– Seb Coe speaking in a CNN interview ahead of today’s second part of the WADA doping report.
The good , the bad, and the ugly from the report.
More: Guardian: Seb Coe Admits IAAF Is A “Failed Organisation” After New Wada Report
9am ET MB: Official 2nd WADA Press Conference Live Discussion Thread Dick Pound‘s 2nd report came out on Thursday morning. Watch a replay of the conference below. Talk about it here. Analysis coming.
*MB: If Coe Isn’t the Best Person to Lead the IAAF, Who Is?
Video: Seb Coe Gets Grilled By CNN Over State Of The Sport And His Past With The IAAF Watch as CNN’s Amanda Davies grills Coe with questions and jumps on him for giving unsatisfying answers.
Dathan Ritzenhein Is Feeling Good About His Prep For The Olympic Marathon Trials “I’ve had great training. I’ve pretty much done everything I’ve wanted to do.”
Top NCAA Marks From The Weekend: Erin Finn Runs 9:13 3K Penn State’s Brannon Kidder ran the anchor leg of the 4 x 800 and the opening 1,200 on the DMR, closing that in 54 seconds.
Garrett Heath Talks XC And Training After Taking Down Mo Farah Heath says he “sucked at XC” in college and that most of the Brooks Beasts girls are stronger than he is in the weight room.
Top 6 Bizarre Track And Field Events With Videos Did you know synchronized high jumping was a thing?LRC Garrett Heath Does It Again, Takes Another Huge Scalp And Beats Mo Farah At 2016 Great Edinburgh XCountry International Challenge In the past in Edinburgh, Heath has taken down the likes of Asbel Kiprop and Kenenisa Bekele. Now he’s beaten Mo Farah by 2 seconds in a sprint finish. UK’s Kate Avery (formerly of Iona) won 4 seconds ahead of Ireland’s Fionnuala McCormack.
Who Will Replace Usain Bolt As The Top Jamaican Sprinter When He Retires? Yohan Blake is clearly the most likely candidate if he can get (and stay) healthy.
Will Spending $45 Million In Public Money On The 2021 World Championships Generate $568 Million For The Economy? That is what TrackTown USA is trying to convince Oregon government officials of anyway.
Molly Huddle And Andre De Grasse To Star In 2016 NYRR Millrose Games On Feb. 20th Can Huddle challenge Shalane Flanagan‘s 14:47.62 AR?
Bydgoszcz, Poland Named Host Of 2016 World Juniors That’s Being Stripped From Kazan, Russia *LRC Bydgoszcz Photos
IAAF Ethics Commission Bans Four Senior Officials Involved In Russian Doping Cover-Ups – Three For Life Papa Massata Diack, Valentin Balakhnichev, Alexei Melnikov get lifetime bans and former anti-doping director Gabriel Dollé ridiculously only gets 5 years. *IAAF Statement *WADA Statement
Sara Hall Now Being Coached By Husband, Ryan Hall In this interview with Carrie Tollefson, Hall talks about her training/strategy for the OT and adopting her 4 Ethiopian daughters.
Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg Wants To Run A Mile A Day In 2016 LRC message boarders were quick to call him out on a number of points.
Wejo A Look Back At 2015: Tsepo Mathibelle Is My Athlete Of Year, Evan Jager’s 8:00:45 Is My Race Of Year, Plus My Unknown Person Of Year And One Regret Wejo hands out high praise to two unknowns – one literally and one figurative. The anonymous source at the IAAF for Hajo Seppelt‘s work is is Person of the Year and Tsepo Mathibelle, who blew up at Worlds, is his Athlete of the Year.
Rojo: The Year Of Doping And Corruption, No One Is Too Big To Fall, Domination By Stars On The Men’s Side And New Faces On The Women’s Rojo is far from depressed by the doping/corruption scandals of 2015 as it shows no person is too big to fall. He has high praise for Hajo Seppelt and Vitaly and Yuliya Stepanov, looks at the domination by stars on the men’s side and new faces on the women’s side, plus the emergence of Eric Jenkins and Emily Sisson.
