April 7, 2016 | LetsRun.com

The Week That Was

WTW German Fernandez Does The 10k, Meet The Breakthrough Athlete Of The Year: Violah Jepchumba, Plus Martin Lel’s Brother, NCAA Leaders Galore, Leo Manzano Struggles But Says All Is Well, Pregnancy Photos And More Martin Lel‘s brother is making a name for himself, so is Violah Jepchumba and Stephanie Bruce. Plus German Fernandez does the 10k, the college track season heats up and more.

Big City Marathon News

Berlin Marathon Champion Gladys Cherono Withdraws From The London Marathon With A Hip Injury Cherono also pulled out of the World Half Champs last month where she was supposed to defend her title.
Interesting Read: New Balance And Other Shoe Companies Use Guerilla Marketing At The Boston Marathon Even though adidas is the official shoe sponsor, New Balance buys up advertising just about everywhere the runners will be, but are careful to never say the words “Boston Marathon”.
Boston Marathon Security Will Including 5,000 Cops And Banning Drones And Backpacks

More Doping News: Some Good, But Mostly Very Frustrating

Larry Eder Questions USATF’s Decision To Keep Dennis Mitchell On As Relay Coach Despite His Doping Past And Current Rule Changes “It makes USATF look like they will do anything to win a medal. It also makes USATF seem like they are above any rules, unless those rules work for them.”
*MB: Why does USATF insist on hiring Dennis Mitchell (who is a convicted doper and on the surface not good at his job) as relays coach?
Did The IAAF Screw Up Again? WADA Says Doping Cases From 2005 Are Past The Time Limit For Bans Apparently, the IAAF misinterpreted the new 10-year rule and the previous 8-year rule still applies. This means many dopers, like Tatyana Andrianova, could go unpunished and keep world medals.
Smaller Road Races Finally Stating To Catch On And Not Grant Entry/Prize Money To Athletes With Doping Connections A few races have blocked runners from Larisa Mikhaylova‘s Hebron, KY training group after Lilian Marita won thousands of dollars running US races while she was banned.
*MB: Hebron, KY doping group represented by Russian Larisa Mikhaylova outed in AP article!
Retired Police Officer Will Lead Inquiry Into UK Anti-Doping’s Handling Of Doctor Who Allegedly Doped 150 Athletes UKAD was tipped off about Dr. Mark Bonar doctor 2-years ago, but never investigated.
Midwest Road Races Unite Against Doping: Columbus 10K And Carmel Racing Group Join Indianapolis Monumental Marathon In Banning Athletes And Agents With Doping Pasts

Some Overlooked Distance News From The Weekend

Some Big-Name Athletes Get Beaten By Young Upstarts At Low-Key Meet In Djibouti Ayanleh Souleiman won the 1,000 easily in 2:21.65, but 1:42 man Abubaker Kaki was only 3rd in the 1,500 as World Junior silver medalist Abdi Waiss Mouhyadin won in 3:36.67. 2011 world 10,000m champion Ibrahim Jeilan was 5th in the 5,000, which was won by SF Mohammed (13:43).
Jordan Chipangama And Jane Kibii Win SACTOWN Run 10 Miler Chipangama won in 49:23 over Phillip Reid (49:37) and Nick Arciniaga (49:53) while Kibii set a CR in 53:20 to beat Sara Hall (53:34).
Harvard’s Courtney Smith Is NCAA DI Athlete Of The Week After Taking 2 Minutes And 45 Seconds Off Her 10K PR At Stanford Smith ran 32:08, putting her 8th on the all-time NCAA list. The men’s athlete of the week was Devin King, who cleared an NCAA-leading 5.70m in the PV.

Upcoming Sprint Action: 1 Month Until Diamond League Season

May 6th: Allyson Felix And Dafne Schippers Will Go Head-To-Head Over 100m In Opening Diamond League Meet In Doha Field will also have Veronica Campbell-Brown, Tori Bowie and Murielle Ahoure. David Oliver vs. Aries Merritt in the 110H.
May 7th: US Hurdler Jasmin Stowers And Bahamas Sprinter Shaunae Miller Announced For The Jamaica Invitational
May 14th: Usain Bolt And Allyson Felix Will Highlight Cayman Invitational Bolt will run the first 100m of his 2016 season.

