Finally: Uganda Parliament Starts Investigation Into Sexual Abuse Of Elite Female Runners By Team Head Coach It’s sad that it took the government stepping in to spur any action as the Uganda Athletics Federation did nothing and even dropped Moses Kipsiro from the World Half squad for speaking out against the coach.
*Previous: Ugandan Victims Of Sexual Assault/Harassment B Coach Fear He’ll Never Be Punished As He’s A Member Of Police And Police Seem Already To Be Looking Other Way

Recommended Read: BAA Runner Dan Harper Shares His Nerve-Wracking Experience Of Getting Detained By The Police While On A Run During The Manhunt For The Second Boston Bomber Last Year Harper talks about how he was stopped during his morning run and was detained, cuffed and questioned for 45 minutes until the cops could validate that he was not one of the Boston bombing suspects.

• Wilson Kipsang: “When they gave me the opportunity to control I had to run my race. … The only place to speed up was from 30km and that is what I did for the last 12km.”
• The Science Of Sport’s Ross Tucker Analyzes Mo Farah’s Debut “It is a disappointing debut … What would be most concerning to Farah is that he ran pretty conservatively, and was on 2:06 pace for most of the race, and he still dropped substantially off that.”
• UK Performance Director Neil Black Doubts Mo Farah Will Run Another Marathon In The Near Future As He Turns His Focus Back To The Track London race director Hugh Brasher said he didn’t think Farah would do another one until after the Rio Olympics.
• Video Highlights From Mo Farah’s Post London Press Conference
• Edna Kiplagat Says She Adjusted Her Training To Incorporate Speedwork Because She Thought She “Might Need A Good Sprint Finish To Win”

Sprints / Jumps News

• Usain Bolt Says His Recent Foot Injury Is “Nothing Serious” And He’s Already Back In Training Bolt said he was looking forward to the World Relays this year in May, but didn’t indicate if he’d be competing. A previous article said he wouldn’t be competing until June.
• Texas A&M’s Deon Lendore’s 44.90 400 World Lead Highlights Weekend NCAA Action Hours later he anchored Texas A&M’s 4 x 400 to victory with a 44.70 split. Princeton’s Julia Ratcliffe was the women’s DI athlete of the week as she set a New Zealand and Ivy League record in the hammer throw with 228-4 (69.60m).
• MVP’s Carrie Russell Runs 11.19 To Win The 100 At UTech Classic Her time is tied for the 3rd fastest for the year. She also ran on the MVP 4 x 100 which ran a world-leading 43.31.
• Japanese Weekend Track Highlights: Teen Sprint Star Yoshihide Kiryu Makes His Collegiate Debut He helped the Toyo University 4 x 100 team to a school record of 39.69 seconds (article also includes distance results).
• IAAF Work, Rest, And Play Interview With Brazil’s 2011 World Champion Pole Vaulter Fabiana Murer She says her all-time favorite movie is Back to the Future and is a big fan of the US Sherlock Holmes TV series.
• Next Month’s Pre Classic Features Deep Women’s HJ Featuring Every Major Medalist From The Past Three Years US’s Brigetta Barrett faces Russians Anna Chicherova and Svetlana Shkolina.

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London Women

LRCFour Thoughts On London: The Sprint Finish, Dibaba's Dropped Bottle And Debut, And Kiplagat Coming Through

LRC – Edna Kiplagat Outkicks Florence Kiplagat – Tirunesh Dibaba Comes Up Just Short In Debut!
*RRW: 4th Times A Charm: Edna Kiplagat Wins 2014 Virgin Money London Marathon
*Sierra Leone Runner Mami Konneh Lahun Goes Missing After Finishing 20th In London Marathon

MB: Dibaba dropping the bottle cost her the win
*Why aren’t people trashing Turinesh Dibaba?
*Jeptoo. Why did she drop out?

London Is In The Books – Now Look Forward To Boston

• Watch “60 Minutes” Segment On Shalane Flanagan And Her Buildup For The Boston Marathon
• USA Today Quick Fact Rundown On Boston: Second Largest Field Ever, List Of Top Elites, Security, Where To Watch, Etc.
• 3,300-Mile Race For Boston Marathon Victims Ends The month long coast-to-coast relay raised more than $425,000 for the One Fund.

• 48 Days Later: USATF Names Working Group To Investigate Albuquerque Controversies From US Indoors The group is led USATF board member Bob Hersh athlete board representative Darvis “Doc” Patton.
  *More Info On The ABQ Controversies In Our “USATF Controversy” Section
• Barcelona, Doha And Eugene Set To Bid For 2019 IAAF World Championships The decision will be made in November.
• Seb Coe Will Likely Run For IAAF President Next Year When Lamine Diack Steps Down

• Alexa Efraimson Misses HS Record, Runs 9:55 To Win Arcadia 3,200 Efraimson’s time puts her 5th all-time. The matchup with Sarah Baxter never happened as she was a DNS. Overall, 20 boys went under 9 minutes as Blake Haney was the fastest in 8:46.
• Raven Saunders Breaks US High School Shot Put Record By Almost 2 Feet With 56 Feet, 8.25 Inches The record was held by American record holder and Olympic silver medalist Michelle Carter.

Oscar P Gets Grilled On Stand – Game, Set, Match?

• Friday: Pistorius Is On The Ropes: Prosecutor Rattles Pistorius So Badly And He Makes So Many “Mistakes” On Stand, Judge Asks Him If He’s Too Tired To Continue Judge: “It is important that you should be ‘all here’ when you are in that witness box. If you are tired and the reason you are making all these mistakes is because you are tired you must say so. It doesn’t help to say it’s not going to change.” *ESPN
• Prosecutor Tries To Get Oscar To Admit He Lied About Going Out On Balcony As Photos Clearly Show It Was Blocked By A Fan Oscar claims the police altered the crime scene.
• Prosecutor Goes After Oscar P: “You blame anybody but yourself.”
• Prosecutor Mocks Pistorius’ Version Of Events

• Stanford’s Steven Solomon And Coach Jody Stewart Are Thrilled With Fact He Recently Broke Stanford School Record By Running 45.36 In Australia He did of course run 44.95 in HS.
• It’s Been An Incredible 6 Months For New Zealand’s Tom Walsh He’s gone from missing the Moscow “B” standard by 1 cm to winning Worlds bronze.
• Q&A With Christian Taylor “I’m done beating myself up and the whole mentality is to just go  out there, have some fun and find the old Christian again.”

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