Doping Raid In Spain Gets Bigger And Bigger
- Latest On Spanish Doping: 6 Defendants Appear Before Judge On Sunday, Money Laundering Suspected, Offshore Accounts
- Follow The Money: Dominguez Suspected Of Money Laundering, Making Good $$$ On Doping Ring; There May Be Warehouse In Madrid With Blood From Athletes This article also says the scandal may extend outside of Spain and to other sports.
- Doctor Eufemiano Fuentes' Lawyer Says He Is Innocent Fuentes was suspected by some to be the mastermind of the doping ring raided with Operation Puerto and may still be facing charges in that matter.
- "Dr Doping" (Fuentes) Said In May He Was Done With Sports Apparently not.
- Marta Dominguez Not Among Athletes Questioned By Spanish Judge On Sunday
- Shot Putter Manuel Martinez Speaks Out And Gives His Support To Doping Probe
Honolulu America's 3rd-Largest Marathon *Top Results
Despite Assistance, Belainesh Gebre Declared Honolulu Marathon Champ The Flagstaff-based Gebre has been tearing it upon the roads. She was not invited to the elite field so she flew to Honolulu on her own and entered the race with her boyfriend. He paced her during the race and they shared drinks, but despite a protest she still got the $40,000 prize.
Men: Last Year's Runner-Up Nicholas Chelimo Pockets $40,000
2010 USATF Club Nats *Results
- McMillan Elite Sweeps Team Titles At USATF National Club Cross-Country Championships
The individual winners were Aaron Braun and Rene Metivier Baillie. - Moussa And Bayliss Repeat As Junior Olympic Champions
Previous Spanish Doping News
- European 5,000 Runner-Up Jesús España (Like LRC) Wasn't Surprised And Called The Doping "An Open Secret" (translated from Spanish) Like LetsRun.com, España wasn't surprised by the doping allegations and is thrilled to see it come to light. "It is an open secret that finally begins to come to light. Many of us greatly rejoice."
- Sabino Padilla, Doctor Of 5-Time Former Tour de France Champ Miguel Indurain And 1995 World Marathon Champ Martin Fiz, Apears To Be Involved In Scandal (translated from Spanish) Our Spanish lessons are wearing off, so we need a fluent speaker to tell us for sure.
- Clean Athletes & Coaches Rejoice That Dirty Little Secret Is Now Exposed (translated from Spanish) One coach says he's been waiting for 30 years for this day as cheaters usurped him by taking shortcuts.
- Police Have Secret Videos Of People Being Injected With PEDs
- One Of The Bags Of Blood Belongs To Reigning European XC Champ Bezabeh (translated from Spanish)
Random Stuff Possibly Worth Reading
- Recommended Read: Michael Aish Talks About Trying To Make It As A Pro The article is very interesting of full of interesting anecodotes, including the fact that Aish was coached by Arthur Lydiard as a kid but had no idea who he was and just thought he was some old guy from down the road.
- Caster Semenya Doesn't Do Time Trial - Not Fit Enough To Race Until February
- Update On Julius Achon's Charity Work In Uganda Some very interesting stuff. Imagine never having had a soda in your life.
- Cornell Ex Muhammad Halim Setting National Records
Awards Season Is Upon Us
- David Rudisha And Nancy Langat Named Kenya's Sports Personalities Of The Year
- Colin Jackson Calls David Rudisha's WRs The Highlight Of 2010 Part of his year end review.
Previous Spanish Doping News
Victim #1: European XC Champ Alemayehu Bezabeh Pulls Out Because Of Doping Probe This only going to get bigger. The focus is on Spanish legend and World steeple champion Marta Dominguez, who was arrested Thursday. Bags of blood have been seized and the implications
are huge. Dominguez is a hugely popular athlete in Spain. Interestingly, her coach Cesar Perez ran at UTEP in the '90s. A great place to start may be this message board thread. It's got talk of Perez, people defending doping and some great posts by Renato Canova, top coach of many of the star runners from Africa. Canova gives a lecture on the difference in class in runners and knocks the depth of the women's steeple.
*61 Spanish Athletes Sign Declaration Supporting Raids And Doping Probe
*Spanish Newspaper Headline: "Doping Brings Down Another Legend"
*Coverage From El Pais Translated to English.