Sprint Stuff

First Impressions Q&A With South Africa’s World 400m Champ Wayde van Niekerk He shares some interesting stories like how as kids he and his brother tried to wash their dog in the washing machine.
Jamaican Columnist Accuses American Media Of “Aiming Darts At Bolt” He writes, “Watch the American media aiming their darts at Bolt as they seek to discredit him and at the same time tout any runner with the faintest chance of entering the warm-up area with Bolt.”
RunBlogRun Movie Review For “Race,” The New Movie About Jesse Owens

Weekend Road Action

Meseret Defar (15:02) And Joshua Cheptegei (13:24) Prevail At Carlsbad 5,000 As Bernard Lagat Shatters His Own Masters World Record Lagat finished 4th in 13:38, 1 second ahead of Hassan Mead (says he wants to run 28-flat in the 10K in May). Jen Rhines was the first American woman in 6th (15:53). *Results
Sam Chelanga And Veronicah Wanjiru Win Windy Cherry Blossom Ten Mile Chelanga outkicked Silas Kipruto by 1 second as Syracuse Martin Hehir was a close 3rd. It was the first American win since Syracuse coach Chris Fox won in 1990. For the women, Wanjiru beat Buze Diriba by 8 seconds as Maegan Krifchin was the top American in 3rd. *Results
*MB: American Sam Chelanga wins Cherry Blossom 10 Miler
Former Kenyan NR Holder James Kwambai (2:10:46) And Former Boston Champ Caroline Kilel (2:27:39) Win Daegu Marathon In Sprint Finishes
Kenya’s Richard Mengich (59:58) And the Netherlands’ Former Kenyan Elizeba Cherono (70:43) Win The Berlin Half Marathon Former World Half champ Wilson Kiprop DNFed after 12K.
Kenya’s Violah Jepchumba Runs The Fourth-Fastest Half Ever To Win Prague In 65:51 Jepchumba took almost 4 minutes off her PR and was on WR pace through 10K (30:29). On the men’s side, Daniel Wanjiru overcame a mid-race fall to win in 59:20 with the top 5 all sub-60 minutes.
Kenya’s Cyprian Kotut Wins Paris Marathon In 2:07:11 Over Laban Korir (2:07:29) (updated article) Kotut is the younger brother of former London Marathon winner Martin Lel. Visiline Jepksesho won the women’s race in 2:25:53. *Results
Ernest Kiprono Ngeno (2:08:15) And Brigid Kosgei (2:27:45) Win Milan City Marathon Ishhimael Bushendich Chemtan was a close 2nd (2:08:20) while Kenneth Mungara broke his own masters WR with 2:08:38 in 3rd. Kosgei meanwhile destroyed her previous PR by 20 minutes.
UK Northern Road Relays Recap

Some Doping Updates

Doctor Who Allegedly Gave Banned Drugs To 150 UK Athletes Has His Contract At A Private Clinic In London Terminated Apparently he doesn’t even have a license to practice medicine in the UK. Go here to read more about The Sunday’s Times‘ version of the Al Jazeera–Peyton Manning doping report.
Two South African Comrades Runners Get 2-Year Doping Bans Joseph Mphuthi and Sandile Ngunuza finished 6th and 9th in last year’s race.

Pretty Terrible Stuff: Max Siegel And Other USATF Staff Targeted By Racially Charged Emails Six months ago, USATF staff members received a slew of racist emails from an anonymous emailer. Police were called to investigate, but so far there have been no arrests or major leads.

Marquise Goodwin Causes Stir With April Fools Day Tweet Goodwin said he was leaving the Bills to focus on Rio, but it was only a joke. He says, “Football is my deal. Track is my fun.”

(Mostly Kenyan) Doping News

Ban? What Ban? AP Article Reveals That Many Kenyans Competing Internationally Continue To Race And Win Prize Money Long After They Are Banned RDs who don’t look up athletes can end up paying big bucks to these dopers who simply choose to ignore their bans.
David Rudisha Fears All His Hard Work Will “Go Down The Drain” If Kenya Is Banned From The Olympics He criticized the Kenyan government, saying, “We were given enough time to do all these things. I don’t understand why these people are not treating the matter with a lot of seriousness.”
AP: “Nick Symmonds Not Shy About Speaking Up To Fix Track” Symmonds: “It’s a filthy, dirty sport … Anyone who stands on the starting line at an Olympic final and thinks they’re racing against a clean field is delusional.”
American-Born Columbia Grad Lisa Nemec (Now Runs For Croatia) Officially Banned By The IAAF For 4 Years For Doping Nemec (formerly Stublic) tested positive last year.
Kip Keino And Wesley Korir Also Disappointed With Kenyan Government Keino: “I am very disappointed with the attitude taken by the leaders. They don’t get the magnitude of all this – they have badly let down the youth of this country.”

