Christopher Kelsall
Runner, writer, race director, coach, website-guy and Lydiard advocate.
Time now for national athletics federations to clean house.
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Note to national governing bodies of athletics and national anti-doping agencies: right now would be an excellent time to investigate and clean house of athletes, coaches, agents and administrators who cheat or are...
Canadian Olympian’s father banned from Coaching in Canada
From CBC.ca
The father and coach of Canadian pole vault world champion Shawn Barber has been banned by the national governing body for track and field after it learned of George Barber's 2007 criminal conviction on charges of having sex...
The 2015 Canadian Cross Country Championships boast highly competitive fields
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The 2015 Canadian Cross Country Championships are taking place Saturday, November 28th in Kingston, Ontario. The event features at least 964 athletes who will race in the youth, junior, senior and master categories,...
Dozens of Kenyan athletes protest at Athletics Kenya headquarters
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Kenyan athletes have occupied the Athletics Kenya (AK) headquarters in Nairobi. According to an unnamed Kenyan athlete, “it is a peaceful demonstration with dozens of athletes; some of them are well-known.”
The athletes have...
Toronto’s Justyn Knight helps Syracuse win the NCAA Cross Country Championships
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Toronto’s Justyn Knight finished fourth in the 2015 NCAA Cross Country Championships that took place today in Louisville, Kentucky. He helped his team, the Syracuse University Orange win the national championships for the...
World record holders Tadese and Kiplagat head Airtel Delhi Half Marathon entries
World record holders Zersenay Tadese and Florence Kiplagat head the elite entry list for the 2015 Airtel Delhi Half Marathon on Sunday 29 November.
Tadese, from Eritrea, has won the world half marathon title four times and set the existing...
The far-reaching effects of corruption: “somebody has got to stop this madness”
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The latest in an endless parade of doping scandals to hit the sport of athletics, the apparent systematic and colluded doping that has been carried out...
Slaying the Gryphons: “Doesn’t get any better than this.”
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The University of Victoria Vikes men’s cross country team did something that no other team has done in nine years, beat the University of Guelph Gryphons in the Canadian Interuniversity Sport Cross Country...
2015 BC Cross Country Championships: Boys junior race
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