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May 31, 2008: [Links load in new window]
(RRW) Athletics: Freihofer's Threepeat Bittersweet For Johnson

(World-Track) Athletics: Track time is not for chit-chats, says Campbell-Brown

(RRW) Athletics: Despite Late Start, Tollefson Still Hoping For Beijing Berth

(Times-Union) Athletics: Australia's Johnson wins third Freihofer's

(NC Times) Athletics: Rock 'n' Roll Marathon - Ivuti hopes to return to winning form

(IHT) Athletics: Kenya's Willy Korir wins Stockholm Marathon; Isabellah Andersson first in women's race

(RRW) Athletics: Reebok Grand Prix To Begin One Hour Later

(RRW) Athletics: Berlin Golden League Live On The Web

(Ann Arbor News) Athletics: U.S. Olympic marathon runner is hoping to inspire younger athletes

(CBC) Athletics: Gary Reed's shoe contract near the end

(Times-Union) Athletics: Event grows from humble roots
Diane Myers' memory of the first Freihofer's Run for Women has nothing to do with her 10th-place finish, or the birth of one of America's premier road races
A step ahead
Accident thins masters field
Favorite Mosqueda goes to hospital, not L.A. flight
For Johnson, run fun in rain or sun

(Oregon Live) Athletics: Rupp, Goucher to run on busy day of competition

(Eurosport UK) Athletics: $1 million chase kicks off in Berlin
World champions Jeremy Wariner, Blanka Vlasic, Irving Saladino and Janeth Jepkosgei will launch their bids for the $1 million Golden League Jackpot in
Berlin

Triathlon: “Best Of The US” Invites New York’s Elite Amateurs To Race At The Mini-Musselman Triathlon On July 1

(RRW) Athletics: Hilda Kibet Qualifies For Olympic Games In Utrecht

Athletics: Solid Day One for Track Hogs at NCAA Mideast Championships

Athletics: Kalmer Punches Ticket on Day One of NCAA Mideast Championships

(RRW) Athletics: Stormy Weather Threatens Reebok Grand Prix

(10 News) Athletics: City Prepares For Major Weekend Marathon
More than 21,000 runners are expected to hit San Diego's streets on Sunday for the "Rock 'N' Roll Marathon."

(Register-Guard) Athletics: Stepping up her game
Pac-10 400 champion Keshia Baker wants to elevate the UO women’s program

(IAAF) Athletics: 65,000 tickets sold; temperatures over 30°C; Berlin sizzles in expectation of ÅF Golden League start

(Register-Guard) Athletics: Teter appears out of the woods
Ten days before the Prefontaine Classic, Nick Symmonds and Nicole Teter of Oregon Track Club Elite were looking for a confidence boost. They found it on a picturesque 400-meter …

(Eurosport UK) Athletics: Paris confident of sprint classic
The Saint-Denis Gaz de France at Paris may have claimed the Golden League match-up of the season with a 100 metre showdown between Tyson Gay and Asafa Powell

(Eurosport UK) Athletics: Realistic Pistorius to try for Beijing
Double amputee Oscar Pistorius is aiming to work on his fitness in time for a bid in July to qualify for the Beijing Olympics

(Guardian) Athletics: Chambers back in the running as small meet in Germany invites him to show his paces
Dwain Chambers will take part in a small meeting in Germany as part of his quest to get a qualifying time for the Beijing Olympics

(Times Online) Athletics: 'Tadpole' ready to upset big names in the pond
Jessica Ennis may not like her nickname, but a winter of hard work has helped spawn hopes that she is gold-medal prospect
(Telegraph) Jessica Ennis seeks new peak in the Alps
British heptathlon medal hope is out to make up for her disappointment in Osaka
(Independent) Ennis takes aim at rivals for crown of absent Kluft
Jessica Ennis sat on the lush infield of the Mösle stadium here yesterday in oppressive heat that was about to be dissipated by storm clouds rolling in over the mountains which surround this small but famous Austrian border town. In the relative calm before the coming storm of Beijing, this small but famous native of Sheffield was contemplating a weekend of activity that will offer a clear view of her Olympic ambitions

(BBC) Athletics: Sotherton eyes up track for 2012
British heptathlete Kelly Sotherton is as determined as ever to win Olympic gold but wants to focus on a single running event for 2012 in London
(Guardian) Kelly Sotherton
The British heptathlete on baby food, saucy photos and big chaps who like pies

