Moses Kipsiro Fears For His Life
– Text from Peter Wamali, the coach/policeman whom Moses Kipsiro has accused of rape, to Kipsiro. Kipsiro now says his life is in danger as Kipsiro claims Wamali has murdered one person who spoke up against him and tried to abduct Kipsiro’s brother.
Week That Was
Track Distance News
One Everyone Missed? Sarah Baxter Made Her Collegiate Debut With A 4:29.54 1,500 For 6th Place At Willamette Invy The race was won by Oregon’s Frida Berge in 4:23.99. Both raced unattached. *Full Results- Good Read:Lauren Fleshman Blogs About Struggling With Injury Issues And “Identifying Her Life Through Running First” Fleshman had hoped to make USAs this year and get the 15:20 standard for Worlds, but that’s not looking like it will happen right now.
- April 3-4: Entries For 2015 Stanford Invitational: Stacked Fields In Every Distance Event Men’s 10K: Edward Cheserek, Eric Jenkins, Futsum Zienasellassie. Women’s 10K:Shalane Flanagan, Dominque Scott, Kate Avery. Men’s 1,500: Lopez Lomong, German Fernandez, Stanley Kebenei, Andy Bayer (also listed in steeple). Women’s 5,000: Emma Bates, Gabe Grunewald, Marielle Hall.
This Stuff Actually Isn’t April Fools
Mo Farah Racing 3,000 Against Absolutely Stacked Field At The Doha DL Meet On May 15th Farah will face world 5,000 silver medalist Hagos Gebrhiwet, world indoor 3,000 champ Caleb Ndiku, 12:48 man Yenew Alamirew, world 5,000 bronze medalist Isiah Koech, Olympic bronze medalist Thomas Longosiwa, Edwin Soi and Albert Rop.
*MB: Farah back to dodging competition- Every Runner In The Race DNFs At The Barkley Marathons If you didn’t read about the 100-mile ultra marathon that has a 1% finisher rate, we recommend you check out the article we made our “Quote of the Day” on Saturday.
- The Fargo Marathon Wants Will Ferrell To Sign Up In 2003, Farrell ran the Boston Marathon in 3:56:12.
The Olympics: Boston 2024 Bid In Trouble
Wall Street Journal: Sources Say USOC Could Drop Boston’s 2024 Olympic Bid Due To Local Opposition A person familiar with the USOC’s plans said it is more likely the U.S. would withdraw from the competition entirely than try to resurrect a bid from another city.- Boston 2024 And USOC Deny Bid To Be Dropped If Public Support Does Not Improve
- Philip Hersh: USOC Should Decide By June About Killing Boston Olympic Bid Rather Than Drag It Out
- Rio 2016 Tickets Go On Sale
*Tickets For 2015 Beijing World Championships Also On Sale
Good Read:Lee Emanuel Talks About How Coming To The US Made And Then Almost Broke His Running Career Emanuel won back-to-back indoor mile titles in 2009-10, but then struggled for a while running with Ron Warhurst in Michigan before going back to Joe Franklin in Albuquerque.
New Yorker Article On Teenage Indian Sprinter Dutee Chand, Whose Gender Case Is Going To CAS Chand’s case is far from the first gender controversy in track, but could have huge implications for women’s sports in the future. If she’s allowed to compete, then kiss goodbye to women’s sports as we know them.
We Wish Him A Speedy Recovery:Tokyo 2020 President Yoshirō Mori Reveals He Is Suffering From Lung Cancer But Claims Prognosis Good There were some worries when the 77-year-old took the job that he was too old.
More Road Action
- Kenya’s Dominic Ondoro (29:22) And Cynthia Limo (32:18) Win Cooper River Bridge Run 10KBobby Mack (7th – 30:27) and Lindsey Scherf (34:22) were the first Americans. *Results
*MB:Race Director Didn’t Know Who Lelisa Desisa Was Even Though He Was A Previous Winner? 
