December 19, 2017 Homepage Archive

Justin Gatlin Scandal 2.0?

Justin Gatlin’s Entourage Caught Up In Undercover Doping Sting, Gatlin Fires Coach Dennis MitchellThe Telegraph from the UK went undercover and said they needed help training an actor to be an athlete in the film. Robert Wagner, an agent who occasionally works with Gatlin, and coach Dennis Mitchell both reportedly said they could get him steroids with the agent also saying Gatlin used them. *Discuss
*Gatlin’s Agent Robert Wagner Says He “Played Along” Because He Knew What Was Going On Dennis Mitchell said, “I never suggested in any way that any of my current athletes used any banned substances …”
*Justin Gatlin “Shocked And Surprised” At Doping Allegations Against Dennis Mitchell “I am not using and have not used PEDs. … I fired [Mitchell] as soon as I found out about this.”

Monday Distance News Of Note

2:05:48 Man Sondre Nordstadt Moen Talks About Training In Kenya, Renato Canova, Targeting World Half In 2017 On Same Course Where He Ran 59:48
Hellen Obiri, Paul Chelimo, Sondre Nordstadt Moen To Run Campaccio XC In Italy On Jan 6
Sonia O’Sullivan Shares Her Love For The Mile And Says She’s Proof People Can Win Medals While Clean
1981 – The Year An Unknown Brit Showed Up At USA XC Champs And Beat Henry Rono And Alberto Salazar
Four Illinois Running Icons Remember Competing Against Coach Joe Newton NCAA Champs, Olympians and World XC Champ Mike Durkin, Ken Popejoy, Jim Spivey and Craig Virgin share their remembrances.

Non-Pro News

RW Profile:Masters Runner Of The Year Sabra Harvey Didn’t Let Hurricane Harvey Slow Her Down Harvey’s Houston home was ruined by flooding, but Harvey didn’t let that stop her from winning every age-graded national race she entered this year (mile, 5K, 10K and 15K)
US Masters Runner Gary Patton Runs 70-74 Indoor Mile Record With 5:29.81 Patton broke the previous WR of 5:32.4, which had stood for 30 years. His training includes only running just once every three days and strength training the rest.
*MB: 71 year old sets mile record, and only runs once every three days.
Top 10 Most Popular Strava Segments In The US For 2017 The most popular route is a 1.5K loop around the Central Park Reservoir in NYC. The fastest time on it is 4:44 (5:05 pace).
Listening To The Right Music Can Actually Help You Recover From A Tough Workout A study shows that listening to slow relaxing music after a workout can help lower your cortisol levels whereas fast music increases them.
If You Missed This:In Dramatic Finish, Dallas Women’s Marathon Winner Gets Helped Across The Line By A High SchoolerChandler Self collapsed across the line in 2:53:57.
*MB: Women’s winner of BMW Dallas Marathon blows her legs out, finishes carrying a fridge.

More International Pro News

New Star Constellations Created For Usain Bolt And Mo Farah They are not official, but they were chosen by Astronomy experts at the University of Birmingham.
Scottish Distance Couple Lynsey Sharp And Andrew Butchart Are Moving To California To Be Close To Their Coach, Terrence Mahon
Good Read:IAAF Profile On Aussie Pole Vaulter Kurtis Marschall, Who Made The Rio Olympics Just Three Days Short Of The Deadline Marschall has improved quickly from 2016 with a 7th place finish at Worlds. He takes a mature approach to sport, following a “24-hour rule” where you have 1 day to celebrate or cry over a performance, then you have to move on.
Japanese Teen Star Sprinter Abdul Hakim Sani Brown Talks About The Challenge He Faced In High School Of Not Having Access To A Track To Train At In Tokyo, even his school campus was very limited space so he sometimes had to train on the streets.
Heart Condition Rules New Zealand Shot Putter Jacko Gill Out Of Commonwealth Games Gill is suffering from myocarditis and been advised to avoid training for at least six months.

