February 2019

Track and Field Contents Writers of P. 1 President’s Message America P. 2 Leading Books of 2018 P. 3 2019 TAFWA Awards (Founded June 7, 1973) P. 4 Media Credential Application Open for 2019 Toyota USATF Indoor Championships p. 4 Former TAFWA President Chosen as ’s Top Sportswriter PRESIDENT P. 5 A History of Great Prep Vaulters Jack Pfeifer P. 8 Vatican Launches Track Team of Swiss Guards, Nuns 2199 NW Everett St. #601 P. 9 Bowerman’s Living Legacies: How ’s Three Sons Define Themselves Apart From Their Portland, Oregon 97210 Father Office/home: 917-579- 5392. Email: P. 11 The Mental Strategy Uses to Stop Stressing About Her Competition [email protected] P. 13 Kengo Kuma is Crafting a Timber Temple to Sports for the 2020 Olympics P. 14 ‘Oregon Spirit’ Exhibit Celebrates the Legacy of Track and Field SECRETARY- P. 16 Fast Women TREASURER P. 17 Editorial: City Support of NCAA Track Meeting Runs Into Roadblock Tom Casacky P. 18 Usain Bolt Signals Professional Football Dream is Over: ‘It Was Fun While It Lasted’ P.O. Box 4288 P. 18 From One Legend to Another: Kip Keino Bails Out Henry Rono Napa, CA 94558 P. 19 Does Journalism Have a Future? Phone: 818-321-3234 P. 20 Fred Thompson, Who Championed Women in Track, Dies at 85 Email: [email protected] P. 22 Olympic Champion Sumgong Slapped With Record Eight Year Ban P. 23 Shearman Details Life Behind Sporting Lens FAST P. 26 Feeling the Tug of His Roots, Parsons Poised to Represent Germany Dave Johnson P. 28 ‘100 Percent Track’: For Auburn Football Stars, T&F Isn’t Viewed as Second Sport Email: P. 29 Doping: London 2012 High Jump Champion Ukhov Among 12 Russians Banned [email protected] P. 30 French Feminist Group Calls for Hijab Ban at 2024 Phone: 215-898-6145 P. 31 You Don’t Need Sports Drinks to Stay Hydrated P. 34 Atlanta Track Club Unviels Course for 2020 U.S. Olympic Team Trials - WEBMASTER P. 35 Russia’s Athletics Federation Sends to IAAF 172 Apps of Athletes Seeking Neutral Status Michael McLaughlin P. 36 Track & Field News Subscription Options Email: P. 37 Partial Fixtures List [email protected] Phone: 815-529-8454

NEWSLETTER EDITOR President’s Message - February 2019 Shawn Price The Russians are Coming Email: Biggest news of the past month was another list of convicted Russian dopers, a dozen in all, including [email protected] an Olympic champion and a World champion, both high jumpers. Will they return the medals, prize money Phone: 979-661-0731 and bonus money? Of course not. Meantime, a grand shuffle takes place as athletes move up the rankings and swap medals or get medals they never expected and so forth. For example, the 2012 men’s OG HJ included a three-way tie for bronze. Whoops. Now it’s a three-way tie for 2nd, that’s threw new silver medals. Two Americans wind up with gold medals, Brigetta Barrett and Erik Kynard. We’ve seen this story before. Meantime, at least 172 Russian “individuals” have submitted their names to be allowed into the next Worlds, so that charade continues as well. The IAAF and IOC left a little side door open, and the Russians, if nothing else, are shrewd at exploiting the tiniest loophole. And we now know that Russia isn’t the only renegade nation, as is quickly moving up that list. That includes the reigning Olympic champion in the women’s marathon, the first Kenyan woman to win that honor. Question: Does that distinction continue? Is she no longer the first Kenyan woman to win the Olympic marathon? She got an extra four years on her ban for lying and coverup. Then there are those who would say that TF isn’t the only sport with a drug problem, and they of course would be right. It’s how it’s handled that’s different. The MVP of Super Bowl LIII happened to just conclude a drug suspension, which he conveniently was allowed to serve at the beginning of the season while pre- serving his eligibility for the postseason and the Super Bowl. Dues, Awards Some quick reminders: • Your dues of $30 are due for 2019, send to Treasurer Tom Casacky by Paypal or snail mail. • TAFWA’s awards for 2019 are open for nominations, deadline is May 1. Awards will be presented in Austin during the NCAA meet. TAFWA’s Awards Breakfast will be hosted on campus by the Texas Club. • The 2019 FAST Annual is in the works, will be available online by March. We will keep you posted. T&FN Track & Field News has reconsidered its decision to be electronic-only and will now make printed copies of the magazine available. Details available at the end of this issue. Fred Thompson A wake for Fred Thompson, the pioneering coach of the Atoms T.C. and the founder of the Colgate Wom- en’s Games, who passed away on Tuesday, will be held on February 6, from 3pm-7pm, at the Lawrence Wood- ward Funeral Home, located at 1 Troy Avenue (between Fulton & Herkimer Streets), Brooklyn NY 11213. (718-493-8120) http://www.lhwoodwardfh.com

The funeral will be held on February 7 (9am-viewing, 10am-funeral service) at the Brown Memorial Baptist Church, located at 484 Washington Avenue (between Gates Avenue and Fulton Street) (718-638-6121). Burial will follow at Evergreen Cemetery, located at 1629 Bushwick Avenue, Brooklyn,NY Repast will be held immediately after burial at the Brown Memorial Baptist Church

Walt Murphy’s News and Results Service ([email protected]) Leading Books of 2018 Born to Run: The Leon Coleman Story, By Leon Coleman. Track in the Forest: The Creation of a Legendary 1968 US Coleman was 4th in the 1968 City Olympics in the Olympic Team, By Bob Burns. The story of the legendary Olympic 110-hurdles. Ruminations on life and coaching. Self-published. Trials in South Lake Tahoe, Calif.

When Running Made History, By Roger Robinson. A com- American Miler: The Life and Times of Glenn Cunningham, pilation of significant distance running moments since 1948. Dedi- By Paul J. Kiell. Biography of the famous miler. cated to his wife, Katherine Switzer. Alma Richards: Olympian, By Larry R. Gerlach. A Utah native, A Hurdler’s Hurdler: The Life of Rodney Milburn, by Steven Richards set the Olympic record for the high jump in the 1912 McGill. Milburn was the 1972 Olympic champion in the 110-hur- Games. dles. The Wizard of Foz: Dick Fosbury’s One-Man High-Jump The Inside Track, By Tom Courtney. Courtney was a Fordham Revolution, By Bob Welch and Dick Fosbury. Welch is a former grad and the 1956 Olympic champion in the 800. Autobiography, columnist for the Eugene Register-Guard. self-published. Let Your Mind Run: A Memoir of My Thinking My Way To Vic- The Incomplete Book of Running, By Peter Sagal. Sagal is the tory, By Deena Kastor and Michelle Hamilton. host of NPR’s “Wait! Wait! Don’t Tell Me!’ and a columnist for Run- ner’s World. Never Missed. Lessons Learned from Forty-Five Years of Running Without Missing a Day, By Mark Covert with Chris University of Nike, By Joshua Hunt. The story of the Univer- Covert. Mark competed in the 1972 Olympic Marathon Trials. sity of Oregon’s relationship to one of its most famous graduates, , and Knight’s company. Do Not Worry, It Is Only Pain, By Michael Sharp. Ralph Doubell’s biography. The coaching mind of Franz Stampfl, and the The Sky’s the Limit: The Joe Dial Story, by Doug Eaton with tireless work ethic of Doubell, the 1968 Olympic 800 champion. Joe Dial. Eliud Kipchoge. History’s Fastest Marathoner. An insight Tigerbelle: The Wyomia Tyus Story, By Wyomia Tyus and into the Kenyan life that shapes history, By Max Inglis Fox. Avail- Elizabeth Terzakis. able through Kindle.

