Not a huge surprise but now a 2nd body has heard the case and on its merits apparently determined Salazar should be banned for 4 years. He can return near the end of 2023. Discuss
Archived Homepage For September 16, 2021
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Malcolm Gladwell: Why Was the Decision in Shelby Houlihan’s Doping Case So Unsatisfying?
Gladwell doens't believe the burrito excuse in the least but also says it makes zero sense for her to dope with nandrolone. *Discuss
News That Passed Our Vetting Process
Chumbawamba guitarist has written a book on Gary Devine, the punk rocker fell running champion Purchase here.
Interesting Read Meet Syria's only Olympic gold medallist and an inspiration to Arab women, Ghada Shouaa (1996 heptathlon) She famously kissed and hugged JJK and Bob Kersee in a great sign of sportsmanship in Atlanta when JJK pulled out injured.
Track & Field News lists all 11 of the Diamond League winners in history for every event Christian Taylor and Renaud Lavillenie lead the way with 7 but Timothy Cheruiyot and Mariya Lasitskene have won 4 in a row.
69 minute half marathoner Glenrose Xaba is now being coached by Caster Semenya She's also got a 5k pb of 15:38.
Steve Prefontaine's 1972 NCAA xc bib up for auction. The starting big is $5,000.
Have Achilles pain? Try running down a hill...backward 12 of 14 runners (85.7 per cent) who did it improved, which makes sense as eccentric loading is a common prescribed exercise.
More Recent Results
- Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Closes Her Season With 10.78 Victory In Switzerland This was SAFP's 13th straight sub-11 100m. Natoya Goule won the 800m in 1:58.20.
- AW Weekly Round-Up: Andy Butchart Wins City Of Stirling 10k In 29:06 The Norwegian Championships were also this weekend and Jakob Ingebrigtsen won the 1500m in 3:33.26.
- The Netherlands' Femke Bol Ends Her Season With A 54.01 400H Win In Switzerland She came in ahead of her training partner and mentor, European champion Lea Sprunger, who ran the last race of her career with 54.53 in 2nd.
- USA’s Kendell Williams And Germany’s Kai Kazmirek Win Overall World Athletics Combined Events Challenge Series Winning the series gives each of these athletes a wildcard entry to next year's World Championships.
On The Boards
On The Boards
Other Doping News
- Britain Set To Lose Tokyo 2020 4x100 Silver Medal After CJ Ujah's 'B' Sample Confirmed Positive If GB is DQ'd, Canada would move up to silver and China the bronze. *The Telegraph article
*MB: CJ Ujah B-Sample also POSITIVE.... goodbye medal - Nigeria's Blessing Okagbare Loses Appeal, Begins Her 4-Year Drug Ban She tested positive for HGH just before the Tokyo Games and was kept out of the 100m semi-finals after winning her heat.
- WADA Commits To Reviewing Marijuana As A Banned Substance WADA didn't mention Sha'Carri Richardson's case specifically, but it said they were reviewing marijuana after "requests from a number of stakeholders."
- MB: Raes Take: FBI showed up to an agent's AND coach's house...
- WADA Declares Eight National Doping Agencies Non-Compliant
Zagreb
Niyonsaba, who is banned from running in women's events between 400m and the mile as she is intersex, ran 5:21.56 to destroy Sonia O'Sullivan's outdoor world record of 5:25.36 which had stood since 1994. Niyonsaba's mark also was faster than Genzebe Dibaba's indoor world record of 5:23.75 set in 2017. In men's action, Devon Allen became the second man in 2021 to break 13:00 as he ran a new pb of 12.99. Other winners included Marvin Bracy (9.86), Getnet Wale (8:12 steeple) and Ryan Crouser (22.84).
- MB: Francine Niyonsaba breaks her first WORLD RECORD!!!
- Zagreb: Ryan Crouser Brings The Curtain Down In Zagreb With 22.84m Meet Record He was pushed by New Zealand's Tom Walsh who finished second with 22.39m.
- Bellinzona: Fraser-Pryce Runs 10.78, De Grasse Over Kerley, Gatlin, Chanelle Price Wins 800 (1:59)
COVID Cancellations
- How About Someone Else Hosts? World XC Championships In Bathurst Postponed For A Second Time Due To Australia's Super Strict COVID Restrictions The event was originally supposed to be in 2021, then 2022, but now will be 2023. Australia has a 14-day quarantine requirement for anyone entering the country. *World Athletics release
- Tokyo-Area Qualifier for National University Women's Ekiden Canceled Due To COVID
- 2021 Moscow Marathon Cancelled Due To COVID Restrictions
Hocker Goes Pro
Hocker, the NCAA and US 1500 champion who finished 6th in Tokyo, has given up his remaining eligibility to turn pro. He will be represented by Ray Flynn.
