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4th
Athletics Kenya XC meet recap
China
eyes Beijing 2008: 14 victories at Asian Games,
same as 2002
Indian
athlete fails gender test
Unofficial 2006
Poster of the Year I'm
going to have to vote for Henry Rono.
USA
Left out
of Bidding for 2011, 2013 Worlds www.latimes.com
*Sweden
Pulls Out as Possible Host to 2011,
2013 Worlds
IAAF
Proposal to Shift Some Schools
into Different NCAA Track Regions
Australian News: Jana Pittman Gives Birth to Baby Boy
*Tamsyn Lewis Speaks out Against Athletics Australia
2006
Grandma's Marathon Champ Halina Karnatsevich Gets DQ and Doping
Suspension
Wow
no one can be surprised after looking
at this
Zatopek: Rupp
Wins Zatopek With 28:28 in Australia photo as well
The message baorders are
making a big deal he wasn't in an Oregon uniform. Who knows
it might be an NCAA violation if he was in one.
*Patrick
Johnson Wins 100 Yard Race at Zatopek
*2006
Telstra Zatopek Classic Results and Links to More Recaps
UK
Sports Minister Says WADA Shouldn't Test for Weed or Cocaine
Frank
Shorter Gets Lifetime Achievement Award from Runners World
AIMS
Marathon Museum Finds a Real Home in Berlin
Tuesday's
Asian Games Action: Liu Xiang Runs 13.15 to Win Hurdles
at Asian GamesAnd to show you that people will
cheat no matter what, an Iraqi bodybuilder was busted for roids at the
Games. We were shocked Iraq had many athletes at the Games, much less
ones who had the time and resources to dope. But they even have a 10
year old swimmer.The Iraqi soccer team
is kicking ass and in the gold medal match. Too bad Iran lost
in the semis, otherwise they could have could have settled Mideast
peace on the pitch.
Part
II in LA Times Look at USADA And WADA The article
isn't too different than Part
I
as the author hates the concept of strict liability. However, we do
agree with the author that purposeful cheats deserve a longer sentence
than someone who takes Rogaine and is a doper by accident.
Laban
Nkete, Who Finished 7th at Boston Marathon Twice, Murdered in S. Africa
for His Car
Brendan
Foster Becomes Latest to Say He's Not Interested in UK Athletics Head
Job
European XCs:
Mo Farah Gets Gold
at Europeans The future is bright for this young
star.
*Tetyana
Holovchenko of Ukraine Wins European XCs
*After
6 Silvers, Farah Finally Gets Gold Times
of London
*Paula
Radcliffe Helped Inspire Junior Girls Champ Steph Twell
Independent
*More
Coverage of Europeans
*Results
White
Rock Half Results:
*Fasil
Bizuneh 1:02:59, Joan Benoit Samuelson
1:31:15
*Bizuneh is being coached by Scott
Simmons who his making a name for himself.
USATF Club XC
Nats
*Zap Men, BAA Women Win Club Nats
Results: Matt Downin
Wins XC Club Nats
*Amy
Hastings Wins XC Club Nats
LA
Times Takes a Critical Look at USADA and WADA Some
of the article is sensationalist and focuses on strict liability and
tainted supplements, but WADA scientists should be able to work on the
defense of other drug cases. WADA should be after the truth,
not convictions. Sometimes it seems they forget that.
Asian Games: Maryam
Yusuf Jamal Wins 800 Easily, Bahrain's Hasan Mahboob Wins Men's 10k in
His First Track Race Ever
*Saudi's
Get 100m, Long Jump Gold at Asian Games
Asian
Games Day 2 Recap (Tareq Mubarak Salem Wins Men's Steeple, Kayoko
Fukushi Wins Women's 10k) IAAF
*Qatar
Importing Athletes in Many Sports Not Just Track and Field (60% of the
People in the Country are Foreigners)
*Asian
Games Results
Fukuoka
Marathon:
Third Time's a Charm:
Geb
Wins in 2:06:52
10 Weeks After Berlin
Haile Gebrselassie won an exciting Fukouka Marathon , his third
marathon of the year, as he pulled away from 2 time World Champ
Jaouad Gharib and defending champ Dmytro
Baranovskyy over the final 3k. American 25k record holder Fernando
Cabada ran an impressive 2:12:27 debut.
