benefit of the doubt and state that we are pleased
that a convicted drug cheat isn't leading a US team. We're also pleased
to hear they are trying to make sure this doesn't happen again.
Chinese Champs: Liu Xiang Wins Hurdles For 6th Straight
Time.
The real story may have been the performance of some of the juniors who
may medal at world jrs. next week like Lin Xiangqian
who won the men's steeple in 8:29.
*African Champs Are Loaded In Distances: The
10k and 5k were switched so Bekele would compete
*Olympic
Champ Ezekiel Kemboi Guarantees Medal Sweep in Steeple
The competition should be fierce however
for 1st as a World Cup spot is on the line. Kemboi: "We
will be dancing all the way...It is going to be a walkover for us and
there is no doubt about it."
*Botswana Officials Are Irate They Had To Pay Custom
Duty on Free Kit They Got From Puma
Justin
Gatlin's Legal Team Submitting Its Documents to USADA Legal Panel
Share Your
Input: Road
Race Management Survey on Drug Testing
Jonathan
Wyatt Wins Another Mountain Event IAAF
Beach to
Beacon: Tom
Nyariki and Alevtina Ivanova Surprise at 2006 TD Banknorth Beach to
Beacon 10k
Nyariki's win is a great story as the former 12:55 5ker was carjacked
in 2003 and lost an eye in the carjacking. The 1997 bronze medallist at
5000m got the win at age 34 and picked up $10,000 for his efforts.
*Results and
photos at link above
And What New
Drug Will They Have Moved on to By Then? "There
will be a test (to detect blood doping) within the next six years. ...
I'm just not saying how much sooner it may be"
-scientist Michael Ashenden on how long it will take
for anti-doping authorities to develop a test to detect blood doping
A Good Step,
But You've Got to Catch the Cheats First: World Marathon
Majors to Ban Drug Cheats for Life
More Doping News: Test
to Detect Blood Doping May Take 6 Years to be Developed
*Editorial:
Dick Pound is Undermining His Own Credibility
Study
Shows Compression Tights May Really Work
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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