Endure – Mind, Body and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Hu- Expected in 2019 man Performance, By Alex Hutchinson. Amazing Racers: The Story of America’s Greatest Running Team and Their Groundbreaking Coach, By Marc Bloom. The The Irish-American Athletic Club of New York: The Rise and remarkable story of the girls from Fayetteville-Manlius. Fall of the Winged Fists 1898-1917, By Patrick B. Redmond. Originally published in 2015. TAFWA will run a monthly list of the leading books published on the Varsity Seven: An American Rift Valley, By Peter Hawkins. sport, compiled by Kim Spir, of Portland. Spokane’s “Rift Valley.” TAFWA Newsletter - Page 2 - February 2019 2019 TAFWA Awards Recognizing excellence in track & field journalism, announcing, photography, film & video, blogging, broadcasting and books in 2018 as well as ongoing cooperation with the media.

General information: These awards will be presented June 2019 in Austin for work in 2018 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: May 1

Sam Skinner Memorial Award For ongoing cooperation with the press Award Chair: Walt Murphy ([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

Photography Awards For excellence in track and field photography Award: presented to a current photographer Award Chair: Kim Spir ([email protected]) Nomination Deadline: May 1 Note: Submit an electronic portfolio Manning Solon Award For a career of excellence in track and field photography Award Chair: Steve Sutton ([email protected]) Nomination Deadline: May 1

Bud Greenspan Memorial Film & Video Award For excellence in track and field/running film & video production Award Chair: Nancy Beffa ([email protected]) Nomination Deadline: May 1 Note: This award will recognize outstanding achievement in film or video on track & field or running during 2018 Criteria: contact Nancy Beffa for details. •Submissions are judged on innovation, impact and content •Entries must have been released, televised or copyrighted in 2018 •Must be at least 25 minutes in length •Submit 5 DVD copies of the film or a link to the work online.

Adam Jacobs Blogging Award For excellence in online personal writing on track and field, cross country or running in 2018 Award Chair: Paul Merca ([email protected]) Nomination Deadline: May 1

Armory Foundation Book Award For the leading book published in 2018 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: May 1

H. D. Thoreau Award For excellence in track & field broadcasting Award Chair: Jack Pfeifer ([email protected]) Nomination Deadline: May 1

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 3 - February 2019 Media credential application open for 2019 Toyota USATF Indoor Championships

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Please reach out to [email protected] with any questions. Thank you and we look forward to working with you. Former TAFWA President Chosen as Oregon’s Top Sportswriter Portland Tribune sports columnist Kerry Eggers has been named Oregon Sportswriter of the Year for the sixth time in his career. Eggers will be honored at the National Sports Media Association’s annual Hall of Fame banquet, set for June in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Eggers has won the award three times since joining the Tribune upon its inception in February 2001. He also was the Oregon Sportswriter of the Year while with the Tribune in 2003 and 2011. His span of awards from the NSMA began in 1981, while he was covering sports for the Oregon Journal. Eggers also was chosen as Oregon’s top sportswriter twice while at .

For the Tribune, Eggers writes multiple columns per week, while covering the Trail Blazers as well as Oregon State sports, notably football, and , and his latest book, “Jail Blazers: How the became the Bad Boys of Basketball,” was released in December. It chronicles the team from 1994-2006, with insights from more than 70 players, coaches, executives, broadcasters, sportswriters and others close to the scene. Eggers has written six other books: “Blazers Profiles” (1991), “Against the World” (1992, with co-author Dwight Jaynes), “Wherever You May Be: The Bill Schonely Story” (1999), “Clyde ‘The Glide’ Drexler: My Life in Basketball” (2004), “Oregon State University Football Vault” (2009), and “The Civil War Rivalry: Oregon vs. Oregon State” (2014). Eggers and John Canzano of The Oregonian were this year’s Oregon Sportswriter of the Year finalists.

Also to be honored at the June NSMA awards banquet is the 2018 Oregon Sportscaster of the Year, Kevin Calabro of the Trail Blazers. He has won 10 times, including nine in Washington. The 2018 National Sportscaster of the Year is ESPN/ABC basketball broadcaster/analyst , and the National Sportswriter of the Year is ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Media from around the state vote for the Oregon awards.