(Russian) Doping/Scandal Updates

Does He Think This Is Russia Or Something?Vladimir Putin Claims US Security Services Drugged Grigory Rodchenkov To Persuade Him To Reveal Doping Scandal Putin also continues to claim that the attack on Russian doping is about “politics” and specifically timed before he stands for re-election.
International Federations Told Names Of 300 Russian Athletes On Grigory Rodchenkov’s Doping Cover-Up List
IAAF Doping Review Board Approve Guidelines For 2018 Neutral Athlete Status Previously-approved neutral athletes have to reapply for continued permission in 2018.
Vitaly Mutko Does Post-Russian Ban Interview, Says There Would Be No Point To Him Resigning
The FBI Is Investigating The Awarding Of The 2016 Games The investigation is focused on alleged vote buying, which won Rio the 2016 bid over Chicago and other cities.
IOC Confident 2020 Tokyo Games Won’t Be Tainted By Doping
Decision On Russian Women’s Ice Hockey Team At 2018 Winter Games Due To Be Made Next Week It’s kind of hard to argue a country is banned from the Olympics if they’re allowed to send an entire team. Especially a team that had six players get doping bans.
IOC Bans Six Russian Female Ice Hockey Players For Life Over Doping

Upcoming Winter Action

January 12:Mo Farah To Race The Doha Half Marathon
March 24:IAAF Countdown: The World Half Marathon Championships Are In Valencia, Spain In 100 Days
February 3:100H World Bronze Medalist Pamela Dutkiewicz Will Clash With European 60H Bronze Medalist Gina Luckenkemper At The Karlsruhe Indoor Meet Other headliners include PV WR holder Renaud Lavillenie.

Rupp And Flanagan To Boston 2018

Loaded American Field Set For 2018 Boston Marathon With WMM Winners Galen Rupp And Shalane Flanagan Joined By Jordan Hasay, Desiree Linden, Molly Huddle And Dathan Ritzenhein(link fixed) Rupp and Flanagan will go try to get back-to-back WMM victories. They’re also joined by Abdi Abdirahman, Ryan Vail, Shadrack Biwott, Sara Hall, Kellyn Taylor and Deena Kastor will also race. *Announcement Video
*Flanagan:“My heart ♥️ said … give it one more chance, try again. See everyone in Boston on Patriots Day.”
*MB: Rupp is running boston, scared of running a real marathon
*MB: Flanagan, Hasay, Huddle, and Linden ALL set to race Boston 2018!

European XC Champs In The Books *Results

Kaan Kigen Ozbilen And Yasemin Can Make It A Turkish Double Victory At European XC Championships Ozbilen won by 9 seconds over Spain’s Adel Mechaal, helping Turkey to a 3-point team win over Spain. On the women’s side, Can won easily while GB took the team title.

Irish Journalist Cathal Dennehy Rips Turkey: “Turks’ Shameless Talent Grab Playing A Sick Joke On European Athletics” Dennehy writes that it was “another proud day for Kenya” and another “up yours from Turkey” at the Euro XC champs.
You Can’t Make This Up:After Winning Euro XC Champs, The Four Kenyans That Made Up The Kenyan Team Posed With The Turkish Flag The Wrong Way
Video Highlights
GB Lands Five Gold Medals At Euro XC Champs The GB senior women didn’t have anyone in the top 5, but put 4 in the top 10 to win team gold. Andrew Butchart took individual bronze after Dewi Griffiths did the early leading and DNFed with a hamstring injury.
Former Two-Time Euro XC Champs Fionnuala McCormack Could Only Manage 12th This Year
Jakob Ingebrigsten Defends His Euro U20 Title GB’s Harriet Knowles-Jones won the women’s race.
After Near Misses, France’s Jimmy Gressier And Germany’s Alina Reh Take Euro U23 Titles Reh beat out her countrywoman Konstanze Klosterhalfen by 3 seconds as GB’s Jessica Judd was 3rd.
Britain Wins Inaugural Mixed Relay Gold

Honolulu Marathon *Results

RRW Lawrence Cherono (2:08:26) And Brigid Kosgei (2:22:14) Smash Course Records At Honolulu Marathon, Win $50,000 World record holder Dennis Kimetto dropped out again. Nick Symmonds ran 3:00:35.

