LA Times Takes a Critical Look at USADA and WADA Some of the article is sensationalist and focuses on strict liability and tainted supplements, but WADA scientists should be able to work on the defense of other drug cases. WADA should be after the truth, not convictions. Sometimes it seems they forget that.
Asian Games: Maryam Yusuf Jamal Wins 800 Easily, Bahrains Hasan Mahboob Wins Men's 10k in His First Track Race Ever *Saudi's Get 100m, Long Jump Gold at Asian Games
Asian Games Day 2 Recap (Tareq Mubarak Salem Wins Men's Steeple, Kayoko Fukushi Wins Women's 10k) IAAF *Qatar Importing Athletes in Many Sports Not Just Track and Field (60% of the People in the Country are Foreigners) *Asian Games Results
Honolulu Marathon: *Jimmy Muindi Going for His 6th Honolulu Marathon Title *Kip Keino Still Popular Nearly 40 Years after His Olympic Glory *Legends of Sport Love Going to Honolulu For the Marathon and Legends 5k With a photo of a smiling Kip Keino. Previous: *Olympic Medalists Take Part in Legends 5k in Honolulu Kip Keino in his first run in 5 years runs over 25 minutes. *Dan Dillon Tackles First Marathon in 21 Years He's a former Athletics West guy and was 12th at World XCs one year. *88 Year Old Woman Running Honolulu Marathon honoluluadvertiser.com *11 Year Old Running Honolulu
Good Read: Eugene Track Club Running Strong Under Gags "The fire is still there. That's the only reason I'm coming back." -Jason Lunn
European XCs This Weekend: Jo Pavey Doesn't Like Her Chances at Europeans as She Doesn't Run Well in Mud BBC *Britian's Mo Farah Wants to Catch up with Africans, Gives Paula Radcliffe Some Credit for His Success
Farah grew up in the same village as Abdi Abdiraham. Radcliffe has
given him money in the past to help him train and gave him words of
encouragement.
More Honolulu News: *Honolulu Marathon, Third Largest in US, Brings in $100 Million for the Local Economy 23,000 Japanese are expected to come and run this race that pumps in $100,000,000 into the local economy. *Former Rabbit Lyubov Denisova Wants to Win in Honolulu *Honolulu Hotels Booked Solid for Marathon *Benson Masya, Former Honolulu Champ, a Legend in the Sport Masya likely died penniless and of AIDS despite winning hundreds of thousands on the roads in the 1990s. He absolutely dominated the road scenee and was one of our favorites.
Steve Cram Says Athletics Can Still Inspire Us He's impressed that the Beirut Marathon got 20,000 runners and tells you the incredible story of Felicity Milton. Milton has been running for weeks and is already Britain's #2 XC runner.
Africa's Ed Whitlock: 71 Year Old Finished in Top 20 at Lagos Half Marathon
Italians Still Investigating Austrian Ski Team for Doping at Winter Olympics U
Fukuoka Marathon: Third Time's a Charm: Geb Wins in 2:06:52 10 Weeks After Berlin Haile Gebrselassie won an exciting Fukouka Marathon , his third marathon of the year, as he pulled away from 2 time World Champ Jaouad Gharib and defending champ Dmytro Baranovskyy over the final 3k. American 25k record holder Fernando Cabada ran an impressive 2:12:27 debut. *More on Geb from Japanese English Newspaper *Jon Brown Has Problem With His Foot in Fukuoka Runs 2:11:46 *Michael Aish of New Zealand Runs 2:13:42 in Fukuoka *Brief Results and also Updates as They Happened Are Here *Photo of Geb at the finish. PreRace:*Gebrselassie versus Gharib at Fukuoka Marathon on Sunday This is the final big event of the year (Asian Games excluded) and is Geb's third marathon of the year. He'll be challenged by 2 time world champ Gharib in the 60th running of this fabled marathon. IAAF *Jon Brown Wants PB in Fukuoka *How Will American Fernando Cabada Do?