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 4 - February 2019 A History of Great Prep Vaulters By Howard Willman | Track & Field News | https://trackandfieldnews.com/article/a-history-of-great-prep-vaulters/ With the spectacular high school pages of Mondo broke two barriers, scaling 14-feet as a soph in ’55 and Duplantis’s career over, he’s the highest prep vaulter ever 15-feet as a senior in ’57 (with another national record in and it’s easy to think he’s also the best ever. Some experts between in ’56). The 15-footer was so impressive at the time might argue he merely has an honored chair at a table with that we headlined it in the May ’57 issue thusly: other greats who were also ahead of their time in an event Phoenix, Arizona, May 15—Jim Brewer, the fabulous that has seen technological advancement that is rivaled flyer from North Phoenix High School, climaxed his out- by almost no other event in the sport’s spectrum. Greg standing prep career tonight when he cleared what might Duplantis—the father/coach of Mondo—says the principles well be the finest schoolboy performance of all time—the of vaulting are simple: “it hasn’t changed throughout first 15-foot pole vault. time.” With that barrier-breaking performance Brewer held an The prime facet of greatness is dominance among one’s 11½-inch margin over the next-highest prep—almost twice peers, especially all-time. Sometimes in prep vaulting great- as much as ever before. That margin still stands among the ness includes elevated status among the world’s best. Here’s very best to this day. a look back at some of the event’s biggest stars, although this is not a comprehensive list of all those who raised the Paul Wilson (1964 & 1965) national record (see end of article for the full progression). The early ’60s saw an even more dramatic development in pole technology with the popularization of fiberglass. Sherman Landers (1916) Paul Wilson (Warren, Downey, California) raised the HSR Sherman Landers (Oregon, Illinois) was the ’16 world 6 times in ’64 & ’65, bursting over 16-feet and topping out leader at 12-8, a High School Record that would last almost at 16-6¾ as a senior. He was 5¾” higher than the next best 7 years—the fifth-longest tenure of the HSR. While WWI prep, teammate Bob Steinhoff. His ’65 season was good virtually eliminated European activity, Landers’ mark was enough to earn him No. 7 in T&FN’s World Rankings—the also significant in that it was just 4¼” off the WR at the first prep vaulter to make that elite listing. time. That margin equals the closest a prep has been to the WR, and more than a century later Landers is listed with Casey Carrigan (1968 & 1969) just two other prep vaulters with the same accomplishment. Casey Carrigan (Orting, Washington) was just a couple of weeks into his senior year when he made the Olympic team Lee Barnes (1924) in September of ’68 by becoming the first 17-footer, hitting Lee Barnes (Hollywood, California) had just graduated that barrier exactly. from high school when he won gold at the ’24 Paris Olym- In ’69, he put on an amazing show at Sacramento’s Gold- pics 6 days before turning 18. Back then, four athletes en West Invitational—breaking his own national record at from a country were allowed to compete in each event, and 17‑½, then again at 17-4¾ and only missing at a would-be the U.S. foursome who tied for 1st in the Olympic Trials World Record of 17-10½. His 17-4¾ was just 4¼” off the finished 1-2-3-6 in Paris. Barnes won the gold in a jumpoff, WR, matching Landers’ difference as the closest by a prep. just as he did a month earlier at the Trials. No other prep His three 17-footers would remain alone in prep annals for vaulter has any other Olympic medal—or from the World almost a decade. Championships (introduced in ’83) or World Indoor Cham- pionships (’87). That year Barnes became the first prep over Joe Dial & Steve Stubblefield (1980) 13-feet and also finished the year with the world’s highest While Carrigan’s record seemed to last forever, it was vault at 13-2—just the second time a U.S. prep would lead eventually broken twice in ’80, first by Joe Dial (Marlow, the yearly world list. Oklahoma) and then by Steve Stubblefield (Wyandotte, Kansas City, Kansas). The latter’s 17-6 was the prime part of John Linta (1939) a season which made him just the third vaulter to earn HS The final HSR holder in the bamboo pole era was John AOY honors. Linta (Mansfield, Ohio), and his 13-9½ in ’39 was the national standard for nearly 14 years—the event’s longest Joe Dial, Greg Duplantis & Dale Jenkins (1981) stretch and lasting until the ’50s saw various forms of metal The race to break 18-feet peaked in a dazzling year in poles that helped vaulters achieve vastly superior heights. which the national record was modified 8 times by 3 vault- Jim Brewer made history not only by being the first prep ers—Dial, Duplantis and Dale Jenkins (Abilene, Texas). over the 14- and 15-foot barriers, but also by claiming na- It was briefly thought that Duplantis had the first prep tional records as a soph, junior and senior. 18-footer, in July. However, a post-clearance measurement found it just short at 17-11¾. He was using poles borrowed Jim Brewer (1955 & 1957) from Dial, who finished the summer at 18-1¼ and earned Using metal poles, Jim Brewer (North, Phoenix, Arizona) T&FN’s AOY honor. TAFWA Newsletter - Page 5 - February 2019 Any discussion of the best high school vaulters ever begins with Mondo Duplantis, who scored the first 4 of his 8 national outdoor records at the ’17 Texas Relays. (ERROL ANDERSON/THE SPORTING IMAGE) Brandon Richards (1985) the HS AOY Top 10—Mondo returning as a unanimous No. That trio remained atop the all-time list until ’85, when 1 with Sondre Guttormsen (18-10¼) and K.C. Lightfoot Brandon Richards (San Marcos, Santa Barbara, California) (18-5) following at Nos. 4 and 7. Those three now lead the scaled 18-2. His dad, Bob, had won Olympic gold in ’52 and all-time HS list, a single-year trio at the top matched only ’56. once in history (1981).

Brandon’s record lasted 13 years (second-longest ever) Blowing the roof off was Mondo’s final prep campaign. until ’99, when Eric Eshbach (Orangefield, Texas) HS edged He bettered his own previous HSR 5 times as he racked up ahead at 18-2¼. The next recordsetters were Tommy Skip- 23 more 19-foot clearances to bring his career total to 26, per (Sandy, Oregon) at 18-3 in ’03, then Shawn Barber making him by far the most dominant prep vaulter of his (Park, Kingwood, Texas) at 18-3½ in ’12, and Chris Nilsen time. The crown jewel came when he won the European (Park Hill, Kansas City, Missouri) at 18-4½ in ’16. Of this Championships at 19-10¼, the year’s world leader (a feat fivesome, only Skipper earned AOY honors, the others all that matched Landers and Barnes a century earlier as the finishing as runners-up. only preps with such an honor). At 19-10¼, Mondo is just 4¼” away from the WR, a difference matched only by Land- Mondo Duplantis (2017 & 2018) ers and Carrigan. His margin over the next-best prep grew Mondo Duplantis (Lafayette, ) was No. 12 in just slightly to 12” (largest ever), and his No. 4 in the T&FN the ’16 AOY voting as a soph, but he would never again World Rankings surpassed the No. 6 prep best he shared receive another vote lower than 1st. As a junior he set the with Carrigan. Overall, he ended up with 8 raisings of the absolute best 6 times in a year when he amassed the 18 national outdoor record, surpassing the 6’s by Wilson and highest vaults ever by a prep, ultimately to 19-4¼ as he Dial. cleared 19-feet 3 times. He earned unanimous AOY honors and a No. 6 T&FN world ranking (matching Carrigan ’69 as The best-ever prep vaulter? To High School Editor Jack the best by a prep vaulter). His 11¾” margin over the next Shepard, it’s a no-brainer. He considers Duplantis not only best HS vaulter was the largest in history, just ahead of the best vaulter ever, but also the best prep period, ahead of Brewer’s 11½” in ’57. , Gerry Lindgren and Michael Carter, although he adds, “time will eventually tell.” 2018 was historic for preps in many ways. It saw a record 5 soaring over 18-feet, more than doubling the most in a single year. For the first time, three vaulters were among TAFWA Newsletter - Page 6 - February 2019 HS Boys Outdoor Vault Record Progression Ongoing research by T&FN’s High School Editor Jack Shepard and other old-time fans has pulled together a lot of historical data, stretching back as it does 139 years. Note that marks are listed under modern rules—no increments smaller than a quarter-inch. Any marks that were taken in 8ths or 16ths at the time have simply been appropriately rounded down for the purposes of this listing. Indoor marks have been ignored.