RRW King Cheserek Wins Battle Of Sexes Kalakaua Mile In Hawaii And Defeats Nick Willis And Will Leer The race does not give splits and makes the runners essentially time trial it by feel. Excellent.
*MB: Nick Willis’ 8-Month Pregnant Wife Runs 6:59 Mile In Hawaii

Hot Track Action

Track/Olympic News

More From USA Marathon Champs

LRCQ&A With USATF Marathon Champ Tim Ritchie, Who Explains What He Learned From Eliud Kipchoge And How He Ran 2:11 Off 85 Miles A Week

LRCParker Stinson Went For It, Tim Ritchie Got It Done, Sara Hall Doubled Down, A 50-Year-Old Made The Trials And A Jerry Lawson History Lesson

Sara Hall completed a nice double, Tim Ritchie kept the Saucony team rolling, Parker Stinson went for it, a 50-year-old made the Trials, and a history lesson on Jerry Lawson.

*Recommended Read:USA Marathon Champ Sara Hall Defies Convention Hall has always had great range and now is enjoying the success her non-standard approach is bringing. “In my mind, I flash back to times that you are thinking you aren’t even good at this sport. It makes you realize that, wow, when you hear those voices, don’t believe those voices.”

USATF Marathon Championships *Results

RRWSara Hall And Tim Ritchie Win 2017 USA Marathon Titles At Cal Int’l MarathonHall won in 2:28:10 just 5 weeks after running 2:27:21 in Frankfurt while Ritchie ran a new PR of 2:11:55.
*CIM Going The Extra Mile To Stop Race Cheats In addition to analyzing results, CIM hired Marathon Investigation’s Derek Murphy to help catch cheats and even catch people pre-race who tried to hire a “bib mule.”

Message Board Talk

MB:Timothy Ritchie (2:11:56) And Sara Hall (2:28:10) Win 2017 USATF Marathon Championships At CIM Ritchie beat out Tyler McCandless by 32 seconds with the top 10 all breaking 2:15. Hall won the women’s race by over 2 minutes over Roberta Groner (2:30:38).
MB:CIM Race Tracking
MB: Holy hell the depth at CIM.
MB:Over/Under 3:30 @ CIM Sunday? No training runs over 5 miles, first marathon
MB:Ashley Brasovan is BACK, baby! The former Foot Locker champ was 17th in 2:40:19.
*Pre-CIM Q&A With Ashley Brasovan

NCAA XC Photo Galleries (800+ Photos Each Race) MenWomen

The Best Races Of 2017 (Recaps And Video)

LRC The Best Races Of 2017: Gold & Silver For U.S. In The Steeple, Shalane Wins NYC, Kipchoge Runs 2:00:25 & More From the track to the roads we’ve got you covered. We reflect on the most exciting races of 2017, including history from Emma Coburn and Courtney Frerichs, major marathon wins from Shalane Flanagan and Galen Rupp, the brilliance of Eliud Kipchoge and some NCAA action.

The World’s Biggest XC Fan

LRC Meet Mr. Cross-Country, The Sport’s Biggest Fan Cross-country’s biggest fan, Michael Mahon, resides in Massachusetts, where for the past 33 years he has traveled to over 1,747 career meets, bag of cans in tow. And he doesn’t plan on stopping anytime soon.
*Michael Mahon – Mr. Cross-Country – Share Your Favorite Story Here

Mo Farah Shocks Himself And The Bookies

Screenshot 2017-12-17 at 21.15.39 A Stunned 50-To-1 Longshot, Mo Farah, Wins British Sports Personality Of The Year Award Farah had been nominated for the award so many times and somehow only once finished once in the top 3 (he wasn’t even in the top 3 with double Olympic wins last year) that he didn’t attend in person this year and was stunned to win. The live national TV video feed then went out. Video and Farah’s reaction here.
Discussion:And the winner of 2017 BBC Sports Personality of the Year is Mo Farah
*Brits what’s the American equivalent of British Sports Personality of Year Award?

