Interesting Reads

• LRC Haile G’s Classic Video Call Of Epic Women’s Finish In Dubai: “Yes, yes, yes, yes. Go, go go, go, go. … Win for Ethiopia!!!! Wonderful!! Thank you!” The Great One may have a future in broadcasting. Plus HD video from men’s race.
• Haile Gebrselassie Says Paul Tergat Was A “Perfect Athlete” And He Only Didn’t Win Gold Because He Wasn’t “Lucky”
  *Kid Mistakes Haile For Shoe Store Employee – Asks If They Have Size 6 Trainers
  *MB: Class act – Haile G: “Paul (Tergat) was a perfect athlete. … Both of us should have won the gold in Sydney.”
• Pablo Solares, Who Ran 3:56 Last Week, Isn’t A Full-Time Runner – He Just Started A Full-Time Job With Merrill Lynch And Also Is A Professional Painter Frustrated with injuries, he started to move on last year but wanted to put a 2016 World Indoor qualifier before his job started at Merrill Lynch. He’s got commissions to do two murals for Oregon State University. “It’s good to stay busy.”
• 2012 LJ Champ Greg Rutherford Carries Injured Deer Two Miles To Get Help He found the deer while walking his dogs.
• A Look At Why The Men’s High Jump Might Currently Be The Greatest Event In Track Some are calling it “The Greatest Show on Earth.”

2015 Dubai Marathon *Results

Unbelievable! LRC Some Guy You’ve We’ve Never Heard Of (Hayle Lemi) Wins Sport’s Richest Prize Of $200,000 As Bekele Drops Out This doesn’t happen in any other sport. A total unknown (Hayle Lemi), who previously had one international race to his name and had not broken 2:10, took home the sports richest prize ($200,000) at the Standard Chartered Dubai Marathon as Kenenisa Bekele dropped out.

MB: Official 2015 Dubai Marathon Live Discussion Thread

Must Read: Coach Canova Talks To Alberto Stretti About Bekele’s Buildup & Future In The Marathon – “His engine is still the most powerful in the World.” Canova, who also reveals he coached the race winner, is still VERY bullish on Bekele’s future. 
*Discuss On MB

Pre-Race: Kenenisa Bekele Talks At Length With Sabrina Yohannes About How He’s Learning To Be A Marathoner

Full Coverage, Including More Pre-Race News, In Our 2015 Dubai Marathon Special Section

Standard Chartered Dubai Women *Results

LRC Aselefech Mergia Edges Gladys Cherono In An Epic Stretch Run To Win A Cool $200,000 Ethiopia’s Aselefech Mergia is back. The Dubai course record holder prevailed by :01 in an epic final straight battle over World half marathon champ Gladys Cherono to take home $200,000 in the deepest women’s marathon ever (top 10), bumping Desi Linden from the fastest 10th-place finisher ever.

Olympic News / The 1st Amendment Doesn’t Apply

Boston Mayor Has Signed A Formal Agreement With The USOC That Bans City Employees From Criticizing Boston’s Bid For 2024 Games The “joinder agreement” forbids the city of Boston and its employees from making any written or oral statements that “reflect unfavorably upon, denigrate or disparage, or are detrimental to the reputation” of the International Olympic Committee, the USOC, or the Olympic Games.

Learn Something About The 1964 Olympics: 50 Years Ago, Jim Alder Was Left At Home As Alternate For Tokyo Olympics; He Went Out And Ran Nearly 95 Laps On Track To Blow Off Steam And Set 2-Hour WR That Still Stands *Discuss On MB

Russian Doping Updates

• IAAF Issues Statement That The Number Of Russian Doping Cases Is A “Major Concern” And They Are Investigating Out of the 37 athletes sanctioned by the Biological Passport system since 2009, 23 have been Russians.
• Australia’s Double Olympic Racewalk Silver Medalist Jared Tallent Calls For A Blanket Ban On Russian Athletes Tallent was beaten by a doper at both the 2008 and 2012. He is questioning why RUSADA has said that 2012 winner Sergei Kirdyapkin was clean for the Olympics, but dirty for the World Cup in May 2012. We 100% agree … if he was dirty 3 months before the Games, he was dirty at the Games.
• 2nd Article With Good Quotes From Tallent And Ireland’s Olive Loughnane Tallent: “It’s crazy, absolutely ridiculous. You can’t cherry-pick when the athlete should get the results annulled.”
• Paula Radcliffe Wants Maker Of German Documentary On Russian Doping To Come Forward To The IAAF With List Of 225 Athletes With “Suspicious” Blood Samples She says, “This makes me so mad because he won’t give it to the IAAF. The IAAF have no idea what you’re talking about.” However, we were under the impression that the list came from an IAAF employee and they knew exactly what it is.

LetsRun.com’s 2014 Awards – We Need Your Vote

LRC Meb Or Galen? Vote For LetsRun.com’s 2014 Award It’s time to vote. Vote and tell us who are the male and female runners of the year for the World, US, and NCAA. Plus vote for the “best record-breaking performance,” the “race of the year,” the “moment of the year” and “unusual moment of the year.”