Height Athlete Site Date 8-9 H.C. Hopkins (St Paul’s, Concord, NH) ? /80 9-6¾ T.E. Sherwin (Latin, Roxbury, Ma) Cambridge, Ma 6/07/90 George Hoffman (Oakland, Ca) San Francisco, Ca 5/??/91 9-9¼ W.L. Jenkins (Noble, , Ma) Cambridge, Ma 6/06/91 W.W. Hoyt (Latin, Roxbury, Ma) Cambridge, Ma 6/06/91 10-0 ——Hoyt Cambridge, Ma 6/10/92 10-6¾ ——Hoyt Cambridge, Ma 6/09/93 10-7¾ Jesse Hurlburt (Berkeley, New York, NY) New York, NY 5/16/96 10-9 Bascom Johnson (Academy, Worcester, Ma) Cambridge, Ma 6/05/96 10-10 E.J. Weir (Academy, Mercersburg, Pa) Princeton, NJ 5/05/00 11-0 J.B. Phillips (Academy, Worcester, Ma) Cambridge, Ma 5/17/02 L.P. McGovern (Phillips, Andover, Ma) Cambridge, Ma 6/07/02 ——Phillips Cambridge, Ma 6/07/02 11-2 J.T. Moore (Academy, Mercersburg, Pa) New Haven, Ct 5/16/03 11-4½ ——Moore Philadelphia, Pa 5/21/04 [11-4¾? Charles Freeney (Ida Grove, Ia) ’04 or ’06?] 11-5 A. Vail (Oakland, Ca) San Francisco, Ca 5/04/07 ——Freeney , Il 6/08/07 12-½ Roy Mercer (George, Newtown, Pa) Philadelphia, Pa 5/12/08? 11-6 Harry Babcock (Mt Vernon, NY) Mt. Vernon, NY 5/16/08 11-8 Eugene Schobinger (Harvard, Chicago, Il) Chicago, Il 6/13/08 Charles Borgstrom (Ventura, Ca) Los Angeles, Ca 2/22/12 12-7½ Percy Graham (University, Chicago, Il) Chicago, Il 6/12/15 ——Graham [or 12-7¾?] Chicago, Il 7/17/15 12-8 Sherman Landers (Oregon, Il) Minneapolis, Mn 5/27/16 12-11¾ Harry Smith (San Diego, Ca) Palo Alto, Ca 3/10/23 ——Smith Santa Ana, Ca 4/28/23 [13-1? ——Smith [unconfirmed] ’23] 13-0 Lee Barnes (Hollywood, Ca) Los Angeles, Ca 5/24/24 13-2 ——Barnes Los Angeles, Ca 5/24/24 Bill Hubbard (San Diego, Ca) San Diego, Ca 5/24/26 13-2½ Bill Miller (San Diego, Ca) Los Angeles, CA 4/28/28 13-3 Lowell Allen (Salem, Oh) Chicago, Il 6/02/28 13-4 John Wonsowicz (Froebel, Gary, In) Columbus, Oh 5/02/30 13-4 Keith Brown (Phillips, Andover, Ma) Cambridge, Ma 5/09/31 13-6½ Bill Sefton (Poly, Los Angeles, Ca) Los Angeles, Ca 4/30/32 13-7 Baylor Maynard (Belmont, Los Angeles, Ca) Los Angeles, Ca 4/29/38 13-9¼ ——Maynard Los Angeles, Ca 4/29/38 13-9½ John Linta (Mansfield, Oh) Columbus, Oh 5/27/39 13-11 Ron Morris (Burroughs, Burbank, Ca) Glendale, Ca 5/08/53 13-11½ ——Morris Compton, Ca 6/12/53 14-2 Jim Brewer (North, Phoenix, Az) Tempe, Az 4/16/55 14-3 ——Brewer Tempe, Az 4/14/56 14-4½ ——Brewer Phoenix, Az 3/01/57 14-9¼ ——Brewer Tempe, Az 4/13/57 15-0 ——Brewer Phoenix, Az 5/17/57 15-½ Marc Savage (Claremont, Ca) Los Angeles, Ca 6/22/63 15-3 Paul Wilson (Warren, Downey, Ca) Downey, Ca 2/27/64 15-7 ——Wilson Walnut, Ca 4/18/64 15-7½ ——Wilson Walnut, Ca 4/24/64 16-0 ——Wilson Compton, Ca 5/28/64 TAFWA Newsletter - Page 7 - February 2019 16-4¾ ——Wilson Downey, Ca 3/02/65 16-6¾ ——Wilson Westminster, Ca 3/20/65 16-8¼ Casey Carrigan (Orting, Wa) Sacramento, Ca 6/20/68 17-0(A) ——Carrigan Echo Summit, Ca 9/12/68 17-½ ——Carrigan Sacramento, Ca 6/14/69 17-4¾ ——Carrigan Sacramento, Ca 6/14/69 17-5¼ Joe Dial (Marlow, Ok) Lawrence, Ks 4/19/80 17-6 Steve Stubblefield (Wyandotte, Kansas City, Ks) Knoxville, Tn 6/16/80 17-6¾ ——Dial Oklahoma City, Ok 4/03/81 17-9½ ——Dial Oklahoma City, Ok 4/03/81 17-10½ Dale Jenkins (Christian, Abilene, Tx) Abilene, Tx 6/05/81 Greg Duplantis (Lafayette, La) Abilene, Tx 6/05/81 17-11 ——Dial Norman, Ok 7/14/81 17-11¾(A) ——Duplantis Colorado Springs, Co 7/25/81 18-¼ ——Dial Stillwater, Ok 8/11/81 18-1¼ ——Dial Stillwater, Ok 8/25/81 18-2 Brandon Richards (San Marcos, Santa Barbara, Ca) Eugene, Or 7/11/85 18-2¼ Eric Eshbach (Orangefield, Tx) Austin, Tx 5/14/99 18-3 Tommy Skipper (Sandy, Or) Sacramento, Ca 6/15/03 18-3½ Shawn Barber (Kingwood Park, Kingwood, Tx) Houston, Tx 8/04/12 18-4½ Chris Nilsen (Park Hill, Kansas City, Mo) Kansas City, Mo 5/21/16 18-6½ Mondo Duplantis (Lafayette, La) Austin, Tx 4/01/17 19-¼ ——Duplantis Austin, Tx 4/01/17 19-4¼ ——Duplantis Austin, Tx 4/01/17 19-5 ——Duplantis Austin, Tx 3/31/18 19-5½ ——Duplantis Baton Rouge, La 5/05/18 19-6¼ ——Duplantis Berlin, Ger 8/12/18 19-8¼ ——Duplantis Berlin, Ger 8/12/18 19-10¼ ——Duplantis Berlin, Ger 8/12/18 Vatican launches track team of Swiss Guards, nuns https://apnews.com/373e68b29ef447a0a364c69198cad3b9 VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican launched an official track hand were two honorary members of the team, migrants who team Thursday with the aim of competing in international com- don’t work for the Vatican but are training and competing with the petitions as part of an agreement signed with the Italian Olympic team, as well as a handful of disabled athletes. The Vatican aims to Committee. sign similar agreements with the Italian Paralympic committee. About 60 Holy See runners — Swiss Guards, priests, nuns, CONI president Giovanni Malago welcomed the birth of the pharmacists and even a 62-year-old professor who works in the Vatican team, even though he acknowledged that it might one day Vatican’s Apostolic Library — are the first accredited members of deprive of a medal. Vatican Athletics. It’s the latest iteration of the Holy See’s long- “Just don’t get too big,” he told Vatican officials at the launch, standing promotion of sport as an instrument of dialogue, peace recalling how an athlete from another tiny country — Majlinda and solidarity. Kelmendi — won Kosovo’s first Olympic medal when she defeated Because of the agreement with CONI, the team is now a part Italian rival Odette Giuffrida in the final of the women’s 52-kilo- of the Italian track association and is looking to join the Interna- gram event at the Games. tional Association of Athletics Federations. It is hoping to compete In recent years, the Vatican has fielded unofficial soccer teams in international competitions, including the Games of the Small and a cricket team that has helped forge relations with the States of — open to states with fewer than 1 million Anglican church through annual tours in Britain. The track team, people — and the Mediterranean Games. however, is the first one to have a legal status in Vatican City and “The dream that we have often had is to see the Holy See flag to be an official part of the Italian sporting umbrella, able to com- among the delegations at the opening of the ,” pete in nationally and internationally sanctioned events and take said Monsignor Melchor Jose Sanchez de Toca y Alameda, team advantage of the Italian national coaching, scientific and medical president and the head of the Vatican’s sports department in the resources. culture ministry. While St. John Paul II was known for his athleticism — he was But he said that was neither a short-term nor medium-term an avid skier — Pope Francis is more of a fan, a longtime support- goal, and that for now the Vatican was looking to participate in er of his beloved San Lorezo soccer team in . competitions that had cultural or symbolic value. Vatican Athletics’ first official outing is the Jan. 20 “La Corsa “We might even podium,” he noted. di Miguel” (Miguel’s Race), a 10-kilometer race in Rome honoring Vatican pharmacist-runner Michela Ciprietti told a Vatican Miguel Sanchez, an Argentine distance runner who was one of the press conference the aim of the team isn’t exclusively competi- thousands of young people who “disappeared” during the country’s tive, but rather to “promote culture and running and launch the Dirty War. message of solidarity and the fight against racism and violence of The choice is significant: Francis, the former Cardinal Jorge Ma- all types.” rio Bergoglio, was a young Jesuit superior in Argentina during the Team members wearing matching navy warm-up suits bear- military dictatorship’s crackdown on alleged leftist dissidents. ing the Holy See’s crossed keys seal attended the launch. Also on TAFWA Newsletter - Page 8 - February 2019 Bowerman’s living legacies: How Bill Bowerman’s three sons define themselves apart from their father By Bryce Dole | Daily Emerald |https://www.dailyemerald.com/sports/bowerman-s-living-legacies-how-bill-bowerman- s-three-sons/article_8cdbe1ac-154a-11e9-abc3-877ad6e7edf4.html? Jon Bowerman always wanted to be a cowboy. Tom, the youngest of the three, said that if someone was in Bill’s world, particularly in track and field, it was his way The black sheep of the Bowerman family lives alone in the or the highway. But Bill separated his roles as coach and John Day Fossil Beds — a remote, rugged semi-desert of father: He was open-minded and encouraged his sons to multi-colored badlands carved by the John Day River over follow their interests. 200 miles east of his family’s home in Eugene. A rusty sign nailed in two posts marks the entrance to the ranch he pur- “My dad was so invested and focused on what he was chased with the help of a small investment from his father’s doing, whether that was with coaching, teaching or Nike, former up-and-coming company, Nike. He has no internet, that he only supported us doing our own thing,” Tom said. email or cable television and, at age 80, begins his days at “He would just say to us, ‘Be good, follow your heart and dawn with a 20-mile journey on his horse around the patch stay out of trouble.’ He never felt a need to encourage me or of high desert he calls home. demean me from not doing something that he loved.”

