September 18, 2014 Homepage Archive

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India's "Caster" Refuses Treatment

“I won’t undergo surgery or any other procedure. At every level of my life – junior, sub-junior or Under-20 – I have competed the way I am. I’ve been told the hormonal issue with me is natural so that’s why we have decided this.”

– Indian sprinter Dutee Chand, announcing she’ll try to defy the anti-doping and track and field authorities and continue to compete as a woman without surgery/hormone treatment even though her situation is very similar to Caster Semenya‘s a few years back.

Be An Expert / Let Your Voice Be Heard – National Top 10 And Conference Voting

LRCIt’s Time To Vote: NCAA XC Fans Super Polls Are Back The pro track season is over and that means it’s time to turn your attention to NCAA XC. Our LRC Fans Super Polls are back where you tell us the top 10 teams in the country and the top teams in each conference.

More NCAA News

New Penn State AD Promotes Jon Gondak, He Moves From Interim To Permanent Director Of Penn State XC/Track And Field Gondak had been a long-time assistant to Beth Alford-Sullivan. Amazingly, the press release talks about his coaching the NACAC team this summer as a key qualification. *Discuss in our NCAA Coaching Thread.
Ole Miss’s Sam Kendricks Goes Pro Won’t Vault For Ole Miss As A Senior The two-time NCAA champ won NCAAs and USAs this year. Not sure why he didn’t go pro after USAs.

Administrative News

Doug Logan Blogs About Corporal Punishment
Doug Logan Blogs About Ray Rice – “Cowards”
Olympics For The Masses? Rio 2016 Announces Ticket Prices – 3.8 Million Cost $30 Or Less, With Cheapest Ones Costing $17
Bostonians Think Their “Compact” Bid For 2024 Games Means They Have 75% Chance To Be US’s City Other potential US sites feature bids that are very spread out. Boston would be a walking, public transport Olympics.
Sergey Bubka States The Obvious – Attendance At Continental Cup Was A Problem “We must do our best to help organizing committees to bring local sport fans to the arenas.”

NCAA XC News: King Ches Speaks

Informative Q&A With Edward Cheserek, Who Talks About The Oregon XC Team, Including Some Specific Workouts Can anyone stop King Ches this year? Based on this interview, it’s not looking good. He says last year he was in terrible shape at this time (but he still won NCAAs) while this year he’s in great shape and running 10 to 15 miles more a week (80-85 vs. 70-80).
Top Teams Hold Steady In Updated DI Regional Rankings

Week That Was

LRC New York Vs. Chicago, Your Worst Race Ever, Eugene 2018, $$$, PEDs In The Military, And Talent Does Not Go Away The Continental Cup brought to an end the 2014 track season and that means we turn our attention to marathoning – Chicago and New York. Plus a defense of Katie Mackey and Andrew Bumbalough, a look at $$$ – prize money & appearance fees – Kevin Durant vs. the IAAF and USATF, and Eugene ~~2019~~ 2018?

US Marathoning News

Say It Ain’t SoMB:Ritz injured again – pulls out of Philly half
*More Philly News: Dejen Gebremeskel Says He’s Ready For Half Marathon Debut In Philly Gebremeskel, the Olympic 5,000 silver medalist, only ran one 5,000 on the track all summer. He’ll face 2012 Olympic 10,000 5th placer Bedan Karoki and many others.
Shalane Flanagan Talks About Her American Record Attempt In Berlin Next Week We believe that since Flanagan will be paced by Rob Watson and Ryan Vail, so if she sets the record it will only be an American “best” – not record – unless the IAAF changes its rules, which makes no sense since Deena Kastor had a male pacer herself.
*MB:Flanagan’s record(?) attempt
*LRC Archives from April 24, 2006: Kastor Sets AR
2015 USATF Marathon Championships Awarded To LA – Will Take Place As Part Of LA Marathon On March 15th
Good Read: Toni Reavis Remembers The Great John Kelley, Who Won Boston In 1957
*$87,000 Statue Of 1957 Boston Marathon Winner John Kelley To Be Dedicated On Sunday In Mystic, CT Details of ceremony here.

News From Canada:Canadian Record Holder Lanni Marchant Will Return To Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon On October 19th

And The Netherlands: Olympic Marathon Champion Tiki Gelana Will Headline This Weekend’s Dam tot Damloop 10 Miler In Netherlands She’ll face Linet Masai. On the men’s side, a lot of people are running, including defending champ and African 10,000m champ Nguse Amlosom and world junior 10,000 champ Joshua Cheptegei.

