Quote Of The Day
– 1996 Olympic shot put silver medalist John Godina talking about how he’s recently become a runner and ran his first half marathon last week in Atlanta.
- Why wouldn't testing positive for EPO be an automatic disqualifier for US citizenship? EPO cheat Ridouane Harroufi gets citizenship, win US 15k title
- Massive horse racing doping bust
- Yikes at the NJ Meet of Champions- Bell was rung a lap early in boy 1600m
- Molly Huddle article on Slate - She flew middle seat to ATL and had to race in flats that were worn down
- Tuohy not listed in any ind. events at NB Nationals.... Is she dodging starliper/dudek?
- I've decided to just train how I want. I don't follow a system, coaches, or training cycles.
- Why arent the elite runners using recovery boots for removing soreness?
- Running under 50 for 400m
- MY SCHOOLS SHUTING DOWN WHITCH MEANS NO SPRING TRACK
- Buying 4% in 2020?
- Colleen Quigley || American record 3km attempt (Video)
2020 NCAA Indoors Are This Weekend
LRC 2020 NCAA Indoors Men’s Mid-D/Distance Preview: Studs Galore & Wide-Open Races We break down the men’s distance action for this weekend’s NCAA Champs which are LOADED with 11 guys under 3:58, 12 guys under 7:50, 4 under 13:30 plus the fastest DMR team in NCAA history.
*MB: 2020 NCAA Indoors men’s fields are LOADED. Who you got?
Random But Interesting
- 1996 Olympic Shot Put Silver Medalist John Godina Ran His First Half Marathon Last Week In Atlanta “I see why people get hooked on this now because it’s more than just a sport. It’s something you can do forever.”
German Florian Neuschwander Breaks 50K Treadmill World Record He ran 2:57:25 to break the record by 1:38 which was set just six week earlier.- Japan’s National Public Broadcaster NHK To Provide Tokyo 2020 Olympic Coverage In 8k
Doping News
27 People, Including Trainers And Veterinarians, Indicted In Horse Racing Doping Scheme One horse trainer is accused of working with someone else to “quietly dispose of the bodies of dead horses,” rather than report those horses’ deaths to authorities. *Discuss- Jo Pavey And Other British Athletes Call On Authorities To Investigate UKA And Its Use Of Alberto Salazar And Thyroid Meds Former GB 800m runner Emma Jackson believes high levels of thyroxine, prescribed by a UKA doctor, ruined her career.
- AIU Says They’re Taking On Potential “Rampant, Unchecked” Doping In The Marathon They have found that in 2018, in non-World Marathon Major races, 70 to 80 percent of the podium finishers didn’t have any out-of-competition tests in the 9 months leading up to the race.
- CAS Hears Case For Five Russians Appealing Their Banns Including 2012 Olympic HJ Champ Ivan Ukhov
- WADA Fail With Bid To Hold Russia Doping Case Hearing In Public WADA had asked for the hearing to be staged in public “to ensure that everybody understands the process and hears the arguments” and RUSADA agreed, but it sounds like either the IOC or Russian Olympic Committee prevented it.
Gender News
InsideTheGames:IOC Attempt To Find Balance Between Fairness And Inclusion In Debate Over Transgender Athletes The IOC dropped the ball on this one as their current rules require trans women athletes to keep testosterone levels under 10 nanomoles per liter when women’s levels normally range from 0.12 to 1.79 nmol/l. And many would argue transgender athletes shouldn’t be allowed to compete in the women’s category at all.- IOC Approve Joint Flagbearers And Quotas For Increased Gender Balance At Olympics Flags can now be carried by one man and one woman.
- World Athletics:Gender Leadership On The Rise At All Levels Of Athletics
- WA Vice President Ximena Restrepo: “Gender Equity Is Fundamental To Making Athletics Grow”
Distance News
Good Read: Riley Masters Write About His First Sub-4 He ran 11 Years Ago “As I looked over at the clock and saw 3:59.97 next to my name, I was completely euphoric. Seconds earlier my body was as heavy and exhausted as it had ever been. In an instant, I felt immortal.”- Jake Riley Discusses Making The Olympic Team In Dramatic Fashion In Podcast Interview With Carrie Tollefson Riley also talks about his training and plans for Tokyo 2020.