World Steeple Champ Marta Dominguez Arrested In Doping Raid The pregnant Dominguez has reportedly been arrested. *Message Board Thread Here
*Reuters Article Here
Paul Tergat's Brush With Death
Tergat's Car Was Crushed Between Two Trucks, Says It Is A Miracle He Survived "On my right was a tanker that had stalled. But on the on the
left side, was another trailer heading my way for a head-on crash. I had
to make a move. I swerved, and that is all I can remember. Everything went dark. I could hear a woman shout, 'Is this Tergat?' I said, 'It is Tergat.' I don't know if they heard me."
*More On Tergat With Photo
Paul Tergat Injured In Car Accident Tergat seems to be okay but he was flown to a new hospital for further treatment. *LRC MBoard Talk
Thursday's Zatopek 10k Down Under *Results
Menjo Dominates 50th Zatopek 10k In the humid conditions of Melbourne, LRC legend Josphat Menjo pulled away after the halfway mark to win the Zatopek 10k. The former 6-night-a-week boozer, Ben St. Lawrence, finished ahead of American star and former NCAA 5k champ Bobby Curtis.
*Melbourne Herald Sun Recap
*A More Relaxed Craig Mottram Says There Is "No Doubt" That His Best Is Yet To Come He was on hand as a spectator at the Zatopek 10k.
A Look At The 50 Years Of The Zatopek 10 IAAF
Ben St. Lawrence Has Gone From Overweight Boozer (Photo To Prove It) To Aussie Star
Unbelievable
BBC Interviewer Says She Couldn't Call Marion Jones A Drug Cheat We understand the press isn't as free in Britain as it is in the US but if she's that scared of a lawsuit she should get out of the business. *Original Interview Here
Something To Ponder
What Are The Odds That David Rudisha Gets Another WR In 2011, That Usain Bolt Is #1 In The 100 In 2011 Or That Haile G. Wins Olympic Gold In 2012? Seb Coe and Ato Boldon and others answer these questions, but we think they give Bolt way too little credit and Haile G. way, way too much.
Awards Season Is Upon Us
- We Agree David Rudisha Had Better Be Named Kenyan Sports Personality Of The Year At Awards Gala On Friday *TIA: Next Week Athletics Kenya And The Olympic Committee Will Hold Clashing Award Ceremonies
- Ashton Eaton Vs. Andrew Wheating For Bowerman Track and field has way too many awards but this one actually makes sense. *Eaton Wanted To Be A Football Player But he couldn't catch with a helmet on and didn't think he was big enough.
Sprint News
- Asafa Powell Back In Training But Not 100% Quite Yet He thinks his back will be 100% by the end of the year.
- Oscar P. To Race On Friday
Previous Zatopek News: Menjo Wants To Break Zatopek Record On Its 50th Anniversary Menjo is the favorite but he'll be facing Australian record holder Collis Birmingham (27:29) and American NCAA 5k champ Bobby Curtis (27:33). Menjo breezed yesterday through a 2,000m workout in 5:20 (26:56 pace). As the legend of Menjo grows, we have discovered that Menjo is - believe it or not - the second most accomplished member of his household. His wife is Eunice Jepkorir, who won the silver at the 2008 Olympics in the steeplechase. If you have no idea who Menjo is, click here.
*Details On Menjo's 2k Workout
*15 Minute Video On The History Of Zatopek And A Preview Of 2010 Race Kudos to the race organizers for trying to educate the public.
We Say Lock Her Up Again For Continuing To Lie
Marion Jones Says She Didn't Deserve Prison *LRC Thread On Jones' Statement
Some Big Names Call It Quits
- Stunning: Gary Reed Retires The Canadian 800m star got a silver at the 2007 Worlds, was 4th in the 2008 Olympics and is only 29 years old.
- Michael Wilbon Retires From The Washington Post & Says A Track & Field Race Was His Favorite Moment During His Entire Career In Sports Journalism Wilbon penned a goodbye column this week. Can you guess which Olympic race caused him to write with tears?
- Japan's 2:07:52 Man Tomoaki Kunichika Retires He was a 1996 Olympian and by our stats retires as the 29th fastest non-African in history.
Somewhat Interesting Reads
- Recommended Read Kenya's 1st-Ever Olympic Medallist Wilson Chumo Doesn't Mind Lack Of Accolades The guy who won bronze in the 800 in 1964 is very humble. The article also reveals that Henry Rono is up for the Kenyan HOF this year.
