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• 03.Jul    No Comments
• Want to know a little about Sammy Kitwara?

• I’ve just arrived this afternoon in Atlanta to race Peachtree 10k. In case anyone is interested – the weather is…not bad. 86 in the mid-afternoon, low(er) humidity. I bumped into Sammy Kitwara in the hotel lobby, and I thought perhaps it would be an interesting post to copy the elite athlete list [...]

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• 03.Jul    No Comments
• lauren fleshman flotrack interview

• Lauren Fleshman of the Oregon Track Club has had a hard last couple of years filled with injuries. Lauren sat down with Flotrack to talk about the ups and downs and how she is healthy now and ready to be back on top of US distance running.
  Video Here

• 02.Jul    No Comments
• Running & Cooking With Deena Kastor (video)

• Deena Kastor is the fastest American woman marathoner, and she also happens to love to cook. Meanwhile, New York Times food writer and cookbook author Mark Bittman, a pace-setter in the kitchen in his own right, also is training for the New York City marathon this fall.
  She runs and cooks. He cooks and runs. That [...]

• 01.Jul    2 Comments
• webb may race again this year

• After having his most successful professional track season in 2007, Alan Webb is looking at another disappointing year.
  Webb, 26, withdrew from Sunday’s 1,500-meter final at the U.S. track and field championships in Eugene, Ore., citing a tender left hamstring.
  After failing to qualify for the Beijing Olympics last summer because of overtraining early in the year, [...]

• 01.Jul    No Comments
• Running Times Podcast with Ritz

• Two-time Olympian Dathan Ritzenhein describes what his long runs are like when he’s not training for a marathon. Find out how far, how fast and what percentage of weekly mileage long runs should be when you’re getting ready for a shorter race like a 10K or half marathon.
  Check it out here

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• 01.Jul    No Comments
• Peachtree field full of elite runners

• With plenty of cash on the table, the Atlanta Track Club has assembled a strong field for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Peachtree Road Race.
  The club has brought in close to 40 elite men runners for the Saturday race, one of the largest groups of elite runners in race history. Sean Hartnett, a writer for Track & [...]

• 30.Jun    No Comments
• The Life of a USADA Dope Tester

• CAMBRIDGE – It’s 6 a.m. on the Charles River. Sun-splashed rowers glide silently past Harvard University.
  On this morning, one of them is in for a big surprise when he returns to the docks.
  Scott Lowell, a doping control officer for the United States Anti-Doping Agency, sits across the street at Starbucks. He doesn’t need more coffee. [...]

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• 28.Jun    No Comments
• Steeplechase snafu a bad break for one, black eye for others

• By George Schroeder
  Register-Guard columnist
  Nicole Bush isn’t blaming anyone for her broken right foot. Too much can happen in the steeplechase. Your body takes a pounding, and it’s an inherently risky event.
  There’s no way to know what might have happened if the barrier at the water jump had been set at the proper height.
  All anyone knows [...]

• 28.Jun    No Comments
• Rowbury rallies to win 1500m

• EUGENE, ORE. – When Shannon Rowbury was unable to respond to the bold moves of her competitors at the Prefontaine Classic a few weeks ago, the competitor in her walked away from the experience bit perturbed.
  But after having a chance to cool her jets, she realized that what had transpired was in fact a blessing [...]

• 28.Jun    No Comments
• Doping Implications of Platelet-Rich Plasma Therapy Remain Unclear

• The emerging procedure known as platelet-rich plasma therapy may fix damaged tendons and ligaments, but it also may lead to a doping violation.
  Guidelines published by the United States Anti-Doping Agency and the World Anti-Doping Agency do not address PRP therapy by name. The Usada rules imply that the injection of one’s own blood could constitute [...]

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• 03.Jul    No Comments
• Angela Bizzarri and Evan Jager set sights on World Championships

• EUGENE, Ore. — Angela Bizzarri came here figuring this would be the end of a long season highlighted earlier this month when she became the first University of Illinois athlete to win an NCAA track title since 2003.
  Evan Jager, a Jacobs High grad from Algonquin, came here figuring he would be continuing his first season [...]

• 02.Jul    No Comments
• USATF Report: Youth Championships, Thursday

• For Immediate Release
  Thursday, July 2, 2009
  Field events and running prelims highlight the third day of the 2009 USA Youth Champs
  YPSILANTI, Mich. – The 2009 USA Youth Track & Field Championships completed day three of competition Thursday at Rynearson Stadium on the campus of Eastern Michigan University with field events and running prelims highlighting the day.
  The [...]

• 01.Jul    No Comments
• USATF Report: Youth Championships, Wednesday

• Relays and Multi-events close out the second day of the 2009 USA Youth Champs
  YPSILANTI, Mich. – The 2009 USA Youth Track & Field Championships completed day two of competition Wednesday at Rynearson Stadium on the campus of Eastern Michigan University with the 4×800 meter relays and multi-events highlighting the day.
  The Intermediate Boys’ 4×800m relay was [...]