- Citius Mag Podcast: Jacob Riley Explains How He Ran the Race of His Life to Make the Olympics + His Remarkable Comeback Story
*Podcast With Riley’s Coach Lee Troop - Japanese Olympic Marathon Team To Visit Grave Of Kokichi Tsuburaya To Inherit Legacy Of Late 1964 Olympic Bronze Medalist
- Carrie Tollefson Does Podcast Interview With Meb Keflezighi Breaking Down The Olympic Marathon Trials
- Jo Pavey Encouraged Women And Girls To Get Active For International Women’s Day Last Weekend
Jarrion Lawson Cleared
Jarrion Lawson Cleared To Compete By CAS (link fixed) Lawson said he ate tainted beef and CAS apparently has agreed with him. Seems like a win for due process. *Discuss
Previous: A Life On Pause: Jarrion Lawson’s Career Hangs In The Balance As He Fights His Four-Year Doping Ban – And The Global Anti-Doping System
Our Post Trials Podcast
LRC Olympic Marathon Trials Mania Recap Podcast + Tokyo & The Shoes Get the lowdown on everything at the 2020 Olympic Marathon Trials in Atlanta including the party scene.
Mid-D News
Caster Semenya Says That She’s Going To Compete At The Tokyo Olympics, Even If Not In The 400, 800 Or 1,500 “I’m going to surprise you … and you”e going to like the surprise.”
*MB: What event/sport will Caster Semenya be competing in at Tokyo 2020?- David Rudisha To Make Decision On Olympics In May Rudisha hasn’t raced since 2017 and said he put on a lot of weight which he has to lose (up to 196 pounds from the 165 when he set his WR).
- Indian Mid-Distance Runner Prachi Choudhary Suspended After Failing Drug Test
Assorted Non-Distance News
Good Read:Track And Field News: 10 Questions With Usain Bolt Bolt answers questions about his favorite race, why he never broke the WR again, soccer, the NFL, will he ever run a marathon and the Nike shoe controversy.- Mondo Duplantis To Feature In New Documentary That Is Three Years In The Making The documentary has actually followed Duplantis for the last three years and includes many interesting insights like Duplantis arguing with his father about having to go to college for one year (you already know who won that argument). *Website/Trailer
- European Athletics Takes A “Closer Look At Mondo Duplantis’ Incredible Indoor Season” Duplantis broke the pole vault WR twice and cleared the 6.00m barrier in all five of his competitions (he’s only the second pole vaulter in history to do that since Sergey Bubka did in 1991).
- BBC Video:Dina Asher-Smith Has A Barbie Modeled After Her She said she was “taken aback by the likeness.”
- Miltiadis Tentoglou Jumps European Leading 8.26m To Win LJ At The Greek Indoor Champs
- The Telegraph: Jessica Ennis-Hill Vs. Katarina Johnson-Thompson: Who Is Stronger In The Heptathlon? Johnson-Thompson has the slightly better PR (6981 to 6955), but Ennis-Hill won more titles and was more consistent.
Admin/Olympic News
NBC Sports Announce Olympic Advertising Record For Tokyo 2020 After Breaking $1.2 Billion Barrier 90% of the available ad space for Tokyo 2020 has been sold with 5 months to go to the games (which is more than the total that was sold for the entirety of Rio 2016).- RIP Former USATF President Bill Roe Roe served as president for two terms from 2000-2008. *Discuss
- The Telegraph: Tokyo Olympics 2020 Medal Table: How Does It Work, Which Country Usually Wins And What Are Britain’s Hopes? Interesting note: the US has topped the medal table in 17 out of the 27 Olympics they’ve competed at.
