Mary Cain Leaves NOP

LRC Mary Cain Leaves Nike Oregon Project – John Henwood (Not Alberto Salazar) In Charge Of Her Training She’s still only 20 and now a full-time student at Fordham.
Discuss: Mary Cain leaves Oregon Project

Weekend Road Action

• Tirunesh Dibaba Gets Dominant Victory In Her 10-Mile Debut At The Great South Run Dibaba ran 51:49 to beat World 5,000 silver medalist Senbere Teferi by more than a minute. Brit Chris Thompson won the men’s race over Andy Vernon.
  *Pre-Race Article On GB’s Jess Andrews, Who Had A Huge Breakthrough Year To Make The UK’s Olympic 10,000 Team Andrews ended up struggling with a calf issue and finished 9th.
  *Runners Compete Against GB’s Olympic Racewalker At Great South Run 5K 40 runners beat Rio 6th placer Tom Bosworth as he walked 20:10.
• World Half Champion Peres Jepchirchir (67:09) And Stephen Kibet (59:27) Win Valencia Half Marathon The men’s race saw five under the hour mark while the women’s race had an attack on Florence Kiplagat‘s 65:09 WR as Viola Jepchumba went through 5K 11 seconds ahead of pace and Jepchirchir only 5 seconds back. But both faded in the warm conditions.
• Priscah Jepleting Cherono (2:10:22) And Julius Chepkwony Rotich (2:27:41) Dominate At The Venice Marathon

GB News

• Great Read And Coaching Advice: Toni Minichiello Talks About How He Helped Bring Jessica Ennis-Hill From Talented Teen To World Beater Minichiello says a key is keeping kids engaged and having fun. “Too many kids take it far too seriously too young … Have fun and finish the thing with a smile, for goodness sake.”
• GB Olympians Got A Royal Reception In London Following Manchester Parade Like US Olympians meet the president at the White House, GB Olympians meet the Queen at Buckingham Palace.
• More Than 15,000 Volunteers Applications Received For London 2017

Politics / Hosting News: Too Early To Be Talking About The 2028 Games?

• Recommended Read: Opinion Piece: “WADA & The IOC Will Save Or Destroy One Another” Anti-corruption leader Akaash Maharaj rips the IOC for not supporting WADA and fears that the IOC are plotting to “undermine and supplant it.”
• Ken Goe: “A Portland Bid For The 2028 Summer Olympics Comes Straight From Fantasy Land” Goe rightly laughs at the idea of a Portland Games which is being pushed for by a local firm and the state of Oregon.
• Durban, South Africa Could Be Stripped Of Hosting The 2022 Commonwealth Games Durban were awarded the Games over a year ago, but haven’t signed the contract, established an organizing committee or make any payments to the Commonwealth Games Federation.
• Seb Coe Backs Brisbane, Australia Bidding For The 2028 Olympic Games
• WADA President Craig Reedie Calls On Japanese Prime Minister To Step-Up Contribution Towards Anti-Doping Reedie defended what WADA has done on their budget saying “WADA has punched well above its weight.”

Admin / Doping News

• IPC Head Philip Craven Writes Apology Letter To IOC President Thomas Bach After Prank Phone Call Craven harshly criticized Bach on a recorded prank phone call where he thought he was actually speaking to Edwin Moses.
• Brazil, Greece, Indonesia, Azerbaijan And Guatemala Anti-Doping Agencies Facing WADA Suspension They are currently non-compliant and have until November 10th to resolve their problems.
• Italian Olympic Committee President Says $14.3 Million Was Spent (AKA Wasted) On Rome’s Aborted 2024 Bid
• WADA To Appeal After Paris High Court Says Former Lamine Diack Adviser Habib Cissé Should Receive $8,700 In Damages Richard McLaren‘s report found that Cissé was involved in the Russian doping cover-ups, but the High Court of Paris claimed WADA was guilting of “infringement of the presumption of innocence.”
• Irish IOC Member Patrick Hickey Still Stuck In Brazil Awaiting Resolution Of Ticket Scandal Charges There are concerns that 71-year-old Hickey’s health is deteriorating and president of the European Olympic Committee is pushing to have him returned home.
• Thomas Bach Proposes Holding Some 2020 Olympic Events In Japan Region Hit By Earthquake/Tsunami/Nuclear Disaster In 2011 The goal would be to contribute to the regeneration of the area.

