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Nike Terminates its Contract with Trevor Graham, Suspends Its Contract With Juustin Gatlin Trevor may sue. Not sure what they're doing with Athletics West investigation.
*Justin Gatlin Says He Will be Cleared
Great Distance Races on Tap Sunday in Rieti (Lagat in 1500 after Skipping Brussels) IAAF
A Lengthy Look at Dave Collins UK Athletics Performance Director www.telegraph.co.uk
Athletics New Zealand Head Steps Down
Haile Gebrselassie to "Run as Fast as I Can" at 2006 Real Berlin Marathon
US Half Marathon Champs, Aramco Houston Half Marathon, Bumps Up Prize Money
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
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
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
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*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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Brussels Golden League:
*Recap *Results
Wilfred Bungei outkicked David Krummenacker in an exciting race as both the Kenyan team and USA team broke the 24 year old 4*800 world record (7:03.89). Asafa Powell won the 100 despite a horrible start and became the first man to run 10 sub 10s in one season. Jeremy Wariner and Sanya Richards won the 400s and to stay alive in the Golden League Jackpot hunt. Saif Shaheen went out way too fast in the steeple going out in 2:34 and faded to 8:03, Jen Rhines ran 14:55, just 4 seconds off of Deena Kastor's American record (we don't recognized drug cheat's records), Adam Goucher broke 28 for 10k as Micah Kogo ran 26:35. (Goucher went out in 13:37)
*Starter Screws Up and It Still Doesn't Cost Asafa Powell the Win, but Possibly the World Record
*Tyson Gay's 19.79 Comes Right After His 9.84IAAF
*Shaheen Is Bored With Steeple He'll run 1500m in Berlin
Boulder 2007 US XC Site Unveiled
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 Know 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
Matt Tegenkamp Talks About His 7:34 3k
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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