November 2016

Track and Field Contents Writers of P. 1 President’s Message America P. 3 TAFWA Notes (Founded June 7, 1973) P. 4 2017 TAFWA Awards P. 5 While Much Has Been Gained ... PRESIDENT P. 6 Russian Sport Undergoes a Penance-Free Purge Jack Pfeifer 216 Ft. Washington Ave., P. 7 Exclusive: Anger as Rio 2016 Fail to Pay Staff and Companies Because NY, NY 10032 of Finanacial Crisis Office/home: 917-579- P. 8 ‘Rejuvenated’ Mary Cain Explains Coaching Change 5392. Email: P. 10 Windfall Productions Renews ESPN Collegiate Track & Field [email protected] P. 11 Five Questions on the Farm VICE PRESIDENT P. 13 USA Track & Field CEO Has Alarmed Some Insiders With His Spending & Style Doug Binder P. 19 Keshorn, TT Athletes Discuss Problems in the Sport Email: P. 20 42 Russian Athletes to Get Compensation for Missing Rio 2016 Olympics [email protected]. Phone: 503-913-4191 P. 21 Runners Reunited Welcomes a Big First 1956 Olympian Don Bowden P. 24 Russian Rage Over Doping Points to a New Cold War TREASURER P. 26 Russian Hackers Draw Attention to Drug-Use Exemptions for Athletes Tom Casacky P. 28 Goldie Sayers and GB’s 4x400m Relay Team Upgraded to 2008 Bronze P.O. Box 4288 Napa, CA 94558 P. 28 Mark Emmert: NCAA Might Reconsider Olympic Bonuses for Athletes Phone: 818-321-3234 P. 29 Tokyo 1940: A Look Back at the Olympic Games That Never Happened Email: [email protected] P. 32 Charlotte Loses NAIA Cross Country Championships over House Bill 2 P. 32 Christian Schools Nix NAIA Boycott SECRETARY Jon Hendershott P. 33 NCAA Relocates 7 Events Pulled from NC due to LGBT Law Email: P. 34 Farah Confirms Final London IAAF Diamond League Appearance [email protected] P. 35 Partial Fixtures List Phone: 669-231-4177

FAST Dave Johnson Email: [email protected] Phone: 215-898-6145 President’s Message - November 2016

WEBMASTER Another track season is in the books, fall is in the air, don’t you love cross Michael McLaughlin Email: country? [email protected] Phone: 815-529-8454 We at TAFWA Headquarters took a month off, now will begin getting orga- NEWSLETTER EDITOR nized for the 2017 season. With this in mind, please note: Shawn Price Email: [email protected] • The first reminder to pay dues for the 2017 calendar year appears in this is- Phone: 979-661-0731 sue. It’s just $30 and can be paid by check or Paypal.

• The description of our TAFWA Awards and the deadline for nominations for each appear in the issue. Because we now give out some awards in New York in February, some of the deadlines are the end of this year, two months away. For those of you in the East who hope to attend, it will be Thursday night Feb. 9, two nights before the Millrose Games, at Coogan’s Restaurant in Washington Heights. Last year we had a packed house, so mark the date now.

• The 2017 FAST Annual is in the works, with Tom Casacky again at the helm. USATF continues to help with the costs. We are grateful for their support.

• Longtime member Jon Hendershott has moved from California to Salem, Ore., has cut down his workload and has generously volunteered to help TAFWA. Look for his name and efforts upcoming. Likewise another member from the Pacific NW, Mark Cullen, a Seattle schoolteacher, is also lending a hand behind the scenes. We are grateful. We need all the help we can muster.

Schedules We get occasional complaints about when we schedule our get-togethers. Here’s your chance to weigh in.

• Awards Breakfast – We have already booked Gerlinger Hall on the Oregon campus for Friday morn- ing June 9 2017 at 9 AM. No one wants to meet on Saturday because it is getaway day, and the first morning is too soon. Thursday morning there is competition, and afternoons conflict as well. But if you don’t like Friday morning at 9, let us know. (Some members say they have to Tweet and Blog at that hour. Is there ever a time when you don’t?) We aim to please.

• USATF Social Event – This is becoming popular so we are planning another such gathering in Sac- ramento in June 2017, at the home of Bob and Linda Jarvis. We have tentatively set this for Sunday morning on the final day but haven’t seen a meet Time Schedule yet. Any opinions?

Parking In 2016, for the first time, TAFWA rented a dozen parking spaces at the Lutheran Church, 2 blocks from Hayward Field, to provide better, reliable parking for members. We subsidized the cost as a ser- vice to members. All 12 were purchased.

Should we continue this service? We are willing to do so but also feel strongly that it needs to be lim- ited to actual paid-up members. Should we get more than 12 in 2017? Stay tuned.

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 2 - November 2016 2017 FAST Annual Needs Compilers

Work has commenced on the 2017 FAST Annual, with a stellar roster of event experts compiling deep lists of 2016 performers and performances. This year, we’re proud to be joined by Track & Field News Editor Emeritus Jon Hendershott, working from his new base in Oregon. However, there’s always room for more volunteers. If you have a statistical interest in any event, or would like to try your hand at assembling one of the 2016 lists, write to Tom C. at [email protected]. Fame and fortune await you!

TAFWA Membership Dues for 2017

It’s never too early to think about your TAFWA dues. For 2017, they will remain at $30, and will buy you a series of excellent newsletters, the 2017 FAST Annual, and privileged entry to special TAFWA social events at New York’s Millrose Games in February, the NCAA Championships in Eugene (our yearly breakfast with athletes and coaches), and hopefully at the USATF meet in Sacramento. Don’t miss out!

You can send a check, payable to TAFWA, to PO Box 4288, Napa, CA 94558, or use PayPal, to the address [email protected].

World’s Greatest in Athletics This is a valuable and entertaining contribution to track and field lit- erature, both as a reference and as a stimulating source for discussion.

Three respected international statisticians/historians — Richard Hymans, Peter Matthews and Jo- nas Hedman — have produced an 832-page volume that contains: a never-before-published top-10 world all-time ranking of men and women at all standard events with career details, best performances and annual progressions for the top selections (228 pages); 500-deep all-time lists to January 1, 2015, perhaps the most extensive and authoritative printed lists available anywhere (510 pages); and top-10 lists by decade from 1900 through 2010 (96 pages).

There are more than 300 photos of athletes and competitions.

This book was advertised in the January, 2016 TAFWA Newsletter; if you haven’t seen it or obtained a copy, you should.

You can order via www.worldsgrea- testinathletics.com, or from Jonas Hedman at [email protected].

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 3 - November 2016 2017 TAFWA Awards

Recognizing excellence in track & field journalism, announcing, photography, film & video, blogging, broadcasting and books in 2016 as well as ongoing cooperation with the media

General information: These awards will be presented in February 2017 in New York and June 2017 in Eugene and Sac- ramento for work in 2016 unless otherwise noted. Self-nominations are allowed. Please include nominee’s name, address, e-mail address and phone.

James O. Dunaway Memorial Award | For excellence in track and field journalism, both in print and online Award Chair: Jack Pfeifer ([email protected]) Nomination Deadline: January 1

Sam Skinner Memorial Award | For ongoing cooperation with the press Award Chair: Jon Hendershott ([email protected]) Nomination Deadline: May 1 Note: Submit name of nominee and a brief narrative

Announcing Awards | For excellence in track and field announcing Scott Davis Memorial Award: presented to a current announcer Pinkie Sober Award: presented to a retired announcer or posthumously Award Chair: Dave Johnson ([email protected]) Nomination Deadline: May 1

Rich Clarkson Photography Award | For excellence in track and field/cross country/running still photography Award Chair: Jack Pfeifer ([email protected]) Nomination Deadline: May 1 Note: Submit an electronic portfolio with a minimum of 10 photos and maximum of 20.

Bud Greenspan Memorial Film & Video Award | For excellence in track and field/running film & video production Award Chair: Nancy Beffa ([email protected]) Nomination Deadline: January 1 Note: This award will recognize outstanding achievement in film or video on track & field or running during 2016.

Criteria: contact Nancy Beffa for details. • Submissions are judged based on innovation, impact and creativity • Entries must have been released, televised or copyrighted in 2016 • Must be at least 25 minutes in length • Submit 5 DVD copies of the film or a link to the work online. Note: A second award recognizing works shorter less than 25 minutes will be inaugurated in 2018.

Adam Jacobs Blogging Award | For excellence in online personal writing on track and field, cross country or running in 2016 Award Chair: Parker Morse ([email protected]) Nomination Deadline: May 1

Armory Foundation Book Award | For the leading book published in 2016 on track and field, cross country or running Award Chair: Peter Walsh ([email protected]) Nomination Deadline: May 1 Note: Please submit three copies of the book for review to Peter Walsh, Coogan’s Restaurant, 4015 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10032

Cordner Nelson Memorial Award | For a body of work writing about track & field and running. Award Chair: Peter Walsh ([email protected]) Nomination Deadline: January 1

H. D. Thoreau Award |For excellence in track & field broadcasting Award Chair: Jack Pfeifer ([email protected]) Nomination Deadline: January 1 TAFWA Newsletter - Page 4 - November 2016 WHILE MUCH HAS BEEN GAINED… Oct. 27 | by Toni Reavis https://tonireavis.com/2016/10/27/while-much-has-been-gained/#more-16248

Life is rarely black and white, all one thing and not somewhat another. Take for instance high school football. I say high school football, because in America that is usually the first time we get truly associate ourselves with my school, my team. So it’s Friday Night Lights, and out on the field are 22 young men exchanging energy in a game of offense against defense and vice versa. On one side of the field a group is watching that interaction and they are cheer- ing, smiling, and clapping, it’s wonderful. On the other side of the field another group watches that same exchange of energy and mutters, clenches their fists, and pouts. So which is it, a happy thing or a sad thing? Or does it all depend on the bias with which you entered the sta- dium? As we prepare for the TCS New York City Marathon in just over a week’s time, we are once again presented with a men’s competition featuring top athletes from East Africa, with American stars Dathan Ritzenhein, Abdi Abdirahman and some talented rookies thrown into the mix for good measure. As history has shown, the pendulum of athletic excellence swings over a long arc of time. Just look at this year’s baseball World Series pitting the Chicago Cubs against the Cleveland Indians. The tribe hasn’t won the World Series in six decades (1948), the cubbies in a century (1908). In decades past we have seen athletes from Korea and Japan, Norway and Finland dominate running competi- tions. Perhaps not as long as the current East African run of excellence, but time at the top tends to eventually run its course. Two-time Boston Marathon champion Moses Tanui once predicted the Kenyan advantage would come to an end as the agrarian way of life disappeared. While Moses once walked 60 km from his rural village to attend a track meet as a 10 year old, his own children grew up in Eldoret city and had a very short trip to the local school every day. Former marathon world record holder and 2014 New York City champion Wilson Kipsang spoke of going hunting all day with his father. “And if you got tired,” Kipsang remembered his father saying, “fine, walk home.” But Wilson recalled they were already out some 20K, so there was really no choice. Accordingly, he kept going, and at the end of the day they came home with a small antelope for the family to eat. It’s when a Vons or Ralphs or Safeway opens in the neighborhood and meat comes red and wrapped in cello- phane rather than furred and bloody in the bush, that the times will change. And finally, Moses Kipsiro of Uganda (who will be competng in NYC) told Jeff Berman, his host at the 2015 Beach to Beacon 10K in Maine, how when he and his friends used to walk 15 km to school every day they would occasionally put a few coins or maize in a cup or bowl, and the first one to school would win the maize or coins. It was a natural competition that helped build not just their cardiovascular systems, but honed their competi- tive instincts, too, at a young age. That is a hard wager to make when you take a bus to school.

Changing the culture Before the advent of smartphones, or GPS systems, remember how one of the distinctions between men driv- ers and women drivers was that women would actually stop and ask for directions, while men would just get lost at a faster rate of speed? Today we use our GPS devices so much that we have lost our birdseye view of where we are and how to get where we are going. As our sense of direction is utilized less and less, we become ever more dependent on our technologies. We see a form of this dependence on technology in modern day runners. So dependent have we become on Garmins and other such gadgets that any disruption that might mess up their signals can completely throw our sense of pace off as folks haven’t learned to internalize pace. So while much has been gained by our endless technological trek, so, too, have other things been lost. And so it goes.

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TAFWA Newsletter - Page 5 - November 2016 Russian Sport Undergoes a Penance-Free Purge A promotion and two resignations on, Russian sport has hardly turned a new leaf. By Eva Hartog | The Moscow Times |https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/russia-sports-mutko-55865

No stranger to scandal, Vitaly Mutko has always said that he would step down as sports minister only at the Kremlin’s bidding. And so when he resigned on Oct. 19, President Putin must have decided it was time. A day later, Mutko’s deputy Yury Nagornykh was dismissed “at his own request,” according to Russian state media. Meanwhile, Alexander Zhukov, the head of Russia’s Olympic Committee, has publicly announced his intention to resign, too. Within a short period, the Russian sports elite appears to have silently undergone the purge that sports and anti-doping authorities have pushed for ever since the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) confirmed suspicions of a state-sponsored doping program for Russian athletes in 2015. It means that those named in the WADA reports, including the leadership of Russia’s anti-doping agency RU- SADA, the country’s athletics federation and now also the Sports Ministry, have been removed from their posts. The motivation is clear: Russia’s failure to convince sports officials that it is committed to changing what WADA claims is a “deeply rooted culture of cheating” has already cost it full participation in the Rio Olympics and led to a complete competition ban for the Paralympic Games.