Can't Live With 'Em, Can Live Without Them?: #1, #2 Pole Vaulters in World Giving Up Women More Aussie News: Sally McLellan is Chasing Australia's 34 Year Old 100m Hurdler Record
HS News: Nike Team Nationals this Weekend Most of you aren't too interested in this race as the SuperBowl of high school running, Footlocker's, is next weekend. Well, then you might be even less enthused to find out yesterday another team nationals that tries to be more egalitarian was announced for next year. *Live Video Webcast of Nike Team Nationals Live, on the internet, pretty impressive.
LetsRun.com Visitor Has 25 Year Running Streak The dude has even run on a broken ankle. No one associated with LetsRun.com ran yesterday at all.
Brazil's Fabiana Murer Now an Elite Vaulter IAAF
British Team at Europeans Trying to Maintain Tradition of Success
5k Road Race Renamed for Emilie Mondor
Good News: IAAF Did Not Have to Pay Thanou and Kenteris' Legal Fees The report earlier this week was incorrect.
Drug News: WADA to Target Athletes' Entourages *Doped Up Food a Concern at Beijing Olympics
Taegu, South Korea Bids to Host 2011 Worlds
USATF Names Sanya Richards and Jeremy Wariner Jesse Owens Award Winners Their coach Clyde Hart won coach of the year. IAAF
Marion Jones May Be Banned from European Meets Next Year Meanwhile in the NFL if you even actually test positive, you get a pat on the back and a 4 week vacation.
Oregon AD Steps Down, Lananna Being Mentioned as a Possible Replacement
Madaí Perez Carrillo Ran 2:22:59 at Chicago Marathon Become First Sub 2:23 for a Spanish Speaker IAAF
Interesting Read: Most English Sports Start Are Older for Their Grade Guardian
European XCs: Alistair Cragg to Skip European XCs *Mo Farah and Jo Pavey Head British Team at European XCs BBC
Doping
News: Not
Enough Evidence Currently to Charge Jos Hermens in Doping Investigation
in Germany
*Olympic
800m Champ Nils Schumann Says He's Innocent of Doping Charges, Will
Cooperate With German Authorities
*5
Years Later S. Africa Gets 4*100 Gold from World Champs in 2001
Previous:
Jos
Hermens Denies German Doping Charges He's
the agent to a ton of people including Bekele and Gebrselassie.
Post NCAA News:
3 In Depth Looks At Mark Wetmore's Colorado Program
*The Coach: Wetmore,
the intellect, has built a national power
*CU Men: They
Win It Despite Nelson's Sub-Par Day
*CU Women: Barringer
digs deep for 2nd as Pascuito gets 16th despite 2 stress fractures
*Josh
McDougal Devasted by 27th Place Finish at Nationals
www.newsadvance.com
*There's
Always Next Year: Who
Will Win NCAA XC in 2007?
*NCAA
Photos From TrackandFieldPhoto
*NCAA
Photos From RunMichigan
NCAA
XCs:
Women: Sally Kipyego Dominates, Stanford Survives
Recap: Sally
Kipyego Dominates, Stanford Wins With Highest Point Total Ever
*Individual results
*Team Results
Kipyego dominated the individual field and the Cardinal repeated, but
just narrowly over Colorado, as the Cardinal scored 195 points, the
highest ever for a winning team (that total on the men's side would
have been 2 points from 7th). Mark Wetmore almost
did the unthinkable again (with a squad that was only 6th at PreNCAAs),
leave Terre Haute with 2 titles, but the Buffaloes' 5th runner finished
165th.
*Ivy
League Women Have Top 3 Finisher for 5th Straight Year
*Women's
Recap from Terre Haute Newspaper
Video: Flocast
Video of Women's Press Conference Post Race
*Flocast
Video Highlights of Women's Nationals
Deena's
Pacer Runs 2:17:50 in Philly www.philly.com
LetsRun.com Classic
Emails #1
We share with you some of the classic emails from our site's visitors
and give you valuable knowledge at the same time. You'll read conclusive
proof Lance Armstrong dopes, learn AJ Acosta is not
as much an a**hole as you thought, and much more.
A
Legend Passes: "I
don't train never have. I don't think of running as training. I just
go out and run each day, and let the racing take care of itself"-
Jack Foster of New Zealand, who
ran a 2:11:17 marathon at the age of 41 to win silver at the
Commonwealth Games in 1974. He died in a bike accident yesterday at the
age of 72.
