Major WADA Report Came Out Today *Full WADA Report

• LRC It’s Worse Than We Thought: LRC Reacts To WADA Russian Doping Report The details are very amusing and depressing.
• WADA Report Is Out: Russia Had “State Sponsored Doping Program” And Could Be Banned From Track And Field In Olympics The 300+ page WADA report is out (full report here, thread here, we’re slowly going through it) on a huge doping conspiracy in Russia that first garnered attention via a German ARD documentary late last year. The report outlines systematic state-sponsored doping in Russia, including the lab destroying 1,400 samples on purpose (the World Champs were in Moscow in 2013) after the documentary aired, the Russian FSB (CIA) being in the lab at the Sochi Olympics, a WADA lab in Switzerland destroying 67 samples when they shouldn’t have, and a “shadow” lab in Moscow to help dopers. The only people who look good in this are the whistleblowers and Hajo Seppelt who made the film for ARD. The report did not publish its findings on the bribery scandal at the IAAF as it is still under criminal investigation. The report does note how the IAAF delayed acting and let Olympic race walk champions compete at the 2012 Olympics.
  *MB: WADA Report Live Thread
  *MB: Wejo: Let’s Crowd Source the WADA Report: My Initial 7 Takeways
  
• Huge: WADA Report Calls For Russia To Be Banned From Athletics Competition Dick Pound said if the WADA / IAAF code is followed, he expects there to be no Russian athletes at the 2016 Olympics.
• Full WADA Independent Commission Report On Russian Doping Scandal We’ll be posting the highlights, but the full 323-page PDF report is embedded here.
• IAAF Statement In Response To WADA Report Seb Coe is “seeking approval from his fellow IAAF Council Members to consider sanctions against the Russian Athletics Federation (ARAF).”
• Good Read: Guardian’s Sean Ingle: “Seb Coe Must Now Launch Assault On Doping To Retain Credibility” A lot of good suggestions here, but we don’t see Coe doing them. German journalist Hajo Seppelt feels Coe is “more interested in protecting the IAAF’s reputation than tackling the very serious issues in track and field.”
• MB: Did A LRC Message Board Poster Call A Lamine Diack / IAAF Doping Cover-Up Back In 2013? Sprintgeezer talks specifically about Diack covering up doping, but indicated Usain Bolt rather than Russians and it was for the sport rather than money.
• UK Independent: “Time For Seb Coe To Deal In Action, Not Words” Author says “it’s hard to believe” that as vice president, Coe never heard any accusations against Diack.
• IOC Ethics Commission Recommends Provisional Suspension Of Diack As Honorary Member Of IOC
• Daily Mail: “Coe Can’t Reform Athletics … The IAAF President Has Been Compromised Beyond Repair With Links To Diack”
  *MB: Lord Coe’s ability to reform athletics compromised beyond repair.

Sprint / Field Event News

• Recommended Read: Brianne Theisen-Eaton Not Satisfied With Second Place After Finishing Runner-Up At Worlds Again She now has three world silver medals (two outdoor, one indoor). “It still eats me alive. I look at the medal and I think, ‘This is a failure.'”
• Kenyan Jav Thrower Julius Yego And Poland’s Hammer Thrower Anita Wlodarczyk Are IAAF AOY Candidates
• China’s Former Olympic 110H Champ Liu Xiang Runs 10K Road Race; Looking Towards A Half And Full Marathon He said it was his longest run ever and he “didn’t feel tired at all” after running a little over 50 minutes (over 8 minutes per mile).
• Jessica Ennis Says She’ll Make Retirement After Rio Would be surprising if she didn’t continue on and end it at a home World Championships at London 2017.

African Women Distance News

• IAAF Profile: Quietly Confident Keitany Looks To Rio Her coach of almost 7 years, Gabriele Nicola, says Keitany’s talent was evident from the beginning as she ran a 69:00 half 6 months after coming back from her first child and a 66:00 half after a year.
• Olympic Champ Meseret Defar Will Race For The First Time Since Giving Birth At The 2015 Rock ‘N’ Roll Las Vegas Half Next Weekend

The Latest In The IAAF Doping Scandal

• Seb Coe Makes Immediate Change To IAAF Code Of Ethics Effectively immediately, the Independent Ethics Board can now acknowledge the existence of proceedings before it and to comment on their current status without divulging details of the case.
• Change In Code Allows Seb Coe To State That Lamine Diack’s Son, Papa Diack, Is One Of 4 Men Charged With Violating Its Code Of Ethics The others are Gabriel Dolle, Alexei Melnikov and Valentin Balakhnichev and the IAAF will rule on them Dec. 16-18.
• Reuters Rips Seb Coe For Not Talking Out This Week During Huge Doping Scandal
• Toni Reavis: “At what point do you accept the inevitability of it (PED use)?”