*Discussion: Cole Hocker turns pro, signs with Nike
More NCAA News:
- MB: Yared Nuguse isn't turning Pro & Trash-Talks NAU
- BYU Athletics To Join The Big 12 Conference In 2023
*MB: BIG 12 Cross Country is about to get VERY competitive - NAU And Notre Dame Stay 1-2 In Men's DI XC Coaches' Poll Oregon and BYU are ranked 3-4.
- BYU Remains #1 In DI Women's XC Poll; NC State Moves To #2 Standford and New Mexico are ranked 3-4.
- Hayward Field Will Host The PAC 12 Championships Again In 2022 Oregon will have three home meets at Hayward leading up to PAC 12 and NCAA Champs.
- NCAA DI Men’s Cross Country Regional Rankings
- NCAA DI Women’s Cross Country Regional Rankings
RIP
- Hammer WR Holder And Two-Time Olympic Champ For The Soviet Union Yuriy Sedykh Dies From A Heart Attack At Age-66 Former Moscow anti-doping lab director and whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov wrote in his book that Sedykh was "a huge steroid abuser" who was protected by Soviet Union officials. Rodchenkov said one of Sedykh's samples contained such large traces of the anabolic steroid stanozolol that it contaminated lab equipment. *European Athletics Tribute
- USATF Mourns The Loss Of Two-Time Olympic Race Walker Todd Scully The 72-year-old 8-time US champion died in a car accident this week.
Week That Was
We look back at some great track performances in 2021 and the long distance road debut of Jenny Simpson where she beat Sara Hall.
International Road Results
(link fixed) Galen Rupp was third in 61:51. *Discuss
Other event winners were Rhonex Kipruto (26:43 for 10k), Abel Kipchumba (58:48 for half-marathon), Jacob Krop (13:06 for 5k), Agnes Tirop (30:01 "women-only" WR), and Brenda Jepleting (66:52 half).
US Road Action
Oliver Hoare (3:51) and Nikki Hiltz (4:23) were runner-ups.
She won in 52:13 to beat Simpson by 3-seconds. Edwin Kimutai won the men's race in 45:45. *Discuss
Mechanical Doping (Or Publicity Stunt?) At The Vienna Marathon
Hurisa initially won in a sprint finish with 2:09:22, but was DQ'd for having shoes with too thick a mid-sole (50mm).
- Men's and Women's Winners of 2021 Vienna Marathon were sleeping on airport floor three days before marathon Their flight from Kenya to Doha was delayed and the airline refused to put them up in a hotel so they slept on the floor.
- MB: Mechanical doping: Vienna Marathon winner DQd as his adidas midsole was too thick. Publicity stunt?
ISTAF Berlin
Other winners were Karsten Warholm in the 400H (48.08), Chris Nilsen over Sam Kendricks on countback in the PV, Mariya Lasitskene (1.98m HJ) and Marvin Bracy in the 100m (9.95).
- Valarie Allman Breaks Her Own North American Discus Record With 71.15m At ISTAF Berlin
- World Athletics: Happy 100th Birthday To ISTAF Berlin This meet is the world's oldest invitational one-day track meet with the first edition held on July 3, 1921.
Admin Stuff
- Track and field figures urge UK Sport to intervene in UK Athletics' 'crisis' by approaching Brendan Foster to take charge with chairman Nic Coward due to step down next month
- The Telegraph: "Seb Coe's Testosterone Rule Headache Is About To Get Considerably Worse" Ben Bloom writes, "Athletics fans are confused by the ongoing debate surrounding DSD athletes that is making a mockery of the sport."
- Seb Coe Says He Will Review Controversial "Final Three" Format For Field Events"I’d like to sit down with some of the broadcasters and ask them ‘has the format made a difference?’ Has this had an impact on the number of people that have been able to watch these events? It’s not uniformly popular, I accept that. But it’s now for the athletes and the coaches to come back with something different.”
- Seb Coe Joins Others In Criticizing FIFA Over Plans To Hold A Biennial World Cup As It Would Clash With Olympic Sports “The clubs and leagues are all opposed to it. And my gut instinct is that you can keep cramming stuff into the calendar if you really want to, but less is more sometimes.”
- 2021 Asian Youth Games Postponed Due To Coronavirus They were schedule for China in November, but now will be held December 2022.
Sprint Stuff
- Olympic 100m Champ Lamont Jacobs "Not Bothered" By Doping Talk "I'm not even bothered by the gratuitous malice about doping. In life there is always going to be someone who, having not made it themselves, will refuse to believe in the good faith of those who have made it."
