Road News: Geoffrey Ronoh Upsets Again; Return Of Doper Mathew Kipsorio

• Geoffrey Ronoh Gets Another Surprise Win, Upstaging Geoffrey Mutai And With A CR At The Birell Prague Grand Prix 10K Ronoh ran 27:28 to Mutai’s 27:32. Coretti Jepkoech won the women’s race in a CR 31:05.
  *Race Highlights Video
• Kenya’s Mathew Kisorio Makes Return From 2-Year Doping Ban With Win At Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Memorial 15K In Kenya This article says he only won by 6 seconds with 45:45 while another says he dominated in 45:15. Kisorio is the highest profile Kenyan to get caught doping and famously spoke out about how doping was prevalent among Kenyan distance runners.
  *LRC MB Archives: Mathew Kisorio admits doping *Former junior world champ Kisorio claim drugs is normal in Kenya *Kisorio: My Doping Ban Hell
• Wilson Kipsang And Two-Time World Marathon Champion Abel Kirui Leading Field For Next Weekend’s Ndakaini Half Marathon
• Defending Champ Wilson Chebet Vs. Abel Kirui At Next Month’s Amsterdam Marathon Both runners have 2:05 PRs, but say they want to run 2:04 here.

Daniel Komen To Auction Off The Shoes He Wore When He Set His 3,000m World Record In 1996 The auction will take place in Atlanta. Komen is raising money for the conservation of water towers in Kenya.

After Breakthrough Year, New Zealand’s Up-And-Coming Shot Putter Tom Walsh Officially Committed To Being A Pro Athlete Walsh says, “If you told me I’d be in this position at the start of the year, I’d have said you were bat-shit crazy.” He also talks about hanging out with the Americans on the circuit and playing fantasy football.

• Poland’s Pawel Fajdek Wins Rieti Hammer Throw Hungary’s Krisztian Pars finished 3rd, but won the overall IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge title, taking home $30,000.
• Recap Of Day One Of Japan National University Track And Field Championships
  *Day 2

Simon Bairu Announces His Retirement From Competitive Running He leaves the sport as one of Canada’s all-time bests, holding their 10,000m NR (27:23) and with a 13th place showing at World XC.

• Man Gropes Woman Runner Who Turns Out To Be US Marshal She ended up chasing him down, kicking him in the groin and cornering him until the cops came to arrest him.
• University Of Oregon Now Offering Running Tours Of Campus Andrew Wheating is leading the first one.
• Weirder Things Have Happened: Parkour Trying To Gain Recognition As An Olympic Sport
• New Rules In Death Valley National Park Bar Badwater Ultramarathon From Being Held There Park officials say the new rules are for safety due to the extreme heat in Death Valley in the summertime.
• Budapest Considering Bid For 2024 Olympics

• China Is 1st Country To Match IOC’s $10 Million Anti-Doping Donation It’s very sad if other rich countries don’t match.
  *MB: Obama, China has pledged $10 to anti-doping, will you match? 
• Jamaica Doubles The Number Of Doping Control Officers On The Caribbean Island Let’s hope it didn’t go from 1 to 2.

Great North Run And CityGames Are This Weekend *Watch Live For Free On USATF.tv

• Great North Run Elite Start Lists The race is on live on the BBC starting at 9:30 BST (that’s 4:30 ET).
• After Racing On Friday In Brussels, Asbel Kiprop Will Race Again On Saturday In UK At Great North CityGames
• Great North Run And Great NorthCity Games Will Be Broadcast For Free On USATF.tv This Weekend
• Mo Farah On Sunday’s Great North Run: “Anything around 60 minutes would be good.”
• Coach Gabriele Nicola Says Mary Keitany Is Ready For Great North Run Keitany is on the comeback from childbirth and Nicola will use the race to determine if she should run a marathon this fall or not.
• A Look At The On-And-Off Track Career Of Bupa Great Run Founder Brendan Foster He ran 27:30 and won Olympic bronze as an athlete.
• IAAF And Great North Run To Display Dramatic Opening Ceremony To Recognize 1 Millionth Finisher Milestone*The opening ceremony is now sold out.

2014 NCAA XC*All Weekend Results

• Wisconsin Opens 2014 Season At Home On Friday
• Oregon Hosts Bill Dellinger Invite As Well
• Chris Fox Is Turning Syracuse Into A Power
• LRC Top 10 Women’s Individual Preview: Abbey’s Gone, So Who Takes Over? The top returner is Emma Bates, but she will be challenged by Aisling Cuffe, Kate Avery and Shelby Houlihan up front. Can Cuffe break the Foot Locker curse? Can a freshman (Elise Cranny or Sarah Baxter) crack the top five for the first time since 2009? We sort through a wide-open women’s field as just 6 of the top 16 from NCAAs last year are back in 2014.
• LRCTop 10 Men’s Individual Preview: King Ches And Then Who?Edward Cheserek is the heavy favorite but who can pull off the big upset like he did last year? Remember in recent years, people thought Lawi Lalang and Kennedy Kithuka would never lose a college XC race. Our top 10 has 5 Americans and 5 foreigners in it. Could Stanford really have three in the top 10?

Tuesday Action In Europe

• Croatia: Zagreb World Challenge Results: Brenda Martinez Wins 1,500 Brenda’s fine running at the end of 2014 continued with the win in 4:05 as Gabrielle Grunewald was 4th, Brie Felnagle was 8th, and Treniere Moser 11th.
  *Tom Wlash wins IAAF World SP Challenge in Zagreb over Majewski and Hoffa
• IAAF Report: Local Star Sandra Perkovic Highlights Winning Discus In 65.09m Two Days After Sudden Death Of Her Coach Russia’s Sergey Shubenkov wins competitive 110H in 13.39 over Orlando Ortega; US’s Nia Ali wins 100H; Blanka Vlasic loses on countback to her countrywoman Ana Simic in HJ.
• Kemar Bailey-Cole Barely Beats Asafa Powell And Mike Rodgers To Win Zagreb 100 In 10.07
• Italy: IAAF Recap Of Roverto Meet: Italian 19-Year-Old Federica Del Buono Wins 1,500 In 4:05.32 Her PR at the start of the year was only 4:16. Kenya’s Cornelius Kangogo won the 5,000 (13:24.01), beating world leader Muktar Edris. Justin Gatlin won the 100 (10.07) as Barbara Pierre won the women’s (11.16). Dayron Robles won the 110H (13.29).

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