The removal of Mutko, the spider at the center of the doping web if WADA’s reports are to be believed, has long been a silent demand if Russia wants to be reinstated ahead of its hosting of the World Cup in 2018 and that same year’s Winter Olympics, according to inside sources. But while the recent staff reshuffles may suggest reform, the Kremlin “is giving international sports authori- ties the middle finger,” says Yevgeny Slyusarenko, the deputy editor-in-chief of sports website Championat.com. Rather than risk appearing weak by caving in to international pressure, Putin has dealt with Mutko on his own terms, adds political analyst Konstantin Kalachyov. “Instead of getting rid of someone, you give him a pro- motion,” he says. In the newly created position of deputy prime minister for sport, tourism and youth policy, Mutko will likely have more control, not less, over funds and sports infrastructure. That while on his eight-year watch Russian sport suffered some of its biggest scandals, including the doping allegations and an abysmal performance by Russia’s football team at the Euro 2016 this summer. “In the eyes of the president he hasn’t failed,” a source close to the government said. “The logic is: if you are prepared to fulfill orders, even criminal ones, then you’re safe.” Mutko’s deputy Nagornykh on the other hand, has been easier to throw under the bus. Nagornykh was sus- pended after a WADA-commissioned investigation by Richard McLaren in July described him as “critical” to the cheating scheme. That same report said it appeared “inconceivable” that Mutko would not have been aware of the extensive cover-up, involving dirty samples being swapped for clean ones through a hole in the wall of an Olympic lab. Other than Mutko, however, Nagornykh is not widely known and his dismissal on Monday went widely un- noticed, even by sports pundits. “He wasn’t interesting to anyone, so they took him down,” says the government source.

So what’s next? WADA, which is expected to make public McLaren’s final report on Russia next month, told The Moscow Times it would “work with the new sports minister as RUSADA continues in its efforts to regain compliance with the world anti-doping code.” Having been Mutko’s deputy for six years, the freshly appointed sports minister Pavel Kolobkov, has been dubbed “Mutko’s man.” But other than his former boss, who is known for his fiery temperament and clumsy charisma, Kolobkov has so far excelled at remaining unnoticed. “He was never given key tasks and was an unre- markable figure,” according to Slyusarenko. Russian media report Kolobkov’s nickname is “The Quiet One.” For lack of real change, Russia’s strategy appears to be largely symbolic. Like the head of the International Olympic Committee Thomas Bach, Kolobkov is a former Olympic fencer. “There’s a sort of brotherhood among global fencers,” the head of Russia’s fencing federation, Alexander Mikhailov, told the TASS agency. “It’ll be easier for them to find a common language.”

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 6 - November 2016 Exclusive: Anger as Rio 2016 fail to pay staff and companies because of financial crisis By Nick Butler | http://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1043009/exclusive-anger-as-rio-2016-fail-to-pay- staff-and-companies-because-of-financial-crisis Workers and companies employed by Rio 2016 have “We are all very unhappy at the length of time it has still not been paid as the Organising Committee con- taken to be paid and the continual excuses we have tinues to face problems fulfilling its financial obliga- been given.” tions, insidethegames can reveal. A meeting took place last week between Rio 2016 Outstanding payments have been frozen until Rio press operations chief, Lucia Montanarella, the or- 2016 receives funds from the Brazilian City Govern- ganisation’s Executive Director of Finance, Ana Paula ment, sponsors and the International Olympic Com- Machado, and Director of Finance, Fernanda Mourao. mittee (IOC), something that is expected to mostly take place in November and December. In a letter subsequently sent to ONS employees Organisers insist that “95 per cent” of what they awaiting payment, Montanarella said that they were owe will be paid by the end of year. told that the payments had begun to be processed on Separate payments to foreign individuals who October 14, a week after the conclusion of the strike. worked for Rio 2016 during the Games have also been This has not happened, however. delayed. “For those of you who know me I do not think I have This is because of month-long strikes across Brazil- to explain how disappointed, disgusted and horrified I ian banks, it is claimed, which ended on October 7 and am of this situation,” Montanarella wrote in her letter. has meant they have been unable to process all of the “I think this is totally not acceptable but unfortu- fees. nately I find myself unable to do anything but fight for A process has already begun to make these pay- all of you - and you can be sure I will keep fighting.” ments, organisers insist, and this is expected to be completed “over coming days”. Staff in other departments are also facing similar problems, insidethegames understands, including “There is no question that everybody will get paid,” communications. Rio 2016 director of communications Mario Andrada Andrada added that their number one priority is to told insidethegames today. pay staff to whom payments are outstanding. “There is no chance in the universe that they will Individual professionals are second on the priority not.” lists ahead of small and then large companies. Others have claimed the true situation is even “We will treat everybody on a case-by-case basis but worse, and that the Organising Committee will be un- will honour all commitments,” he added. able to process 50 per cent of their payments because They are still owed one specific lump sum from the they are facing insolvency. City Government. This is denied by Andrada, who admits they are This is despite insisting the Games are not reliant on “late” with payments but claims the problems are simi- public funding. lar to those faced by previous hosts. The City Government money specifically relates to But the situation is unprecedented in recent Olym- the Paralympic Games, Andrada said, although it can pic history and is bound to provoke alarm. still be used for services and individuals owed money. One individual who worked for the Olympic News He also revealed that they are involved in legal Service (ONS) during Rio 2016 told insidethegames disputes over the precise amounts they owe some that they and many other colleagues are owed “thou- companies. sands of dollars” for work conducted in the build-up Andrada and Rio 2016 President Carlos Nuzman are and during August and September’s Games. currently in Brasilia attending meetings with political “All of us have done multiple events and have never officials. encountered a situation like this before,” they said. insidethegames has asked the IOC if they will con- “Our work at the Games was highly praised. sider stepping in and making outstanding payments if “Being a small team many staff worked in excess they are not ultimately received. of 10 or 12 hours a day for weeks on end to make the ONS a success.

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 7 - November 2016 ‘REJUVENATED’ MARY CAIN EXPLAINS COACHING CHANGE By Chris Lotsbom, @ChrisLotsbom | (c) 2016 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved BOSTON (23-Oct) -- Fewer than 48-hours after announcing that she had decided to part ways with coach Alberto Salazar and the Nike Oregon Project, Mary Cain raced to a third place finish here on a very windy day at the Boston Mayor’s Cup Cross Country Meet. With the Oregon Project logo missing from her uniform for the first time since turning pro in 2013, Cain ran a solid 17:08 to match her placing from a year ago. The bubbly 20-year-old spent the better part of ten minutes speaking exclusively to Race Results Weekly, de- tailing her reasoning for being coached solely by 2004 Olympian John Henwood, a native of New Zealand who has been overseeing her workouts ever since Cain moved from Portland, Ore., back to her native New York in 2015. She’s originally from the New York City suburb of Bronxville, just a half-hour train ride from Manhattan. Describing the move as “rejuvenating,” Cain said the decision was primarily made because of her return to New York where she has enrolled at Fordham University. She plans to stay awhile. “At this point I’ve been living back home in New York for the past year and a half, I’m a full-time student at Fordham University (Go Rams!), and it was kind of a natural transition in that for the foreseeable future I don’t see myself leaving New York,” she began. “It’s good to have somebody who is there to see you day to day, even hop into some runs with you. Having John be able to really take control of my training, I think it will be really imperative for my success over the next few years.” Since moving back east a year and a half ago, the running world has speculated that Henwood could poten- tially be the primary coach of Cain instead of Salazar. Henwood and Salazar had shared coaching duties, with Salazar providing workouts and Henwood being the eyes on the ground during sessions. Since moving back east, Cain has not competed at her best level. Only once since the beginning of 2015 has she run sub-4:10 for 1500m, her signature event. Compared to 2013 (when she ran a lifetime best 4:04.62) and 2014 (when she ran sub-4:10 four times), the past 24 months have been rocky. After a hit-or-miss track season last summer where she finished 11th at the USA Olympic Trials 1500m, Cain knew it was only a matter of time before she took a step back and reassessed everything. “I think in a way this has been something in the back of our minds for a little while. I’ve been home for a year and a half now and John’s been extremely involved really throughout my career. I think sometime probably after this summer it felt like the next natural step for me, and so I kind of sat down and had to have that moment [of reflection]. Sometimes change is scary but sometimes it’s also exciting. Knowing that this isn’t some crazy leap -- I mean, nothing huge has happened. I’m still really training with the same people and on the same program. I guess it’s kind of exciting now. It’s like ‘OK, this is something a little bit new, and I get to get more colorful uni- forms now!’” she said, playfully joking about not wearing the all-black colors of the Oregon Project anymore. Returning to a more serious note, Cain referenced the perks of being based in New York and having Henwood --a well-established coach in the NYC area-- as her main mentor. An added perk is the other competitive athletes Henwood already coaches. “It’s been really fun because I’ve been able to gain some training partners from the guys he coaches, and so long runs we’re all meeting up and getting to push hard. It’s kind of rejuvenated me a little bit. It’s going to be exciting to run with the Hounds this year.” (Henwood’s training group is called Henwood’s Hounds). When questioned about her time with the Oregon Project and her thoughts on Salazar in particular, Cain was overwhelmingly positive. She did not hesitate to compliment the team for their dedication and success, and for the memories made while she trained with them. “The Oregon Project will always be where I started. I’m really grateful for my time in Portland and the time when I was working with the team and everything. I’ll always have that and all those experiences still with me, and I’m still going to be cheering on Matt [Centrowitz]. When he was winning that Olympic gold I was freaking out around the house. I still hope to have my relationships with him and Jordan [Hasay] and stuff like that. I’m really grateful for my time there but I think I’m just excited to be going on to a new adventure.” As the discussion progressed, this reporter could tell Cain deeply wanted a coach that was on-site and in- volved at all times during training cycles. She said both Salazar and Henwood have similar coaching philoso- phies; Henwood simply was more hands-on. “I think both are really strong coaches, and I think that for me the biggest thing with John is really just loca- tion right now. Having someone hear me, see me, really kind of pick up on the little things like, ‘Mary called up and is clearly exhausted because she had two tests yesterday, let’s back her off today.’ Or saying maybe, ‘OK Mary we’re going to let you loose today.’ I think that in a lot of ways it’s not necessarily philosophical differences TAFWA Newsletter - Page 8 - November 2016 Mary Cain on her way to a third place finish at the 2016 Boston Mayor’s Cup Cross Country (photo by Chris Lotsbom for Race Results Weekly) right now, but a lot of it was just having the convenience of someone I can really trust on the day-to-day to make the right calls. “In terms of comfort and stuff like that, I think knowing and trusting that John backs me off or lets me go or something like that, that he really knows what he’s doing because he sees it and hears it. I think I’m somebody who, I have a tendency to over-train rather than under-train. If I have someone there to be like ‘go’ or ‘hold back’ -- the other day in my one workout I’ve done so far this year, John ran it with me and we’d be talking and he said ‘you sound really great right now, go ahead.’ So for the last one I really tried to out-kick him so he couldn’t be talking to me...” Having done only one speed session thus far in this training block, Cain raced today off of pure mileage train- ing. Unlike the past --where she’s primarily taken the fall off from racing or competed just once or twice-- Cain will compete multiple times in the coming months. She said more cross country and road races are on her sched- ule, including the Manchester Road Race on Thanksgiving and potentially some local New York Road Runner events. “I haven’t run a lot of race-pace this year, and a lot of the buildup has been slower and mileage. I think going into [today] I was probably a little too tentative, so I was often finding myself in no-man’s land and almost not competing enough. I was almost trying to stay within myself more, and I think at the end I kind of felt that a little bit. By that point I had let the gap occur that 400 meters to go you aren’t going to be kicking people down.” With the transition to Henwood, Cain plans on training her mind as well as her legs. Questioning the pace and her fitness today pigeonholed her in third place, and by the time eventual winner Liv Westphal made her move the race was decided. “Going into today I think I was a little too conservative and that really showed when they gapped me so hard,” she said. “I think I left it a little too long, obviously, but at the same time that’s what racing is about. Especially cross country, it’s all about learning how to push yourself and learning how to control your effort... I hope that going out here, racing, having fun with it will set me up so each race I can get a little bit more out of myself. Cain hopes that, combined with Henwood’s advice, will help her return to the World Junior champion form that made her a force on the national and international scene in 2014. “I hope that by having a nice long cross country season I’m able to really get into the track season knowing I can get everything out of myself on every day,” she said. TAFWA Newsletter - Page 9 - November 2016 Windfall Productions Renews ESPN Collegiate Track & Field October 20,2016 (New York, NY) http://windfalltv.com/live-special-events/windfall-productions-renews-espn-collegiate-track-field/ For the 9th Consecutive Year Windfall Productions Clinches ESPN TV packaging deal.

Executive Producer, Ralph J Mole’, who will be responsible for all TV creative production decisions and serve as live TV director for all national broadcasts on ESPN, states “Track and Field is a tough sport to cover and we are pleased to hold the cornerstone of ESPN’s confidence for 2017.”

ESPN will directly contract Mole’ and Windfall’s services to deliver all TV coverage of the NCAA Indoor and Outdoor T&F Championships plus the SEC Indoor and Outdoor T&F Championships for 2017. The collegiate sports events will be telecast on multiple ESPN linear and digital platforms. Check your local listings for specific airtimes.

SEC Indoor Track & Field Championships 2/24/17 & 2/25/17 Venue: Vanderbilt Multipurpose Facility, Nashville, TN

NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships 3/10/17 & 3/11/17 Gilliam Indoor Track Stadium, College Station, TX – Texas A&M

SEC Outdoor Track & Field Championships 5/12/17-5/13/17 Weems Baskin Track, Columbia, SC - University South Carolina

NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships 6/7/17-6/10/17 Hayward Field, Eugene, OR – University of Oregon

Windfall Production’s Executive Producer, Mole’ states that “ Our tenure with Collegiate T&F has paralleled the success of ESPN’s digital platforms like espn.com and SECN+ and our coverage has exponentially grown to more than 40 hours of live and delayed Track and Field television each season across ESPN’s multiple plat- forms.” In 2017 Windfall will showcase Gamecreek Video as our vendor for broadcast remote facilities. Windfall is planning coverage with 7 TV mobile unit cameras plus mounted POV cameras for specialized field events cov- erage. VizRT live motion graphics will accompany the EVS XT3 servers for slo-motion replays and truly solidify a “tapeless workflow”.

