Christopher Kelsall
Runner, writer, race director, coach, website-guy and Lydiard advocate.
Russian Roulette: Five more suspensions, how many chambers are left in the doping gun?
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According to TASS news agency five more Russian athletes have been suspended due to the detection of performance enhancing drugs and or Athlete Biological Passport (ABP) anomalies.
They are: hammer thrower Maria Bespalova, marathon runner...
CIS Cross Country Championships: Guelph are the favourites, but facing stiff competition
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The 2015 Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) Cross Country Championships will be taking place in Guelph, Ontario on Saturday, November 14th and the perennial favourites, the University of Guelph Gryphons, find themselves facing stiff...
Defending Champions are ready for 2015 Canadian Cross Country Championships
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The defending champions are ready to go at the 2015 Canadian Cross Country Championships on Saturday, November 28th. The meet will take place in Kingston, Ontario after being run in Vancouver, BC for...
The needle and the damage done: IAAF Commission Investigation to be revealed
Read: Ban Russia Now.
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Richard Pound, the founder and past President of the World Anti-doping Agency (WADA) will announce from Geneva, Switzerland on Monday, November 9th what he and his colleagues have discovered in...
Russia, Canada and United Kingdom rank 1-2-3 as top sport-hosting nations
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Sportcal, a sports market intelligence company released on November 3rd their list of the top sport hosting nations as well as the top sport hosting cities worldwide. Russia tops the nation list for...
Join live Twitter chat with Paula Radcliffe Wednesday, November 4th
Paula Radcliffe, the fastest women’s marathon runner in history and the Ambassador for this weekend’s Banque du Liban Beirut Marathon, will discuss her role in the race and take your questions during a live Twitter chat on Wednesday, November...
Canada closes day 8 of IPC Worlds in golden fashion
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Brent Lakatos of Dorval, Que., and Guillaume Ouellet of Victoriaville, Que., each won gold on day eight of the 2015 International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Athletics World Championships. While the colour of their medals are the same,...
Twenty-four American men run under 1:05:00 at Philadelphia Half Marathon
Big day for Americans at the 2015 AARC Rock 'n' Roll Philadelphia Half Marathon. Press release and details to follow.
Forty-three American athletes ran qualifying times for the 2016 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials, and most impressively 17 men and five...
Adharanand Finn Interview – Author of Running with the Kenyans and The Way of...
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Adharanand Finn is a runner, assistant production editor at The Guardian, freelance journalist and author of two books, Running with the Kenyans: Discovering the Secrets of the Fastest People on Earth and The...