Field Event News Of Note

Baby Was Born In June, Yelena Isinbayeva Set To Return To Pole Vault Training Next Month, Focused On Rio
Good Read: Lengthy, Interesting, IAAF Profile Of Dilshod Nazarov’s Long And Bumpy Road To Becoming One Of The World’s Top Hammer Throwers He’s been training at the hammer since age 10 in war torn Tajikistan and is self-coached with a little help from mom.
3-Time World HJ Champ Kajsa Bergqvist Is Now Host Of Reality TV Show In Sweden The show is sports related.
Athletics New Zealand Names Australian Dale Stevenson As High Performance Throws Coordinator

NCAA XC News

New NCAA XC Poll – Little Changes As All Top 10 Teams Stay In Top 10
Big 12 Profiles Oklahoma XC Runner Abbabiya “Biya” Simbassa The Ethiopian immigrant is starting to flourish as a senior.

IAAF Inside Athletics: Ato Boldon Catches Up With World Record Holder And Icon Jackie Joyner Kersee

LetsSwim.com

ESPN.com – A Look At Ultra Swimming’s Triple Crown – Only 99 People Have Swum The English Channel, Catalina Channel And Around Manhattan Island The English Channel has still only been swum by 1,500 people as well.

US Distance News: Ryan Hall Now Coached By Jack Daniels

Ryan Hall Announces He’s Now Being Coached By Jack Daniels “It has been a fun ride over the last couple of years being self-coached and I have learned a lot, but I feel like I am back in my old ‘sophomore self’ shoes looking forward to soak up everything Jack has to say.” *Discuss*Competitor.com Article
Interesting: SPIKES Interview With Brooks Beasts Teammates Garrett Heath And Cas Loxsom About Their European Racing Season More than performances, the two talked about the ups and downs to adjusting to the Euro racing circuit with constant travel hiccups and last-minute arrangements.
RW Q&A With Emma Coburn She talks about her start in the steeplechase, the only time she’s fallen (in practice to avoid a goose) and binge watching Netflix.
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Random: A Jetpack That Can Turn A 4:20 Miler Into A 4:00 Miler

The Ultimate PED: ASU Engineering Student Builds Jetpack With Goal Of Allowing Soldiers Run A 4-Minute Mile (includes video) Currently the device can take 3 seconds off your 200, or 18 seconds off your mile, even though it makes you 11 pounds heavier. *MB Thread
And You Thought Track Was Unpopular In The US: With Only 3 Days Until They Start In South Korea, Only 8% Of Asian Games Track And Field Tickets Have Been Sold
There Have Been 536 IOC Members; How Many Do You Think Have Been Olympians? … The answer is 112 (about 21%). Of the 112, 65 have won medals and 47 won gold medals.

News From Asia

India’s Version Of Caster Semenya – Dutee Chand – Refuses To Get Hormone Treatment, Resumes Training You can pretty much kiss women’s sports goodbye if she’s allowed to compete.
Thousands Of Athletes Are Flooding Into Incheon, South Korea For 2014 Asian Games, Which Open Friday
Next Asian Games Will Be In 2018 In Jakarta The 2014 Asian Games start Friday. The next games were initially awarded to Hanoi for 2019 but Hanoi backed out.
Osaka International Women’s Marathon Establishes New “Next Heroine” Program The development program is focused on young corporate runners and studly collegians.

News From Europe

Recommended Read Grateful Paula Radcliffe To Return To Racing This Weekend, Hoping For Sub-35 10k And Sub-2:30 In London Radcliffe knows she’ll never be close to what she once was as one foot is still severely damaged but she’d like to go out on her own terms and also like to race New York one last time.
MB: Mo Farah’s brother pleads guilty to attempted burglary- gets 15 months in slammer
More Than A Quarter Of A Billion Pounds Has Been Raised For Charity By London Marathon Runners Since Virgin Took Over Sponsorship In 2010
Barbara Spotakova Enjoying Time Off Until November After Sensational Season Where She Lost Just Once Spotakova returned from maternity leave this year and was dominant, but she will need to be even better in 2015 as the 2011 and 2013 world champs will be back after missing 2014 themselves due to childbirth.

Will The Blade Runner Ever Compete Again?

South African Olympic Committee Says Despite Conviction, Oscar Pistorius Is Free To Compete They say there are no rules preventing someone with a criminal record from representing the country.
IPC President Stresses That They Are “Not Promoting” The Return Of Pistorius He has only said that legally, the IPC would allow it after Pistorius serves his sentence.
Analysis: Does Sport Have The Obligation To Exclude Oscar Pistorius? Some good points here on both sides of the argument. If he gets 10 years in prison, though, it might be irrelevant as he’d be about 38 years old when he gets out.