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Other News Of Note

• Criminal Trial Of Lamine Diack, Who Headed World Athletics From 1999 To 2015, Starts Monday He supposedly took $1.5 million in bribes from Russians “to help back Macky Sall’s campaign for the 2012 Senegal presidential election – which he won – in exchange for the IAAF’s anti-doping arm covering up or delaying offences by 23 Russians.”
• Unbelievable: Salwa Eid Naser Had Already Missed 3 Drug Tests But Was Allowed To Compete When She Won Her WC Gold Last Year Supposedly she was under investigation at Worlds last year but that doesn’t explain why they still hadn’t banned her until she missed a 4th test in January of this year.
• Caster Semenya And Her Wife Drop Hints That They Are Expecting A Baby Soon
• Remembering The Time When Steve Prefontaine Invited Dave Wottle To Eugene In 1973 To Take A Crack At The Mile WR Wottle, the 1972 Olympic 800 champ, said, “I never trained for the 800 meters, always for the mile” and in 1973 he ran 3:53.30 to beat Pre when the WR was Jim Ryun‘s 3:51.1.
• Andy Butchart Says He Wants To Beat Mo Farah If Diamond League Events Happen This Year
• Rai Benjamin: “For me it was just like: how do you run 46 and lose?”
• The 8th Night Of The 10,000m PBs Would Have Been Held Over The Weekend If Not For Covid-19 – A Look At What Makes The Event Special

The World’s Best 400m Runner Got Popped On Friday

Salwa Eid Naser Downplays Her Drug Suspension, Says Missing Three Drug Tests In A Year “Is Normal”

LRC 2019 World 400m Champion Salwa Eid Naser Is Busted For Missing Three Drug Tests – Her Agent Says He Had No Idea She Was Popped Until LetsRun.com Told Him Eid Naser, who last year ran the fastest 400m time since 1985, is the latest athlete represented by Juan Pineda to be suspended for a doping violation following in the footsteps of Abraham Kiptum, Robel Fsiha and Sadik Mikhou.

MB: Bahrain’s world 400m champion Salwa Eid Naser (48.14 pb) suspended for whereabouts failures

From The Archives
2020: MB: Juan Pineda – one athlete dead at 22, one athlete busted for doping, both within 48 hours
2019: MB: On what kind of stuff is Salwa Eid Naser?
2019: MB: Juan Pineda group: Kiptum again with sub 60
2018: MB: Juan Pineda “handler” in Spain- Is Jama Aden really still coaching his athletes?

Sprint / Field News

• Florida HS Vaulter Laine Roberts Is Still Focused On Breaking The 13’3″ Florida HS Mark She set the state record in middle school and has won two states but hasn’t gotten her long-sought HS state record. During Covid-19, she built a pole vault runway in her back yard.
• Catching Up With Reigning Olympic 100, 200m Champ Elaine Thompson During COvid-19

The Latest George Floyd-Related News

• US Indoor 400m Champ Rashard Clark Has An Interesting Perspective To Share He’s black and his mom was an LAPD cop for 40 years but he also was handcuffed and thrown on the ground as a freshman in college by cops when he didn’t do anything. His mom experienced the Rodney King riots and is disappointed not all that much has changed nearly 30 years later.
• Gwen Berry Writes An Open Letter To Share Her “… opinion on the relationship between protests, sport, the Olympics and the role that athletes can play in advocacy for civil rights.”
• Runner’s World: How To Be An Ally To The Black Running Community
• Olympic Civil Rights Icon John Carlos Turns 75
• Jasmine Todd Talks About The Injustice Of Growing Up Black In America
• Police Brutality Exists All Over The World Kenyan Police Have Killed 15 People During Covid-19 Lockdowns

Previous LRC Exclusives

LRC I Was Bored, So I Watched Joan Benoit Samuelson Win The 1984 Olympic Marathon After a runner that was “considerably heavier than the other marathoners” took an early lead, Benoit won the inaugural women’s Olympic marathon thanks to a daring early breakaway, clocking the #3 time ever (at the time) and demolishing a field of studs (Grete Waitz, Ingrid Kristiansen, Rosa Mota) to cement her status as a legend.
*MB: How hot was it really during the 1984 Olympic women’s marathon? The NY Times report on the race says it got up to “near 90” but the weather data doesn’t show that.

LRC’s Weekly Podcast 2020 Boston Marathon Cancelled, Brown Track And Field Cancelled + Guest Tyler Andrews Goes For Treadmill World Record At Chaski Challenge And HSer Joe Fast Joins The Show Listen to the best track and field running podcast on the planet and learn about the guy who may dominate the NCAA men’s 800 for years to come.

The Latest News That We Found Interesting

• World Athletics Headquarters Have Opened; They Immediately Release 4-Year Strategic Plan As Well As 2021 Olympic Qualifying Procedures “Our head office may have been closed for 11 weeks but we have not been idle,” said Seb Coe. As for the Olympics, nothing changes except the qualifying window has been extended into next year.
  *Olympic Qualifying Procedures
  *WA Unveils 4-Year Strategic Plan
  *World Athletics’s New Strategic Plan Includes Support Campaign After Research Shows 88 Per Cent Exercise Boom In Lockdown
• Q&A With Atlanta Track Club Head And 1997 WC Bronze Medalist Rich Kenah Kenah has doubled the ATC budget in six years but unlike Max Siegel, he’s not pulling in 7 figures a year.
• New Book Is Published On Whether Genetics Explains Certain Groups’ Dominance In Certain Sports – How To Argue With A Sport-Loving Racist People of East African descent seem to dominate distance and people of West Africans seem to dominate the sprints. Is that genetic?
• Alexa Efraimson Runs 4:27 1,600 Time Trial She had missed the full indoor season.

