Weekly Recap
LRC Mo Farah The GOAT? Suzy Favor Hamilton > Galen Rupp? Usain Bolt's Love Life, Wisdom From Pfaff & Salazar, And A Whole Lot More We know some of you will want to get away from the in-laws, so we have a massive weekly recap for you. This week we spend a lot of time wondering, "Was Mo Farah's double win really by far the greatest Olympic distance double" as Alberto Salazar claimed? (No). We also compare Suzy Favor Hamilton to Galen Rupp, give you great coaching insight from Dan Pfaff and Alberto Salazar, wonder if this was the greatest year ever in the men's 800, try to figure out who had the better year in the marathon - the Kenyans or Ethiopians - and remind you to yawn before your next race. Plus Usain Bolt's ex-girlfriend kisses and tells, and why the best thing about altitude training may have nothing to do with altitude.
Run, Recover, Run More
LRC Runners Recover Better And Hopefully Stay Injury Free With These Two Products From The 2012 Running Event Wejo talks about some of the injury prevention products he saw at the The Running Event, which include better methods for massage, icing, and compression.
Kim Conley Enjoying Her First Christmas As An Olympian And Talks About How Things Have Changed "I called myself a professional runner before the Olympics, but it's hard to call yourself a professional if you don't make any money."
Athletics Illustrated Interview With Canadian Heptathlon NR Holder Jessica Zelinka, Who Is Ranked 7th In The World In Both The Heptathlon & 100 Hurdles However, despite being ranked 7th in the world in two events, Athletics Canada recently dropped her from funding. Adding to her bad luck, she got a strike for missing a drug test while she was delivering a speech to the Canadian Olympic Committee.
Watch A Different Christmas Movie This Year: "The Man Who Saved Christmas" Is A 2002 Film About 1908 PV Olympic Champ And Toymaker Alfred Gilbert Gilbert set two pole valut WRs and invented the Erector Set.
The Media Reacts To Suzy Favor Hamilton
Mid-Saturday Update:
Definitely Not Politcally Correct: Chicago Sun-Times Columnist: SFH isn't alone - lots of female distance runners are total nut jobs SFH had "a glint of ferocity in her eyes, of suppressed danger. I saw the look in many of the Wisconsin middle-distance and long-distance female runners. In my book, I made special note of them, of their lapses
into near insanity, of their successes and crashes and eating disorders
and dependence on their controlling German head coach, Peter Tegen."
*Foot Locker Midwest Head Says Hamilton Can't Even Work As Volunteer At Its Event - Doubts She'll Keep Any Running Jobs
"There is not a person in my opinion who has given more back to the sport of distance running than she has. That's why it's so tragic. We're
losing Suzy." The UW-Madison School of Education, and the Wisconsin Potato and Vegetable Growers Association also are re-considering.
*FBI Might Be Interested
*The Daily Beast Examines How Escort Services Work (link fixed)
Usain Bolt Gets Dumped And Other Random News
- Usain Bolt Gets Dumped By British Girlfriend She says she couldn't handle the long-distance relationship and spills the beans on what it was like to date the global superstar.
- Video Interview: Jenny Simpson Talks About Her Move Back To Boulder And Coach Mark Wetmore
- Mo Farah On Queen's New Year's Honours List
- Madrid Anti-Doping Testing Laboratory Suspended By WADA And Its Head Has Resigned Due To A Testing Anomaly This is bad timing for Madrid as they turn in their bid file to host the 2020 Games to the IOC in 3 weeks.
- Canadian High Schoolers Wanted: Tokyo University Head Coach Looking To Recruit Male Distance Runners From Canada
- YouTube Documentary: "The Steeplechase: Man's Greatest Barrier"
Previous SFH News
*Husband Reacts With Compassion "Yes, I knew. We were essentially separated the past year. We are trying, with help, to see if we can make
it work. Suzy is a good person who went down the wrong path, obviously."
*AP Knocks On Hamilton Door Gets No Answer, Finds Psychologist Who's Not Surprised "She needed to have some way to express some other side of herself that
didn't feel as clean or wonderful or upstanding as she appeared to be."
*Seduction
Author Not Surprised Either
"I believe at least fifty to sixty percent of all single women are
Wholesome Pretenders. ... The vast majority of women are taught and
brainwashed to behave as 'innocent, wholesome good girls.' For most
women, that is not the reality of their inner sexuality."
*Fox Sports.com: Sex scandal not funny, just sad.
