Doping / Cheating News

• Doctor Who Gave Mo Farah Controversial L-Carnitine Infusion Called To Give Evidence In Doping Hearing The doctor and UKA head endurance coach Barry Fudge are to appear before the the Culture, Media and Sport committee next month.
• +1 For China: China Says They Will Ban Amateur Marathon Cheats (Course Cutters And Bib Swappers) For Life This after it was found that a man died of a heart attack during a December road race while running under someone else’s name.
• UK Athletics Review Claims Paralympic Track And Field Classification System Is “Open To Abuse” Athletes can take advantage of the system by exaggerating how bad their condition actually is.
• BBC Poll Reveals “Concerning” Level Of Doping In Amateur Sport BBC’s investigation revealed that more than a third of amateur athletes know someone who has doped.
  *Surprising Stat: UK Anti-Doping Says Of The 52 GB Athletes And Coaches Serving Bans, 62% Are Amateurs
• RUSADA Appoints Acting Director General As Hunt Continues For Permanent Choice Tatyana Chirkina was formerly the RUSADA accountant. This is a different position than Yelena Isinbayeva who is the RUSADA Supervisory Board chair.

More Sunday Distance Action

• Lisbon Steals The Spotlight: Jake Robertson Wins Lisbon In 60:00 And he’s only the second-fastest twin in the family as his brother Zane has run 59:47.
  *IAAF: Ethiopia’s Mare Dibaba Wins Women’s Race In 69:43
  *MB: Awesome documentary on the ROBERTSON BROTHERS ahead of Lisbon HM today
• LA: Kenya’s Elisha Barno Shakes Off Queezy Stomach To Win Los Angelse Marathon In 2:11:52 Kenyan Hellen Jepkurgat won the women’s race in 2:34:23. *Results
• Amos Kipruto Knocks More Than Two Minutes Off His PR To Win Close Race At Seoul Marathon Kipruto ran 2:05:54 to beat Felix Kipchirchir by 9 seconds. The women’s race was also a nail biter with Kenya’s Margaret Agai running 2:25:52 to finish 5 seconds in front of Ethiopia’s Ashete Bekele Dido.
• Isaac Kipkoech Runs Fast Half At Altitude To Win Red Cross Half-Marathon In Kenya With 60:52 Esther Chesang (70:58) won the women’s race.
• Ethiopia’s Afewerk Mesfin Wins Thrilling Dual With Keneya’s Julius Tuwei To Win The Chongqing Marathon Mesfin ran 2:09:49 to set the CR and win by only 3 seconds. Rael Nguriatukei Kiyara won the women’s race easily in 2:26:22.
• Ben Sathre (49:59), Andrea Rediger (57:24) Win Hot Dash 10 Mile Crowns In Minneapolis
• Hillary Maiyo (62:55) Defends His Title At The Gydnia Half Marathon Morocco’s Fatiha Benchatki (72:23) won the women’s race.
• Hilary Kipkosgei Yego (2:17:02) And Munkhzaya Bayartsogt (2:38:08) Win New Taipei City Marathon
• Khahisa Mhlanga And Ben Dijkstra Win English Schools Cross-Country Titles

International Distance News

• Japan Selects Marathon Team For 2017 Worlds The team includes Yuki Kawauchi and Yuka Ando, who ran the fastest debut by a Japanese woman (2:21:36).
• One Small Kenyan Village Has 6 Of The 28 Members On Kenya’s World XC Team The athletes from the village of Keringet, which means “a hole” in the local language, include Olympic 1,500 champ Faith Kipyegon.
• Kenya Escapes Threat Of Ban After Promising To Adopt A New Constitution Later This Month And we’re sure this will be the end of it because of course Kenyan officials never miss deadlines.
• Mo Farah Wins 2017 British Ethnic Diversity Sports Award

