Christopher Kelsall
Runner, writer, race director, coach, website-guy and Lydiard advocate.
Shannon Rowbury Interview
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Shannon Rowbury is one of America’s best middle-distance runners. She has competed in the 2008 Beijing and 2012 London Olympic Games, specialising in the 1500m distance.
Originally from San Francisco, she attended Duke University...
Top Athletics Illustrated News and Performances of 2014
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Top Athletics Illustrated News and Performances for 2014
This year was newsworthy in the sport of athletics considering it was neither an Olympics nor an IAAF World Track and Field Championships (outdoors) year; two...
Athletics Kenya Admits that Kenya has a doping problem
From the online publication, Coastweek.com, it appears that Kenya or more accurately Athletics Kenya (AK) and their president Isaiah Kiplagat are now admitting that Kenya has a major doping problem. The following truncated excerpt was copied from Coastweek.com.
AK says...
Unbroken: Leads at the Box Office
The running community has long wondered if Hollywood will ever get it right when making a running movie. More often than not movie-makers seem to fall short in their efforts to capture the essence of elite level running and...
Marathon World Records: Is it time for course categorisation?
"Purely for conjecture and entertainment purposes, should the marathon have
different categories to determine world best performances?"
The term “marathon world record” is used to describe the world’s fastest time that is run on a recognised or eligible-for-records marathon course. With...
Canadian Running Magazine’s Community Pillar of the Year: Rob Reid
Rob Reid, owner of Frontrunners Footwear in Victoria, was selected for this award because of his dedication to the running community as well as his broad-based efforts with local and international outreach work in supporting cancer research and to...
Paula Radcliffe’s world record in the marathon (2:15:25) is no longer an outlier performance
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Eleven years after England’s Paula Radcliffe broke her own marathon world record with her 2:15:25 performance, during the 2003 London Marathon, there continues to be significant discussion in the running community centred on...
United States Anti-Doping Agency Does the Right Thing
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The United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) got it right Wednesday, December 17th, when they announced the banning American sprint coach and former athlete John Drummond for eight years.
Drummond was Tyson Gay’s coach, who...
Agenda 2020: 10,000m, 200m, Shot-put and Race-walk are staying in the Olympics
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Recently, the focus from sports media on race-walking has unfortunately been all about whether the event will survive to see another Olympics after the Rio 2016 Games. Media has speculated or perpetuated rumours...
Is the Sport of Athletics at Great Risk, Citing the latest apparent damning evidence...
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Recently, German television station WRD/ARD aired a three-part documentary on apparent systematic Russian doping and cover-ups and extortion by members of the Russian Anti-doping Agency (RUSADA). There are also accusations of bribery by...
