October 24, 2020 Homepage Archive

Field Event News

T&F News Profile On US Triple Jumper Chris Benard Who Talks About The Depth In The US Where Christian Taylor And Will Claye Are #2 And #3 All-Time “In other countries if your national record is 17.20m you’re going to feel very accomplished at 17.10m, but in our country you don’t feel that.”
2012 Olympic Pole Vault Champ Jenn Suhr To Release New Book, “Running Into the Headwind” In the story Suhr and her husband and coach, Rick, tell the behind the scenes stories of her career.
Pretty Cool: NZ Shot Putter Jacko Gill Gets Put On Postage Stamp It was very appropriate as his dad his a major stamp collector.

Marathon-Related News

Kipchoge Reflects On His London Loss “If you despair, you lose what you have built over many years and miss future opportunities to come back stronger and better.”
Kipchoge Extends One-Year Deal With Isuzu East Africa They will work with his foundation “to uplift the well-being of community through access to Education, Sports Talent development and Environmental Conservation.”
2:24 Marathoner Kevin Beck Introduces You To His 21-Day Rotating Marathon Training Block
Want To Run A Marathon With Five Of Your Friends? Asics Can Help As They Are Launching An Asics World Ekiden App

Video Interviews

Why Isn’t There A Movie About Her?

Recommended Read Wyomia Tyus: Still Fighting For Recognition As The First Back-To-Back Olympic 100m Champ Did you also know she protested racial inequality before John Carlos and Tommie Smith?

More Women In The News

Shaunae Miller-Uibo Unloads On Naser Being Cleared: “I cry foul play.”
After Winning World Half, Peres Chepchirchir Has Big Plans For December’s Valencia Marathon “I’d like to run 2:17 or 2:18.”
The Allie Kieffer Interview: Kieffer Explains Why Sh’es Thriving Under Liz McColgan’s Coaching Kieffer dropped out of one of the first workouts they did together and McColgan made her go back to the track from the parking lot and finish.

Salwa Eid Naser Cleared

LRC Analysis Why Was Salwa Eid Naser Cleared? Everything You Need To Know About Her Whereabouts Case On 4 different occasions in a 365-day span, drug testers were unable to test Salwa Eid Naser, the third-fastest woman in history at 400, and yet she’s been cleared to compete. Find out why here.

WADA President Witold Banka Concerned About Salwa Eid Naser Whereabouts Case He said WADA would review the decision and appeal if necessary.
Russia’s World HJ Champ Maria Lasitskene Outraged By Salwa Eid Naser Outcome
AIU:“This was a case very much on the borderline and we hope the athlete will learn from the experience and heed the AIU’s warnings.” The AIU revealed that Naser has a history of struggling to update her location and actually has to have a third party do it for her.

An Unofficial National Champs In 2020?

High School Cross-Country National Invite To Take Place December 5th In Texas With the 2 traditional XC national champs both cancelled in 2020, Lubbock Christian University is stepping up to host a National Cross-Country Invite December 5th for high schoolers.

UK Admin Info

London Will Host A New World Cup Event In July 2021 The event will be a scored competition between the US, GB, China, Germany, France, Jamaica, South Africa and Poland. with events up through 1,500m.
Adam Gemili, Steph Twell And TJer Nathan Douglas Elected To The UK Athletics Athletes’ Commission
GB Olympic Sports Warned They Could Have Funding Cut If They Don’t Give Enough Support To Athletes Dealing With Eating Disorders
The Guardian Profiles GB Head Paralympic Coach Paula Dunn, Who Says “Obsession” With Winning Medals Has “Gone Too Far”

Jamaican News

Statue Of Usain Bolt To Be Erected In His Hometown
1976 Olympic 200m Champ Donald Quarrie Running For The Jamaican Federation Presidency Quarrie, a former JAAA vice president, will challenge long-time General Secretary Garth Gayle for the job. The vote will happen at the end of November.

