October 01, 2016 Homepage Archive

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Quote Of The Day

“(The IOC’s decision’s to ban whistleblower Yuliya Stepanova from Rio) was outrageous.”

“It has done more to discourage whistleblowers from coming forward than anything else I can imagine.”

“It was incomprehensible – there was no ethical issue at all.”

Canada’s Dick Pound talking to insidethegames. Pound also ripped the IOC for not giving Russia an Olympic-wide ban for state-sponsored doping.

Robert Young – Run Across America Fraud

LRC It’s Official: Robert Young an UltraMarathon Cheat Inspired in part by the fastest-growing thread in LetsRun.com history started by Asher Delmott, Skins – Young’s primary sponsor – has released a 100+ page independent report to determine if Young cheated in his run across America. The evidence is conclusive, he didn’t run the entire way.
*MB: Robert Young fakes run across America

NCAA News *All Weekend NCAA Results

11 AM ET MB:Official Paul Short Prediction Thread

Notre Dame:#1 Providence Women, #20 Ole Miss Men Win Ole Miss, led by individual chap SeanTobin, edged #18 UTEP as #9 E. Kentucky was third. Anna Rohrer won the women’s title. The host Notre Dame men were DFL – 25th out of 25.
USTFCCCA Previews Of Saturday’s Paul Short Run & Washington Invitational
Two Colleges In Missouri And Oklahoma Boycott NAIA XC Champs After NAIA Took Them Away From North Carolina Over Bathroom Law One college president called the NAIA’s action “political correctness gone berserk.”
*MB:NAIA moves Nationals from Charlotte
FishDuck.com:“Duck Cross-Country Teams Chase NCAA Titles”
Three Track Stars Among NCAA Woman Of The Year Finalists Iowa State’s Christina Hillman (shot put), Texas A&M’s Bri Leeper (sprints) and Misericordia University’s Amy Viti (mid-d).

US Olympic News: Team USA Goes To The White House

Team USA Spends The Day At The White House With Some Track Athletes Getting Special Mention In President Obama’s SpeechAbbey D’Agostino got a special shout out as Obama said she was “what the Olympic spirit and the American spirit should be all about.”
NBC Sports: “President Obama: “2016 belonged to America’s women Olympians. Y’all crushed it.”
AP:Black 1936 Olympians Receive Overdue Recognition At White House Jesse Owens didn’t even receive a telegram from President Roosevelt in 1936.
Nike Reports An 8% Growth In Revenue After The Olympics
Video, Photos, Quotes (Allyson Felix) From USA Today

Upcoming Distance Action

A Lot Of Prize Money On The Line At This Weekend’s Reebok Spartan World Championships In Lake Tahoe $15K to the winner. Future NFL Hall of Famer Randy Moss will run.
October 16:Former NYC/London Winner Priscah Jeptoo Will Lead Field For The TCS Amsterdam Marathon She’ll face former World XC medalist and 29:53 10,000m runner Meselech Melkamu, who has a 2:21:01 PR.
BBTM Grand Prix Tour Finale Is At The Navy Mile On Sunday Women’s field includes Heather Kampf, Rachel Schneider and the men have Cory Leslie, Jack Bolas, Riley Masters.
World Mountain Running Series Leaders Petro Mamu (Eritrea) And Andrea Mayr (Australia) Lead Field For Smarna Gora Race In Slovenia

Hosting News

Tokyo Government Review Predicts Olympic Costs Could Reach $30 Billion “Drastic” changes need to be made to reduce the cost.
California Governor Signs $250 Million Bill Guaranteeing Support For LA 2024 Olympic Bid This is for potential overruns, but they don’t expect to need the money. Then again, you never know when you’re going to be 300% over budget.
Rome 2024 Bid On Brink Of Being Scrapped After City Council Backs Mayor’s Decision Against It The City Council have voted 30-12 in favour of the Mayor.
Report Says Human Rights Atrocities Affected 22,000 Families At Rio Olympics The report said families were evicted from their homes and moved, controlled by militia gangs, subject to police brutality and youth were taken to juvenile detention centres without reason.
Birmingham Bidding For 2026 Commonwealth Games

Big City Marathon News

2017 Boston Marathon Cutoff Is 2;09 Under Qualifying Standards This meant it was slightly easier than the 2016 race which required runners to be 2:28 faster than the qualifying mark.
*MB:BQ-ing ain’t what it used to b
MB: Vancouver USA Marathon Not Accepted For Boston After Course Found To Be Short 19 finishers were planning on using their time from this race to qualify for Boston.
Study Finds Bank Of America Chicago Marathon Brings More Than $277 Million To Chicago Economy

Latest Doping Headlines

US Sprinter Trell Kimmons Gets Two-Year Drug Suspension For Failing A Test At US Indoors For A Banned Stimulant Kimmons was member of the US 4 x 100 team that won silver at London 2012, but was later stripped of the medal for Tyson Gay‘s doping offence.
Lance Armstrong Challenges Irish Journalist Paul Kimmage To Be The Chief Interviewer For His Appearance At A Dublin Conference Apparently Armstrong has agreed to talk openly about his career in an extended “no holds barred” interview, but in a terse twitter reply, Kimmage declined.
Interesting Op-Ed:Irish Independent Likens Armstrong To Mob Gangster From Movie “Goodfellas” They can hardly believe that he’s getting paid to come talk about his doping story.
Former Pole Vault Great And IAAF Vice President Sergey Bubka Calls Out WADA For Not Doing Enough For The Money They Get “Most of the anti-doping cases are revealed by police investigation, judiciary procedures, whistleblowing or media, which shows that much money and efforts are probably not spent the right way.”
Latest IAAF Banned List Includes Russian Distance Runners Who Ran At The 2008 OlympicsIrina Timofeeva, who was 7th in the 2008 women’s marathon, and steepler Ildar Minshin both got 2-year bans.

