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Quote Of The Day

“I do still train with Eliud [Kipchoge and other] greats like Emmanuel Mutai, Bernard Kipyego, Bernard Koech and Lucas Rotich. My training is going well; I am peaking at the right moment it seems. I do about 200km per week, sometimes 210km. I do live in the camp, mostly from Monday to Saturday. But sometimes I stay the weekend as well. My wife isn’t happy with that but she has to accept these sacrifices for me to be successful.”

– Kenyan 2:09 man Jackson Limo talking about his training as he prepares to defend his title at next month’s Beirut Marathon.

It’s Mid-October. It’s Time To Get Excited For NCAA XC Live Wisco and Pre-Nats Results All Results

Pre-Nats Messageboard Talk
MB: Official 2016 Wisco/Pre-Nats Discussion Thread
MB: Justyn Knight will win NCAA D1 Cross Country Nationals
MB: Syracuse officially not the favorite
MB: Breaking: Allie Ostrander is “currently injured and will likely redshirt the cross country season”

LRC No. 4 Washington Women Win 2016 Nuttycombe Wisconsin Invitational as Boise State’s Brenna Peloquin (20:00) Pulls Away to Win Individual CrownBoise State’s Brenna Peloquin came into the year as the #2 runner on her team – now she’s the NCAA favorite. #1 Providence certainly isn’t the favorite any more as they are missing a few studs.

Breaking News LRC Allie Ostrander Is “Currently Injured and Will Likely Redshirt the Cross Country Season” We wish we had better news to report about the woman who was 2nd at NCAAs as a freshman last year. *Discuss

The UK Media Has A Lot More On Retiring Jessica Ennis-Hill

The Telegraph:“Jessica Ennis-Hill Has Earned Right To Relish Every Minute Of Her Retirement”
Many Calling For Jessica Ennis-Hill To Be Made A “Dame”
Good Read: Jessica Ennis-Hill’s Grandfather Used To Give Her $6 For A PB And $3 For A Medal, But Eventually Had To “Renegotiate” The Deal
GR: The Guardian: “From Reluctant Athlete to Olympic gold – farewell to Jessica Ennis-Hill” Ennis had her first hangover when she was 16. She got up the next day, threw up, and competed in a junior track meet.
GR: BBC Has A Poem For Jessica-Ennis
Ennis’ Coach Toni Minichiello: “Jessica Ennis-Hillis is dedicated, humble and funny – she’s the best ever”
Steve Cram: “She fully deserves to be called an all-time great.”
Former Olympic Heptathlon Champ Denise Lewis: “Jessica Ennis-Hill’s Poise, Dignity And Brilliance Will Be Sorely Missed”
The Guardian: “It’s fitting that Ennis-Hill’s reign mirrored the meteoric rise of women’s sport”
Collection Of Tweets From Athletes Paying Tribute To Ennis-Hill
Jessica Ennis-Hill’s Career In Pictures
SPIKES Takes A Look Back At Ennis’ 2012 “Super Saturday” Victory

Doping Stuff: Was An Irish Sprinter Wrongly Banned?

Irish Sprinter Steven Colvert Calls Anti-Doping System A “Farce” After New Evidence Shows He May Have Wrongly Been Banned For EPO Use When Colvert tested positive for EPO (unusual for a sprinter) he screamed his innocence. Now more than 2 years later with his ban over, he’s still screaming as multiple scientists have cited “flaws in the procedure” which tested his sample.
News Week:“Why An Irish Sprinter Serving A Doping Ban Deserves A New Hearing” Even the WADA expert at Colvert’s original hearing said there was such a small amount of EPO in his sample that “you need to be an expert to clearly identify it.”
*Lab Times Journal Article With Research By Four Norwegian Scientists
Norwegian Skiing Star Blames Sun Cream After Failing Drug Test For Anabolic Steroid A team doctor has admitted that he gave the skier the cream to treat sun burns on her lips during altitude training.
USADA Head Travis Tygart Lashes Out At Fancy Bear Hackers As “Con Artists” “This is just another desperate attempt to distract from the real issue of (Russia’s) state-sponsored doping.”