*Colin Cowherd (Chris Lear And Rojo's Favorite Sports Radio Guy) Leads ESPN Show With SFH Talk - *Listen As He Says Her Actions Probably Aren't As Rare As You Think
*SFH Lands On Cover Of Daily News
*SFH Banned From All Disney Sporting Events
*runDisney Drops SFH As Event Speaker
*Competitor Group Drops Her As Well
*Bleacher Report: Former Olympian Deserves Privacy To Handle Personal Issues
Unbelievable
The Smoking Gun.com: Suzy Favor Hamilton Has Been Working As $600/Hour Escort For Last Year SFH, the 3-time Olympian, has
been one of the hottest commodities in the escort business over the last year as she jumped up to a #3 ranking and got rave reviews for her runner's body and for providing
the "full GFE (girlfriend experience)." One client raved, "I would do anything to protect her. ... She is worth every penny. I will go bankrupt before I stop seeing her. I hope no one else goes to see her, because I want her all to myself. ... I never thought I would find anyone in this hobby like her."
*Suzy Favor Hamilton Issues A Statement
*MB: Suzy Favor-Hamilton: Vegas Escort
Reaction From Across The Globe:
*NY Times: 1,176 Words On SFH: Former Olympian Cites Depression For Taking Job As Escort
*NY Daily News On Hamilton
*RRW: Suzy Favor Hamilton Admits To Double Life As $600 Per Hour Escort (link fixed)
*Hometown Reaction: Wisconsin State Journal: Suzy Favor Hamilton cites depression as
reason she led "double life" as high-priced prostitute
*Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Olympian Suzy Favor Hamilton admits she worked as escort
*Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Profile On Hamilton In July Where She Talked About Battling Depression
Suzy Favor Hamilton TV Report In Chicago
European News
- Ireland's Euro XC Champ Fionnuala Britton Won't Be Resting This Holiday Season As She's Racing XC Races This Sunday And January 5th And 12th She'll race the Lotto Cross Cup in Brussels on Sunday and then go up agaiunst teams from America and GB at the Great Edinburgh Cross-Country on January 5.
- AW Reviews Seb Coe's Autobiography And Says It's A "Cracking Tale" Full Of Shocking Stories You learn about Coe's dark side, which includes some childhood shoplifting, skipping school to train, and "even the occasional f-words."
- Istanbul Hoping That Their Plan To Build The World's Largest Airport Will Help Them Win 2020 Olympic Bid
- GB's Three-Time Olympic Jav Thrower Goldie Sayers Says She's Not Done Yet After An Elbow Injury Kept Her Out Of London 2012 Setting the UK NR three weeks before London has encouraged her to continue on to Rio 2016.
- John Nuttall Appointed Co-Distance Coach Along With Terrence Mahon As Ian Stewart Prepares To Step Aside To Focus On Working As A Meet Director
Has The Secret Campaign For The Replacement For Jacques Rogge As IOC President Already Begun? Names mentioned are Thomas Bach, Richard Carrion and Ng Ser Miang ... no mention of Seb Coe.
Aussie 400m Runner To Be Investigated After He Made Allegedly Unsubstantiated Claims Of Racism Against Athletics Australia
*Athletics Australia Statement
US Collegiate Athletes Of The Year Are Announced
The Bowerman: LSU's Kimberly Duncan And S. Utah's Cam Levins Win The 5k and 10k champ Levins won on the men's side over the 100 and 110H champ, but there was even more intrigue on the women's side. Duncan had an incredible season as
she won two individual NCAA crowns in the 200, was runner-up in the 100 and was on LSU's winning 4 x 100 and runner-up 4 x 400 teams, but one LRC visitor at a minimum is irate that Arizona's Brigetta Barrett didn't win. How do you top being being undefeated for the collegiate season and then winning an Olympic silver?
*MB: So an undefeated collegiate woman who won an Olympic silver medal isn't the NCAA track AOY - a non Olympian is?
The BBC Interviews Alberto Salazar & He Doesn't Hold Back In His Assessment Of Mo Farah's Place In History
- Salazar: Mo Farah Completed Toughest Olympic Double In History "Mo Farah's double gold at London 2012 was the greatest distance running achievement in history, according to his coach Alberto Salazar."
- BBC: Salazar Compares Mo To Other Double Olympic Champs - "He's surpassed them by far."
- Salazar: "I knew Mo and Galen were ready when they wanted to play Fifa Soccer instead of go to their last track workout."
