Kenyan Marathon Men: Watch Out, Kamworor Says He’s Just Getting Going

• Geoffrey Kamworor Now Sets His Sights On Winning His Third Straight World Half-Marathon Title Normally there is a big celebration at the Kenyan airport when a champion returns, but Kamworor wanted to keep it quiet. “I didn’t want a lot of fanfare because I believe I have just started doing well in marathon and there is more to come. When that time comes, we shall celebrate.”
• Sports Illustrated Q&A With Eliud Kipchoge Who Talks Breaking2, His Coach Patrick Sang And Other Random Stuff Kipchoge 14 notebooks of workouts for the last 14 years and he’s a big Roger Federer fan.

Sunday Road Action

• Turkish All-Comers Records (2:10:42 & 2:27:27) Under Threat At Istanbul Marathon There are sub-2:10 runners in the men’s field including Bazu Worku (2:05:25), Jacob Kendagor (2:07:33), 2008 Olympic 10,000 bronze medalist Micah Kogo and also one of the fastest steeplers of all time in Paul Koech who is running his second marathon. Visiline Jepkesho (2:21:37) and Meseret Mengistu (2:23:26) lead the women’s race.
• South Africa’s Stephen Mokoka (2:0740) And Ethiopia’s Roza Dereje (2:25:17) Will Defend Their Shanghai Marathon Titles Mokoka faces five sub-2:07 men including Dino Sefir (2:04:50) and Endeshaw Negesse (2:04:52). Dereje is up against two other former champions as well as former London champ Tigist Tufa (2:21:52).
• World Champs 4th Placer Flomena Cheyech Will Try To Defend Her Title At The Saitama Marathon In Japan The second fastest runner in the field is fellow Kenyan Philes Ongori (2:23:22). *JRN Preview The race also serves as Japan’s national marathon championships. Yuki Kawauchi is running the mass participation race.
• Edwin Kiptoo And Tigist Girma Return To Defend Their Beirut Marathon Titles The favorite on the women’s side might be Eunice Chumba who ran a 66:11 half-marathon earlier this fall.
• Kenya’s Milton Rotich Shooting For The 2:10:37 Athens Marathon CR; Nancy Arusei Returns To Defend Her Title

Another High School Star Chooses The NCAA

Pole Vault Star Armand Duplantis Signs With LSU Mondo’s father Greg Duplantis, mother Helena, and brother Antoine all went to LSU.

Sign Of Respect Or A Cheap Money Grab?

Stadium In Kenya May Be Renamed After The Late Sammy Wanjiru Officials hope that renaming the stadium will attract sponsors who will help renovate the aging facility.

Doping News

• Jemima Sumgong Tried To Get A Reduced Ban After Admitting To EPO Use WADA will offer a reduced 2-year ban to athletes who immediately admit to their doping, but Sumgong did not do that at all. She had a whole court case trying to blame a hospital that says they never even treated her.
• Good Riddance: US Track Coach Kenta Bell Accepts Lifetime Ban For Encouraging And Administering The Doping Of At Least Six Athletes Bell, the coach of the Thinking Feet TC, also tried to cover up an athlete’s positive test, provided false info to USADA and has a previous doping violation from when he was an athlete himself.
• How Convenient: Internal Russian Investigation Tries To Put The Sole Blame On Whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov For Doping Scandal They claim they found no proof of the institutional doping laid out in the McLaren report.
  *Russia Wants US To Extradite Whistleblower Rodchenkov This is unlikely to happen, though, as Rodchenkov is in a witness protection program. Russia and the US have no extradition treaty.
• Shot Put Queen Valerie Adams Could Have Her Winning Streak Of 56 Meets Extended To 95 This thanks to a possible extra backdated ban of disgraced Belarusian shot putter Nadzeya Ostapchuk.
• GPS Technology Among Ideas To Improve Anti-Doping Suggested At iNADO Symposium There were also calls for convicted drugs cheats to be barred from the medals podium, prize money and setting records … essentially a lifetime ban.
• Russia Loses Two More 2014 Winter Olympic Medals After Two Cross Country Skiers Found Guilty Of Doping

International Distance News

• World 5,000 Champ Hellen Obiri Stepping Up To The 10,000 For The 2018 Commonwealth Games Obiri, a former 1,500 runner, has never run 10,000m. She also wants to go for the 5,000m WR next year, held by Tirunesh Dibaba at 14:11.15.
• Sunday: 2:09 Man Dominic Ruto Kipngetich Takes On Defending Champ Edwin Kiptoo At The Beirut Marathon
• Callum Hawkins Named Scottish Athlete Of The Year After Setting The National Half Record At 60:00 And Placing 4th In The Marathon At Worlds In 2:10:17 Hawkins’ father and coach won the coach of the year award.
• Brits Eilish McColgan And Sam Stabler Win Leeds Abbey Dash 10K

