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Week In Review

WTWMolly Huddle's Lucrative Year, Shame On Duke, The New American Star Born At Altitude, Gerry Lindgren, And The Female Comeback Trail

The Distance Pros In Monaco Speak

• Genzebe Dibaba Is Going For The 5,000 World Indoor Record And 5,000 World Title In 2015 Genzebe’s sister Anna translated for her and they both spoke on the Dibaba sister running legacy.
• Interesting Stuff: Nijel Amos Says The Commonwealth Games 800 Final, Which He Won Over David Rudisha, Was The Hardest Race Of His Life Apparently Amos was coached to an 800 Olympic silver by a geography teacher and he is a musician going by the name of “DJ Zorro” on YouTube. He has a single coming out with his band, “Black Brothers.”
• Hicham El Guerrouj Says The Only Athlete He Can See Breaking His 1,500 WR Is Asbel Kiprop El Guerrouj is a bit critical of Kiprop’s racing, though, saying he tries to do too much and needs to prioritize – winning titles or breaking records.
• Dennis Kimetto Talks About How Poverty Inspired Him To Become A Runner Once a poor farmer, now he’s won more than $100,000 in a single race for his WR in Berlin. Looking ahead, Kimetto thinks the sub-2 hour marathon is possible.

More IAAF And Post-Doha Decision News: AOY Announced Today

• 2PM ET: Live Streaming Of The 2014 World Athletics Gala Today Watch the IAAF announce the Athlete of the Year awards.
• IAAF Approve Plan To Have Morning Finals At Rio 2016 – First Time In 28 Years The goal is to maximize international coverage. The women’s 10,000m will be one of the events in the AM.
• Money Talks: Doha’s Winning Bid Included $37 Million Incentive Offer To The IAAF The IAAF has responded that the financial offer was within the guidelines, but critics have said it was “illegal.”
• Columnist On Why The IAAF Gave 2019 Worlds To Doha Despite Human Rights, Heat, And Other Issues See the headline above.

• Marathoner Guor Maker Hoping To Represent South Sudan At The 2016 Olympics Maker ran at London 2012 as an “Independent Olympic Athlete” and is now a US citizen, but hopes South Sudan will be recognized by the IOC for 2016. In the meantime, he is seeking support for himself and other South Sudan runners via crowdfunding.
• From The Weekend: Half Marathon On Monterey Bay Won By Jacob Chemtai (1:03:22) And Sarah Kiptoo (1:13:40) Chemtai won a close race over Nelson Oyugi (1:03:31). Guor Maker ran 1:05:52.
• WSJ: Rock ‘N’ Roll Half Marathon Coming To Brooklyn In October

News From The IAAF Council Meeting In Monaco

IAAF Announces New World Championship Qualification Process For Worlds 2015 There no longer is a “B” standard. In all events but the 5,000, 10,000 and marathon, there will be a descending order list so you can go without the “A” qualifying time.
*MB: Big Win For “The Mile’ – Mile times can now be used to qualify for Worlds!! The times are 3:53.3 and 4:25.2.
*Daily Relay Breaks Down What No B Standard Means

• Kenya Celebrates After They Are Awarded 2017 World Youth Champs
  *Kenya Govt. Sets Aside $8.9 Million For World Youths
• 2017 World XC Will Be in Kampala, Uganda
• IAAF Council Awards Ostrava 2018 IAAF Continental Cup
• World Athlete Of The Year Will Be Announced Friday In Monaco – Dennis Kimetto Is Confident He’s The Winner

More Post-Doha Decision Fallout

• Important Read Alan Abrahamson: A Two-Vote Loss Is Reason For Optimism He gives high praise to Lananna, Siegel and Hightower.
  *MB: Alan Abrahamson says two-vote loss is a huge win for Eugene – Gives big props to Lananna, Siegel and Hightower
• Eugene Doesn’t Have This: IAAF Officials Will Stay In 5-Star Mandarin Oriental In Doha – The Luxury Chain Goes For More Than $500 A NIght In DC, More Than $800 In NYC.
• Or This: Kenya Govt. Sets Aside $8.9 Million For 2017 World Youths Critics who say Doha bought the bid fail to realize that governments all over the world pay for sports, even in the US.
• French Footballer Who Was Held Hostage In Qatar For 19 Months Was Shocked To See Man Who “Destroyed” Him Leading Qatar Bid

International News

• Head Of Russian Racewalking Center, Viktor Kolesnikov, Banned For Four Years After Investigation Into Systematic Doping Russian anti-doping found him in possession of banned substances. At least 17 of his athletes failed drug tests.
• One We Missed: US HJ Champ Inika Mcpherson Is Dating Top Nigerian 400 Sprinter Regina George
• Angelina Jolie Gets Emotional At Premier Of “Unbroken” In Sydney, Australia
• Oscar Pistorius’ Lawyers File Papers Asking Judge To Reject Prosecutors’ Attempts To Appeal Decision

• 2002 NCAA Champion Jorge Torres Shares The Secret Of How To Win At XC Champs Torres dreamed about it since high school.
• Michigan State Sophomore Sherod Hardt Helped Team Qualify For NCAAs With One Shoe He lost it at the starting line. Thankfully he wore socks.
• Pre-NCAA Rankings: Colorado Men Are The Second Team In The Last 18 Years To Be Unainimously Ranked #1 For Entire Season The last team to get that honor was Wisconsin in 2006 and they lost to CU at Nats. Syracuse and Oregon are ranked 2-3.
• Michigan State Gets Unanimous #1 Ranking Going Into NCAA Champs As Top 7 Teams Remain The Same Georgetown and Oregon are 2-3.
• Running Times Article On The Eternal Debate Of Having Foreign Athletes Filling The Top Spots At NCAAs Some interesting points on both sides and contrasting quotes from Oklahoma State’s Dave Smith, who has summer-long recruiting trips abroad, and Colorado’s Mark Wetmore, who only recruits Americans.
• DIII: North Central Men And John Hopkins Women Unanimous #1 Ranked Teams
  *Official List Of Qualifiers For DIII NCAAs
  *MB: Division 3 National Field Discussion
• Other NCAA: Eastern Michigan Thrower Eli Burdette Charged With Sexual Assault