News From Oregon

MB:Kate Murphy Commits To Oregon The 4:07 high school OT qualifier announced on Twitter that she’ll be a Duck next year.
The Oregonian:“Lots Of Coming And Going Within The Oregon Track Program” Nine additions have been made to the roster, but some key athletes have transferred or quit, including school shot put record holder Brittany Mann, who transferred to USC.
*Register-Guard: Oregon Track And Field Bolsters Its Roster
*MB: Why are so many Oregon athletes transferring?
Wrong Person Awarded First Place At Portland Marathon Apparently workers at the finish line couldn’t tell the difference between a 2:36 marathoner and a 2:36 half marathoner.
*MB: Portland Marathon gives 1st place to wrong runner
The Oregonian:Some Portland Marathoners Upset After Running A Half Mile Too Long The race director’s response was troubling as he said, “It’s not a big deal” since only slower runners were affected. *Fox 12 Oregon Article

Russian (Doping) News

Russian Marathoner Aleksey Troshkin Ignores The Russian Doping Ban To Run And Win The Channel Island Marathon In The UK He will be stripped of his win, so first place and $3,000 goes to American Chris Zablocki.
*LRC Archives: Meet The Most Interesting Man In Running: Chris Zablocki’s Long Road To Los Angeles
Banned Maria Sharapova Plays In Exhibition Tennis Tournament Apparently playing in exhibition matches isn’t against the rules of her ban, which seems ridiculous. She is “banned” from the sport, but can still show up and get publicity for herself and her sponsors by playing tennis.
Good Read:“Opinion Piece: Nauseating Sharapova Love-In Discredits Tennis” The writer bashes Sharapova for taking advantage of and the tennis federation for allowing a loophole which lets a banned athlete still profit from playing the sport.
In Bid To Boost “Independence And Transparency” Of RUSADA, Members Of The Sports Ministry Have Been Withdrawn Hypothetically this will decrease the potential government influence on RUSADA.
Russian Hammer Thrower Tatyana Lysenko Stripped Of 2012 Olympic Gold After Retests Of Stored Samples Are Positive For Steroids This means Rio 2016 gold medalist and WR holder Anita Wlodarczyk is now a double Olympic champion as she was 2nd in 2012. *2nd Article
Vladimir Putin Claims Athletes With TUEs Should Be Excluded From Events Putin said he is afraid “we will see in the nearest future all the new records and victories in sports brought by athletes, who suffer from chronic diseases.”
Russian Olympic Committee Head Alexander Zhukov Stepping Down to Focus On Work In Government This AP article says Yelena Isinbayeva now wants the job.
Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko Wants “Precise Criteria” From WADA They Need To Do In Order To Resume Their “Anti-Doping” Program

Olympic Hosting News: 2016, 2020, 2024

2024: Rome 2024 Olympic Bid Officially Suspended Although Recent Political Changes Leave Faint Hopes For Renewal The Italian Olympic Committee president still has hope as after the latest election, the majority of Rome’s city council favors the Olympics.
Italian Olympic Committee President Says Rome 2024 Bid Would Not Have Relied On Building New Venues He said the only thing that needed to be built would be the Athletes’ Village.
2020: Tokyo Governor Set To Meet IOC President Later This Month Following Reports Of Tokyo 2020 Being Way Over Budget The budget has ballooned to $30 billion, four times the original estimate.
Japan Developing Security Technology To Fight Terrorism At Tokyo 2020 Some interesting tech like cameras that can predict how crowded an area will be 10 minutes later and that find people exhibiting suspicious behavior.
2016: One Worker Killed, Another Has Leg Amputated After Incident Disassembling Rio 2016 Venues This adds to the list of at least 11 people who died while working on Olympic facilities/projects leading up to the Games.

