Nnenna Lynch: NY Times: The "New York Road Runners Chose Her as Its Next Chairman. In 1996, She Failed a Doping Test."

Behind a paywall. Coles Notes?

There was also an article in USA Today

No, but thanks for asking. Move along.

From the NYRRC website:
"Athletes who have been suspended by a governing body for using performance-enhancing drugs are not eligible to participate in NYRR races."

How can you have a chairman that has been suspended for drugs and try to maintain "Run Clean" policy?

That seems to be an earlier edit of Futterman's NYT article. Weird it's credited to Matthew West.

I knew someone who was very good friends with her in HS. He said that she was a terrific person. Only great things to say about her.

Wait until NYT and USA Today get a load of USATFs board!

Agree. 100% class

What do you think of this NY Times article pointing out that the next head of the board for the NYRR, Nnena Lynch, wouldn't be eligible to run any of their races as 26 years ago so tested positive for pseudoephedrine which is found in cold medicines and asthma medicines? She said she was prescribed it from her doctor for asthma but was banned for 3 months.

A friend emailed me the link outraged as he viewed it as a hit piece that doesn't accomplish much.

It starts, "Nnenna Lynch seems like a perfect candidate to lead the organization that puts on the New York City Marathon — except for a failed drug test and Road Runners’ zero-tolerance policy."

I guess my thoughts are 1) At first I totally agreed with my friend and get why anyone would write this article. I don't care if someone was on cold medicine 26 years ago (if that's what it was - my first roommates post college ran a pb on cold medicine not knowing it was illegal at the time) but now given that I run letsrun 2) I totally see why it was ultimately published. I do care that she and the NYRR responded as follows.

A spokesman for New York Road Runners said Lynch was traveling abroad and unavailable for comment. She did not respond to text or voice mail messages seeking comment. The organization also declined to make Hirsch, its chairman, available, and he did not respond to repeated requests for comment.

Don't not respond.Yes I'm biased as I operate LetsRun but I can't stand it when people avoid the media. That makes you look like you are trying to hide something (are you?). So respond honestly and provide the doctor's notes.....

Pseudoephedrine used to be in Theraflu. Pharmacies had to limit how much you could buy because meth addicts would use it to make meth. There’s a different ingredient in Theraflu now, but yeah- no surprise if athletes at one time took it as a PED.

OK Rojo but it appears as if you are trying to hold Ms. Lynch more accountable than Ms. Houlihan. I would agree that Ms. Lynch should respond at some point here. But it does seem that Ms. Houlihan was treated with kid gloves here for the longest time.

Don't worry, the new NYRR chairman's excessively paid job with obscene pension is safe. It's the NYRR board after all, they are extremely woke and where you have woke you will always find a huge helping of hypocrites. The NYRR is a registered "charity" with the IRS and accepts donations, yet I think we've all seen the huge salaries the NYRR chairman and the rest of the board chose for the executives, which they will also have chosen for themselves, too.

Here's the latest known salaries for some of the NYRR executives, benefits and pensions would be extra:

Key Employees and Officers Compensation

MICHAEL CAPIRASO (PRESIDENT/CEO/BOARD MEMBER) $569,566

JAMES HEIM (SVP/TECH. DIRECTOR EV DEV & OPS) $320,041

JAMES GROOMS (SVP OF LEGAL/ASST. SECRETARY) $316,830

Those salaries are completely obscene and should be illegal for a registered "charity". You can tell by the board's lack of ethics that they are not going to care one bit about one of their elite circle taking drugs.

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R Johnson, if you want former and current athletes to treat you like a ESPN, FOX Sports, ABC, CBS, NBC, NYTimes or Washington Post sport journalist, you should 100% stop posting on message board. You can post your opinions on here or you can be a sport journalist. You can't be a serious sport journalist if you post on here.