Pre-NYC Half News

*Men’s Preview *Women’s Preview
RRW With Weather Fluctuating, Tactics Could Change At NYC Half The temperature is expected to be 33F at race time.
RRW Emily Sisson Is Pumped For Her Half Marathon Debut At Sunday’s United Airlines NYC Half Marathon
RRW Callum Hawkins – Former Butler Bulldog – Hopes To Battle For Win At United NYC Half Marathon

The World’s Hardest Foot Race To Win – 2017 World XC – Is Just Around The Corner

• REPEAT? Geoffrey Kamworor Says He’s In Much Better Shape Than At Kenyan Trials – Thinks He Can Defend Title He says he was back at the Kenyan Trials as he only started training in December as he was trying to get over a nagging injury.
• Leonard Patrick Komon Guarantees Kenyan Victory: “We will win. I believe it will be an easy run and we assure Kenyans of a win.” Six days after Worlds, he’ll race Galen Rupp in a half marathon in Prague.
• Is This The Secret To Kenya’s World XC Success? Kenya Has Had Its Training Camp At Kigari Teachers Training College Every Year Since 1986 Some think the special terrain makes it ideal for XC.
• WADA Has Conducted Two Different Unannounced Tests At Kenyan Camp
• Kenya’s Junior Men Say They Are Ready To Dominate World XC But Many Of Them Want Individual Gold World Youth 3,000m champion Richard Kimunyan won the Trials but world jr steeple champ Amos Kirui (5th at Trials) says he’s the one to beat.
• Have Fans, Will Travel Athletics Kenya Will Send 8 Buses Full Of Fans To Uganda Some of them are going from Nairobi, which is a 20-hour bus ride when you throw in stops. The LRC staff is flying in from Nairobi.

More News From Kenya IOC Drops Funding Of Kenya’s National Olympic Committee Until They Adopt A New Constitution And New Officers

Jamaican News

• Controversy In Jamaica: High School Officials Stand By Decision To Let Ugandan Distance Runner Compete At “Champs” EvenThough He Failed 2 Of 3 Eligibility Criteria Aryamanya Rodgers is expected to dominate the distance races and some parents are so irate they walked to the ISSA offices and handed in the winner’s trophy before the competition is even held.
• Calabar Boycotts Champs Launch The Champs start March 28.

Upcoming Meets In Jamaica

• LaShawn Merritt Will Face Andre De Grasse At 200m At Jamaica’s IAAF World Challenge Meeting On May 20th The women’s fields are loaded as it included 100H WR holder Kendra Harrison and double Olympic champ Elaine Thompson.
• Van Niekerk Will Evidently Be In Jamaica Awhile As He, David Rudisha, Mo Farah And Usain Bolt Will Race At JN Racers Grand Prix On June 10th We guess the big names are showing up as it’s Bolt’s going away party.

Doping News With A Slightly Positive Angle To Them

• Roger Bannister Says Track & Field’s Rampant Doping Brings Him “Extreme Sadness” – Hopes USADA And WADA Can Kill It Off So Track Can Have A Revival “It pains me a lot, but I still believe there is something very healthy underneath the whole of this activity and I long to see this brought into ascendancy again.”
• Proof Positive That Not All Dopers Are Bad People – Particularly When They Grow Up In A State Where Everyone Was Doing It 1991 World 100 & 200 Champ Katrin Krabbe Now Helping Terminally Ill In A Hospice Her official title is “dying companion” which she rejects wholeheartedly, “Dying companion? I am a companion for living!”

Centro Sr.’s Book Gets Some Publicity

Matt Centro’s Sr Gets Q&A In Washington Post About His Biography And His Son’s Olympic 1,500m Gold

LRC Exclusive LetsRun.com Exclusive: Read Chapter Two Of Matt Centrowitz’s New Book “Like Father, Like Son” LetsRun.com doesn’t beat around the bush. Neither does Matt Centrowitz. He’s so confident you’ll like his book, he’s letting you read a whole chapter for free. Purchase the book now and come back at the end of February and participate in the first ever LetsRun.com Virtual Book Club.

LRC Review Legendary Athlete, Father And Coach Matt Centrowitz Just Published An Autobiography – We Suggest You Read It