Doping News Just Keeps Getting Weirder:Prank Phone Caller Pretending To Be Jesse Owens Records IPC President Philip Craven Criticizing Thomas Bach

International Road Results

Mo Farah Wins Akasaka 5-Chome Mini Marathon In Japan Farah ran the 3.6K course in about 13:40 to run down the almost 6-minute handicap given to a slew of Japanese models and comedians.
*MB: Mo Farah Scores Greatest Victory of His Career!
Aoyama Gakuin University Gets Second Straight Win At The Izumo Ekiden Even with Johnny Gregorek and Will Geoghegan, the US’s Ivy League Select Team only finished 14th, a fall from their 9th place finish last year.
Pacemaker Festus Talam Stuns With Impressive Win In 2:06:26 Debut At Marathon Eindhoven Talam was instructed to take the field through 35K at 2:06 pace, but by the time he got to that point, the field had all dropped off.
MB:Zane Robertson Wins Berlin 10K In 27:28
Irvette Van Zyl Wins Final Leg Of SPAR Women’s Grand Prix Road Race Series In South Africa

Previous Chicago News

RRW Confident But Cautious, Stephen Sambu Is Ready For Marathon DebutCarey Pinkowski picked Sambu as his first elite due to his “deep integrity.”

LRCGreat News: Watch Chicago Live On LetsRun.com Tomorrow 8am Eastern Tim Hutchings and Ed Eyestone on call. Also available on NBCSN with Todd Williams and Paul Swangard.

Press Conference LRC Great Weather Is In The Forecast – Will The Men And Women Go For Fast Times Without Rabbits? Conditions ideal for a fast time appear to be in the forecast for Sunday, but will the elite men and women go for a fast one? We give you the inside scoop.
*After Visa Glitch, Dickson Chumba Finally Gets To Chicago And Says He’s Ready To Go “I’m not sure why I was the one whose visa was delayed. I’m yet to meet with the people who are responsible. Whether it was intentional or not, I will not let anyone take the title from me easily. I came here with one purpose and that is to take the title and go home a champion, nothing less.”

LRC Luke Puskedra And Diego Estrada Both Say They Are Ready – Could A Sub-2:10 Be In The Cards? Puskedra: “There’s a resurgence in American distance running and I want to jump on the back end of it.” Estrada says he’s going out between 3:00 and 3:05 per km (2:06-2:10 pace).

Women’s Preview: LRC It’s A Clash Of The Kiplagats As Florence And Edna Square Off On The Streets Of Chicago

Men’s Preview: LRC Dickson Chumba Goes For The Repeat As Americans Luke Puskedra, Elkanah Kibet & Diego Estrada Do Battle

LRC The Comeback: How Luke Puskedra Bounced Back From 4th Place At The Olympic Trials And His Daughter’s Cancer Diagnosis To Prepare For Sunday’s Chicago Marathon Puskedra’s 14-month-old daughter Penelope, who was diagnosed with neuroblastoma two days after the Trials, is now cancer-free. That’s allowed Puskedra to focus on cranking out 130-mile weeks (in singles!) in preparation for Chicago.

6 Chicago Cubs Employees Will Ease Playoff Jitters By Running Chicago
House Of Run’s Chicago Marathon Preview Podcast
12,500 New Marathoners Are Running Chicago This Year
Hangover Actor Rob Riggle Is Running Chicago – His 1st Marathon In 14 Years
Good Story On Guy Who Dropped Dead Last Year In Chicago But Was Revived By Two Fellow Runners On The Course
Dickson Chumba Says Claudio Berardelli Is Innocent Of All Charges
Florence Kiplagat Says Her Training Has Gone Well Ahead Of Her Title Defense At The Chicago Marathon Kiplagat hopes that running alongside fellow Kenyan Valentine Kipketer will help push her to a faster time than when she ran much of the race alone last year.

Olympics News

Toronto Is Next Weekend

“Gun Runners” Film About Kenyans Who Traded In Their AK-47s And Became Top International Marathoners Is Debuting In Toronto Next Week One of the stars of the film – Julius Arile Lamerinyang – is racing in Toronto. *Trailer
Running Has Given Former Kenyan Cattle Rustler Julius Arile Lamerinyang A New Lease On Life From his early teens, Arile carried a gun and stole cattle. After losing many of his friends to the violence, he traded his gun for running shoes and now is a 2:10 guy targeting the win at the Toronto Waterfront Marathon.
Tim Hutchings Will Commentate For The Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon Live Stream Live stream starts at 8:15AM.