Updates On Tyson Gay Daughter Story

• Friends Of Tyson Gay’s Daughter Reveal She Was Very Close With One Of The Men Arrested In Her Death After her death he tweeted, “I love you Trinity,” and other tweets suggest they might have planned on getting married to each other.
• Fourth Man Charged In Death Of Tyson Gay’s Daughter The three men previously arrested have pleaded not guilty and have an October 25th court date.

On The Roads

• Paris Marathon Champion Cyprian Kotut Added To Field For Next Sunday’s Frankfurt Marathon He will face Tadese Tola and Mark Korir. World half champ Peres Jepchirchir withdrew from the women’s race citing lack of fitness.
• Ed Whitlock Says That Just After The Halfway Point In His Record Breaking Marathon He Thought It “Was Going To Be An Absolute Disaster” Whitlock ran in 15-year-old running shoes to shatter the 85-89 age group record with 3:56:33.
  *MB: ED WHITLOCK 3:56:33 WORLD RECORD MARATHON M85-89. PLEASE STOP IT.
• 60-Year-Old Brian Pilcher Broke Four American Masters Records At The Chicago Marathon Pilcher took the half, 25K, 30K and marathon records. One of the records to go down actually belonged to LRC’s Employee 1.1‘s late uncle, Patrick Devine.
• Portland Marathoners Upset By Race Organizer’s Response To Course Error A missed turn thwarted many potential Boston qualifying attempts, but the “event” director (who emphasizes that he considers it an “event” and not a “race”) initially downplayed the mistake.
• MB: There are 6 Abbott World Marathon Majors – Name the 6 next best marathons that maybe should be majors
• MB: Kebenei, Lalang & Jordan join American Distance Project

5 Of The 6 US Olympians Will Be In NY For The Marathon After All

Rio 2016 U.S. Olympic Marathon Team Invited To Serve As Grand Marshals For TCS New York City Marathon On Sunday, November 6 Galen Rupp won’t be attending due to family commitments.

Who Was The Best In 2016?

IAAF Announces Nominees For 2016 World Athlete Of The Year Ashton Eaton, Keni Harrison and Christian Taylor were the only Americans to make the cut.

• Breakdown Of Men’s Nominees Usain Bolt completing the triple-triple and Wayde van Niekerk‘s WR gold medal run will be hard to beat.
• In Their Own Words: How Did The Men’s AOY Nominees Describe Their Seasons? Van Niekerk: “I’d love to give you the long testimony, but I don’t remember a thing. I don’t even think I was in that race; that’s how unreal it was.”
• Women’s “In Their Own Words” List HJer Ruth Beitia: “I’m aware that I’m 37 years old. … Even at my age, I have the same enthusiasm and happiness.”

Olympic News

• Thomas Bach Confident About “Significant Reduction” In Tokyo 2020 Costs After Meeting With Tokyo Governor They apparently figured out a way to save almost $2 billion, but when predictions were saying costs could reach $30 billion, that still doesn’t sound too great.
• Thomas Bach Accuses Rome City Council Of “Politically Motivated” Decision To Oppose 2024 Olympic Bid

The Biggest XC Weekend Of The Regular Season Is In The Books *Live Wisco And Pre-Nats Results *All Results

LRC No. 4 Oregon Men & No. 2 Colorado Women Deliver As Edward Cheserek (23:34) And Erin Finn (19:44) Dominate At 2016 Pre-Nats The Oregon men scored 85 to runner-up No. 5 Arkansas’ 110, while the Colorado women (93) easily held off No. 9 Oregon, 93-154. Cheserek won by 21.4 seconds while Finn won by 23.7.

XC Message Board 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: Grant Fisher beat Sean Mcgorty
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 Crown Boise 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