- Logo Revealed For The World Athletics U20 Championships In Nairobi
- Toyota Announced As Exclusive Presenting Sponsor Of The Penn Relays
- Tokyo 2020 Release First Moving Pictograms To Represent Each Olympic Sport
- Need A Job? World Athletics Hiring An eLearning Manager For Its Monaco HQ
- Postcard Lottery For Tokyo 2020 Tickets Opens In Japan
Some Recent International Results
Brazil’s Johnatas de Oliveira And Canada’s Genevive Lalonde Win Pan Am XC Cup Hosted In Langford, Canada USA’s Anthony Rotich and Carrie Verdon were the runner-ups. USA won the overall team competition. *Athletics Illustrated Recap *Results- Australian High Jumper Eleanor Patterson Breaks 31-Year-Old National Record With 1.99m In New Zealand
- World Athletics Round-Up: World Champion Anzhelika Sidorova Sets PV World Lead With 4.95m At The Pole Vault Festival In Moscow (Equal #3 On The World Indoor All-Time List)
- Karsten Warholm Wins His Season Opener 400m With A European-Leading 45.97 At The Karsten Warholm International Yes, apparently there is a meet in Norway named after him.
- Belgium’s Nafissatou Thiam Breaks LJ National Record With 6.79m At The French Indoor Championships She actually broke the record with all three of her jumps, though she was still short of her 6.86m outdoor PR.
- Filip Mihaljevic Throws His Third Croatian Indoor Record Of The Month With 21.84m To Win At The Serbian Open Indoor Meeting
- Miltiadis Tentoglou Jumps European Leading 8.26m To Win LJ At The Greek Indoor Champs
Fast Times At BU *Results
LRC BU Last Chance Friday Results: Shadrack Kipchirchir Runs 13:08, Fast Mile/1,500s And Mary Cain’s Comeback Continues There was more fast action in Boston on Friday night highlighted by a deep men’s 5,000m where the top 6 ran under 13:14. Two UO men ran 3:55 in the mile, Cain improved to 9:07 and Kate Grace moved to #3 on the US indoor 1,000m all-time list.
LRC Karissa Schweizer Outkicks Shelby Houlihan To Crush American 3,000m Record In Boston Schweizer, Houlihan and Colleen Quigley all broke the previous American record. Vanessa Fraser – yes, Vanessa Fraser – became the 2nd-fastest American ever indoors at 5k, and Josh Thompson got the Olympic standard.
- BBC: Marc Scott Breaks Mo Farah’s British And European Indoor 5,000m Record With 13:08.87 In Boston Farah’s record was 13:09.16 and he actually ran that in the final indoor race of his career at the 2017 Birmingham GP.
- MB: Mary Cain is back? Runs huge SB of 9:07 3k at Boston University
- Oregon’s James West Breaks NCAA Indoor 1,500m Record With 3:36.93 At BU Last Chance West broke Edward Cheserek‘s 3:37.01, finishing 4th in the race won by BTC’s Josh Thompson in 3:34.77. Lopez Lomong won the 3,000m in 7:37.74 over Ryan Hill (7:38.03) and Evan Jager (7:38.25).
- MB: Schweizzer Outkicks Shelby Houlihan for 8:25 AMERICAN RECORD
- MB: Koko Destroys Bowerman Women (14:30), Vanessa Fraser 14:48 #2 American All-Time Indoors
- MB: Tinman Elite – Boston 5k Predictions
- MB: Vanessa Fraser 14:48 at BU
- MB: Gwen is back baby! 15:10
Celebrate The 40th Anniversary Of America’s First And Only Men’s World XC Champion
LRC Craig Virgin Recalls His Epic Victory At The World Cross-Country Championships, 40 Years Later Only one American man has ever won World XC. In his own words, Virgin describes how he survived his four “moments of truth” to win in Paris in 1980, where he celebrated with champagne long into the night.
Coronavirus Updates
Molly Huddle Writes About How The Coronavirus Has Affected Her As A Pro Athlete Trying To Make Tokyo 2020 Huddle was affected at the Trials as she had to race in an older pair of shoes because the pair of Saucony flats she ordered never came because the Chinese factory had been shut down.
