Some Of Paula’s Blood Values Come Out

3 Of Radcliffe’s Suspicious Blood Values Are Published By Sky News Under Headline “Blood Tests That Cleared Paula Radcliffe” Two of her OFF scores were 109, which Sky News says is below a 111.7 altitude training level. The other – 114 – was taken immediately after a half marathon and Sky News says WADA now considers tests taken within 2 hours after a competition as invalid because exertion can affect the values.
*MB: Radcliffe blood values released

• Famed Physical Therapist Gerard Hartmann Defends Radcliffe – “I would swear on my life she was clean. That is how confident I am about Paula.” “Unlike Lance Armstrong there is no Betsy Andreu, Floyd Landis or Tyler Hamilton coming out with a story.”
• Paula Radcliffe Says She Had No Choice But To Respond To Doping Allegations – “I am not prepared to be blackmailed any more on this matter.”
• Author Mike Rowbottom Says Paula Is Clean – Paula Radcliffe – A Clean Athlete In A Muddy World “It is as if the scientists employed by the Sunday Times have attempted to construct a sentence out of just one letter.”
• Interesting Read: Toni Reavis Blogs About Modern Society – The New Age Of Assumed Guilt “Nothing is what is seems anymore, even innocence. These days it is success, in and of itself, that draws skepticism. And once that skepticism has been roused, the damage is done.”
• Irish Times: 7 Key Things Paula Radcliffe Said In Her Statement Responding To Blood Doping Allegations
• The Independent Analyzes Radcliffe’s Defense – Does It Stand Up To Scrutiny?
• IAAF Head Seb Coe Will Soon Be Called Before British Parliament To Explain “War On My Sport” Comments How Parliament doesn’t understand what Coe was saying is beyond us. He viewed the Sunday Times report as sensationalist journalism based on bad science against a sport that does more too root out doping than the super rich sports like soccer, football, etc.
• UK Parliament Publishes “Blocked” Study Where 29-45% Of Athletes Said They Were Dopers *PDF Of Study

More Drug News

• Vindicated? Asafa Powell And Sherone Simpson Reach Financial Settlement With Company That Sold Them Tainted Supplements Their agent is thrilled, “I just think the out-of-court settlement … gives them some justification and clearance for their names.”
• Chinese Sports Chief Says It Must Ditch Its Obsession With Gold Medals If It’s Going To End Sports Corruption

Previous – The Media Reacts To Paula

• Sean Ingle Of Guardian On How We Got To Today Paula’s known for months she was on the list, and listened to her advisors not to come out publicly. 
  
• The Telegraph: “Paula Radcliffe Invited Suspicion With Her Lack Of Transparency” Writer argues that she should have come out and explained the suspicious samples from the start, even if that would have lead to false claims.
• Steve Cram, Dave Bedford And Sports Scientist Andrew Jones Speak In Defense Of Paula Radcliffe Cram says Paula wanted to come out publicly, but was advised not to. He makes the point that a doper would never request to have her samples frozen for future re-testing like Paula did before it was common practice.
• Steve Magness Comments On Radcliffe Blood Value Situation “For someone who has been outspoken her whole career, it’s very disappointing that when the tables are turned she clams up.”
• Australian Doping Expert Michael Ashenden Says The IAAF Needs A “Period Of Hyper-Transparency” To Regain Public Trust Ashenden accuses the IAAF of having a “did-not-want-to-know” attitude towards doping and failed to act soon enough. He recommends having athlete blood scores made public.
• UK Independent: “Paula Radcliffe: Only Shock Is Former Marathon Champion Kept Quiet So Long” The British media has known Radcliffe was the “suspicious” British athlete for months.
• Radcliffe’s Defense Of Her Abnormal Blood Values Centers On The Time They Were Taken Combination of altitude training, illness and taking the tests immediately after racing in the heat.
• Paula Speaks: Paula Radcliffe “Categorically Denies” Cheating After She Was Implicated In Today’s Parliamentary Hearing On The Sunday Times/ARD Doping Report Her full 1,700-word statement.
  *MB: Official: Paul Radcliffe statement *Select Committee Revisiting Radcliffe

