2017 TCS New York City Marathon Is Fast Approaching

LRC  Shalane Flanagan Says Her Training For 2017 TCS New York City Marathon Has Gone “Exceptionally Well” The 36-year-old is still dreaming big. “I think there was a point probably of some overtraining over the last couple years [and] not really identifying it.”

RRW Meb Keflezighi’s Final Marathon Is In 26 Days And He Wants To Be A Factor In New York – “I want my last one to be a good one.” Meb isn’t just going through the motions for his last race. “I’m healthy, which is a big battle; I hope to be very competitive. I’m here up in Mammoth Lakes, away from my wife and kids for five weeks.”

After Dropping Out In Berlin, Wilson Kipsang Is Added To NYC Field

Doping News: Is Microchipping Athletes The Next Big Thing?

• World Olympians Associate Chief Executive Calls For Athletes To Be Fitted With Microchips To Fight Against DopingMike Miller: “We’re a nation of dog lovers, we’re prepared to chip our dogs and it doesn’t seem to harm them, so why aren’t we prepared to chip ourselves?”
  *The Guardian Article The microchips would theoretically detect changes in markers for illegal substances at all times. So no more micro-dosing.
  *iNADO Chief Warns Against Expense Of Athletes’ RightsJoseph de Pencier: “Personal privacy is too valuable to be jeopardized even for a good cause.”
  *MB:At last, they’ve found a way to stop dopers – microchip all elite athletes
• Only One Athlete Caught In 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Doping Retests The athlete was not revealed, but it was noted that all the medalists and all 170 Russian athletes were retested.
• IOC Still Unsure When Their Own Two Reports Into Russian Doping Will Be Completed These reports are supposed to determine Russia’s participation at the 2018 Winter Games.
• US’s 2012 Paralympic 200m Silver Medalist Shaquille Vance Gets Three-Year Ban For Evading Drug Test The former football player avoided the sample collection after being notified he was selected for an in-competition test.

2017 BOA Chicago Marathon*Tracking, Results

LRC FinalAmerican Galen Rupp Wins 2017 Chicago Marathon – 1st American-Born Winner In 35 YearsThe Cubs ended a 108-year losing streak last year. Rupp has broken a 35-year losing streak with 5 straight sub-4:40 miles.

LRCAlberto Salazar Addresses Leaked USADA Interim Report That Said It Was “Highly Likely” His Group Broke Anti-Doping Rules: “I Know That We Haven’t Broken Any Rules” Salazar didn’t answer why a leaked interim USADA report said it was “highly likely” his group had broken anti-doping rules. “You know what? I’m not gonna get into that. You would have to ask them what it is that they saw that they think that.” Plus commentary from Nick Willis and Stephanie Bruce.

LRC Final Tirunesh Dibaba Wins The First Marathon Of Her Career In Chicago In 2:18:31 As Jordan Hasay Runs The #2 Time In US History (2:20:57)Dibaba did what we expected her to do – run fast and win – while Jordan Hasay was amazing yet again.

• MB:Centro runs Chicago? Centro’s “marathon debut” ended with a DNF after 25K, having gone through the half in 1:18:36 (6-minute pace).

• Kenyan Journalist Says That Although He “Cringed” When Galen Rupp Won Chicago, He Thinks It’s Good For The Sport Elias Makori writes that it will motivate Kenyans to “not rest on their laurels” and is probably a little too hopeful when he thinks it will “most certainly help rekindle American interest” in the sport.
• Chicago Running Form Analysis: Is Form The Key For Galen Rupp And Jordan Hasay? Running form expert Jae Gruenke says Rupp has made some key changes since Rio and Boston that helped him win in Chicago.
• Post-Chicago Stat Blitz From Ken Nakamuta Tirunesh Dibaba‘s top 3 performance average is 2:19:01, third behind Paula Radcliffe‘s 2:16:48 and Mary Keitany‘s 2:18:19.
• Runner’s World Shares Some Human Interest Stories From Chicago Read about an 81-year-old that still works 70-hours a week and was making his marathon debut and another guy who has ran every single Chicago Marathon.

• Hasay And Rupp Were Blessed By A Catholic Priest Before The Race Salazar said they have been doing daily mass with Fr. Patrick Conroy, the chaplain of the US House of Representatives, whom they flew out for the race.
• Salazar On Hasay Vs. Rupp:“I told Galen, ‘I’m glad you won, but if you have to say performer of the day for the Oregon Project, I got to give it to Jordan.'”
• Brianne Theisen-Eaton Breaks 4:00 In Her Marathon Debut In Chicago Theisen-Eaton ran 3:55:08 and tweeted out, “F@#k. I’m out. Never again.”
  *Register-Guard:The Eatons Are Moving To San Francisco
• Chicago Tribune:Galen Rupp Leads Strong Showing For American Runners At Chicago Marathon
• Runner’s World’s Favorite Social Media Posts From Chicago
• RRW:Rupp, Dibaba Dominate At Bank Of America Chicago Marathon
• IAAF Recap