*MB: Molly Huddle article on Slate – She flew middle seat to ATL and had to race in flats that were worn down- 2020 USATF Masters Indoor Championships Cancelled Due To Coronavirus
- Coronavirus Strikes Again: Tokyo 2020 Olympic Flame Lighting (March 12th) To Be Held Without Spectators
- Italian Olympic Committee Suspends All Sport In Country Amid Coronavirus Outbreak With 366 dead, Italy is the worst hit after China. Up to 16 million people in northern Italy now need permission to travel under quarantine rules.
- World University XC Champs Were Also Postponed Due To Coronavirus
- MB: Ohio State just canceled classes due to coronavirus
- MB: MY SCHOOLS SHUTING DOWN WHITCH MEANS NO SPRING TRACK
Sprint Stuff
Wayde van Niekerk Says He “Still Wants So Much Greater Things” van Niekerk says he’s still hungry and wants to be back competing with the best in the world.
- World Athletics Profile: How Motherhood Helped Allyson Felix Find Her Voice Not having her Nike contract renewed after giving birth motivated her to speak out about maternity protection for athletes which spurred Nike to change its contracts.
- USA’s Mixed 4 X 400 World Record And Yaroslava Mahuchikh’s World U20 Indoor HJ Record Ratified By World Athletics The team of Wil London, Allyson Felix, Courtney Okolo and Michael Cherry ran 3:09.34 to win gold in Doha.
Shoe Debate/Analysis
Ireland’s 1984 Olympic Marathon Silver Medalist John Treacy Thinks Nike’s Shoes Are “Undermining The Integrity Of The Sport” “I think World Athletics have made a mistake, not only in allowing the advantage, which in my view is unfair, but putting other runners at a disadvantage if they are not wearing this shoe. And I think it needs to be looked at again, urgently.”- Japan Running News:28 Of The Top 30 Men At The Tokyo Marathon Used Nike Next% Or Alphaflys 10 Japanese men ran under 2:08 in the same race for the first time in history (all 10 were wearing the shoes). Remember, RW’s article said that 94% of finishers at the US Trials wore shoes with carbon fiber plates.
College / HS News
MB:Katelyn Tuohy Sets Indoor 1,500m PR (4:20.81) With Significant Negative Split- Huntington Women Capture School’s First NAIA Title
*MB: Decathlon?! Easy! Two distance athletes combined to run 19 races over 3 days to lead their team to the NAIA title - William Carey Men Win NAIA Champs
- Iowa Central CC Men And New Mexico JC Women Win NJCAA Indoor Champs
- Former Wesleyan Women’s XC Runners Speak Out On Culture Of Eating Disorders And Injuries Some former runners allege head coach John Crooke pressured them to lose significant amounts of weight. *Discuss
- MB:New Jersey Meet of Champs is ONE FOR THE AGES!
- Jamaica Carifta Games Trials Day 1 Recap
More Coronavirus News
London Marathon Organizers Fear “Unofficial” Runs If Race Is Cancelled They claim, “There could be a whole lot of other problems if it doesn’t take place” and use the 2012 NYC Marathon as an example (many runners still ran a marathon in Central Park after Hurricane Sandy cancelled the race). However, that is very different because NYC was cancelled two days before the race and many people had already traveled there. London is still over a month away.- Barcelona Marathon Postponed Due To Coronavirus October is going to be a very busy marathon month this year.
- Tokyo Organizers Downsize Arrival Ceremony For Olympic Torch Due To Coronavirus The Olympic torch will be lighted on March 12th in a ceremony in Greece and then flown to Japan, arriving on March 20th.
- MB: Italy to QUARANTINE 16 MILLION in Eleven States . . . Until April!
LRC Book Review
LRC Book Review: “Sporting Gender” Offers Much-Needed History And Context On A Challenging Topic Written by medical physicist Joanna Harper, the book is part scientific explainer, part history lesson, part personal story and attacks a tricky subject from multiple angles.