US Pro News

USATF Foundation Awards Elite Athlete Development Grants To 58 Athletes Unsponsored Boris Berian was among the eight athletes to receive a $10,000 grant.
~~Marquise Goodwin Forgoes Last Year Of Bills Contract To Train For The Olympics~~ April Fools!

Really, IAAF? IAAF Won’t Let Cuban Defector Orlando Ortega Compete For Spain At The Olympics Ortega defected from Cuba way back in 2013. For all the times the IAAF looks the other way as Middle Eastern nations essentially buy athletes, you’d think they’d let this one go.

TV Is Good

Good News: NBC Networks Increase TV Coverage Of Olympic Trials With More Prime-Time NBC Coverage, Including Men's 10,000m Final Live On NBC

Men’s 10k on prime time. Can they please do the same at the Olympics?

Better Late Than Never United Airlines NYC Half Photo Gallery

Not What The Sport Needs

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LRC Twitter Fight With Racial Overtones Breaks Out Between USATF Athletes Advisory Committee (AAC) Chair Dwight Phillips And Lauren Fleshman And Nick Symmonds It’s official. Twitter is not the place to try to carry on a constructive dialogue.

*Merhawi Keflezighi Weighs In: “A Call for Respectful and Productive Discourse” “Aggressive and assertive approaches are sometimes necessary, but l do think it is important to resolve all matters, respectfully. … Personally, I would be more critical of the athletes that aren’t advocating for their rights at all.”

More Distance News

Irish 800 Runner Mark English Is Now Being Coached By Steve Magness English missed World Indoors with a stress reaction, but is back running on the alter-G.
Video Interview: Ken Goe Catches Up With Sally Kipyego Who Is Healthy Now After Missing Indoors With A Knee Injury Kipyego also talked about how she is disappointed with the Kenyan government for not meeting the WADA deadline and feels they let the athletes down.
Random Q&A With Mo Aman Who Says He Loves Learning Languages, Solving Sudoku Puzzles, And Watching Basketball

The Hot Drug Topic In 2016 Is Meldonium

Meldonium Suspected As The Reason For A Bunch Of Russian Athletes Withdrawing From Competition The entire under-18 Russian hockey team was replaced by younger players the day before they were set to fly to the US for the world championships.
Some Experts Say There’s Little Evidence Meldonium Enhances Performance However, most agree that it is pretty clear is that athletes were taking the drug with performance enhancement as the goal, not therapeutic use. And that is enough to ban it.
No Clear Answer On How Long Meldonium Stays In The System A doping expert said he’d expect it to be out of your system in a few days, but said there hasn’t been studies on if long-term use could affect this.
About 40 Russian Athletes Under Investigation For Meldonium Use Russian sports minister Vitaly Mutko: “The main task now is to stabilize the situation and minimise our losses. The second task it to assist those Russian athletes under investigation.”
International Biathlon Union Delays Doping Decisions On Athletes Who Tested Positive For Meldonium

Scary Stuff Tim Noakes, Author Of Classic Book Lore Of Running Is On Trial In South Africa For Tweeting Low-Carb, High-Fat Advice To The Mother Of An Infant Noakes’ views on diet have become very controversial after he wrote a top-selling book, The Real Meal Revolution, and he could now lose his medical license.

News From Down Under: Aussie Olympic Trials In The Books

Australian Olympic Trials Recap: Luke Mathews Runs 1:46.20 To Win 800 Title Over Alex Rowe (1:47.31) In other distance action, 1,500 wins went to Ryan Gregson (3:37) and Heidi See (4:14.17) while Madeline Hills ran 9:38 in the steeple to beat Genevieve LaCaze (9:49) and James Nipperess won the men’s in 8:42. Non-distance victories included Fabrice Lapierre in the LJ (8.27m) and Michelle Jenneke (12.93) in the 100H. *Results
IAAF: 35 Athletes Now Named For Aussie Olympic Squad
Good Read: Aussie Olympian And Former NCAA Champ David McNeill Blogs About How “Getting Better” At Running And “Getting Better” At Life Can Be The Same Thing “Personally, while running makes me a better runner, I’d like to think running also makes me a better person.”
Sally Pearson Will Return To Full Hurdle Training This Month After A Long Hiatus Recovering From Horrific Wrist Injury Pearson missed Worlds and most of the 2015 season after taking a nasty fall at the Rome DL meet.
Aussies Cedric Dubler And Sophie Stanwell Win Opening Round Of IAAF Combined Events Challenge

Boston Updated

LRC Geoffrey Mutai Pulls Out Of 2016 Boston As He Doesn’t Hit His “Training Goals” – 2:20 Marathoner Amane Beriso Added To Women’s Field Mutai has struggled since winning NYC in 2013.