More Awards: Coaches Behind British 4 X 100 Team Named British Coaches Of Year
*Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill Gets Lifetime Achievement Award

Sprints And Jumps

As Lolo Jones Tries To Make Her Fourth Olympic Games, She Is Motivated By Guy Who Didn’t Win A Medal Until His Fifth Jones hasn’t ruled out going back to track, but says this winter could be her last season.
Bahamian 400m Record Holder Steven Gardiner Talks About His Journey To Winning His Breakthrough Silver Medal At London Worlds He failed to make the final in 2015 and 2016, but says joining a training group (under Gary Evans in Florida with Tony McQuay and Novlene Williams-Mills) made a big difference.
Brittney Reese “The Beast” Says She’s As Strong And Motivated As Ever After Winning Her Fourth World LJ Title 31-year-old Reese says she’ll continue on through Tokyo 2020 and then she’s done.
USA’s Mike Powell Says He Wants To Coach Somebody To Break His Long Jump WR Powell’s 8.95m record is now 26 years old.
Justin Gatlin Gets A Couple Spots In Sports Illustrated’s Top 100 Photos Of The Year Also shots from the World Champs and NYC Marathon.
Wayde van Niekerk Gets Early Christmas Gift From Liverpool Soccer Player Mo Salah Salah, the top goal scorer in the Premier League, sent van Niekerk a signed Liverpool jersey.

NCAA News: The Bowerman Award

Oregon’s Raevyn Rogers Wins Women’s 2017 Bowerman AwardRogers beat out jumper Keturah Orji and thrower Maggie Ewen to become the third Oregon woman to win the award.
*Video Interview With Rogers *Register-Guard Article
Tennessee’s Christian Coleman Wins Men’s 2017 Bowerman AwardColeman won the award over sprinter Fred Kerley and decathlete Lindon Victor to become the fourth SEC male winner in a row.
*Video Interview With Coleman
Video:Watch Bowerman Presentation Replay
Register-Guard Article On Former Duck Raevyn Rogers Rogers gives an update on her training situation since she’s moved to Philly to join Derek Thompson‘s group with Ajee Wilson and Charlene Lipsey.
2:03 800 Woman Ruby Stauber To Transfer From LSU To Oregon She was 5th at NCAA indoors last year.
Video:2017 USTFCCCA Coaches Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony Inductees included Allyson Felix‘s coach Bob Kersee.

News From Africa

Kenya’s World 1,500 Champ Elijah Manang’oi Talks About How He Switched From Being A 400 Runner To The Metric Mile Maybe not surprisingly in Kenya, Manangoi was already training like a 1,500 runner when he was racing the 400 with hill repeats and an hour long run.
Six Track Athletes Make List Of The 100 Most Influential Africans Of 2017Elijah Manangoi, Wayde Van Niekerk, Faith Kipyegon, Hellen Obiri, Caster Semenya and they counted Mo Farah being from Somalia.
Caster Semenya And World LJ Champ Luvo Manyonga Head South African Team For Commonwealth Games
Caster Semenya And Wayde Van Niekerk Get Over $17,000 Each Paid By Athletics SA For World Champs Medal Bonuses
Advice On Sport And Life From Ivory Coast 100m National Record Holder Ben Youssef Meite He wouldn’t share his coaching tips, though, saying, “Any coaching tips are a secret between my coach and I, haha!”

A Four-Time Tour Winner Goes Down?