Ralph J. Mole´ served as world director of live track during the 1996 Atlanta Olympics for AOB. In 2003, Windfall Productions produced more than 12 hours of ESPN’s coverage of the “World Championships of Athlet- ics” from Paris, France for ABC Sports and ESPN.

Windfall has contributed nearly a decade of production services to United States Track & Field 1999 through 2008, featuring the “Golden Spike Tour and USATF’s network TV broadcasts. Over in Europe RJM has produced distinguished track meets like “Weltklasse”, “DN Galan”, “Bislett Games” and “ ISTAF “. These athletics meets previously part of The Golden League and Golden Four, have now been absorbed into the the IAAF’s Diamond League Series.

Domestically, RJ Mole’ can attribute first hand TV production experience with some of America’s legacy Track & Field events in existence for more than 100 years, such as The Penn and Drake Relays. This unprecedented ninth year renewal of Collegiate Athletics between ESPN and Windfall Productions is testimony to Ralph J. Mole’s reputation as the independent leader in Track & Field TV production. Windfall Productions respects the privilege of being able to cover the performances of America’s finest student athletes. These young men and women are truly “out of this world”. Enjoy our tribute video to these “Shootin Stars”.

For more info contact: [email protected] TAFWA Newsletter - Page 10 - November 2016 Five Questions on the Farm: Sitting down with Chris Milten- berg, Director of Track and Field and Head Coach of Cross Country by Shadwell | Oct 11, 2016 | Rule of Tree http://www.ruleoftree.com/2016/10/11/13250002/five-questions-on-the-farm-sitting-down-with-chris-miltenberg Chris Miltenberg is in his fifth year coaching Track and Field and Cross Country at Stanford. He came to Stan- ford from Georgetown where he served as Assistant Coach for Men’s Cross Country and Head Coach for Wom- en’s Cross Country. He led the women’s team there to the NCAA title in 2011. Before Georgetown he coached at Columbia where his teams won two Ivy League titles. He is a graduate of Georgetown and a native of New York.

Since Miltenberg arrived on the Farm, Cross Country has excelled. He has coached 45 All-Americans. The Men’s team finished in the top three in 2014 and 2015 and the Women were third nationally in 2013. In each of Miltenberg’s first four years at Stanford, both men and women qualified for the NCAA championships, which extends the school streak to 22 years of NCAA play. From Olympic trials to Rhodes Scholars, Miltenberg’s teams have, in typical Stanford fashion, excelled in the arena and in the classroom.

Coach Miltenberg was kind enough to give Rule of Tree a few minutes out of his busy schedule to talk Car- dinal Cross County.

Rule of Tree: I was doing a little research and ran across an interview with Jim and Joe Rosa who have become Stanford legends, if nothing else for their competitiveness. They spoke about not worrying about rankings or titles, but just focusing on the team. If they worry about team first, all else would take care of itself. This reminded me of New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick’s mantra “do your job,” which gives a player a single focus and relieves them from the pressure of high expectations. It really paid off at the end of last year for the team. Could you discuss that a little?

Chris Miltenberg: Its something we have to talk about every day here. I think when you have the kind Photo by Kirby Lee of athletes we have here who were all incredibly successful before they got here. Obviously we are bringing some of the best recruits in America into our program. Getting them to focus in the process of growing, developing everyday. getting a little bit better everyday. And also being part of something bigger than yourself. And I think for a lot of our kids that’s exactly what they came here wanting, because they all came from backgrounds where there was nobody on their high school team who could really train at their level. The big thing we look for in recruiting is come here because you want to be part of a great team. I think in a lot of ways with the kind of kids we have, it liberates them in a way, because they don’t have to think about hitting individual home runs every day. Just put in the best fight you can on a given day and if all of them do that then we are a really good team. Put in the best team day you can, and ironically that’s when the best individual results come, too.

RT: The Stanford Cross Country training camp at Mammoth Lakes (alt. 7,880 ft) has become an annual tradi- tion that pays dividends for the team. Could you explain what it does for the team, mentally and physiologi- cally?

CM: Its one of the key pieces to our season in that we lay the foundation of our season there. Ironically, the altitude component with the amount of time we are there has minimal physiological impact. But we get a huge boost out of it in a couple of key ways. One, and most importantly, its where we have all our guys together, men and women, for two weeks, off-cam- TAFWA Newsletter - Page 11 - November 2016 pus, up there. We’re hanging out every day, they’re cooking meals together, they train together. I think it lays the foundation for great teamwork for the rest of the year. It’s great for our freshmen because that’s their first experience before classes start or anything. They’re with their team for two weeks up there. From a training perspective the altitude gives us benefit in that it holds everyone back a little bit in Septem- ber. When you go up to 7,000 feet even if you’re in phenomenal shape, that first two weeks you’ve got to be really patient. That’s exactly what I want our guys to be doing in September, and so my hesitation is that when we get them together for the first time, they’ve all been training alone this summer and now their fired up to get together and no matter how much we try to put the leash on them, they try to do too much. The altitude reins that in for the first two weeks. Which I think works out in our favor. Let’s be steady and consistent in September and lay the groundwork to be really good in November.

RT: Stanford is one of few schools nationally that has remained on the quarter system of class scheduling and not the more widely used semester system. What are the advantages and disadvantages of this schedule on your teams?

CM:You know its got certainly far more positives than negatives, the quarter system and the September thing. There are a couple of wrinkles to it that are a little quirky. For our guys everything changes again Septem- ber 25. All of the sudden we now have moved into our dorms, and we have classes starting up, and the Fresh- men have orientation whereas if you are on the semester system everything has settled down by September 25. So we have a flow for almost four weeks on the front end, then that gets completely disrupted and we’ve got to find an entirely new flow at the end of September. After you’ve been here a couple of years you understand this and we build our training around the changes in our routine.

RT: The casual observer might look at Cross Country and see a simple strategy: run as fast as you can. But there’s a great deal more complexity to team formation and race-day strategy. Could you explain that a little bit?

CM: The big thing is to watch the team race play out. To me that’s what makes cross country so awesome and makes it different than Track & Field is the team component. For the casual observer its going to take a little while to figure that out and understand team scoring. Look for teams running together. Look for teams moving forward over the second half of the race and executing their plan. That’s the most important part of it, identify- ing the team race happening within the larger race.

RT: What are you looking forward to the season? Are there meets that stand out in your schedule? What has you excited about the coming season?

CM: To be honest with you, the thing I’m most excited about, especially on the men’s side, is how this team feels. This is now my fifth year At Stanford, so now we’re on a cycle where its an entirely different set of guys than when I arrived here, a set of guys we’ve recruited. We’ve had great people come through here over the last few years, but this is a new team, completely. And its a team that we talked about building for several years. The part I’m most excited about is to see on both sides the leadership emerge. We’ve been grooming great leaders on both sides over the last couple of years. There have been young guys like Garrett Sweatt and Jack Keelan and Sean McGorty on the men’s side. On the women’s side, Elise Cranny and Vanessa Fraser. Now it’s their team and it’s their chance to really take over. Above all else that’s the part we’re most excited about, seeing these teams really take ownership of their success this year.

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 12 - November 2016 USA Track and Field CEO has alarmed some insiders with his spending and style By Will Hobson and Steven Rich | The Washington Post | October 7 https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/usa-track-and-field-ceo-has-alarmed-some-insiders-with- his-spending-and-style/2016/10/07/ca470956-8a35-11e6-875e-2c1bfe943b66_story.html INDIANAPOLIS — In four years as chief executive of USA Track and Field, Max Siegel has built a reputation as a savvy deal-maker who has raised so much money the Olympic sports nonprofit finally can offer decent pay to some Team USA athletes, many of whom scrape by on annual incomes of $20,000 or less. Within the track and field community, however, Siegel is a polarizing figure. Some athletes and former employees are alarmed and dismayed by what they see as Siegel’s soaring pay, lavish spend- ing and unethical nonprofit leadership, according to interviews with more than 40 people who have worked with the organization and a review of hundreds of Max Siegel became CEO of USA Track & Field in 2012. (Matt Slocum/AP) pages of documents and emails. Seven of those interviewed had direct knowledge of the organization’s financial records. Most former employees spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retribution from Siegel, who once sent a text message to a retired Olympic athlete in which he said he would “[expletive] anyone up that goes after me personally.” Under Siegel’s watch, USA Track and Field has awarded hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of business to an Indianapolis marketing firm that once advertised itself as “a Max Siegel company.” It is owned by two women whose companies continue to do business with Max Siegel Inc., his personal sports-marketing company. While a prior USA Track and Field chief executive only flew coach, Siegel regularly flies first class, recently used a private jet and stays in luxury hotels, former employees said. Siegel initially agreed to an interview for this story then canceled and designated USA Track and Field Chief Marketing Officer Jill Geer to speak on his behalf. Geer denied that Siegel has benefitted personally in any way from USA Track and Field’s work with his business associates. Siegel’s travel habits are approved by USA Track and Field’s board of directors, which this year is paying Siegel $1.7 million in salary and bonuses, a compensation package seven times the average for the CEO of a nonprofit with a similar budget. USA Track and Field board chairman Steve Miller defended Siegel’s compensation and perks as necessary to retain the most successful deal-maker in the nonprofit’s history. But Miller also acknowledged that the deal that produced most of that new income — a long-term sponsorship agreement with Nike worth a reported $500 mil- lion — was primarily negotiated by two former Nike executives whose small consulting firm is collecting$23.75 million in commission payments from USA Track and Field through 2039. “Max has done a spectacular job,” Miller said. “Max makes decisions based on what he believes is best in order to . . . run his organization, and as long as he does not exceed the budgets that are allocated, I’m comfortable with that.” First-class travel for executives, according to Geer, is part of a culture change implemented by Siegel, a 51-year-old former sports agent and record executive, and the board of directors. “The business of USATF has evolved from what would be more of almost a charity model to a true sports-busi- ness model. And with that comes attracting executives who choose USATF over other executive opportunities,” TAFWA Newsletter - Page 13 - November 2016 Geer said. “Essentially, we run our business more like a business.” As CEO of USA Track and Field, Siegel manages a 501(c)3 nonprofit entrusted by federal law to oversee all levels of the sport domestically — from children competing at the youth level to senior citizens competing at masters level — and to field America’s track team at international competitions, including the Olympics. In the track and field community, many regard Siegel as the best CEO in the organization’s history. This year, for the first time, the nonprofit offered $10,000 bonuses to all of its Olympic athletes, as well as additional bonuses for medal winners. Team USA returned from Rio de Janeiro with 32 medals, the most by an American track team at a non-boycotted Olympics since 1932. “He is the first [CEO of USA Track and Field] who isn’t just talking the talk; he is walking the walk,” said Re- naldo Nehemiah, a former world-record holder in the hurdles and now a sports agent. “When you have the most money being raised ever, in our sport, something is going right.” But in an industry in which many world-class athletes earn barely enough to make a living, details of Siegel’s management style prompted disbelief. “We’ve got athletes who are struggling to make ends meet to stay in the sport, and meanwhile we have a CEO who is living lavishly,” said David Greifinger, former USA Track and Field board counsel. “That’s not leadership. That’s Marie Antoinette.”

A really big deal Since Siegel’s hire in 2012, according to USA Track and Field promotional materials, the nonprofit has enjoyed unparalleled financial success: 12 new corporate partners and an influx of income that is funding budget growth from $17 million in 2011 to $35 million this year. While Siegel has added a wide array of new sponsors, according to two people with knowledge of financials, the majority of the new cash flowing into USA Track and Field is coming from one sponsor: Nike, which is pay- ing a reported $20 million annually. All the other partnerships involve six-figure amounts of money, at most, along with in-kind products, according to two people with knowledge of financials. The deal Siegel negotiated with new corporate partner Rosetta Stone, for example, involves little cash. Rosetta Stone agreed to sell its foreign language learning software to USA Track members at a discount and share the proceeds with the nonprofit. Geer declined to discuss financial specifics of sponsorship agreements but pointed to Hershey as a significant new cash sponsor. When the Hershey deal was announced in 2014, a Sports Business Journal article estimated the deal was worth “mid-to high-six figures annually,” which the publication reported made Hershey “USATF’s second-largest sponsor behind Nike.” On April 16, 2014, Siegel announced the deal he called “a game-changer for the sport”: a 23-year sponsorship agreement with Nike worth a reported $500 million. While Siegel and his bosses on the board of directors touted the deal’s size, some athletes immediately criti- cized its unusual length. The injection of cash was good for USA Track and Field in the short term and provided the promise of financial stability over the next two decades, but some wondered whether the organization had signed away its future bargaining power. “I know of no other sponsorship deal, not tied to naming rights of real estate . . . for a term of that length. The risk is just too great,” Doug Logan, a former USA Track and Field CEO, wrote in a blog post. Fired and replaced by Siegel, Logan concluded by saying, “In 2040, the Federation will still be paying for the lack of judgment of its current leadership.” Executives at other running-apparel companies decried another aspect: The rights were never put on the open market. USA Track and Field approached Nike, a sponsor since 1991. “We never got a call,” said one executive who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss business deal- ings. “It was a negotiated deal that wasn’t an open process.” Board chairman Miller, a former Nike executive, said the idea to approach Nike about a long-term extension did not come from Siegel. Instead, Miller said, the idea came from former Nike executives Adam Helfant and Chris Bevilacqua, friends of his, who contacted him not long after Siegel took over as CEO and asked for Miller to introduce them to Siegel. Helfant and Bevilacqua then led negotiations for USA Track and Field on the Nike deal, Miller said. Helfant and Bevilacqua’s role in the deal has not been previously disclosed. USA Track and Field’s 2014 990 tax form showed that the organization paid their firm, Bevilacqua Helfant Ventures , $505,000 in 2014 as part of $23.75 million in commission payments due through 2039. TAFWA Newsletter - Page 14 - November 2016 Excerpted from USA Track and Field’s 2014 990 tax form.