In case you
missed it:
Todd Williams Hangs them up
In our lengthy 3 part interview, Todd Williams, the premier 10,000m
runner in the US, talks about his illustrious career and the sport of
running in general.
Part I
here,
Part II
here, Part III
here
Also
take a look at Amby Burfoot's look at Todd Williams' incredible American record
at 15k in 1995, the
same year he finished 9th
at World Cross Country.
More
isn't always better:
"I had over-trained. I put too much pressure on myself because I wanted
that gold medal too much. If I had trained 15 per cent less, I would
have won. I was training like a crazy person. There was a lack of
self-confidence and a lack of maturity. An athlete does not only train
with his body. He trains with his mind."
-Hicham El Guerrouj on
why he didn't win Olympic gold in 2000
JK Speaks: Progressing
To Peak Fitness
LetsRun.com coaching guru John Kellogg talks
about progression runs and the art of the sport versus the science of
the sport.
LetsRun.com
Book Reviews 2 Good Reads on Milers 50 years apart:
Sub 4:00 and The Perfect Mile
"Paul
Maurer, in The Gift, not
only presents an interesting and captivating story, but he explores the
deeper questions of why runners run, why we compete, and what makes
such a simple sport, running, so rewarding to those of us who do it. The
Gift is one of the best running books
I have ever read. "
-LetsRun.com's Weldon Johnson
on
a new Running novel,
The Gift
(The
Gift is now available from Amazon.com)
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Footlocker XCs: Boys: Chad Hall Gets the Crown US star Ryan Hall is Chad's brother, but Chad has something Ryan never can get- the high school national championship. *Footlocker XC Results Girls: South Reigns Supreme, Kathy Kroeger Wins, Aurora Scott 2nd Defending champ Jordan Hasay was 10th and 3 time runner up Mel Lawrence was 5th. Predictions: Tebo and Forys Neck and Neck, Hasay Expected to Repeat Check out the letsrun.com predictions. We give rankings for all 38 runners getting votes.
David Kemboi Wins Half Marathon in Baringo Kenya
Jos Hermens Files Slander Complaint in Germany over Doping Allegations
Mary Tombiri, Former Commonwealth Sprinter from Nigeria, to Mary Prince from Benin
Kenyans Make it 500 Sub 2:20s on the Year IAAF
Europeans: *Women's Entries European XC Champs *U23 Women's Preview at European XCs *Men's Entries European XC Champs *U23 Men's Preview at European XCsw
Kenyans Make it 500 Sub 2:20s on the Year IAAF
6 of 6 Required for Golden League in 2007 Winning a million isn't supposed to be easy. IAAF
"We try to keep
it on the sports page. We understand we're going to be in the business
section and we're going to be in lifestyle section, and even on the
front page. And even on the front page, hopefully. But we've got to be
on the sports page. The day we're not on the sports page, then we've
got a problem. Then we're a parade." -Honolulu Marathon director Jim Barahl, in an interesting interview. Barahl picked up running at the University of Michigan (sorry Wolverine fans) and clearly understands the sport. His Honolulu Marathon makes an effort to stay tied to the stars of the past in the sport.
Amby Burfoot Warns Lance About His Second Marathon
Honolulu Marathon News: *Jimmy Muindi Hopes to Get His 6th Honolulu Marathon and Hold Back Mbarak Hussein *Interesting Interview with Honolulu Marathon Director
Hungarian sprinter Gabor Dobos Gets Lifetime Ban
Women Wins Cayman Islands Marathon Not sure why we put this up as Paula Radcliffe could win 99% of all marathons.
National Marathon in Washington DC Looking for Interns You'll even get college credit.
Ben Johnson Implies Carl Lewis' Camp Spiked His Sample in 1988, Joe Douglas Admits to Having Plant in Drug Testing Room The biggest revelation to us is that Douglas admitted that Lewis' camp was able to put people in the drug testing room with Johnson. Even if you accept Douglas' reason for the plant (to make sure Douglas did not take a masking agent), it shows what a joke drug testing was in 1980s. But rival sprint camps perhaps sabotaging one another or ratting on one another sadly is still a relevant topic today.
