Christopher Kelsall
Runner, writer, race director, coach, website-guy and Lydiard advocate.
Sasha Gollish interview: PhDs, and road and track racing
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Sasha Gollish of Toronto, Ontario is one of Canada’s faster middle-distance runners, having won a bronze medal during the 2015 Toronto Pan American Games 1500-metre event. Her best time at the distance is...
IAU 50K World Championships: Catrin Jones sets national record to help Canada win silver
*Editor's note: Below it is indicated that the record surpasses Lori Bowden's national record for 50K. Bowden's is a trail 50K best, the road best before Jones's 2015 Doha race appears to be a 2004 performance by Elizabeth Ruel...
With Russia banned, two 2016 IAAF events to be re-allocated
With the Russian Athletics Federation banned for 2016, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) are re-allocating two events. Decision are due on January 7th.
Following confirmation last week of the full suspension of the Russian IAAF Member Federation ARAF,...
Italy suspends 26 athletes including a world championships medallist
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The Italian, National Anti-Doping Organization (NADO) has suspended 26 of their athletes for failing to provide doping samples or what they call, "evasion, refusal and failure to submit themselves to providing biological samples".
Three...
Ross Proudfoot’s Canadian Cross Country Championship race
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The 2015 Canadian Cross Country Championships offered up some of the deepest fields in the event’s history, especially the senior men’s race. Although we didn’t get to see 2012 London Olympians Cameron Levins...
Wodak and Proudfoot take senior titles at Canadian Cross Country Championships – See more...
Athletics Canada
Natasha Wodak (Vancouver, B.C.) and Ross Proudfoot (Sudbury, Ont.) each battled strong fields to come out victorious in Kingston, Ont., at the 2015 Canadian Cross Country Championships. The rolling hills of the historic Fort Henry course and muddy...
Two-time world cross country champion among seven Kenyan athletes banned for doping
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Double world cross country champion and Commonwealth Games bronze medallist Emily Chebet was among seven Kenyan athletes banned today for failing drugs tests as some of the country's leading runners admitted the country has a serious problem...
Reaction to sanctioning by Athletics Kenya of Emily Chebet Muge
Earlier today (Friday, November 27th, 2015) Kenyan media have reported that two-time World Cross Country
Champion, Emily Chebet Muge, has been sanctioned by Athletics Kenya, effective July 17th, 2015, for period
of 4 (four) years, after being found guilty of using...
Rachel Hannah, “It has been a huge honour to learn of the medal upgrade...
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Rachel Hannah finished fourth in the 2015 Toronto Pan American Games marathon, her first attempt at the distance. Fourth is a very good finish position in a debut marathon in international competition. There...
The media and the public can be excused for making noise of mangled messaging
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On August 19th, Lord Sebastian Coe was narrowly elected President of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) and immediately the pressure began to mount on him. The noise came from concerns...