(Telegraph) Drugs in Sport: IAAF seek to end eight-year drug rule
The world governing body of athletics want to scrap the eight-year statute of limitations on drug violations

Ford Ironman 70.3 Hawaii - Kohala Coast, Hawaii
Live Coverage

Freihofer's Run for Women - ALbany, NY

Peachtree Junior 3K - Atlanta, GA

Reebok Grand Prix - New York, NY

Television - ESPN2
8:00-10:00 p.m. ET - Reebok Grand Prix

May 30, 2008: [Links load in new window]
Athletics: News & Notes, Volume 8, Number 32

Athletics: World Nos. 1 & 2 & 3 At Pre Classic

Adventure Racing: Dean Karnazes Heads to Gobi Desert

(NY Times) Movie Review: Bigger, Stronger, Faster*
Steroid Myth, Scandals and Dreams

(IAAF) Athletics: Ndereba is encouraged by form on road to marathon in Beijing – Kenyan Prison Services Champs

(NYRR) Athletics: Interview with Blake Russell
After a disappointing fourth-place finish at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Women’s Marathon in 2004, Blake Russell, 32, inspired many with her comeback at the 2008 Trials

(IAAF) Athletics: Osaka men's 400m podium reunion set for Berlin - ÅF Golden League

(WCSN) Athletics: New York City to showcase jumpers in GP

(WCSN) Athletics: Refreshed Webb returns to action

Highlights - 2007 Freihofer's 5K

CBC Radio Interview With Ottawa Marathoner Liz Maguire

Audio Controls:
L: Play, M: Pause, R: Stop

Athletics: Nike+ Human Race - The World's Largest One-Day Running Event Ever

(RRW) Athletics: Event News From Albany, Minneapolis, New York & Pittsburgh

(RRW) Athletics: Film Festival To Complement Olympic Trails In Eugene

(RRW) Athletics: World Champion Jamal Added To Reebok Grand Prix Line-Up

(Globe and Mail) Paralympics: Adams gets plenty of motivation from lawyer
The good news for six-time wheelchair world champion Jeff Adams is that lawyer Tim Danson will knock $100,000 off his legal bill if Adams qualifies for Canada's Paralympic team

(NY Yimes) Olympics: For Many Olympic Families, the Dream Is Proving Costly

(Scotsman) Athletics: Get on your marks as 13,000 gear up for biggest marathon

(EAA) Athletics: Just one month to go before the 2008 SPAR European Cup

(Eurosport UK) Drugs in Sport: Angel gives Graham evidence
Angel Guillermo Heredia, a self-described steroid user and seller, has given evidence that he provided drugs to track coach Trevor Graham

(NY Times) Athletics: The Best of YouTube - Munich 1972

(NY Times) Drugs in Sport: At Trial, Witnesses Tie Coach to Drugs
Witnesses’ accusations that Trevor Graham lied appeared damaging to the former track coach, who is facing felony charges of giving false information to federal agents

(Register-Guard) Athletics: Classic to give Mutola big sendoff
(IAAF) ‘Million Dollar Mutola’ says her goodbyes to Eugene – IAAF World Athletics Tour

(NY Times) Athletics: The Irish Priest in the Kenyan Highlands
At 6 each morning, the runners appear in groups, three here, five there, dressed in jackets and tights against the chill at 8,000 feet, as many as 500 of them training along red dirt roads that undulate through the farms of this rural village

(World Track) Athletics: Powell says Bolt's 9.7 run could bring sprint relay world record

(Sporting Life) Athletics: Pistorius Back In Training
Oscar Pistorius is back in training after he won his appeal to compete against able-bodied athletes

(Telegraph) Drugs in Sport: Trevor Graham 'talked daily' with supplier
Trevor Graham, the former coach of disgraced track star Marion Jones, went shopping for banned drugs for his athletes in Mexico, in 1996, and continued to receive illegal substances from across the border until the 2000 Sydney Olympics, a jury in his perjury trial heard

(Times Online) Drugs in Sport: 'Treasure trove' in rubbish bins helped to break Balco dope ring
Government agent reveals the covert methods used to uncover syringes, wrappers and codenames at company HQ

(BBC) Athletics: Radcliffe set for injury update
Paula Radcliffe will on Wednesday learn the severity of a hip injury which has left her on crutches

(finchannel) Athletics: NBC5 Chicago Names New Broadcast Sponsor Of The Bank of America Chicago Marathon

(CSE) Athletics: Corrigan Sports Announces Inaugural University of Maryland Heart Center Baltimore 10 Miler

Athletics: Training Strategy
Training All Systems of Your Body - By Alberto Salazar

Athletics: Ottawa Race Weekend Prepares For A 13th Consecutive Record Year May 20, 2008: [Links load in new window]
Athletics: Stuczynski named USATF Athlete of the Week

Triathlon: “Best Of The US” Invites Colorado’s Best To Race At The Loveland Lake To Lake Triathlon On June 28

Athletics: Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon & Half Launches “Cool Training Tools” Online Community for Participants

(NY Times) Athletics: Opening Statements in Trial of Track Coach
A lawyer for track coach Trevor Graham said in opening arguments at trial Monday that Graham was “the original Balco whistleblower.”