Many people today know the tales of Jon’s father, Bill Soon after graduating from UO with a degree in architec- Bowerman — the iconic track and field coach and Nike ture, Tom moved to San Francisco where he became heavily co-founder who spurred the growth of University of Oregon involved in protests against the Vietnam War. athletics into a distance running dynasty. The Bowermans have a history in the military. Bill fought In his days at Oregon, Bill’s coaching style was highly behind enemy lines in World War II as a major of the U.S. innovative: a style that Jon said was dictated by funda- Army in the mountains of Northern Italy. As a marine, Jon mentals, intimidation and a strong understanding of each guarded the U.S. Embassy in Honduras. At the peak of the individual. But Jon and his two younger brothers, Jay and Vietnam War, Jay, the middle son, was accepted into the Tom, saw a different side of their father, a side that wasn’t U.S. Army biathlon training center in Anchorage, Alaska, overbearing. and he was not required to serve.

A cowboy, a biologist and an architect, the three Bower- But when Tom dropped out of the Reserve Officers’ man brothers led separate lives since their atypical child- Training Corps, Bill supported Tom, and like his son, hoods. Their lives were not determined by the grand legacy eventually turned his opinions 180 degrees to oppose the of their father’s name, but by the strong individualism Vietnam War. Tom moved back into his parents’ house with embodied by each brother. his bride-to-be, but the choice brought family tension.

The humble but headstrong stories of Jon, Jay and Tom “My father came to me and said, ‘I don’t like that you’re portray a Bowerman legacy of their own. It is one of pride, not married. It goes against my values. But you’re my son, self-determination and temperance that likens to their fa- and your mother wants you to live here together, so I’m go- ther, who the brothers agree set out to build Nike not out of ing to accept it.’ He wasn’t some rigid idealogue.” Tom said. greed, but out of a simple, highly motivated desire to make lighter, more affordable shoes for athletes. After living on a hippie commune along Fern Ridge Lake, Tom returned home by his mother’s request to help care

Tom Bowerman, 72, resides on the family Jay Bowerman, 76, lives in Bend, Oregon. Jon Bowerman, 80, owns a remote ranch out- farm along the McKenzie River. (Bryce Dole/ (Bryce Dole/Emerald) side of Fossil, Oregon. (Bryce Dole/Emerald) Emerald) TAFWA Newsletter - Page 9 - February 2019 for his father when he was diagnosed with dementia late in of over 50,000 people and began to spread, purchasing large his life. On Christmas Eve of 1999, Bill passed away at the sums of property from locals nearby. age of 88 in his hometown of Fossil, Oregon. Today, Tom remains on the family farm along the Mckenzie River. Bill, who had recently passed down his stake in Nike, was infuriated by the commune. He bought a ranch just down Bill’s endeavors in athletics consumed much of his life, the road from Jon’s to stop the Rajneesh and protect his allowing for the majority of the parenting to be placed on son’s property from becoming landlocked. Bill moved out to their mother, Barbara. Each of the three say they were influ- the ranch and founded Citizens for Constitutional Cities to enced by her to lead simple lives, care for the environment sue the commune over land use with the help of Oregon At- and be welcoming hosts. torney General and future UO President Dave Frohnmayer.

Jay — a retired biologist who studied amphibian ecology While his father led the legal fight, Jon took an entirely in Bend — said he has grown to be caring, soft spoken and different route. Jon mocked the cult, writing columns, sensitive, like his mother. Time spent around the farm with songs and reciting poems that satirized the Rajneesh. her instilled a deep fascination for the natural history of the outdoors, he said. One evening at the local grange, members of the Ra- jneesh heard Jon recite one of his poems. The cult members “Now having been a parent, I see that one of the major returned to the commune and told secretary Ma Anand challenges with households is finding a way to ensure that Sheela what they had heard. Amused, Sheela called and the parenting has a consistent pattern,” Jay said. “It’s very requested that Jon join them at the commune to recite his difficult for children when they have parents with divided poem for the highest-ranking members. After accepting interests, but my mother always helped with that.” the invitation, Jon not only read his poem proudly to the leaders, but also recited it to hundreds of members of the Jay was the most talented athlete of the three brothers commune. and ran the 800 meters in high school. “I think I spent more time and learned more about my “Like any unexperienced runner, I always went out father those years than I did many other portions of my way too fast and finished clear at the back,” said Jay, who life,” said Jon. “Even though he never told me it, when he laughed as he recalled his father’s words after sprinting the moved down the road, I knew he was really trying to make a first 200 meters of a state championship race, leading to his difference for us. Call me crazy, but I loved that whole fight. embarrassing last-place finish. “His comment to me was, I guess that’s just the cowboy in me.” ‘That was a perfect first 200 if you were planning on run- ning 1:48.’ I ended up running 2:18 I think.” It has been a quiet life alone on the secluded Bowerman ranch in recent years. But it’s the life Jon has wanted since Bill, a mastermind at cultivating world-class distance run- he was 4 years old. Caring for the ranch and repairing his ners, was always willing to offer Jay advice on the track, but house all on his own has kept him “active” and “spry.” remained careful not to intrude on other coaches. “Nowadays, nobody goes to bed each night and says to “He clearly had the fundamental ability to either watch, themselves, ‘Tomorrow, I get to wake up and go to work,’” wait and see where there’s a need for intervention, or where Jon said. “I say that to myself every day because each day to let talent grow,” Jay said. out here is a new adventure.”