- Listen Here: BBC Interviews US "Super Coaches" Dan Pfaff & Alberto Salazar For 2 Hours LRC has always said John Kellogg and Pfaff are the only two people we know who are geniuses when it comes to track and field. We think Salazar's quotes come from this piece.
Jessica Ennis Getting The Post-BBC Sports Personality Award Show Headlines
- Jessica Ennis' Bum (Americans, That Means Butt) Gets Attention At BBC Awards "Move over pippa @J_Ennis is now Queen of the bottom! #spoty," - tweet.
- Jessica Ennis Reveals How She Learned To Love Her "Butch" Olympic Body
- Ennis Auto-Biography Is Getting Rave Reviews "Rick Broadbent captures that mood brilliantly."
- Did Jessica Ennis Snub Kate Middleton? Some Brits say yes and are irate. Judge for yourself with the video below.
- Column: Brits Born In "Jessica Ennis Generation" Finding Mixed-Race Living Is Better Than Before
- After Finishing 4th In BBC Voting, Mo Farah Hopes To Pick Himself Up By Getting Pele To Do Mobot
- Mo Farah's Wife Gets Acclaim For Looking Stunning Just 4 Months After Giving Birth To Twins
- McDonald's - The Breakfast Of Champions
Bradley Wiggins Celebrates BBC Sports Personality Of Year Award By Having 10 Drinks, Staying Out All Night And Then Going To McDonald's
A MUST Read - One Of The Greatest Races Ever Run - The US Women's Version Of The Billy Mills 10,000 Win
RWorld Reintroduces The World To Debbie Heald, Who 40 Years Ago Incredibly Ran The US HS Indoor Mile Record Of 4:38.5 Steve Friedman's piece on Heald is moving to say the least. Heald, whose father had committed suicide,
who had been molested and who was always battling injury (13 different running-related surgeries), somehow
at the US vs. USSR meet at age 16 in 1972 beat the greatest runners in the world, including the indoor 1,500 record holder and that year's eventual Olympic 1,500 champion, by running an a 8.5-second PR of 4:38.5. She came from way back to win thanks to a ferocious kick and she was known for having no kick. Her life since then has been full of struggles with schizophrenia but her HS indoor record still stands.
MB: Debbie Heald article in RW
Heald's Incredible 1972 Race
More On Heald:
*2002 LA Times Feature
*1972 Sports Illustrated
*1967 Faces In The Crowd At Age 11
From The MB:
*16-year-old Debbie Heald takes down the Russians, sets AR in 1972
*No Wikipedia entry for Debbie Heald ...
*1972 USA vs. USSR: 16-year-old wins the women's mile in a national record. (still standing)
*1972 Video Of Debbie Heald
The Running Event Is In The Books *Photos
LRC The 2012 Running Event Is In The Books: Five Takeaways On The Industry Shark Tank's Daymond John Speaks The trade show for specialty running shops was last week in Austin, Texas and LRC's Wejo was there plus Ryan Hall,
Meb Keflezighi, and most of Saucony's top athletes. The running industry should be renamed the "how to not get injured" industry. Some take-aways from the convention.
*Press Release: The Running Event 2012 Attracts 2,100 To Austin
Merry Xmas:
- Mo Farah Will Train On Christmas Day - Will You?
- Bolt Wishes Fans Merry Xmas Via Twitter
- Did You Know? 1908 Olympic Gold Medallist In Pole Vault, Who Invented 1st Toy Widely Advertised In Media, Saved Xmas In 1917 By Continuing Toy Production During War
- Unrelated To Christmas But Heartwarming - Is The Meaning Of Life Love?
Read this article on a high school superstar physics teacher with a disabled son & then watch this video.
- Non-Cheerful News: Sorry Guys, Hannah England Is Engaged
Oregon Thought He Didn't Recruit Distance Studs - Others Thought He Only Got Them To Transfer
Who Says Martin Smith Can't Recruit Distance Runners? 4:02 HS Miler J. Burcham Commits To Oklahoma Burcham is a beast who ran 4:33 in 8th grade.
Columnist Implies Racism Resulted In Mo Farah Finishing 4th In BBC Sports Personality Of Year Award We disagree. One could easily argue that the two men who beat him (Andy Murray and Bradley Wiggins) deserved it more than he did and Jessica Ennis' gold is comparable and likely to garner more votes as she's the leading female.