Ethiopia’s Berhanu Legese Wins Berlin Half Marathon, Running 59:45 In His Debut It was a close race as 2nd was Kenya’s David Kosgei in 59:46 and the top four were under 60 minutes. Cynthia Chepchirchir Kosgei won the women’s race (70:52).- Fernando Cabada Wins 2015 Transamerica Rock ‘N’ Roll Half Marathon Cabada has a video series on YouTube with his buildup for Boston: Episode 1*2*3
- Rebecca Kangogo Chesire Wins Stramilano Half Marathon In Italy With A CR 68:21Thomas James Lokomwa won the men’s race in 60:33 over Kennedy Kipyeko (60:39).
- Daniel Wanjiru Wins Prague Half Marathon In 59:51 As Three Break 1-Hour MarkWilfred Murgor and Leonard Komon were a close 2-3, both clocking 59:57. Worknesh Degefa won the women’s race in 67:14 as pre-race favorite Lucy Kabuu was only 6th (70:25).
*RRW: Favorites Falter At Prague Half
Track Action In The USA *All NCAA Results
Speculate No More: LRCJeremy Wariner Runs 1:53.02 In His First 800 Race video, results and interview. Discuss Here- Japanese Teenager Yoshihide Kiryu Runs Wind-Aided 9.87 At Texas Relays (3.3 m/s) Trinidad and Tobago’s Michelle-Lee Ahye ran a wind-aided 10.87 (3.3 m/s) in the women’s race while SA’s Anaso Jobodwana ran 19.87 to win the 200 (4.5 m/s tailwind). In the PV, Akron’s Shawn Barber set a Canadian NR with 5.90m. *Results
- Trayvon Bromell Wins Collegiate Race At Texas Relays With Wind-Aided 9.90 After Running A Wind-Legal 10.02 In The Prelims Bromell is apparently close with Justin Gatlin, whom he calls a mentor. Gatlin said he thought Bromell could go pro.
- Duane Solomon Runs 3:49.32 1,500 At UFCRichard Jones won the race in 3:48.64. Sean Obinwa was 3rd (3:54.18).
- Maggie Vessey Opens Season With 2:05.20 At Cal Poly
Other News
- Sad: Small 15-Pound Dog Dies After Being Kicked By A Jogger
*MB: bay area jogger kicks and kills off-leash dog - USATF CEO Max Siegel Releases Statement On Indiana State Bill 101 Siegel is critical of the law which allows businesses to refuse services to people for religious reasons.
Week That Was
Bolt Is Back
Usain Bolt Will Compete At June 13th adidas Grand Prix In NYC The last time Bolt raced in NYC was at this meet in 2008 and he set his first WR with 9.72 in the 100.- Slow Motion Video Of Usain Bolt Gym Session
L-Carnitine
LRC Good News, Bad News: Everything You Want To Know About The Nike Oregon Project And L-Carnitine Injections The Sunday Times reported that Alberto Salazar ordered his Nike Oregon Project athletes thousands of dollars of L-Carnitine supplements and experimented with injecting L-Carnitine on coach Steve Magness. We break it down. *MB: Salazar, Farah, talk about use of L-carnitine, a legal supplement with 11% performance. gains
The Quest for a Better Running Shoe
LRCThe Improved LRC Running Shoe Survey Is Back – Three Minutes To A Better Running Shoe The running shoe buying process sucks and we want to improve it . We took your reviews from the fall, made a running shoe beta site, and have improved our survey to ask you what shoe your previously ran in. We now need more reviews.
Important Administrative News
Moses Kipsiro Says Coach/Policeman He Accused Of Rape Has Murdered Another Athlete That Spoke Up Against Him & Tried To Abduct Kipsiro’s Brother The policeman denies everything and says it’s all made up, even the sexual assaults, by Kipsiro, who votes differently than him.
*Moses Kipsiro: “I am fearing for my life and my family. Yesterday one of my brothers (Ayeko Simon) was arrested over an incident.”
