Non-Distance News

• US’s World 400H Champ Kori Carter Talks About The Challenge She Faced When Moving From LA To Kentucky To Join With Her Former Stanford Coach Carter says it was the first time she had to deal with winter or train indoors and that she also struggled with her coach’s “no bread and pasta diet.”
• Q&A With Former Olympic Champ Dwight Phillips About How He’s Gone From LJ Legend To Aspiring Photographer Phillips started landscape photography as a hobby, but now focuses on sports photos and incorporates it with his coaching.
  *Dwight Phillips Among The IAAF Panelists To Choose Best Track Photo Of The Year Award
• Kazakhstan’s 2012 Olympic Champ Olga Rypakova Talks About How She Made The Switch To The TJ After Starting In The Heptathlon Early In Her Career She was actually the world U20 heptathlon silver medalist back in 2002 and actually started with LJ when she transition to a single event. However, winning a national title in only her second TJ competition changed her mind.
• 19-Year-Old Indian Javelin Thrower Neeraj Chopra Gets Gatorade Sponsorship Deal Chopra holds the javelin junior world record.

No Mo Farah At NOP

MB:Breaking News: Salazar And Mo Farah Split Farah will be returning to the UK where he will be coached by Gary Lough – Paula Radcliffe‘s husband.

• The Oregonian:Alberto Salazar Says The Decision For Farah Leaving NOP Was Mutual
• Mo Farah Used To Make His Wife Sleep In An Altitude Tent With Him; Now They Have One That Splits The BedFrom the second video interview in the article.
• The Guardian:“Mo Farah Splits With Controversial Coach Alberto Salazar And Returns To UK”
• The Independent:“Mo Farah Splits With Alberto Salazar But Denies It’s Due To Doping Allegations”
• MB:Nike Oregon Project GOES HOME DEVASTATED!

Need A Job?

• BAA Hiring A New High Performance Coach
  *MB: Terrence Mahon out at BAA – to return to California at end of 2017
• The IAAF Is Hiring A “Director Of Platforms And Distribution” You will be expected to play a key part “in helping to set the strategic direction of the organization.”

More Weekend Action

• Kenyan Marius Kimutai (2:08:33) And Ethiopian Shuko Genemo (2:27:02) Battle Strong Winds To Get Convincing Victories At The Ljubljana Marathon In Slovenia
• Irishman Loses His National Marathon Title To A Kenyan Kenyan Benard Rotich won the Dublin Marathon in 2:15:53 while his countryman Freddy Sittuk finished 4th (2:16:05). Sittuk was eligible for the national championships because he’s been running for an Irish club for years. Meanwhile Gary O’Hanlon, who finished 11th in 2:18:53, was disappointed to find out after crossing the line that he hadn’t won the national title. *Results
• Jemal Yimer (59:16) And Edith Chelimo (1:05:58) Get Comfortable Victories At The Marseille Cassis 20K
• Meijo University Women Win First National University Ekiden Title Since 2005
• Phillip Reid (65:51) Wins Rock ‘N’ Roll Los Angeles Half Marathon
• Athletics Weekly:Quality Races At British Masters XC Relays

A “Dreams Become Reality” Running Story

Recommended Read:  Check Out This Excerpt From Brandon Hudgins’ Book On How He Battled Against Vasculitis To Achieve His Dream Of Competing At The Olympic Trials In this excerpt from his book, Going the Distance: The Journey of a Vasculitis Patient on the Road to Olympic Glory, Hudgins walks through his decision to quit his job to chase the standard for the 2016 OT. Hudgins has gotten a lot of love over the years on the boards and was the LRC quote of the day a couple of years ago when he first went sub-4.
*Press Release On The Book *Buy It On Amazon