Non-Chicago News Of Note

• NY Times: You Need To Keep Exercising As It Increases # Of Neurons In Your Brain And May Help Prevent Dementia
• Want To Make $7,000? All You Have To Do Is Run 2:21:48 Or 2:42:30 At Armory’s Indoor Marathon In March Prize money has been increased for a world record.
• Who Will Be The 2017 European Male And Female Athletes Of The Year? Mariya Lasitskene (RUS), Ekaterini Stefanidi (GRE), Nafissatou Thiam (BEL), Anita Wlodarczyk (POL), Ramil Guliyev (TUR), Kevin Mayer (FRA), and Johannes Vetter (GER) are your finalists.
• Commonwealth Games 2022 Bidding Deadline Extended As Their Only Bid (Birmingham) Was “Not Fully Compliant”
• AK Finds That 4 Teenage Girls Were Being Sexually Molested At A Training Camp “This was not a camp because where on Earth do you have young girls aged between 14 and 16 years being inappropriately massaged by a shameless adult who has bad intentions, pretending to be an athletic coach.”
• Court Of Arbitration For Sport (CAS) Dismisses Appeal Of Russian High Jumper Anna Chicherova Against Decision To Strip Her Of The 2008 Bronze Sadly, she still is an Olympic champ.
• WADA Lifts Partial Suspension Of UCLA Laboratory’s Accreditation
• Ruth Jebet, Yomif Kejelcha And Michael Jordan Racing In 4-Mile Road Race In The Netherlands On Sunday – Watch It Live At 8 AM ET

LetsRun Investigation Pays Off – US 10 Mile Champs Gave Women Only 6:10 – Not 6:18 – Head Start

MB: LetsRun does it again!! US 10 Miler admits mistake we uncovered – Gives Sara Hall $10,000 Sara Hall is pleased and thanks LetsRun.com for our “detective work.”

Sprint Stuff

• The Charlotte Observer:From Olympic Sprinter To … NASCAR? How Outsider Ato Boldon Is Diversifying Racing They brought him in hoping to attract more minority viewers and Boldon says to his surprise he’s really enjoying the sport.
• Wayde Van Niekerk Will Skip The 400 At The 2018 Commonwealth Games To Focus On The 100/200
• From Last Weekend: Justin Gatlin Wins The Mano E Mano 100m Street Race In Rio With A Modest 10.52*Video
• IAAF Profile On Shock World 400m Gold Medalist Phyllis Francis Francis says she didn’t know what place she finished until she looked to the stands and saw her friends screaming. “I knew the medal was gold because they were jumping up and down and I thought, ‘Oh, this must be really serious right now!'”
• In-Depth Analysis Of The Men’s World 100m Final A team of 40 scientists used 25 high speed cameras and 15 HD camcorders were used to analyze every aspect of the race. Here are some preliminary findings.
• Wayde Van Niekerk Documentary To Be Released February Next Year
• Former Olympic Decathlon Champ Bryan Clay And Former 100m WR Holder Leroy Burrell Among USATF Hall Of Fame Class Of 2017

From The UK

• Seb Coe Suggests Radical Overhaul Of The Sport With Possible Ideas Like Indian Premier League-Style Auctions, City Franchises, Drafts, And Pop-Up 200m Tracks “l’m not ruling, frankly, anything out now. … These are the things that are on the table and I, frankly, don’t want to remove them until we’ve had, really, at times, possibly uncomfortable set of conversations.” *The Guardian Article
• GB Long Jumper Greg Rutherford Has Sights Set On Further Success Before Retirement Rutherford wants to become the first to win three straight European LJ titles and would like to go for a third Olympic medal at Tokyo 2020.
• GB’s Former 400m Olympic Champ Christine Ohuruogu Stays Silent On Retirement  Claims Ohuruogu didn’t seem upset not to run on the 4 x 400 at Worlds and has just started a two-year law degree program.
• Birmingham The Only Bidder For 2022 Commonwealth Games
  *Birmingham 2022 CWG Bid Won’t Stop London’s Plans To Hold The European Championships In the Same Year
• IAAF:Preparations “On Track For An Amazing” IAAF World Indoor Championships At Birmingham 2018 The IAAF made a visit to inspect Birmingham last week.
  *IAAF:1st Official 2018 World Indoors Bulletin Now Available The info guide has info on schedule, tickets, entry standards, the venue and more.
• UK Sport Unveils Ambitious Plans To Bring More Major Sporting Events To Great Britain London 2012, London 2017, Birmingham 2018, Birmingham 2022 … seems to be working.

LetsJump.com

• Sandi Morris Was On Lockdown For 5 Hours During Las Vegas Shooting Morris was at a performance by the Blue Man Group across the street from the shooting and said, “This is probably one of the scariest things I’ve ever experienced in my life, if not the scariest.”
• Olympic, World And European Pole Vault Champ Katerina Stefanidi Says She’s Focused On World Indoor Gold In 2018 It won’t be an off year for Stefanidi as she says, “It’s crazy to say but it is the only gold medal I don’t have now so it is a big goal.”
• Rundown Of The Ten 2017 IAAF World Athlete Of The Year Men’s Nominees Apparently it was the year for jumpers as Sam Kendricks (PV), Mutaz Essa Barshim (HJ) and Luvo Manyonga (LJ) were all undefeated on the year.
• Rundown Of The Ten 2017 IAAF World Athlete Of The Year Women’s Nominees Adding to the list of undefeated jumpers was Russian HJer Maria Lasitskene. Hammer thrower Anita Wlodarczyk was also undefeated for the 3rd straight year.

Kenenisa Bekele Responds To Jos Hermens

LRCKenenisa Bekele “Dismayed” By Jos Hermens’ Comments About His Professionalism After Berlin Marathon, Vows To Break World Record Bekele is confident that the best is yet to come for him at the 26.2-mile distance. “I definitely will break it before my retirement. For all the skeptics, I will show them with my hard work,” Bekele said, waving his hands with confidence. “I want to seize my future. And I don’t want anyone to get into my way of proving myself.”

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