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Don’t Forget – Millrose Is Saturday

Emily Infeld is in good shape, hoping for big PR and 1st sub-15:00 clocking at Millrose on Saturday Her pb is 15:07.

News of Note

• The plot thickens:Sunday Times reveals former chief of Russia anti-doping agency who died unexpectedly of ‘massive heart attack’ was working on a book that his friends urged him not to write
• RIP 4-time Comrades winner Riana van Niekerk has died at age 39 due to pancreatic cancer
• LA 2024 Logo Unveiled – “Follow The Sun” If they actually get the games, they will apparently make a 2nd logo.
• March’s Lake Biwa Mainichi Marathon – Japan’s Final Selection Race – Will Be FantasticYuki Kawauchi has turned down a lucrative offer to run London and entered the race on his own, hoping to be the top Japanese selection and dare the Japanese selectors not to take him as they’ve said he won’t go unless he breaks 2:06:30.
• Some believe that doping might be rampant in amateur ranks of British sport
• Spikes looks at great track and field athletes over the age of 40 not named Meb Constantina Dita, Merlene Ottey, Kim Collins and Bernard Lagat are half of the 8.
• Martyn Rooney is feeling great at beginning of Olympic year “I’m doing things I didn’t think I could do at any time of my life, and I’m doing it in an Olympic year..This is the most confident I have been in my body,”
• 2004 Olympic heptathlon bronze medallist Kelly Sotherton, now 39, talks about her life as sports administrator She hopes to be a female Seb Coe.
• Germany’s Kai Kazmirek achieved a heptathlon world lead of 6111 points to win the annual International Combined Events Meeting in Tallinn held over the weekend.

Distance News

• Did You Know?Famous Author Nicholas Sparks Was A Former HS Track Star Sparks, the author of The Notebook and Message in a Bottle, ran 1:52 in high school and split 1:50 in college before an Achilles injury forced him to quit.
• Mo Farah Confirms He’ll Compete At Birmingham DL Meet Ahead Of Rio Games His next race is this weekend’s Glasgow Indoor GP 3,000.
• Scottish Man Gets Lost In Freezing Temperatures During Genghis Khan Ice Marathon In Mongolia
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LetsJump.com

• BBC Video On Germany’s “Blade Jumper” Who Is Trying To Get The IAAF To Allow Him To Compete In The Rio OlympicsMarkus Rehm has an 8.40m PB which would have won the London Games. He is not allowed to compete against able bodied athletes as the IAAF says his carbon fiber prosthetic gives him an advantage.
• IAAF First Impressions Q&A With PV World Champion Shawn Barber Some random questions like his first toy, first downloaded app and first thing he learned to cook ramen noodles.
• IAAF Inside Athletics Interview With US’s Four-Time World LJ Champ Dwight Phillips

Updated NCAA Rankings

• Arkansas Men Move From 8th To First To Take Over Updated DI Rankings Tennessee moved from 7th to 2nd and #1 Florida to 10th. This is the first week where 2015 marks don’t count.
• Florida Women Move From 4th To The New #1-Ranked NCAA Team Oregon moved from 3rd to 2nd and top-ranked Arkansas is now 4th.

Doping Updates: Russia, Kenya, NOP And The MLB

• The Guardian’s Sean Ingle:“Isn’t It Time For An Independent Commission Into Kenyan Athletics’ Drug Problem?” The time was probably quite a while ago.
• Mets Pitcher Jenrry Mejia Gets Lifetime Ban For Testing Positive For The 3rd Time In 2 Years (He Wasn’t Even Done With His Previous Ban Yet) He is the first player in MLB history to get a lifetime ban for steroid use.
• Nothing Like Investigating Yourself:Russian Report Finds “Not A Single Piece Of Evidence” Government Was Involved In State-Supported Doping Well then by all means un-ban them immediately! Issue a full apology. This has all been a terrible mistake!
• Former Russian Anti-Doping Chief Nikita Kamayev Dies Suddenly Of A Heart Attack The 52-year-old resigned 2 months ago in wake of the Russian doping scandal. His death comes just 2 weeks after that of RUSADA founding chairman, Vyacheslav Sinev. *BBC
• Seb Coe Meets With New Russian Athletics Federation Head Dmitry Shlyakhtin To Discuss Doping Ban
• Oregonian’s Ken Goe Is Critical Of Kara Goucher’s “Justice Is Coming” Interview Goe: “The marathon trials stories should have been about the performances.”
  *MB: Kara Goucher unloads on Alberto Salazar, Galen Rupp and the NOP – “Justice is coming.”

International Distance Results

• Geoffrey Kamworor Wins In Battle With Bedan Karoki At Kenyan XC ChampionshipsAlice Aprot (sister of 2010 World XC champ Joseph Ebuya) won the women’s race as favorite Faith Kipyegon finished way back, running through illness.
• IAAF Indoor Weekend Round-Up:Poland’s Adam Kszczot Wins 800 In 1:46.18 Over Timothy Kitum (1:46.72) And Mohammed Aman (1:47.24) Women’s 1,500 and 800 world leads went to Renata Plis (4:07.38) and Joanna Jozwik (2:00.12). Elsewhere, Asafa Powell set a 60m PR and world lead with 6.49 in Houston.
• Florence Kiplagat Gets Third Consecutive Barcelona Half Marathon Win Her time of 69:19 was well off the 65:09 WR she set here last year. Vincent Kipruto won the men’s race in 62:54.
• Seán Hehir And Shona Heaslip Dominate Ireland Inter-Count XC Champs

Trials Talk

• Official 2016 Olympic Marathon Trials Live Discussion Thread
• Kara Goucher unloads on Alberto Salazar, Galen Rupp and the NOP – “Justice is coming.”
• Alberto Salazar confirms that Galen Rupp did the most amazing workout ever – 20 miles at 4:52 pace, HR at 149-50!!
• Amy Cragg just denied Kara Goucher an Olympic berth
• Meb and Galen really do not like each other
• Is Rupp’s performance the greatest ever by an American?
• Amy Cragg – best teammate ever
• Galen Rupp Post-Race Workout Speculation Thread
• Has Rupp/Salazar made the hole-in-jersey thing too pompus? It’s a good idea…
• Ritzeheins insistence of being a marathoner will/is downfall of his career
• Rate the Olympic Trials TV Coverage on a scale of 1-10
• Never run a marathon before– why would you drop out?
• Max King 2:17:14, 12 th place
• Alana Hadley’s 5th Marathon DNF