*Daily Mail: Mo Farah’s Training Partner Moses Kipsiro Receives Death Threats After Accusing Coach In Uganda Of Raping Young Female Athletes
Sergey Bubka Makes His Case For IAAF Head – Promises Complete Review Of Athletics If Elected
His “Vision 2025” document is now out.
*Athletics Weekly On Bubka
Australia And New Zealand Name Initial Teams For IAAF World Championships, Beijing 2015 Memo to those down under – Worlds are in August, not April. As a result, Australia currently has zero men from 1,500 through 26.2.
Yesterday Was The First Of April
- Did You Miss Our April Fools Page?It Is Here (link fixed)
University Of Oregon Student Paper Falls For Our Edward Cheserk / Eric Jenkins April Fools Article The author fell for it hook, line and sinker. He admitted to his mistake with good humor on Twitter.
*Yikes! And So Did The PAC-12 Network- USATF Video:Matt Centrowitz Announces He’s Moving To The Marathon He along with USATF spokeswoman Jill Greer made the announcement in a press conference and the boards exploded: *Centro making changes?*CENTRO MOVING TO MARATHON?!*Matt Centrowitz running the marathon???
- We Wish This April Fools Was True:“Stephanie Hightower Out, Bob Hersh In As USATF Board Backpedals” Hightower: “I realized that I could better serve my country … [as an athlete.] … With that in mind I instructed my board to overturn my previous decision.”
- Kenya: ATHLETICS KENYA DISBANDED: Government Set To Be On Collision Path With Affected Federations”
*MB:Athletics Kenya (AK) Disbands - Japan:World XC Silver Medalist Bedan Karoki To Transfer Nationality To Japan Brett Larner took a dig at the USA with a fake quote that read, “We need to look to what the U.S.A. is doing right in order to win medals. Most of their best athletes are immigrants …”
- BBC:Mo Farah To Switch Back To Somalian Nationality
April Fools OTB
Doping News
Ken Goe Gets Quotes From Alberto Salazar On The Nike Oregon Project’s Use Of L-Carnitine Salazar did confirm Steve Magness tested the supplement first. “A few of my athletes tried it but found no benefit so they no longer use it. … was done so within WADA guidelines. … My assistant coach volunteered to test it first to determine if further use was worthwhile.”- Russian Olympic Racewalker Elena Lashmanova Will Likely Have Her 2-Year Ban Extended And Miss Olympics After Claims She Competed During Her Suspension
*From The Archives:Canadian Proves That 2012 Russian Olympic Champ Competed While Banned!Evan Dunfee has done an amazing job showing you how the Russians have doctored photos to make it look like Lashmanova’s race took place in 2012, not 2014. - UK’s National Anti-Doping Panel Appoints Charles Flint As New President
Post-World XC *Results
With The World XC And World Half Titles, Geoffrey Kamworor’s Focus Turns To The World 10,000 Title Kamworor is actually very inexperienced on the track, only having run two 10,000s. His first/PR was 27:06 from 4 years ago when he was 18.- Ugandan Coaches Say The Absence Of Moses Kipsiro Affected The Team There is even a rumor that the athletes put up a “half-spirited display to show solidarity with Kipsiro.”
- Uganda Daily Monitor: “Senior Women End Years Of Agony With Team Bronze” In The Ugandan women have only participated in four of the 42 World XCs.
- Steve Cram Thinks “Future Bright For GB Women’s Distance Running” They would have done pretty well at World XC if they had bothered to bring 2 more women.
30th Carlsbad In The Books *Results*LRCPhoto Gallery
LRCGenzebe Dibaba (14:48) And Lawi Lalang (13:32) Take Home Titles At 2015 Carlsbad 5,000
Dibaba missed out on the world record (14:46) but was still very impressive, winning by 25 seconds. Lalang beat fellow Kenyan Wilson Too (13:35) for the men’s title, while Bernard Lagat was third in a world masters best of 13:40.