Catching Up With The US’s 2016 Marathon Squad

Good Read: Jared Ward Has Used Small Incremental Gains Each Year To Improve From Decent College Runner To Olympian Ward runs 120 miles a week (in 6 days) and says believes was built for the marathon. After the Trials, he celebrated with a Mexican cruise and now says he is approaching his Rio buildup just like every other race.
Good Q&A With Desiree Linden On Her Approach At The Trials, Recovery Since, And Some Other Random Personal Info Linden celebrated after the Trials with a vacation in Bali. Here she talks about approaching the Trials like a “checklist,” her favorite Olympic sports, and love of music.
Insightful 20-Minute Skype Chat With Meb Keflezighi Meb says that Sydney was his most memorable Olympics and that he’s excited his kids are old enough that they’ll remember Rio.
More Catching Up With Meb Keflezighi The runner who has been most inspirational to Meb is Haile Gebrselassie.

NCAA Updates

Florida Men Overtake Oregon Atop NCAA DI National Rankings Texas A&M moves down to 3rd.
Arkansas Comes Out On Top In Updated Women’s DI Rankings There was a ton of shuffling with Southern California moving up to 2nd, LSU down to 3rd and Oregon down to 6th.
UO Track Update: Oregon Loses A Pair Of Top Multi-Eventers In Ashlee Moore And Liam Henshaw Moore has returned home to AZ to train for the OT while Henshaw is still at Oregon, but taking a “leave of absence” from the team.
*Ken Goe’s Article On Moore Leaving
Event-By-Event Best Collegiate Marks Of The Weekend With Stanford, the Texas Relays and Florida Relays, it was a big weekend for NCAA track.

The Dibaba Sisters Get Profiled By Vogue: “Meet The Dibabas – The Fastest Family On The Planet” Definitely written from a different perspective than you see in most running articles, but some interesting insights here for fans of Tirunesh, Genzebe and all the other fast Dibaba women. We’re sorry to inform the men of LetsRun that Genzebe says she has a non-runner boyfriend.

More Weekend NCAA Highlights *All NCAA Results

How Would The March Madness Final Four Stack Up As Running Schools? Syracuse and Villanova are by far the best.
Three Harvard Women Qualify For The Olympic Trials Courtney Smith destroyed the Ivy League 10K record by 43 seconds with 32:08 at Stanford. Paige Kouba (9:50 steeple) and Autumne Franklin (56.81 400H) also qualify.
*Former HS Star Myles Marshall Runs 1:48.20 800 PR
Penn State Win Florida Relays 4 X 800 Team of Robby Creese, Jordan Makins, Isaiah Harris and Brannon Kidder ran 7:19.98.
Texas Tech’s Trey Culver Gets NCAA HJ Lead With 2.26m Clearance At Texas Relays
Navy Gets 10th Straight Dual Meet Win Over Army

Washington Times: New Play, “Finish Line,” Tells Stories Of Boston Marathon Bombing The play will focus on the people affected by the bombings rather than the bombings themselves.

Lots Of NCAA Action This Weekend Texas Relays Florida Relays (link fixed) Stanford Invite All NCAA Results

Stanford *Full Entries

LRC Distance Highlights: German Fernandez Debuts In 28:06, Dominique Scott Runs 15:25, Kim Smith Is Back And Much More Scott got a big win while Kim Smith was an impressive 3rd in her first track race in 3 years. Ahead of Fernandez, Leonard Korir (27:58) just beat Shadrack Kipchirchir while Laura Thweatt and Paul Chelimo also picked up victories. Cecilia Barowski took the 800 in 2:02.62.
MB: German Fernandez is BACK!!
Mel Lawrence is BACK baby!!!! – 9:50 in Stanford steeple Lawrence ran 9:40 to finish third at NCAAs back in 2009, but hadn’t run under 10:05 since that season.
MB: Ian LaMere New DIII 10k Record
MB: Official 2016 Stanford Invite Live Discussion Thread
The Oregonian: “An Aggressive Paul Chelimo Claims The 5,000 At Stanford Invitational”
MB: German Fernandez 10k debut!!!!
MB: BIAS STANFORD ENTRIES
RW Preview – German Wants 10k Standard