- Veronica Campbell-Brown Advises Sha'Carri Richardson To Refocus And Use The Jamaican Women As Motivation Will Richardson take the advice to heart or throw shade at VCB like she did Allyson Felix?
- Justin Gatlin Announced For The Kip Keino Classic On September 18 In Kenya
- GB's Dina Asher-Smith Wants To Win Triple Gold In 2022 Because of the Olympic postponement, the World Championships, Commonwealth Games and European Championships will all take place over a 5-week span next summer.
2021 DL Final - Weltklasse Zurich
The 1500m races at the Diamond League lived up to the hype and were riveting. We break down the 1 vs 1 duels between some of track's biggest stars.
The 2021 Diamond League action came to a close with a bunch of meet records. We recap it for you here.
*Thompson-Herah: "Next year, the world record is definitely on my mind"
More Zurich
Americans won the 100, 200, 400, and 110 hurdles, while Kenyans swept the 800, 1500, and steeple. Olympic champs Karsten Warholm (47.35) and Mondo Duplantis (6.06m) won the 400 hurdles & pole vault.
Zurich MB Talk
- Official 2021 Wetklasse Zurich Discussion Thread
- If Jakob doesn't break his PB tonight at Zurich he will never break the WR.
- Gjert Ingebrigtsen: "Cheruyiot will never beat Jakob again"
- Tim beats Jakob
- Mboma 21.78 WJR
- Intersex athletes are making a mockery of our sport
- The blond girl sitting next to Duplantis' people
- THANK YOU NBC for Kara Goucher
- Intersex athletes are making a mockery of our sport
- Man, the 800m sucks this year.
Last Lap of Men's 1500
Last Lap of Women's 1500
LRC Post-Zurich Instant Reaction Show
Previous Zurich
Niyonsaba won her fourth DL in 20 days, while Aregawi, who was 4th in the 10k in Tokyo, won his first career DL race.
Francine Niyonsaba says moving from Eugene to Kenya was right move when she moved up in distance “It was the right decision to move from America to Kenya because I knew Kenya is home of champions in long distance,” she said. “To meet many athletes there... Meeting Kipchoge in the morning, it gives you motivation!”
When you are great, it's hard to enjoy and when you are retire, you miss it
"When I told my coach I was going to retire he sat me down and said 'when you retire that's it. I'm not doing any comeback tours, nothing. So make sure you are ready to retire'. I remember I went to him in 2019 and said 'what do you think about coming back for the Olympics?' And he looked at me and said 'don't even start'."
Karsten Warholm admits to post-Tokyo emptiness "When you achieve all those things you have been dreaming about, you get happy but somehow you empty as well. Everything you have been working towards, and motivated for, is over."
Distance News
- Podcast Interview With Jenny Simpson Carrie Tollefson talks to Simpson about her 2021 season and missing making her fourth Olympic team and the benefits of having world-class training partners.
- Cornell grad Sage Canaday named one of "Top 5 Male Pros to Follow on Strava"
- MB: USADA covers up Eliud Ngetich positive for nearly 7 years Ngetich apparently tested positive for nandrolone in 2014 and served a 4-month suspension in 2015 and his remaining 8-months began this August (his ban was reduced from 2 to 1 years for providing "substantial assistance.")
- Eliud Kipchoge Talks About The Importance Of Clean Air “Plant a tree on your special day and in two years, we will be breathing better air. This is not rocket science. We must protect that which provides us with clean air, clean water and is a perfect training ground for our athletes.”
- RIP 3-Time NCAA Champion Jerry Thompson, 98 Thompson won titles at 2 mile and 5000m in the 1940's and also served in the Navy during WWII.
Sprints / Jumps
- Usain Bolt Releases Debut Album, "Country Yutes" The 15-track album includes the song, "Living the Dream," which Bolt released earlier this year.
- Lolo Jones Named To US National Bobsled Team The driver she won a world championship with, Kaillie Humphries, was also named to the team but her status for the Beijing Olympics is up in the air.
- The Telegraph: "How Tokyo Isolation Helped Team GB Sprinter Imani-Lara Lansiquot Write Her Name Into History Books" She ended up winning 4x100m bronze and writing her debut play while in isolation in Tokyo.
- Brittney Reese's Hometown Holds Ceremony/Parade To Celebrate Her Olympic LJ Silver Medal
- World Athletics Profile: "Letsile Tebogo And Udodi Onwuzurike Set The Pace For Africa's New Generation Of Sprinters" Tebogo won World U20 gold for Botswana this summer while Nigeria's Onwuzurike won 200m gold.
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Woody Kincaid joined us after he broke the American record indoors at 5000. He talks above why he left the Bowerman Track Club. Podcast highlights and link to full podcast here.
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