Helfant and Bevilacqua did not reply to multiple requests to comment. Some Olympic athletes expressed dismay upon learning that the Nike deal — which some already saw as fa- vorable to Nike — was negotiated by two former Nike executives collecting a sizable commission and not Siegel. “$23 million is a lot of money that gets passed out and taken away from athletes that, if the organization had done its job in the first place, they wouldn’t have to pay,” said Adam Nelson, a two-time Olympic shot put med- alist who has tried to unionize the sport. “Who actually deserves credit for making that deal? . . . And if this was brought to USA Track and Field by some former Nike executives, whose best interest is it really in?” Miller, the board chairman, said both Helfant and Bevilacqua had spent many years working for other com- panies — Helfant ran the Association of Tennis Professionals for several years, and Bevilacqua launched college sports network CSTV — and are well-respected negotiators who have worked on deals for organizations such as Notre Dame, the NCAA and the Pacific-12 Conference. “It may have looked like an inside job; it’s just the opposite,” Miller said. “Those two guys did work at Nike; I worked at Nike. . . . If anything, it made the negotiation harder.” The commission, Miller said, was reasonable and standard — $23.75 million is less than 5 percent of $500 million. Logan, the previous USA Track and Field CEO, said Helfant had approached him years earlier with an offer to negotiate a new deal with Nike, but Logan couldn’t understand why he would pay anyone else to do such work. (Logan negotiated the prior Nike deal, signed in 2009, that brought in a reported $10 million annually.) After signing the deal with Nike in 2014, Siegel received a $500,000 bonus on top of $514,000 base pay. This year, Siegel is collecting $1.2 million in bonuses, Miller confirmed. Bennett Weiner, chief operating officer of the BBB Wise Giving Alliance, has evaluated 501(c)3 nonprofits for more than 30 years. He said he typically only sees seven-figure pay for CEOs of large public hospitals and univer- sities, whose budgets can stretch into the billions. USA Track and Field’s budget this year is $35 million. “That is highly unusual,” Weiner said of Siegel’s $1.7 million compensation package in 2016. “That is at the highest end I’ve ever heard of for a nonprofit of that size.” The IRS requires nonprofit boards to ensure executive pay is “reasonable” and not “excessive.” The average compensation for the CEO of a nonprofit with a budget of $25 million to $50 million in 2015 was $242,000, ac- cording to a national survey by the NonProfit Times. Miller said Siegel’s pay is commensurate with CEOs of other Olympic sports organizations. In 2014 (the most recent year in which public records are available), the CEOs of USA Swimming and USA Gymnastics — which have similar budgets to that of USA Track and Field — made about $850,000 and $560,000, respectively. U.S. Olympic Committee CEO Scott Blackmun, who oversees a budget about seven times the size of USA Track and Field’s, made about $1 million in 2015. “I don’t know what Scott Blackmun makes,” Miller said. “When’s the last time that a national governing body TAFWA Newsletter - Page 15 - November 2016 did a $500 million deal?” When asked to describe Siegel’s role on the Nike deal, Miller declined to answer. In an email, Geer said Siegel “led overall strategy, managed the process, and gave them directives on the financial benchmarks and key contract points he wanted to hit. They hit those benchmarks and in many cases exceeded them.” At the time he was hired by USA Track and Field in 2012, Siegel was facing personal financial challenges. In late 2011, Siegel was the subject of eviction proceedings in New York for failure to pay $7,800 in rent on a luxury apartment in Manhattan, court records show. In 2012, his racing company, Revolution Racing, was sued for failure to pay rent, and the IRS placed a lien on the company for more than $300,000 in unpaid taxes, court records show. Siegel’s financial problems continued after he started at USA Track and Field at a salary of $500,000. In April 2013, the IRS filed a lien against Siegel for more than $200,000 in unpaid taxes, court records show. In October 2014, six months after the Nike deal was signed, Siegel paid off those taxes, and the lien was released. “Any personal financial strain was due to Max’s entrepreneurial work with his NASCAR team,” Geer wrote. “All debts have been settled and all taxes paid.”

Blurred lines Nonprofit legal experts advise CEOs to avoid doing anything that gives even the appearance of using their position for private gain, or “self-dealing.” When Siegel was hired, the board allowed him to keep ownership of his sports marketing company, Max Siegel Inc., and his NASCAR team. Multiple times, Siegel has flown to NASCAR events and expensed the trips to USA Track and Field. Geer said Siegel met with NASCAR officials on the trips to discuss “social and digital media strategy and tactics, entertain- ment production and fan engagement strategies.” Daniel Borochoff, president of CharityWatch, questioned that explanation, noting that Siegel easily could have consulted sources not connected to his personal business. Inside USA Track and Field’s accounting department, Siegel’s decision to award hundreds of thousands of dol- lars of marketing work to a company owned by a business associate has drawn concerns from multiple employ- ees. Matchbook Creative is an Indianapolis marketing company that used to be located next door to Max Siegel Inc. For years, Matchbook Creative also has done contract work for Siegel’s marketing company and his race team, and Matchbook employees have used email addresses that end “@maxsiegelinc.com.” For a period of time, the companies even shared office space, and the window billed Matchbook Creative as “a Max Siegel company.” Matchbook Creative CEO Donna Gray declined requests for an interview and would only answer questions submitted via email. Siegel’s name does not appear on any of Matchbook’s corporate filings with the state of Indiana. In an email, Gray acknowledged Matchbook once billed itself as “a Max Siegel company” but said that did not mean Siegel owned the company or shared in profits. “We never meant to give the impression that Matchbook was owned by Max,” Gray wrote. “We had been try- ing to convey . . . that Matchbook was doing creative work for Max Siegel Inc.” Shortly after Siegel became CEO in 2012, USA Track and Field’s marketing department started working with Matchbook. The decision to pick Matchbook, according to Geer, was “mine and Max’s.” From 2012 until 2014, according to one person with knowledge of the nonprofit’s financials, USA Track and Field paid Matchbook about $192,000 annually. Gray, the Matchbook CEO, disputed the figure and declined to disclose how much USA Track and Field has paid her company. Melissa Bowlby, an accounting manager at USA Track and Field from 2001 until 2013, said she thought the figure was higher, as she remembered approving payments of more than $200,000 to Matchbook. Geer, who said Matchbook is a reputable company that charges market rates, also declined to release any fi- nancial details. While legal experts recommend nonprofit executives get multiple bids before awarding business to friends or related parties to avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest, Geer acknowledged that USA Track and Field has never sought a second bid for any of the work Matchbook does. “What would be the reason to bid it out to someone who, we don’t know what we’re getting?” Geer said. In 2014, Gray started a second company — Brand Fuel — located at the same address as Matchbook. Within TAFWA Newsletter - Page 16 - November 2016 months of its existence, Brand Fuel also started working for USA Track and Field, collecting about $96,000 an- nually, according to a person with knowledge of the financials. Gray also disputed this amount and declined to say how much money her second company was getting from USA Track and Field. In an interview last month, Geer, the chief marketing officer, said she had never heard of Brand Fuel and was unsure what the marketing company did for USA Track and Field. A week later, Geer emailed an explanation: Brand Fuel helps a few elite athletes promote their personal businesses. “The program will be expanded in 2017 to include more than 100 athletes,” she wrote.

Living large In the late 1990s, USA Track and Field nearly went bankrupt. The CEO who led the nonprofit back, former middle-distance runner Craig Masback, was proudly frugal, former employees said. Masback’s office was fur- nished entirely with items from yard sales, and he flew only coach, turning down free upgrades. “He once told me . . . if an athlete saw him traveling first class, the optics are just not good. That was not what the organization was about,” Nelson recalled. Masback, who now works at Nike, declined to comment. With the approval of the board, Siegel flies first class domestically and business class overseas. He also stays at luxury hotels, often more expensive lodging than where staff and athletes stay for the same events, according to several former employees. At the Olympic marathon trials in Los Angeles this year, staff stayed at a J.W. Marriott while Siegel and other executives stayed at a Ritz-Carlton. The Marriott was overbooked, Geer said, so Siegel and other executives opted for the Ritz. At the Olympic trials in Eugene, Ore., the staff stayed at a Hilton while Siegel stayed at the Inn at The 5th, which Geer acknowledged. The “luxury, boutique hotel” features “private balconies, fireplaces, butler pantries and plush bathrobes,” according to its website. At the World Indoor Championships in Portland, Ore., in March, staff stayed at a Hilton and a Marriott while Siegel and executives stayed at luxury hotel The Nines. Geer said the Hilton and the Marriott were sold out and that international track executives were also staying at The Nines. Siegel and several members of his executive team returned to Indianapolis from Portland that week aboard a private jet. Miller said renting the jet was partly his idea. He cited the importance of “time on task” and the hours it would have taken Siegel and others to get through security. “They had some business meetings the very next day” in Indianapolis, Miller said. “I think there were six to eight people . . . when I did the math. . . . I said that it makes perfect sense for you to use a private plane.” Miller initially offered to provide specifics showing the cost was justified, but Geer later said USA Track and Field would not disclose any details. Private-jet charter costs can vary widely, depending on the type of plane. Privatefly.com, an online booking service, estimated that a one-way flight from Portland to Indianapolis for six to eight people could cost $10,000 to $35,000, depending on specifics. Siegel has enjoyed more modest perks of the job as well, according to documents obtained by The Post. As a 501(c)3, USA Track and Field often doesn’t have to pay sales tax on business-related purchases. On June 22, 2015, Siegel emailed chief operating officer Renee Washington an image of a Macbook laptop with specifications selected — such as the “space gray” finish — with this message: “order this for me so I may save on taxes etc. Once the computer arrives I will pay USATF for it.” This computer cost $1,599, saving Siegel about $112 in sales tax. Records show that Siegel had previously purchased a desktop computer through USA Track and Field in Feb- ruary 2015, also avoiding sales tax. In an email, Geer denied that Siegel bought the computers through the nonprofit in order to avoid sales tax. “Max requested that an employee with technical expertise assist him in the purchase of computer equipment,” she wrote. “His request had nothing to do with the avoidance of sales tax.” Later informed of Siegel’s email saying he wanted to “save on taxes,” Geer declined additional comment.

No room for dissent Under the leadership of Siegel and chief operating officer Washington, the office environment has become authoritarian and tense, several former employees said. Bowlby, the former accounting manager, recounted an exchange with Washington over Siegel’s company- TAFWA Newsletter - Page 17 - November 2016 funded NASCAR trips. “She told me it was none of my business,” Bowlby said. Siegel and Washington “made it very clear it was their way or the highway.” In December 2013, USA Track and Field held its annual meeting in Indianapolis. At these meetings, members from all levels — from youth coaches to elderly runners — vote on rules that govern the organization. In 2013, there was a proposal to remove the CEO’s power to decide where USA Track and Field holds national championships and give that power to volunteer committees. Siegel strongly opposed it and asked Jon Drum- mond, an influential retired athlete, to spread the word in his favor. Drummond declined, according to multiple people familiar with the conversation. Drummond felt that ath- letes should have a say in where their championships are held. Late one night that week, Drummond received several invective-filled texts from Siegel that shocked him so much he shared them with several friends. One of them provided a copy of the text exchange to The Post. Drummond verified that the text exchange was authentic but declined to comment further. “I personally feel at this moment like you are full of [expletive] and a double agent,” Siegel wrote. “I have trust- ed you and you are [expletive] with fire. You are allowing me to be personally attacked. And this [expletive] Vail of ‘athletes rights’ is a crock of [expletive].” “wow! ... Dude ... You are trippin,” Drummond replied. “I WILL [expletive] anyone up that goes after me personally,” Siegel responded. Inside the office in Indianapolis, former employees said, Siegel berates staffers who disagree, while Washing- ton is seen as more passive-aggressive, speaking condescendingly to those who dissent. Siegel declined to make Washington or other current employees, other than Geer, available for interviews. “They just deliberately bully people. . . . It was grotesque,” said Amy Henson, a former retail and marketing manager. Henson provided a copy of an email in which Washington wrote to Henson, of Geer: “Jill is a bitch.” “I can’t personally recall ever hearing [Washington] use an expletive to refer to any colleague,” Geer wrote. Henson was one of two employees whose USATF career ended shortly after asking questions about Match- book Creative. Henson provided emails in which Matchbook estimated that a job would cost $1,100 and then charged $3,250. Henson emailed Matchbook CEO Gray and copied Washington, asking why the job came in nearly 200 percent over estimate. In the emails, Washington approved the expense, expressing no concern about the discrepancy. Henson ques- tioned USA Track and Field’s relationship with Matchbook several other times, she said. “That was when things started falling apart for me with Max,” Henson said. “I was asking too many ques- tions.” A few months later, Henson says, she was fired. Geer did not dispute the financial figures in Henson’s emails but denied that Henson’s firing had anything to do with her questioning money going to Matchbook. In early 2013, former USA Track and Field chief financial officer Gina Miller also grew concerned about pay- ments to Matchbook as well as Siegel and Washington’s travel spending, according to three former employees. Miller decided to approach board treasurer Ken Taylor. A few weeks later, Miller no longer worked for USA Track and Field. Miller signed a nondisclosure agreement and declined to comment, but several former employees said Siegel forced out Miller shortly after her meeting with board treasurer Taylor. Taylor denied any involvement with Miller’s departure. “I do not recall that happening,” Taylor said Bowlby said Miller knew she was risking her job by going over Siegel’s head and was disappointed but unsur- prised that it led to her exit. Siegel and Washington have “just made it their playground,” Bowlby said. “They can do whatever they want, and no one will stand up to them. The one person who was willing to was Gina.” This year, Siegel’s stature in the Olympic movement has continued to grow. In March, the International As- sociation of Athletics Federations, the global track and field organization, announced it had selected Siegel to chair its marketing commission. The position comes with travel perks and influence over business decisions at the most powerful body in the sport. A news release announcing Siegel’s selection touted his many accomplishments, including “a landmark, 23- year deal with Nike that drew the attention of the international sports business world.” Post reporter Tim Bontemps contributed to this report. TAFWA Newsletter - Page 18 - November 2016 Keshorn, TT athletes discuss problems in the sport By JOEL BAILEY | Trinidad and Tobago Newsday | http://www.newsday.co.tt/sport/0,233873.html DOUBLE OLYMPIC javelin medallist Keshorn Walcott has bemoaned the lack of development for Trinidad and Tobago athletes, especially those at the elite level.