*Photo Gallery
Another Sunday, Another NOP L-Carnitine Story
LRCCorrection See Below: Sunday Times Says Alberto Salazar's Group May Have Inadvertently Broken Anti-Doping Rules With L-Carnitine Injections
Dathan Ritzenhein and Alvina Begay are the athletes who would appear to have broken the rules. Even more interesting is Salazar thought L-Carnitine would help Ritzenhein improve 2-3 minutes in the marathon. *Discuss Here
International Track News
Australian Champs:Jeff Riseley Becomes First Man In 24 Years To Win The 800/1,500 Double
*Sally Pearson Ignores Injury Scare To Win Her 7th 100H National Title She ran 12.59 to beat Michelle Jenneke (12.82). *Full Results- Jamaica “Champs”: Michael O’Hara Impresses With Four Titles In The 100, 200, 110H And Anchoring Calabar’s 4 X 100 Another big highlight was 17-year-old Akeem Bloomfield breaking a NJR from 1995 with 44.93 in the 400. In the 110H, O’Hara beat World Youth champ Jaheel Hyde. Hyde won the 400H in a national junior record of 49.01. *Results Calibar boys and Edwin Allen girls won the meet.
Non-World XC Distance News
- Recommended Read: Hey, LetsRunners, How Would You Like To Truly Be Part Of The “1 Percent”:In 30-Year History, Only 1% Of Competitors Have Finished The Barkley Marathons An absolute must read about the 100-mile ultra-marathon in Tennessee which includes 65,000 feet of climbing (more than twice Mt. Everest) and a $1.60 entry fee … although RD Gary Cantrell says, “You pay for this with a chunk of your soul.”
- Jack Of All Trades:Max King Shares His Tips For Running Well At Track, Road, Trail/XC, Ultra And Mountain Racing At one point or another, King has put out incredible performances on each surface.
Doping And Other Negative Stuff
- 40-Year-Old Kenyan Living In The US Gets 3-Year Doping Ban For Steroids And EPOJoseph Mutinda tested positive twice, once after winning last year’s Austin Marathon in 2:14:17.
- IAAF Vice Presidential Candidate Ahmad al Kamali Under Investigation By Ethics Commission For Allegedly Giving 40 Rolex Watches To Delegates As Part Of His Campaign Everyone is talking about Seb Coe and Sergey Bubka. Maybe Kamali just wanted to be noticed?
*Kamali Denies Allegations - Kenyan Standard Digital: “How Athletics Kenya Duped Chinese Firm Li-Ning Into Signing Six-Year Contract” AK signed a contract, but went back on it and instead got a 10-year deal with Nike. Papa Massata Diack says he could have sued AK and Isaiah Kiplagat for millions.
- Former Estonian 1,500 National Champ Nikolai Vedehin Suspended For Doping He tested positive for a banned stimulant in an out-of-competition test while in Kenya.
- So Much For “Turning Over A New Leaf”: Russia Will See IAAF In Court Over Recent Bans The IAAF is appealing RUSADA’s selective drug bans which let athletes keep World/Olympic medals.
- WADA Head David Howman Says It’s “Almost Too Late” For Lance Armstrong To Reduce Ban Armstrong recently met with USADA head Travis Tygart about reducing his lifetime ban.
Gatlin And Nike Making Waves
Justin Gatlin Lands New Controversial Sponsorship Deal With Nike Gatlin was sponsored by Nike in the past before his second drug ban in 2006, but since returning in 2010 he’s been with Chinese firm Xtep.- Sorry, Paula, But Where Have You Been? Paula Radcliffe Criticizes Nike For Giving Justin Gatlin Sponsorship Deal She tweeted: “I don’t believe it truly reflects the core values of the Nike that I am proud to represent …” Is she talking about the same company? The Nike we know defended Lance Armstrong until the very end.
- MB: Nike Won’t Sign Tyson Gay, But He’ll Still Get Paid To Run In Nike Gear Gay’s contract is with his coach, John Smith. So technically Nike isn’t paying Tyson Gay … at least directly.
