Archived Homepage For November 27, 2013
Archived Homepage For November 27, 2013
Quote Of The Day
– UK writer James Fairbourn, writing on eightlane.org how he’s not convinced getting Alberto Salazar‘s help is a good thing in an article titled, “Careful what you wish for: Why getting into bed with Salazar mightn’t be such great news.”
Update: LRC’s Weldon Johnson has an update on the second half of the quote, as he specifically asked Alberto Salazar about it at the Olympics in 2012. More here.
- Check your 2013 LRC NCAA Contest Powered by RunFanShop.com Scores
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- Backing out of a job you just started
- Verzbicas's chances at 2016 or 2020 Olympic team in TRACK
- Hicham El Guerrouj is oficially clean!!! His frozen urine samples can't be retested anymore!!!
- 14 year old splits 32:30 10km in a half marathon
- Megan Goethals Congrats!!
More coming soon. We’re having some trouble with our Awards Ceremony/All-American photo gallery. You can see it here now but many of the photos are upside down.
Training/Coaching News
- Free Training Advice From John Landy (via Toni Reavis): “Don’t train too hard, don’t make it too easy. Just in that balance.”
- Ladies: You Can Not Get Fat By Getting Up At The Same Time Each Day And Not Sleeping Less Than 6.5 Or More Than 8.5 Hours
- Roger Bannister’s Old Coach – Franz Stampfl – Enters Australian Athletics Athletics Hall Of Fame
More News From Down Under: - NZ Sports Documentary The Golden Hour – About How Peter Snell And Murray Halberg Both Won Gold Within An Hour At 1960 Rome – Misses Out On Winning International Emmy Award
- Did You Know Valerie Adams’ Coach Has Also Coached The Americas Cup And The French Basketball Team?
Random
Tokyo’s 2020 Olympic Stadium To Be Downsized In Height, Cost Drops To $1.8 Billion From $3 Billion We’ll bet $10,000 the final price exceeds the initial estimate but must admit it looks pretty amazing.- Gebre Gebremariam And Hiroyuki Horibata (2:08:24) Withdraw From Fukuoka With Injuries
- Patrick Smyth And Polina Babkina Won Last Weekend’s XTERRA Trail Run World Championship In Hawaii 4-time champ Max King was third.
- The Whiting Twins Are The #1 And #2 For UPenn As Frosh Cleo made NCAAs last week.
Alberto Salazar Getting Positive And Negative Press
- UK Writer’s Not So Sure He Wants Al Sal’s Help: Careful what you wish for: Why getting into bed with Salazar mightn’t be such great news Given Mary Slaney‘s positive, Salazar’s statements in 1999 and this summer, a UK columnist isn’t convinced Salazar has the highest moral standards. Update:We’d like to correct the record on the 2nd half of the quote of the day relating to Salazar’s comments from 1999. The drug testing era was different in 1999 than 2012 for sure.
- Wejo Speaks: LRC Asked Alberto Salazar About the 1999 “Duke” Quote on It Being Difficult to Be Top Five in the World Without EPO and HGH
- Q&A With NCAA Champ Edward Cheserek, Who Says Al Sal Gave The Team A Pep Talk And Admits He Thought Kithuka Had Beaten Him And At One Point He’d Settled For 2nd “Before we traveled to Indiana, (Alberto) Salazar came over and talked to us. I was like, ‘OK, if this big guy comes here today and talks about something, I’ve got to listen to what he is talking about.'”
2013 European XC Is Next Weekend
- Luke Caldwell, Kate Avery And Tom Farrell Make UK Team For 2013 European Cross-Country Championships Avery and Caldwell are in the U-23 race. Farrell’s in the senior race, where he was 4th last year.
- Iona’s Kate Avery Is Pumped To Be Picked “I didn’t expect a medal but it was so cold, muddy and windy that it was like a British race,” she told BBC Sport. “I’m just over the moon and then to be picked by GB is a huge bonus for me.”
- Emelia Gorecka Targeting Second European Junior Title In Last Year At U-20s
- Other Start Lists For European XC (Ireland, Belgium, Portugal, Holland, France, Ukraine, Spain, Russia, Sweden, Czech
More News From Europe - 1st Tenants Move Into London 2012 Olympic Village Apartments They are viewed as very cheap for London at £910 ($1475) for a one-bedroom.
- Meet Britain’s Female Sprinting Sensation – 17-Year-Old Dina Asher-Smith This summer the European junior 200 champ won bronze in the 4 x 100 in Moscow at the World Champs.
- Mo Farah And Christine Ohuruogu Make Final 10 For 60th BBC Sports Personality Of The Year AwardAndy Murray won Wimbledon: Game, set, match.
More XC / Distance News
Lukas Verzbicas Back In “Heavy” Training And Racing 10K Turkey Trot In San Diego This Week His comeback from his spinal cord injury is going well and he says his goal is to make the Olympics in 2016 team in the triathlon or track 5,000 or 10,000.
*MB: Verzbicas’s chances at 2016 or 2020 Olympic team in TRACK- Ethiopia’s Hiwot Ayalew Wins Cross L’Acier XC Race In France, Beating 3-Time World XC Silver Medalist Linet Masai Kenya’s Cornelius Kangogo defended his title in the men’s race.
- Nuclear Reactor Disaster-Hit Village To Rename Main Street In Yuki Kawauchi’s Honor Kawauchi will make an appearance at the town’s new half marathon race on December 8th.
- Irish XC Star Fionnuala Britton Denying Media Requests In Order To Focus On Training Ahead Of Euro XC Champs In 2 Weeks
- Many Top Europeans Did Their Final Tune-Up Last Weekend For Euro XC Champs
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