Many Aren’t Happy About The IOC’s Marathon Move

• Good Read:InsideTheGames’s Michael Pavitt Wonders If Moving The Olympic Marathon Will Come Back To Haunt The IOC Pavitt wonders what kind of message this sends to future potential host cities when Tokyo organizers were not even consulted beforehand about the move.
• Canadian Race Walker Criticizes IOC Motives For Moving Marathons And Race Walks To Sapporo Evan Dunfee: “The IOC saw the narrative the media was pushing and got scared,” Dunfee wrote. They made a decision to try and protect their brand and avoid negative PR (they don’t care about athlete welfare).”
• Japan Athletics Officials Slame Decision To Move Olympic Marathon And Race Walks From Tokyo To Sapporo JAAF training chief Kazunori Asaba said, “It’s like the athletes who had been training for many years to climb Everest were told just nine months before they would go to a different mountain.”

Doping News

• BBC:WADA To Investigate All NOP Athletes WADA president Craig Reedie: “The clear question is did any of the allegations concerning Salazar and his operations result in athletes cheating themselves, which might have influenced their performance and might have involved the winning of competitions. We need to look at that and we will.” *Discuss
• Belarusian HJer Dzmitry Jabokau Gets 1 Month Doping Ban After Positive Test For Diuretic
• MB:Team sky doctor admits to ordering testosterone

2019 USATf 5k Champs *Top 10 Results

LRCUSATF 5k Quick Takes: Rowbury and Jenkins Talk NOP, Aaron Templeton Breaks Out, and Jessica Tonn Returns Home We caught up with the top performers in NY this morning including the winners – Shannon Rowbury (15:43) and Anthony Rotich (13:48).
*MB: Eric Jenkins on Salazar: “I totally understand why he’d get banned…(He) pushed the line and clearly he pushed it too far.”

LRC Scott Simmons Raves About Anthony Rotich’s Potential: “I Honestly Think He’s a Guy Who Can Medal on the World Stage” Rotich, a 4-time NCAA champ in college, is now a US citizen and Olympic medallist hopeful according to coach Scott Simmons.

British Olympic Sprinter James Ellington Launches Legal Action Against Former Teammate Nigel Levine Over Motorcycle Crash Ellington says he needs money to continue training and rehabbing from the injuries he sustained in the crash where Levine was driving. But Ellington is also suing the driver of the car which seems strange because the crash can’t be both Levine or the other driver’s fault.

Previous NYC News

LRC For Sara Hall, A Dream Deferred Led to a Passion Realized 10 years ago, Sara Hall did not love running but felt obligated to do it even though she finished last at USAs as her husband Ryan was a star. Now, at age 36, the mother of 4 is the star and loving the sport more than ever and thriving with Ryan as her coach.
*MB: Jonathan Gault takes a look at the incredible resurgence of Sara Hall. Better than ever at age 36!

LRC Des Linden on the Olympics, Her Running Future, & the Great Shoe Debate: “It’s an Arms Race and It Should Be a Footrace.” Des Linden is free to speak her mind and she didn’t hold back when discussing her future, the new shoe wars and Rio 2016 – specifically did Shalane Flanagan and Amy Cragg have an unfair advantage?

• IAAF Profile:Age No Barrier For 42-Year-Old Australian Marathoner Sinead Diver As She Heads To NYC Diver didn’t start running until she was a 33-years-old mom and made a breakthrough just last year when she ran 2:25:19 at the Melbourne Marathon (she then ran 2:24:11 for 7th place in London).
• RRW Tyler Pennel Ready for Long-Awaited Marathon Comeback At TCS New York City Marathon This will be OT 5th placer Pennel’s first marathon in 18-months as he’s been struggling with a string of injuries.
• Forbes Q&A With Geoffrey Kamworor Ahead Of NYC “I compare my career to climbing a tree. I’m always trying to climb up to the next branch and forget what I’ve left behind.”
• Mary Keitany Craves a Fifth NYC Marathon Title If she does, she won’t have the record for the most NYC wins though as Grete Waitz won the race nine times between 1978 and 1988.
• NY Times:The Best Places to Watch the New York City Marathon
• 15 Celebrities Running The NYC Marathon

College / HS News

• LA Times:NCAA Now Allowing NCAA Athletes To Benefit From Their Own Name, Image And Likeness However, it’s still unclear exactly what this rule change means for athletes as far as what kind of “compensation” they can collect.
• 7-Time Colorado State Champion Cole Sprout Commits To Stanford Sprout was 3rd at NXN last year and has PBs of 4:04.19 and 8:40.73 for 3200m. *Discuss
• MB:HS track coach Vicki Huber (former Olympian) is latest to claim that allowing trans-women to compete as women ruins sports “I will never support a scenario where a female has to step to the starting line to race against a male, even if that male identifies as a female.”
• NCAA Athletes Of The Week Are Norfolk State’s Meshack Kipchirchir And Martha Bissah They won their respective races at the MEAC Conference Championships.
• Bummer:Avila University (NAIA) Cuts Track And Field Team One Month Before Its First Meet

Olympic News

• AP:Tokyo 2020 Officials In Feud With IOC Over Marathon Move It’s estimated that it will cost $310 million to move the marathon and there is talk that Tokyo could sue the IOC for damages.
• A Look At How Hot Tokyo 2020 Might Be Compared To Past Olympic Games Looking at historical averages, Tokyo 2020 would have the fourth hottest average high temperature. Athens 2004 and Atlanta 1996 were the two hottest.
• The Telegraph:Will A ” No-Deal Brexit” Hurt The UK’s Olympic Medal Haul? Some fear that the economy will be hurt so severely that elite sport funding will be cut.
• Russian Paralympic Committee Claims Even If Russia Is Banned From The Tokyo 2020 Olympics, It Won’t Keep Them From The Tokyo 2020 Paralympics This is a comment from the head of the RPC, so might just be wishful thinking.

Amateur US Road Action

• Ex Midshipman Jordan Tropf wins Marine Corps Marathon in 2:27:43 Tropf is doing his best juggling orthopedic surgery residency with two 24 hour shifts per week and training. He says it has been demoralizing to see the two zeros for mileage when he’s working the 24 hour shifts but thinks he’s been averaging about 90 miles per week.
• Comedian Brittany Charboneau misses goal of 2:37:00 course record but comes away with Marine Corps Marathon win in 2:44:47
• Chris Naimoli (48:37) And Fiona Bayly (57:58) Win At US Masters 15k Champs In Tulsa