- British Athletes Speak Out Against Nike For Sponsoring Justin Gatlin Sprinter Darren Campbell: “If young kids look at the spikes he is wearing and say they want them then how can a parent explain why they are not comfortable buying those shoes?” Unfortunately we’re pretty sure he gave that way more thought than 99% of parents.
The Search For A Better Running Shoe
LRCThe Most Popular Running Shoe On LetsRun.com Is … Not Made Anymore … The Nike Pegasus+ 30Thousands of you filled out our detailed running shoe survey in the fall and more of you ran in the Nike Pegasus+30 than any other shoe. Only problem is all of you need to find a new shoe, help us out below:
LRCThe Improved LRC Running Shoe Survey Is Back – Three Minutes To A Better Running ShoeThe running shoe buying process sucks and we want to improve it with data. We took your reviews from the fall, made a running shoe beta site, and have improved our survey to ask you what shoe your previously ran in. We now need more reviews from you on the latest shoes.
In The World Of Controversy
- Good News For Dathan Ritzenhein:WADA Issues Statement On NOP L-Carnitine Usage – Doping Rules NOT Broken With 2011 AdviceThe Sunday Timeshad previously implied that Ritz might have inadvertently broken doping rules. *Denver Post Article
- Bad News For Journalism: LRC PAC-12 Network, World’s Biggest Track Fan Fall For LetsRun.com April Fool’s Day Hoax (updated with video)
Bad News For Asian Women: Indian Sprinter Dutee Chand Cleared To Compete At Asian Champs While Awaiting The Verdict In Her Gender Controversy Case With CAS Like Caster Semenya, Chand has hyperandrogenism and her body naturally produces testosterone above guidelines set by the IAAF.- AP: Ugandan Athletics Federation Investigating Moses Kipsiro’s Claim That Coach Peter Wemali Made Death Threats Against Him Shouldn’t the police be investigating?
- Kenyan Article Says Kipsiro Took His Overseas Allowances For World XC And Then Stepped Off Team Bus And Disappeared This article also says he received a death threat from a woman.
Spring Marathon Season Is Coming
April Fools? Two-Time World Marathon Champion Edna Kiplagat Thinks The WR Could Go Down At This Month’s London Marathon The article came out on the 31st so we assume she’s serious when she said, “The world record is very possible with proper pace setting and conducive weather.”- Q&A With Kara Goucher Talking About Her Last Year Since She Moved To Colorado And Making The Team For 2016 “The only race on my calendar is the Olympic Trials Feb 13, 2016. Anything else is secondary to that goal.”
- Video:Shalane Flanagan Talks About Her Strategy For This Year’s Boston Marathon
- Yuki Kawauchi Wins Nerima Kobushi Half Marathon In 65:39 He’s still on the comeback from injury saying he’s at about “75% of normal.”
More Distance News
US 800 Runner Molly Beckwith-Ludlow Talks About How She Got Lost On A Run During Her First Trip Overseas She left the apartment at 3PM for a 45-mintue run, but didn’t end up getting back until 7:30PM.- Video Highlights From World XC, Carlsbad 5,000, Prague Half And Berlin Half If you weren’t
crazydedicated enough to stay up until 3:30AM ET watching World XC Champs, check out some of the highlights. - HSer Austin Tamagno Runs 4:06.26 Full Mile At Azusa Pacific Meet Of Champions
- RIP:George Spitz, Who Sparked Idea For Five-Borough NYC Marathon, Dies At 92
More From The Weekend
Stephen Sambu (23:03) And Alexi Pappas (26:32) Win Shamrock Shuffle 8K In ChicagoJacob Riley was 2nd in 23:10.- NCAA Highlights: Top 10 NCAA Marks From The Weekend In Each Event A lot of collegiate leads were set, including Collins Kibet 1:46.87 in the 800, Shelby Houlihan 4:14 1,500, Emily Oren 10:04 steeple, Benard Keter 8:47 steeple, Willy Fink 13:51 5,000, Samantha George 15:51 5,000.