Relive NYC (Photo Gallery, Highlight Video, Full LRC Coverage)

Photo Gallery:

Highlight Video

Stat Geeks, This Is For You: A Compilation Of The Fastest Times Ever From Each Lane It covers the 200, 400, 400H and 4 x 100.

The Aftermath Of Halloween – The Best Day Of The Year In College

LRCOuch - We Have An Early Leader In The 2015 LetsRun.com Halloween Costume (Amazing Pic)

Other News Of Note

• RIP: Murder Suspected After 2012 Olympic Sprinter Yulia Balykina Of Belarus Disappears A man has been arrested in the disappearance of the 11.38 sprinter who just ended a 2-year doping ban.
• Podcast With Arkansas’ Dominique Scott
• World Athlete Of The Year 2015 Long List – Sergey Shubenkov And Zuzana Hejnova Lead The Hurdlers

Running Science – Run Them Hills

• Interesting Read: Former NCAA All-American David McNeill Gives Some Great Advice For Why You Shouldn’t “Skimp On The Hills” McNeill explains how he used to be “a slave to the mileage and pace” on his GPS watch to have an impressive log, but now he purposely does hilly runs.
• UK Coach Matt Long Also Voices His Support For Hills He shares multiple different versions of hill workouts you can incorporate into your training.
• American College Of Sports Medicine: Caffeine And Endurance Time Trial Performance – Effects And Mechanisms Of Action? The gist is caffeine improves performance even if we’re not 100% sure why.
• What You’ve Been Waiting For: The Latest “New” Study Saying If You Run Too Fast Or Too Far, You’ll Die Study found those running more than 35 miles a week had more risk for heart attacks and strokes.
  *MB: Wall Street Journal: Don’t Run More Than 35 MPW One poster pointed out, “Last year it was 20 mpw. Progress!”
  *MB Archive: Wall Street Journal article says running 20+ mpw is detrimental to one’s health
  *MB Archive: Danish study shows most of you will die the same time as a couch potato
  *LRC “Health” Archives

Book Review – The Animal Keepers Is Certainly A Keeper

LRC Book Review"The Animal Keepers" By Donn Behnke - A Terrific Tale Of What It Means To Be A Team

Negative Legal News

• Prosecutors Seek Murder Conviction For Oscar Pistorius They made their case in front of five Supreme Court judges who will give their ruling at a later date (possibly weeks from now).
• Murder Suspected And Ex-Boyfriend Arrested After Belarus’ Former Olympic Sprinter Yulia Balykina Disappears Balykina competed at the 2012 Olympics, but was banned for doping in 2013. She’s been missing since last Wednesday.
• BAA Loses Bid To Block A Massachusetts Clothing Company’s Use Of “Marathon Monday” The BAA felt it created a false suggestion of affiliation with the Boston Marathon, but the courts disagreed.

LetsRun.com NCAA Analysis

LRCNCAA XC Weekend Recap: Grant Fisher Is Running, Ben Saarel Is Not (For Now), And What's Wrong With The Wisconsin Men?

• Colorado And Syracuse Stay 1-2 As Stanford Jumps From 23rd To 4th
• Conference Upsets Shake Up The Latest Women’s Rankings New Mexico stays #1, but after that, the top 15 teams moved all over the place with Colorado 2nd and Arkansas 3rd.

Depressing News

MB: Former Columbia runner and American citizen Lisa Nemec (runs for Croatia) positive on doping control The former pretty good Ivy Leaguer has improved a ton post-collegiately from 16:31/34:19 to 2:25 in the marathon. Was it too good to be true?

The 2015 TCS New York City Marathon *Results *Mile-By-Mile Splits *Video Highlights

Full Recap LRC Stanley Biwott Blasts 28:35 Final 10K To Capture 2015 TCS NYC Marathon Title (Updated) He had to be sensational over the final 10k to beat back a strong, strong challenge from Mo Farah’s #1 rival Geoffrey Kamworor. Meb finished 7th and Craig Leon 8th for the Americans.

Full Recap  LRC Mary Keitany Repeats As 2015 TCS NYC Marathon Champion As Laura Thweatt Runs 2:28:23 Debut Mary Keitany was back on top in NYC and is now tied atop the $500,000 Abbott WMM standings with one race to go. Sally Kipyego and Alana Hadley dropped out.

LRC A Look At Laura Thweatt’s 2:28:23 Debut And Decision To Skip The US Olympic Marathon Trials We break down Thweatt’s impressive debut and her decision so skip the Olympic Marathon Trials.
*MB: Thweatt won’t run marathon trials because …