Long-D News
Targeting His Fourth Straight Title Geoffrey Kamworor Leads Kenyan Squad For World Half Champs 2018 bronze medalist Pauline Kamulu heads the women’s team.- Kenenisa Bekele On Mo Farah’s 10,000m Chances In Tokyo:“He has a very big chance to win, he’s strong enough to win and, unlike most people, he knows how to do it.”
- Chris Thompson And Lily Partridge Lead GB World Half Teams
NCAA Champs Are Next Weekend
- List Of Qualifiers Announced For The 2020 NCAA DI Indoor Championships NCAAs start next Friday in Albuquerque.
LSU Men Take Over The #1 Spot In Post-Conference Champs NCAA Rankings Oregon moved up three spots to #2, NAU down to #3 and Texas stayed #4.- LSU Women Remain Ranked #1 Post Conference Championships Southern California moved up to #2, Texas A&M up to #3 and Georgia down to 4th.
- The Bowerman: 2020 Men’s Pre-NCAA Indoor Watch List NAU’s Tyler Day and Texas A&M’s Devin Dixon are the two lone distance runners on the list.
- Bowerman Women’s Watch List Updated Distance runners have six of the ten spots on the list with Penn’s Nia Akins, Arkansas Katie Izzo, Colorado’s Dani Jones, New Mexico’s Weini Kelati, Wisconsin’s Alicia Monson and BYU’s Whittni Orton.
- Iowa State’s Edwin Kurgat And LSU’s Tonea Marshall Are NCAA Athletes Of The Week Kurgat scored 26 points at Big 12 champs (winning the 5k/3 and third in the mile) while Marshall won the SEC 60H title in an world U20 record of 7.91.
- Event-By-Event Top-10 NCAA Marks From Last Week
More US Olympic Marathon Trials Post-Race News
LRCWhy Did So Many Favorites Bomb, Meet Molly Seidel’s 25-Year-Old Coach, & More Odds & Ends From The 2020 US Olympic Marathon Trials We share 8 more thoughts about the crazy results at the 2020 US Olympic Marathon Trials in Atlanta. Plus learn about the 10th place finisher who got engaged at the finish.
LRCMeet Marty Hehir, The Med Student And Father Who, Despite Taking A Poop Break At Mile 18, Ran A Huge PR To Finish 6th At The US Olympic Marathon Trials The Reebok Boston Track Club runner had a great race. And we have the answer to the question we know you all are asking: “Did he wipe?”
*MB: Trials mystery solved. Did Marty Hehir wipe when he took his poop break at mile 18 at the US Olympic Marathon Trials
US Olympic Marathon Trials *Tracking & Results*Post-Race Videos
LRC Galen Rupp Is Golden As Unsponsored Jake Riley And 43-Year-Old Abdi Abdirahman Make Olympic Marathon Team Rupp won it handily in 2:09:20 while there was a 3-way battle for the last two spots with Riley taking 2nd (2:10:02), and Abdi 3rd (2:10:03). Leonard Korir finished the dreaded 4th in 2:10:06.
LRCIn A Wildly Unpredictable Race, Aliphine Tuliamuk, Molly Seidel, & Sally Kipyego Earn Olympic Marathon Spots updatedTuliamuk and Seidel make their first Olympics (Seidel in her marathon debut) and Kipyego makes her first US team. Des Linden tried to reel in Kipyego, but came up short in 4th (2:29:03).
LRC Unsponsored Jake Riley Makes All The Right Moves To Earn Olympic Berth In Atlanta Jake Riley was a big surprise at the Trials.
Our Final HOKA ONE ONE Trials Athlete Of The Day (Sponsored By HOKA ONE ONE)
LRC Kellyn Taylor: After Finishing 4th In 2016, Can #4 Seed Kellyn Taylor Earn Career-Defining Olympic Spot? On the one hand, Kellyn Taylor says her “life is not and will never be all about running.” On the other hand, she says if you are a pro runner, you need to be an Olympian as it’s a career-defining accomplishment.