• 29.Jun    No Comments
• Cowboy freshman earns spot on U.S. national team for junior Pan American Games

• EUGENE, Ore. – Oklahoma State freshman runner Colby Lowe won the 5,000 meters at the U.S. Junior Outdoor Track and Field National Championships Sunday at the University of Oregon’s Hayward Field. In doing so, he earned a spot on the U.S. national team for the junior Pan American Games in Trinidad and Tobago from July [...]

• 24.Jun    No Comments
• USATF Preview: National Junior Championships

• For Immediate Release
  Wednesday, June 24, 2009
  Past champions return to USA Junior Champs looking to repeat
  EUGENE, Ore. -Familiar names such as Connor McCullough, Anastasia Jelmini, and Elijah Greer will compete at the 2009 USA Junior Track & Field Championships, June 25-28, at the University of Oregon’s historic Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon.
  The 2009 USA Junior Championships [...]

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• 03.Jul    No Comments
• Bislett Games Results

• OSLO (AP) – Results Friday from the Bislett Games, the second meet in the Golden League (all distances in meters):
  Men
  100_1. Asafa Powell, Jamaica, 10.07. 2. Daniel Bailey, Antigua, 10.07. 3. Michael Frater, Jamaica, 10.08. 4. Simion Williamson, Britain, 10.13. 5. Marc Burns, Trinidad and Tobago, 10.14. 6. Jaysuma Saidy Ndure, Norway, 10.23.
  400_1. Renny Renny [...]

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• 01.Jul    No Comments
• Ramaala still hungry for national titles

• Following the boost in confidence he received from a superb performance at the London Marathon in April, Hendrick Ramaala has set his sights on regaining the South African half-marathon title.
  Ramaala was, at one stage, one of the best half-marathon runners in the world – he won silver medals at the 1998 and 1999 World Half-Marathon [...]

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• 27.Jun    No Comments
• Kipchoge charges to 12:56.46 world lead in Milan

• Milan, Italy – Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge, 2003 World champion and 2008 Olympic silver medallist, improved world seasonal best for 5000m with a 12:56.46 run last night at the Notturna di Milano, an EA Permit meeting (25).
  Kipchoge, who ran 13:00.91 in Hengelo, came to Milan with the goal to dip under 13 minutes. Pacemaker Benson Esho [...]

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• 24.Jun    No Comments
• Swine flu testing to be required at World University Games

• BELGRADE, Serbia — Thousands of athletes who will be competing in next month’s World University Games in Serbia will be required to provide a certificate saying they do not have swine flu, or they will be quarantined, the government said Wednesday.
  The unusual announcement by Deputy Prime Minister Bozidar Djelic came the same day that Serbia [...]

• 24.Jun    No Comments
• Belfast to host World Dwarf Games

• More than 200 restricted growth athletes are to compete at the World Dwarf Games in Belfast next month.
  It is the first time the world games have been held in Northern Ireland, which hosted the European championships in 2006.
  Northern Ireland is fielding a contingent of 12 in the events which cover a variety of track [...]

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• 01.Jul    No Comments
• Tirunesh withdraws from Oslo 5000m

• Ethiopia’s Olympic 5000m and 10000m champion Tirunesh Dibaba has withdrawn from the 5000m race at the 2009 Bislett Games on Friday due to a minor injury.
  The 24-year old, who had been expected to return to action after finishing second behind Kenyan Masai in her season’s debut race in New York six weeks ago, aggravated a [...]

• 01.Jul    No Comments
• South Africa Boosts Incentives

• South Africa’s top road runners will have an added incentive to break the stranglehold foreign runners have on major South African competitions when they compete in the Nedbank SA Half Marathon Championships in Port Elizabeth on Saturday.
  Apart from the prize money at stake, Athletics South Africa has announced lucrative incentives totalling R480 000 that will [...]

• 30.Jun    No Comments
• Dibaba and Defar to duel over 5000m on their World record track in Bislett

• Oslo, Norway – The world’s greatest women’s distance runners Tirunesh Dibaba and Meseret Defar, the ‘Duelling D’s’ of Ethiopia will clash over 5000m at the ExxonMobil Bislett Games in Oslo, Norway, on Friday 3 July, the second leg of the six meeting ÅF Golden League.
  These two great Ethiopians rivals have agreed to compete against [...]

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• 28.Jun    No Comments
• Ndereba cruises to victory in Lewa race

• By Oscar Pilipili
  Twice world champion Catherine Ndereba virtually took a walk in the park. Ndereba won the 21km race at the Safaricom Marathon in Lewa on Saturday, timing 1:21:07 ahead of Joyce Kungu and Grace Ndege, who stopped the clock in 1:27:06 and 1:29:52.
  In the men’s half-marathon category, Johana Nanyim won the race in 1:07:29 [...]

• 28.Jun    No Comments
• Jelimo rocks Nyayo Stadium

• By Feverpitch Reporter
  Nyayo National Stadium exploded when the country’s ‘Golden Girl’ Pamela Jelimo received the baton on her way to helping the Kenya Police 4X400m women’s relay team retain the national title.
  The event was the most awaited as the three-day National Championships ended yesterday following news that Olympic female champions Jelimo (800m) and Nancy Jebet [...]

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