Dorcus Inzikuru Wins 10k in Turin
USATF Convention Was Last Weekend: *Lauryn Williams is Visa Humanitarian of the Year *Craig Masback State of the Sport Recap: ESPN Ratings Up 30% *Dave Martin Wins Giegengack Award Show your appreciation and get faster by buying his book. *USATF election results and General Counsel Leaves to Work for LPGA Quick name a women's golfer besides Annika. Well the average person probably can't name one current track athlete. *Ricos Get USATF Lifetime Achievement Award *Award Winners from USATF Convention
More Weekend Action: Candian XC Nationals: Simon Bairu Wins His Fifth Straight Canadian XC Title, Malindi Elmore Wins Her First Results: Canada XC Men's Race *Canada XC Women's Race Singapore Marathon: Salina Kosgei Breaks Course Record at Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon by 3 Minutes IAAF *Mark Steinle, Former British #1, Runs 3:15 in Singapore as He Comes Back from Injury and Suffers From Heat BBC Cal International: Kenya's Jonathan Ndambuki Edges Ethiopian Kassahun Kabiso by 1 Second at Cal International Marathon *Cal International Marathon Results XC: T. Bekele and Melkamu Unstoppable at Alcobendas, Spain XC Meet IAAF
WCVB in Boston Drops it Live Coverage of the Boston Marathon Boston for some reason was on tv live on two over the air channels in Boston. It seems to make more cent$ for them to be on one channel anyway. Boston remains the only marathon to be broadcast live nationally in the US, on Verus or OLN or whatever it is called. *Message board thread.
HS Reminder: Footlocker West and NTN to be broadcast live on the internet on Saturday.
Drug Cheat Kenteris Speaks
Frankie Fredericks to Help Rescue Namibian Athletics
Sanya Richards May be the Nation's Best Female Athlete, But She's Still Trying to Make a Name for Herself in the US
Asafa Powell Wants Drug Cheats to Go to Jail Yahoo UK *Euro Meet Directors May Ban Trevor Graham's Athletes
Possible Comeback for El G?
Mubarak Hassan Shami to Run Safaricom Baringo Half Marathon in Kenya Next Weekend Paul Tergat is the race director.
Berhane Adere and Gete Wami are Restoring Ethiopia's Marathon Hopes IAAF
XC News: Kenenisa Bekele Confirms He Will Skip 2007 World XCs *Sally Kipyego Broke New Ground for Kenyan Women Athletes with NCAA Win *Bekele Regrets El Guerrouj's Retirement *Sally Kipyego Broke New Ground for Kenyan Women Athletes with NCAA Win US: Steve Scott, Jim Spivey, Joe Vigil to Speak at Free Distance Summit December 7th in San Francisco (2 Days Before Club XC) NCAA: Mark Wetmore and CU Planning on Continued Success With Signing of Matt Tebo
A Staff of One: "Perhaps the most valuable gift from Letsrun.com is a friendly
willingness to share lessons learned by their editorial staff, which
includes successful college coaches and highly competitive athletes. " -Gary Droze, writing about letsrun.com in the Tallahassee Democrat
Lamine Diack Says Moscow Has Good Chance To Host 2011 Worlds Considering no one went to World Indoors when they were in Moscow they should think twice *Putin Urges IAAF to Consider Moscow for 2011 Worlds
More Weekend Action: Bernard Kiprop Kipyego, Nathalie De Vos Win in Belgium IAAF *Festus Langat,Leonor Carneiro Win in Portugal IAAF
IAAF to Pay All Legal Costs in Thanou, Kenteris Doping Affair We're not sure what they gained by settling the case.
Thanksgiving
Action:
Manchester Road Race: Americans
Win in Manchester: Ian Dobson First American Male Winner Since 1993,
Shalane Flanagan Wins in Her First Race of the Year
*Manchester
Road Race Results
Chiba: Kenya
Dominates Chiba Ekiden IAAF
Seagate 5k: Malindi Elmore,
Juan Luis Barrios Win 2006 Seagate 5k, Dan Browne 5th
Dana Point: Lauren
Fleshman Wins Dana Point 10k and the 5k
as well
Ron Delany Looks Back 50 Years Later At his 1956 Olympic Gold
"I think the
Irish press rated my chances at 100-1 but I knew in my own mind I would
win"
World Junior Track Star Charged With Black on White Hate Crime in
California We still don't see why it is worse for a
black person to beat the s*** out of a white person or vice versa than
a black on black or white on white beating. Hate is hate.
