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Bolt Running Penn!

*Ticket Info

*Boards: Bolt to run Penn

*USATF Announces Great News

*Penn Relays Director Dave Johnson Welcomes Bolt's Return

Mo Trafeh Gets A Sponsor After 2 Big Races Trafeh has become a big name in American distance running after winning the US 15k championships in Jacksonville by a minute and then running 61:40 in the NYC Half.

Sad Loss In The Running Community

• Chicago Track Runners Mourn Loss Of Athlete And Coach Larry Gnapp
• Gnapp Ran 3:43.00 For Loyola After Successful Prep Career

2010 Rotterdam Marathon Follows 2009 Where Kwambai And Kibet Ran 2:04:27

LetsRun.com Previews The 2010 Fortis Rotterdam Marathon Our top 9 picks from the men's field include the 3rd-fastest man in marathoning history, the 2009 Boston runner-up, the 2009 Berlin runner-up, the 2009 4th-place finisher in Fukuoka, the 2010 RAK Half Marathon champion, the 2010 City-Pier-City Half Marathon champion, the 2009 World Half Marathon silver medal winner, an undefeated young marathoner and a man who ran 5 marathons and 5 half marathons in 2009.
*New: Link To HD Video Interview With Debut Marathoner Bernard Kipyego

*Look For Debut Marathon World Record To Go Down In Rotterdam Sunday Evans Rutto ran 2:05:50 in his first try at the marathon when he won Chicago. Can Bernard Kipyego or Jonathan Maiyo beat that mark?

From NYRR Homepage: Central Park Reservoir Track To Be Dedicated To Alberto Arroyo The official public dedication of the track around the Central Park reservoir will take place on Monday, April 12, at 6:30 p.m. Alberto Arroyo will be honored at his familiar place at the pump house on the south end of the reservoir.

Ben Johnson And Marion Jones Earn Spots In Time's Top 10 Disgraced Athletes Fans looking for more press for track and field always feel better when lists of scandals come out. More interesting to us was the fact that the Time editor considers Tiger Woods' transgressions to be worse than O.J. Simpson's.
*Nike's New Tiger Commercial This commercial might be the most disturbingly profound thing we've seen in pop culture in years.

Tiger Threads From LetsRun Boards:
*Nike has hit an all time low with its new Tiger Woods commercial
*Tiger's bodyguard confronts spectator at Masters practice tournament - thought she was one of his mistresses

Russia Putin's Olympic Committe In Turmoil - Olympic News

• Putin's Buddy Zhukov Picked To Replace Disgraced Russian Olympic Committee Head At least they're not "disappearing" the former Olympic Committee head.
• Revolution In Russian Olympic Committee These are the people who called 343 positive Russian tests in 3 years an "international conspiracy."
• Rio De Janeiro Hit With Massive Rains And Deadly Mudslides - 2016 Olympic Host Their annual rainy season has lasted 2 months longer than usual.
• Departing USOC Official Not Fired - Insider Insists It's All About Location While some have speculated it's about Chicago 2016's embarrassing exit, Alan Abrahamson sets the facts straight.

LRC The Week That Was In Running
This week, we give props to Joseph Ebuya, pay homage to the man who invented running in Central Park, talk about how ridiculously stacked the SEC is, are inspired by the minds of two champions (Usain Bolt and Bernard Lagat), worry about Asbel Kiprop and talk about the women's 800 stars of 2008 (Pamela Jelimo) and 2009 (Caster Semenya).

Semenya And Lawyers Fail To Hurry IAAF, Set Return Date On June 24 This puts the pressure on the IAAF to actually deliver a verdict in June as promised.
*Previous Gender Cases Have Taken No More Than 6 Months - Legal Teams Make Process Impossibly Tricky

Washington Post Runs Story On Cherry Blossom Race Organizer Showing How Money Works At Big Races This Sunday's Cherry Blossom 10-miler in D.C. will take in $1.1 million in revenue with $42,000 going to prize money.

Keeping Up With The Ndikus

• World Junior XC Champion Caleb Ndiku Headed To Japanese Corporate Team
• Len Johnson Describes Kenyans Practicing Victory Leading Up To World Cross Was visualizing winning at the finish the key to Kenyan domination in Poland?

Results From Italy And South Africa

• Imane Merga Defeats Mosop And Mateelong In Dongio 10km
• Mbulaeni Mulaudzi Runs 1:45.41, Says He's Fully Recovered Mulaudzi led wire to wire in the 2009 World Championships.

Kiprop Struggles Continue - Hammered In Nakuru

Nixon Chepsaina Beats Asbel Kiprop By 10 Seconds In Nakuru 1,500 A muddy track didn't stop Nixon Chepsaina from running 3:39 while Olympic Champion Asbel Kiprop was 4th in 3:49. From the stats available, 2008 Olympic Champion Kiprop has not won a race this year in at least half a dozen tries.

Maine And Montana State - 1,500m Powerhouses

LetsRun.com And Maine Favorite Riley Masters And Coach Lech Talk About His Training For Sub-4 Read about Masters' secret workout (a 4-minute mile in 5 minutes) that led him to 5th in the NCAA mile. The author is a LetsRun fan and a senior at Maine.

Montana State Freshman Pat Casey Finished 3rd At NCAAs And Now Redshirts Outdoors