2014 Foot Lockers *Results

LRC Grant Fisher & Anna Rohrer Become Legends, Win Second Titles One pushed hard throughout, one waited until the final 800, but both were utterly dominant in earning their historic second wins. Where do they stack up in terms of all-time greats?

Foot Locker on the Boards:
*Official 2014 Foot Locker Live Discussion Thread
*Make your predicitions now, When does Grant Fisher break 4:00 and how close to Webb’s 3:53 does he get?
*Footlocker Nationals!! WEST Team, What happened?
*Fisher=Centro, Maton=Rupp 
*Five reasons why I hope Grant Fischer doesn’t win footlocker.

MB: WSJ Does Profile of Bill Aris – Call Him ‘The Lombardi’ of Teen Running

What Happened To Foot Locker Legend Kenny Cormier?

LRC 10 Years Later: Finding Kenny Cormier 10 years ago today, Kenny Cormier was atop the running world after winning the 2004 Foot Locker National Championship thanks to his legendary 100+ miles per week. Three years later, even though Arkansas coach John McDonnell said, “He had it all – the head, the body,” he was completely out of the sport and joining the Marines. Where is he today? That is a bit complicated.

The Latest Doping Scandal News / You Know It’s A Huge Story When BBC World Is Talking About LetsRun.com

LRC BBC World Wants To Know Why IAAF General Secretary Nick Davies Wrote A Passionate Letter To LetsRun.com Instead Of Issuing A More Traditional Statement LRC co-founder Weldon Johnson gives his thoughts. Bad reporting or not, maybe the names should come out.

• Important Read: Hajo Seppelt Says After Documentaries Airing, He’s Been Flooded With More Info Of Systematic Russian Doping “We did not plan a sequel; however, people are sending us more and more evidence to back the claim there is systematic doping in Russian sport.” He also doesn’t back off claims of an IAAF cover-up. “The IAAF is trying to give the impression that all the details we had were individual blood values. That is simply not the case. There are several readings for each athlete.”
• Words Of Wisdom From David Rudisha “If your talent is not taking you to that higher level, don’t force it and don’t cheat to get there because it’s not fair even to yourself and it’s not fair to others.”

News From The UK

• 2012 Olympic Heptathlete Louise Hazel Is Enjoying Being Retired As She Now Can Go To The Pub “I had never been in a pub on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon, having a roast, playing darts. What a novelty! It was brilliant.”
• Jo Pavey Is Crowned British Athletics Athlete Of The Year In Fan Vote The young athlete of the year was Matthew Hudson-Smith.

Time To Vote

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• US Likely To Choose Bidding City For 2024 Olympics On Tuesday Boston, DC, LA or San Fran.
• Uganda’s Hopes For Gold At World XC Champs Rest With Moses Kipsiro And 18-Year-Old Joshua Cheptegei Kipsirio has turned his focus to XC after winning the Commonwealth Games 10,000 and Cheptegei is coming off a season where he ran 27:56 for 10,000 and won WJs.
• Molly Huddle Announced For NYC Half Marathon On March 15th Last year, Huddle made her debut at NYC with 1:09:04.
• Ryan Hall To Run The Utah Valley Half Marathon In June 2015
• Double Euro Sprint Champ Dafne Schippers Will Face Germany’s Verena Sailer In The 60m At Karlsruhe Indoor Meet On Jan. 31st

Airing The Sport’s Dirty Laundry

• LRC IAAF Spokesman Nick Davies Writes LetsRun.com About Reports IAAF Did Not Follow Up For Retesting 150 Suspicious Samples From 2006-2008 Davies says the blood test info is “taken completely out of context” and “will do nothing to combat the scourge of doping in athletics.”
• The Telegraph Claims They Have Seen “Documents Which Show Hundreds Of Cases Of Abnormal Readings, Suggesting Cover-Up By IAAF” A sensationalist headline as they admit, and the IAAF has stated, that “reasons for abnormal blood values are many and are often perfectly innocent.”
  *MB: 225 Athletes from 39 Countries Implicated in Doping
• The Head Of The Russian Athletics Federation Valentin Balakhnichev Has Stepped Down From His Role As IAAF Treasurer While Investigation Is Conducted He stepped down voluntarily and says he plans to return to his position after the investigation is over.
• The Guardian Claims To Have Seen Leaked Emails Implicating Lamine Diack’s Son In 2017 Worlds Bribe With Doha Article includes quotes from alleged emails.
• Related To IAAF Accusations? WADA To Conduct Its Own Investigation Into Russian Doping Allegations Originally they had left it to the IAAF, but now after “careful review” they will conduct their own probe.
• AP Column: Russia Is Athletics’ Lance Armstrong Case
• Speaking Of Lance: Lance Armstrong On Decision To Dope: “Once we realised … that we had brought knives to a gun fight, we all went out and got guns. Virtually everybody in the business made that decision.” Armstrong compared himself to Bill Clinton and Tiger Woods, but said they were given a chance to redeem themselves and he wasn’t.
• EightLane.org: From Russia With Love: Why 2014 Could Be The Beginning Of The End For Athletics Blogger warns, “2014 will be remembered as the year of Armageddon for the credibility of global track and field.”
• DailyMail: “Calls To Name British Athlete On Doping List Intensify … And Suspicious Blood Samples May Be Re-Tested”
• The Telegraph: Athletics In The Fight Of Its Life UK journalist calls this a “new low even in this sport.”
• Chairman IAAF Medical And Anti-Doping Commision Dr Juan Manuel Alonso Defends IAAF On Twitter “Blood samples taken before 2009 were thoroughly examined.”