One Of The Year’s Biggest Questions Has Been Answered: Cain Goes Pro

LRCMary Cain Turns Pro

Spice Up Your Friday With Today’s Weird Running News

• Might Olympic 800 Silver Medalist Nigel Amos Give Up Running To Be A DJ? That is one writer’s fear anyway as he says Amos is now a club DJ at a at a corner bar and “is always in the papers for the wrong reasons.”
• Coyote Runs With Lead Pack During Arizona State XC Championships
• Man Proposes To Girlfriend At 24.5 Miles Into NYC Marathon Along with family and friends he had a 25 person cheer squad on the course where they went by holding signs saying , “Say yes.” She did and they finished together in 4:25.
• Japan’s ‘Monkey Runner’ Breaks Four-Legged 100m World Record (Video) He ran (?) 16.87 seconds.
• Cool Idea: “Nomadic” Rio 2016 Olympic Handball Arena To Be Moved And Made Into Four Schools After The Games That has to be one of the best ways ever to make sure Olympic buildings don’t become “white elephants” for the host city.

In The US

• Why ING Ended It’s Sponsorship With The NYC, Hartford And Miami Marathons A spokesman said they will move toward backing financial literacy projects. Also they aren’t a bank in the US so aren’t trying to attract individual bankers.
• Former Texas Track Coach Bev Kearney Files $1 Million Lawsuit Agsinst The University For Race And Gender Discrimination
• IOC President Thomas Bach Not Happy That Jesse Owens’ 1936 Olympic Gold Medal Is Getting Auctioned Off He feels the right place for it is in a museum.
• Auctioneer Defends Sale Of Owens’ Medal Saying They Reached Out To Owens Family Beforehand

Doping News: Props To The IAAF But Is WADA Doping It’s Job?

• IAAF Statement On New WADA Code At The 2013 World Conference On Doping In Sport The IAAF speaks up for minimum 4-year bans and fights possible loopholes in the current WADA code where athletes can easily get them reduced to 2.
• Worth A Read: UK Writer Criticizes WADA For Lack Of Action And Follow Through In Policing Country’s Anti-Doping Programs We got a couple laughs from this article which pointed out how in the last year WADA has gone from “frustrated” at Kenya’s lack of investigation into doping to “very frustrated”.
• WADA President John Fahey On Kenyan Doping Probe: “I welcome what appears to be some action.”
• WSJ: Jamaican Anti-Doping Commission Chairman Herb Elliott Accused Of Fabricating Graduate Degrees On His Resume His official resume says he earned a master’s in chemistry from Columbia University and a medical degree and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Université Libre de Bruxelles, but available official records don’t indicate he submitted work at either University.
• Jamaican Olympic Association Head Says Critics Of Their Anti-Doping Program Are “Uniformed” WADA presented their findings from their visit to Jamaican and said that JADCO was compliant with the WADA code.
• More Big Talk: IOC Chief Thomas Bach Warns Jamaican And Kenya Could Be Banned From Olympics If WADA Deems Them Non-Compliant As this UK writer argues, there is little probability of WADA actually doing that.
• David Rudisha Is Worried By Increased Doping Cases In Kenya “It is sad and the faster they tackle this problem the better.”

• Great Veteran’s Day week piece: Toni Reavis Tells His Dad’s World War II stories “We were playing the biggest game there was. Anyone could kill you, and you could kill them.  Like gladiators, really. And I sent these two fuzzy-cheeked kids right into it, knowing what would happen.”
• Alan Abrahamson: Despite success of London 2012, European cities en masse are voting down proposals to even consider hosting Olympics “When a leading German newspaper like Süddeutschen Zeitung, the day before the vote, runs a column that compares the IOC to both the mafia and the “North Korean regime” — if you are the IOC, you’ve got issues.”
• Fascinating Read: Is NY state to blame for today’s HS sports craze? Up until the 1950 NY State xc meet, state championships were banned in NY
• Does Sports Gene apply to throws? Martin Bingisser says not nearly to the same extent in running because throws are a niche sport
• What about the Sport? Free, timed 5km runs every Saturday at 9am is flourising in UK – 750,000+ have signed up

Study Says That A Moderate Amount Of Beer After Exercise Doesn’t Adversely Affect An Athlete’s Recovery Sorry, college kids, moderate means 1 or 2 drinks.

The Sensation That Is Sweeping The Country And Possibly The Most Read Article In LRC History

Over 10,000 Likes On Facebook:
LRC The Time Of My Life: Staten Island Native Mike Cassidy Shares His Experience Finishing The NYC Marathon Hand-In-Hand With His Hero Meb Keflezighi In the span of one hour in NYC, Cassidy went from almost dropping out at 10 miles to finishing with the “highest honor of [his] career.” A definite recommended read.

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