WADA Gets Hacked

LRC The Russians Have Hacked WADA and Want You To Think Simone Biles Is A Drug Cheat Because She Takes ADHD Medicine Russian hackers have gotten their way into WADA and published a positive drug test for American star Simone Biles. In reality, the positive test is a good thing for the anti-doping movement as it shows the tests work as Biles should have tested positive for the ADHD med she openly declared she was taking.
*MB: The Russians Have Hacked WADA: Leaked Drug Tests/TUEs – Real or Not?

The Latest From The Paralympics

LRC USA’s Mikey Brannigan Dominates 1500m at Paralympic Games Brannigan ran like the boss in the Paralympic T20 1500.

• A Pre-Race Good Read: Wall Street Journal: “Mikey Brannigan’s Ready For The Long Run” Brannigan gets high praise from coaches, legendary Irish Olympian Eamonn Coughlan and of course his mom.
  *NOTE: You may have to access this through Google to read.
• Good Read: “Mikey Brannigan Wasn’t Allowed to Compete in College. Now, He’s Going for Gold in Rio” Great profile on the paralympic runner who’s autism and academic scores kept him from being eligible to compete in the NCAA, but haven’t stopped him from chasing his running dreams.
• The Huffington Post: “Four Paralympians Just Ran The 1500m Faster Than Anyone At The Rio Olympics Final” Algeria’s Abdellatif Baka won in 3:48.29 and the headline points out that even the 4th place finisher was faster than Centro‘s time in Rio. But if this author understands time having no significance in tactical races, he isn’t letting on and it’s the casual non-runners who will be left confused. *The Telegraph article
• New Zealand’s “Blade Runner” Breaks Oscar Pistorius’ Paralympic Games Record Liam Malone won 200m gold in 21.06
  *MB: Blind paralympic athletes run faster than Centro
• Minor Fire And Water Damage In Rio After Unmanned Hot-Air Balloon Crashes Into Roof Of Paralympic Games Venue.

Doping / Corruption Headlines

• Seb Coe Defends Mo Farah’s Status As A Clean Athlete And His Coaching Relationship With Alberto Salazar “There are some systems where you can’t have that presumption of innocence any more but Mo – and I am not here as his spokesman or his defender – has made all his readings public.”
• Kenyan Op-ed: “Olympic Shenanigans Mirror What Our Country Has Become” The author says the problems that went down in Rio are “a microcosm of Kenya today.”
• Opinion Piece By InsideTheGames’ Nick Butler: “Control Or Independence? A Vital Crossroads In The Fight Against Doping” A long read that provides an interesting analysis of the power struggle and sports politics between the IOC, WADA, USADA and more.
• Russian Olympic Committee President Alexander Zhukov Believes History Will Prove IPC’s Decision To Ban Russia Was Wrong Or history will prove the IOC wrong for not banning Russia from the Olympics.
• Maria Sharapova Will Find Out Early Next Month If Her 2-Year Doping Ban Will Get Reduced By CAS
• Three Russian Cyclists Threaten To Sue WADA And Former Moscow Lab Director Grigory Rodchenkov Over The McLaren Report And Subsequent Ban From Rio They were named in the McLaren report as taking EPO.
• UCI President Brian Cookson Says UCI Isn’t In Denial About Doping Like Some Other Sports But then he says something like this: “I think it’s actually quite difficult to cheat in our sport now.”
• Police Release Alleged Incriminating Ticketing E-Mails From Irish IOC Member Patrick Hickey
  *Brazil Police Will Oppose Hickey Returning To Ireland Pending Court Hearing

Great North CityGames *Full Results

Great North CityGames: David Rudisha runs ridiculous 57.69 world record (best) for 500! There was a lot of interesting action as Laura Muir won the women’s mile and Bernard Lagat struggled in the men’s.
*MB: Rudisha runs 57.69 over 500m in Newcastle

• RRW: Rudisha Runs Fast 500m At Great North CityGames
• Greg Rutherford Remains “Marginally Disappointed” About His Rio Bronze Now Rutherford turns his attention away from jumping to focus on his appearance on the UK’s version of “Dancing with the Stars.”
• James Dasaolu & Chijindu Ujah in 100m photo finish Dasaolu got the win.
• Greg Rutherford & Laura Muir claim wins

Results/Video: Olympic Pole Vault Champ Thiago Braz da Silva Upset By Rio 4th Placer Jan Kudlicka At Golden Fly Series Street Meet In Schaan, Liechtenstein

Doping Updates

• Former WADA Director General Calls Out WADA And IOC Over Russia; Says WADA Should Have Deemed The IOC Non-Compliant David Howman is afraid the IOC’s plans to reform anti-doping will prioritize increasing their personal control rather than establishing independence.
• Polish 19-Year-Old Olympic Shot Putter Konrad Bukowiecki Fails Drug Test He reportedly tested positive when he won World Juniors in July. *Polish language article (translated)
• Seb Coe And European Athletics President Svein Arne Hansen Congratulate Belgian Women’s 4×100 Team For Their 2008 Olympic Gold Following Russian Doping Positive Re-Test