Gault Kipchoge’s 2:04:00 Without Insoles, Dibaba’s 3:50:07, Bolt > Gatlin, The Greatness Of Montaño, Symmonds, Farah And Cheserek What a year: Eliud Kipchoge ran 2:04:00 with his shoes falling apart, Genzebe Dibaba ran 3:50.07 with both her shoes, Bolt defeated Gatlin, and Montaño, Symmonds, Farah, and Cheserek kept winning.
Linden went into depth about her Trials buildup and the trickiest parts of the LA course, while Hanson discussed Linden and Bobby Curtis before discounting Galen Rupp's chances (should he elect to run) and reminding people why they shouldn't underestimate Jake Riley.
Chris Derrick joined us on the podcast and talked about his potential marathon debut at the Trials, the doping crisis in the sport, the ticking clock on 60 minutes, Twitter, the New York Jets, how he "was" a big fan of LetsRun.com and how professional running is like a part-time job.
Outside Magazine: “Can Galen Rupp Pull Off A 10,000 And Marathon Double In Rio?” They argue “It wouldn’t be that crazy” and remind you that back in 2012 Alberto Salazar predicted that Mo Farah would do that double for Rio.
AP Report: Did Vladimir Putin Bribe Lamine Diack To Cover-Up Doping By Paying $19 Million Extra For Russian TV Rights To Televise The 2013 Moscow World Champs? Article says that a Russian bank increased the payment from $6 million to $25 million, mysterious hotel meeting.
Once again, London has secured an amazing field with five women who have run under 2:20 and eight under 2:21. All of the top 5 from our 2015 World Rankings are in the field including the winners of 2015 Dubai, London, Berlin, Chicago, New York and Worlds marathons.
Uncovered Documents And Emails Show That The IAAF Knew How Serious The Russian Doping Problem Was (42% Of Athletes Tested) As Early As 2009 The IAAF even warned Russian athletics chiefs that athletes were “putting their health and even their own lives in very serious danger.” They also show that IAAF officials at least considered covering up Russian doping ahead of London 2012 as they would make a deal to not make the bans of some athletes public if they accepted shorter bans. *BBC *The Telegraph
Florence Kiplagat Trying To Break Her Own World Half Marathon Record At The Barcelona Half On February 14th She set her 65:09 mark at this race last year.
If you are interested in learning all about the history of the race that started as a dream of bartender Tommy Leonard, who wanted to get Frank Shorter to Falmouth, then this book is for you. 3.5 out 5 stars.
Finally A Resolution 10 Years Later? Blood Samples In A Barcelona Freezer Could Spark Biggest-Ever Doping Scandal As Operacion Puerto Resurfaces Spanish courts set to release verdict on the appeals by WADA and UCI against the destruction of almost 200 bags which have been stored for 10 years as part of the Operacion Puerto doping scandal.
Video: Kate Murphy Runs 2:45.36 1,000m, Second-Fastest All-Time She missed Sarah Brown‘s 2:43.4 record by 1.96 seconds.
Mo Farah Calls Out Spain’s Alemayehu Bezabeh For Doping; Says He Wants Lifetime Bans For Drug Cheats Bezabeh beat Farah at the 2009 Euro XC Champs and was later banned for 2 years for doping.
LRC LetsRun.com Debates: Is It Time To Panic For Mary Cain? How Many World Records Will Be Set In 2016? Mary Cain‘s 1,500 PR was set in May of 2013. Is this a make-or-break year for her? We analyze that question in great detail and talk about Ajee Wilson and wonder how many world records will go down in 2016?
Dick Pound Says That IAAF Officials, Including Seb Coe And Sergey Bubka, Should Have Acted Quicker To Change Its Outdated Governance Structure “They had a [19th-century] constitution in a 21st-century organisation.”
Seven distance stars have won double Olympic 10,000 gold - Paavo Nurmi, Emil Zatopek, Lasse Viren, Haile Gebrselassie, Kenenisa Bekele and Derartu Tulu - but no one has ever won three. *Discuss
A pre-med student, a collegiate record holder, and a guy dating someone on the Syracuse team took home the prizes.