Four-Time Tour De France Winner Chris Froome Failed Doping Test Froome tested positive for levels of an asthma drug double the allowable limit.
MB:Chris Froome could lose Vuelta a España title after found to have excessive levels of asthma drug
The Independent:What Next For Froome? Will He Be Banned? Has He Been Suspended? What Did He Take?
Froome Hires Top Anti-Doping Lawyer As German Rival Hits Out At UCI “Double Standards”
The Guardian’s View On Chris Froome’s Failed Drug Test Apparently only one of the BBC’s 12 Sports Personality Of The Year finalists (including Mo Farah) doesn’t have doping questions surrounding them.

The Commonwealth Games Are In April

Andrew Butchart And Lysney Sharp Hope To Be Scotland’s Golden Couple At The Commonwealth Games Butchart and Sharp, who started dating earlier this year, were both 6th and 8th at the Olympics and Worlds. So Butchart joked that this meet will be the tie breaker.
Australia Might Have A Smaller Track Squad Than England At Their Home Commonwealth Games As of now they are allowed to send 73 to England’s 75. The first of those could be chosen Thursday at the Zatopek 10K where Pat Tiernan, Brett Robinson and David McNeill will all race.
Scotland Name Commonwealth Games TeamAndy Butchart, Lynsey Sharp and Callum Hawkins lead the distance events.
Scottish 400 Hurdler Eilidh Doyle Ready To Embrace What Will Probably Be Her Last Commonwealth Games Talking about how her mindset has changed: “I’m also a lot more chilled out about it all now. Before, it was the end of the world if you didn’t do what you wanted to do (on the track).”

NCAA News – The 2017 Bowerman Award Gets Announced Friday

Former Bowerman Award Winners Have Racked Up A Lot Of Global Medals The most ever at one championship was Rio 2016 where six former Bowerman winners took home Olympic medals.
*Recapping The 2017 Men’s FinalistsChristian Coleman, Fred Kerley and Lindon Victor.
*Recapping The 2017 Women’s FinalistsMaggie Ewen, Keturah Orji and Raevyn Rogers.
Top NCAA Relays Teams From 2017 Honored By Timing Company Accusplit
Sydney McLaughlin And Indiana’s Ben Veatch Are NCAA DI Athletes Of The Week After Running US Junior Records McLaughlin ran 36.12 in the 300 while Beatch ran 13:57 over 5000 (although Chris Derrick ran a 13:48 as a junior, but it was never ratified).
Arizona State Getting A New 9-Lane Track
Florida Coach Mike Holloway Wins US Sports Academy Coaching Award
Event-By-Event Top 10 NCAA Performances From The Weekend

Russian Ban Updates

Russian Olympic Committee Vote Unanimously To Compete Under Neutral Flag At 2018 Winter Games
The Guardian:“Collaborators And Traitors: Russia Goes To War With Winter Olympic Ban” Shaun Walker writes, “Instead of looking to [Vitaly] Mutko or other officials for an explanation of how the country got into this mess, many Russians instead see their country as heroically standing up to a monstrous external aggressor …”
USA Today:Experts Say Lifetime Bans For Russian Athletes Are Unlikely To Stand A sports lawyer says CAS may accept disqualification of Sochi results, but overturn lifetime bans.
Russian State TV Will Broadcast Parts Of Winter Games With Russian Athletes Competing As Neutrals
Three More Russian Athletes File Doping Appeals

RIP Joe Newton *Joe Newton Archives

A Legend Has Passed: Joe Newton RIP 1929-2017 Newton’s York high school teams won 28 state XC titles and the first NXN title, but most importantly he shaped thousands of kids lives. *Pay Your Respects Here

USATF Club XC Champs Men’s Team And Ind. Results Women’s Results

Club Nats Men’s Results: Ian La Mere And Tinman Elite Win La Mere is on Hansons-Brooks.
Women’s Results: Sarah Pagano Of BAA and Hansons Brooks Win Women’s Title

