Assorted Pro Distance News

• New Year’s Eve: San Silvestre Preview: Hellen Obiri And Genzebe Dibaba Trying To Break 5k And 10k World Records (translated)
  *MB: Will PAUL CHELIMO get the American 10K record on Thursday?
• Ryan Hill Leaving The Bowerman Track Club For A New Team And Sponsor In 2021 Looks like he’ll be joining Alistair Cragg‘s group in Chapel Hill.
• European Athletics 6-Minute “My Story” Mini-Documentary On Jakob Ingebrigsten “My dream is to win as much as possible and run as fast as possible. I wouldn’t say that I am 100 percent if I’m not the fastest ever.”
• Kelly Holmes: Why Your Struggles Can Make Success So Much Sweeter “Too many people give up, unfortunately, before they know how much they can achieve in life and I’m just pleased that I didn’t so that I can pass that message on.”

Sprints / Jumps

• The Tokyo 2020 Delay Was An “Incredible Chance” For GB Teenage Sprinter Amy Hunt “We’ve been given this extra year and it’s a year to get fitter and faster before trying to make our first Olympic team. So I think it’s worked out really well for me.”
• The Evening Standard Looks To 2021: Dina Asher-Smith Set To Shine As Christian Coleman Misses Out As Usain Bolt Successor
• Mondo Duplantis Believes He Can Go Even Higher “Growing up as a kid in event you see [Sergey] Bubka as almost this mythological creature. …Any record where you can knock him down a ranking is a pretty special feeling.”

Doping News

• AIU Only Performed 60% Of Its Planned Out-Of-Competition Testing During COVID-19 Pandemic
• Russian President Vladimir Putin And IOC President Thomas Bach Hold First Telephone Conversation Since CAS Decision To Halve Ban Bach’s close relationship with Putin has been criticized in the past.
• US Track Athlete Jasmine Blocker Accepts Public Warning For Failing To Obtain A TUE Before Using Prohibited Medication

Doping News

Big Week Of Ekiden Racing In Japan

More Post-Marathon Project News

NY Times: Sara Hall Turned 2020 Misery Into A Breakthrough After dropping out of the Marathon Trials, Hall went home and replaced the “Olympic Marathon Trials Champion” on her bathroom mirror with the harder goal of “American Marathon record holder.”

LRC Marathon Project Podcast Extravaganza: Winners Sara Hall And Marty Hehir And Scott Fauble Talk To LetsRun.com We know you’ll have some extra free time on your hands the next few days so we recorded an epic podcast to keep you sane. Find out what they think they could run for 26.2 miles in year 2015 racing flats and how in the hell they managed their busy family lives while running.

LRC A Runner At The Marathon Project Tested Positive For Covid-19 After The Race Two others were forced to withdraw the week of the race after testing positive pre-race as the event had strict pre-race testing requirements.  *Discuss

Doping

• Suspended New Delhi Laboratory Had Positive Test Rate Of 4.6% In 2019 This is by far the highest of all the 30 laboratories which WADA gives stats for and there is concern that “multiple AAFs may be linked to the same sample.”
• Russian Olympic Committee President Suggests Folk Song Replaces Banned National Anthem At Tokyo 2020 At the 2018 Winter Olympics the Olympic Anthem was used so how about that or just don’t play a song at all?
• Opinion: Reduction In Sanctions Against Russia Highlights Need For Anti-Doping Reform “Based on statements and actions, WADA appears to be most interested in sweeping the entire Russian doping saga under the rug.”