More Depressing News

They’ve Done It Again – 5 More Moroccans Banned For Doping Steeplechaser Hanane Ouhaddou (9:22 PR) and 1,500m runner Abdelhadi Labali (1:46/3:35) got 8-year bans.
MA State Auditor: Money Mismanagement At Reggie Lewis Center May Be Criminal People were in an uproar when the long-time executive director was fired without explanation. “Audit staff have reviewed the documentation RCC provided and concluded that many of the concerns raised by the college go beyond simple mismanagement and involve alleged criminal activity.”
Boston Globe Editorial: Reggie Lewis Center Needs A New Direction

Marathon / Road News

First Trailer For Mark Wahlberg’s Boston Bombing Film, “Patriots Day” Released In case you’ve been living under a rock or in isolation in the woods, the trailer informs you that the movie is “based on true events.”
AIMS To Honor Haile Gebrselassie With Lifetime Achievement Award
MB:Was The Great Scottish Run Half Marathon Short? Satellite maps and GPS data question if the course change this year led to an inaccurate distance.
Brit Ben Smith Completes 401st Marathon In 401 Days Smith raised $316,000 for anti-bullying charities as he was bullied in school for being gay and tried to take his own life when he was 18.
*MB:Ben Smith: The Real Marathon Man UK
The Portland Marathon Will Go On After “Squabbles” Between Organizers And The City’s Fire Department Threatened The Race RD Les Smith pushed back at the fire department’s extra security requirements, saying they’ve used an effective medical plan for 27 years.
*MB:Portland Marathon: what a mess!
Four American Masters Records Go Down In One Race At The Syracuse Festival Of Races 60-year-old Brian Bilcher ran 16:39 to take 19 seconds off the 60-64 record.
Olympic Triathlon Champion Gwen Jorgensen Running Medtronic Twin Cities 10 Mile This Weekend

Week That Was

WTW Usain Bolt Races Celebrities, Callum Hawkins Impresses, So Does Iona, Arizona XC Team Chases A Knife-Wielding Thief, And Pick Your Parents Wisely Want to know what’s going on in the running world? This is your weekly read.

Upcoming Road Action

Sunday: Defending Champions Daniel Salel And Mary Wacera Lead Strong Field For BAA Half Marathon Salel will face Silas Kipruto (59:39) and Daniel Chebii (59:49) while the women’s race has Diane Nukuri (69:12).
Next Week:Q&A With “Mr. Amsterdam” Wilson Chebet Chebet will be running the Amsterdam Marathon for the 7th year in a row. He made his debut here, has the CR and has won it 3 times.
December 4: Stephanie Bruce Running CIM Marathon In Her First Marathon Since Taking Time Off For Two Pregnancies Bruce has a 2:29 PR and ran her last marathon in 2013.
*CIM Adds American Performance List Bonus To Its Prize Purse Getting in the top 10 for 2016 (2:15:52/2:35:00) will get you $5,000 and top 25 (2:20:41/2:41:18) $2,000.

Men’s Coverage

Men’s Race LRC No. 1 Northern Arizona (78 Points) Rolls to Big Win at 2016 Nuttycombe Wisconsin Invitational; Syracuse’s Justyn Knight (23:51) Unleashes Big Kick to Claim Individual Title #1 NAU lived up to it’s ranking with a great performance. In terms of the individual race, Justyn Knight blew everyone’s doors off.

Pre-Race Coverage

The Votes Are In LRC LetsRun.com NCAA XC Fan Poll #1: The LRC Nation Thinks NAU Is Way Overrated and That Syracuse Will RepeatThe votes are in for our first fan poll of 2016 and our results are very much different than the USTFCCCA poll, at least on the men’s side. The LRC nation thinks #1 NAU is overrated and that Syracuse is the team to beat. Also LRC likes Stanford way more than the coaches poll.