Happy 60th, Seb!

More News From The UK Jessica Ennis-Hill “Close” To Decision On Whether She’ll Retire Or Not We think there is little chance that a Brit would retire with Worlds in London next year. It doesn’t make financial $en$e.

Olympic / Bureaucratic / Doping News

WADA Is Tightening Up What Asthma Drugs Are Allowed Starting January 1, the ADHD and eating disorder drug Lisdexamfetamine will be banned.
Dick Pound Is Irate That The IOC Didn’t Let Stepanova Compete In The Olympics And That They Didn’t Ban Russia
Phil Hersh Asks, “Will only fools – and dictators – rush in to bid for Olympics?”
Tour de France Director Says Cycling Is No Longer The Black Sheep Cynics would say that’s just because all of the other sports like the NFL and MLB have been exposed as frauds, plus a whole country – Russia.
Children’s Rights Groups Want The IOC To Compensate Children They Claim Suffered From An “Indiscriminate Use Of Force” When The Streets Of Rio Were “Cleared” Before The Olympics Those of us living in Baltimore don’t necessarily agree.

The Real Winners From Rio – LRC Running Warehouse Prediction Contest

LRC Who Rocked The LetsRun.com Rio Prediction Contest? A State Champion High School Coach, A Dude On His Honeymoon – The Talented Winners Span The Globe See who the kings and queens of LetsRun.com are. Our winners hail from all over the globe. A state champion coach from the US won overall, but other winners included a woman from England, a 66-flat half marathoner from Atlanta and a Canadian. Our runner-up made his picks just days after landing the woman of his dreams.

Admin News

Vin Lananna USATF President Campaign Website His website says he’s running “because I believe that I have the qualifications, experience, and passion to lead USATF …”
Need A Job?IAAF Is Looking For A Media Operations Manager So you have to try to explain things every time the IAAF screws up? Whatever they’re paying, it’s not enough.

Update On Kenyan Olympic Committee Scandal

Three NOCK Officials Deny Charges Of Stealing And Abuse Of Office After As They Are Released On Bail They are accused of taking over $250,000 and Nike kits that were meant for Olympic athletes in Rio.
USA Today Article Apparently the Kenyan chef de mission Stephen Arap Soi got on the plane to Brazil with $234,000, didn’t declare it to customs officials, and then it “went missing.”
NOCK Treasurer Has Charges Against Her Dropped And She Is Expected To Testify Against The Other Three NOCK Officials
Trial Will Start October 24th

It’s Time To Settle The Debate

LRCDebate: After Berlin, Who Is The Distance Running GOAT – Kenenisa Bekele, Haile Gebrselassie Or Mo Farah? The LRC “brains” may have reached a rare consensus.
Discuss: Has Bekele just legitimised his WRs? Clean? GOAT?

Listen On Demand Special Berlin Marathon Track Talk Podcast With Professor Of The Marathon Sean Hartnett Get the inside scoop on one of the greatest marathons ever. Plus, learn about the reaction of Bekele and Kipsang and the friendship between Bekele and Eliud Kipchoge.

Upcoming Action On The Roads

Weekend Upsets Cause Big Changes In NCAA XC Rankings

Five Teams Earn First-Place Votes In New DI Men’s National Poll A lot of movement as NAU jumped to the top, Syracuse moved down to 2nd and Oregon stays third. BYU’s rank went way up and Stanford way down.
There’s A New No. 1 Team In The NCAA DI Women’s XC Poll Three teams got #1 votes as Providence moves to the top spot followed by Colorado and New Mexico.

International Sprints And Jumps

Recommended Watch:The Japanese Commentary For The Rio Men’s 4 X 100 Was “Gloriously Passionate” You don’t need to know the language to be able to tell they were psyched about Japan’s silver.
Wayde Van Niekerk Wants To Get Usain Bolt’s 200m WR; Bolt Says “Maybe He Can Do It” Van Niekerk had a great quote on the 400: “I hate the 400m. I hate it because I know what it does to my body, but I love it for what it does for my life.”
Usain Bolt Investing $78,000 In Razor Blade Business
Usain Bolt Says He “Would Definitely” Do Dancing With The Stars
Wayde Van Niekerk Voted South African Athlete Of The Year If winning Olympic gold and breaking a WR from lane 8 didn’t do it, it’s hard to fathom what would.
IAAF First Impressions Q&A With St. Lucian High Jumper Levern Spencer The first movie that made the Olympics 6th placer cry was Titanic.

It’s Not Too Early To Start Thinking About Christmas Gifts

LRC Book Review:Run The World By 2:30 Marathoner Becky Wade Is An Easy And Fun Read That Anyone Who Enjoys Running And Travel Will EnjoyRather than embark immediately upon a professional career, Wade – an All-American at Rice and 2016 Olympic Trials qualifier – spent a year visiting running cultures across the globe. The result is Run the World, a fun log of her running adventures in 22 different countries, including Japan, Finland, Switzerland and New Zealand.