December 10, 2016 Homepage Archive

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Traitor? We Say Hero

“I don’t consider myself a traitor, I didn’t reveal any scientific secrets.”

“I simply revealed the shameful truth, which our country doesn’t want to confront, and the only reason I told the truth about it all, was to try and put a stop to it.”

– Yuliya Stepanova talking to the BBC.

Foot Locker CC And USATF Club Nats Club Nats Results FL Results FL Video Replay Boys Preview *Girls Preview

MB: Official 2016 Foot Locker Live Discussion Thread
*MB: Footlocker and NXN should merge
*MB: Official 2016 USATF Club Nat Live Discussion Thread

Foot Locker: Sophomore Claudia Lane and Reed Brown Win Two Very Exciting Races (Results) Lane’s win was exciting but not a surprise, but there was a big upset on the boys side as 4:04 miler Reed Brown, who was only 5th in the TX state meet, got the win.

Club Nats:Sam Chelanga and Colleen Quigley Win (Results)

Lots Of Action This Weekend In Honolulu, Led By Lilesa

Months After Olympic Protest, Feyisa Lilesa To Race Honolulu Marathon With Heavy Heart He hasn’t seen his wife or kids – other than that life in the US is great.
After Running A Half Marathon Last Weekend, Nick Arciniaga Is Ready For Hawaii Marathon This Weekend As He Attempts The Grueling “Hawaii Double” Nick Arciniaga is aiming to complete one of the toughest doubles in distance running at Sunday’s Honolulu Marathon. A week after finishing second at the arduous XTERRA Trail Running World Championship Half-Marathon in Kualoa Ranch, the 33-year-old has traveled across Oahu ready for the 26.2-mile race from Ala Moana to Kapiolani Park.
Inaugural Kalakaua Merrie Mile To Feature Intriguing Gender Battle For the first time in 19 years, an elite mile will be contested here in Waikiki. Erin Finn is in it.
Costume Runners Add Fun And Flare To Honolulu Marathon

European XC Champs Are Sunday

SPAR Euro Cross To Be Televised In 11 Countries You can watch it free online starting at 4am ET on Sunday. The women’s race is at 6:30am ET and men’s at 7:10am ET. *Timetable Italy is six hours ahead of US ET.
Ken Nakamura: European XC Champs Statistical Guide
Steph Twell Is Looking Forward To Euro Cross After Successful Summer

Recommended Read:The Guardian: “From Crystal Meth To Olympic Glory: The Recovery And Rise Of Luvo Manyonga” Three years ago, South Africa’s Manyonga was a crystal meth addict; now he’s an Olympic long jump silver medalist.

Euro XC Champs Are Sunday In Chia, Italy

Rio 5,000 6th Placer Andrew Butchart Named Captain For GB Euro XC Team Butchart was quoted talking about “just how important the XC season is,” but will he and the Brits keep that attitude when World XC rolls around? We hope so.
Ireland’s Fionnuala McCormack Will Look To Regain Her Euro XC Title And Gain A Place In The Record Books By Becoming The First 3-Time Winner This race will also put her tied with Sonia O’Sullivan as representing Ireland internationally the most times (34).
Gemma Steel Heads British Women’s Hopes
European Athletics Women’s U20 Preview
*Men’s U23 Preview
Schedule*Final Entries*Media Guide
More Coverage At European-Athletics.org

News From Kenya

Olympic Champions Eliud Kipchoge And Vivian Cheruiyot Named Kenyan Athletes Of The Year Two-time World marathon champ Abel Kirui won the “Comeback of the Year” award after he won his first marathon since 2011 at the Chicago Marathon. *Discuss
Olympic Champ Vivian Cheruiyot Says She Will Not Defend Her World 10,000 Title In London Next Year As She Turns Her Focus To The Roads She’ll run her second half-marathon in February and a full marathon debut sometime later on.
After Almost 2 Years Of Injury, Kenya’s Former World Steeple Champ Milcah Chemos Announces She Will Switch To The 5K/10K Chemos had to have back surgery, which is why she didn’t want to go back to the steeple barriers.

Assorted Distance News

World Indoor 1,500m Champ Sifan Hassan To Be Coached By Alberto Salazar Her agent, Jos Hermens, said, “They are very enthusiastic, especially because they see how much Sifan can improve; I think it is the most professional training group in the world.”
*MB:Ethiopian runner Sifan Hassan joins the shady coach Alberto Salazar
Ryan Hall Talks About His 18th Place Finish At The XTERRA Trail World Championships And More On His Post-Retirement Transformation Hall says he’d “have a better chance at winning American Ninja Warrior than” the XTERRA race right now.
*MB:Ryan Hall looks huge at xterra
MB:Andy Bayer leaving BTC. Moving back to IN He’ll be reuniting with his college coach, IU’s Ron Helmer.
Apparently Indoor Season Has Started:Event-By-Event Top 10 Collegiate Marks From The Weekend As you would expect, there wasn’t a ton of distance action, but that didn’t stop NCAA XC champ Karissa Schweizer setting a big 20-second PR with 15:37 at the BU Season Opener.
*NCAA Athletes Of The Week Are Karissa Schweizer And Minnesota’s Multi-Eventer Luca Wieland Wieland, the former NCAA champ, set a heptathlon PR with 6,089 points.
Interesting:What Is The Fastest Mile In History For Each Month? You know that Hicham El Guerrouj has the WR at 3:43.13 (in July), but you probably didn’t realize Alan Webb has the fastest mile ever run in April (3:51.71).
Good Read:Lionel Sanders Sets World Ironman Record With A 2:42:3 Marathon Split Sanders started dying in the marathon, but picked up the pace almost 40 seconds per mile in the last 5K to crush the overall Ironman record.
Shalane Flanagan’s 30:52 She Ran To Win The BAA 10K Ratified As The American Record