USATF Recap
Discussion: Official USATF Club Nationals Thread
RR: Inspired By XC Origins, Hansons-Brooks Puts U.S. Distance Back On The Map This week should be the final race for Bobby Curtis.
RR: Ahead Of Club XC Champs, The Georgetown Running Club Remembers The Tragic Loss Of Two Of Its Members
*Lauren Woodal Roady’s Memorial Page
*Nina Brekelman’s Memorial Page

Field Event News

Two-Time World Triple Jump Silver Medalist Pedro Pablo Pichardo Has Switched Citizenship From Cuba To Portugal He’s obtained Portuguese nationality, but won’t be able to represent them until the IAAF ends its freeze on allegiance changes.
Olympian And NCAA Champion Rudy Winkler Taking A 5th Year At Rutgers University Winkler graduated from Cornell in the spring, but is going to Rutgers for his master’s.
Tips On Sport And Life From Germany’s World Decathlon Bronze Medalist Kai Kazmirek Kazmirek emphasizes staying relaxed in competition, which is even more important over a 2-day decathlon event.

Boston 2018

Defending Champions Geoffrey Kirui And Edna Kiplagat Will Return For The 2018 Boston Marathon Both will be coming off an excellent 2017 where Kirui won World gold and Kiplagat the silver. *Video Release

*April Fools Comes Early:Boston Marathon Announces New Vaporfly-Adjusted Qualifying Times Men in the 18-34 age group will need to run a 2:57:30 instead of 3:05:00. *Discuss

NXN High School Team Nationals Full Results Boys (With Splits) *Girls (With Splits)

LRC Girls Race: Katelyn Tuohy (16:44) Crushes Field As Fayetteville-Manlius Survives To Win 11th Title In 12 Years Tuohy set another course record and F-M won another national title (its 11th in 12 years), but just barely.

LRC Boys Race: Aidan Troutner (15:03) Wins NXN Thriller As Loudoun Valley Sets Meet Record For Fewest Points (89) Troutner pulled the upset and will go to BYU next year. Drew Hunter‘s former team, coached by his parents, set a record for low points at the meet thanks to great running and two transfers.

Foot Locker: Claudia Lane Wins Foot Locker West Regional By 1:12

Sunday Road Action

Kenenisa Bekele Wins TSK 25K, But Nowhere Near The WR With 1:13:48 There was talk of the 1:11:18 WR and Bekele said he wanted at least his 1:12:47 PR, but Bekele actually fell off the leaders at one point before coming back to win by a good margin. Ethiopia’s Degitu Azimeraw got an upset 3-second win over 2015 World marathon silver medalist Helah Kiprop.
*MB: Kenenisa Bekele Comes Up Short in Breaking 25k world record
With A Rare Negative Split, Yuki Kawauchi Wins Hofu Yomiuri Marathon In 2:10:03, Tying The Record For Most Career Sub-2:20 Marathons With 75 Misaki Kato dominated the women’s race by 11 minutes with 2:28:12.
Peter Kimeli Some (2:14:49) And Kyrgyzstan’s Viktoria Poliudina (2:33:25) Win Shenzhen Marathon In China

Add This To Your Christmas List?

Independent Study (Funded By Nike) Finds That Nike Zoom Vaporfly 4% Actually Could Make You Run Faster They found energy saving of between 2% and 6% – with an average of 4%. A big criticism of the study is it wasn’t blind testing, so the placebo effect could be at play.

Upcoming In 2018

January 6:Paul Chelimo Vs. Norway’s Recent 2:05:48 Man Sondre Nordstadt Moen At Italian XC Meet World 5,000 champ Hellen Obiri will face 2015 World XC Champ Agnes Tirop in the women’s race.
MB:NXN Champ Katelyn Tuohy Going For The High School 5K Record On January 20th The current record is held by Brie Oakley at 15:55.

