2014 Foot Lockers *Results *HS Forum *Photo Gallery

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

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• Sara Hall, Paced By Ryan, Sets PR To Win Dallas Half Marathon In 1:12:26 39-year-old Logan Sherman won the men’s race in 68:21. *Results
• Meb Keflezighi “Dusts” Ryan Hall In First Leg Of Dallas Mavericks Vs. Texas Rangers Relay Challenge At The Dallas Marathon However, the Rangers “recovered” and beat the Mavs by almost 9 minutes. In the elite race, Kimutai Cheruiyot won the marathon in 2:17:11 as Shitaye Gemechu won the women’s race in 2:46:46. *Results
  *MB: 1/2 Marathon Jogger steals banner moment from Women’s Full Marathon Winner
• RRW:Wilson Chebet (2:15:35) And Joyce Chepkirui (2:30:23) Complete First Kenyan Sweep At Honolulu Marathon
• Better Than Prize Money?Eritrea’s World Half Marathon Silver Medalist Samuel Tsegay Wins Cross Nacional Castellano-Manchego XC Race In Spain Spain’s Alessandra Aguilar took the women’s race as she and Tsegay won their body weight in cheese, wine and chocolates.
• Athletics Weekly Recaps UK’s Weekend Domestic XC/Road Racing Scene

We Wish This Wasn’t True

Actor Who Plays Louie Zamperini In “Unbroken” Admits He’s Never Run A 5k He also admits to taking “a little bit of artistic license” and inventing Zamperini’s “finishing style.”

Confused By The Latest Doping Scandal? Get Caught Up Here

• Science Of Running: Everything You Need To Know About Doping Scandal By Steve Magness
• The Guardian Does A Good Job Of Summarizing The IAAF/Russian Doping Scandal
• Shalane Flanagan Rips Rita Jeptoo For Being A Doper “I literally catered my whole race around (trying to beat) that woman.”
• Great Anecdote About Seb Coe And Doping Once when a friend was nailed for doping (later totally exonerated) he said, “If Diane Modahl is on drugs then there is no hope for athletics.”
• Kenyan Press Wants To Know Why Papa Diack Wired $200,000 To Athletics Kenya In 2010
• Irish Columnist Says She’ll Give Up Track And Field If Bolt Is A Doper She, like us, thinks he’s a freak of nature.

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 StatementLRC 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.”

IAAF / Russian Doping Scandal News Continues

• IAAF’s Most Senior Anti-Doping Official, Dr. Gabriel Dolle, Leaves Job After Being Interviewed By IAAF Ethics Commission Dolle has possibly been implicated in the investigation into Liliya Shobukhova‘s payoff to the Russian Athletics Federation. The IAAF Ethics Commission has apparently been investigating since March and is expected to deliver a verdict within two months.
• Papa Massata Diack Steps Down From IAAF Pending Investigation Lamine Diack has been interviewed by a French newspaper and said that his son was big enough to look after himself.
• The Guardian: “Doha: The Honeypot That Catapulted Itself Into The Sporting World” Writer analyzes Doha’s consistent (possibly corrupt) use of money/financial incentives in its quest to host events including the World Cup, World Champs and Olympic Games.
• Guardian: “IAAF Limps On As Rumors, Allegations And Innuendo Race Out Of Control” This article claims the IAAF has sat on allegations of corruption in Russia for a long time before acting.
• IAAF Statement On Russia’s Valentin Balakhnichev Voluntarily Stepping Down As IAAF Treasurer During Investigation

• RRW:Columbia University Alum (Now Running For Croatia) Lisa Nemec (Stublic) Confident Heading Into Honolulu Marathon The 2:25:44 marathoner has been training in Portugal to get used to the heat and humidity of Hawaii.
• RRW: Local Businesses Get Boost From Honolulu Marathon According to Brett Larner, the Honolulu Marathon actually is considered very prestigious among Japanese runners. 
• RRW: Honolulu Marathon Kicks Off With Opening Of Expo

The Triple Jump Might Be Safe, But Not The 10K

• The 200, 10,000 And Shot Put Allegedly Among Events That Could Be Removed From The Olympics Australian paper is reporting that those along with the 20K race walk and TJ are being considered in the IOC’s push to make room for other sports. Apparently the 10,000 is most at risk.
  *MB:IOC in Talks, Pondering to Remove 10k/200m from Olympics
• Glasgow Herald Writer Warns That Olympic Reforms Might Mean A Painful “Price That Will Have To Be Paid” For Track And Field He knows “every event on the programme is sacrosanct to aficionados of whatever discipline” so there will be uproar no matter what goes.