Russia Is Exposed As A TOTAL Fraud

McLaren II Is Released – More than 1,000 Russian athletes benefited from the biggest doping scandal in history This morning Richard McLaren released his 2nd report on Russian doping and it’s as bad as one could possibly imagine. He provides 1,166 pieces of evidence exposing the elaborate state-sponsored doping scheme (which you can search yourself) that reached its peak at 2014 Sochi. Seemingly every Russian athlete in Sochi was involved as 100% of the of the 100 samples they’ve looked at were tampered with.
*Full McLaren Report – Part II (PDF)
*Full McLaren Press Conference
*WADA Statement *IAAF statement
*Search for yourself The Evidentiary Disclosure Package (EDP) Website You can search through more than 1,000 documents yourself
*MB: The McLaren Report Part 2 Will Come Out On Friday (Dec 9) – What To Expect?

• NY Times: Russian doping program laid bare by mountain of evidence
• NY Times: Here are the key findings
  
• Washington Post: World Anti-Doping Agency report details scope of massive Russian scheme *BBC
• IOC to reanalyse all 254 stored Russian urine samples from Sochi
• McLaren report: Salt, coffee used to change failed Russian samples

The World Reacts To The McLaren Report

• Trump To The Russians Rescue? Russian MP hopes ‘our beloved Mr. Trump’ will end doping investigation Russian Ministry Issues Denial: ““The sport ministry with all conviction can declare the absence of government programmes to support doping in sport. The sport ministry is continuing the battle with doping from a position of zero tolerance.”
• Russian luge president calls report “nothing but rubbish” “The McLaren Report published today is not confirmed by anything again. Where are the facts? You can say this is nothing but rubbish.” We suggest she learn how to use a computer so she can search the 1,166 pieces of evidence herself. Correction: We incorrectly initially attributed to the quote to Isinbayeva.
• Telegraph: Vitaly Mutko is Russia’s teflon sports minister, but even he may struggle to survive the latest doping scandal
• Yuliya Stepanova – Russian Whistleblower – Gives Rare Interview To BBC: “I don’t consider myself a traitor” We agree. She’s a hero.
• Dmitri Shlyakhtin is re-elected as President of the All-Russian Athletics Federation (ARAF) Isinbayeva was the favorite to get the job until she was named to head RUSADA and had to withdraw her candidacy.

Foot Locker CC Is Saturday *Live stream starts @ 11 am ET

LRC Boys’ Preview: Sam Worley, Noah Affolder & Finn Gessner Headline A Wide-Open Race The nation’s top runner (Casey Clinger) may have been at NXN, but Foot Locker is still loaded. Four of the top six boys from NXN will be there, plus undefeated FL NE champ Noah Affolder (Carlisle, PA) and Finn Gessner of Madison, WI (11th at ’15 FL finals), which makes for a deep, unpredictable race.

LRC Girls’ Preview: Sophomore Standout Claudia Lane Will Duel Senior Nevada Mareno For The Title Lane obliterated the field at FL West by 35 seconds but the Stanford-bound Mareno (4:43/10:00) is the top returner (3rd in ’15) and is undefeated on the season. Who will come out on top in San Diego?

USATF 2016

LRC Everything You Need To Know From The 2016 USATF Convention Wejo attended his first USATF convention that saw the coronation of Vin Lananna and reports everything you need to know.

Today’s Doping News

• What?!?! Yelena Isinbayeva Appointed As The Head Of RUSADA Well, she already has the “deny and blame foreign politics” attitude down. This appointment means she will withdraw from the election to become president of the Russian Athletics Federation (that vote is happening tomorrow).
• IOC Extends Doping Sanctions On Russia As Richard McLaren’s Second Report Set To Be Released Tomorrow Our reaction: What sanctions? The IOC didn’t ban Russian athletes from competing and aren’t enforcing the order not to hold major events in Russia. *2nd article
• Usain Bolt Shocked By Jamaica’s “Ridiculous” Abstention From IAAF Reform Vote JAAA President Warren Blake actually defended the decision saying, “A lot of people have criticized us for not voting but I would say to the people go and look at the constitution and exactly what the changes were.”
• IAAF Extend Provisional Bans Of Nick Davies And Two Other Officials While Investigation Continues Davies, his wife, Jane Boulter-Davies and Pierre-Yves Garnier were banned this summer for allegations that they took money to delay naming Russian drug cheats.
• IOC Medical Director Predicts “Many More Positives” From London 2012 Retests 101 athletes have been caught from the 2008/2012 re-tests and the London 2012 testing will continue up until 2020.