NCAA XCs
Men: Mark Wetmore is the Man:
Colorado Stuns Wisconsin Again, Rohatinsky Wins
Team
Recap: Colorado
Does it Again: Men Come Out on Top, Women Finish 2nd
Individual: Josh
Rohatinsky Just Wanted to Get to 8k Near Lead No he's
not 30.
He's 24 and a few days younger than Jess Baumgartner who came out of nowhere to finish 3rd.
*Individual results
*Team
Results The race was eerily similar to 2 years ago when
Colorado, a huge underdog, came from behind to upset the heavily
favored Badgers. Josh Rohatinsky won the individual
title.
*Chris
Solinsky Takes the Blame for Wisconsin's Loss www.madison.com
*Men's
Recap from Terre Haute Newspaper
*Stanford Women
Defend, Colorado Men Upset Wisconsin at 2006 NCAA XC Champs
Race Results Weekly
Video:
*Flocast
Postrace Interviews of Mark Wetmore,Chris Solinsky and Josh McDougal
1 very happy guy and 2 very disappointed ones.
*Flocast
Interviews With Men's Top 3 Post Race
*Flocast
Video Highlights of Men's Nationals Watch
them before CBS comes calling.
Bob Kennedy
Interview
"I think the question then becomes when, and at
what point are we, as
organizing bodies, USA Track and Field, IAAF, the other national
governing bodies from all over the world, going to really invest the
money that its necessary in testing to keep up and get ahead of, the
people who are using the system to cheat. And that will take money. It
takes money to develop the tests for the different variants of the
drugs that these people are coming up with, and only when you have that
kind of investment will you really stop it. Otherwise, they're just
faking it."
-Bob Kennedy, in a LetsRun.com interview where he
talks about drugs, success, shoes (the Kennedy XC) and Tegenkamp
Married
Thanks to LetsRun.com:
"I don't want to say it. It sounds crazy but it was a dream come true"
-John Stiner, on getting married to his
wife, Sarah, who he met on the LetsRun.com message
boards. Read about their incredible story.
"Everybody in
Kenya is trying to come to America. I had
no dream about coming because I knew this was impossible. It was a
miracle," Kiplagat said. "That is why I take advantage of
every
opportunity. I came here, graduated in three years, and count myself
blessed"- Richard Kiplagat who graduated from Iona in 3 years and had a
3.75 GPA
"This
is not coming out of retirement, this is just me showing that
if you just enjoy what you are doing and stay in there and set little
goals. I do a lot of speaking, I've spoken to every group in Australia
and I
tell them back when I ran I set little goals and I think here I am
telling these guys, but I've got to do it myself and tonight was really
a chance to walk the walk"
-Steve Moneghetti, who at age 43, broke the world
best for the 1 hour run for master's, averaging sub 5 minute pace the
whole way as Ron Clarke, John Landy, and Robert
De Castella watched him run.
Paul Tergat
*"As the holy scriptures say, 'for whoever much is
given, much is
expected,' it is, therefore, my duty and privilege to help in any small
way in giving back to society."
-Marathon
world record holder, Paul Tergat, speaking after
founding a sports foundation that will help disadvantaged youths.
*Tergat's
hamstring injury has healed and he
says he's ready to go at NYC: "I expect good results as I am in good shape"
but he's
out of next week's Half Marathon in Britain, but
interestingly Gezahegne Abera (remember him,
formerly the greatest marathoner in the world) is running. www.registerguard.com
And the
winner is:
Best
Running
Movie of All-Time: Fire on the
Track
After
sitting on the results for months, we're proud
to announce that the best running movie of all-time as selected by our
viewers is a not an academy award winner, Chariots
of Fire, or a
highly publicized film produced by Tom Cruise (Without
Limits),
but rather a running documentary,
Fire on the Track: The Steve Prefontaine
Story. Read all about the
voting and see
the 10 best running
movies of all-time as selected by our viewers.
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