Men’s News That Makes The Cut

• 59:47 Man Sondre Moen Talks Briefly To Alberto Stretti About His Epic Race Last Weekend He reveals he ran the 2nd half alone but that Canova told him to go out with the leaders.
• Eliud Kipchoge Says Sub-2 Marathon Will Happen “Any Minute Now” At Press Event In Hong Kong
• Q&A with 1952 Olympic 100 Champ Lindy Remigino, Who Is Being Inducted Into USATF Hall Of Fame Amazing to think that they inducted someone banned from doping – Mary Slaney – long before an Olympic 100 champ. Interesting fact – Remigno’s son ran 1:49 in HS.
• Euro 5,000m Champ Ilias Fifa Temporarily Released From Prison After Doping Arrest He must check in with the judge twice a month and can’t leave Spain.
• Commonwealth Games 200m Bronze Medalist Jason Livermore Of Jamaica Given 2-Year Ban He has PRs of 10.03 and 20.13.
• Greg Rutherford Is Unsure About Tokyo 2020 – Says It All Depends If His Body Holds Up

Non-Distance News

• Recommended Read:Bleacher Report On Sydney McLaughlin: “The Track Phenom Who Chose College Over Riches” Liam Boylan-Pett profiles McLaughlin, who’s enjoying freshman year at the University of Kentucky, McLaughlin: “I wanted the experience of being a college kid. To walk on a campus, live on my own, get experiences to mature as a person and in the sport.”
• GQ’s List Of The 50 Greatest Living Athletes Four track athletes made the list, but none of them distance runners.
• 2018 Won’t Be Down Year For Sally Pearson, Who’s Chasing Double Glory At World Indoors And A Home Commonwealth Games
• Meet 17-Year-Old Molly Caudery, England’s Youngest Commonwealth Games Athlete Caudery won pole vault silver at the European U20 Champs this summer and is currently visiting colleges in the US (FSU and Kentucky).
• Sweden’s World Discus Silver Medalist Daniel Stahl Gives His Tips For Sport And Life “Discus is not life or death. It is just a sport.”
• GB National 110H Champ Dave King Aiming For A CWG Medal After Not Making It Out Of The Heats At Worlds

North American Marathoner News

• Donations Pour In To Compensate Canadian Marathon Champion For His $1,250 CelebrationTrevor Hofbauer had an extensive finish line celebration which likely cost him the $1,250 bonus for going sub-2:18 (he ran 2:18:06). But Hofbauer doesn’t have to live in regret because a crowd-funding campaign racked up to more than $2,500 to make up for his missed time bonus.
  *MB:Canadian Runner loses $1,250 due to celebration
• Good Read:Sports Illustrated:“Ahead Of The 2017 NYC Marathon, Shalane Flanagan Isn’t Done … Yet” Read: Flanagan feels she is missing a WMM win from her career and is approaching NYC like it’s her last chance, because while that isn’t her plan, it could be. Flanagan also touches on the NOP investigation and Chicago performances.
• Recommended Listen:Cloud 259 Podcast Interview With Puerto Rico’s Beverly Ramos Ahead Of The NYC Marathon (Interview Starts At 4:35 Mark) Ramos discusses the struggles of living and training in Puerto Rico without power in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria and trying to break her 2:36 NR in NYC. *Full Interview Transcript
• Carrie Tollefson Does Podcast Interview With Jared Ward Ward talks about balancing training with work and family life as well as his goals for the NYC Marathon.

Olympics Stuff

• Scary:British Olympic Association Preparing Winter Games Evacuation Plans In Case Of North Korea Attack The BOA head says though that it is just a contingency plan and that he was much more worried about violence at Rio 2016 than any threats in South Korea.
• Alan Abrahamson:“Enough Already With The Pole Dancing” There has been talk about the possibility of pole dancing one day getting in the Olympics, but Abrahamson writes, “The chance of pole dancing becoming an Olympic sport is the same as me beating Justin Gatlin in a 100-meter sprint.”
• Boston Mayor Criticized For 2024 Olympic Bid As He Tries To Win Re-Election His challenger argues Boston “wasted a whole year” on the bid effort.
• InsideTheGames:“What should the IOC be saying to local people in order to win a referendum?” Nick Butler writes the speech that he thinks IOC president Thomas Bach should give.
• Tokyo Plays Down Water Pollution Fears Rio 2016 promised to clean up their water too …