LRC Pre-Race Analysis Who’s #1 On The Men’s Side? How Good Is Stanford? And Three Other College XC Questions Ahead Of Wisconsin/Pre-Nats Weekend

Today’s Doping Headlines

Five Russian Race Walkers Handed Four-Year Doping Bans The five, including 2013 world championship silver medalist Mikhail Ryzhov, all were part of the Russian national training center in Saransk and tested positive for EPO.
AP:WADA Anticipating More State-Sponsored Doping WADA director general Olivier Niggli spoke on several topics, but we’re not sure what to make of the fact that he apparently “praised” MLB, NFL and NHL anti-doping programs.
USADA “Staying True” Q&A With Alysia Montano Montano talks about being wronged by dopers and what’s motivated her to continue competing clean.

Upcoming Road Action *Toronto Live Stream Sun. @8:15am

Sunday:Course Record (2:05:36) And Title Of “Mr. Amsterdamn” Up For Grabs At The Amsterdam Marathon Multi-time winners Wilson Chebet and Bernard Kipyego will face several more 2:05-2:06 men while the women’s race will be a battle between former London champ Priscah Jeptoo, Meselch Melkamu (2:21:01) and CR holder Meseret Hailu (2:21:09).
Sunday: Ishimael Chemtan And Shure Demise Will Try To Defend Their Titles At The Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon Along with the top Africans, the field has Canada’s Eric Gillis who is making a quick turnaround from his 10th place finish in Rio.
*Tim Hutchings Will Commentate For The Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon Live Stream Live stream starts at 8:15AM.
November 6:Past Champions Leonard Korir, Buze Diriba Face Formidable Fields at EQT Pittsburgh 10 Miler Solid fields including Mary Wacera, Laura Thweatt and Jordan Hasay for the women and Jordan Chipangama and Jefferey Eggleston for the men.
Nov. 13: Jackson Limo Set To Defend His Title At The Beirut Marathon Talking about living and training most of the week in a camp with Eliud Kipchoge and other greats, Limo says, “Sometimes I stay the weekend as well. My wife isn’t happy with that but she has to accept these sacrifices for me to be successful.”

An All-Time Great Hangs Them Up

Jessica Ennis-Hill Retires From Track And Field The 2012 Olympic and two-time world champion called it “one of the toughest decisions I’ve had to make” but said she wanted “to leave my sport on a high and have no regrets.”
Good Read: The Telegraph:“Jessica Ennis-Hill’s Easy Charm Disguised A Tungsten Spirit; She Was More Than A Marketeer’s Delight, This Was Someone Who Delivered”
Ennis-Hill’s Coach Toni Minichiello: “Many sports people hold on too long. … She’s walking out of the stadium by stepping off the podium.”
BBC Article With Twitter Reactions From Ennis-Hill’s Fellow GB Athletes
The Guardian Walks Through Some Of Ennis’ Career Highlights *Video
LRCJessica Ennis Archives

Dreams Become Reality

LRC Evan Jager’s Fairy Tale 2016 Continues As He Gets Married In SwedenJager married Sofia Hellberg-Jonsén on Saturday in Sweden. Read about the wedding and how they met.
*MB:Sorry Ladies (And Fellas): Evan Jager Is Married!

Columbus Day Action

LRC Emily Sisson (31:47) Dominates To Win First National Title At Tufts Health Plan 10K For Women/USATF 10K Champs With Molly Huddle absent as she’s getting ready for her marathon debut, Emily Sisson did a great job of imitating Huddle by crushing the field.
*RRW:Emily Sisson Runs Away With First National Title At Tufts 10-K

2016 BOA Chicago Marathon ResultsComplete Coverage*Tracking, Leaderboard, TV & Streaming

LRC Abel Kirui Digs Deep To Resurrect His Career With His First Win Since 2011; Florence Kiplagat Sends A Statement To Athletics KenyaKirui, “We were pushing and I was tired, but my mind kept saying ‘go Kirui, go Kirui, go Kirui, your dream is coming true today.’ And I was able to achieve it.”
*RRW Full Race Recap: With Contrasting Styles, Abel Kirui And Florence Kiplagat Prevail At Chicago Marathon

LRC The Top American At The 2016 Chicago Marathon Ended His Day On Crutches, But Dropping Out Wasn’t An Option For Diego EstradaEstrada wanted this one badly.

