Weekend Action: Delhi Half, Hagos G Loses, Another Sub-2:10 For Yuki Kawauchi

• Airtel Delhi Half Marathon: LRC Ethiopia’s Atsedu Tsegay Wins ADHM With New Course Record (59:10); Florence Kiplagat Is Women’s Champion (68:00)
  *MB: Airtel Delhi Half Marathon: Atsedu Tsegay (59:10) for CR as 3 break 60, F. Kiplagat women’s
  *IAAF Recap
• Japan: Bat Ochir Wins Hofu Marathon In 2:09:00 As Yuki Kawauchi Scores Second Sub-2:10 in 14 Days For New WR America has one sub 2:10 this year period.
  *Brett Larner Blogs About Kawauchi’s Amazing 2013 Racing Schedule Which Has Included 11 Marathons (4 Of Them Sub-2:10)
  *MB: Unbelievable: Kawauchi smashes world record with his 2nd sub-2:10 in 14 days, 5th 2:10:00 or better on year!!
• Ethiopian Clubs XC Champs: Unheralded Yihunilign Adane Beats World Junior XC Champ Hagos Gebrhiwet Yihunilign just nipped Gebrhiwet at the line to win the men’s junior race. Haftamnesh Tesfaye won the women’s junior race beating national 1500m champ Senbere Teferi. Abera Chane and Meseret Toklaw took the men’s and women’s senior race titles.

Men's Results: Trail Runner Joseph Gray And Champions League Athletic Performance Win, Webb 32nd

Women's Results: Former CU Buff Laura Thweatt And Beasts TC Win

• More Coverage In Our Special Section: 2013 USATF National Club Cross-Country Championships

French President And Government Officials Missing Sochi 2014 Winter Games Some are interpreting it as a protest against Russia’s anti-gay law.

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• With 3.5 Years Having Passed Since Her Last Race, World Indoor Record Holder Susanna Kallur Is Purposedly Taking Comeback Slowly, Her Only Goal Is Rio 2016
• Meet English Schools 800 Champ Theo Blundell (1:51.50 PR)
• David Weir’s Autobiography Rips UK Athletics For Treating Him As Second-Class Citizen Prior To 2012 Fame

Pro Sprint/Jump News

• Teddy Tamgho Successfully Has Surgery On Broken Shin – Says He’ll Sit Out All Of 2014 “I don’t see the interest in jumping in 2014,” the 24-year-old said. “My goal is to be No. 1 and I’ll not enter competition if I’m not at 100 per cent of my capabilities. I don’t want to rush things.”
• Meet Former 100m And 200m WR Holder Steve Williams Williams ran 9.9 and 19.8 (HT) back in the 1970s.
• Paul Doyle Hoping Jamaicans And Caribbean Athletes Also Benefit From New American Track League
• IAAF Wants Your Vote: What was your #1 athletics highlight of 2013 – vote here
• Jamaica’s Michael Frater To Face Americans Isiah Young, D’Angelo Cherry And Ameer Webb At Millrose

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