- David Torrence Wins Lodi Mile In Close Race With AJ Acosta As Both Clock 4:14Ruriko Kubu ran 4:42 to win a close race over Geena Lara (4:42) and Ala Grandos (4:43). *Results*Race Site
- A Lot Of Fast NCAA Sprint Times, Led By Trayvon Bromell’s 9.90 (Assisted) And 10.02 (Legal)
- Athletics Weekly Round-Up
2015 World XC Special Section *Results
LRC Kenya’s Geoffrey Kamworor Wins 2015 World XC Champs To Officially Arrive As A Star; Fierce Team Battle Goes To Ethiopia On The TiebreakerKamworor and teammate Bedan Karoki hammered from the front as Africa put on a clinic on how to run XC as Chris Derrick was the top non-African in 24th.
Women:19-Year-Old Agnes Tirop Becomes Youngest Winner Of World Cross Since Zola Budd Ethiopia won the team title as the US women, led by Sara Hall in 20th, were 7th.
Juniors:Letesenbet Gidey Leads Ethiopian Sweep Of Medals In Girls Race
*Ethiopia’s Yasin Haji Wins Junior Boys Race As Kenya Wins Team Title
LRC 4 Takeaways From An Awesome World XC Champs: Get Used To The Name Geoffrey Kamworor, The Vindication Of Sara Hall, LRC Is Popular In China, And African Domination Is A Good Thing The long trip to China proved to be well worth it. Have we finally found a rival worthy of Mo Farah?
LRC Interviews: Chris Derrick Talks After Finishing 24th *Brett Robinson 28th *Ryan Vail 34th *Bobby Curtis 37th
More in our World XC Special Section
3 World XC Getty Images Photo Galleries:
1) Pro Photos From Getty Images
2) NewRojo’s Women’s Photos
3) New Rojo’s Men’s Race Photos
RIP Canadian Olympic 400 Sprinter Daundre Barnaby Barnaby drowned in a swimming accident. He was only 24.
Flo-Jo’s Daughter Sings National Anthem At Pacers Game, The Team Flo-Jo Designed Uniforms For
Previous Weekend Track Results *All NCAA Results
- Leo Manzano Breaks His Own Texas Relays 800 Record With 1:46.63Anthony Rotich won the 1,500 (3:46) and Mary Goldkamp set a MR in the steeple with a 10:04.24 win. *Live Results*Meet Home – Heat Sheets, Recaps, Quotes, Etc.*Meet Preview:*Individual*Relays
- Caster Semenya Ran Her Second Race Of The Season With A 4:30 1,500 Victory
- “Champs”: Calabar Boys And Edwin Allen Girls Are In The Lead After Day 3 Of Jamaican Boys And Girls “Champs”
*Live Stream (Pay Per View)*Schedule - Veronica Campbell-Brown Will Open Her Season This Weekend With A 400 In Jamaica
- 2015 Raleigh Relays – Results / Start Lists / Schedule*Meet Home
- Florida Relays Quad Meet Preview
*Heat Sheets*Meet Info - Maggie Vessey And Olympic Discus Champ Stephanie Brown Trafton Competing At Cal Poly Invy Saturday
- Texas A&M Men On Top Of Pre-Outdoor NCAA Rankings
*Texas A&M Women On Top As Well
Rio 2016 Releases Olympic Competition Schedule
Australia Names Team For 2015 IAAF World Youth Championships The championships are in Cali, Colombia in July.
More Doping Stuff
Good Read:Is It Time To Make Doping A Criminal Offence? Former UK Anti-Doping Head Michele Verroken Thinks So (LRC Is All For It) “Why should there be an an automatic freedom pass back into sport once a ban has ended?”
LRC Remembering LRCer Van TownsendThe running world lost one of its bright lights this week with the death of Van Townsend.
*MB: RIP Van Townsend: Share Your Respects Here
LetsRun.com Founders Named as Two of “The 50 Most Influential People in Running”
Runners World Honors You and the Brojos
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