- Confident (Or Cocky?) Silas Kiplagat Reflects On His Breakout 2010 Season The article has some great insight from his coach Moses Kiptanui.
- Sac Bee: The Only Athletes Likely To Quit The Marathon Are Elites
NCAA Track Has Started And Track & Field News Says Oregon Has The #1 Freshman Class For Both Men & Women Surprisingly, Texas A&M isn't anywhere in the top 10 for either sex.
LetsRun.com Celebrity News
Olympian Kate O'Neill And Stanford All-American Adam Tenforde Get Married And Their Wedding Makes NY Times New York Times
Nike Cross Nationals *Live Thread *Girls Results *Boys Results
Boys: Lukas V. Wins Edward Cheserek, a Kenyan kid now living in NJ, was 2nd (more on his NXN race here).
Defending Champ Craig Lutz of Texas was third. Lukas will defend his Foot Locker title next weekend.
Arcadia (CA) won the team title. The F-M Boys were second.
*Jim Rosa's High School XC Career Ends In Disappointment As He Was Just 78th Well, he should take solace that Chris Solinsky was 73rd at NCAAs in 2006. The article makes it sound like brother Joe Rosa is nowhere close to coming back.
*Recommended Read: Meet The Amazing Edward Cheserek The orphan showed up in the US in June with no luggage, just the clothes on his back.
*2nd Great Article On Cheserek
On The Boards: Lukas who? Japanese high school kid runs 28:23 10k!!!!
Girls: Rachel Johnson Of Texas Wins It Johnson was only 3rd in her Foot Locker Regional last weekend, but has a good excuse, as girls in Texas only run 2 miles in XC. Next week she'll be back at the Foot Locker Nationals. The F-M Girls won their 5th in a row in a runaway.
*Fayetteville-Manlius Girls Win 5th Straight With Record Low Score Of 27 & Scary Thing Is They Might Be Even Better Next Year They only have one senior in their lineup. *Local Coaches Praise Powerhouse F-M Girls Program
From The LRC Archives: Training Talk With F-M Coach Bill Aris He's clearly doing something right with 5 straight girls championships and now 2 boys runner-ups.
Olympic Javelin's Jav Caught By Google Street View Let's hope they catch Marion Jones injecting herself next.
Distance News
- Italian Daniele Meucci, Who Got Italy's First European Distance Medal Since 1990, Is Inspired By Chris Solinsky If you thought American distance runners were bad in the '90s, look at Italy. They didn't have a European medal for 20 years.
LRC Ryan Hall To Run 2011 Boston Marathon It will be his first marathon without a coach.
*Message Board Thread
Interesting Read Sports Economics: Daegu, Korea To Spend $190 Million On World Championships Asia apparently is the only one with money left to burn.
LRC In Monaco
LRC US Sprints Stars Jeremy Wariner And Allyson Felix Look Back At 2010 And Ahead To 2011 Wariner wants to keep getting stronger as he has put his knee surgery behind him. Felix is preparing for a possible quadruple
in London but first she'll have to beat VCB in an Olympics- something she hasn't done.
Previous From Monaco:
LRC 800m World Record Holders: Juantorena, Coe, Kipketer And Rudisha All Together In One Room For The First Time Ever We didn't hype this enough last week because of NCAAS but you'll learn something if you give
this a read or watch.
LRC Bernard Lagat Says The 5k Is His Focus; Watch Out For His Brother, Robert Cheseret
LRC Dayron Robles And David Oliver Agree On One Thing - Allen Johnson Is The Best Hurdler Of All Time Robles and Oliver were really entertaining. Oliver is now one of our favorite US runners.
Webb's Comeback Continues On Turkey Day!
Boards: Webb Over Rupp In Silicon Valley Trot
Alan Webb (13:36) kicked past Galen Rupp for the win in a last-minute matchup of training partners at the Applied
Materials Silicon Valley Turkey Trot.
*Top 10 Men's Results NAU junior Diego Estrada wasn't happy with his 16th at NCAAs on Monday so he ran 13:50 for 4th on Thursday.
*TrackFocus Recap
*Mercury News Recap With Webb Quotes
*LRC Reader Gets Race Photos Word from out west is Webb looks fitter than ever.
