Mary Cain Makes Serious Allegations Against Alberto Salazar And Nike

LRC Nike, Alberto Salazar and Top Pros Respond To Mary Cain’s Allegations Nike has issued a statement saying they will start an immediate investigation of the “troubling allegations” while Cain has confirmed she did try to rejoin the team in April of this year. Additionally, three former NOP members have said Salazar was very focused on the weight of his female athletes, but Salazar has issued a forceful denial of Cain’s allegations, writing to Ken Goe, “To be clear, I never encouraged her, or worse yet, shamed her, to maintain an unhealthy weight.”
*Salazar Denies Cain’s Allegations Salazar tells Ken Goe that both of Cain’s parents, including her father who is an MD, were deeply involved in her training and aware of all supplement she was on. He says when Cain struggled “to find and maintain her ideal performance and training weight” he referred her to a female doctor. He also shared a text message from April where Cain wrote, “Thanks again so much for a great trip — I’m excited to be working together again and I really want this.”
*Mary Cain and her mother go on Good Morning America

LRC Full Transcript of NY Times Video: Mary Cain Says She Was “Emotionally And Physically Abused By A System Designed By Alberto [Salazar] And Endorsed By Nike” In an explosive New York Times video essay, Cain claims she was pressured by Salazar to lose weight (to get down to 114 pounds) and was weighed in front of teammates and “publicly shamed” if she didn’t hit weight. She also says Salazar wanted her to take birth control pills and diuretics to shed pounds – the latter of which is against track and field’s rules according to Cain. Cain also says she became suicidal and started to cut herself and says when she told Alberto Salazar and Darren Treasure that she was cutting herself that “they pretty much told me that they just wanted to go to bed.”
*MB: Explosive New York Times article: Mary Cain breaks silence about NOP

• Amy Yoder Begley On Twitter: “After placing 6th in the 10,000m at the 2011 USATF championships, I was kicked out of the Oregon Project. I was told I was too fat and ‘had the biggest but on the startling line.'”
• Mary Cain Story Picked Up By People Magazine On twitter, Jonathan Marcus was the meet director for the 2015 Oxy meet and confirmed Cain’s story about Salazar yelling at her in public for “gaining weight.”

Distance News

• Laura Muir Aiming To Break 1000m World Record At Glasgow Grand Prix In February Muir sits second on the all-time list with her 2:31.93 only behind Maria Mutola‘s 2:30.94 from 1999.
• Q&A With Ajee Wilson On Her Early Years In The Sport Wilson shares her advice to high schoolers and talks about where she got her best advice and who she looked up to as a young athlete.
• Five-Time World XC Champ And Former Marathon WR Holder Paul Tergat Honored At International Athletics Film Festival In Spain Tergat received a trophy and a two-minute video review of his greatest races was shown.
• Finalists Announced For 2019 IAAF Male Rising Star Award The list includes World 5000m silver medalist Selemon Barega and Jakob Ingebrigsten.

Doping News

• WADA To Meet With Russia To Discuss Laboratory Inconsistencies Later This Month According to ARD journalist Hajo Seppelt, Russia failed to answer WADA’s questions regarding the data. They only answered 23 of 31 question and didn’t answer them fully.
• USADA Head Travis Tygart Blasts Investigation Into NOP Athletes Calling It A Waste Of Time Tygart says USADA already “left no stone unturned” in its years-long investigation into Alberto Salazar.
• WADA President Craig Reedie Says They May Retest Old Stored Samples For NOP Athletes
• UK Anti-Doping Reviewing Whether It Needs To Follow WADA’s Lead To Investigate Salazar-Coached Athletes
• IOC Pledges $10 Million To WADA Half of the money will go toward storing samples from pre-Olympic testing and the other half toward investigation and research.
• RUSADA Head Yuri Ganus Calls On President Vladimir Putin To Support Anti-Doping Movement
• Kenyan Teenager Angela Ndungwa Munguti Fails Doping Test
• AP: Two Russians Banned For Doping At Past Olympics Sprinter Yulia Gushchina and LJer Anna Klyashtornaya both received bans, although neither of them are still competing. Russian shot putter Olesya Sviridova also received a new 4-year ban after it was discovered he violated the terms of his previous doping ban.
• WADA To Launch New Whereabouts App This Month Many athletes have complained that the previous one was difficult to use.

2019 TCS NYC Marathon *Men’s Preview *Women’s Preview *Tracking & Results *TV & Streaming

LRC Geoffrey Kamworor Powers to Second NYC Marathon Title in Three Years Kamworor ran his final 10k in 29:14 and got the win as Jared Ward took top American honors in 6th and Abdi Abdirahman set a new US masters record of 2:11:34 at age 42.

LRC Joyciline Jepkosgei Dazzles in Marathon Debut, Just Misses Course Record The half marathon world record holder just missed the course record with her 2:22:38 win. Des Linden led early and ended up the top American in 6th in 2:26:42.

• RRW: Joyciline Jepkosgei, Geoffrey Kamworor Win TCS New York City Marathon
• NY Times Recap
• AP Recap

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

LRC USATF 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