The 23-year-old Walcott, who followed up his gold medal in the 2012 Olympic Games in London with bronze at last month’s Games in Rio de Janeiro, was speaking at a Roundtable Review at the newly- opened National Racquet Centre in Tacarigua yesterday.

The Roundtable Review, which was facilitated by Rawlinson Agard, was organised by the Ministry of Sport and the Sports Company of Trinidad and Tobago (SPORTT ).

“In the past eight years, I have seen no development,” said a fiery Walcott. “Take my individual story.

I’m an Olympic gold medallist and in the (last) four years, leading up to Rio Olympic Games, I have seen no development, no help towards athletes.

“You cannot tell me you want me to repeat as an Olympic gold medallist and I have not seen any help, any structure put in place for me to repeat,” Walcott continued.

“So I don’t understand where you come and say that you want lessons learnt because, obviously, we aren’t learning anything. You’re not putting any structure, you’re not putting any development in place for athletes to move forward and for athletes to develop.

“You always mention ‘elite, elite, elite’ but you can’t pick elite athletes from in the air,” a no-nonsense Walcott stressed.

Walcott’s contribution was the highlight of proceedings during the event, which was arranged to give athletes and officials, who featured at both the Summer and Paralympic Games in Rio, the opportunity to air their views on TT ’s performances, as well as chart a way forward.

Other athletes in attendance were sprinters Keston Bledman, Emmanuel Callender, Semoy Hackett and Kyle Greaux as well as shot putter Cleopatra Borel.

Bledman and Callender both echoed Walcott’s sentiments about the lack of growth when it comes to produc- ing future track and field stars while Hackett spoke about the lack of concern by officials during her recovery from a recent injury.

Callender commented, “athletes have been going through stress year after year but it seems like only when we go to the Olympics then we get recognition.” Hackett, another veteran runner, stated, “I had an injury but I only got a call when it was time for trials to let me know I have to be there.” A host of sporting administrators were in attendance, including SPORTT chairman Michael Phillips, TT Cycling Federation president Robert Farrier, TT Olympic Committee (TTO C) vice president Annette Knott, president of the TT Paralympic Committee Sudhir Ramessar, and senior manager of sport and recreation at the University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT ) Daren Ganga.

Sports Minister Darryl Smith, in his closing address, noted, “I think we just scratched the surface. This is the beginning of a bigger focal point, which is a pathway plan which goes into the development of sport. In terms of the numbers we had (today) we’re very thankful for that.” He pointed out, “maybe we’ll have follow-ups with smaller groups, so people could ventilate a little more. Hopefully in the next few months we can have a proper policy that we can all be proud of.”

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 19 - November 2016 42 Russian athletes to get compensation for missing Rio 2016 Olympics http://www.hindustantimes.com/other-sports/42-russian-athletes-to-get-compensation-for-missing-rio- 2016-olympics/story-rgeHlE1rnrvKDI5efBkh9J.html A total of 42 leading Russian track and field athletes will be paid compensation from Russias Olympians Sup- port Fund for missing the 2016 Olympic Games, President of the All-Russia Athletics Federation (ARAF) Dmitry Shlyakhtin said on Monday.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said at a meeting with participants in the 2016 Olympics on August 25 that the Olympians Support Fund would provide financial assistance to the athletes barred from the 2016 Olympic Games, reports Tass.

Only one Russian athlete, Darya Klishina, took part in the 2016 Olympic Games. The other 67 athletes were barred from the Rio Olympics as they were training for the competition in Russia, whose membership in the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) had been suspended due to allegations of state-con- trolled doping programme before the Rio Games.

“Financial compensation will be paid to 42 athletes and payments will be made to them simultaneously. The size of compensations will depend on the result a particular athlete could have achieved at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro,” Shlyakhtin said.

“As for the size of compensations, I consider it incorrect to say what sum each will get. But I can say that that the leaders (four-five athletes) who would have competed for the gold medal at the 2016 Olympics will get a very good compensation,” the ARAF chief added.

As the ARAF head said, the list of candidates for compensation was drawn up after the sports federations gave their proposals and the Fund approved them.

“There was not a case when at least one our proposal was rejected because we had submitted documents only for the worthy athletes,” Shlyakhtin said.

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 20 - November 2016 Dan Martinez (Newark HS ’78-4:25/9:25.0), Don Bowden with first sub-4 press photos, Ralph Serna (Loara HS ’75 - 4:07.0 / 8:45.9) - photo by Art Cendejas Runners Reunited Welcomes A Big First 1956 Olympian Don Bowden FULLERTON, Calif. (July 16, 2016) - More than 59 years after he became the first American in history to run a sub-four-minute mile, running 3:58.7, DON BOWDEN, Abraham Lincoln High School in San Jose, California, Class of ‘54, was at Orange County bar ‘n’ grill hotspot Joe’s Tavern here Saturday, July 16, for the 2016 edition of Runners Reunited (RRU). Don Bowden, a former middle-distance star runner, became the U.S. mile record holder when he ran 3:58.7 in Stockton, Calif., on June 1, 1957, at the Pacific Association AAU championship track meet which made him the first American to break 4-minute barrier. He found himself surrounded by several dozen California high school elite runners from the 1950s through 2000s during the annual gathering. Don Bowden first gained notability, as a junior, when he sped a 1:58.9 for two laps snapping the nine-year-old Lincoln school record by half a second. That season, the gangly youth developed into a star 880-yard runner cul- minating in winning the California state 880y title clocking 1:57.1 in 1953. The next year, on May 7, 1954, the lanky Lion senior cracked the World High School 880y record by seven-tenths of a second, with a 1:53.2! Two weeks later, the student body president shattered the World Record for the second time by speeding a 1:52.3; before winning his second CA state 880y title posting a 1:52.9. A state meet record! Around the same time, Briton ROGER BANNISTER had famously broken the four-minute mile. Bowden never ran the mile competively in high school and entered the University of California, Berkeley where he again specialized in the 880y. Under track coach BRUTUS HAMILTON, Bowden continued to domi- nate the half mile. On May 7, 1955 (Stanford meet), he ran his first collegiate mile in 4:11.7, setting a National freshman record. It was part of a remarkable triple as Bowden added a 1:52.7 (880y) and 48.9 quarter-mile relay leg! In preparation, Bowden ran a mile at his former high school - Lincoln of San Jose - the previous week in 4:21.0. It was a practice effort and hence went unrecorded. March 24, as a sophomore, in his varsity debut, the UC Berkeley Golden Bear ran a 4:08.2 at informal time trial, before straining his Achilles tendon, April 7.

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 21 - November 2016 All Sports Illustrated subjects, Don Bowden, Steve Scott, Pete Romero (Reedley HS ’6- 4:06.0/8:54.6)-photo by Art Cendejas

Junior year, the gifted middle-distance star added only two mile races this season - a 4:09.9 victory in the big meet against Stanford and a 4:01.6 mile relay leg to anchor Cal’s medley relay team at the West Coast Relays in Fresno before ... June 1, 1957, after an economics final exam that started at 1 p.m. had ended, Bowden rushed to Stockton, about 75 miles away, arriving barely with enough time to warm up and moving up to the starting line only a few seconds before the gun. Now, over three years after Bannister ran his barrier-breaking mile race, the 6-foot-3 160 pounder, stepped onto the track at Pacific’s long-gone Baxter Stadium, where he northwest side of the Uni- versity of the Pacific campus is today, to race hisfifth competitive mile. On a cool summer evening with winds of only 3.5 mph, the tall long-striding Bear ace separated from the four other competitors from the start. The willowy, 20-year-old prelaw student gained an 8-yard lead by the end of the first lap and continually widened the gap. Running alone, Bowden ran laps of 59.7, 61.1 (2:01.8), 59.8 (3:00.6), with a final quarter mile in 58.1 sec- onds. The enthusiastic crowd of 3,000 was roaring as University of California junior crossed the finish line, 70 yards ahead of second-place. His time, 3:58.7, was celebrated in headlines across the country. Bowden’s time was only seven tenths of a second off the world record set byJOHN LANDY (3:58.0). Bowden was now the third- fastest miler ever, behind JIM BAILEY and world-record holder Landy, both of Australia; the youngest to break four minutes; and, most important, the first American to do so. Two weeks after his barrier breaking mile, Bowden won the NCAA 880y, outrunning 1956 Olympic 1500 champ RON DELANY of Villanova, in his career best of 1:47.2 - at the time besting the existing world record. Bowden was named to the USA Track & Field Hall of Fame in 2008. The mile seemed a natural theme at this year’s event as the group honored Bowden, for his historic achieve- ment. It was a historic meeting as Legend met legend. American record holder in the mile from 1982-2007 (3:47.69) STEVE SCOTT (Upland High School 1974) met Bowden. The historic pairing, the first sub-4:00 and the first to break 3:50, created some memorable photo opportunities. The two were gifted with finish photos of firsts. Bowden with his legendary first American sub-four and Scott with his celebrated Drake Relays mile win in 3:55.3. The first under 4:00 in relays history. While Bowden’s mile was a solo run, Scott’s performance was as- sisted by RRU founder and Loara High School Class of ‘75 star 2-miler RALPH SERNA. TAFWA Newsletter - Page 22 - November 2016 Bowden ran only one sub-4:00 minute mile in his career ... it was momentous. Steve Scott ran 136 in his cam- paign to be the first American under 3:50 (3:49.68). Bowden and Scott both first broke 4:00-minutes as college juniors. Another commonality - Sports Illustrated (SI); Bowden’s 6/10/57 & 8/11/97 (40th anniversary) and Scott’s 7/7/80 cover photo. If that wasn’t enough, they were joined by 1967 Golden State 2-mile champion PETE ROMERO (Reedley, ‘67) and subject of a Sports Illustrated article, 6/26/67. All three were pictured together with their respected com- merative frame SI issue. “The 2016 Runner’s Reunion was extra special because I had the opportunity to meet Don Bowden face to face for the first time!” remarked Scott. “Runner’s Reunited 2016 was an epic event for me. I was part of three athletes who were in Sports Illustrated,” Romero added. The function, which drew even more Golden State running royalty in 1974 world junior (19 and under) cross country winner RICH KIMBALL (De La Salle, Concord, ‘74) whose distinction got his picture on the May 1974 cover of Runner’s World. Also turning up, world junior cross country champion ‘75 BOBBY THOMAS (Glen- dale, ‘74) along with his son’s PHILIP THOMAS (Crescenta Valley ‘16) and CARTER THOMAS (Crescenta Valley ‘18). The two successive world champions were together receiving commenrative framed photos gifted fromJEFF ZIMMERMAN (Berkeley ‘75), of the two participating at the ‘75 Pac 8 cross country meet. Sitting together, Thomas said to Kimball, “Thank you for being ‘Rich Kimball.’ For being an inspiration to me and I am sure to hundreds of other high school distance runners.” Thomas continued and related, “In 1974, Rich accomplished what we all dreamed about. He won the Jr. World Cross Country Champion title and Track and Field State Champion titles in the Two mile and Mile. When his picture was on the front page of Runner’s World magazine, I stared at that picture almost on a daily basis. His efforts encouraged me to never give up and to dream big. That maybe I could win some big races as well some- day. One year later I did.” Thomas pointed out; Kimball was the first prep to win the distance double (2 mile/mile) at the California state meet with 8:46.6/4:06.6. He was also the first to attempt the distance double. Thomas was a 9:06.3 two-miler before embarking on his inspired quest to win the world junior cross country title. Oregon was well represented at the ever expanding event - CLAUDETTE GROENENDAAL (North Salem, Oregon ‘81). Claudette captured the state 1500 title at North High and was a standout at the University of Oregon, winning the NCAA Championship in the 1500, with a second in the 800, in 1984 before reversing the order of events her senior year to lead the Oregon women to their lone NCAA track title in 1985. Claudette was presented with a commemorative framed color photo of her pulling away to win the NCAA 1500 in Eugene in ‘84 by famed Sports Illustrated photographer Rich Clarkson. “The RRU event is always a highlight of the sum- mer. This year was no exception as there was a special guest and what a treat it was to have Don Bowden attend,” said Groenendaal. Also receiving commemorative framed photographs were: • 1984 U.S. 800 & 1500 meters Olympian RUTH KLEINSASSAR-WYSOCKI (Azusa, ‘74) with her 10,000-meter standout husband TOM WYSOCKI (Western, Las Vegas, ‘74) and son MICHAEL WYSOCKI (Great Oak, ‘08). Ruth was presented with a commerative framed photo of her epic finish besting Mary Decker in winning the 1500 meter final at the 1984 US Olympic Track and Field Trials. • BOB LARSEN (Hoover, ‘57) is the subject of a full length documentary, “City Slickers Can’t Stay With Me: The Coach Bob Larsen Story” and was released on April 19, 2015. Larson was presented with a commemorative framed Los Angeles Times print review. “Each year we have special moments which occur and this year was no exception, this time we’re seeing Don Bowden and Steve Scott meeting for the first time ever and I also had my coaches from Jr. High (Don Orr), High School (Dave Hurlburt) and University (Len Miller) attend. That’s what RRU is all about, reuniting runners,” said longtime Anaheim resident, Ralph Serna. The event sported 130 attendees, according to RRU founder Ralph Serna, and marks one the most-attended editions since he and organizer DAN MARTINEZ-PATTON (Newark ‘78) began staging the now-annual gathering for the state’s elite prep runners in 2007. Bowden summed it up, “Dan and Ralph, thank you so much for your overwhelming hospitality. It was a treat to meet Steve Scott and all the fine runners. You have brought back some great memories for which I am very thankful,” he said.

For more information contact: Ralph Serna, RS Prods., [email protected].

