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Archived Homepage For December 07, 2021
Archived Homepage For December 07, 2021
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RIP: D3 All-American Frank Csorba - who ran 13:56 in March - dead
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Week That Was
USATF Half
Conner Mantz pro debut was a victory in 1:00:55 over Sam Chelanga as Keita D'Amato dominated in 1:07:55.
BU Indoor
There were also NZ, Irish, and South African records in the race, while NCAA XC champ Whittni Orton was upset by BAA pro Annie Rodenfels in the women's 5,000, 15:08 to 15:09.
- MB: Katelyn Tuohy breaks u20 3000m record (8:54.18) She broke Mary Cain's 9:04.51 record in the race won by West Virginia’s Ceili McCabe (8:52.52).
- DyeStat: Katelyn Tuohy And Nico Young Both Achieve US U20 Indoor Records In Boston
On The Boards
On The Boards
More From The Weekend (NCAA)
- Texas A&M's Brandon Miller Breaks World Under-20 All-Time Best Mark For 600m The 2021 NCAA 800m runner-up ran 1:15.49 to break 2013 world 800m champ Mo Aman's 1:15.60 record.
- USTFCCCA Weekend NCAA Indoor Recap Arkansas' Lauren Gregory ran 15:34.58 at the Wooo Pig Classic; a time faster than the top NCAA indoor mark from last year.
- Event-By-Event Top-10 Collegiate Marks Of The Week
Weekend Marathoning
The top-3 women broke 2:30 while there were three men sub-2:13. *Results
- Lawrence Cherono (2:05:12) And Nancy Jelagat (2:19:31) Make It A Kenyan Double At The Valencia Marathon (link updated) Cherono held off Chalu Deso by 4-seconds as the top-7 were sub-2:06 with Geoffrey Kamworor 4th in 2:05:23. On the women's side, Jelagat won by 45-seconds. *Top Results
*Ireland's Fionnuala McCormack Smashes Her Marathon PB With 2:23:58 For 5th Place In Valencia
- Kenya's Michael Githae Wins Final Edition Of The Fukuoka Marathon In 2:07:51 Japan's Kyohei Hosoya was runner-up in 2:08:16.
*Japan Running News Recap Brett Larner writes that "you couldn't have asked for a more symbolic choice to win" the final Fukuoka Marathon.
More From The Weekend (International)
- AW Weekly Round-Up GB's Olympic bronze medalist Holly Bradshaw (4.51m) and US's Austin Miller (5.70m) win Golden Fly PV in Thailand.
- South American U23 Records Fall At Inaugural Pan American Junior Games In Colombia Colombia's women (43.59) and Brazil's men (39.21) broke the South American U23 4x100m records.
- Gabriela Anahi Suarez Completes Sprint Double As Brazil Dominates Athletics At Pan American Junior Games
Anti-Doping News
- Interesting: Sports, Athletes, And (Legal) Drugs: A Guide To Therapeutic Use Exemptions For Banned Substances Talking about TUE abuse, a recent WADA study found that athletes taking TUEs were no more likely to win an Olympic medal than those without.
- RUSADA Appoints New Director General Veronika Loginova is currently a legal advisor on anti-doping at the Russian International Olympic University.
- Greek Anti-Doping Agency Removed From WADA Compliance Watchlist
- Updated WADA Prohibited List For 2022
Running Lane Nats
NP's Colin Sahlman (14:03.29) was the individual champion, while twin brothers Leo Young (14:05.07) and Lex Young (14:05.49) went 2-3. Newbury Park scored 28 points to win.
Prerace: LRC The 2021 Newbury Park Boys Are the Greatest High School Cross Country Team in US History
Sound Running XC
Hansons-Brooks (w) and Tinman Elite (m) won the team competitions.
Olympic Marathon Trials
The projected decrease in the # of qualifiers is drastic as just 17.7% of the women and 65.0% of the men in 2020 hit these marks.
Lamine Diack Has Died
Diack, a former top international long jumper, was IAAF president from 1999 to 2015. Even before his monumental scandals which almost destroyed the sport, Diack was apparently known for "dubious leadership ability" and had some non-complimentary nicknames.
- MB: RIP: Lamine Diack has died
- World Athletics "Notes The Death" Of Former IAAF President Lamine Diack That's literally how they word it.
End-Of-The-Year Awards
- USATF Announces End Of Year Awards - Sydney McLaughlin And Ryan Crouser Are Athletes Of The Year Erriyon Knighton is youth athlete of the year and Bobby Kersee (who coaches McLaughlin and Allyson Felix) is coach of the year.
- Athletics Weekly 2021 Reader's Choice Results Like World Athletics, they also choice Elaine Thompson-Herah, but they picked Eliud Kipchoge instead of Karsten Warholm. Josh Kerr and Keely Hodgkinson were their British athletes of the year.
- Two Weeks Until The Bowerman Award Men's finalists are Cole Hocker, JuVaughn Harrison and Turner Washington. Women's are Athing Mu, Tara Davis, Tyra Gittens.
Random Friday News That Makes The Cut
- Brett Larner's Video Feature on Fukuoka Marathon - Inside the Outside - Is Out "75 years, 75 stories from the people who made Japan's Fukuoka International Marathon." Watch it in the player above.