Jamaican News
- Official Team Jamaica Behind-The-Scenes Video From The 2012 Olympic Games
- Kirani James Wants Bolt To Bolt 100m For 400m As he should, as his appearance fees would go way up. The author disagrees.
How Many Cups Of Milk Should Kids Drink A Day? Experts Say Two Per Day You don't want too many or your iron absorption is affected.
Sunday Results: Both Euro XC Champs Lose And Show The Best Europeans Are Still Not As Good As Mid-Level Africans
- World Junior Steeple Silver Medalist Gilbert Kirui Wins IRIS Lotto Crosscup In Burssels Over Good Field As Euro XC Champ Andrea Lalli Was Back In 7th Ethiopia's World Junior Championships 5,000 silver medallist Ruti Aga took the women's race after a battle with Ireland's 2011 and 2012 European champion Fionnuala Britton.
*Athletics Weekly: Silver for Britton in Belgium
*Irish paper: Britton gets silver in Brussels for xmas - World Junior 5,000 Record Holder Hagos Gebrhiwet & Berlin Marathon Champ Aberu Kebede Were The Winners At Yesterday's Great Ethiopian Run 10k Gebhiwet ran 28:37 and Kebede 33:27 in the race founded by Haile Gebrselassie back in 2001.
- Yukiko Akaba Defends Her Title At The Sanyo Ladies Road Race Half Marathon In 1:09:56
Justin Gatlin Says He Still Hasn't Given Up On Beating Usain Bolt "I've got world champion blood in me. It's not about times but about running to the line, being the first across it. ... I've got the Gatlin guns to throw at the Lightning Bolt and the Beast (Yohan Blake) and Tyson Gay."
Looking Ahead: Jan. 6th Campaccio Cross-Country: Italy's Andrea Lalli Will Be Up Against Olympic 5,000 Bronze Medalist Thomas Longosiwa And Leonard Komon Priscah Cherono leads women's field.
Kenyan News: Peter Mateelong Wins And Asbel Kiprop Is Healthy Again *Photos
- Peter Mateelong Wins KCB/Athletics Kenya National Cross-Country Series Meet Over 7-Time World XC Veteran Hosea Mwok Macharinyang Asbel Kiprop rabbitted the first 5k as 2011 African XC champ John Mwangangi was 4th. African 5,000/10,000 Champ Glady Cherono won the senior women's race over Chicago Marathon 3rd placer Lucy Kabuu and in the junior women's race, there was a huge upset, as World Junior XC gold medallist Faith Chepngetich Kipyegon was 5th as World Junior 3,000m champ Mercy Chebwogen won. *2nd Article focusing on some of the other top runners who lost. *Photos
- RunBlogRun Post On Why Kenyan Elites Are Starting To Move Away From Group Training Camps LetsRun has always said that Athletics Kenya always forcing their athletes to go to controlled training camps in the weeks ahead of major championships is a horrible idea.
- Toni Reavis Jokes That According To The Stats, The Marathon Could Be Considered For Elimination From The Olympics The IOC says Olympic sports should be "widely practiced around the world" and outside of Kenya and Ethiopia, only nine other nations have runners with times in the top 100 for 2012 (and those nations have only 1 or 2).
- Former Steeple World Champ Brimin Kipruto Looking Forward To Taking Back His Title At Moscow 2013 This will be his fourth World Championships appearance, with his first back in 2005.
- Prize Money For July Nairobi Marathon Winners Still Unpaid
Ireland's Paralympic T13 100/200 Champ Jason Smyth Says He Wants To Defend His Titles In 2016
More End-Of-The-Year News
- European Athletics Year In Review: Sprints & Hurdles
- NZ Sports Story Of The Year? A Look Back At Valerie Adams Drama Filled Olympics
- Superfan's 2012 Cinderella Story Of The Year Awards Cam Levins, Kim Conley, Evan Jager and Taoufik Makhloufi all get mentions.
- RunnersTribe Year In Review: "It's hard to believe that just a year ago Farah's biggest claim to fame was a European championships double in 2010."
- Greg Rutherford Talks About His First Christmas As An Olympic Gold Medalist www.guardian.co.uk
- The Kelly Holmes Camp Has Educated 80 Young Athletes Who Have Gone On To Win 22 Medals At Commonwealth, European, Or World Championships
- IAAF 2012 Year In Throws Review The article doesn't go into it much, but 2012 was the year of doping positives in the throws. Belarus's Nadezhda Ostapchuk and a bunch of retests from 2004-2005.