The Long Island Mile *Long Island Mile Free Live Streaming @ 8:30PM Wednesday

• Tonight: Deep Fields Set For The Hoka One One Long Island Mile The race is the brainchild of Kyle Merber and includes Garrett Heath, David Torrence, Cristian Soratos, Ford Palmer and Peter Callahan. The women are led by Treniere Moser, Kerri Gallagher and Heather Kampf.
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  *MB: HOKA ONE ONE LONG ISLAND MILE – Merber, Masters, Soratos, Palmer…
• Interview With Merber About His Inspiration And Motivation For Creating The Event
• Friday: Provisional Entry Lists For Brussels DL Final
  *MB: Brussells entries up
• An Alternate Way To Rank The Diamond League: Which Athletes Have Taken Home The Most Prize Money? German shot putter Christina Schwanitz is currently on top with $96,000 dollars.

More Distance News

• Recommended Listen: Steve Magness Podcast Interview With Phoebe Wright On Mindsets, Struggles And What It Takes To Run Professionally A lot of great insights into elite running on the college and pro level and the transition in between.
• IAAF Personal Bests Q&A With World Marathon Champ Ghirmay Ghebreslassie Ghebreslassie actually has had some experience on the track and says his favorite venue is Hengelo where Haile Gebrselassie and Kenenisa Bekele set their WRs and he himself set his 10,000 PR.
• Dennis Kimetto Will Headline Field For The Great Scottish Run Half Marathon On October 4th
• Sad News: 14-Year-Old XC Runner Michael Riley Dies From Rare Brain Infection Riley contracted the infection from swimming in a lake while on a team trip.

More Weekend Action

• Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Breaks 25-Year-Old 100m Meet Record At Atletica Mondial Meet In Padua, Italy She ran 10.98 into a headwind as Sheila Reid had a great performance to win the 1,500 in 4:06.97 with Mercy Cherono 3rd (4:07.40). Burundi’s Francine Niyonsaba took almost six seconds off her PR SB to win the 800 in 1:59.62, beating Canada’s Fiona Benson as Burundi’s Antoine Gakeme won the men’s race in 1:46.33 (Worlds 1,500 bronze medalist Abdalaati Iguider was 3rd; Robby Andrews 7th). *Full Results
• Laura Thweatt Blazes The Course At The 15th Humana Rock ‘N’ Roll Virginia Beach Half Marathon She won in 1:12:59 as Elkanah Kibet won the men’s race in 65:22 over Jeffrey Eggleston (66:01).
• Yuki Kawauchi Wins Nijukan Doro Half Marathon In 65:32 Kawauchi talks about his plans for trying to qualify for the 2016 Olympics, which include the Cape Town Marathon in South Africa on September 20th.
• Scott Houston (5.63m) And Oregon Alum Melissa Gergle (4.15m) Win Brit’s Pub Vault Competition This is a cool event with a pole vault competition on the roof of a bar in Minneapolis. *Full Results *Website *Photos
• Eritrea’s Abraham Kidane Wins World Mountain Running Race In Austria, Beating His Compatriot Petro Mamo By 1 Second Italy’s Antonella Confortola won the women’s race.

Distance News

• Peres Jepchirchi Runs Road 10K World Lead To Win Birell Prague 10K In 30:55 Daniel Chebii won the men’s race in 27:42 as CR holder and defending champ Geoffrey Ronoh finished back in 8th. *Race Video
• Are Europeans Really This Soft? European Athletics President Wants European-Only Races At Big Events Like Diamond League Meets So That They Don’t “Get Discouraged If They Don’t Immediately Do Well” Against Top Africans He uses Mo Farah as an example of someone who had opportunities to race “at the right level” and became a world beater. Well, he knows Farah raced against top Africans all the time, right? Not to mention there are already plenty of “European-only” races such as European championships.
• 10 Ways To Take Better Race Photos With Your Smartphone Send this to your family or significant other before your next race.
• Ethiopia’s Past Winner Deressa Chimsa Will Return To The Toronto Waterfront Marathon In October When he ran 2 years ago, he set a Canadian all-comers record with 2:07:05 despite making a wrong turn that cost him around 20 seconds.
• The NCAA XC Season Has Begun – All Results Here