October 16, 2016 Homepage Archive

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Quote Of The Day

“(Jessica Ennis-Hill) is better than Daley Thompson, he never gave birth and came back and won, he trained and trained. To balance her home life and do that makes her the best British athlete ever.”

– Toni Minichiello, coach of Jessica Ennis-Hill, talking about why he thinks Ennis-Hill is the greatest athlete in British history. We found the quote to be fascinating and are wondering if the quote is both sexist against men and women at the very same time.

MB:Sexism x 2? Jessica Ennis Hill’s coach says she’s the GOAT because she gave birth to a baby and D. Thompson didn’t

Sunday Marathons *Video Highlights of Amsterdam

Amsterdam: Daniel Wanjiru pulls off upset and wins Amsterdam in new CR of 2:05:19 as three Kenyans break 2:06
*Meselech Melkamu wins women’s race in 2:23:21 It was her second marathon win this year.
*MB: Fernando Cabada 2:14:51 in Amsterdam
Toronto: Philemon Rono shrugs off fact that pre-race barricade crashed down and cut his face, wins in 2:08:30 Eliud Kipchoge’s training partner was bloodied pre-race. Shure Demise won the women’s race in 2:25:19.
MB: Eric Gillis comes up short in Canadian record attempt – 4th in 2:13:42

Title IX Taken To Its Extreme?

Pole Dancing At The Olympics? Pole Dancing Seeks IOC Recognition As Official Sport *Discuss

Marathon News Of Note

Doping News

Five Russian Racewalkers Handed Four-Year Doping Bans The five, including 2013 World Championships 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.

Upcoming Road Action

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!

News From Europe

Two British athletes not named Mo Farah habe been quizzed by investigators in Jama Aden doping probe The raid of Aden was done in June. Will we hear anything before the end of 2016?
Good Read Ex Cycling World Champ David Millar Writes Great NY Times Column: How To Get Away With Doping
European Athletics – Farah & Beitia Are European Athletes Of The Year, Thiam & Hess Rising StarsMax Hess and Nafissatou Thiam were honored with the Rising Star awards.
Jessica Ennis-Hill’s Coach Says She’s A Better Athlete Than Double Olympic Champ Daley Thompson As She Gave Birth And He Didn’t
*MB: Sexism x 2? Jessica Ennis Hill’s coach says she’s the GOAT because she gave birth to a baby and D. Thompson didn’t
EPO Expert Says Irish Sprinter’s Initial Ban Was A Mis-Justice “The only labs that have experience with this EPO analysis are those working in the WADA laboratories and they are obviously protecting each other.”

And Kenya Alice Aprot Nawowuna Stays Hot – Wins XC Race In Kenya She’s been training and racing a lot since running 29:53 in Rio. The men’s race was won by Abraham Kiptum, who ran a 59:36 half marathon last month.

US News

More NCAA Coverage

Men’s Wisco 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.

Outside LRC Coverage

Pre-Race Coverage

The Votes Are In LRC LetsRun.com NCAA XC Fan Poll #1: The LRC Nation Thinks NAU Is WayOverrated And That Syracuse Will Repeat The 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

Usain Bolt News

News From Europe – Praise Continues To Pour In For The Now-Retired Jessica Ennis-Hill

Who Should Be European Female AOY – Ruth Beitia, Ekaterini Stefanidi Or Anita Wlodarczyk?

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. Four laps in, he DNFed and moved to the jumps.
BBC Doing Documentary On Former GB Olympic 4 X 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 Edwin Moses 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.”

US News Of Note

Great News Jamie Nieto Now Walking With A Walker He was paralyzed doing a backflip in practice in April.
Connie Price-Smith, Butch Reynolds, Buddy Edelen, Al Feuerbach, And Frank Zarnowski Are USATF Hall Of Fame Inductees For 2016
Interesting Read Meet Sam Lapray: The Real Estate Developer/RunGum Co-Founder And Assistant Coach To Nick Symmonds
Alysia Montano Does Q&A With USADA About Having To Compete Against Russian Dopers Montano talks about being wronged by dopers and what’s motivated her to continue competing clean.

Long-Distance News

After Comeback Victory In Chicago, Abel Kirui Wants To Make History At London 2017 By Becoming The First To Win Three World Marathon Titles Kirui has slipped from being the 6th fastest marathoner of all time to 33rd on the world all-time list, but has shown he is still a force in non-paced races.
Mo Farah Says He Wants To Take A Shot At The 10,000 World Record In His Last Year On The Track Farah blamed his focus on championships for not ever making a record attempt, saying, “I wouldn’t have won what I have done in terms of medals, had I gone for the record.”
*MB:Mo Farah 2 go for the World record in the 10k in 2017
2015 Berlin Marathon Champ Gladys Cherono Pulls Out Of NYC Marathon With Back Injury
Ultrarunner Pete Kostelnick On Pace To Break 36-Year-Old Trans-America Record Averaging more than 70 miles a day to run across the country in less than 46 days, 8 hours and 36 minutes.
Florence Kiplagat Makes Low-Key Return To Kenya After Chicago Marathon Victory There was no big airport celebration with the traditional milk “mursik,” but she still snapped a photo with David Rudisha.

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-Hill
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