Could We See A Garrett Heath – Mo Farah Rematch? Farah Wants To Run Great Edinburgh XC On January 7th Farah: “I placed second in this race last year and hope to go one better in 2017.”

Be Inspired

• Recommended Read: Overweight High Schooler Was Motivated To Start Running By Bullies Who Called Him “Pillsbury Doughboy”; Now He’s One Of The Fastest Runners In His School’s HIstory Running changed David Czerwonky‘s life as he went from being bullied and over weight, to 30-pounds lighter, a confident and decent high school runner and the school Homecoming King.
• Former Competitive Runner With Terminal Lung Disease Finishes Seattle Marathon Pulling His Own Oxygen Tank Evans Wilson walked the 26.2 in just under 11-hours to raise money for Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation.
• Age Is Just A Number: Sydney McLaughlin And Irene OBera Are USATF Youth And Masters Athletes Of The Year McLaughlin obviously made the Olympics as a 16-year-old while Obera won won W80 gold in the 100, 200, 80m hurdles, 200m hurdles, LJ, 4x100m, 4x400m, and the heptathlon at the World Masters Championships.

Usain Bolt Premiere Night In The Books

• Usain Bolt Confirms He Won’t Be Racing The 200m Next Year But he’s always said it was his favorite event?
• Bolt Talks About Struggling With Motivation Ahead Of Rio As Training “Just Wasn’t Fun Anymore” He says he’s now more “relaxed and happy” because he knows training isn’t “going to be so intense.”
• The Telegraph: “You Won’t Find Much Doping Or Corruption In Bolt’s New Film, But Does That Matter? Let Him Be An Inspiration” Ben Bloom writes that the documentary “Clearly fails to foster any semblance of objectivity, [but] was never going to be a warts-and-all expose of athletics’ seedy underbelly – it is a personal journey charting two years in the life of a hero.”
• Athletics Weekly Gives Good Review Of Bolt Documentary “[It] doesn’t fall into the trap of trotting out samey platitudes or regurgitating what everyone already knows about its subject.”
• Mo Farah, Arsenal And Chelsea Players Among Stars At Usain Bolt Documentary Premiere
• Bolt Named “CEO” Of Maison Mumm Champagne Company That would be “chief entertainment officer.”
• Bolt Says 2017 Is “Mostly For The Fans”

Distance Profiles / Interviews

• Good Read: Profile On NYC Marathon Champ Ghirmay Ghebresalassie Most pros plan their weddings for the off season, but Ghebreslassie kissed his wedding ring as he won in NYC as he had just got married a month earlier. Even crazier, he had only known his wife for a few months.
• Matt Centrowitz Feels Racing In The NCAA Prepared Him For Tactical Professional Races Talking about the Rio 1,500 final, Centro said, “I don’t think anyone in that race, especially from Africa, had ever been in a 3:50 1,500-meter race in their life.”
• Interesting Q&A With Olympic Steeplechase Champ Conseslus Kipruto Kipruto talks about his first sporting love being soccer, getting lapped in his first 10K, making his own toys as a kid and his childhood dog “saving” him from a kid who wanted to fight.

NCAA News

• Justyn Knight Says Not Making The Rio Olympics Motivated Him This XC Season “I told myself to remember the feeling of hurt and make sure not to feel like that again.”
• IAAF Profile: “The Best Is Yet To Come For Edward Cheserek” Cheserek shares he ran “14-something” when he started running in Kenya “without even training” and Coach Andy Powell says he’s “never worked with anyone as good as Cheserek,” including Matt Centrowitz.
• Good Read: NY Times Obituary For Legendary Texas Coach Stan Huntsman When Ohio University (where Huntsman got his master’s) cut their track program, he was so angry he mailed back his degree and had the school remove his plaque from the hall of fame.
  *USTFCCCA Tribute In his career, Huntsman produced 41 N.C.A.A. individual champions and 201 All-Americans.
  *MB: Former “UT” Track Coach Stan Huntsmann Has Died
• Register-Guard: Kate Murphy Headlines Oregon’s 2017 Recruting Class The Ducks are also getting Susan Ejore, a Kenyan junior college transfer who was NJCAA XC runner-up.

Craziness In Kenya

• Chaos Takes Place In Kenya As Olympic Association Meeting Is Stormed By Professional Athletes’ Association Holding Signs Calling Kip Keino A Criminal
• Kenyan Olympic Vice Chairman Accused Of Nike Theft Offers To Repay $10,500 That Was Put Into His Account With His Knowledge
• Kenyan Journalist Says There Is No Chance The Olympic Official Who Allegedly Stole $10,000+ Worth Of Nike Kit Will Go To Jail
  
• Man Who Allegedly Stole Nike Kit Is Also Being Investigated For Reports He Sexually Molested Minors That Were Part Of Swimming Federation
  
• Ekumbo Formally Chaged With Two Counts Of Theft

More News From Africa Wayde van Niekerk And Many South African Stars Likely Won’t Be At 2017 SA Champs – They’ll Be At World Relays Instead

Sports Politics: New USATF President Next Week

• Ken Goe On USATF Presidential Election: “Vin Lananna Is Aiming High And Thinking Big (Again)” Goe compares the contrasting campaign platforms of Lananna and Jackie Joyner-Kersee while Pole Vault Power’s sport activist Becca Gillespy Peter thinks Lananna is “more qualified to be president.”
• Q&A With Vin Lananna, Who Tells Masters Athletes Why He Should Be USATF President
• Lananna’s Campaign Page
• Joyner-Kersee’s Campaign Page
• USTFCCCA Endorces Vin Lananna For USATF President
• LA Mayor Eric Garcetti Says Donald Trump Expressed His Support For LA’s 2024 Olympic Bid During A Phone Call Wednesday Garcetti supported Hillary Clinton during the election and had slammed Trump as a “racist” and a “bigot.”
  *LA 2024 Bid Chief Executive Says “Donald Trump Loves The Olympic Games And Will Be A Big Supporter” And That He “Can Be A Flag Waver For The Olympic Movement”
• Hugh Robertson Elected To Replace Seb Coe As Chairman Of British Olympic Assocation Hugh was Sports Minister for the 2012 Olympics and has been serving as the BOA vice-chairman.

An Inside Look At What Going Pro Out Of HS Is Really Like

LRC New $50,000 BMW Or A $70,000 Lexus? What It’s Like To Go Pro In Track & Field As A Teenager In recent years, Ajee Wilson, Mary Cain, Alexa Efraimson, Drew Hunter, Kaylin Whitney, Candace Hill, Vashti Cunningham and the Lyles Brothers have all gone pro early. We take a look at that it entails.