Lance Armstrong In The Headlines Again

Recommended Listen:Lance Armstrong Does Hard-Hitting Podcast Interview With Irish Journalist On NewsTalk.com The interviewer doesn’t pull any punches as he calls out Armstrong on several things which leads to some heated exchange and Armstrong asking if he’s “out of his mind.”
Armstrong Says The Tour de France “Is Too Grand To Not Have A Winner” Armstrong was asked if there could be a time when he considers himself a 7-time winner of the Tour.
Armstrong Admits He “Was A Complete D**Khead” To Journalist Paul Kimmage

Have They Finally Seen The Light?

IOC Calls For Major Reforms: They Want CAS – Not Sports Federations – To Hand Out Doping Penalties
IOC Brass Calls For “A New Anti-Doping Testing Authority Within The Framework Of WADA To Be Established” They want to withdraw “drug control duties from international sports federations.”

Other Action This Weekend

Japan’s University Ekiden Season Kicks Off This Weekend With Izumo Ekiden – How Does The Ivy League Team Stack Up? The Ivy Leaguers will have their hands full even with the likes of Geoghegan and Gregorek as the top Japanese teams have average PRs of sub-13:50/29:00.
Eindhoven Marathon Is At 5:00 AM ET Sunday
Lindsey Scherf Is Running US 10 Miler Sunday In Minnesota And US 10k On Monday In Boston
US 10 Miler Is This Weekend In Minnesota Defending champ Sam Chelanga is racing as is Aliphine Tuliamuk, who has won 3 straight US road titles.
Army 10 Miler Paul Chelimo Greeted President Obama In Swahili When They Met At The White House Chelimo is in DC this week and getting major ink in the Washington Post under the headline, “Army Ten-Miler: Olympian Paul Chelimo defends a title that has special meaning.”

Sprint / Field News

DyeStat Feature: High School Sprint Stars Noah And Josephus Lyles Transition To New Life As Pros The brothers and their mother talk about making the decision to turn down their scholarships at Florida to go pro with adidas.
NY Post:The Rise And Sudden Fall Of “Olympic Sex Symbol” Michelle Jenneke Jenneke has had a lot of sponsorship opportunities (including Coca-Cola and SI Swimsuit) after her viral warmup dance video, but didn’t make the final in Rio and lost her Athletics Australia funding.
Good Read:IAAF Profile On French Discus Thrower Melina Robert-Michon, Who In Rio Finally Won An Olympic Medal In Her Fifth Olympic Games After getting silver, the 37-year-old says she isn’t ready to retire yet.
“Did You Know?” Interview With St. Lucia’s Rio High Jump 6th Placer Levern Spencer Spencer isn’t too keen on animals and says, “I pretty much don’t like any living creature touching me.”

2020 & 2024 Games Issues

Is Tokyo 2020 Really Becoming Japan 2020? It is being proposed that many sports are moved outside the city to save money, with one already having moved 90 miles south.
Delaying The Inevitable?Rome 2024 Announcement Delayed Following Meeting Between Thomas Bach And Italian Olympic Committee Rome is expected to withdraw after the city mayor refused to support the bid. An official announcement will be made October 11th.
Officials Reject Referendum On Budapest 2024 Olympic Bid The journalist calling for the referendum will appeal to Hungary’s highest court.

Sprint News: Was Usain Bolt Not Marketed Enough?

Puma Head Of Marketing Adam Petrick Says They “Could Have Done Better” Marketing Usain Bolt “To be honest with you, [Bolt] does a lot of the heavy lifting himself. He gets so much attention no matter where he goes.”
Allyson Felix Becomes First Woman To Lead USC Football Team Out Of The Tunnel Felix was one of 10 Rio Olympians honored by USC during the game.
Aussie 100 Hurdler Michelle Jenneke Dropped From Athletics Australia Funding After Not Making It Out Of The Heats In Rio The Australian head coach questioned whether her many sponsorship distractions away from the track hurt her fitness.
Jamaican Columnist Is Happy To See Usain Bolt Choosing His Own Time For Retirement Rather Than Being Pressured To Pack It In On the contrary, most are begging Bolt to continue on for another 4 years, but this columnist calls London 2017 a “perfect farewell.”