MileSplit's Weekend Indoor Prep Highlights
Upcoming Action For The Rest Of 2012 And Early 2013
- Today: Kenya's Shoe4Africa Women's 5km: 10,000m Olympian Joyce Chepkirui Will Try To Defend Her Title
- Sunday: IAAF Preview Brussels XC Meet: Recently Crowned Euro XC Champs Ireland's Fionnuala Britton And Italy's Andrea Lalli Will Get A Chance To Back It Up Lalli will be up against World Junior steeplechase silver medalist Gilbert Kirui and sub-27 10,000 man Kenneth Kipkemo. Britton will face top competition in 9:14 steeplchaser Lydiah Chepkurui.
- New Year's Eve: Delilah DiCrescenzo And Ashley Higginson Lead Women's Field For Emerald Nuts Midnight Run Christian Thompson, Liam Boylan-Pett and defending champ Landon Peacock lead men's field.
- January 5th: Quick Preview Of Great Edinburgh Cross-Country Meet: Fionnuala Britton And Spain's Ayad Lamdassem Will Defend Their Titles This meet puts teams from GB, Northern Ireland, Team Europe, and Team USA against each other.
Spikes Magazine: "The Rise Of The Jager Meister" Jager says he got his start in soccer where he "used to run the entire game without needing a sub and I usually did it faster than everyone else too."
Sports Awards And 2012 Reviewed
- Writer Says BBC's Sports Personality Of The Year Award Had A Sour Note As Mo Farah Finished Way Back In 4th With Only 8% Of The Public Vote Without knowing the specific criteria for the award,
it's at least clearone can argue that Farah's double gold was way more impressive than Ennis' single hepathlon gold and she was runner-up for the award. - Mo Farah Was Only 4th In The UK, But Is #3 On ESPN's Top 10 Sports Personalites Of The Year List
- Jessica Ennis Among Most Googled Female Athletes Of 2012
- The IAAF Starts Its 2012 Year End Review With The Multi Events Ashton Eaton's WR at the Trials followed by Olympic gold was definitely the multi-event highlight of the year.
- Photographers' Favorite Photos From The London Olympics
- RW's Top Trends Of 2012 Includes shift to minimalism and races selling out very fast.
- Kirani James To Receive Caribbean Spirit Of Sport Award
- Ryan Gregson's Christmas Blog Says he'll be eating a ton.
Looking To 2013: - USATF 2013 Running Circuit Will Feature Over $500,000 In Total Prize Money Series features 9 events with the overall men's and womens' series champ taking home $25,000.
- With The 2012 Bowerman Award In The Books, Who Might Win Next Year? Brigetta Barrett and Kimberly Duncan both return as seniors.
Increased HGH Use In Pro Sports Has Led To Record Sales By World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Sports Illustrated
When It Comes To Track, NZ Starting To See A Shift In Focus To Throwing Events
Stop Complaining: NYC Marathon Announced Cancellation Policy And You Can Get A Refund Get a refund or pay again for next year and run next year (while paying for this year as well).
On The Boards: NYC Marathon Resolution
*WSJ: NYRR Reach Multi-Million Dollar Settlment With Insurance Company After Cancellation Of NYC Marathon
New Year's: World XC Champ Imane Merga Will Take On Olympic 5,000m Bronze Medalist Thomas Longosiwa In New Year's Eve 10k Race In Bolzano, Italy Scott Bauhs is also in the field as two-time World 5,000m silver medallist Sylvia Kibet headlines women's 5k.
Good Read: Brett Larner Explains "How I Learned To Love The Ekiden And Why You Should Too" "When you put on that soaking wet, stinking piece of cloth and your own sweat mingles with it there is a physical bond formed between your life and theirs, your own years of work becoming part of something bigger, and others are waiting to join you. Giving anything less than your best is not sacrificing your gift, it is sacrificing everybody else's gifts."
US News
- USADA Chief Travis Tygart Says He Received Death Threats And Hate Mail After Releasing Lance Armstrong Doping Report
- Angelina Jolie To Direct "Unbroken," A Film About Former Olympic Distance Runner And WWII POW Louis Zamperini
- Q&A With Former Pro Ed Torres (Twin Of Jorge Torres), Who Was Recently Elected The New Chair Of USATF's LDR Committee He spoke a bit about the new marathon trials standards and defended the move to make them faster.