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 23 - November 2016 Russian rage over doping points to a new Cold War Oliver Brown | Chief Sports Feature Writer | The Telegraph | http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/2016/09/15/russian-rage-over-doping-points-to-a-new-cold-war/ We have entered a post-millennial Cold War, and other for everybody else. They brought their Paralympic its frontier is doping. The confirmation came not punishment upon themselves. What is truly alarming, just with the actions of Russia’s cyber-hacking ‘Fancy however, is the lengths that they will go to correct the Bears’ collective, whose plunder of the World Anti- injustice that they perceive has been done to them. Doping Agency’s central database belied their cartoon- There is no obligation for athletes to disclose TUEs for ish name, but with a jaw-dropping exchange this week a reason. Why should a woman undergoing hormone- between the Russian Embassy in London and a jour- replacement therapy, for example, be compelled to di- nalist who dared to point out why the country’s viola- vulge this to the world? Now, any such notion of patient tion of athletes’ privacy was ultimately self-defeating. confidentiality has been torn to shreds. As such, a whole new theatre has opened up in a drugs war that becomes “Quod licet Iovi?” asked the embassy, mischievously, uglier by the day. via its Twitter account. Yes, the old Latin metaphor for double standards: namely, what is permissible for Travis Tygart, head of the US Anti-Doping Agency Jove is not permissible for an ox. Or, to extend it to and a figure who has himself questioned the ease with the sports sphere: what is allowed for star American which TUEs can be obtained, was scathing about the gymnast Simone Biles – who, the Fancy Bears files hack. “It is unthinkable that in the Olympic movement, have shown, has a previously undisclosed therapeu- hackers would illegally obtain confidential medical tic use exemption (TUE) for medication to treat her information in an attempt to smear athletes to make attention-deficit disorder – would never be applicable it look as if they have done something wrong,” he said to Russians. yesterday. “The cyber-bullying of innocent athletes be- ing engaged in by these hackers is cowardly and despi- Except, as the BBC’s Daniel Sandford, a former Mos- cable. It is time for the entire international community cow correspondent, was at pains to stress, the theory to stand up and condemn this cyber-attack on clean was nonsense. Biles had done nothing wrong, having sport and athletes’ rights.” used the accepted exemption whereby athletes can re- ceive a TUE for certain conditions and keep their rea- Russia, for its part, claims that there was no official sons for doing so confidential. This was ever so slightly sanction of the actions of Fancy Bears, a mysterious different to the systematic doping regime favoured in group known for the effectiveness with which they Russia, where competitors would prepare for the 2014 cover their tracks. Dmitry Peskov, a Kremlin spokes- Winter Olympics by drinking gender-specific alcoholic man, declared “I can say unambiguously that there can cocktails spiked with steroids, and where dirty urine be no mention of Moscow or the government”. samples were swapped for clean ones through a hole in a Sochi laboratory wall. That will hardly wash. Given the institutionalised nature of the country’s doping apparatus, one cannot Russia, for all its bitterness at its blanket ban from discount the possibility that the hacking may have taken this month’s Rio Paralympics, has not a leg to stand on place at least partly with the connivance of the state. when it comes to trying – and failing – to dredge up malfeasance elsewhere. For a start, it has been shown to After all, Russia has previous in this area. As the have perpetrated perhaps the most reprehensible and New York Times has documented, its rationale in such large-scale doping racket in the history of sport. And cases is always to create a façade of plausible deniabil- while there might be legitimate questions to ask about ity. American intelligence sources have suggested that the prevalence of TUEs among elite athletes, nothing a series of cyber-attacks on Estonia in 2007 followed can excuse the methods, every bit as sinister and cynical precisely the same pattern, where espionage was simply as the practice of mixing Martini with methenolone, delegated to third parties. Nato described the then that Russian hackers have used in invading the personal unprecedented scale of cyber-warfare as a “very serious medical files of blameless individuals from rival nations. disturbance”.

So, we should accept no lectures from Russians about By that measure, the latest scurrilous Russian-led in- the idea that there is one set of rules for them and an- filtration of medical documents should also be regarded TAFWA Newsletter - Page 24 - November 2016 as a matter of the utmost gravity. It has been confirmed that one piece of material the hackers laid their hands Sadly, the legacy is often paper-thin. A Telegraph on included the whereabouts of Yuliya Stepanova, the investigation highlights how disabled access at Premier whistleblower who blew the lid off Russia’s doping plot League grounds remains, despite the enthusiasm for and who has since feared for her life. the London Paralympics, lamentable. When clubs have money pouring out of their pockets from the latest TV There is no telling what dire ends this information rights deal, most cannot be bothered to make changes could be put to if it winds up in the wrong hands. The that would cost less than Sky pay to screen a single top- same is true of other athletes who have had their files flight match. prised open, considering they are obliged to let anti- doping authorities know where they are at all times. Spare me, then, any platitudes about how the Games Those details, too, could find their way into the posses- bring about a quantum shift in attitudes to the disabled. sion of some genuine undesirables. We have further to travel than we would care to admit.

In 2007, Russia went after Estonia through cyber- What is a Therapeutic Use Exemption (TUE)? | space after the Bronze Soldier, a significant Soviet war by Ben Rumsby memorial, was removed without its consent from the A Therapeutic Use Exemption (TUE) is a certificate which central square in Tallinn. Nine years on, smarting from allows an athlete to take an otherwise banned substance the sense that it has been traduced by the West over either in or out of competition. doping, it appears to be going after America. Histori- It is designed to ensure those with a genuine medical cally, this is a dynamic that seldom ends well. Sport condition for which there is no effective alternative treatment needs to wake up to the grim reality that this week’s are not unfairly penalised, while at the same time trying to cyber-raids signal nothing less than the beginning of a prevent them gaining an undue advantage over others. second Cold War. Athletes can apply for a TUE from their national anti- doping agency or international federation before taking the Bach has many questions to answer substance or even retrospectively. A TUE committee will Thomas Bach has passed off his conspicuous absence review all relevant medical details related to the application, from these Rio Paralympics by claiming he needed to including any attempts to use non-prohibited medications. attend the funeral of Walter Scheel, former leader of The process is confidential in deference to an athlete’s right Germany’s Free Democratic Party, instead. That might to privacy in relation to their health. be his prerogative, but it is a little odd. A TUE is only meant to be granted for as long as the medical condition persists, which in some cases can be for an For he still cleared time in his travel schedule that athlete’s entire career. The World Anti-Doping Agency also week for a visit to Croatia – not exactly a great look for has the right to review any TUE application at any time. the first International Olympic Committee president TUEs are not without controversy, amid a debate about since 1984 not to attend the opening ceremony of the whether they merely level the playing field or bestow an Paralympics. Plus, there is the vexed matter of whether unfair advantage. Bach had other reasons for swerving Brazil. That has been fuelled by concerns about their prevalence within sport and even fears that some athletes or coaches Is it purely coincidence that police here in Rio have have manipulated the TUE system. said that they want to speak to him about email ex- Mo Farah’s coach, Alberto Salazar, is still under investiga- changes that he had with Ireland’s Pat Hickey, one of 10 tion by the United States Anti-Doping Agency over allega- people facing charges, all vigorously denied, of ticket tions which include TUE abuse. He denies any wrongdoing, scalping, conspiracy and ambush marketing? At a time while there is no suggestion of wrongdoing by Farah. when the IOC have pledged full co-operation with the The Lance Armstrong scandal also included claims about Brazilian authorities, this is a question that Bach must abuse of the TUE system by the then International Cycling answer, and fast. Union president Hein Verbruggen to cover up the disgraced American’s drug-taking. He also strenuously denies any We still need to address attitudes towards the dis- wrongdoing. abled The Russian hackers who leaked the TUE records of the At times, Paralympians must feel overwhelmed by the Williams sisters, Simone Biles and Elena Donne appear to be praise for their performances. It would just be refresh- looking to exploit cynicism about TUEs, describing them as ing to think that they could benefit from the same at- “licenses for doping” when they are designed to be the exact tention over the four years between Games. opposite. TAFWA Newsletter - Page 25 - November 2016 Russian Hackers Draw Attention to Drug-Use Exemptions for Athletes By REBECCA R. RUIZ and BEN ROTHENBERG | New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/15/sports/doping-olympics-russia-hacking-williams-biles.html?_r=0 After Major League Baseball added amphetamines to its list of banned substances in 2007, many players ap- peared to exploit a loophole. They applied for what is known as a therapeutic use exemption, a waiver to use a prohibited drug for a legitimate medical reason. Before amphetamines were barred, 28 players had received exemptions to treat attention deficit disorder. After the ban took effect, 103 players secured permission. Seemingly overnight, the number of professional baseball players with attention-deficit diagnoses soared. That episode nearly 10 years ago remains a vivid case study in a vexing wrinkle of antidoping efforts in sports — one that received renewed attention this week, when hackers published private medical information about Serena Williams, Venus Williams and Simone Biles. How do sports officials determine what is a medical neces- sity and what is an effort to enhance athletic performance?

“Getting the right balance is always challenging,” said Olivier Niggli, director general of the World Anti- Doping Agency, the global regulator of drugs in sports. “We try to put safeguards in place to ensure this isn’t a one-organization decision.” The private choices to grant special permissions to the world’s athletes are made by sports organizations, and shared with antidoping authorities and the International Olympic Committee. The documents released this week, by Russian hackers who breached the World Anti-Doping Agency’s databas- es, revealed that Ms. Biles and the Williams sisters had received clearance to use banned drugs, prompting some critics in Russia to proclaim that American athletes had an unfair edge in the Rio Olympics. The athletes in ques- tion had secured proper medical approvals, sports authorities said. “The athletes mentioned did not violate any antidoping rules during the Olympic Games Rio 2016,” the Olympic committee said in a statement.

On Wednesday, the hackers published new documents, showing exemptions granted to 10 additional Ameri- cans, along with athletes from Germany, Denmark, Poland — and one from Russia, the boxer Mikhail Aloyan, who won a silver medal in Rio. Among the American athletes was Bethanie Mattek-Sands, who won the women’s doubles title at the United States Open on Sunday, and a gold medal at the Rio Games. WADA prohibits athletes from taking, as of 2016, some 300 substances. They are as varied as alcohol and ana- bolic steroids, and they include medications typically used to treat conditions like asthma, pain and attention disorders.

Many of the prohibitions are absolute — at no point should athletes use the drug — while some are limited to the time of competition, the concentration of a substance, or the method of administration — oral versus inject- able, for instance. That list of banned substances, updated each year, is finalized by a panel of medical experts selected by WADA. Some substances are prohibited only during competition, because they are commonly used in daily life, Mr. Nig- gli said. “There are over-the-counter substances you need — cold medicine,” he said. “If they were banned out of compe- tition, we’d see an explosion of exemption requests which would be unmanageable.”

International athletes seeking to take a banned substance typically apply through their sport’s governing body — in the case of the Williams sisters, the International Tennis Federation, and in the case of Ms. Biles, the Interna- tional Gymnastics Federation. A basic criterion for the requests: There must be no alternate, non-prohibited medication that could address the athlete’s condition. The sports organizations review the justifications for each athlete’s request — the diagnosis, medical history and TAFWA Newsletter - Page 26 - November 2016 symptoms, and the duration of drug use — and make a decision, sometimes in concert with an athlete’s national antidoping organization. WADA’s guidelines on banned substances extend to exemptions, allowing, for instance, that one-time waivers to treat chronic conditions like attention deficit disorder can last for up to four years. The files published this week indicated 13 therapeutic use exemptions for Venus Williams and 10 for Serena. Some of those exemptions lasted for four days, some for a year. Stuart Miller, director of the International Tennis Federation’s antidoping program, approved the applications, and he said the Williams’s medical records showed that the system had worked properly.

“Anybody who is an athlete and is subject to an antidoping program, like the Williams sisters, is subject also to getting ill and having medical conditions,” Mr. Miller said. “They’re not immune from that.” Mr. Miller said the tennis federation received an average of 100 requests annually, a sizable number of which were withdrawn before they were ruled on. A panel of medical professionals considered each case file in a blind review, excluding the identity of the requesting athlete, he said, and ultimately approved roughly 50 to 60 percent of the requests.

In his 10-year tenure with the program, Mr. Miller said that a case involving Ms. Mattek-Sands — the American tennis player whose files were published on Wednesday — was the only one WADA had overturned. Her application for drugs to treat “adrenal insufficiency” — hydrocortisone and DHEA — was approved in 2013 by the tennis federation but revoked in 2014 by WADA, which believed DHEA would enhance her performance. Dr. Alan Rogol, an endocrinologist who works with the United States Anti-Doping Agency on its review of exemption requests, called some of the decisions “no-brainers,” like approving insulin for an athlete with Type-1 diabetes. But he said the use of DHEA, such as Ms. Mattek-Sands had requested, should “never” be approved.

The decisions made by sports organizations and national antidoping agencies like Usada are filed to WADA, which has the power to veto them. WADA, which has three full-time staff members focused on therapeutic-use exemptions, Mr. Niggli said, maintains a database of those decisions, privately accessible to each athlete and, in the case of Olympians like the Williams sisters and Ms. Biles, to the International Olympic Committee. Athletes whose applications are rejected have the right to appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, the final authority on international sports disputes. Ms. Mattek-Sands filed such an appeal in 2014, but the court rejected her request the next year. Crucial to deciding what exceptions may be granted to athletes, Mr. Niggli said, is consideration of whether an athlete’s performance will unfairly benefit.

In the sport of shooting, for instance, some athletes with heart conditions have appealed to use beta-blockers, which can reduce tremors when aiming a gun. In 2010, a paraplegic Paralympic athlete, Robert Berger of New Zealand, applied to take metoprolol, a beta-blocker, to address heart disease. Sports authorities ruled against Mr. Berger, prompting him to appeal to the sports court, which upheld the pro- hibition, considering the competitive advantage he stood to gain from the drug to be too great. Though that court ruling was made public, typically decisions about exceptional drug use are confidential. “It’s often very private information,” Mr. Niggli said. “Do athletes who take substances for something very intimate — birth control — should they be public about that?” (Though birth control is not banned by WADA, diuretics, which some contraceptives contain, are prohibited.) After this week’s WADA files were made public, Ms. Biles, 19, disclosed her history of attention-deficit hyperac- tivity disorder on Twitter.

