North American News

• Awesome Read Meet 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?

• Telegraph: Calls Rise for Russia To Be Banned From the Olympics and Stripped of 2018 World Cup
• 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

• 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 February Kelly 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.