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Quote Of The Day

“Kenya does not punish high officials who commit crimes of any kind against the people. It punishes pick-pockets, chicken thieves and house helps. Those are the ones who populate its teeming jails. The senior people just go through a razzmatazz of public theatre. But nobody goes to jail. It won’t start with Rio 2016.”

– Roy Gachuhi, a journalist for Kenya’s Daily Nation, reprinting what he wrote in August. Gachuhi is convinced the Olympic official who allegedly stole $10,000 worth of Nike kit won’t spend a day behind bars.

Did you miss our Weekly Recap due to Thanksgiving? Catch up here: WTW One More Look At A Great NCAA XC Meet: Patrick Tiernan Really Brought It, Meet Karissa Schweizer’s Running Family, Colorado Came Even Closer Than You Thought To Winning, Plus Some DII And DIII Love We take one more look back at an incredible NCAA XC Meet.

Saturday Action

MB: Chris Derrick runs 27:38.69 in Japan, Race is dominated by 3:28 man Ronald Kwemoi in 27:33! November is full of intrigue in Japan. Race video available.

Results: 2016 Foot Locker Regional Cross Country Results 30 of the 40 finalists are set. Find out who they are here. The Affolder brothers (one in 10th and one in 12th) have gone 1-2 in the Northeast
More Super Saturday Coverage Including NXN Action Is Here

Doping News: ARD Report Exposes More IAAF-Russian Cover-Ups

Breaking:New Report By ARD And French Newspaper Le Monde Shows IAAF-Russian Doping Cover-Ups And Extortion Was Even Larger Than Thought In addition to Liliya Shobukhova, five other Russian athletes were blackmailed by the IAAF to cover up doping with huge sums of money getting shifted around behind the scenes by IAAF officials. Apparently Shobukhova dropping out of the 2012 Olympics was planned in advance so she didn’t have to get a medal revoked.
*MB: Le Monde and ARD Detail How IAAF Heads Blackmailed Russians for Millions of $ to Coverup Positives
*MB: Russian allegation: British Olympic champ involved in doping coverup. Any insight on who it is?
Allegation: “British Olympic Champion” Caught Up In Alleged IAAF Doping Cover-Up
*MB: Russian allegation: British Olympic champ involved in doping coverup. Any insight on who it is?
AP:“Emails Show ‘Total Protection’ Cover-Up Shielded Russian Cheats”
*Athletics Weekly Article
TASS:Former Russian Athletics Head Valentin Balakhnichev Denies Colluding With The IAAF

More Doping News

After Meldonium Positive, Abebe Aregawi Says From Now On She’ll Consult One Of Sweden’s Top Doctors Before Taking Any Supplements Aregawi’s absence from competition this year was a big boon for the Americans.
Aksana Miankova Of Belarus Will Lose 2008 Gold Medal To Doping

Upcoming Distance Action

Sunday:Uganda’s Former World XC 5th Placer Timothy Toroitich Faces Steepler Jairus Birech And Eritrea’s Aron Kifle At Alcobendas Spanish XC Race Women’s race has former Euro XC champ Fionnuala McCormack vs. Ethiopia’s Etenesh Diro (5th in the 2012 Olympic steeple).
Sunday:IAAF Preview Of IAU 100K World Championships: Sweden’s Jonas Buud And GB’s Joasia Zakrzewski Are The Favorites
Next Sunday: Daniel Tapia, Sergio Reyes, Stephanie Bruce And Clara Santucci Lead US Field For CIM Marathon The international field is lead by Elisha Barno (2:09:45) and Sarah Kiptoo (2:26:31).

Doping News Making The Headlines

New York Times: Jere Longman On Kenya’s Decision To Drop All Charges Against Federico Rosa We told everyone not to rush to judgment on this, particularly after CAS said Jeptoo had hidden her doping from him.
Travis Tygart Says Athletes Have Good Reason To Be Irate With The Lack Of Progess In Anti-Doping Fight “Look at the Rio IO report – 4,000 athletes out of the 11,000 that were in Rio had no tests prior to the Rio Olympics? Our athletes are saying,’What on earth is going on here?’ How is that possible? 1,900 of them in high-risk sports? No tests before getting to Rio? It’s incredible.”
WADA Publishes 2015 Testing Figures WADA did 303,369 tests last year and 1.26% of those were positive.

Next Week, USATF Will Select A New President

Ken Goe: Who Should Be USATF President – Vin Lananna Or JJK? Lananna is a visionary with a plan (but with conflicts of interests) whereas JJK is one of the most famous female athletes in history.