“It is surprising to see that the respect for privacy has been violated by the spreading of private information,” Bruno Grandi, president of the gymnastics federation, said Wednesday. “We have no other comment to make.” Antidoping authorities, who have faced scrutiny this year related to the doping scandal emanating from Russia, said that increased funding for WADA would also translate into more careful policing of therapeutic exemptions. WADA is jointly funded by sports federations and the Olympic committee, and national governments, of which Russia is a top contributor. “We have to be vigilant,” Mr. Niggli said. “With more resources, the more we can do and the better the system is.”

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 27 - November 2016 Goldie Sayers and GB’s 4x400m relay team upgraded to 2008 bronze https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/sep/13/four-russian-athletes-sanctioned-ioc-failed-drugs-tests Great Britain’s javelin thrower Goldie Sayers and the 4x400m relay team will be upgraded to bronze medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics following confirmation their Russian rivals have retrospectively failed drug tests.

The International Olympic Committee has confirmed the javelin silver medallist Maria Abakumova and the 400m runner Denis Alexeev, a member of the bronze medal-winning relay team, had tested positive for banned substances at the Games and have been disqualified and ordered to return their medals.

The entire Russian relay team have been disqualified as a result of Alexeev’s doping, meaning the British squad of Andrew Steele, Robert Tobin, Michael Bingham and Martyn Rooney will move up from fourth place. Abakumova, whose positive retest was first reported in the Russian media in May, and Alexeev, who failed to make it past the first round of the individual 400m, both tested positive for dehydrochlormethyltestosterone (turinabol).

The IOC also announced that Inga Abitova, who finished sixth in the 10,000m in Beijing, had also failed a ret- rospective drugs test, as had the cyclist Ekaterina Gnidenko, who finished eighth in the Keirin at London 2012.

The IOC has been retesting stored doping samples from the 2008 and 2012 Olympics using the latest technol- ogy as part of the fight against drug cheats.

Mark Emmert: NCAA might reconsider Olympic bonuses for athletes http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/college/ct-mark-emmert-ncaa-olympic-bonuses-20160908-story.html NCAA President Mark Emmert says member schools might reconsider allowing college athletes who compete in the Olympics to accept payments for performance. The NCAA rules allow athletes to accept money for training from the U.S. Olympic Committee or similar orga- nizations in other countries along with national sports governing bodies. Athletes can also keep bonuses given for winning medals. A gold medal was worth $25,000 for U.S. athletes in Rio. A silver paid $15,000 and a bronze $10,000.

For some countries, the payments are much greater. Swimmer Joseph Schooling, who attends the University of Texas and competes for Singapore, received more than $750,000 for winning gold in the 100 butterfly. Emmert said Thursday during an interview with Aspen Institute that amount was far more than what NCAA membership had in mind. “To be perfectly honest, it’s caused everybody to say, ‘Oh, well that’s not really what we were thinking about,’” Emmert said. “So I don’t know where the members will go on that. That’s a little different than 15 grand for the silver medal for swimming for the US of A. So I think it’s going to stimulate a very interesting conversation.”

The NCAA has been OK with the USOC’s bonus program since 2001. In 2015, it allowed for athletes to accept similar bonuses from other countries. “The question is whether that person is still an amateur,” Emmert said about the large bonuses. “Because if they competed in South Africa and (got) paid $750,000 to play ball in South Africa, they would be declared a professional athlete and be not eligible for NCAA play. That’s the fundamental problem.”

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 28 - November 2016 Tokyo 1940: A look back at the Olympic Games that never happened By Philip Barker | Inside The Games | http://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1041490/tokyo-1940-a- look-back-at-the-olympic-games-that-never-happened When the Paralympic Games close a week from now in Rio, the Japanese flag will be raised and all eyes will look towards Tokyo. They were doing the same exactly 80 years ago when the Berlin Olympics of 1936 came to an end. Tokyo had just been chosen to host the Olympic Games in 1940. There were no Paralympics at that time but the expectation was that Japan would host both Summer and Winter Olympics, no small undertaking... The Japanese had not competed in the Olympics until 1912 but their sportsmen and women had made rapid progress over the next 20 years. They also took part in the 1930 University Games at Darmstadt in Germany and were encouraged to bid for the 1940 Olympic Games. International Olympic Committee (IOC) members Baron Jigoro Kano, the man who had pioneered the de- velopment of judo, and Dr Seiichi Kishi, travelled to Los Angeles in 1932 where they ‘’begged the Committee to award the Games to Tokyo.’’ They hoped 1940 would be the 2600th anniversary of the founding of the Japanese Empire and they promised ‘’great festivities and a world exposition’’. They told their fellow IOC members that ‘’the wish of the entire population is that the Games will be celebrated in Tokyo’’. Japan returned home with seven gold medals from those Los Angeles Games but the two IOC men were look- ing further ahead. They reported to the Emperor. “The hope is slightly dimmed by the fact that the other cities running as candidates had started their invitation movement about 10 years earlier than Tokyo,” they said. “From among these cities Rome seemed the most favourable.’’ As well as the Italian capital, Rio de Janeiro, Bar- celona, Helsinki, Budapest, Alexandria, Buenos Aires, Dublin and either Toronto or Montreal were also in the running to host the world in 1940. The Emperor was told: ‘’The situation for Japan is not an easy one. Yet there is room for optimism. It will need constant efforts should we desire to aaccomplish what we wish.’’ In 1935, IOC members Dr Yotaro Sugimura and Count Michimasa Soyeshima made a special journey to Italy to call upon Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. They asked that Rome stand aside for 1940, no doubt with an as- surance that Japan would back a Roman bid in 1944. The Japanese later praised Mussolini’s ‘’generous understanding’’. Travelling to Japan was a still a major obstacle. “The Russian ambassador in Tokyo had given assurances that his Government would do everything possible to facilitate the journey by the Trans Siberian Railway,’’ said To- kyo’s ‘’Olympic Invitation Committee’’. They also promised one and a half million yen to help visiting teams with the cost of travel to Japan. “Europe should find time for the journey which the countries outside Europe make at each Olympic Games,” suggested Count Soyeshima. Interest in staging the Games had cooled elsewhere. The decision had been postponed in 1935 and re-sched- uled for Berlin in the summer of 1936, by which time only Tokyo, Helsinki and London were in contention. The decision was to be taken at Berlin’s Hotel Adlon shortly before the Games opened. London stood aside and Tokyo received a ringing endorsement from IOC President Count Baillet Latour. ‘’The sporting Olympic spirit has penetrated into all classes of the population,’’ he told his fellow IOC mem- bers. “The Youth not only take part in sport but appreciate the moral character that accompanies it. The purely unselfish sporting spirit is manifest.’’ This vote of confidence was enough to convince the membership and Tokyo was chosen as host city. ‘’It was one big Jubilee,’’ claimed organisers later. Sapporo was later confirmed as the host for the Winter Games. Newspapers from overseas reported ‘’an elabo- rate scheme on a gigantic scale’’. Nowadays the IOC establishes a Coordination Commission to monitor progress at any Olympic Games. In 1936, the Japanese had promised to appoint an individual to be based in Japan. The IOC’s man in Tokyo was to be Werner Klingeberg. He came recommended by Carl Diem, the organising genius behind the Berlin Games. Klingeberg had worked for the 1936 Committee as head of the technical department of sport.

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 29 - November 2016 Before Klingeberg left Europe, he went to Geneva to visit former IOC President Pierre de Coubertin. Little more than a month before his death, Coubertin remained enthusiastic about Games in the Far East and sent a message for the Japanese. “The task of organising the XII Olympic Games will be the greatest ever given to a country,” he said. It would: “combine Hellenism, the most precious civilisation of ancient Europe with the refined culture and art of Asia”. Yet even before Klingeberg arrived in Japan there were rumours that the Games might be cancelled. The international situation had deteriorated as Japanese troops marched into China. A brutal conflict followed and provided a backdrop to Tokyo preparations. In the Japanese legislature, there were calls to cancel the Olympics. Within a few months the New York Times described Japanese attitudes to the Games as ‘’undecided’’. Klingeberg’s journey to Japan had been delayed by a typhoon in Hong Kong but he finally set sail and arrived at Yokohama in late October 1937. He was allocated only a single room in the Organising Committee headquar- ters, a rather cluttered office in which he worked with two secretaries who had travelled from Europe. Whatever his personal misgivings, Klingeberg spoke to Japanese English language newspapers in a positive vein, suggesting that the Games would be carried out ‘’in such a way as to combine both an international spirit and the distinctive atmosphere of Japanese civilisation. By demonstrating Japanese spirit, power and culture to the world the Games will promote international understanding’’. The Organising Committee in Japan described him in equally friendly terms. “Sports federations in Japan have benefitted much under his guidance and found themselves assisted in their progress along many lines,” they said. Even at the bidding stage they had admitted privately that ‘’weather conditions in comparison with foreign countries are unfavourable’’. IOC members initially voted for the Games to take place from the last week of August though this was later changed. The Opening Ceremony was eventually scheduled for 3pm on Saturday, September 21, 1940. Fencing, wrestling and modern pentathlon were due to be contested on the first morning of competition and athletics was scheduled for the afternoon, starting with heats of the 100 metres. In a reversal of the programme today, swimming was to have taken place in the second week. Handball and canoeing were included only if at least five countries made a commitment to compete. There were also to be demonstrations in budo, a Japanese martial art, and baseball. Gliding had been accepted as an Olympic sport, but the IOC pointed out that Tokyo’s organisers ‘’must not feel obliged to put this sport on the programme”. The organisers had also made tentative plans for an Olympic Torch Relay. One idea was to take the flame by sea from Athens to Syria and then across land through Baghdad, Tehran, Kabul through to Northern India, China and Korea, then under Japanese occupation. “Steamers, automobiles and airplanes would be utilised‘’ until the Torch reached the port of Moji, from where the Relay would have been continued on foot. “Much would have been gained in diffusing the Olympic spirit in the districts where as yet, the knowledge of the Olympic Movement is very scanty,’’ claimed officials. There was also a note that ‘’the IOC asked the Organ- ising Committee to observe the rule of providing special seats, entirely segregated for the sole use of the IOC members”. Behind the polite language and positive news, Klingeberg discovered an Organising Committee with more than a few problems. His visit to one of the sports stadiums found it in very poor repair. The original plan for the main stadium was to enlarge an arena at the Meiji Shrine but local objections left them desperate to find an alternative site. There were also personality clashes within the organisers.The former Japanese Ambassador to Germany, Mat- suzo Nagai, was parachuted in as organising secretary, apparently to the irritation of IOC member Soyeshima. The Olympic officials were in any case at odds with military elements in the Government. Even so, the names of General Tojo and Admiral Yamamoto were both listed as members of the Olympic Organising Committee. In what was still a very traditional society in thrall to the Emperor, there were some who even baulked at the pros- pect of hearing the Imperial voice open the Games. Another more practical problem was the traffic flow in Tokyo. There was no mention of ‘’Olympic Lanes’’ in those days but one way streets were thought to be essential. Eventually 10 million yen was set aside for the improvement of roads around the stadium but the pressure of funding military expansion took a toll on the Olympic budget.

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 30 - November 2016 Japan Olympic Committee official Takashi Goh issued a statement on what he euphemistically called ‘’The China Incident.’’ It was aimed at those who felt the Tokyo Games might be abandoned. ‘’The preparations for the Games are as we have repeatedly stated, making rapid progress,” he said. “It is true that in view of the incident plans for the construction of the stadium have had to be modified.’’ Goh’s was a masterpiece of “spin” for steel was already in short supply for the construction of the venues. One thing was being said in public, but, by early 1938, Soyeshima had written in confidence to Baillet La- tour to hint at handing the Games back. At a media conference, the IOC President stoically insisted “the Tokyo Games will and must go on”. Tokyo City Hall telegraphed the IOC to assure them that ‘’the citizens of Tokyo are doing their utmost to make the 1940 Games a success’’ as the odds stacked against them. To stoke the fire, Herbert Pash, a prominent official of the Amateur Athletic Association in England, sug- gested that sportsmen and women in Britain and what he called other ‘’civilised countries’’ such as America and Scandinavia would have little stomach for Games in Japan. ‘’The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as a gigantic advertisement for the promoting country. Some competitors are trained at public expense to maintain the national rather than the sporting reputation of their country,” he fumed. That spring, the IOC met on a steamship on the Nile. The IOC President read a telegram sent by CT Wang, the IOC member in China, asking that the Games be moved from Tokyo. The official minutes recorded that “the text of the Olympic Charter contains nothing which would permit such a decision”. Even so he still felt the need ‘’to caution Japan, putting her on her guard as to the seriousness of the situa- tion. If between now and then the hostilities in China were not ended, he advised Japan in her own interests to renounce the celebration of these Games”. Although the IOC had refused to force the hand of the Japanese, the planned exposition to celebrate the 2,600th anniversary of the Imperial dynasties seemed to be a potential tipping point. The IOC demanded assur- ances that this would not encroach on the Olympic Games period. Publicly at least, Baillet Latour clung on to the hope that Tokyo would still be able to organise the 1940 Games. He sent this message to the Japanese people: ‘’The IOC, honouring its Charter, has not believed itself called upon to examine the proposal as to whether the decision reached in Berlin in 1936 should be changed be- cause it is firmly convinced that Tokyo and Sapporo [remain] strong in the unanimous support of the nation and [in] the Government desire to celebrate the Games in 1940 and in accordance with the regulations these Games cannot be taken from them.’’ The omens did not improve. Kano, who had been a supporter of the Games from the outset, died on board ship as he returned home. His coffin was draped in the Olympic Flag as it was ceremonially brought ashore at Yokohama. By June, newspapers were reporting with some certainty that the Games were unlikely to proceed. In mid July, the IOC were forced to accept the inevitable when Baillet Latour received a sad telegram from Count Soye- shima. It read: “WE REGRET THAT OWING TO PROTRACTED HOSTILITIES WITH NO PROSPECT OF IMME- DIATE PEACE WE HAVE DECIDED TO CANCEL THE TOKYO AND SAPPORO GAMES. WE INTEND TO APPLY FOR 1944 GAMES”. Baillet Latour called the decision ‘’The right step”. “By doing so you have proved you have the Olympic spirit,” he said. “You realise that the Olympic Games is not a national business or propaganda but a very important ceremony with a definite object”. The Japanese sports officials tried to strike an optimistic note in the official report, claiming ‘’the conflict will terminate in time and peace and amity will again be restored”. The American Avery Brundage, later to become IOC President, was equally positive. “I am sure there will be another opportunity to stage the Olympic Games in Tokyo and in the meantime that the friendly relationships between the sportsmen of Nippon and United States will continued unimpaired”. For the time being, though Helsinki and St Moritz were swiftly given the task of staging the 1940 Games but this was soon abandoned as war engulfed Europe. As one of the defeated powers in the war, Japan was excluded when the 1948 Games were held in London. The Games were finally awarded to Tokyo again in 1964. It was Brundage, by then IOC President, who invited Emperor Hirohito to open them. The Flame was lit by Yoshinori Sakai, a teenager born the day the Atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 31 - November 2016 Charlotte loses NAIA Cross Country Championships over House Bill 2 By Rick Rothacker | [email protected] http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/business/article104520076.html Charlotte is losing another sports event over House Bill 2. The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics said this week it’s relocating its 2016 Cross Country Na- tional Championships over the controversial law, which limits protections for LGBT individuals.