(KBC) Athletics: Training for the Olympics gets underway
Kenyan athletes have started training for the Olympic Games scheduled for August in Beijing China

(IOL) Athletics: 'Blade Runner' races against time

(NVA Daily) Athletics: Former track star donates $250,000 to his alma mater

(Pioneer Press) Athletics: Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon reaches capacity

(CNN) Running: Marathon runners reach a Great Wall

(EAA) Athletics: Ndure's Norwegian European Cup debut
With the addition of sprint talent Jaisuma Saidy Ndure to their squad for the European Cup, Norwegian hopes are high that they will consolidate their position in Group A

(IAAF) Athletics: Another 9.7 was possible, says Bolt

(Eurosport UK) Athletics: Legend Viren to compete in London
Olympic distance running legend Lasse Viren will start the inaugural BUPA London 10,000 metres on May 26 and then take part in the capital's newest road race alongside his son Matti

Triathlon: International field at the Austria IRONMAN 70.3 in St. Pölten

(RRW) Athletics: Mutola Set For Final Prefontaine Classic Appearance

(Telegraph) Drugs in Sport: Balco scandal - Athletics coach Trevor Graham accused of making 100 calls to dealer

(Times Online) Athletics: Tyson Gay fast-tracked as Mr Clean
Tyson Gay, an unassuming double champion, is cast as the man to put a new face on a sport tainted by continual doping scandals

(Green Bay Press Gazette) Athletics: Bellin run going back to 2006 timing chips

(Valley News) Athletics: Fargo Marathon Plans To Build On Huge Success

Triathlon: Macherowski captures St. Croix Ironman 70.3 CEO Challenge

(Globe Runner) Athletics: Brown Envelopes
Back in the bad old days of ‘amateur’ athletics, when the federation was God, and even a penny earned for your exploits could get you banned as a ‘pro,’ there was a time-honoured device known as the ‘brown envelope behind the beer tent’

(RWire) Athletics: Brooks® Sports' All-New Defyance Claims Top Industry Prize

(RWire) Athletics: Makau Moves Early, Wins Healthy Kidney 10K

(Washington Post) Drugs in Sport: Gatlin asks CAS not to consider earlier case in appeal

(France24) Drugs in Sport: World hammer record holder Lysenko banned for two years

(John Hopkins Gazette) Health and Fitness: Young Baltimore Athletes to be Screened for Risk for Sudden Heart Death

(Forbes) Multisport: Top Endurance-Sport Training Tips

(USA Today) Drugs in Sport: Canadian Paralympian Jeff Adams cleared

Athletics: Paula Radcliffe leads British marathon team at Beijing Olympics

(Washington Times) Athletics: Pistorius ruling appears just

(SF Gate) Drugs in Sport: Elite track coach's false statements trial underway May 19, 2008: [Links load in new window]
Triathlon: Kozub Attempts To Defend His BOUS Title

(Business First) AThletics: Buffalo Marathon on pace for record crowd

(Business Times) Athletics: Pittsburgh marathon to return in 2009

(Union-Tribune) Athletics: Amputee's prosthetic limbs spark tech debate
Oscar Pistorius literally does not have a leg to stand on, but he runs as if he were fleeing a fire

(Guardian) Athletics: Radcliffe's Olympic hopes are left hanging on a hip scan

(The Australian) Athletics: Jana faces new hurdle in race towards Games
Jana Rawlinson's preparation for the Beijing Olympics is being interrupted by the after-effects of foot surgery she underwent in January

(AllAfrica.com) Athletics: Don't Force Kenyan Athletes to Go to Camp

(SF Gate) Athletics: Bay To Breakers - A late kick settles 2 pressing scores
Korir passes lead woman and Harroufi
(Flocasts) Interview with Lineth Chepkurui - 1st place woman