The Not So Smooth Travels Of Mo Farah

News Involving Rio’s Stars

• If you can’t beat ’em, have them join your team Galen Rupp might soon be the US’s #2 marathoner – Feyisa Lelisa is now living in the US
• Wayde van Niekerk says he was upset that some people speculated he was a doper after he broke the WR If that’s true, he shouldn’t have skipped the rest of the season.
• Controversies in S. Africa? Some in South Africa are wondering why Wayde Van Niekerk was given a new Audi and Caster Semenya wasn’t The fact that he was sponsored by Audi before the Olympics is the answer. Others are wondering if Van Niekerk’s victory is a victory for blacks or a victory for coloured people.
• Kenyans can’t agree who it was that stayed in a luxury cruise ship in Rio

Paralympics

• Tatyana McFadden’s quest for 7 golds ends in 1st event as she settles for silver We’re glad in the sense the same athlete shouldn’t be the best in the world at the 100m and marathon. It would be like the quarterback also being the best offensive linemen.
• Blade runner Peacock peerless as he powers to another Paralympic 100m title 

Week That Was

LRC Week That Was: How Fast is the 5th Avenue Mile Course?, Free PR Advice for Mo Farah, And a College Coach Helped an NCAA Legend Score Some Booze Plus in case you were gone we had the Diamond League finale in Zurich with the big win by Shannon Rowbury, a game effort by Evan Jager, and a great women’s 200m.

Wejo Speaks – His Rio Olympics

LRC “People are People”- The Olympics Remind Us Of All That is Great (and Bad) in the World Two weeks after Rio, LRC’s Weldon Johnson tries to make sense of his Olympic experience.

The Paralympics Have Started

• Belarus Stages Pro-Russia Protest During Paralympics Opening Ceremony By Carrying Russian Flag To be fair, Belarus is a country with a lot of doping bans as well.
• Q&A With Utah High School 400m Champ Hunter Woodhall Ahead Of The Paralympic Games Back in May, Woodhall ran 47.63 to win the stat championships against able bodied runners.
• New Brazilian President Booed As He Opens 2016 Rio Paralympic Games Michel Temer was the vice president of the impeached Dilma Rousseff, so he is accused of the same corruption allegations.
• Paralympics Opening Ceremony In Pictures There were some cool stuff like a wheelchair stuntman and some strange things like a paralympic snowboarder dancing with a robot.
• Opening Ceremony For Russia’s Alternative Paralympic Games Takes Place In Moscow The Russian paralympic committee president had some harsh words for the rest of the world as he said, “Let the God be the judge for all those, who used to say that everything is all right with us and then barred us from the Paralympic Games.”
• British Paralympic Chief Denies Accusations That Classification System Is Being Maniupated To Boost Medal Chances
• Five Irish Stars To Follow At The Paralympics
• Olympic Channel Will Show More Than 300 Hours Of Rio Paralympic Coverage

Mid-Week Action: Genzebe Dibaba Misses Mile WR *Results: *Rovereto *Zagreb

• Rovereto: Genzebe Dibaba Runs 4:14.30 To Break African Mile Record, But Comes Up 1.74-Seconds Short Of The WR Dibaba’s time was the second fastest outdoors ever, although it’s slower than her indoor WR of 4:13.31. Sifan Hassan was way back with 4:25 for 2nd and Alexa Efraimson was 3rd (4:27). World bronze medalist Amel Tuka won the men’s 800 in a SB of 1:44.80. *Discuss
  
• Zagreb: Long Jumper Ivana Spanovic (7.03m) And Discus Thrower Sandra Perkovic (67.86m) Were The Highlight Performances Distance victories included Robert Biwott in the 1500 in 3:37 (Robby Andrews was only 12th) and Margaret Kipkemboi in the 3K (8:45) over World XC champ Agnes Tirop. In the sprints, Asafa Powell missed his 98th sub-10, but won in 10.01.
  *Olympic Champ Ryan Crouser Wins Deep Shot Put Crouser beat out bronze and silver medalists Tom Walsh and Joe Kovacs.

Unrest In Kenya

• Kenyan Sports Minister Hassan Wario Defends Decision To Disband NOCK He said that sporting organisations should not exist in a “vacuum above the law.”
• NOCK Reportedly Lost $30,000 Paying For A Room On A Cruise Ship For The Kenyan President Even Though He Never Attended The Games
• Bickering And Finger Pointing Continues Between Hassan Wario, NOCK And Wesley Korir At Parliamentary Meeting

Get Excited For This Weekend: The Final Diamond League Meet Of The Year Is Friday

• Friday: IAAF Preview: Some Events Will Come Down To The Wire For The Overall Diamond League $40,000 Prize The 100 will be a duel between Dafne Schippers and Elaine Thompson, Asbel Kiprop has a small lead in the 1500, but faces Elijah Manangoi and the men’s HJ is wide open.
  *Provisional Entry Lists
  *MB: Shannon Rowbury entered in Brussels 5000m, will she break the AR?
• Saturday: 500m And Mile Fields Highlight The Great North City Games David Rudisha will take on GB’s top 400m runners in the 500 and in the mile, Bernard Lagat faces Silas Kiplagat while Laura Muir leads the women’s race.
• Sunday: Vivian Cheruiyot, Tirunesh Dibaba And Priscah Jeptoo Will Face Off At The Great North Run Half-Marathon There is a good men’s field as well with Mo Farah leading Dathan Ritzenhein, Emmanuel Bett, and Abdi Abdirahman.
  *MB: Farah, Ritz, Abdi And Vivian Cheruiyot vs Tirunesh Dibaba