Florida

Results / Distance Highlights In a deep men’s 800 field, pro Wesley Vazquez ran 1:44.75 to beat out Florida’s Andres Arroyo (1:45.78) while Chanelle Price won in 2:01.72 over Cory McGee (2:02.73). Virginia’s NCAA indoor mile champion Henry Wynne got the 1,500 win in 3:38.35 over Mississippi’s Craig Engels (3:38.82). Ashley Higginson won the women’s race (4:12.81).
IAAF Recap: Alabama’s Ahmed Ali Runs A Sudanese 200m National Record With 20.16 Andre De Grasse won the 100 in a wind-aided 9.99 while Tiffany Townsend won the 200 (22.38 – wind aided) over Veronica Campbell-Brown. Mike Berry took the 400 in 45.51. In the TJ, France’s former world champ Teddy Tamgho opened his season with a 16.63m win.
MB: 3:38 1,500 at Florida Relays!
MB: Insanely fast 800 at Florida Relays
LaShawn Merritt Wins Florida Relays 200m In WL 20.23, Campbell-Brown (22.58) Beaten By Tiffany Townsend (22.38)

Texas

IAAF Recap: Eventful Pole Vault And Sprints Highlight Texas Relays Sean Barber won the men’s PV in a world-leading 5.91m while the women’s saw Jenn Suhr scratch and Demi Payne break her pole and dislocate her thumb. David Oliver opened his season with a 110H win (13.44).
AP: Texas Senior Morolake Akinosun Wins Texas Relays 100 For Third Consecutive Time With World Leading 11.07
MB: Clayton Murphy Smokes Leo Manzano And Jonah Koech In 800 University of Houston freshman Brian Bell was 2nd. 1,500/mile: Dana Mecke in 4:15.93 over Laura Roesler (4:18.17). UTEP’s Jonah Koech (4:00.82).
Texas Freshman Asa Garcia Wins TJ In 47 Feet, 7.25 Inches

Post-April Fools News *LRC April Fools Homepage

LRC’s Lamine Diack-Russia April Fools Article Gets International Recognition InsideTheGames.biz wrote, “Given the serious and damning nature of sporting news in recent months, it is reassuring that there remains time for humour, although some of the spoof stories touch close to the bone.”
Bring Back The Mile: The Patrón 4-Shot Mile Tour Announced For 2016 The beer mile’s got nothing on this race.
Athletics Weekly: The Decathlon Will Replace The Heptathlon In For Women In Rio 2016 Title IX has gone global.
FinishLynx Unveils New Gunless And Noiseless Starting System
MB: That’s Two Good April Fools In A Row

#WhatabouttheSport

LRC What About The Sport? Big Praise For Mo Farah; The IAAF And Abbott World Marathon Majors Needs To Improve Their Broadcasts How can we improve our sport? By taking one little step after another.

African Drug Updates

Kenyan Officials Claim WADA Is “Satisfied” With Their Progress Despite Missing April 5th Deadline To Pass Anti-Doping Legislation The WADA compliance review committee will make a recommendation on May 12th.
Ethiopia Is Next: Ethiopia Told To Do Extensive Drug Testing Or Face IAAF Ban Ethiopia must test 150 to 200 athletes between now and November.

Not Your Everyday Racing Experiences

One Person Out Of 40 Finishes The Legendarily Difficult Barkley Marathons Jared Campbell finished the 100-mile race for a record third time, running 59 hours and 30 minutes. *Photos
*LRC Archives: Recommended Read: Hey LetsRunners, How Would You Like To Truly Be Part Of The “1 Percent”: In 30-Year History, Only 1% Of Competitors Have Finished The Barkley Marathons
Video: Syracuse Half-Marathoners Run Through Hail And Whiteout Conditions
*LRC Archives: *Winter Running *Road Race Disasters

Olympic News

Germany’s “Blade Jumper” Markus Rehm Unlikely To Win Battle For Olympic Inclusion Rehm needs to scientifically prove that he doesn’t get an advantage from his prosthetic blade (which he very likely does), but the IAAF hasn’t laid out the criteria and the German federation has already said they aren’t selecting him.
Rome 2024 Bid Chairman Named In Panama Papers Scandal Luca di Montezemolo was among those in the leaked documents which indicate he set up an offshore company in Central America.
Rio Police Catch 10 People Scalping Olympic Tickets 712 tickets were being sold at double the face value.
Tokyo 2020 Will Reveal Final Logo Candidates On Friday
Athletics Canada Unveils National Team Kit