Register-Guard: Oregon Governor’s Top Aide Was Very Much Against Request For $40 Million In State Aid For 2021 Worlds – After $400,000 In Donations Poured In From Phil Knight, Nike And Others, The Governor Was All For It Emails show Governor Kitzhaber‘s administration was initially extremely skeptical of a $40 million state subsidy request by TrackTown USA. However, after Knight, Nike, and UO officials gave nearly $400,000 to Kitzhaber (who has since resigned in scandal) in a six-week period, Kitzhaber was all for it.
Breaking News Chris Derrick Reveals That He’s Training For The 2016 US Olympic Marathon Trials The men’s Trials just continue to get more and more interesting as Derrick has confirmed to LetsRun.com that he is currently training for the Trials. Only 10 men in US history who have a 10,000 PR faster than Derrick’s 27:31 have ever raced a marathon.
*MB: Breaking: Chris Derrick, “I am currently training for the marathon trials”
Friday: Matthew Centrowitz, Jordan Hasay And Shannon Rowbury Competing In Portland Indoor Meet
LRC Three Quick Thoughts On The 2016 Boston Marathon Field Both defending champs will be back. In terms of PRs, the men’s field is a little stronger than last year.
*MB: 2016 Boston Marathon field announced.
*MB: Neely Spence Gracey running Boston – good idea?
Neely Spence Gracey Skipping Olympic Trials To Debut At Boston Marathon
Irish Opinion Piece: “Paula Radcliffe’s Selfish View On Records Wipe Misses Point” Writer argues her record is itself suspicious and that she “doesn’t have the good of the sport at heart.”
UK Athletics Puts Forward Radical Anti-Doping Reforms In 14-Point “Manifesto For Clean Athletics” Some of the recommendations include banning dopers from ever representing GB, moving 4-year ban to 8 years, and starting a new set of world records.
UKA To Tighten Up Regulations On Top Athletes Working With Foreign Coaches After Alberto Salazar-Mo Farah Controversy
Leaked Emails Show That Papa Massata Diack And Lamine Diack Might Have Been Involved With An Attempt By Qatar To Buy The 2016 Olympics Doha was eventually dropped from the 2016 race because it wanted to hold the Games in October.
Mo Farah Considering Taking A Stab At Daniel Komen’s 7:24.90 World Indoor 3,000 Record At The Glasgow Indoor GP In February Last year he set the world indoor 2-mile record, but the 3,000 record is at a whole different level.
Marathoner Stephan Shay Talks More About How He Moved From A 9-To-5 Job Into Living In A Vintage Van By The Beach For the last year, Shay has been living by the California beach in a restored vintage 1966 RV. He made the move after losing his full-time job, but has turned it into a pretty satisfying life.
2009 World 10,000 Champ Linet Masai Recovered From 2015 Injuries And Focused On Making Kenyan Team For Rio She’s still only 26 years old.
2010 World Indoor 1,500 Bronze Medalist Haron Keitany Raring To Go After Returning From Chronic Hip Injury After logging almost no results since 2011, the 3:30 man says he’s finally healthy and dreaming of making Kenya’s Olympic squad.![Merga_Imane5kA-World11[1]](https://www.letsrun.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Merga_Imane5kA-World111-80x120.jpg)
Thursday’s XC Action: Imane Merga And Alice Aprot Win 59th Campaccio Cross-Country Race World Jr. XC champ Yasin Haji was 2nd and steeple star Jairus Birech was third. Aprot broke the CR ahead of Ruth Jebet and Linet Masai. *Photos
*LRC Archives: Ritz Won This Race Last Year
Day 2 LRC Predictions For The New Year: Will Mo Farah Win Double Gold (Again)? Will Tirunesh Dibaba Win Triple Gold? Will Kenenisa Bekele Even Compete? The LRC staff debates all of that and more.
Day 1: LRC Predictions For The New Year: How Many Mid-D/Distance Medals Will Team USA Win At The 2016 Rio Olympics?
*MB: Crazy thought: Might Centro be America’s best hope for a 5000 medal in Rio?
Was Brooks, Now Nike: MB: AMY CRAGG (HASTINGS) Joins Bowerman Track Club This isn’t a big shock since Cragg has been training with Shalane Flanagan for a while now.
After Two Surgeries Within A Year, Lolo Jones Still Shooting For Rio “You just have to tell yourself, ‘I can do this,’ and look at where you started from – take joy in the small things that you have overcome to get where you’re at.”
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