- USOC To Start Looking At Candidates To Bid For Hosting The 2024 Summer Or The 2026 Winter Olympic Games New York City, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles and Philadelphia are some likely to bid for 2024, while Denver, Reno-Tahoe and Salt Lake City likely for 2026.
- Larry Probst Re-Elected As USOC Chairman
- Cam Levins On Winning The Bowerman: "To have it happen was just unreal, I'm still in a bit of shock."
- Kimberly Duncan: "When I heard them call my name, I had to take a moment just to make sure I heard them right. It's so surreal."
Sports Science: Viagra Improves Performance In More Ways Than One
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Athletics Illustrated Q&A With Steve Magness Apparently Viagra when combined with high altitude training has the potential to improve athletic performance.
- WSJ Continues Its Campaign To Discourage People From Exercising: Study Says Playing A Round Of Golf Is Just As Beneficial As A 100-Mile Bike Ride For Aiding Longevity We stopped reading after the second paragraph, when we saw the study is based on data taken from Olympian mortality records between 1896 and 1936.
- On The Other Hand ... Study Finds Olympic Medalists Live On Average 2.8 Years Longer Than Average Population This study looked at Olympic athletes between 1896 and 2010.
US News: Adam Nelson On His Way To Becoming An Olympic Champion
- Good News: 4 Throwers From 2004 Athens Olympics Officially Stripped Of Their Medals After Doping Retests *2nd Article
- Which Means ... Q&A With Adam Nelson, Who Stands To Be Upgraded To Gold After Official IOC Announcement Stripping Yuriy Bilonog Of His Medal "To be honest, it feels really strange and it's a weird feeling. I've heard the rumors before and have not given the rumors much credit until an official ruling. Now that it's happened I'm excited. It is all just sinking in. You know, I feel I excited as I did to not lose that event [in 2004]; I was second on a tie-breaker. I feel good that I will always be the person who threw farthest on that day."
Sad News: Two-Time Foot Locker Finalist Arrested For Murder Eric Kweder, who has popped up in a number of threads over the years, was 9th in 1995 as an 11th grader - one spot ahead of eventual Olympian Jonathan Riley.
Foot Locker Finals *Results *Boys Photo Gallery *Legends Pre-Race Photo Gallery
Boys: Edward Cheserek Repeats After Battle With Sean McGorty McGorty, the South champ, and Jake Leingang, the Midwest champ, didn't make it easy for Cheserek, but there is a reason Cheserek
doesn't lose - he's
the best in the US high school ranks. The four Regional winners went 1-2-3-4. *Results *Milesplit Recap *Edward Cheserek Interview
Girls: Anna Rohrer Overcomes Fall To Win Rohrer pulled away for the win after falling after the start. Her Midwest teammates dominated the race with 6 in the top 10. Catarina Rocha of the Northeast was the runner-up, with both runner-ups having a least one Foot Locker finalist parent. *Results
*Steve U's Recap *Anna Rohrer Interview
*OTB: Sarah Baxter 2016 Olympics? *wow footlocker, get your cameras fixed. learn how to cover a national race *Has Foot Locker gone too far?
Kenenisa Bekele Finishes His Track
Kenenisa Bekele Builds His Own Track/Runner's Paradise In Ethiopia And Hotel For Athletes Wishing To Use It It is in an area with 20 miles of forest trails in the mountains as well as flat woods right behind the hotel. He says he spent $1.5 million on the track, which currently has 6 lanes, but he plans on adding 2 more and adding seating so they can host elite track meets.
Lolo Jones Has Survived Her First Bobsled Crash And she even jokes about it: "God is real. I saw him today and he said come back later."
Track And Field's Male Fans Are Thankful For This
Fit Again & Recovered From Achilles Surgery & Bacterial Infection, Blanka Vlasic Is Ready
To Compete Again
Meb And The Mental Side Of Running
LRC Meb Keflezighi Talks About Getting His Start In Running, The Mental/Physical Breakdown Of The Sport Meb: "I really believe during preparation it's 90% physical, 10% mental. When the gun goes off it's 90% mental and 10% being healthy."
XMas Has Us Emotional - Is The Meaning Of Life Love?
Read This Article & Then Watch This Video
More Xmas News:
Lance Armstrong News
- Lance Armstrong Being Sued For $1.6 Million By British Newspaper The Sunday Times Over His Libel Action Against Them 8 Years Ago Armstrong received $485,000 from them in 2004 as payment towards his legal fees after their writer, David Walsh, put out an article accusing him of drug use.