Mid-D News

Good Read:Washington Post:Matt Centrowitz Says He’s Going After The US Mile And 1,500 Records; Plans To Do Some 5Ks Next Year Centro talks about his athletic start in soccer, wanting to “enjoy the moment” now that he’s Olympic champ and shares a 6 x 400 workout where he averaged 51.3.
*MB: Centro Says He is Running 105 miles per Week
Matthew Centrowitz Sr.: “The Rockefellers probably talked about money, the Kennedys holding office. In our house, we talked about racing splits.” Younger Centro says he runs 105 miles a week, part of the reason he chose the University of Oregon was he didn’t see a lot of drinking, weighs 135 pounds and has a resting heart rate between 45 and 50.
Carie Tollefson Video Interview With Nick Symmonds Symmonds talks about retirement (2017 will definitely be his last year), Run Gum, and being an advocate for pro athletes.
Runner’s Tribe Q&A With Brenda Martinez A pretty extensive interview which includes Martinez talking about the structure of her training, what it’s like being coached by Joe Vigil and the OT/Rio.
Drew Hunter Talks About Learning To Cook On His Own And His Mom Explains The Effort That Goes Into Feeding A Family Of 11

NCAA Photo Galleries 1,000+ Photos Men’s GalleryWomen’s Cross Gallery *NCAA Banquet Photo Gallery

Craziness In Kenya

More News From Africa Wayde van Niekerk And Many South African Stars Likely Won’t Be At 2017 SA Champs – They’ll Be At World Relays Instead

Other News Of Note

Hachioji Long Distance Meet – Site Of 27:28 Japanese Record – Takes Place This Weekend It’s one of 5 big meets in Japan this weekend, including a collegiate 10k where one team put “eight of its men under 29 minutes in one heat” last year.
Telegraph Reviews New Usain Bolt Film – I Am Bolt – Gives It 3 Out Of 5 Stars
AP: While He’s Now A Movie Star, Usain Bolt Refuses To Say He’s An Actor
NZ (Population 4.4 Million) Won 4 Track Medals In Rio While Australia (Population Of 23.3 Million) Won Just 2

Sports Politics: New USATF President Next Week

Ken Goe On USATF Presidential Election:“Vin Lananna Is Aiming High And Thinking Big (Again)” Goe compares the contrasting campaign platforms of Lananna and Jackie Joyner-Kersee while Pole Vault Power’s sport activist Becca Gillespy Peter thinks Lananna is “more qualified to be president.”
Q&A With Vin Lananna, Who Tells Masters Athletes Why He Should Be USATF President
Lananna’s Campaign Page
Joyner-Kersee’s Campaign Page
USTFCCCA Endorces Vin Lananna For USATF President
LA Mayor Eric Garcetti Says Donald Trump Expressed His Support For LA’s 2024 Olympic Bid During A Phone Call Wednesday Garcetti supported Hillary Clinton during the election and had slammed Trump as a “racist” and a “bigot.”
*LA 2024 Bid Chief Executive Says “Donald Trump Loves The Olympic Games And Will Be A Big Supporter” And That He “Can Be A Flag Waver For The Olympic Movement”
Hugh Robertson Elected To Replace Seb Coe As Chairman Of British Olympic Assocation Hugh was Sports Minister for the 2012 Olympics and has been serving as the BOA vice-chairman.

More Turkey Day Action

Hartford Courant:Galen Rupp May Be Forced To Wear His Mask Once Again
Hartford Courant:“Cabral Among Elite Runners Looking For Win At Manchester Road Race” Cabral says he’s in good shape now after he was so disappointed with Rio that he didn’t take down time and kept trying to “make steps forward.”
Sam Chelanga Vs. Kirubel Erassa At Atlanta Track Club Thanksgiving Day 5KThomas Curtin, Trevor Dunbar and Ford Palmer are also in the field. Women’s race has Serena Burla and Natosha Rogers

More Doping News

Mark Your Calendars: Second Part Of Richard McLaren’s Russian Doping Report Will Be Released On December 9th
Seb Coe’s Former Aide Nick Davies Says He Was “Conned” Into Accepting $31,000 “Bribe” To Bury Russian Doping Tests Davies claims he was told it was a bonus for hard work and to be used “if needed” for a public relations campaign to ensure the 2013 World Championships in Russia were a success.
*MB:Coe’s former aide admits to taking ‘bribe’ to bury Russian doping tests
Vladimir Putin Approves Russian Law Criminalizing Doping As Vitaly Mutko Promises Inspectors Special Access To Russian Military Cities These military cities are normally closed to members of the public and it is suspected that athletes list them as their training bases in order to deter WADA testers.
WADA Will Seek Legal Advice Before Making Any Move To Reintroduce Controversial Osaka RuleCraig Reedie said they are “reluctant to put anything in the Code that runs the risk of being overturned.”

D3 Runner Gets Mauled

LRC Video: Deer Collision Sends NCAA D-III Runner Flying During Cross-Country Race If you think a cramp is the worst thing to fear in a race, you’ve never had anyone yell, “Watch out for the deer!”