In January 2015, the NAIA announced that its men’s and women’s cross country championships would be held in Charlotte in 2015 and 2016 at McAlpine Creek Park. This year’s event was to be held Nov. 19. Now the event will be hosted on North Farm Cross Country course in Elsah, Illinois. “The NAIA Council of Presidents made this decision out of concern that the state’s HB2 legislation creates an atmosphere where discrimination potentially exists for some NAIA student-athletes and personnel,” said the orga- nization, which plans to announce a new location next week.

The NAIA has no other championships scheduled to be held in North Carolina. The decision does not affect any current member institution or conference from keeping previously scheduled events in the state, the NAIA said. Gov. Pat McCrory signed HB2 into law in March to nullify a Charlotte ordinance, which had generated contro- versy by protecting transgender people who use public restrooms based on their gender identity. HB2 also over- rode local ordinances around the state that would have expanded protections for the LGBT community.

Opponents of the law have said it discriminates against LGBT individuals. In protest, the NCAA and Atlantic Coast Conference have pulled major college sporting events from the state, the NBA moved its All-Star Game from Charlotte, entertainers have canceled performances and business such as PayPal have scrapped expansions. On Monday, fifty-plus investment managers with more than $2.1 trillion under management called for a full repeal of House Bill 2. Efforts to repeal HB2 and the Charlotte ordinance so far have not been successful. Christian schools nix NAIA boycott Tulsa Beacon | http://tulsabeacon.com/christian-schools-nix-naia-boycott/ Christian universities are saying no to efforts to promote Objecting to the NAIA’s decision to relocate its 2016 a homosexual agenda through intercollegiate sports. Cross Country National Championships from North Oklahoma Wesleyan University, with campuses in Carolina, College of the Ozarks President Jerry C. Davis Bartlesville and Tulsa, and College of the Ozarks in Point announced that if its cross country team qualifies for Lookout, Missouri, have announced they will not partici- nationals, they will not be allowed to participate unless the pate in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics championship is returned to Charlotte. (NAIA) cross country championship after NAIA officials “It’s not the business of the NAIA to tell the citizens of changed the venue from Charlotte, North Carolina. North Carolina how to regulate their bathrooms, nor should athletes be political pawns,” Davis said. “This is another The NAIA moved the championship in a protest against a example of political correctness gone berserk and is a big state law in North Carolina that prohibits anyone from us- mistake. ing a public bathroom that is not consistent with the gender “We understand the athletic directors voted overwhelm- on their birth certificates. ingly to honor the NAIA’s commitment to keep the tourna- “How can the NAIA claim to be an organization that ment in Charlotte. However, it is also our understanding ‘champions character’ if its leadership so eagerly breaks its the decision to take adverse action was made by an 11-9 word and its contract with the state of North Carolina?” vote of the Council of Presidents. It appears the Council has asked Dr. Everett Piper, president of OKWU. lost touch with its own administrators and no doubt much “And how can we claim to be an organization that sup- of the public at large. ports women if our leadership is so willing to deny female “The NAIA’s important “Champions of Character” initia- athletes the right to have their own bathrooms, showers, tive is undermined when a small group of presidents don’t toilet and lavatory? The NAIA’s disregard for such basic appear to adhere to the NAIA’s own statement of core val- rights is sobering.” ues—which includes… ‘keeping commitments.’”

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 32 - November 2016 According to an NAIA press release, the NAIA Council of student and to, thereby, give women the same access to Presidents made this decision out of concern that the state’s programs as men. If we didn’t ‘discriminate’ in such a way, HB2 legislation “creates an atmosphere where discrimina- how in the world would it be possible to ever comply with tion potentially exists for some NAIA student-athletes and Title IX?! personnel.” It also states that the NAIA National Championships “… I don’t know what my peers were taught in their ju- “must promote an inclusive atmosphere for all college nior high biology classes, and I certainly have no idea what athletes, coaches, administrators and fans.” There are no they are teaching today on their respective campuses, but at other NAIA championships scheduled to be held in North Oklahoma Wesleyan, we still believe in science. We, there- Carolina. The decision only affects the 2016 Cross Country fore, teach that male and female physiology is an objective National Championships and does not impact any current reality and that there is little more empirically obvious than member institution or conference from maintaining previ- one’s sex. ously scheduled events in North Carolina. “Shocking as it may sound to my presidential peers, Okla- On September 26, the Council of Presidents for National homa Wesleyan University actually agrees with the state of Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) disregarded North Carolina. We, too, think that women should be grant- a nearly unanimous recommendation of its board of com- ed the privacy of having their own toilets. We believe female missioners and athletic directors and voted 11-9 to remove students should be respected and not insulted, demeaned, their national cross country championships from the state and ignored. We stand with women in their fight against of North Carolina, Piper wrote in a statement on the OKWU the arrogance of college presidents and the delusions of website. the male libido. Women attending our university will not “Have these people lost all sense of academic integrity? only have their own basketball and soccer teams, but they, Have they lost their minds?” Piper asked. “… my NAIA peers likewise, will have their own restrooms, showers, dorms, – in their sagely wisdom – seem determined to reject the sports, scholarships and programs. Women at this univer- very premise of Title IX that requires colleges and univer- sity will have their identity and their privacy acknowledged sities to differentiate the female student from the male and respected.” NCAA relocates 7 events pulled from NC due to LGBT law By Associated Press | https://www.abqjournal.com/862971/ncaa-relocates-7-events-pulled-from-nc-due-to-lgbt-law.html INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA relocated its men’s basketball regional tournament to Greenville, South Carolina, on Fri- day after withdrawing the event from Greensboro, North Carolina, because of that state’s law restricting the rights of LGBT people. The first and second rounds of the men’s tournament will be played at the Bon Secours Wellness Arena. The NCAA also announced the relocation of six other events after pulling seven championships from North Carolina last month: — the Division I women’s soccer championship to San Jose, California. — the Division III men’s and women’s soccer championships to Salem, Virginia. — the Division I women’s golf regional championships to Athens, Georgia. — the Division III men’s and women’s tennis championships to Chattanooga, Tennessee. — the Division I women’s lacrosse championship to Boston. — the Division II baseball championship to Grand Prairie, Texas. The men’s basketball games, set for March 17 and 19, will be the first time the venue in Greenville has hosted the NCAA men’s tournament since 2002. That was the final NCAA event held in South Carolina after the organization banned the awarding of neutral-site tournaments to the state for flying the Confederate flag on statehouse grounds. That ban ended in July 2015 when the state took down the flag after nine parishioners were killed at a Charleston church. The NCAA pulled the events from North Carolina in September in response to the law known as HB2, which excludes gender identity and sexual orientation from local and statewide anti-discrimination protections. It also requires transgen- der people to use restrooms at schools and government buildings corresponding to the sex on their birth certificates. The NCAA’s move is part of a public and business backlash since Republican Gov. Pat McCrory signed the law this year. Days after the NCAA removed events from North Carolina, the Atlantic Coast Conference pulled its football championship game from Charlotte and has since moved it to Orlando. It’s among several ACC relocated events. The NBA moved its 2017 All-Star Game from Charlotte to New Orleans. Entertainers Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam and Ringo Starr have canceled plans to play in North Carolina. PayPal reversed plans to open a 400-employee operation center in Charlotte. Charlotte had passed a local anti-discrimination ordinance for LGBT people. In response, the North Carolina legislature approved the current statewide law in March, which overrides local ordinances that ban discrimination. TAFWA Newsletter - Page 33 - November 2016 Farah confirms final London IAAF Diamond League appearance https://www.iaaf.org/news/news/farah-confirmed-for-london-iaaf-diamond-lea Double world and Olympic champion Mo Farah has confirmed that his race at the Müller Anniversary Games on Sunday 9 July 2017 will be his last at the IAAF Diamond League fixture in the British capital.

“2017 will probably be my last year competing on the track so I’m really looking forward to running in front of my home fans in London,” said Farah, who successfully defended both his 5000m and 10,000m titles at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. “It will be a very important competition for me in the build up to the World Champion- ships so hopefully I can run well and put on a great show for the fans.”

The most decorated British athlete of all time produced his first double Olympic gold at the London Stadium in 2012 and most recently set this season’s world-leading 5000m performance at the meeting’s 2016 edition, clocking 12:59.29.

“The Olympic Stadium holds great memories for me and with the World Championships returning next year it will be great to run there in July at the Anniversary Games,” said Farah, who has never been beaten on the London stadium track.

With his heroics in Rio last August, Farah became only the second man to win the 5000m and 10,000m Olym- pic ‘double double’. He has also won both events at the past two editions of the World Championships, adding an even stronger focus to the distance programmes at both the Müller Anniversary Games and IAAF World Championships London 2017.

“With tickets for Farah’s events at the 2017 World Championships having sold out, this is the last chance for the British public to see Mo compete at the scene of his magnificent double Olympic gold triumph,” said UK Athletics chief executive Niels de Vos.

2017 IAAF Diamond League calendar 2017 IAAF World Challenge calendar 5 May – Doha, QAT 11 March – Australia 13 May – Shanghai, CHN 7 May – Kingston, JAM 27 May – Eugene, USA 16 May – Beijing, CHN 8 Jun – Rome, ITA 21 May – Kawasaki, JPN 15 Jun – Oslo, NOR 25 May – Dakar, SEN 18 Jun – Stockholm, SWE 3 Jun – Rio de Janeiro, BRA 1 Jul – Paris, FRA 11 Jun – Hengelo, NED 6 Jul – Lausanne, SUI 13 Jun – Turku, FIN 9 Jul – London, GBR 28 Jun – Ostrava, CZE 16 Jul – Rabat, MAR 23 Jul – Madrid, ESP 21 Jul – Monaco, MON 27 Aug – Berlin, GER 20 Aug – Birmingham, GBR 29 Aug – Zagreb, CRO 24 Aug – Zurich, SUI 3 Sep – Rieti, ITA 1 Sep – Brussels, BEL

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 34 - November 2016 Partial Fixtures List 2016 Oct. 26-Nov. 6 World Masters Athletics Championships, Perth, Australia Nov. 6 New York City Marathon Nov. 19 NCAA Division I Cross Country, Terre Haute, Indiana NCAA Division II Cross Country, St. Leo, Florida NCAA Division III Cross Country, Louisville, Kentucky NAIA Cross Country, Elsah, Illinois

2017 Feb. 3-4 Armory Track Invitational, NYC Feb. 9 TAFWA Winter Awards Dinner, Coogan’s Restaurant, NYC, 6 PM Feb. 11 Millrose Games, Armory, NYC March 2-4 NAIA Indoor Championships, Johnson City, Tennessee March 3-5 USATF Indoor Championships, Albuquerque, New Mexico March 10-11 NCAA Division I Indoor Championships, College Station, Texas NCAA Division II Indoor Championships, Birmingham, Alabama NCAA Division III Indoor Championships, Naperville, Illinois March 26 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, Kampala, Uganda April 22-23 IAAF World Relays, Nassau, Bahamas April 27-29 Penn Relays, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Drake Relays, Des Moines, Iowa May 25-27 NCAA Division I East Preliminary Rounds, Lexington, Kentucky May 25-27 NCAA Division I West Preliminary Rounds, Austin, Texas NCAA Division II Championships, Bradenton, Florida NCAA Division III Championships, Geneva, Ohio NAIA Championships, Gulf Shores, Alabama May 26-27 Prefontaine Classic, Eugene, Oregon June 7-10 NCAA Division I Championships, Eugene, Oregon June 23-25 USATF Outdoor Championships, Sacramento, California July 12-16 IAAF World U18 Championships, Nairobi, Kenya Aug. 4-13 IAAF World Championships, London Nov. 18 NCAA Division I Cross Country, Louisville, Kentucky NCAA Division II Cross Country, Evansville, Indiana NCAA Division III Cross Country, Elsah, Illinois

2018 March 2-4 IAAF World Indoor Championships, Birmingham, England March 9-10 NCAA Division I Indoor Championships, College Station, Texas April 4-15 Commonwealth Games, Gold Coast, Australia May 24-26 NCAA Division I East Preliminary Rounds, Tampa, Florida May 24-26 NCAA Division I West Preliminary Rounds, Sacramento, Calif. June 6-9 NCAA Division I Championships, Eugene, Oregon July 10-15 IAAF World U20 Championships, Tampere, Finland August 7-12 European Championships, Berlin, Germany Sept. 8-9 IAAF Continental Cup, Ostrava, Czech Republic

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