Zatopek 10 *Results

Stewart McSweyn Runs 28:37.28 To Beat Out Former NCAA Champions Patrick Tiernan (28:38.94) And David McNeill (28:47.54) At Zatopek 10,000m Celia Sullohern won the women’s race in 32:31 over World Champs marathon 9th placer Jessica Trengove (32:35). In the 1,500s, World Junior 5th placer Matthew Ramsden (3:40.08) and Brittany McGowan (4:14.18) took the wins.
*Pre-Race Interviews: *Tiernan *McNeill

Great Edinburgh XC Is January 13

Dewi Griffiths, Andy Vernon, Jess Judd, Emelia Gorecka Lead GB Great Edinburgh XC Squads
Laura Muir Will Target A Fourth Straight Victory On The GB Mixed Relay
Team Europe Selected For Great Edinburgh c Turkey’s Euro champions Kaan Kigen Ozbile and Yasemin Can lead the rosters. Women’s team also includes Ireland’s Fionnuala MCormack.

Women’s Distance News

Good Read:Alexi Pappas Writes About Mastering The Skill Of Work/Life Balance And How She Put That To The Test While Simultaneously Trying To Make It To Rio 2016 And Preparing For Her Film, Tracktown “Balance is a funny thing, because sometimes the best way to improve it is by losing it. I found that in my pursuit of a balanced life, I sometimes swung too far in the opposite direction.”
Update Q&A With Gabe Grunewald On Running And Her Cancer Treatment: “I’m not throwing in the towel.” In between different cancer treatments, Grunewald has been getting in some general training and is hoping to qualify for USA Indoors in Albuquerque.
Shalane Flanagan Says Americans Can “Dream Bigger” After Her NYC Marathon WinDesi Linden agreed, adding, “It changes everything. I run with her. I’ve beaten her. I can contend with her. So why can’t that be me?”
The Daily Californian Profile On Former NXN Champ Brie Oakley After Her First Season At Cal Berkeley Oakley, a former soccer player who didn’t start running until her junior year of high school, had a successful first XC season ending with a 38th place finish at NCAAs.
Carrie Tollefson Does Podcast Q&A With US Marathoner And Two-Time Cancer Survivor Serena Burla Burla talks about her 11th place finish at 2017 Worlds, overcoming cancer and giving a TED talk.
Shalane Flanagan Named 2017 New York Road Runners Pro Performer Of The Year

Assorted International News

Oscar Pistorius Hurt In Prison Fight Pistorius was allegedly involved in a fight and sustained a bruise over the use of a public phone.
Report Claims Botswana 400m Runner Lydia Jele Tests Positive Jele was part of the 4 x 400 squad that finished 7th at Worlds.
Mo Farah And Heptathlete Nafissatou Thiam Voted Athletics Weekly Readers’ Choice Award WinnersUsain Bolt won the “lifetime achievement” award with 56.3% of the votes.
Tallest building In South Korea To Display Olympic Torch LED Until End Of Pyeongchang 2018
Need A Job?IAAF Hiring An Event Operations Coordinator You’d get to live in Monaco.

RIP News

Tennessee Track Legend And Former 5,000m NCAA Champion Kathy Bryant Passes Away At Age 55 Bryant was a seven-time All-American and still holds Tennessee’s outdoor 5,000 record (15:37).
Recommended Read:Now A High School Coach Himself, One Of Joe Newton’s Former Athletes Looks Back At His Time Under Coach Newton Interesting notes: Newton didn’t let his athletes call him “Coach” (they called him Mr. Newton) and even 50 years later, Mike Lynn says he can’t bring himself to refer to call Newton by his first name.
Other HS Coaches Including FM’s Bill Aris React To The Passing Of Joe Newton
IAAF Tribute To Joe Newtwon

