Sunday Road Action *2013 Fukuoka Marathon Results

• 2013 Fukuoka Marathon: Martin Mathahi Wins (2:07:06) As Yuki Kawauchi (2:09:05) Steals Show With Third Sub-2:10 Of 2013 – Bobby Curtis PR (2:13:24)!!! Kawauchi made a bold move and got a 10-second lead just past halfway and became the first Japanese man to break 2:10 three times in a year, pleasing the Japanese federation but not himself. Ireland’s Alistair Cragg fell off the pace before 5k and ran over 2:23.
  *2013 Fukuoka Marathon Results
  *IAAF Recap
• MB:Official 2013 Fukuoka Thread
  MB: Kawauchi 2:09:05 for 3rd @ Fukuoka
• South Africa’s Stephen Mokoka (2:09:29) And Ethiopia’s Aberu Kebede (2:23:28) Win Shanghai Marathon
• Kenyans Chelimo Kipkemoi (2:15:00) And Sharon Cherop (2:41:12) Win Hot Singapore Marathon Cherop’s win was expected but Kipkemoi’s wasn’t. He started 35 seconds behind everyone else and was running his 3rd marathon in 3 months.
• Japan Running News Recaps Non-Fukuoka Weekend Action Highlights include a track 10,000 where six men went sub-28, led by Ethiopian Agato Yashin Hassan, who won with 27:46.35.
• Eritrea’s 2:07 Marathon Man Samuel Tsegay And Uganda’s Rebecca Cheptegei Get Wins At “Cross de la Constitucion” XC Race In Spain  IAAF article also recaps two other XC meets in Spain and France.

Jamaican Anti-Doping News

• Jamaican Journalist Talks About What It Will Take For JADCO To Become WADA Compliant He says a lot comes down to the need for more funding.
• Jamaican Opinion Piece Praising Dr. Paul Wright And Renee Anne Shirley For Speaking Out About JADCO Deficiencies Two have been attacked by many top Jamaican officials and media outlets, but this writer feels they deserve praise.

Athletics South Africa Continues To Fall Apart

• Embattled Athletics South Africa President James Evans Ousted And Entire ASA Board Disolved At Annual General Meeting
• ASA Pres. Evans Says The Annual General Meeting That Ousted Him Was Unconstitutional And Invalid

Random, But Interesting

• 1968 Olympic 4 X 100 Gold Medallist Ronnie Ray Smith’s Funeral To Be Featured On TLC’s “Best Funeral Ever” Smith’s casket was wheeled across the finish line and then hoisted up atop a medal stand as family members gave a black power salute.
• Recommended Read: Excerpt From Sally Pearson’s Autobiography: Pearson was spotted by a coach at age 9 for being the most balanced runner he’d ever seen. Amazing. She talks about growing up without a dad and how her opinion of Usain Bolt has changed.
• Good News For Kiwis: New Zealand Has No Plans To Ban Olympians From Getting Drunk Like Aussies The Aussies are going as far to say you can get in trouble if they have drink and have “rambling conversations.”
• FIFA Wants Team Sports Treated Differently In Doping As They Have 1/10 The Positive Tests As Individual Sports FIFA claims their positive rate is .04% versus .4% for WADA and that it costs $2.5 million to catch one cheat in football but $250,000 in individual sports.
• Irish Distance Coach Backs Policy On Only Sending Top Competitors To European Champs They are sending no U-23 girls as they have a top-16 policy.

German Anti-Doping Lab Using New Steroid Test Has Found 266 Steroid Cases In Past Year The new test has caught some track athletes and will eventually be used to re-test samples from the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Post T-Day: Remember To Be Thankful

• Recommended Read:DyeStat Feature On Kayla Montgomery, A Prep Runner With Multiple Sclerosis Who Won The North Carolina State Meet Her legs go numb during every race and she has to have someone at the finish line to catch her so she doesn’t go down. She’s trying to qualify for Foot Locker Nationals at the Foot Locker South Regional on Saturday.
  *Local News Feature On Montgomery
• Spikes-Mag Profile On Trinidad & Tobago’s 400 Hurdles World Champ Jehue Gordon: From Tragedy To Triumph Gordon used his difficult home life (where his father was an alcoholic and his house was destroyed in a landslide in 2008) as motivation to be able to help his family financially.

Kenyan Doping News

• IAAF And Kenyan Government To Build A Blood Testing Lab In Nairobi The center will serve Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and the central Africa region.
• Kenyan Opinion Piece Speaking Out Against Government’s Reluctance To Investigate Doping Claims “Authorities seem worried about what could be found, who could be caught and at what cost … It is easy to conclude that a certain fear has made our athletics chiefs to stop looking, testing and asking.”