Kawauchi Corner

• Yuki Kawauchi’s Mother Says The Fukuoka Marathon Was The First Time She’d Seen Her Son “Cry Tears That Weren’t Unhappy” If you missed it, Kawauchi overcame a bad calf injury to finish 3rd as the top Japanese man in 2:09:11.
• New JAAF Leader Praises Kawauchi’s Aggressiveness And Says “It’d Be Oke If He’s Chosen [For The London 2017 Team]”
• No Rest For The Weary: Yuki Kawauchi Will Race Again On December 18th At The Hofu Yomiuri Marathon

Week That Was

LRC Do We Have A New High School XC Legend? – Plus We Love The Fukuoka Marathon, A Trail Running Update And Yes, Ryan Hall Returns To Racing Your weekly read to get up to date on the running world.

Doping Updates

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  90 US Track Athletes Sign Petition Calling On WADA To Adopt Reforms The reforms call for an end to the conflicts of interest that exist such as WADA president Craig Reedie, who is also an IOC member. We guess we were ahead of the game when we called for Reedie’s resignation this summer.
  *Sign The Petition Asking For Reedie’s Resignation

• Good Read: ESPN: “U.S. athletes push for action on doping issues.” New USATF Athlete Advisory Committee chair Jeff Porter said he was “hopeful and optimistic” that athletes wouldn’t need to boycott events, but that they “are prepared to.”
• Whistleblower Yuliya Stepanova To Receive Anti-Doping Award In Germany On Monday
• US Athletes Considering Boycotting The Bobsled And Skeleton World Championships In Sochi, Russia Next Year They want the event moved outside of Russia with one skeleton racer saying, “There’s politics and money and sponsors involved, but this is an opportunity to come out in favor of clean sport. And they’ve missed that opportunity.” *2nd Article
• Head Of IOC Investigation Into Russian Doping Guy Canivet Steps Down And Resigns As Vice Chairman Of The IOC Ethics Commission An IOC spokesperson said he stepped down for “strong personal reasons.”

2016 NXN *Live Webcast *Results

MB: Official 2016 NXN Discussion Thread

LRC Total Domination: Brie Oakley And Fayetteville-Manlius Dominate 2016 Nike Cross Nationals (NXN) Brie Oakley may be America’s newest female distance star.
*MB: OAKLEY Got Her Gun!!

LRC Casey Clinger Repeats As Nike Cross National Champion But His American Fork Team Is Upset By Bozeman In Team Battle For the first time ever, a boy repeated as NXN champ. Clinger is the individual champ once again but his dream of a perfect day that included both individual and team titles was denied.

RRW Brie Oakley, Casey Clinger Run Away With Individual Titles At NXN Championships

2016 NXN By The Numbers What 8 states have never sent a team? What team has been the most?

NXN Talk On The Message Board

• Casey MF Clinger
• OAKLEY Got Her Gun!! 
  
• NXN – A case for why individuals should not be at a TEAM race 
• Bozeman High WINNERS OF NXN 
• What F-M coach Bill Aris knows that no one else knows…

New IAAF Reforms / Sponsorship: Goodbye Adidas, Hello Asics

• 95% Vote In Favor Of New IAAF Reforms
• IAAF Announce New Partnership With Asics
• Adidas Ends IAAF Sponsorship Three Years Early Sources say the deal was worth $8 million a year for the IAAF.
• BBC: Seb Coe’s Reforms To Tackle Corruption And Doping Changes include a new integrity unit and term three 4-year term limits for all council members.
  *InsideTheGames Article
• MB: IAAF/Coe reforms pass 182-10, dissenters and abstainers outed on big screen Speaking on why the vote was public rather than secret, Coe said, “Because we have moved into the world of transparency.”
• Usain Bolt Praises Seb Coe’s Reform Efforts “He is making some bold moves.”
• Seb Coe: “These reforms are fundamentally about standing tall for the clean athletes. The clean athletes have to know we are in their corner.” Apparently 43 leads were received in the first 48 hours the new online doping portal was open.
• European Athletics President Svein Arne Hansen Before The IAAF Vote: “The time for change is now … It’s now or never.”