LRC HOKA NAZ Elite Pros Podcast Before The Trials: Can One Of Them Make The Team!? Hear from Kellyn Taylor, Stephanie Bruce, Aliphine Tuliamuk (3 of the top 10 seeds on the women’s side) and Scott Fauble (#3 seed for men), Sid Vaughn and Scott Smith (2:11 marathon).
NCAA News
- LSU Stay #1 In Pre-NCAA Champs Men’s Rankings NAU moved up to #2 and Oregon down to #3. Texas is ranked #4.
- No Changes To The Top 6 Teams In Pre-NCAA Champs Women’s Rankings LSU, Southern California, Texas A&M and Georgia are ranked 1-4.
- Ken Goe: Indications Are The New Hayward Field Will Be Ready For This Year’s PAC-12 Meet Starting On May 16
Women’s Field Event News
British Heptathlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson Reveals Her Body Image Struggles Growing Up She says she was “ashamed of my muscles” when she was younger. “I used to look at the photos of myself competing and critique myself. I don’t do that anymore.”- Olympic Discus Champ Sandra Perkovic Sets Early Season World Lead With 65.93m In Croatia
- Katarina Johnson-Thompson Meets And Remenices With GB’s 1972 Olympic Pentathlon Champ Mary Peters Peters tells some interesting stories from her day as an athlete including how she trained in the hallways of the school where she worked (as a teacher and secretary) and once ran into and shattered a glass door. *2nd Article
- World Athletics Profile On Mondon Duplantis’ Mother Helena, Who Represented Sweden In The Heptathlon At Multiple International Championships
Weekend Road Results *US 15k Champs Results
Marielle Hall Dominates USATF 15k Championships In 48:52; Ridouane Harroufi Wins In 44:42 Hall won over Natosha Rogers (49:50) with Gwen Jorgensen 4th (50:26). Harroufi won by 1 second over Frank Lara as the top 4 finished within 4 seconds of each other. *Discuss
- Ethiopia’s Bayelign Teshager (2:08:25), Kenya’s Margaret Muriuki (2:29:57) Win L.A. Marathon Teshager beat out John Langat by 16 seconds while Muriuki won by 3:01 over Ethiopia’s Almaz Negede. *Results
- Mao Ichiyama Runs 2:20:29 To Win Nagoya Women’s Marathon And Land Final Place On Japan Olympic Team To the make the team she needed to be the first Japanese woman across the line and do it under the 2:21:47 that Mizuki Matsuda ran to win January’s Osaka Women’s Marathon. Ichiyama did that, winning by over 2 minutes to knock Matsuda off the team.
- Kenya’s Evans Chebet Beats Out South Africa’s Stephen Mokoka 2:07:29 To 2:08:05 To Win The Lake Biwa Mainichi Marathon
More Coronavirus Stuff
- Athletes Not Yet In Australia Banned From Queensland Classic Meet Due Coronavirus Fears About 35 athletes, mainly from Japan, who were due to come to Australia will not be able to compete in the meet on March 20th.
- WADA To Monitor Anti-Doping Activity In Coronavirus-Hit Areas WADA wants to make sure there aren’t “gaps” in testing in coronavirus hit areas.
- RW: What Runners Need To Know About Coronavirus
- Tokyo Marathon Foundation Donates Extra Masks And Disinfectants To Schools And Hospitals
- July 5 Hakodate Marathon (Japan) To Make A Decision By End Of May Whether To Cancel
- MB:Should I ditch easy runs until this Coronavirus business is over?
- MB:The Boston Marathon CAN NOT be cancelled because it’s higher priority than other events
- MB:Coronavirus is inevitable so why the useless containment
More Shoes / Trials
Rojo Speaks It’s Official: Nike’s Vaporfly Shoe Technology And World Athletics’ Shoe Rules Have Ruined The Marathon (At Least Temporarily)The Olympic Trials and the first 3 super-elite marathons of 2020 show one thing: shoes really matter and they are creating an uneven playing field in the sport.