North American News

Awesome ReadMeet Gary Allen – The Runner Who Started A Free Marathon In December (Today) In A Struggling Maine Town The race is today and sounds amazing.
*MB: Amazing idea: Who’s going? Struggling mill town is holding a free half-marathon in Maine on Saturday
The 7 American Mid-D And Distance Medalists Reveal The Coolest Things That Have Happened To Them Since They Won Their Medals From meeting Obama to having a preacher preach about them to getting a call from Adam Sandler.
Rachele Schulist Explains Why She Went Public With Her Weight Gain
*MB: Schulist Instagram & Reaction
American Andrew Bumbalough Is Moving Up To The Marathon The 3:37/13:12/27:56 man will make his debut in the Spring.
It’s Official: 1:41 Man Nijel Amos Will Train In The US Under Mark Rowland This Year
Interesting Training News From Canada Olympic Hurdler Phylicia George Is Trying Her Hand At Bobsledding “I’m going to be totally honest … I actually hated it my first run down … my neck was killing me after.”
Peter Eriksson Fired As Head Coach Of Athletics Canada Just Months After The Track And Field Team Had One Of Its Most Successful Olympics In Decades They want a more inclusive and supportive coach but does that = success?
Former Essex County College track coach admits to stealing $150,000 from 2012 through 2015
Toni Reavis: Veterinarians Today Act Like Doctors Used To

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 On Friday 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?

The World Reacts To The McLaren Report

IOC says report reveals “a fundamental attack on the integrity of the Olympic Games and on sport in general”. They also pledge to re-test all Russian drug samples from the 2012 and 2014 Games.
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.

Tiernan = National Champ X 2 *Results

Patrick Tiernan Becomes Australian National 10,000 Champion, Debuting In 27:59 At The Zatopek 10,000 In the women’s race, New Zealand’s Camille Buscomb got a shock win as Aussie favorite Eloise Wellings struggled in 4th.
*MB:TIERNAN- 27:59

Event News: Big Change To 2017 Diamond League Format

IAAF Make Major Changes To 2017 Diamond League Adopting A Championship-Style Model With The Overall Winner Decided In The Last Event Rather Than Based On Season Points Athletes will earn points throughout the season to qualify for the final event where the overall DL title and a $50,000 first place prize will be on the line.
*Social Media Reactions To Diamond League Changes It’s on the DL website so of course there won’t be any negative posts.
Aarhus, Denmark Will Host The 2019 IAAF World Cross-Country Championships They won over the only other city to bid, Hammamet, Tunisia.
Hosting Updates From London 2017 Local Organizing Committee

More British News: UK Athletics Facing Sex Assault Scandal

UKA Athletics Facing Scandal And Potential Lawsuit As They’re Accused Of Covering-Up Sexual Abuse Against A 16-Year-Old By One Of Its Past Coaches Former Olympic coach Darrell Bunn (who at one time coached Jessicca Ennis-Hill and Denise Lewis) was convicted of “indecent assault and child abduction” in 2014. But it has emerged that he had originally been reported to UKA by another athlete back in 2003, yet continued to coach.
UK Former 4 X 1,500 World Record Holder Aubrey Harris Accused Of Sexual Abuse Of A Minor Who Years Later Has Claimed Harris “Raped Me Over 50 Times”Roy Messenger claims he suffered 3 years of abuse by Harris between the ages of 9 and 12. Harris died in the 1980s, so when Messenger first went to the police years later, they told him nothing could be done.
Government Bails Out UK Sport With $38 Million Cash Injection The money is to make up for the loss in income caused by a slump in people playing the National Lottery.
Mo Farah Beats Usain Bolt In Athletics Weekly “Readers Choice Awards”Elaine Thompson was voted female AOY while Farah and Jessica Ennis-Hill were crowned the top Brits.

UK Distance News

Eilish McColgan Granted National Lottery Funding After Appeal British Athletics performance director Neil Black that the Olympic 5,000m finalist presented a “very strong case for her inclusion.”
Over The Weekend, Eilish McColgan Set A 22-Second PR To Win The Percy Pud 10K In 32:30
Telegraph Writer Reviews New Mo Farah Documentary: “No Easy Mile Paints Pleasant Picture But Avoids Any Questions”
*Movie Trailer
Laura Muir Going After British 1,000m Record At The Birmingham Indoor Grand Prix In FebruaryKelly Holmes has the indoor record (2:32.96) and the overall record (2:32.55) and Muir even mentioned the possibility of the WR (2:30.94 by Maria Mutola).
Olympic Marathon 9th Placer Callum Hawkins First Named To UK 2017 World Team
Mo Farah To Compete At Birmingham Indoor GP Farah broke the two-mile world record at this meet in 2015.

Yifter Is Alive – But Seriously Ill

Ethiopian Media Reported He Had Died, But 1980 Double Olympic Champ Miruts Yifter “The Shifter” Is Alive But Hospitalized In A Toronto HospitalThe frail 72-year-old, who was Ethiopia’s first-ever Olympic track gold medalist in 1980, has a collapsed lung and has been hospitalized for months.
*Pat Butcher On Yifter

USATF 2016

Vin Lananna Campaign Pins

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.