*Video: Salazar Talks After The Race, Plus Men's Finish
2010 NCAAs Aftermath *LRC Men's Recap *Men's Results *LRC Men's Photo Gallery *LRC Women's Recap *Women's Results *LRC Women's Photo Gallery *See Who LRC Visitors Voted For Here (LetsRun $201,000 Contest Scores Here)
*LRC Oklahoma State And Chelanga Repeat!!! History repeated itself but things didn't necessarily go as expected, as Oklahoma State dominated and Sam Chelanga didn't win until the very end. Florida State went from 2nd-from-last to 2nd as the Cowboys' only real challenger on the day in Wisconsin faded, as their third runner totally blew up in the final 2k collapsed some 250 meters from the finish line.
*High Winds Hurt Colorado As Their Run-From-Behind Strategy Ran Into Difficulties The Buff men had their worst showing since 1989, as they were 15th.
*Okla. State Newspaper: Cowboys Bring Home School's 50th NCAA Title & Third Largest Margin Of Victory 5th man Jonathan Stublaski had to lobby his way onto the team after bombing at conference and he came through with All-American honors. Meanwhile, the Okla. State paper features a LetsRun.com
photo as we decided to be nice and give the poor college students one for free. T. Boone Pickens, please send us a check.
800-Meter Royalty
Kenyans Are Pumped Rudisha Is 1st Ever Kenyan To Be Named World Athlete Of The Year *More On IAAF Athletes Of The Year David Rudisha And Blanka Vlašić
*Blanka Vlašić And David Rudisha Win IAAF Athlete Of The Year Awards *IAAF Release Additionally, both athletes will receive $100,000 despite the IAAF's financial situation.
LRC Juantorena, Coe, Kipketer And Rudisha All Together In One Room For The First Time Ever There may never be a night like it for the 800m. The last four world record holders, Alberto Juantorena, Seb Coe, Wilson Kipketer
and David Rudisha all gathered together to reminisce about their record runs, to pay their respects to one another and to discuss the uniqueness of the 800m. It was a truly special occasion and these greats were almost giddy about it. They mesmerized the room for 40 minutes. Juantorena and Kipketer wanted their own photos, Coe said the photo would be his Christmas card, and Juantorena also wanted a video of the occasion. We then were notified we have the only video of it in the world. Recap
and video.
More Great Stuff From The IAAF Meetings In Monaco
LRC Bernard Lagat Says The 5k Is His Focus; Watch Out For His Brother, Robert Cheseret The American 3k and 5k record holder talks about his 2010 season, what took him so long to get the American record, raising the bar for Americans, and the bar being raised by Dathan Ritzenhein. Plus he says watch out for his brother, Robert Cheseret.
LRC Dayron Robles And David Oliver Agree On One Thing - Allen Johnson Is The Best Hurdler Of All Time Robles and Oliver were really entertaining. Oliver is now one of our favorite US runners.
*Vlašić, Felix, Lemaitre And Wariner Meet The Media In Monaco
*President Diack's Remarks At The 2010 Athlete Of The Year Press Conference
2010 Foot Locker Finals Are History *Results *Action Photos *Boys Finish Photos *Girls Finish Photos *2000 Race Photos *Photos Of All The Foot Locker Winners Here *$20,010 LRC Prediction Contest Scores
LRC Favorites Lukas Verzbicas And Aisling Cuffe Take Care Of Business Verzbicas cemented his legacy as one of the all-time greats as he became just the third boy to repeat. Cuffe capped off a truly dominant senior year as she won by 34 seconds.
*Photo Above From TrackandFieldPhoto.com, More Photos Here
*Verzbicas' Facebook Page Had Been Focused On Number 2 For Weeks
*Stanford Signee Cuffe: "I tried to break them early." She certainly did that.
European XC *Results
European XC Men: Serhiy Lebid Gets His Ninth European Title Afterwards, Lebid says he has given up hopes of training for the marathon. He is great at one thing ... cross-country.
European XC Women: Portugal's Jessica Augusto Gets Gold on Home Turf The Brits are happy as Charlotte Purdue won the junior race and the women got a silver.