Sprints And Jumps

Good Read:Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake Talks About The Highs And Lows Of His Breakthrough Season Which Saw Him Become The Third Brit Under 20-Seconds For 200m There were the thrills of going sub-20 and competing at Rio and also the heartbreak of getting hurt in the NCAA semis and DNSing the final.
IAAF First Impressions Q&A With Two-Time World Long Jump Silver Medalist Ignisious Gaisah Gaisah’s first track event was actually a 5K … it didn’t go so well. 4-laps in he DNF’d and moved to the jumps.
BBC Doing Documentary On Former GB Olympic 4×400 Silver Medalist Jamie Baulch Who Is Searching For His Biological Father Baulch was adopted when he was 6-months old. he later found his biological mother, but never met his Jamaican father who contributed to his sprinting genes.
“Did You Know” Q&A With Israeli World TJ Silver Medalist Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko For some reason she and her coach feel the best way to do squats in the weight room is with her 198-pound husband on her shoulders.
Teen Sprint Sensation Candace Hill Sits Down For In-Depth Interview With Ato Boldon(includes video) Hill talks about how she’s been working on her sprinting form ever since elementary school field days and what it’s been like competing as a pro at only 17.
Athletics Weekly Q&A With British 400H Champion Seb Rodger Rodger qualified for Rio by getting the standard by just .11 of a second on the last possible day.

Week That Was

LRC Shawn Barber Gets Off, Olympic Triathlete Champ Gwen Jorgensen Can Really Run, Big Payday For American Women On The Roads, Paul Chelimo Gets Burned, And Japanese Justice An interesting week on the roads, in the hotel bedroom, and the kitchen.

Olympic News

Tokyo 2020 Medals May Be Made From Recycled Metal The gold needed for the 1,500 gold medal could be taken from around 320,000 old mobile phones.
Italian Prime Minister Dismisses Rome Mayor’s Suggestion That The Money Which Would Have Been Spent On The Olympic Bid Should Be Allocated To The City Anyway The prime minister actually reacted with sarcasm, laughing off the suggestion.
Paris 2024 Private Funding Reaches $29 Million

Recent General Doping Updates

Dick Pound Claims Anti-Doping Recommendations Made By Olympic Summit Were “Long On Generality And Short On Specifics” Pound was critical of the way professional sports are run saying, “This business about sport being able to take all the money and absolve itself of all responsibility is not good chemistry as far as I am concerned.”
The Institute Of National Anti-Doping Organizations Calls Out “Troubling Omissions” From Olympic Doping Summit iNADO the IOC for yet again failing to acknowledge state sponsored doping in Russia and for referring to Richard McLaren‘s report as “allegations” rather than facts.
NY Times:I.O.C. Expands WADA’s Authority To Lead Anti-Doping Efforts The Olympic Summit feels WADA should have more control over national anti-doping agencies.
*USA Today:IOC Seeks To Give WADA More Independence In Anti-Doping Efforts
After Interviewing Him And Listening To Him Speak, Irish Journalist Writes “Redemption A Long Way Away For Lance Armstrong” “There’s no other template for the Armstrong recovery story other than the passage of a lot of time and he seems impatient.”
WADA Head Craig Reedie Welcomes Olympic Summit Call For WADA To Receive “Greater Authority And Regulatory Powers”
Doping News Just Keeps Getting Weirder:Prank Phone Caller Pretending To Be Jesse Owens Records IPC President Philip Craven Criticizing Thomas Bach Craven said, “What I think about it is, if Bach tries to pull a fast one, I am gonna slam him” and that “Germany can’t stand him.”

Chicago Analysis

LRC Analysis 7 Quick Takes: Two-Time World Champ Abel Kirui Wins After Great Duel With Dickson Chumba; Florence Kiplagat Dominates In 2:21:32 (updated link) Kirui got the win by 3 seconds over Chumba in 2:11:23. Stephen Sambu was 5th in his debut (2:13:35) while Diego Estrada was the top American in 8th (2:13:56). For the women, former World Champ Edna Kiplagat was runner-up about 2 minutes back and Serena Burla was the top US woman (7th – 2:30:40).