(Sporting Life) Athletics: Legend Set For London
Lasse Viren will start the inaugural BUPA London 10,000 metres on May 26

(LA Times) Athletics: Allyson Felix is fourth in 100 meters, sits out 200 at Adidas Track Classic

(Eurosport UK) Athletics: Ennis impresses new coach
Heptathlete Jessica Ennis delighted her coach Toni Minichiello with a new personal best in the javelin at the Loughborough International on Sunday

Triathlon: Stoltz, McQuaid win XTERRA West Championship

(IAAF) Athletics: Thompson 9.93sec 100m in Auburn; world leads for Jonas (HJ 2.36m) & Lucas (200m, 22.29sec) in Boulder

Athletics: Laird Takes Javelin Title, Hogs Win McDonnell’s Final Conference Championship

Athletics: 5K Scores 16, Lady’Backs Third at SEC Championships

(NY Times) Athletics: In a Running Family, Someone Had to Be First
Bernard Lagat has established himself as a favorite for the 2008 Summer Games. But his Olympic dreams got a push from his sister

(NY Times) Athletics: After Rare Restart, Lagat Wins the 1,500
Bernard Lagat steered clear of trouble at the start of the 1,500 meters at the Adidas Track Classic, which more closely resembled a Nascar race than a footrace.

Athletics: Stuczynski sets American record at 2008 adidas Track Classic
(AFP) Gay wins 100, 200 titles at Adidas Track Classic
(Sports Illustrated) Stuczynski breaks American pole vault record
(Globe and Mail) Canadians on track at Adidas Classic

(Reuters) Athletics: Gay and Campbell-Brown power to victory over 100m

Triathlon: Amey and Cave Win at Ford Ironman 70.3 Florida

(News 24) Athletics: Is Comrades upsetting God?
Cape Town - The death of two Comrades runners last year could be a message from God that he was displeased with running the race on a Sunday, a Christian runner has suggested

(Rocky Mountain News) Athletics: Mock wins Colorado Colfax Marathon again

(Green Bay Press-Gazette) Athletics: Train holds up marathoners on W. Walnut Street
A Canadian National freight train briefly stalled runners in the 2008 Cellcom Green Bay Marathon as they came over the Walnut Street Bridge in downtown Green Bay and headed west toward Broadway at about 10:50 a.m. today

(BBC) Athletics: Chambers 'will cause more damage'
Sebastian Coe believes any legal challenge by Dwain Chambers against his lifetime Olympic ban would only further "damage" the image of athletics

(Daily Nation) Athletics: Makau wins 10km charity road race in New York May 18, 2008: [Links load in new window]
(Chronicle Herald) Athletics: Melloy wins Blue Nose Marathon by nearly seven minutes

(SF Gate) Athletics: Bay to Breakers race winds its way to the ocean

(Green Bay Press Gazette) Athletics: Cellcom Marathon - Toptun surges to victory in last 3 miles
Areba runs away from field
7,288 run, walk on 'a good day' for marathon

(NYRR) Athletics: Healthy Kidney 10K Professional Video

Athletics: Ethiopian Elite Feyissa Wins Rite Aid Cleveland Marathon

(Sporting Life) Athletics: Aikines-Aryeetey Targets Beijing
World junior 100 metres champion Harry Aikines-Aryeetey made clear his Olympic ambitions after winning the 100 metres in 10.48 seconds at Sunday's Loughborough Open

(Sporting Life) Athletics: Coe Concerned
Lord Coe is concerned that a legal challenge by Dwain Chambers may damage the sport's image

(IAAF) Athletics: 26,000 take part in Casablanca’s Women’s Run

(IAAF) Athletics: Double victory for Christian in Ponce

Triathlon: Don sets pace ahead of Olympic triathlon qualifier

(Sydney Morning Herald) Athletics: Dent and Stewart win half-marathon

(Chronicle-Herald) Athletics: Blue Nose Marathon underway

(Deseret News) Athletics: Photographer gets speared by javelin at state meet

(Statesman) Athletics: Longhorn Darren Brown proud of mile milestone, as he runs in his late father Barry's footsteps
After Texas Relays, they are 1st father-son pair to both run under 4 minutes in mile

Athletics: Stripling Wins Pole Vault, Lady’Backs Second at SEC Championships

Athletics: Bailey Wins Long Jump, Hogs Lead at SEC Championships

(IAAF) Athletics: Bolt cruises to 9.92 victory at Hampton Games

(IAAF) Athletics: Tadese the men’s 10km victor, while Abeylegesse and Momanyi share women’s spoils in Bangalore

