– US sprinter and bobsledder Lauryn Williams (one of the few athletes to have won medals at both the Summer and Winter Games), talking about US athletes’ threat to boycott the 2017 Bobsled and Skeleton World Championships in Sochi, Russia.
LRCDo We Have a New High School XC Legend? -Plus We Love the Fukuoka Marathon, A Trail Running Update and Yes Ryan Hall Returns to Racing Your weekly read to get up to date on the running world.
Usain Bolt And Almaz Ayana Crowned 2016 IAAF World Athletes Of The YearBolt won the award for a record 6th time. Other winners included Andre De Grasse as the male rising star and Harry Marra (who coaches the Eatons) won the coaching achievement award.
Usain Bolt Says He Wishes He “Got Serious” When He Was Younger As He Feels He Could Have “Done A Lot More In My Career” Bolt was quoted as saying, “Maybe if I’d started younger I’d have had four Olympics.” However, he did have 4 Olympics (he didn’t make the 200 final in 2004), so maybe he meant 4 golds.
90 US Track Athletes Sign Petition Calling On WADA To Adopt Reforms The reforms call for an end to the conflicts of interest that exist such as WADA president Craig Reedie who is also an IOC member. We guess we were ahead of the game when we called for Reedie’s resignation this summer.
*Sign The Petition Asking For Reedie’s Resignation
LRCQ&A With Tim Polanowski – Inventor Of At Night Athletic After nearly plowing into another runner one night, Polanowski has invented a pair of running shorts that come with built-in LED lights that can be turned on / off and a GPS enabled panic alarm.
*MB: What do you think of these super high-tech, lighted shorts with alarm that are on Kickstarter? Q&A with co-founder
LRC IAAF Announces 2017 World Championships Entry Standards – Which Ones Got Easier And Which Ones Got Harder? Find out what the pros will have to run, jump or throw if they want to compete in London next summer. Also why is the IAAF sexist?
MB: Official 2016 NXN Discussion Thread
LRC Total Domination: Brie Oakley And Fayetteville-Manlius Dominate 2016 Nike Cross Nationals (NXN)Brie Oakley may be America’s newest female distance star.
*MB: OAKLEY Got Her Gun!!
LRC Casey Clinger Repeats As Nike Cross National Champion But His American Fork Team Is Upset By Bozeman In Team Battle For the first time ever, a boy repeated as NXN champ. Clinger is the individual champ once again but his dream of a perfect day that included both individual and team titles was denied.
RRWBrie Oakley, Casey Clinger Run Away With Individual Titles At NXN Championships
2016 NXN By The Numbers What 8 states have never sent a team? What team has been the most?
NXN Talk On The Message Board
Singapore: Former Champions Kenneth Mungara (2:09:00) And Kennedy Kiptoo Lilan (2:11:36) Will Clash In The Singapore MarathonRebecca Kangogo Chesir (2:25:22) and Peninah Arusei (2:27:17) lead the women’s field.
It’s Official: Vin Lananna Is New USATF President As Jackie Joyner-Kersee Withdraws Candidacy Good luck to our new president.
Discuss: JJK DNF, drops out – Vin Lanana new USATF president!
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