Recommended Read:Toni Reavis Analyzes Chicago And Why The No Rabbits And Prize Money Structure Encourages A Race For First Rather Than A Fast Time Reavis says the prevalence of rabbited races has developed a generation of “runners” rather than “racers” and ponders what is in the best long-term interest of the sport.
Man Breaks Unofficial World Record For Fastest “No-Drop” Marathon While JugglingMichal Kapral ran 2:55:25 (6:41 pace) in Chicago.

More US Road Action Results: Army 10USATF 10 Mile*TC Marathon

Augustus Maiyo Edges Robert Cheseret At Army Ten Miler Maiyo ran 48:20 to beat Cheseret by less than a second in a race chock full of Olympians as Shadrack Kipchirchir, Hillary Bor and Leonard Korir went 3-5. Olympic silver medalist Paul Chelimo dropped out with hamstring issues. Stephanie Reich won the women’s race (56:29). *Results
RRW:Daniel Salel (63:13) And Mary Wacera (70:19) Come Through As The Pre-Race Favorites To Win Rain-Soaked BAA Half Marathon Both had some interesting post-race quotes as Salel said he loves Boston so much he should look for an apartment and Wacera spoke about latching onto a sub-elite male runner to help her with the pace.
31-Year-Old Record Goes Down At Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon As Dominic Ondoro Wins In 2:08:51 Ondoro broke the record by more than a minute as his fellow Kenyan Jane Kibii won the women’s race in 2:32:18.
Sam Chelanga And Jordan Hasay Win USATF 10 Mile Championships Chelanga ran 47:25 to beat Noah Droddy by 3 seconds as Hasay won convincingly in 52:49 over Aliphine Tuliamuk and Olympic triathlete champion Gwen Jorgensen. *Discuss
MB:Triathlete Patrick Lange runs 2:39 marathon in the heat of Kona at the world championships

If You Read One Running Article All Month – It Needs To Be This One

Must Read Washington Post Expose Of USATF Head Max Siegel – USA Track And Field CEO Has Alarmed Some Insiders With His Spending And Style The article is full of shocking allegations – lavish travel, possible sales tax fraud, a threat to **** people up, and a whole lot more.
*MB: Breaking: Max Siegel Expose in The Washington Post – It’s going to be tough for him to survive this!!

Previous Shocking News

March 17-20, 20

2015 World Champ In Pole Vault, Shawn Barber, Tested Positive For Cocaine At Olympic Trials But Wasn’t Banned As He Got It After Kissing A Woman In A “Craigslist Casual Encounter” Both the woman and her now ex-boyfriend, who watched some of the encounter, testified at his hearing.

Collegiate News

US 4 X 100 Gold Medalist Morolake Akinosun Says She’s Succeeded In College By Considering Herself An Athlete-Student, Not Student-Athlete “I always put track and field first, and then comes school … You can’t be on the track team unless you’re eligible.”
A Look At All Of The Coming And Going Within The University Of Oregon Track & Field Program Tons of transfers in and out for the Ducks.

HS News

2015 FL Champ, 19-Year-Old Weini Kelati, Is Ineligible For HS Comp. This Year But Is Going To NCAA Next Year She’s visiting New Mexico, Oregon, Alabama and Boise State.
Manhattan Invite Is At Van Cortlandt Saturday – Is Cheserek’s CR In Jeopardy?

Doping News

The Sub-2 Hour Marathon

A Great Read:The Guardian:“The 2-Hour Marathon: Who Is It For?” Journalist Michael Crawley has spent more than a year in Ethiopia as an anthropologist and has some major criticisms of the Sub2Hr Project, questioning their motivation and methods.
Sub2Hr Project Defends Themselves And Responds To Crawley’s Criticisms They counter with “Why did man go to the moon” or “try to run under 4 minutes for the mile?”
MB:Ethios: “Well, yeah, with drugs you can run like a car.”
LRC Archives:The Myth Of The Sub-2-Hour Marathon