Olympic Corruption And Sexual Assault

• British Athletics Suspends Javelin Coach Over Allegations Of Inappropriate Relationship With A Female Athlete David Parker is accused of having a relationship with a female student athlete at the university where he coaches.
• IOC Member Apologizes After Accused Of Two Sexual Harassment Cases A journalist accused Alex Gilady of exposing himself to her 25 years ago and telling her to “talk to” his penis.
• Namibia’s Former Four-Time Olympic Silver Medalist Frankie Fredericks Suspended BY IOC Following Money Laundering And Corruption Charges He is accused of accepting a bribe of $299,300 from Pappa Massita Diack when Rio won the vote to host the 2016 Olympics.
• NY Times: Powerful Sheikh Linked To Sports Corruption Case Resurfaces In Prague Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad al-Sabah of Kuwait had been out of the public eye since he was named in a sports bribery and corruption investigation, but showed up with a seat right next to Thomas Bach at this Olympic meeting.
• IOC Unveil New Toolkit To Protect Athletes From Harassment And Abuse The 103-page document aims to give advice to organizations and athletes on dealing with abuse.

More Post-NYC News

LRC Shalane Flanagan Heads Back To Portland, Turns Down Late Show With Stephen Colbert Flanagan also revealed on Monday that she had no idea how far ahead she was.
*MB: Update on the ‘problem’ that derailed Mary Keitany in NY 

• Video: Shalane Flanagan On Kelly And Ryan Morning Talk Show
• Video: Shalane Flanagan Appears On Good Morning America
• 40-Year-Old Abdi Abdirahman Sees No Reason To Retire Soon After Finishing As The Top American In NYC Even though he hurt his ankle in a hard fall at 5K, Abdi broke the NYC masters record with 2:12:48 (it was previously 2:13:32 by Meb).
• NY Times: Shalane Flanagan Solves NYC Marathon For American Women
• RW: In Meb’s Final Marathon, Exhaustion and Emotion Keflezighi collapsed at the finish line in 11th place from severe exhaustion after vomiting several times the final few miles. He said he went for it and had no regrets.
• How Did The Celebrities Run In NYC? Kevin Hart finished in 4:05:06 and model Karlie Kloss came home in 4:41:49.
• Recommended Read: Toni Reavis Takes A Look Back At Shalane Flanagan’s Career Of “Relentlessness” From frontrunning her way to DNFs in high school and college, to her blistering pace setting at Boston 2014, Flanagan has been working her way towards this for a long time.
• MB: Update: Nike posts instagram congratulating Flanagan and Kamworor
• NY Times Photos From NYC Marathon

2017 TCS New York City Marathon *Tracking & Results

MB: Official 2017 NYC Marathon Discussion Thread

LRC The Day After: Shalane Flanagan Talks About Never Looking Back During Race, Turning Down Colbert Report Flanagan’s got a big decision to make- retire or run Boston one final time. Geoffrey Kamworor has to decide – defend his world XC title or run a spring marathon.

LRC The Running World Reacts To Shalane Flanagan’s Historic NYC Marathon Victory See how Flanagan’s fellow pros – from Desi Linden to Jenny Simpson to Jordan Hasay – reacted to her historic win.

LRC Final Shalane Flanagan Wins 2017 New York City Marathon – 1st American Winner In 40 Years The 40-year American women’s drought is over as Shalane Flanagan was fantastic in Central Park.

LRC Coach Jerry Schumacher On How Shalane Flanagan Dug Into Her “Deep Well” To Win 2017 New York City Marathon He talks about what changed in her training and how she can smell the finish line like Chris Solinsky.

NYC Women’s MB Talk: 

• Shalane MF Flanagan 
• Why are many American pro-runners congratulating Shalane today, but none did so to Hasay last month?
• Allie Kieffer – Let’s take a closer look at training? What caused a 15 minute PR?  The American from Buffalo was a SHOCKING 5th in 2:29.
• Unheralded American Allie Kiefer Gets 5th in NY Marathon After Doing Cross Fit and Running 25 Miles a Week Last Year 

Full NY Coverage In 2017 TCS New York City Marathon Special Section