Shocking Mid-Day News

MB: The Guardian Briefly Reported That Lamine Diack’s Son Asked For $5 Million Bribe For 2017 Worlds – Article Now Is Taken Down The UK’s The Guardian briefly published an explosive bombshell of an allegation yesterday. The article has been “temporarily” taken down but a sports portal has it up here.
*Top Briton With Suspicious Blood Values Covered Up By IAAF? The IAAF says no. “One cannot draw any conclusion on whether or not an athlete has doped on the basis of one single blood value.”
*MB: A top British athlete has escaped a doping inquiry

News From The USA

• Recommended Read Great Article On Dave Wottle’s College Days At Bowling Green By The Best Man At Wottle’s Wedding The author thinks Wottle, the 1972 Olympic 800 champ, might really have been a miler and recalls him doing 3 x 2 miles (5 min. rest) in 9:35, 8:55 (est.), 8:29.
• 2014 USATF Club XC Championships Are Saturday At Lehigh And Record 1,800 People Will Compete
• RTimes Q&A With Molly Huddle After Her Amazing Year Huddle wants to try longer reps – something Kim Smith used to do – like 3 x 3k – for the 1st time next year as it’s a weak point.
• Track Star, Fashion Icon Maggie Vessey Gets Two New Agents
  *MB: Maggie Vessey dumps Ray Flynn – gets two new agents – Wasserman Media Group and Hawi Keflezighi

• Super 50-Year-Old – Butch Reynolds Training For M50 World Record Amazingly, the former WR holder at 43.29 weighs the same as when he competed.
• Usain Bolt Is In Miami For Ribbon Cutting At Hublot Boutique, Calls Dwayne Wade A “Cool Dude” For those of you without money, Hublot is a watch company. Bolt was sporting some sweet gold Pumas.

News From Down Under

• Review Panel Finds That Sacking Of Australia’s Track Coach In Middle Of Commonwealth Games Was Appropriate
• Up until a few months ago, Jack Hale, Australia’s 16yr old 10.13 windy sprinter, would get too nervous to sprint in meets His coaches kept him in the LJ. He says he ran so fast over the weekend thanks to having someone to chase down.

2014 NXN Was Saturday *Results *HS Forum

LRC Unbelievable: Fayetteville-Manlius Sweeps Boys’ & Girls’ Titles At NXN High School Team Nationals The F-M girls were upset last year to snap their streak of seven straight NXN titles but they’re back on top in 2014 and had some company on the podium; the F-M boys, runners up in 2004 and 2010, broke through to win their first NXN title. Individually, Tanner Anderson (15:11) and Allie Ostrander (17:19) got the wins.
*DyeStat: FM Breaks In New Course With Historic Sweep
*Coach Bill Aris Post-Race Video Interview
*MileSplit: Tanner Anderson’s Individual Sacrifice (Not Racing FL) Rewards Him Well In addition to the individual win, his team got 3rd.

High School Talk On The Message Board: 
*FM SWEEPS NXN BOYS & GIRLS!
*Petition to let Tanner Anderson Race Footlocker
*Wayzata in 9th at 4k, finishes 2nd?! And only ranked 24th in Dyestat??!!
*BEST COMPROMISE between Footlocker and NXN
*Meanwhile in Wisconsin, the Hacker legacy lives on
*Footlocker West Results

Second German Documentary On Russian Doping Aired *Full English Transcript Of 1st Documentary

• Second ARD Documentary Alleges Involvement From The Top Of The IAAF (Translated) Lamine Diack‘s son, Papa Massata Diack, is mentioned, but the translation isn’t clear. New documentary includes video secretly taken by Russian 800 runner Yulia Stepanova, where she is given advanced notice before an out of competition test and left her alone in the bathroom by the tester to take it.
• IAAF Reaction Statement On Second German TV Documentary They say they are investigating the allegations made in both documentaries.
• UK Independent Calls LetsRun Message Boards An “Obscure Forum” Apparently when you google “Seb Coe” and “Drugs,” this message board thread is the first or second hit.
• Paula Radcliffe Wants Olympic Bans For Countries Like Russia That Have Too Many Doping Positives
• Could Russian Doping Scandal Get Caster Semenya 2012 Olympic 800 Gold?
• Thomas Bach Promises “Zero Tolerance” If Allegations Are True
• Sergey Bubka Is Shocked And Embarrassed By Russian Doping Allegations
• Full English Transcript Of First German Documentary On Russian Doping