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 Sean Tobin, 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).

Road Race News

• Interesting A Comparison Of The 5km Splits For Dennis Kimetto’s WR, Bekele’s 2:03:03 And Kipchoge’s 2:03:05
• 30:07 10ker Betsy Saina Running 2nd Career Half Marathon This Weekend At Great Scottish Run – Likely Will Make Marathon Debut In Tokyo
• Rio Olympic 9th Placer, Callum Hawkins, Just 24, Is Leading The UK Charge At The GSR

Administrators Love To Spend, Except On Athletes

• In New Zealand, More Than 85 Sports Bureaucrats Earn More Than $100,000 A Year, Yet Gold Medalists Only Get $60,000
• Kenyan Govt. To Spend Nearly $6 Million To Upgrade Kenyatta University Hostels To 5-Star Hotel Standards For 2017 World Youth Championships All told, the World Youth Championships are costing more than $25 million. Wow.

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 Speech Abbey 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 Olympics Irina Timofeeva, who was 7th in the 2008 women’s marathon, and steepler Ildar Minshin both got 2-year bans.