Jon, the high-desert rancher, spent many years as a Jon, Jay and Tom agree their father never set out for coach, like his father. He coached Olympic skiers, world fame or fortune. Bill did what he loved, and things worked champions in rodeo and a baseball team in Honduras de- out, so his sons followed suit. The Nike fortune therefore spite his limited knowledge of Spanish. became less important to the them compared to finding their own paths. “I was never exactly interested in school,” said Jon, pick- ing up bundles of wood which he thrusts into the flames of Although many in track and field today know the Bower- his cast iron stove. “The only thing I was really interested in man name, partially due to the annual NCAA award “The was sports. Not saying I was any good, though. But I loved Bowerman” given to the best male and female athletes in to coach. I started coaching when I was a junior in high collegiate track and field, Jay said he and his brothers feel a school and it has been one of the most rewarding parts of sense of relief that people are beginning to forget who their my life.” father was. They hold onto the memories of their childhood, recognize the inspiration they derived from their parents, Recently, Jon reached semi-celebrity status after appear- but choose to forget about the legacy behind their name. ing as a main character in the Netflix documentary series “Wild Wild Country.” The series tells the story of the Ra- “There’s a recurring emotional thing that wells up on a jneeshpuram — a spiritual cult from India that flocked to regular basis ever since he died,” Jay said. “Now, anywhere a 64,000-acre plot of land in Oregon — just across the river I go, day or night, I see people out jogging. Every now and from Jon’s property. The cult quickly grew into a commune then, I think that there’s a little piece of my father.” TAFWA Newsletter - Page 10 - February 2019 The Mental Strategy Courtney Frerichs Uses to Stop Stressing About Her Competition When disappointment became overwhelming, the steeplechase star sought out a sports psychologist to help her through. By Taylor Dutch | Runner’s World | https://www.runnersworld.com/runners-stories/a25890903/courtney-frerichs- benefits-of-sports-psychologist/

When Courtney Frerichs finished her first world championship with a silver medal behind fellow American and world champion Emma Coburn in 2017, the moment was arguably one of the most exciting performances in history for U.S. women’s distance running. Before that race in London, no American woman had ever topped the steeplechase podium at an IAAF World Champion- ship—and now, two runners carried medals. For Frerichs, the race was a dream that became a reality. After crossing the finish line, she threw her hands up over her head and fell to the ground in complete shock. Frerichs had just cut 16 seconds from her previous career best one year after finishing 11th in the 2016 Olympic final. She was the second-best steeplechaser in the world that day. But just a few months after that monumental performance, the Bowerman Track Club standout unexpectedly found herself in the middle of one of the lowest points in her career. After taking a well-deserved break from the 2017 season, Frerichs was excited to return to training in the fall. She be- lieved she had finally figured out the transition from college athlete—she ran cross country and track for the University of Missouri-Kansas City and then the University of New Mexico until she graduated in 2016—to pro runner. But as Frerichs told Runner’s World, the first six months that followed the championship were filled with mental strug- gle, which manifested in disappointment over failing to meet her own high expectations.

“I think I tried to strive for perfection too much in my training and races. It actually started to become very overwhelm- ing, and I started really struggling through training. I felt that I wasn’t mentally putting races together as well as I could have,” she said. “More than anything, I really needed to figure things out. I was putting so much pressure on myself because of the accomplishment I had from Worlds.” The emotional drop after a career milestone like the World Championships or the Olympic Games has recently been brought to the forefront of professional sports. Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time, has openly shared his struggles with “post-Olympic depression.” The whirlwind of intense training and preparation for excellence comes to a sudden end after the competition is over, leaving many athletes feeling depleted physically and emotionally. TAFWA Newsletter - Page 11 - February 2019 For Frerichs, she desperately wanted to replicate the big moment. But she couldn’t, and was left disappointed after her expectations were not met. She knew she didn’t want to keep feeling that way, so, with the support of her coaches and Pascal Dob- ert, she decided to seek out help. She connected with Sean McCann, Ph.D., a senior sport psychologist for the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC). Frerichs met McCann when she joined USATF’s Talent Protection Program, which was developed in 2016 to aid top post- collegiate athletes with the transition into the world of professional track and field. The athletes in the program receive access to sports performance workshops, medical reimbursement, stipends, health insurance, and USOC medical programs, among other benefits.

One-on-one counseling is also a big part of the program.

For Frerichs, one of the pressing issues that she overcame with help of the program was her struggle with comparison— both to other teammates and to competitors. “I’m so thankful that they [USATF] introduced me to those tools and connections because I think as athletes no matter where you are and how well you’re doing, working with a sports psychologist is always good. It’s just good to talk to people. You can always learn more,” Frerichs said. “It’s been one of the best things for me as I’m going forward in my career. I plan to work with Sean for the rest of my career.”

One of the challenges that Frerichs says McCann has helped her overcome has been the struggle with comparison, com- paring herself to her competitors as well as her teammates. Bowerman is a team with top talent, including 2017 New York City Marathon champion , 5K Ameri- can record-holder , and Olympic triathlon champion , to name a few. And Frerichs found herself constantly comparing her abilities to them. She’d worry about keeping up with the pace or completing the same number of intervals.

To combat the negative mental cycle, McCann suggested a new approach. “He reminded me that there’s more than one path to success, and your journey does not have to look the same as some- one else’s,” she said. “He also had me focus on picking out three things that were positive from the day, or three areas that I either improved in or had growth. So even if it was a rough workout, there was still something good that came from it. That helped a lot, to focus on the things that I was getting better at.”

Since joining the effort to help athletes in the Talent Protection Program, McCann says that the experience has opened his eyes to the various challenges that athletes face in the career transition. From forming new habits in new training envi- ronments to developing independence outside of a team and creating an identity as a professional, athletes are constantly tested throughout the transition.

Instead of getting caught up in the pressure to win medals and hit specific times, McCann wants athletes to focus on the bottom line of what the job entails–to simply get better and grow incrementally every day. And once they do that, their hard work and talent will prevail, and the results will follow. “Your job is to run a good race, and then the results happen after that,” McCann said. “That may seem like a small mental difference, but it’s actually very freeing because it lets you focus on the controllable pieces. That’s a relief even for people that have succeeded right away, because it takes the focus away from an outcome.”

That small tweak to thinking has paid off, and, along with feeling healthier emotionally, Frerichs has experienced a per- formance boost, too. On July 20, Frerichs had her best performance to date when she ran 9:00.85 to set the American record at the Diamond League meeting in Monaco. She beat Coburn for the first time ever, placing second to Beatrice Chepkoech of Kenya, who broke the world record with a time of 8:44.32. The time made Frerichs the sixth-fastest ever in the women’s steeplechase.

She achieved the record by focusing on running her best race, not a perfect race—a distinction she plans to keep as she progresses in her professional career. “Shifting my mindset to being the best version of myself no matter the circumstances really helped me achieve what I was able to in Monaco,” Frerichs said. “We went out way faster than what I would have wanted, but because I thought to myself ‘Do the best you can with the situation you’re given,’ and I was able to handle that much better.”

