NOP On Front Page Of The Sunday Times

LRC Leaked USADA Report From 2016 Says Alberto Salazar “Almost Certainly” Broke Anti-Doping Rules, Used Prescription Meds And Drug Infusions To Boost Performance The Sunday Times got the report from the Russian Fancy Bear hack. Much of it is previous allegations about L-Carnitine, but we also have allegations that Mo Farah (and others) were given prescription drugs for performance-enhancing (not medical) reasons and this tidbit that Alberto told Lance Armstrong: “Lance call me ASAP! We have tested it and it’s amazing.”
*Mo Farah Says He Is “Deeply Frustrated”; Denies Breaking Drug Rules Farah accuses The Sunday Times of adding his name to the story to make it “more interesting.”
*Discuss
*MB: The Farah “prescription drug” was for VITAMIN D

Sport Politics

• Sarah Barker For Deadspin: “The IAAF Seeks To Restrict The Mark For African Runners” Barker addresses the nation switching debate, summing it up by saying, “This issue comes down to a debate over the definition of athletics. Is it a national sport in which all runners are assigned to a team by accident of birth, or is it an individual sport of free agents in which athletes attempt to maximize their potential by being mobile, by joining the team that offers the most beneficial contract?”
• InsideTheGames:“Budapest Withdrawal Deals Blow To IOC And Casts Further Doubt Over Agenda 2020” Out of the original five cities bidding for the 2024 games, three pulled out even before the real race started.

Russian Doping Updates

• WADA Confirms There Might Not Be Enough Evidence To Sanction Some Russians From McLaren Report A WADA statement said “Many samples were disposed of by the Moscow laboratory” and “Requests to Russian authorities by Professor McLaren for additional evidence went unanswered.”
• Alan Abrahamson:“Less Rhetoric, More Constructive Problem Solving” Abrahamson criticizes the upcoming US Congress hearings on Russian doping, arguing they should focus on issues at home.

Masters News

• Recommended Read:Runner Self Detects A Heart Attack Based On His Split Times Slowing In A WorkoutChris Gould‘s pain never went above 2 on a 1-10 scale, but he knew something was wrong when he planned to run 1,200m at 81 seconds per lap and only managed to close in 89.
• RIP:GB’s Former Mile World Record Holder Derek Ibbotson Dies Aged 84 Ibbotson won 5,000m bronze at the 1956 Games and broke John Landy‘s mile WR in 1957 with 3:57.2.
  *Video Of Ibbotson’s WR Race
• RW:“99-Year-Old “Upsets” 92-Year-Old In Thrilling Sprint” .05 separated the two at in the USATF Masters 60m dash. The video is worth a watch.
• USATF Athlete Of The Week Is Masters Record Setter Kathy Martin In the W65 mile she broke the American and world record with 6:01 and also set American records in the 800 and 3,000.

Cross-Country News

• Japan’s 2:22 Marathoner Kayoko Fukushi Looks Back Fondly At Her World XC Experiences She believes running XC (she was 6th at 2006 Worlds) helped her achieve more on the roads, where she won World Marathon bronze in 2013.
• Messed Up:Dozens Of Spikes Deliberately Placed On Trail To Sabotage Runners One runner’s foot was impaled by one of the nails on the North Carolina trail. Officials have gone on to find 50 to 60 nails so far.
• Georgia Taylor-Brown, The “Forgotten Star” Of The UK Cross-Country Scene, Hopes To Make Comeback At Tomorrow’s National Championships Three years ago she was 4th in the Euro Jr. XC race and 17th at World XC Jrs., but has since struggled with injury and needed two operations for a stress fracture in her foot.
• IAAF:Only One Month To Go Until World XC Championships In Uganda It will be the fifth time World XC will be hosted by Africa, but the first time for the mixed 4 x 2k relay.

Olympic News

• IOC Vows To “Further Adjust” Candidature Process For The Olympics After Budapest 2024 WithdrawalThomas Bach may use this as an excuse to push through with giving LA and Paris the 2024 and 2028 Games at the same time as he argues the current system “produces too many losers.”
• Budapest 2024 Athletes’ Committee “Indescribably Sad” Over Bid Withdrawal
• CBS Los Angeles:“Hosting Olympics Is A Risk LA Is Willing To Take” Mayor Eric Garcetti: “There’s 88 percent support, LA has been able to turn a profit and will do it again.”
• Olympic Columnist:“Thomas Bach Must Now Push For 2024 And 2028 Vote This Year”
• Study Finds Only 7% In The UK Were Inspired To Take Up Sport By The 2012 Olympics Part of the London 2012 legacy was to inspire “millions” more young people to take part in sport.
  *Only 4% Say They Would Prefer GB To Focus On Winning Medals In Tokyo 2020 Ahead Of Investigating In Grassroots Programs/Facilities

Week That Was

LRCWTW: Will They Be The Sport’s Next Superstars Or Are They On Their Way To Being Overpaid Flops? Our Young Phenom Report Card: Alexa Efraimson, Konstanze Klosterhalfen, Casey Clinger, Cameron And Tyrese Cooper, Plus Jeremy Wariner Does The 1,200 We span the globe and recap the week in running.

Sprint/Field News

• 60m World Leader Ronnie Baker Ran XC In Alaska As A Kid, Now He’s Making A Name For Himself As A World Class Sprinter The TCU grad still lives and trains in Fort Worth.
• Becca Peter Of Pole Vault Power Discusses Whether Mondo Duplantis Is The Best High School Vaulter Ever Duplantis has vaulted 18′ 10″ but Peter points out Casey Carrigan held the world record in high school back in the ’60s.
• Nice Profile On Harry Jerome: Canadian World Class Sprinter Who Died Too Young At The Age Of 42 Vancouver Sun
• Track & Field News In-Depth:Can Jenn Suhr, Sandi Morris Or Demi Payne Get Yelena Isinbayeva’s World Record?
• Irish Hurdles Legend (4th At This Year’s Olympics) Thomas Barr Gives Some Tips Watching the Irish journalists go nuts during his run was one of our highlights of the Olympics.
• Thando Roto Ran Wind-Aided 9.98 In S. Africa

2017 Abbott World Marathon Majors Kick Off In Tokyo This Sunday

• Andrew Bumbalough Ready For His Marathon Debut In Tokyo Sounds like he might be shooting for 2:11+.
• Wilson Kipsang Revved Up To Reclaim Marathon WR In Tokyo The CR is 2:05:42 by Dickson Chumba and this year’s course is faster with a couple of hills taken out.
• A Look At Some Of 2:07:48 Marathoner Arata Fujiwara’s Training In Iten Kenya Before Tokyo Marathon
• Olympic Champ Jemima Sumgong’s Training Partner Sarah Chepchirchir Running Tokyo