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Pacific Road Running

RRW:Honolulu Marathon Cancelled Due To Pandemic The race was scheduled to December 13th. Runners will have their entries rolled over to next year.
Japan Running News Preview Of This Weekend’s National University Women’s Ekiden
Japan’s 2021 Sakura Marathon Canceled Japan continues to cancel races very far in advance. This one was scheduled for March 28th.

NCAA News

Univ. Of Utah Admits Error In Former Heptathlete’s Death, Pays Family $13.5 Million That’s more than $400 per student at Utah but it sounds justified as the slain athlete and her mom called the police more than 12 times and they never realized her eventually killer was a paroled sex offender.
“Large Numbers, Both Male And Female” Of Nebraska T&F Athletes Test Positive For Covid-19, Team Activities Are Paused

HS News Top Three NJ Boys HS XC Teams Clash At Holmdel – CBA Wins In A Rout

The Latest Covid-Related News

Doctor Writes That Covid-19 Has Been Good For Your Feet As Most Haven’t Had To Wear Shoes At Home The article says shoes are bad for your feet and you want to be barefoot at home.
Tokyo Olympics Organizers May Place A Sticker On Your Arm To Take Your Temperature

NCAA News

Jamaican HS Steeplechase Record Holder (5:49 2k) Ari Rodgers Is Hospitalized After Serious Car Accident At Grambling State Rogers, who was born in Uganda, is a freshman.
TSR College XC Debate: How Good Are The BYU Women/Men?
TSR College XC Debate Part II: How Big Of A Surprise Are The UVA And OK State Men?

More Distance Stuff

Good Read:World Athletics Looks Back At When New Zealand’s Peter Snell Became The First Man In 44 Years To Win The Olympic 800/1,500 Double At Tokyo 1964 Snell is the only man since 1920 to complete this double.
Molly Seidel Reveals That A Little More Than A Year Ago She Was Close To Quitting The Sport After Struggling With Injury After Injury HBO Real Sports wants to feature Seidel and her overcoming an eating disorder.
New Japan Rules To Stop Struggling Athletes From Continuing Were Applied At The Princess Ekiden An athlete collapsed less than 100m from the first exchange zone and went into full-body convulsions. The rule was put in place two years ago when an athlete suffered a fracture and crawled to the exchange zone.
Laura Muir Has High Praise For Her Coach Andy Young On Helping Her Through A Challenging 2020 Muir: “He likes a spreadsheet yet I think this year spreadsheets went out of the window. Multiple times. It was so challenging for him … to sort out races and travel and training – with lots of changes along the way. I cannot imagine what it was like.”

NCAA News

USTFCCCA Weekend NCAA XC Round-Up: Arkansas Men And Women Sweep UAB Blazer Classic Arkansas’ Amon Kemboi won a tight men’s race where the top 4 finished within one second of each other. Tennessee’s Katie Thompson won the women’s individual title.
Opinion Piece: William And Mary Should Reinstate Cancelled Sports Team (Including Track And Feild) Kyle R. Ahlgren writes that the seven sports that were cut were “among the least costly and must successful at W&M.”
NAU’s Luis Grijavla And Tennessee’s Katie Thronson Are NCAA Athletes Of The Week Grijalva won the OSU Invitational and Thronson won the UAB Blazer Classic
High School: Nike Cross Virtual Week #4 Recap

Ultra Running Action

Ultra Runner Karl Meltzer Has Won A 100 Miler Every Year For 19 Straight Years The 52-year-old has 43 100 miler wins in total.
*MB: Karl Mezler – America ‘s greatest blue collar runner
Courtney Dauwalter Wins U.S. Big’s Backyard Ultra 2020 With A Record-Tying 68 Loops The event, hosted by Barkley Marathons creator, has runners complete a 4.16667-mile loop every 60 minutes until there is one runner left.

NCAA News

Good News For Women’s Sports: Franklin Pierce University Forced To Rescind Transgender Policy As Violation Of Title IX After Biological Male Cece Telfer Wins Women’s NCAA Title The president of the Concerned Women for America organization says this decision by the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights was a “warning shot to the NCAA.”
*LRC Archives: What No One Is Telling You: An Athlete Who Ran NCAA Track As A Man For 3 Years Just Won An NCAA Women’s Title
Ken Goe:Time To Make Hayward Field The Permanent Home Of The NCAA DI Outdoor Track Championships Goe argues that the cons (gives Oregon an advantage, difficult travel for most of the country), are outweighed by the positives gained from the new Hayward Field facility and the passionate Oregon fans.
Boise State Selling Their Indoor Track for $350,000 So far there isn’t much interest in the portable track.