Recommended Read: Meet "The Next Sonia" - Ciara Mageean At 15, she was the Irish 1,500 champ. She might make an NCAA school real happy real soon. *Mageean Is Watching Last Year's Runner-Up Gulshat Fazlitdinova *Ireland's
Best Year By Year At World XC
Excellent Read: 10-Year Anniversary: Ritz Over Webb Over Hall At Foot Locker
It was an epic race and Ritz dominated. Classic 2000 Race photos here. Photos of all past winners here. More FL history here. It's the 20th anniversary of Louie Q's dominating win.
This Weekend
- Patrick Makau Running Honolulu Marathon (But He Won't Finish) You could argue Makau is the #1 marathoner in the world in 2010.
- Women's Preview Defending champ Hayley Yelling-Higham unlikely to repeat.
Men's PreviewSpain's 12:57 man Alemayehu Bezabeh is back to defend.- IAAF Preview Of European XC
Boston News
BAA Changing Leadership: Tom Grilk To become Executive Director; Guy Morse Will Become Organization's First Senior Director Of External Affairs You can check out Morse's salary and all the BAA financials here (they appear to pay all their pro runners through John Hancock so they don't have to reveal the amounts of the appearance fees). NYRR financials are here. They must use a similar tactic.
News From Britain
- British Decathlete May Miss Worlds Because Standard Has Been Raised To 8,000 From 7,700
- Britain Betting Big On Field Hockey / Selling Badminton Chances For 2012
US Distance News
- Khannouchis Are Divorcing, But Sandra Will Still Coach Khalid And They're Both Moving To Colorado Springs Sounds like a very amicable divorce. Clearly Special K has not given up on competing.
- USATF Club Champs Preview: Michael Crouch, Aaron Braun, Brett Gotcher And Jason Hartmann All Running Hansons, Boulder Running, McMillan Elite all will be running this weekend.
- New Balance Indoors To Be Only National High School Meet This Winter
- Bill Rodgers Runs 1:39:39 For Half Marathon He was duking it out on the course with a woman age-grouper most of the race. He had a similar battle with Letsrun.com's Rojo 12 years ago with Rojo coming out on top.
The Stars Of Track And Field Party In Monaco *Wejo's Photo Gallery 1 *Pro Photo Gallery 2
Week In Review
LRC Week That Was - Fukuoka, Working Hard For A Living, Cal International And NXN We go beyond the headlines to give you the scoop of what is happening in the sport. We present to you a difficult way you can make $77,000 a year from running, analyze American vs. Japanese marathon depth, show you the favorites always win in our sport and then turn around and have some interesting stories from NXN on underdogs coming out on top. We even point out the first mistake ever made from the Nike marketing department.
Politics & Running Collide
- Anti-Immigration Politician In Italy Demands Marathons Stop Being Funded Since "Winners Are Always Africans And Foreigners In Underpants"
- Leftists Call For adidas Boycott Of Jerusalem Marathon Apparently the course goes right through a heart of some annexed land.
Leading Ladies In The News
- Caster Semenya Will Return To Racing Dec. 18th Assuming She Passes An Upcoming Fitness Test
- Lisa Koll Talks About Life As A Professional She's running more than 100 mpw right now, adjusting to life as a pro and handling a long distance relationship.
- Sonia O'Sullivan Urges Irish Athletes To Not Let Financial Woes Distract Them From Getting Ready For 2012 O'Sullivan is the leader of the 2012 Irish team apparently.
Katie McGregor And Antonio Vega Named USATF Distance Athletes Of The Year McGregor did win three US titles but we bet both of them would trade their seasons in a heartbeat with Meb and Shalane, who should have won in our minds (unless it counts the 10k, where Solinsky obviously wins).
Off-Road Action
Miguel Heras, Brother Of Cyclist Roberto Heras, Wins North Face Endurance 50 Mile And $10,000 Ultra star Geoff Roes was passed in the final miles by Heras. More here. Nice video
recap here. We must say it looks pretty interesting.
*Max King And Sally Meyerhoff Win XTerra Trail Champs And $2k
Weekend Pro XC Action
World XC Champ Joseph Ebuya Crushes Teklemariam Medhin, Who Beat Him Earlier This Year
Foot Locker XC This Weekend
- Injured runner not allowed to return to team for State qualifiers, wins FL West
- Lukas Verzbicas in Historical Context
- Footlocker Finals Predictions
- NY's Eddie Owens Is Ready To Race The Big Boys At Foot Locker NY Post
- Non-Foot Locker But Worth A Read If You Missed It Yesterday: NXN Runner-Up Christie Rutledge Was 7th On The JV Last Year
- More In Our High School Forum
Fukuoka Marathon *Video Highlights (In Japanese) *RR: Amazing Marathon Stats
- 2 Time World Champ, Olympic Silver Medallist Jaouad Gharib Wins In Fukuoka Amerian Fasil Bizuneh dropped out in the hot conditions. *Japan Running News Recap *Andrew Lemoncello Also Dropped Out He had a good one going before being hit with a side stitch.