*More
on Geb from Japanese English Newspaper
*Jon
Brown Has Problem With His Foot in Fukuoka Runs 2:11:46
*Michael
Aish of New Zealand Runs 2:13:42 in Fukuoka
*Brief
Results and also Updates as They Happened Are Here
*Photo
of Geb at the finish.
Can't Live
With 'Em, Can Live Without Them?: #1, #2 Pole Vaulters in World Giving Up Women
More Aussie News: Sally McLellan is Chasing Australia's 34 Year Old
100m Hurdler Record
NCAA
XCs:
Women: Sally Kipyego Dominates, Stanford Survives
Recap: Sally
Kipyego Dominates, Stanford Wins With Highest Point Total Ever
*Individual results
*Team Results
Kipyego dominated the individual field and the Cardinal repeated, but
just narrowly over Colorado, as the Cardinal scored 195 points, the
highest ever for a winning team (that total on the men's side would
have been 2 points from 7th). Mark Wetmore almost
did the unthinkable again (with a squad that was only 6th at PreNCAAs),
leave Terre Haute with 2 titles, but the Buffaloes' 5th runner finished
165th.
*Ivy
League Women Have Top 3 Finisher for 5th Straight Year
*Women's
Recap from Terre Haute Newspaper
Video: Flocast
Video of Women's Press Conference Post Race
*Flocast
Video Highlights of Women's Nationals
Deena's
Pacer Runs 2:17:50 in Philly www.philly.com
LetsRun.com Classic
Emails #1
We share with you some of the classic emails from our site's visitors
and give you valuable knowledge at the same time. You'll read conclusive
proof Lance Armstrong dopes, learn AJ Acosta is not
as much an a**hole as you thought, and much more.
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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Weekend Action:
*Bernard Chepkok, Teyiba Erkesso Win in Brussels IAAF
*Abebe Dinkesa and Wude Ayalew Yimer Win in Spain IAAF
*Japanese Ekiden Recap IAAF
Justin Gatlin Works out With Arizona Cardinals He also had a workout with the Houston Texans as he apparently is getting ready for life away from track and field.
*Mark Lewis Francis Talks About "Dirty" Justin Gatlin
Women's
Corporate Ekiden Preview
Marion Jones Back in Belize She talks about the state of the Marion Jones athletics facilty. We've seen it. Its a cement track about a half mile around.
Lagat
Set for 2007 Indoor Start in the UK
Tammy
Thomas, Woman With Facial Hair and Husky Voice, Indicted for Perjury in
Balco Case
She told the grand jury she didn't use performance enhancing drugs
despite already having served a drug suspension.
Marion
Jones May Retire to Spend Time With Her Son
Doped
East German Athletes Get 9,250 Euros in Compensation
BBC
Patrick
Johnson After 100 Yard Record in Australia
IAAF
Coaching Mag Made Available Online IAAF
U of N News:
*Galen Rupp Running Zatopek 10k in Australia
Thursday Night Seems
like the typical college junior for sure. Just jump over to Australia
for an outdoor 10k in December. Rupp and travel companion
Brett Schoolmeister ran 13:58 and 14:11 last weekend.
*Zatopek
Preview
*Zatopek
Start Lists
On
the
boards: Vin
to Be AD At Oregon?
Dwain
Chambers May Quit Track for Ever, He's Definitely Skipping Indoors as
He Tries out for NFL Europe His
problem is he gets no money from track until he repays the money he
stole while doping.
*John
Mayock Says Don't Be Like Dwain Chambers
Asian Games: Asian
Games Recap: Yusuf Saad Kamel Gets 800m Gold (He's the Son of 2 Time
World Champ Billy Konchellah), Xue Fei Gets 5k Gold
IAAF
*Qatar:
"We don't mind foreign athletes running
for Qatar as long as they do well for us..." Foreign athletes hmmm.
Today's Sign of the Apocalypse: The
Nike Swoosh on the Muslim Hijab Sounds like a
South Park episode.
Mark
Lewis Francis Wants European Indoor Gold He
and Justin Gatlin were once mentioned in the same breadth as the future
of sprinting. Ironically, now that they're not it's a good thing for
MLF.