- In His New Book, Sunday Times Writer David Walsh Likens His Hunt To Nab Lance Armstrong To That Of Ahab And Moby Dick Those who feel smypathy for Armstrong or don't think he should be punished should read this as it just barely scratches the surface of how miserable he made life for people who tried to out him and tell the truth.
Dubai Marathon Is January 25th
- IAAF Looks Ahead To Dubai: 2:03:06 Man Moses Mosop Battle Martin Lel And Yemane Tsegay Mosop lost to Tsegay at Rotterdam last year when Tsegay ran 2:04:48. Ethiopia's 2012 Dubai champ Ayele Abshero (2:04:23) is out with an injury, but Dubai will also host the marathon debuts of 4 sub-60 minute half marathoners.
- Women's Race: 2011 & 2012 Winner Asselefech Has Pulled Out With Injury, So Paris Champ Tirfi Tsegay (2:21:19) Will Be The Favorite She'll be up against Toronoto Marathon Champ Koren Jelela (2:22:43).
Maggie Vessey Tests Positive And Gets A Warning
Maggie Vessey Tests Positive For Diuretic And Accepts Public Warning
The American 800m star was taking a prescription medicine that had a banned substance. She won't have to serve a suspension of any kind.
On The Boards: Maggie Vessey tests positive
The Week That Was In Running: December 10 - December 16, 2012
LRC Jenny Simpson's About Face, Sally Jenkins' Embarrassing Defense Of Lance, Fast Rugby Players, A Mea Culpa And More Not a lot happened last week on the track but there is A TON to talk about. We break down world champion Jenny Simpson's about face and return to Mark Wetmore by comparing her positively to Charles Barkely and Dan Marino, but remind people that a return home didn't resurrect the career of Jeremy Wariner. We absolutely rip Sally Jenkins for defending Lance Armstrong and for using the "rape card" to support her argument as we compare Lance to Bernie Madoff. Along the way, we tell you why legalized PED use = the end of women's sports and introduce you to the fastest rugby player in the world. Plus we fess up to a rare, rare mistake.
Doping News
- AK Hoping Doping Tests Conducted 2 Weeks Ago On "32 Top" Kenyans By IAAF Will End Suspicions Really, passing one out of season test which the athletes "made themselves available for" won't prove anything.
- AP Says Despite The Sport's "Near-Zero" Positive Test Rate, There is Rampant Steroid Use Among College Football Teams "Based on dozens of interviews with players, testers, dealers and experts and an analysis of weight records for more than 61,000 players -- revealed that while those running the multibillion-dollar sport believe the problem is under control, that is hardly the case."
- Two London Olympic Athletes Receive Bans For Doping After They Tested Positive Just Before The Games Syrian 400m hurdler Ghfran Almouhamad got a pathetic 6-month ban as Turkish long jumper Karin Mey Melis received 2 years.
- Italian Olympic Committee Requests 4-Year Doping Ban For Former Olympic Racewalk Champion Alex Schwazer After He Tested Positive For EPO Good for them; we're tired of countries trying to get their athletes off with lesser 2-year or even 1-year bans.
TodaysMiles.com Launches On LetsRun.com
Today's Miles Launches The running world has got 3.1*, 13.1 and 26.2 stickers. Todaymiles.com takes that concept to running apparel. Want to celebrate that 26.2 you did? Do it. Want to run 20 minutes and wear a 20 mile shirt? You can do that, too. More info here.
It's The Time Of Year To Be Thankful
Toby Tanser Is Amazing: Shoe4Africa To Build A Multi-Million Shilling Public Children Hospital In Eldoret The charity will break ground on the hospital on New Year's eve. The hospital wil be only the 2nd children's hospital in all of sub-Sahara Africa. Natalie Portman and Cristiano Ronaldo have donated - have you? *Donate Here
*2:18 Marathoner Mike Cassidy Helped Raise $6,500
*Tanser Blogs About A Day In His Hectic Life
*Shoe4Africa Website
Wetmore-Simpson Round II
LRC Jenny Simpson Coaching Switch Update Former CU Buff Stephen Kasica has some details on Simpson training in Boulder last week. Plus there is a cool multimedia timeline on Simpson's career and some perspective. Simpson won Worlds under Juli Benson, yet never ran within 3.5 seconds of her 1,500m PR. Fascinating.