- Cal International: Dylan Wykes Wins Cal In 2:12:39
- Scott Bauhs 1:02:38 Half Marathon In Vegas *Josh Cox Gets More Publicity (2:25 Win)
- James Kirwa Wins White Rock
- 2:14 And 2:35 Win In Singapore
- 2:08 At Age 40, 47-Year-Old Former NYC Champ Andres Espinoza Shooting For 2:15 At Age 50 He ran the Metro PCS Dallas White Rock marathon this weekend and ran 2:31 after a 1:13 first half.
Weekend XC Action
NCAA DII
Men: Adams State Over Western Scott Simmons-coached Michael Crouch got the individual win.
Women: Grand Valley State Wins Over Western Former WC marathon bronze medallist Steve Spence's daughter Neely got the win.
Message Board Thread On DII
LRC Fans Division II Predictions From Our Prediction Contest They picked 3 of the 4 winners.
More News
- Ryan Hall Sighted In Flagstaff
- Unreal: 59:54 Guy In Peter Kariuki Doesn't Have A Manager
- Irish Athletics On The Way Back? 28 National records set in 2010.
- Sanya Richards Pleased As 200-400 Double Is Possible At 2012 Olympics
- Recap Of Saturday's Cross Meet In Kenya
4-Time World XC Silver Medallist Catherina McKiernan Reviews Ian O'Riordan's New Book The Irish Times writer's book isn't available in the US but looks interesting and is called "Miles to Run, Promises to Keep - Strange adventures of the distance runner."
Jamaican News
- Ex-Student Association Does Not Want High School In Jamaica Renamed For Asafa Powell We think it's crazy to name a high school even for Usain Bolt. Let them finish competing first.
- Usain Bolt's New Track In Jamaica To Host Meets In 2011
Week In Review WikiLeaks Style
LRC NCAA Week In Review We didn't steal the data or jeopardize national security, but in the tradition of WikiLeaks, we have a data dump in our Week In Review that covers the NCAA XC Meet. Also, last week Alan Webb took down Galen Rupp on the roads at 5k.
NY Times: Babies And Toddlers Now Getting Sports Tutoring
USOC Hopes IOC Participates In LaShawn Merritt's Arbitration We're the biggest anti-dopers out there and think the IOC needs to follow the WADA code and let Merritt compete in 2012 ... or change the rules.
Family News: Russian News: European Steeple Champ Yulia Zarudneva Got Married, Jumper Tatyana Lebedeva Pregnant
Lots Of European Weekend XC Action
- World XC Champ Joseph Ebuya Crushes Diamond League 5k Champ Imane Merga In France By 29 Seconds As Linet Masai Wins
- Eritrea's Teklemariam Medhin Wins In Spain As "Menjo" Finishes 2nd Losing to Medhin is nothing to be embarrassed about, as he beat Ebuya earlier this year.
- Steffen Uliczka And Adrienne Herzog Prevail In Tilburg
- Irish Woodies DIY Inter-County Cross-Country Championships
- Italian Meet
Asian Games Are Over
Korea's Ji Young-Jun Breaks Away From World Silver Medallist Mubarak Hassan Shami And Wins Asian Games Marathon
Thrilling 10k Battle Between Ethiopia & Kenya Bahrain And Qatar Highlight Next-To-Last Day Of Asian Champs A new record of 27:32 was set as the winner came back from 60 meters down over the final 3 laps to win narrowly.
*Reminiscent Of Beijing 2008, Host China Puts On An Impressive Show
The host nation once again wowed spectators with dazzling ceremonies, top-notch security and a record haul of 199 gold medals (all sports). Liu Xiang was of course one of the major stars.