Turkey Day Action – **Manchester Road Race *Results**

LRC Ben True Wins Sprint Finish Over Leonard Korir, Galen Rupp 10th, Emily Sisson Dominates Sisson took down Edna Kiplagat while True won in a tight finish as Galen Rupp struggled with asthma and was a non-factor. Video of finish and top results.
*RRW:Ben True, Emily Sisson Win 80th Manchester Road Race
*Hartford Courant:Salazar Says Rupp Did Poorly As ” Cold dry air is the worst.”
*MB: Official Manchester Road Race Discussion Thread

Silicon Valley Turkey Trot: American Morgan Pearson Takes Down Quality Field The men’s race, which included Drew Hunter (13:56), Lawi Lalang (13:44), German Fernandez (13:39), Olympian Shadrack Kipchirchir (13:36) and others, was won by Morgan Pearson in 13:32. Caroline Chepkoech (15:18) won the women’s race, which included Alexi Pappas (15:44), Leah O’Connor (15:54) and Kate Grace (16:03).
*MB: Drew Hunter: 13:56 today
*MB:Morgan Pearson 13:32 @ Silicon 5km
*MB: Alexi Pappas ran under USA at Silicon Valley TT
*MB: 13 year Grace Ping 16:36 age record

Atlanta:Nearly 12,000 People Compete In Atlanta: Sam Chelanga Outkicks Kirubel Erassa (14:21 to 14:25) As Natosha Rogers Wins Women’s Race

NY: Robby Andrews’ Sister Kristin Breaks A Turkey Trot Course Record Twice In The Same Day At the Marli Run, Kristin Andrews ran 16:39 to win the women’s race and doubled back in the men/open race in 16:29.

Idaho:Slagowski Beats Symmonds (By A Lot)

NCAA XC News

Week That Was One More Look At A Great NCAA XC Meet: Patrick Tiernan Really Brought It, Meet Karissa Schweizer’s Running Family, Colorado Came Even Closer Than You Thought To Winning, Plus Some DII And DIII LoveWe take one more look back at an incredible NCAA XC Meet.

Good Read: 8 Things To Know About The Surprise Women’s XC Champ Karissa Schweizer Including the fact that her grandfather is an Iowa coaching legend and he and both parents starred in college at Minnesota State-Mankato.
Jesse Squire Tries To Put Oregon’s NCAA Win In Historical Perspective And Compares It To Villanova’s 1985 NCAA B-Ball Title We 100% disagree. ‘Nova wasn’t pre-season #4 in B-Ball.

News From Overseas

Old School:Olympic 1,500 Champ Faith Kipyegon Won’t Do Any Indoor Track Races – Will Focus On Cross-Country Instead
Mo Farah Documentary “No Easy Mile” Comes Out December 5th – Watch The Trailer Exclusively Here The film includes clips from Usain Bolt, Thierry Henry, Lord Coe, Haile Gebreselassie, Alberto Salazar and Tania Farah. You can purchase the DVD here. Earlier in the year, the BBC released a different documentary called “Race of His Life.”
Racism? Christine Ohuruogu Says Sports Boards Are Not Open To BAME People BAME means black, Asian and minority ethnic people. We guess she’s not aware of the USATF board, where 11 of 16 members are black.
Catching Up With Cindy Ofili She was 4th at NCAA outdoors and 4th at the Olympics
Kenyan Who Won Kass Marathon Over Weekend, Bornes Jepkirui, Is Now Training For World XC “So far, I feel the hand of God in my career and I hope the same continues even as I eagerly train to try my luck in the World Cross Country team,” said the 2:32:00 marathoner.
2018 European Championships – A Mini-Olympics – Already Has 35 TV Deals With Free Over-Air Channels In Place In addition to Athletics, the competition will also feature Aquatics, Cycling, Gymnastics, Rowing, Triathlon, with a new Golf Team Championships.

More From 2016 NCAA XC

RRW:After Bloody Fall At NCAA XC Champs, NC State’s Eli Moskowitz Is Recovering Well Who said cross-country isn’t a contact sport?
*MB: Elijah Moskowitz of NC State looks like he got punched in the face at NCAA’s
Every Point Counts: RW Speaks With Oregon’s 5th Woman Maggie Schmaedick, Who Beat Out Michigan’s Jamie Phelan By A Tenth Of A Second To Win Oregon The Team Title “In that moment I didn’t know she was from Michigan and I didn’t know that the points were as close as they were … I didn’t find out until later that my final push mattered as much as it did.”
Podcast Q&A With Pat Tiernan After His Upset Win Over Edward Cheserek Tiernan talks about NCAAs, the decision to not wear hat/gloves, competing at the Olympics, and more.
Mark Wetmore On CU Women’s 3rd Place:“They were out a little too tentatively, in fact a lot too tentatively, and then it was a catch-up race the whole way.”
Ben Saarel Became Only The Third Colorado Buff To Be An All-American Four Times The other two were Adam Goucher and Stephen Pifer.
The Denver Post:Katie Rainsberger’s 4th Place Finish Was The Highest Ever For An Oregon Freshman
List Of All DI All-Americans

An Inside Look At What Going Pro Out Of HS Is Really Like

LRC New $50,000 BMW Or A $70,000 Lexus? What It’s Like To Go Pro In Track & Field As A TeenagerIn recent years, Ajee Wilson, Mary Cain, Alexa Efraimson, Drew Hunter, Kaylin Whitney, Candace Hill, Vashti Cunningham and the Lyles Brothers have all gone pro early. We take a look at that it entails.