Dopers Making Headlines In Kenya, Russia The UK And US

We’re USATF And We Do What We Want: Dennis Mitchell Will Remain US Relay Coach For Rio Despite New Rule Excluding Coaches Of Athletes Up For Relay Pool Selection Mitchell is a convicted doper, does not have a good track record coaching the US relays, and coaches Justin Gatlin, yet for some reason the USATF national office – which claims to want to avoid controversy – is grandfathering him in as Rio relay coach since he was selected before the rule was made.
Discuss: Why does USATF insist on hiring Dennis Mitchell (who is a convicted doper and on the surface not good at his job) as relays coach?
BBC: Kenya On The Brink Of WADA Non-Compliance After Missing Today’s Deadline The Kenyan government has not yet passed its anti-doping legislation and WADA’s compliance review committee is expected to declare them non-compliant today.
Russian Olympic Hammer Throw Champion Tatyana Beloborodova Gets Banned For Doping Again She tested positive in a retest of her sample from 2005 Worlds. Russian sports minister Vitaly Mutko says they will fight the ban over interpretation of the statute of limitations.
Opinion Piece: German Sports Writer Says If You Can’t Trust The British, Then “Trust Nobody!” The latest report by The Sunday Times says that UKAD were tipped off about this doping doctor 2 years ago, but did nothing.
WADA Statement On The Sunday’s Times Report On British Doctor Who Allegedly Doped 150 Athletes They say that because he was a private doctor and not governed by sport he was “outside the jurisdiction” of the WADA code.

Looking Ahead

May 8: Justin Gatlin And Top Japanese Sprinters Yoshihide Kiryu And Abdul Hakim Sani Brown Will Duke It Out Over 100m At The Golden Grand Prix
May 28: Vashti Cunningham Will Make Her Professional Debut In The Pre Classic HJ She’ll be up against the two women who finished behind her in Portland, Spain’s Ruth Beitia and Poland’s Kamila Licwinkio.
June 9th: Dafne Schippers Will Lead 200m Field For The Bislett Games In Oslo

LetsThrow.com *LRC Throwing Archives

Valerie Adams Ties The Knot Probably no time for a honeymoon, though, as she said she was right back to training on Monday.
Good Read: After Years Of Injury And Illness, British Discus Thrower Jade Lally Has Made A Huge Breakthrough To Put Herself Top 5 In The World We liked this quote from Lally, who said, “I don’t understand people who moan about their situation and do nothing to change it.”

Doping Updates: Good News For Kara Goucher And Shalane Flanagan

Turkey’s Elvan Abeylegesse Will Lose 2008 Two Olympic Silver Medals And Be Banned For 2 Years For Doping She will also lose her 10,000 silver from 2007 Worlds. This means that Kara Goucher (2007 Worlds) and Shalane Flanagan (2008 Olympics) will both be upgraded to silver medals.
*MB: Abeylegasse Busted for doping
Daily Mail Rips Steve Cram For His BBC Interview With Seb Coe: “Cram Wins The Gold Medal For Self-Serving, Nauseating Sycophancy” Oliver Holt does not hold back as he accuses Cram of being a “cheerleader” and turning “a serious issue into a kind of soppy high-school reunion.”
*MB: Steve Cram wins the gold medal for self-serving, nauseating sycophancy
Latest From The Sunday Times: British Government Launching Investigation Into Claims By UK Doctor That He Helped Dope 150 Athletes The Sunday Times reported that Dr. Mark Bonar claims to have doped major champions across all sports. Troubling is the fact that UKAD was tipped off 2 years ago, but failed to investigate.
USADA Reassures Athletes That Zika Nor Polluted Water Will Cause A Positive Drug Test

LRC Running Warehouse Worlds Contest Recap

LRC Doping Scandal Comes To LRC $200,015 Running Warehouse World Indoors Prediction Contest Doping has tainted our contest but you still can meet the interesting winners who make up LRC and win our contests.

Your Help Is Needed

LRCEthiopian Distance Runners Need Your Help After Truck Plows Into Them, Killing One And Severely Injuring 4 Others - Please Consider Donating To Their Recovery

One Ethiopian runner is dead, another is in critical condition after a truck plowed them over on a training run on Saturday. Help them now. *Donate here.

*BBC Audio Interview With The Agent Of The Runners