*IAAF Day 6 Recap
Thursday News:
*Chinese Fans And Media Ecstatic With Liu Xiang's 13.09 Return
*Iran's Sajad Moradi And Iraq's Adnan Taees Akkar Go 1-2 In Men's 800
*Guangzhou Spent 20% More On Asian Games Than London Will On 2012 Olympics $18.3 billion in funds went to hosting the games in a a move local officials hope will pay off in long run with more events being hosted.
*Singapore Govt. Condemns National Flag On Front Of Swimmers' Speedos
Wednesday:
13.09 For Liu Xiang As He Wins Asian Games A surprisingly good time for Liu. In other action, World 1,500m champ Yusuf Kamel did not start the 800 a couple days after criticizing team officials for making him running the 1,500. He said then, "I know
that I can't achieve anything."
Some NCAA XC Tidbits
- Oregon Men And Women Left To Rebuild After Being Left Off Podium
- Having Overcome Injuries, Foot Locker National Champ Michael Fout Is Now Running Well For FSU
- Oklahoma State's Tom Farrell Is Starting To Impress Some In His Native Britain OSU's #4 ran a few British junior indoor records last year, including a 7:58. Farrell just finished 29th at NCAAs.
More Rudisha AOY News
Famed Coach Brother Colm O'Connell Says Rudisha's "Not There Yet" To truly be considered great, the world record holder needs a world and Olympic title.
"The Party Continues" The Standard of Kenya The worldwide domination of little LetsRun.com continues as this Kenyan article quotes from LetsRun.com detailing the incredible gathering of David Rudisha, Seb Coe, Wilson Kipketer and Alberto Juantorena in one room for the first time ever. If you haven't read our recap of the event or watched the
exclusive
video Juantorena wants a copy of, click here.
2010 NCAAs Are History *Women's Results *LRC Women's Photo Gallery *Men's Results *LRC Men's Photo Gallery
*LRC Sheila Reid Leads Villanova To Repeat Title!!! Individual champ Sheila Reid led 'Nova to a record 9th title as Florida State was 2nd and #10 Texas Tech was 3rd.
*Reid The Leader Of The Pack As 'Nova Repeats Reid has overcome the injury that ended Bo Jackson's career.
*Oregonian: Oregon Ends Up With Two 3rd Place Individuals In Hasay And Puskedra
*AP Recap Of NCAA Meet *ESPN.com Recap *Philly.com Recap Of 'Nova And Reid
(More Men's Coverage In 1st Column)
Recommended Read: Q&A With Famed Track And Field Journalist James Dunaway He'll be only the 2nd journalist inducted into the T&F Hall of Fame and he deserves the honor after more than 50 years in the sport. A great guy and an LRC visitor.
A Truly Crazy Read: Two Rochester, NY Old Guys Battling It Out To Become 1st Marathoner To Run 1,000 In History One is 79 years old and had a stroke and lives in a nursing home and has a walker but plans to run some more, while his 90-year-old friend is playing catchup as he's 220 behind.
Amazing 50-Year-Old Elina Zvereva Aiming For 2012 Games In Discus She's no slouch, as she did win Olympic gold at age 39.
London $012
Athlete Blog News
Zatopek 10k History And Preview
North Face 50 Miler Recap (Looks Interesting And Crazy At The Same Time)
What's Next For Rudisha After Hero's Welcome In Kenya? (If You Haven't Heard About Rudisha, Coe, Kipketer And Juantorena Getting Together, Click Here)
Relive Men's NCAAs: *Recap *Results *Photos *New (2nd Photo Album Added Here)
Relive Women's NCAAs: *Recap *Results *Photos *New (2nd Photo Album Added Here)
800m Royalty Together For The First Time Ever: Juantorena, Coe, Kipketer And Rudisha (It's Well Worth A Watch If You Have The Time, Or Read The Recap Here)
Webb Beats Rupp - Silicon Valley Turkey Trot Finish Video - More, Including Interview With Salazar, At Spiked Up Psyched Up Blog
Old 15k WR Holder Interviews New WR Holder
LetsRun.com's Message Boarders Rejoice
Despite Being European 400m Champ, Kevin Borlée's Dad Wants Him To Move Up To The 800 He is the "slow" Borlée twin yet was the European champ this year. He's not ready to move up.
NYC Champ Edna Kiplagat Getting Props In Boulder
- Kiplagat Wins NYC, Relaxes In Boulder And Her Family Wants To Know If She Met Edison Pena
- Denver Post Profile On Kiplagat And Her Training In Boulder