Coronavirus Cancels World Half Champs And Two More Big City Marathons
- World Half Marathon Championships Postponed Due To Coronavirus They were set to be held in Gdynia, Poland on March 29th, but have been postponed until October 17th.
- Paris Marathon Postponed Due To Coronavirus Outbreak In France The race was set for April 5th, but has been postponed until October 18th. France has had 423 cases of coronavirus with seven deaths. *Discuss
- Rome Marathon Cancelled Due To Coronavirus The race was scheduled for March 29. Italy has had 3,200 cases and 148 deaths. *Discuss
- Thomas Bach Reassures Athletes The IOC Will Addresses Challenges Posed By Coronavirus Even if the Games themselves go on, many qualifying events have been cancelled.
- MB: Will you train through the corona virus?
- MB: Why are there so many people here who claim the coronavirus isn’t an issue?
The Diamond League Starts Next Month
April 17:Joe Kovacs And Ryan Crouser Announced For Doha DL- June 6-7:Seven Members Of The 22-Meter Club Set For Pre Classic Shot Put Includes Ryan Crouser, Joe Kovacs and Tom Walsh.
- July 4-5: Mondo Duplantis Confirmed For London Diamond League PV
Coronavirus Dominating The Headlines
LA Marathon To Go Ahead As Planned This Weekend Despite Coronavirus Fears
- NY Times: How the Coronavirus Has Disrupted Sports Events A look at the postponements and cancellations in Asia and elsewhere.
- USA Today: Coronavirus Already Creating Chaos For Tokyo Games
- USATF Addresses Conovirus Concerns
- NCAA Forms Coronavirus Advisory Panel At this point, NCAA championships are to go on as planned.
- European Athletics Task Force To Monitor Coronavirus Outbreak
Doping News
World Steeplechase Champion Ruth Jebet Gets 4-Year Ban After Being Found Guilty Of EPO Doping She was originally suspended back in February 2018 when she failed an out-of-competition test.- AIU Head Brett Clothier Says “There Will Be [Doping] Cases Before The Olympics That Will Shock People” (article behind paywall) The AIU has made great strides in the fight against anti-doping in the three years since it was formed 3 years ago. They have double the funding the old IAAF anti-doping department had, they are completely independent and they take an intelligence-based approach to testing. Rather than doing a bunch of randomly timed tests on random athletes, they target certain athletes at specific times for specific substances.
- An Interesting Non-Doping Ban:Panamanian Sprinter Virjilio Griggs Gets 4-Year Ban For Falsifying Results In Attempt To Gain Entry To The 2017 World Championships Griggs admitted to sending a document with forged results which took a meet from Texas and replaced the date/venue and the second place finisher to make it look like he ran 10.11 in the 100m.
- Ukraine’s Two-Time European 800m Champ Nataliya Krol Suspended After Failing Drug Test
Tokyo Marathon And London Half *Tokyo TV And Streaming Info
Ethiopia’s Birhanu Legese Retains Tokyo Marathon Crown In 2:04:15 As Israel’s Lonah Chemtai Salpeter Smashes Course Record With 2:17:45 The men’s side was super-deep with 17 men running under 2:08 with Belgium’s Bashir Abdi (2:04:49) and Ethiopia’s Sisay Lemma (2:04:51) taking second and third. On the women’s side, the top 5 were under 2:22 with Birhane Dibaba second in 2:18:35.
*MB:Tokyo Official Discussion Thread
Japan Running News Tokyo Recap The Japanese depth here was crazy with Suguruo Osako holding on to his Olympic spot by breaking his own NR in 4th with 2:05:29 while another eight Japanese men ran between 2:06:45 and 2:07:45.
*MB: Suguru Osako runs 2:05:29 National Record, Non-African-Born Record
London Big Half:
Kenenisa Bekele Breaks Mo Farah’s Course Record With 60:22 At The Big Half In London GB’s Lily Partridge won the women’s race in 70:50.
*MB: Bekele runs 1:00:22 at Vitality Big Half!
*MB: Bekele had on Next Percents today in the 1/2 marathon and lots of runners opted for the Next Percents yesterday
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