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IAAF And Japanese Advertising Agency Dentsu Extend Marketing And Sponsorship Partnership Through 2029Lamine Diack is thrilled as he’ll leave the sport financially secure as Dentus will guarantee the IAAF $17.7 million through 2019 and $22.5 million through 2029.
*Dentsu Gets Global Marketing And Licensing Rights For Major IAAF Events As Well As The Media Rights Outside Of Europe And Africa*IAAF Press Release

President Thomas Bach Promises That Scottish Athletes Would Be Able To Compete In 2016 Games If The Country Secedes From GB Some were worried that the March 2016 deadline wouldn’t leave them time for Rio 2016.

Field Event News

• Positive Attitude Has Been Key To Isobel Pooley, A Formerly Horrible Athlete, Setting British HJ Record Of 1.96m“You can only do the best you can on the day and if things don’t go well you can only look forward.”
• After Winning World Cup In Rugby This Summer, England’s 30-Year-Old Maggie Alphonsi Wants To Return To Track, Dreaming Of Making 2016 Games In Shot Or Discus She was a junior champ in both events as teen.
• European Heptathlon Champion Antoinette Nana Djimou And Euro Decathlon Silver Medalist Kevin Mayer Lead Entries For Talence IAAF Combined Events Challenge Meeting On Sept. 20-21

State Of The Sport

• Michael Johnson Worried About The Future Of Track And Field, Saying It’s Too Dependent On Its Status Within The Olympics “I am not sure athletics would still be around if it didn’t have that status as a premier Olympic sport.”
• UK LJer Greg Rutherford Thinks Things Like Street Track Events Can Help “You put it to music, you still have the best athletes turning up and the spectators get close. You don’t have to sit there for six hours if you don’t want to.”

• The Makers Of The BBC Documentary On David Rudisha Explain Six Lessons They’ve Learned About The Coaching Philosophy Of Brother Colm O’Connell #1 is “You don’t need to have been a great athlete to be a great coach.”
• Sep. 21: Molly Huddle And Andrew Bumbalough Running CVS 5K In Providence, RI Huddle will face Emily Sisson and Laura Nagel.
• IAAF Work, Rest And Play Interview With US’s Youth Olympic Games 800 Champ Myles Marshall Marshall comes from good genes as both his parents are former elite mid-d runners.

2014 Bupa Great North Run: Mo Farah And Mary Keitany Impress *Top Results *Video Replay *Highlights

• Mo Farah Is First British Winner Of Great North Run In 29 Years As Mary Keitany Breaks Paula Radcliffe’s 11-Year-Old CR In Only Her 2nd Race Back From Childbirth Farah ran 60:00 to just hold off Kenya’s Mike Kigen by less than a second. Stephen Kiprotich was 3rd (61:35). Keitany beat Radcliffe’s record by a second with 65:39 as UK’s Gemma Steel was 2nd (68:13) and Olympic marathon champ Tiki Gelana 3rd (68:45). Keitany’s time was the second fastest half marathon of all time (although the course isn’t record eligible). Tirunesh Dibaba was a DNS.

• Farah Denies “Fix” After Close Finish With Sometimes Training Partner Kigen Kigen and Farah have the same manager and train together in Kenya. Kigen was the unofficial rabbit, but both denied that Kigen let Farah win.
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• Farah: “To clock 60 minutes exactly is slightly frustrating though!” … “Mike and I had chat with about 800m to go and he said for me to go but I couldn’t really drop him.”

• Meet The Great North Run’s Millionth Finisher: 51-Year-Old Tracey Cramond She finished in 38,128th place with a time of 3:02:03.

Great North CityGames *Full Results

• AW Recap Great North CityGames: Christine Ohuruogu Wins 500m (1:07.46) Over 800 Runner Lynsey Sharp (1:08.05) And 400 Hurdler Eildh Child (1:08.11) In other mid-d action, UK’s Laura Muir put a disappointing season month behind her to win the mile in 4:34.84 over a solid field that included Kenya’s Hellen Obiri (4th in 4:36.23). Brie Felnagle was 5th and Treniere Moser 7th. In the men’s mile, Germany’s Homiyu Tesfaye ran 4:00.92 to beat Asbel Kiprop (4:01.09) and Garrett Heath (4:01.22). 
• Richard Kilty And Asha Philip Get Surprise Wins In The 150m Mike Rodgers and Allyson Felix came in as the favorites, but Rodgers was 2nd by .01-seconds and Felix was a distant 3rd. Greg Rutherford won the LJ, Tiffany Porter beat Brianna Rollins and Dawn Harper in the 100H.
• Lynsey Sharp Blogs About Her 500 Race And Comeback Season “Hard to believe I was in a wheelchair.”
• UK’s Former World Champs Bronze Medalist Runs Final Race Of His Career In The 110H The race was won by Dayron Robles and Turner finished 3rd .04 ahead of Aries Merritt.
• US Highlights From Great North CityGames: Jenn Suhr Won The Pole Vault In 4.52m Richard Browne won the paralympic 100 in 10.94 over GB’s Jonnie Peacock.
• Great North Run: The Last British Winner Of The Men’s Race At The Great North Run Was A Kenyon

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
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