Honolulu
Marathon: Course Record for Denisova
at 2006 Honolulu Marathon Jimmy Muindi's 3 years
winning streak came to an end as he finished second.
*Results
Asian Games:
*Daham
Najim Bashir Wins Supertight Men's 1500 as Rashid Ramzi Finishes 3rd great photo at link above. Ramzi got double World
golds last year but has had a subpar 2006.
Las Vegas
Marathon:
Joseph Kahugu Runs 2:16:43 to Win $65,000 at Las Vegas Marathon
Kahuga hasn't run under 2:15 since 2003 but he's not going to apologize
to the race directors for putting $50,000 into the battle of the sexes
and not recruiting a strong field.
*Former
Wisco Star Josh Spiker Wins Las Vegas Half in 1:10
*White Rock Marathon:
*Two
Course Records Set at Wellstone Dallas White Rock Marathon 2:12
on the men's side and 2:29 on the women's as the race has increased is
prize money. Joan Benoit Samuelson 1:31:15 in the half.
*White
Rock Marathon Results (Drug
Cheat Deeja Youngquist 2nd in 2:43) link fixed.
Footlocker
XCs:
Boys:
Chad Hall Gets the Crown US star Ryan Hall is
Chad's brother, but Chad has something Ryan never can get- the high
school national championship.
*Footlocker XC Results
Girls:
South Reigns Supreme, Kathy Kroeger Wins,
Aurora Scott 2nd link fixed Defending champ Jordan Hasay was 10th and 3 time runner up Mel Lawrence
was 5th.
Predictions: Tebo and Forys Neck and Neck, Hasay Expected to
Repeat Check out the letsrun.com predictions. We give
rankings for all 38 runners getting votes.
Ben
Johnson Implies Carl Lewis' Camp Spiked His Sample in 1988, Joe Douglas
Admits to Having Plant in Drug Testing Room The
biggest revelation to us is that Douglas admitted that Lewis' camp was
able to put people in the drug testing room with Johnson. Even if you
accept Douglas' reason for the plant (to make sure Douglas did not take
a masking agent), it shows what a joke drug testing was in 1980s. But
rival sprint camps perhaps sabotaging one another or ratting on one
another sadly is still a relevant topic today.
A Staff of
One:
"Perhaps the most valuable gift from
Letsrun.com is a friendly
willingness to share lessons learned by their editorial staff, which
includes successful college coaches and highly competitive athletes. "
-Gary Droze, writing about
letsrun.com in the Tallahassee
Democrat
NCAA XCs
Men: Mark Wetmore is the Man:
Colorado Stuns Wisconsin Again, Rohatinsky Wins
Team
Recap: Colorado
Does it Again: Men Come Out on Top, Women Finish 2nd
Individual: Josh
Rohatinsky Just Wanted to Get to 8k Near Lead No he's
not 30.
He's 24 and a few days younger than Jess Baumgartner who came out of nowhere to finish 3rd.
*Individual results
*Team
Results The race was eerily similar to 2 years ago when
Colorado, a huge underdog, came from behind to upset the heavily
favored Badgers. Josh Rohatinsky won the individual
title.
*Chris
Solinsky Takes the Blame for Wisconsin's Loss www.madison.com
*Men's
Recap from Terre Haute Newspaper
*Stanford Women
Defend, Colorado Men Upset Wisconsin at 2006 NCAA XC Champs
Race Results Weekly
Video:
*Flocast
Postrace Interviews of Mark Wetmore,Chris Solinsky and Josh McDougal
1 very happy guy and 2 very disappointed ones.
*Flocast
Interviews With Men's Top 3 Post Race
*Flocast
Video Highlights of Men's Nationals Watch
them before CBS comes calling.
Bob Kennedy
Interview
"I think the question then becomes when, and at
what point are we, as
organizing bodies, USA Track and Field, IAAF, the other national
governing bodies from all over the world, going to really invest the
money that its necessary in testing to keep up and get ahead of, the
people who are using the system to cheat. And that will take money. It
takes money to develop the tests for the different variants of the
drugs that these people are coming up with, and only when you have that
kind of investment will you really stop it. Otherwise, they're just
faking it."
-Bob Kennedy, in a LetsRun.com interview where he
talks about drugs, success, shoes (the Kennedy XC) and Tegenkamp
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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