• World Athletics Headquarters Have Opened; They Immediately Release 4-Year Strategic Plan As Well As 2021 Olympic Qualifying Procedures “Our head office may have been closed for 11 weeks but we have not been idle,” said Seb Coe. As for the Olympics, nothing changes except the qualifying window has been extended into next year. *Olympic Qualifying Procedures *WA Unveils 4-Year Strategic Plan *World Athletics’s New Strategic Plan Includes Support Campaign After Research Shows 88 Per Cent Exercise Boom In Lockdown
• Q&A With Atlanta Track Club Head And 1997 WC Bronze Medalist Rich Kenah Kenah has doubled the ATC budget in six years but unlike Max Siegel, he’s not pulling in 7 figures a year.
• New Book Is Published On Whether Genetics Explains Certain Groups’ Dominance In Certain Sports – How To Argue With A Sport-Loving Racist People of East African descent seem to dominate distance and people of West Africans seem to dominate the sprints. Is that genetic?
• Alexa Efraimson Runs 4:27 1,600 Time Trial She had missed the full indoor season.

• World Athletics Headquarters Have Opened; They Immediately Release 4-Year Strategic Plan As Well As 2021 Olympic Qualifying Procedures “Our head office may have been closed for 11 weeks but we have not been idle,” said Seb Coe. As for the Olympics, nothing changes except the qualifying window has been extended into next year. *Olympic Qualifying Procedures *WA Unveils 4-Year Strategic Plan *World Athletics’s New Strategic Plan Includes Support Campaign After Research Shows 88 Per Cent Exercise Boom In Lockdown
• Q&A With Atlanta Track Club Head And 1997 WC Bronze Medalist Rich Kenah Kenah has doubled the ATC budget in six years but unlike Max Siegel, he’s not pulling in 7 figures a year.
• New Book Is Published On Whether Genetics Explains Certain Groups’ Dominance In Certain Sports – How To Argue With A Sport-Loving Racist People of East African descent seem to dominate distance and people of West Africans seem to dominate the sprints. Is that genetic?
• Alexa Efraimson Runs 4:27 1,600 Time Trial She had missed the full indoor season.

Athletes Speak Out After George Floyd’s Murder

• Marielle Hall On Her Upbringing And Life Right Now As A Black Distance Runner Hall says that some of her high school friends said people only asked her out “because they were curious about what a ‘black girl would be like.'” She chose to attend the University of Texas because it was a more diverse, inclusive environment.
• Gwen Berry Demands The USOPC Send Her A Written Public Apology For Putting Her On Probation For Her Awards Stand Protest At Pan-Ams Last Year “I want an apology letter … mailed … just like you and the IOC (International Olympic Committee) MAILED ME WHEN YOU PUT ME ON PROBATION. Stop playing with me.”
• American Hammer Throw Record Holder Gwen Berry Says She Doesn’t Regret Her Protest At The Pan Am Games Last Year Even Though It Cost Her $50k “I just felt something. I don’t know what it was. When I was up there, I just felt something come over me. I can’t describe it,” Berry told CBC Sports from Houston. “It was like a spirit. I felt different. It was indescribable but I’ll never forget it or regret it.” *Discuss
• Welsh Sprinter Sam Gordon Says Racism Is A Daily Issue In The UK
• World Athletics And Many Track Stars Tweet Out Support For #BlackLivesMatter
• Former GB Olympian And Harvard Sprinter Chris Lamber Pens “A letter to my white friends.” “We don’t inherit our oppression from our parents, we inherit it from your silence.”
• Noah Lyles And Other US Pros Post On Social Media After George Floyd’s Death Jasmine Todd: “We put the three letters … U S A … on our chest SO PROUDLY … for a country that doesn’t even like or respect US because of OUR skin. A country that statistically sets blacks up for failure. A country that kills us because of our skin color …”
• Michael Johnson Changes His Opinion And Says Prominent Athletes Need To Speak Out After George Floyd’s Death “If you have a platform you owe it to those people, you owe it to those whose lives have been lost, you owe it to our ancestors who fought through the civil rights movement back in the sixties. You owe it to all of them. If you have this position, like I did, you have a prominent position and you’ve benefited from the hard work of all of those people to have what you have, you owe it to all of them to not be silent.”

Bizarre

• US Pole Vaulter Cole Walsh Handed 3-Month Ban For Eating A Chocolate Bar With THC In It Can we stop wasting resources on testing for recreational drugs that don’t help performance?
• Ultrarunner Alyssa Amos Clark Has Broken The Women’s Word Record For Most Consecutive Marathons She’s completed a marathon on her treadmill for 64 straight days and is aiming for 75. The world record was 60. The men’s record is 607. Yes, 607.

Free Training Tips

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