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 12 - February 2019 The center of the stadium has been left open both to allow in natural light and to create a chimney effect where hot air can escape. (Courtesy Sport Council) Kengo Kuma is crafting a timber temple to sports for the 2020 Olympics By Johnathon Hilburg | Archpaper.com | https://archpaper.com/2019/01/kengo-kuma-2020-tokyo-olympic-na- tional-stadium/#gallery-0-slide-3 Kengo Kuma’s $1.4 billion National Stadium is over 25 percent complete and should open in November 2019 for six months of testing before the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics kickoff. The three-tiered stadium is expected to seat 68,000 during the games and 80,000 when it’s converted into a home field for the Japan National Foot- ball Team.

Utilizing a half-covered roof and an abundance of overflowing greenery, Kuma’s flat structure is a far cry from the yonic stadium designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, which was originally chosen in 2015.

The distinct layers and open-air columns of Kuma’s stadium are references to the 1,300-year-old Gojunoto pagoda at Horyuji Temple in Ikaruga, the oldest timber building in the world.

Kuma has pledged that the stadium will source over 70,000 cubic feet of larch and cedar wood from nearly all of Japan’s 47 prefectures, with an emphasis on areas hit hardest by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

The steel roof over the ovoid stadium will be supported by a lattice of exposed timber beams and joists. Kuma has rimmed the track and field building with open-air loggias and clad the edges in a screen of vertical wood, creating a breezy, naturalistic setting that’s perfect for the summer games.

It’s not all smooth sailing for the Tokyo 2020 commission, however, as the U.S.-based Rainforest Action Net- work has accused the group of sourcing endangered tropical timber from Malaysia and Indonesia to build the 2020 stadiums.

A Tokyo 2020 spokesman has denied the claims, but the commission is working to further tighten up its sourcing standards regardless.

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 13 - February 2019 ‘Oregon Spirit’ exhibit celebrates the legacy of track and field By Jim Murez | University Communications | https://around.uoregon.edu/content/oregon-spirit-exhibit-cele- brates-legacy-track-and-field Go to Knight Library soon and you can see the letter that forever altered the trajectory of the University of Oregon track and field program, the letter that laid the groundwork for what would become Tracktown USA. It’s from Virgil Earl, who might be the most underappreciated person in UO track history, to then-university President Prince Lucien Campbell. Earl was the student manager of the UO track and field team, and on Sept. 17, 1903, he penned his pivotal letter to Campbell. The favored and confident Ducks had recently suffered a shocking defeat to Albany College, and the manager of Albany’s team impressed Earl immensely.

So Earl told Campbell that the UO should hire the architect behind Albany’s successful program, a fellow by the name of Bill Hayward. “I love the postscript,” said Lauren Goss, a university archivist who uncovered the letter. “‘I need some action on this matter by October because Hayward has several other offers.’ That’s the start of bringing Hayward here for the next 45 years.” The letter, along with roughly 40 other documents and artifacts that chronicle the history of UO track and field, is now on display as part of “Oregon Spirit: The legacy of track and field,” at Knight Library’s Special Collections and University Archives Paulson Reading Room.

Goss curated the exhibit and uncovered the letter during the course of her exhaustive research. “Oregon Spirit” draws from 20 collections in the university archives — book collections, personal papers of athletes and coaches, administra- tive records — and focuses on the first 100 years of the program that cemented the connection between the sport and the university. “I think there’s a very strong narrative associated with track and field and specific people, and I am trying to focus on things that broaden that story so that it isn’t just people you’d expect to see,” said Goss of her approach.

That includes the pre-Hayward history. The Ducks had a team in place starting in 1895, and they were a force statewide. Soon after his arrival on campus in 1904, however, Hayward lifted the school’s profile like a pole vaulter’s ascent and was named to lead the U.S. Olympic team in 1912. The exhibit includes a pair of shoes Bill Bowerman hand made for a sprinter named Dave Blunt in 1963. Ultra-thin leather is stitched and glued together, and a wax paper helps protect most of the shoe’s sole. They hardly resemble the high-

A pair of shoes handmade by Bill Bowerman in 1963 for sprinter Dave Blunt is one of the highlights of ‘Oregon Spirit: The legacy of track and field,’ on display at Knight Library. TAFWA Newsletter - Page 14 - February 2019 Drawings of the seating plan for Hayward Field dating back to 1929 are on display as part of the exhibit.

One of the oldest items on display as part of ‘Oregon Spirit’ is a scrapbook kept by Clifton McArthur, the namesake of McArthur Court. tech shoes Duck sprinters wear today. “This was pre-Nike, pre any kind of refinement,” Goss said. “They were specifically made for Dave Blunt, for his feet mea- surements. You can see how rudimentary and experimental they are.”

“Oregon Spirit” also captures the evolution and rise of the women’s track and field team. Programs for women-specific meets from 1916 and 1924 show the UO held meets that were open to other schools a century ago. Then flash forward to a 1965 report on the “women’s track and field interest group” and another from 1970 that marks the transition to an official women’s team.

The oldest item on display is a scrapbook compiled by Clifton McArthur, the namesake of McArthur Court. “He was known as the ‘Father of Athletics,’” Goss said. “He kept meticulous scrapbooks of the newspaper clippings of all the sports that were happening.” Some of Bowerman’s personal notebooks are on display. In one, he’s philosophizing on what his most satisfying experi- ence is. In another, he’s devised a workout for one of his star athletes prepping for the 1956 Olympics: future UO coach Bill Dellinger. “The notebook … you can imagine him writing that,” Goss said. “Some of these workouts would still be very familiar to runners today. ‘Do 200s at this pace and 400s at that pace,’ and alternating between hard workouts and light workouts and speed drills.”