(Ottawa Citizen) Athletics: Personal best a personal test
Is there anything more rewarding than doing something you once thought was impossible

(BBC) Athletics: Pavey achieves Manchester double
Britain's Jo Pavey eclipsed some big names to become the first woman to defend the Bupa Great Manchester Run with a fine victory over 10km

Triathlon: Bentley and Gollnick Added to Women’s Field at Ford Ironman 70.3 Florida

(NY Times) Athletics: A New Taste for Tuna and a Win in Central Park
Tourists always remember their first trip to New York. Patrick Makau, who won the Healthy Kidney 10K in Central Park on Saturday, will remember it for the tuna fish and the tape

(Telegraph) Drugs in Sport: BALCO drug scandal hanging over athletics

(SF Gate) Athletics: Bay to Breakers - Sausalito veterinarian can't quite quit the running game

(Times Online) Athletics: Quite simply, the fastest thing on no legs
Video: Watch paralympian sprinter Oscar Pistorius break the 100m world record

(EAA) Athletics: A fortnight to go until the World's best go for gold!
In exactly 14 days time, on Sunday 1 June 2008, the battle for the $1 million Golden League jackpot will commence in the German capital's atmospheric 1936 Olympic stadium where the DKB-ISTAF Berlin meeting is staged

(BBC) Athletics: New injury setback for Radcliffe
World marathon record holder Paula Radcliffe has suffered a further injury setback in her Olympics preparations
(Telegraph) Paula Radcliffe on crutches as Beijing nears

(BBC) Athletics: Pistorius hails 'human rights' victory

Double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius says winning the appeal to compete for a place in the Beijing Olympics is important for all disabled athletes

adidas Track Classic - Carson, CA

Cellcom Green Bay Marathon - Green Bay, WI

Ford Ironman 70.3 Florida - Orlando, FLA

ING Bay to Breakers - San Francisco, CA

(Inaugural) Marine Corps Historic Half - Fredericksburg, VA

Post-News Colorado Colfax Marathon - Denver, CO

Rite Aid Cleveland Marathon & 10K - Cleveland, OH
Cleveland Plain-Dealer Coverage

Television : Adidas Meet
Live TV ESPN 4-6pm EDT May 17, 2008: [Links load in new window]
(In-Forum) Athletics: Fargo Marathon - 5 runners taken to hospitals

(Press-Gazette) Athletics: Cellcom Green Bay Marathon preview - 2007 champs won't set the pace

(USA Today) Athletics: Radcliffe on crutches, treating hip injury

(Science of Sport) Athletics: Oscar Pistorius debut: the scientific facts and implications
(National Post) Blade runner's revenge
South African double-amputee wins the right to try out for Olympic team

(In-Forum) Athletics: Grand Forks runner gets the win at Fargo marathon
Missouri woman wins women's marathon title
Costa Rican, Kenyan win half marathon races
MSUM freshman, Audubon woman win 5-k race

(RRW) Athletics: Makau Wins, But Ritzenhein's Record Still Stands

(In-Forum) Athletics: Special visitor
Participants in today’s Fargo Marathon include the man who organizes one of the most prestigious marathons in the world

(Sports Illustrated) Athletics: Pistorius' victory is inspirational -- and controversial

(EAA) Athletics: 5 minutes with Ivet Lalova
This weekend's 5-minute interviewee looks more suited to the cover of Vogue than l'equipe. A cutting edge fashionista who drives fast cars, sports three tattoos and couldn't live without her cell phone - this is a lady who both runs and lives in the fast lane!

(EAA) Athletics: Impressive field for the Great Manchester Run
An all-star field is expected for the BUPA Great Manchester Run tomorrow to run the fastest 10km course in Great Britain

(Ottawa Citizen) Athletics: 'This is the recognition you strive for'
Glenroy Gilbert is being inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame. He's a little awed by the company

(The Olympian) Athletics: Repeat victory would be no accident for Price
Nobody expected Josiah Price, a swimmer in high school, to win last year's Capital City half-marathon

(Ad Aage) Olympics: Coke Set to Launch Olympic Blitz
A "six pack" of Olympic athletes will also be featured on packaging and in-store materials

(Sporting Life) Athletics: Paralympics Still Important To Oscar
Oscar Pistorius says Paralympic events will still figure prominently in his plans

(Eurosport UK) Athletics: Radcliffe upbeat despite hip injury
Paula Radcliffe is "upbeat a