Elite Distance News

• Frank Shorter Returns To The Boston Marathon As Part Of Universal Sports Network’s Coverage Shorter talked about American marathoning and said he thought for the men, we lacked the right body type to have marathon major winner. He also talked about drugs and said he thought Americans would have a better chance if other countries had better drug testing.
• Group Of Ugandan Women Have Accused A National Coach Of Sexually Harrassing Them Before African XC Champs Team captain Moses Kipsiro intervened and went to the police. Kipsoro said, “[The coach’s] theory was that if a woman’s private parts are wide, their legs move easily. I was so shocked. I even feel ashamed to talk about some of the things that happened in that camp.” The Ugandan Athletics Federation has apparently so far denied the accusations.
• IAAF Preview Saturday’s Melbourne World Challenge:Tons Of Stars, Including Sally Pearson, LaShawn Merritt, David Oliver, Valerie Adams There is some good action in the mid-d events too, including Eunice Sum (800), Mercy Cherono (1,500), Duane Solomon (800), Collis Birmingham (1,500) and Ben St. Lawrence vs. Isiah Koech in the 5,000m.
• Genes Matter:Athletics Weekly Looks At The Prevalence Of Elite Families In Track And Field Definitely topping the list are the Dibaba sisters.

Oscar Pistorius Forced To Sell Home Where He Killed His Girlfriend To Pay For Legal Expenses

• BBC Catches Up With Trinidad And Tobago’s Olympic Javelin Champ Keshorn Walcott Walcott joked that if he won Commonwealth Games gold that they might name a town after him. In reality, they did rename his old school and a lighthouse after him when he won Olympic gold.
• Former Discus WR Holder Mac Wilkins Now Coaching At USATF High Performance Training Center In CA He said he’s hoping to help give throwers an opportunity to compete post-collegiately.
• Russia’s 110H World Bronze Medalist Sergey Shubenkov Wants To Defend His European Title This Summer After Disappointingly Not Making Final At World Indoors The 13.09 runner also wants to join the “13-second club.”

Post-NCAA Champs News

• 5 Questions With Villanova’s NCAA Mile Champ Emily Lipari
• American, World Junior And Collegiate Records Fall – The Newest Bowerman Women’s Watchlist Oregon’s Phyllis Francis tops new additions to the list.
• Down The Backstretch: University Of Minnesota Duluth’s Samantha Rivard Goes From Walk-On To NCAA DII Mile Champion

Rio 2016 Says Their Anti-Doping Lab Will Be “Ready Before End Of Next Year”

More From Pistorius Trial

• Ballistics Expert Says Pistorius’ Girlfriend Was Shot First In The Hip, Not The Head This supports earlier testimony of earlier witnesses who said they heard screams during a volley of shots.
• Pistorius Puts His Fingers In His Ears During Trial To Block Out Forensic Expert’s Description Of The Killing
• Prosecutor In Pistorius Trial To End Case Next Week

Upcoming: Who Will Be Selected For The World Relay Champs?

• USATF Selection Criteria For World Relay Championships Is Not Straight Forward At All You can be selected if you made the 2012 or 2013 US team or finished top 2 at US Indoor Champs, based on 2014 descending order list or just because USATF wants to select you. We should be hearing soon since the USATF deadline to accept a spot is March 28th.
• Shot Put Showdown Between NZ’s Jacko Gill And Tom Walsh In Doubt After Gill Announces Injury They were supposed to finally go head-to-head next week, but now Gill might not compete depending on how the injury heals.
• Yohan Blake, Warren Weir, Kim Collins Among Top Sprinters Competing At Saturday’s UWI Invitational In Jamaica

Study Finds Cushioned Running Shoes Don’t Reduce Injuries

Boston Marathon Bicycle Ride Will Go On Despite Marathon Organizers’ Wishes Every year before the marathon start, hundreds of cyclists ride the course, but this year they’ve been asked not to because of safety concerns.

Doping Stuff

• Anti-Doping Procedure Technicality Led To Veronica Campbell Brown’s Clearance By CAS The errors included the failure to properly seal one of her urine samples so hypothetically it could have been tampered with. But didn’t she have to prove that she unintentionally took the substance to get the initial “public warning” from JADCO in the first place?
• Canadian Wheelchair Racer Compaore Suspended For Five Years After Second Doping Violation He tested positive for EPO. Why is he not banned for life?
• Technological Doping?UK 800 Runner Jenny Meadows And Other UK Athletes Trying To Get An Edge Using DNA Testing The results will help her set a specific training & nutritional program. Her test told her she’d make a good mid-distance runner and was susceptible to injury. Quite the revelation that must have been for the former World 800 bronze medalist, who spent the last year injured.
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2012 800 Olympian Geena Gall Joins Oregon State Coaching Staff As Volunteer Assistant

Sprints / Jumps

• Athletics Australia CEO Says It’s Very “Frustrating” That US’s World Indoor 60H Champ Nia Ali Pulled Out Of Melbourne World Challenge She pulled out of the meet one day after it was announced that she would face Sally Pearson in the 100H.
• IAAF “Work, Rest And Play” Q&A With Qatar’s World Indoor HJ Champ Mutaz Essa Barshim The jumper said his favorite training session is to do 150m repeats.
• Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Vs. Blessing Okagbare And English Gardner For Doha 100 On May 9thLaShawn Merritt in 400; Warren Weir in 200.

2014 NCAA Indoor Track & Field*Results*Full Video Replays*NewDay 2 Photo Gallery*Day 1 Photo Gallery

Oregonian: Duck Men And Women Sweep The NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships – Women Win Tthanks To Incredible 4 X 400 Finish*AP Recap Of Day 2

LRC  Canada’s And Mississippi State’s Brandon McBride Arrives As The 800’s Newest Collegiate Star Last year, the fastest high schooler in the history of North America flopped as a first-year collegian. Now he’s an NCAA champion. Meet Brandon McBride.

LRCAnthony Rotich Outkicks Frontrunning Lawi Lalang To Win 2014 Men’s Mile Title As Oregon’s Mac Fleet’s Big Kick Comes A Little Too Late
*LRCInterviews: Anthony Rotich, Lawi Lalang, Mac Fleet & Rich Peters

LRC Men’s 3,000: KING Edward Cheserek Is Three For Three In NCAA Championships As He Completes The Indoor 3K/5K DoubleEdward Cheserek comes away with two NCAA individual titles as he blew away the 3,000m field on the last lap as Oklahoma State’s Kirubel Erassa was a respectable runner-up and Colorado freshman Ben Saarel was 3rd.

LRC Super-Frosh:Georgia Freshman Kendell Williams Smashes NCAA And World Junior Record In Women’s Pentathlon *MB: While on the women’s side, Georgia frosh Kendell Williams destroys the NCAA and world junior record in pentathlon

LRC Women’s 5,000: Abbey D’Agostino Is Halfway To Repeating The DoubleAbbey D’Agostino came through as the favorite as she defended her title in a tactical 16:20.39 and is halfway to repeating her 5k/3K double. Behind her, Stanford’s Aisling Cuffe and Kathy Kroeger went 2-3.
*MB:ERIN FINN HAS MORE BALLS THAN MOST MALE RUNNERS!!

LRCWomen’s DMR: Arkansas Denies Stanford A DMR Sweep As They Win It In The Last 400 The race came down to a two-team fight between Arkansas and Stanford with Dominique Scott (Arkansas) and Justine Federonic (Stanford) duking it out on the 1,600 leg. In the end, it would be Scott who got the job done as she got her team the dominant win in 11:05.83 to Stanford’s 11:08.28.