More Weekend Results

IAAF Weekend XC Round-Up:Brother Colm O’Connell-Coached 19-Year-Old Mathew Kimeli Wins Kenyan AK Series Meet In Iten Kimeli made a name for himself in the spring when he ran 27:14 to come in a close second behind Mo Farah at the Ostrava Golden Spike Meet 10,000m.
Kenya’s Dickson Kipsang Tuwei (2:10:03) And Ethiopia’s Rahma Tusa (2:25:12) Win Guangzhou Marathon In China
RRW:Canadian Betty Jean McHugh Sets 90+ World Record At Honolulu Marathon She ran 6:47:31, which broke the previous record of 8:53:08 from 1997.
AW:UK Weekend Round-Up

Foot Locker High School XC Champs ResultsRace Replay

LRC Claudia Lane Dominates To Repeat As Champ, Misses Joining Sub-17:00 Club (link fixed) 17:03 for Lane as only 3 women in the last 30 years have ever gone sub-17. She’ll attempt to be first-ever 3-time girl’s champ next year.

LRC Dylan Jacobs Wins To Make Carl Sandburg High In Illinois The First With Two Different FL Champs (Lukas Verzbicas) As Soph Graydon Morris Is 2nd Jacobs turned the tables on rival Daniel Kilrea as sophomore Morris moved up to take second and could become the second boy ever to run at 4 Foot Lockers (Jorge Torres).

LRC Official Foot Locker Nationals 2017 Live Thread

Sports Governing News/ Russian Ban Not Really A Ban

More Russian Scandal Updates

Even When They Know The Whole World Is Watching:FIFA Actually Terminated The “Ethics” Committee Head Who Was Investigating Vitaly Mutko They also fired another member who who was going to block Mutko from the Fifa council, arguing that it would damage the prospects of the World Cup in Russia.
Thomas Bach Refuses To Apologize To Yuliya Stepanova Over 2016 Olympic Snub, But Encourages Her To Switch Her Nationality To Represent A New Country At Tokyo 2020 Bach says he recently met with and had a “friendly discussion” with the Stepanovs.
NBA Team Owner Mikhail Prokhorov Accused Of Paying Hush Money In Russian Olympic Doping Scandal Prokhorov, the former Russian biathlon federation president, allegedly paid an athlete to keep quiet about Russia’s doping.
Vitaly Mutko Denies State-Backed Doping, Slams IOC Ban

2017 Fukuoka Marathon Was Incredible *Fukuoka Results

Wow! LRCNorway’s Sondre Moen Makes History, Smashes European Record To Win Fukuoka In 2:05:48 Moen, who ran 59:48 during his buildup, became the first non-African born male to break 2:06 on a record-eligible course as he stunned the world and Bedan Karoki. 2012 Olympic champ Stephen Kiprotich grabbed second in 2:07:10 just ahead of the Suguro Osako, who set a new Nike Oregon Project record of 2:07:19.

IAAF RecapSuguru Osako: “I gave my all to this race. … If I continue to train this way, I can continue to improve. I felt that I found a coach I can really trust. In Japan I did not find anyone like that.”
MB:Official 2017 Fukuoka Marathon Discussion Thread
MB: SONDRE MOEN of Norway runs 2:05:48 (!!!)to win the 2017 Fukuoka Marathon. How did he do it?
Must Read:Renato Canova explains Moen’s amazing breakthrough: “Clean your minds, start to believe in yoursel[f], and go [all] in [on] hard CLEAN training if [you] are really interested in improving [your] performance.”

Kipchoge Vs. Farah At London 2018

Eliud Kipchoge Will Return To The London Marathon; Looking To Maintain His Unbeaten Record With A Third Title After winning in 2015 and 2016, Kipchoge skipped a year to chase the sub-2 hour marathon, but now he’s back and says, “I know that I have the world record in me so we will have to wait and see what happens.”
*Kipchoge Happy To Be Racing Mo Farah In London Kipchoge: “It’s great he will be racing because I’m sure that will make the atmosphere more special.”
*MB: Eliud Kipchoge is taking Mo Farah very seriously