- Fiber 101 for runners - It is possible to get enough of this important nutrient without sending yourself to the bathroom mid-run
- Some Kenyan distance runners are at the mercy of loan sharks after going in debt during Covid-19 shutdown
- Paul Tergat will serve for another four-year term as the National Olympic Committee of Kenya president after being unopposed in the upcoming elections
Alleged Sexual Misconduct From Track Coaches
- Adam Gemili and Laviai Nielsen lose lottery funding after staying with star coach Rana Reider who has been accused of sexual misconduct It's absurd that UK Athletics is suspending funding before Reider has been convicted of anything. Let the athletes know of the allegations and let them decide what they want to do.
- Steve Waithe - the former Penn State, Northeastern, Tennessee track coach who took nudes of his athletes phones - will finally be seen in court on December 9th
- Dulles, VA track coach arrested for possessing child porn, blackmailing a minor for more nudes
Spurred by a $40,000 prize money purse ($7,000 for the winners), 49 women and 62 men have registered for the championships division of the race.
Midweek News of Note
- Cooper Teare goes pro and signs with Nike Teare, the fastest American collegian ever at both the mile and 5000, will stay in Eugene and train under Ben Thomas and Cole Hocker even though he's done with his academic responsibilities next week.
- Asbel Kiprop reveals that he's training 70+ mpw but admits he's put on a little bit of weaight during his drug ban - "My weight is still a bit of a challenge."
- Glasgow named host for 2024 World Indoors
- Kilian Jornet announces he's leaving Salomon after 15+ years It sounds like he may be starting his own brand.
- AW: Did you know Jim Ryun was our male AOY in both 1966 and 1967?
- The surprisingly simple training of Roger Bannister He loved 10 x 440 with 2 minutes rest. He did those in 66 in December and got down to 59 in April before going sub-4 in May.
- Canadian Ben Preisner (2:10:17 pb) wants to PR in Valencia this weekend and if he does he might get the Canadian record (2:09:22) Preisner was supposed to do NYC after the Olympics but wanted more time to get ready.
World Athletics Awards
Athing Mu and Erriyon Knighton were named the rising stars and Bobby Kersee won a lifetime coaching award. *Full Live Stream *AW
- Relive all of the track and field World Records set in 2021 in just 3 minutes (video) Or simply click play on the video player.
- Guide To The 2021 World Athletics Awards
- Focus On finalists: Yulimar Rojas And Eliud Kipchoge
- Focus On Finalists: Sydney McLaughlin And Mondo Duplantis
- Focus On finalists: Elaine Thompson-Herah And Karsten Warholm
- Spotlight On Rising Stars: Zerfe Wondemagegn And Sasha Zhoya
4 Recommended Reads
- 3,500 word feature Newbury Park Boys: Team wide flips off a cliff convinced coach Sean Brosnan this would be the greatest boys HS xc team ever Why do we have to have a story to describe all-time great teams? How about insane talent, hard work and great coaching?
- Learn all about the great Kip Keino here + did you know a racist called him a monkey in Philadelphia in 1970? he got out of the hospital to beat Jim Ryun in 1968, he says he was thinking to himsef, This is the race of my life. If I die here, I die here’._
- 65 years and 1 day ago: Ireland's Ron Delany still remembers what it was like to become Olympic 1500 champ: ‘I had enormous speed and self-belief’
- Toni Reavis: How many potentially great Somali runners do we not know today because of the country’s political instability? Abdi Bile, Abdi Abdirahman and Mo Farah have defied the odds but how many more would there have been?
Wow
Runner World's Sarah Lorge Butler is reporting that FBI agents "recently interviewed a high-ranking official within USATF, who has knowledge of the organization’s finances, outside his home" and that a grand jury subpoena has been served. Remember, USATF under head Max Siegel paid two ex-Nike employees more than $20 million to negotiate a no-bid 20+year endorsement deal with Nike.
*Ex-board member Lauren Fleshman welcome federal probe of USATF and asks if Siegel will step down “Is there a plan to suspend Max Siegel while this investigation is going on? [If they don’t], it’s quite a double standard," said Fleshman who noted Vin Lananna had to step down when he was being investigated.
*MB: Nike-USATF-Siegel Subject of a Federal Criminal Investigation
- You Received a Grand Jury Subpoena: What Now? "Receiving a grand jury subpoena can be a stressful and worrisome time. It basically means that the government believes that you are involved in a federal offense or believes that you have material information about a federal offense."
*What Is a Grand Jury Subpoena? "A grand jury is a special type of jury that decides whether to indict defendants." - Previous: Washington Post 2016: USA Track and Field CEO has alarmed some insiders with his spending and style Private jet travel, luxury hotel stays and multi-million dollar bonuses for non-profit employees, fair or foul?
*2020: MB: USA Track & Field defends CEO’s $4.2 million 2018 salary number
*2016: MB: Breaking: Max Siegel Expose in The Washington Post - It's going to be tough for him to survive this!!
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American Record Holders
American Record Holders
Keira D'Amato, the new American record holder in the marathon, was joined by Deena Kastor, who held the record for 15 years.
Sisson was the guest on the LetsRun.com Track Talk podcast after she became the first American to go sub 67 in the half marathon on a record-eligible course. Podcast highlights above. Full pod here.
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.
Coogan's New Balance Boston team had 3 Olympians in 2021 and 2022 could be the biggest year yet for the program with 2 new additions and the TRACK at New Balance coming on March 1st.
Danny Mackey has taken the Brooks Beasts from an unproven club to the Olympic podium in its first decade.
Dathan Ritzenhein is the first of the top pro coaches to sit down and talk about his club heading into the 2022 campaign.
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