Tokyo Olympic News

IOC President Thomas Bach Doesn’t Expect Countries To “Opt Out” Of Tokyo 2020 Games Bach also said athletes coming from countries with a high number of COVID cases won’t be prevented from competing.
Billy Mills Named USATF Throwback Athlete Of The Week For When He Won Olympic 10,000m Gold At The 1964 Tokyo Games
Tokyo 2020 Organizers Advise Spectators To “Pack Less” To Avoid Delays At Games Venues There are going to be multiple coronavirus countermeasures including cameras that check spectators’ body temperatures.
Tokyo 2020 Torches To Be Put On Display In Public

Sprint News

A New Fall Classic? *Free Stream

LRC HOKA NAZ Elite Wins Inaugural Michigan Pro Ekiden In 2:10:11 In his first event in the HOKA NAZ Elite singlet, Tyler Day ran a 28:46 opening leg to give his team the lead and they never gave it back.
*MB: Official Michigan Pro Ekiden Prediction Thread

2:11:46 Wins Canadian 42.2k Relay Event An all women’s team that included the national record holders in the 10k (Natasha Wodak) and marathon (Malindi Elmore) ran it 2:22:39.

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African Road News

Ugandan Media: Expect More From The Jacob Kiplimo Vs. Joshua Cheptegei Rivalry The writer compares the rivalry to Seb Coe vs. Steve Ovett or Eliud Kipchoge vs. Kenenisa Bekele. According to Tilastopaja, Cheptegei currently has a 5-3 lead over Kiplimo when they’ve gone head-to-head.
World Athletics Profile:Refugee Team Member Otmane Nait-Hammou Made His Half Marathon Debut At World Half Champs He ran 63:28 for 67th place, setting PRs for 5k (14:40) and 10K (29:35) along the way.
Canadian Running Magazine:“Why Eliud Kipchoge’s And Joshua Cheptegei’s Bad Races Are A Good Thing” It definitely makes the sport more interesting, both with the initial upset and anticipation ahead of future races.
Peres Jepchirchir Shifts Focus To Valencia Marathon After World Half Glory She says she wants to run at least 2:18 or 2:19. (Her PR is only 2:23:50.)
Peres Jepchirchir Talks About The Tactics She Used To Win World Half Champs “I knew that if I kicked early my opponents would have beaten me so I delayed. That is the trick I used.”
Paul Tergat And Geoffrey Kamworor Tip Kibiwott Kandi To Be The Next Big Thing

Tokyo 2020 And Russian Cyber Attacks

NY Times: Russia Carries Out Cyber Attacks On The Tokyo Olympics US and British officials say they were targeted by six Russian intelligence officers in an attempt to disrupt the Games. They also say they carried out attacks on the 2018 Winter Olympics. *2nd Article
Tokyo 2020 Claim Alleged Russian Cyber Attack Had “No Significant Impact” On Organization Of Games Six Russian intelligence officers have been charged in the US.
InsideTheGames Opinion Piece:“Why I Believe The Tokyo Olympics Must Go Ahead, Virus Or No Virus” This writer says he thinks the world needs a reminder that there is life after coronavirus.
Questionnaire Reveals That 79% Of Tokyo Games Volunteers Are Worried About COVID-19
More Tokyo 2020 Venues To Reopen To The Public

An Important Look Into A Key Part Of The Anti-Doping Movement

LRC 2020 Has Been The Year Of Whereabouts Failures. Why? (Unlocked for all readers) Nine athletes – including recent world champions Christian Coleman, Salwa Eid Naser and Elijah Manangoi – have been suspended for whereabouts failures in 2020, compared to two in all of 2018 and 2019 combined. What’s going on?