A video monitor adjacent to the exhibit runs a loop of highlights dating back to the 1920s compiled by librarian Eliza- beth Peterson. The video can also be found on the library’s YouTube channel. It includes a snippet of a previously undiscov- ered interview with Hayward just weeks prior to his death in 1947. For Goss, a UO alum and fan of Duck sports, the project was arduous and extremely gratifying all at once. “Putting it all together, you learn more about the history, and appreciate the heritage and legacy even more by pulling out these individual pieces and putting them in relation to each other,” she said. The exhibit is open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. It will be on display through March 22. TAFWA Newsletter - Page 15 - February 2019 Fast Women Following is an excerpt from a newsletter by Alison Wade called Fast Women. If you wish to subscribe, here is the link, www.fast-women.org/subscribe. of the U.S. to run the Huddle, and Jenny Simpson were in high school. It turns out Sally Kipyego is entered in next weekend’s Over time, I’ve seen similar scenarios repeat themselves. Houston Half-Marathon, not the marathon, which makes I think coaches and parents are gradually becoming more more sense for an athlete of her caliber. (The bigger the educated about such things, but there’s still room for im- marathon, the bigger the appearance fee, generally.) John provement. Hancock announced on Thursday that she, and many oth- Here are my generalizations about the runners who have ers, will run the . had longevity and have successfully made the transition Most importantly, Kipyego will run for the U.S. going for- from high school star to professional runner: ward, after becoming a citizen nearly two years ago, which • They don’t just talk about having fun (every successful runner means the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials just got that much will say she’s having fun), but they clearly know how to have fun more competitive. Kipyego had a baby in July of 2017 and with their teammates, as well as outside of the sport. They are was scheduled to run the 2018 New York City Marathon capable of being loose and relaxed on race day. before she came down with malaria and pneumonia and had • They tend to be team players. They work well with others and to withdraw. clearly care about the success of their teams. • They can put their running in perspective and understand that Kara Goucher returns to the marathon next weekend it’s not the most important thing in the world. Kipyego may not be running Sunday’s Houston Marathon • They learn from their setbacks. Flanagan never qualified for (January 20), but Kara Goucher is. It will be her first mara- Foot Locker nationals, collapsing as a junior and going out too thon since the 2016 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials, where hard and failing to finish as a senior. As a college sophomore, she she finished fourth. She says she doesn’t expect to contend was leading the NCAA Cross Country Championships but burned for the win or rival her times of the past. “I no longer feel herself out and stopped to walk briefly, before finishing 22nd. like I need to prove anything to anyone, this is just for me,” Simpson went from the lead pack to 163rd at the 2009 NCAA she wrote in November when she announced her intention Cross Country Championships. (Taylor Dutch wrote a good article to run. about this.) They have bad days, but they rebound. The half-marathon will be fast, with Fancy Chemutai, who • They have interests outside of running. came within one second of the world record last year, lead- • They don’t have a lot of pressure coming from their inner ing the way. (Complete fields here.) Emily Sisson, who has circle. They tend not to come from the most intense and success- already run a 1:08:21 half-marathon, is in the field. Sisson’s ful high school programs. They have coaches and parents who are coach, Ray Treacy, told Competitor that sub-1:08 is the supportive, but the motivation comes entirely from the athlete. In goal. Molly Huddle took it a step further and said she could many cases, their coaches are actively holding them back. imagine her training partner breaking Huddle’s American • They are often well-rounded athletes who come from a multi- record of 1:07:25. Sisson will make her marathon debut this sport background. spring, but hasn’t announced where yet (not that there are • They tend to eat like any other kid and fuel their bodies well. too many options at this point). There’s time later in one’s career to focus more on fueling for peak Both the half and the full are scheduled to be live performance. But too much focus on nutrition early in life can lead streamed and they begin at 8:01 a.m. EST. to disordered eating. Lauren Fleshman always has wise things to say on this Kate Murphy, 19, talks about her medical topic. If you haven’t read her letter to her younger self, it’s retirement and her advice to young runners worth checking out. I’m curious what other people who I was pleased to see Citius Mag release a podcast episode have lived it would add to this list, or how they’d modify it. with Kate Murphy last week. Murphy was one of the fastest Also, I should note that I’ve seen young runners who seem- high school runners of all time, with a 4:07.21 1500m and ingly do everything “right,” yet still never get past their 9:10.51 3,000m in her junior year. She got injured during struggles, for various reasons. her senior year of high school, and after enrolling at the I loved this tweet from Nick Willis (see the comments) re- University of Oregon, discovered she had popliteal artery garding his thoughts on what the youngest runners should entrapment syndrome. be doing in order to last in the sport. Murphy, now a sophomore at Oregon, never got to race for the school, and has undergone two procedures to correct A record number of women qualify for the Olympic the problem. After much frustration, she has decided to Marathon Trials, and we still have a year to go medically retire from collegiate running. This doesn’t mean The Atlanta Track Club, which is hosting the 2020 U.S. she’ll never run competitively again, but she will not run Olympic Marathon Trials, announced the final race course collegiately. last week. The consensus is that it’s a hilly course, it has a Murphy has started to share more of her journey on Ins- lot of turns, and it’s a good spectator course. tagram and Twitter recently, so I was glad to hear her speak Sarah Lorge Butler’s article about the event for Runner’s about her experiences publicly for the first time, though it World pointed out that there are currently 262 women clearly wasn’t easy for her. She shares her advice for young qualified for the Trials, with just over a year left in the quali- prodigies like herself—making sure you’re having fun and fying window. In 2016, only 246 women qualified. be ready to handle adversity well, because it will come at The Atlanta Track Club made a commitment to pay the some point. travel costs of all of the qualifiers, something previous Trials My guide on how to last in the sport hosts haven’t done. Lorge Butler’s article confirms that the I have no experience as a running prodigy, but I’ve been organization is standing by its commitment, as costly as it covering the sport since Shalane Flanagan, Sara Hall, Molly may be. TAFWA Newsletter - Page 16 - February 2019 Downtown Thumbs: City support of NCAA track meeting runs into roadblock By The Florida Times-Union Editorial Board | https://www.jacksonville.com/opinion/20190120/downtown- thumbs-city-support-of-ncaa-track-meeting-runs-into-roadblock Sometimes we’re not sure whether to give a Thumbs up or a Thumbs down. That’s the case involving a request from the University of North Florida for $200,000 in city support for an NCAA East Regional track and field event in May. UNF has received about $200,000 on four previous occasions from the Tourist Development Council: 2012, 2014, 2015 and 2016.

It’s a three-day event on top of two practice days. Teams may be here for about a week. Since The Players Championship has moved from May to March, the track event will help fill hotel rooms in May.

But something changed this time, specifically the way the TDC dishes out its grants. According to its new Re- turn on Investment criteria, it appears that the track meet would only qualify for about $50,000 in funding. The theory is that about 10,000 hotel nights, valued at a subsidy of $5 per room, are worth $50,000. City Council Member Lori Boyer said there are other events that produce the same number of room nights for a significantly lower city subsidy. The track meet is not considered a “signature event,” which would result in a higher score in the new criteria. But how would it become one under these metrics?

UNF Athletic Director Lee Moon said if UNF does not receive the $200,000, “we’re in deep trouble.” The NCAA does not allow UNF to seek sponsorships to subsidize these events. So the TDC board, led by City Council President Aaron Bowman, voted to give UNF $75,000 for the meet. It appears UNF will find a way to come up with the rest. “We can’t be your $200,000 partner,” Bowman said. “We’re kind of in a bind now because we have allocated our grant money for the year.”

Moon says this is a case of square peg (the UNF track meet) not fitting into a round hole (the new criteria). He said the local economic impact of the event ranges from $7 million to $9 million. The NCAA event is “the front door” to bring other major track events to Jacksonville, Moon said. There is a good case to be made for the historic funding level by the city. UNF is building a reputation as an amateur athletics center, much like has done. UNF also was awarded the 2021 regional NCAA track meet.

Along with the support from the JAXSports Council, UNF is in the running for other elite events. The city has invested $400,000 into the track facilities at Hodges Stadium to upgrade them to competitive conditions. Another $200,000 investment in lighting could bring night-time events for national broadcasts. It would help UNF’s case if there were other promotions for the city connected with the track event. There are inquiries from the U.S. Track and Field Junior Olympics, the Florida High School State Champion- ship, the AAU National Championship. Those events generate between 3,000 to 5,000 participants from across the world. A big marketing plan is not needed for national championships.

UNF missed the NCAA national track championship in Eugene, Ore. because the lighting is not sufficient for TV. That would cost $200,000 for the upgrade. “I need guidance on how to approach these other events,” Moon said. Bowman suggested talks with the TDC for the future events. The TDC has $800,000 for event sponsorships but the TaxSlayer Gator Bowl uses $400,000 of it. So we’ll hold off on pointing thumbs right now until we see some action on resolving the issue.

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 17 - February 2019 Usain Bolt signals professional football dream is over: ‘It was fun while it lasted’ ESPN | http://www.espn.co.uk/football/soccer-transfers/story/3756488/usain-bolt-signals-professional-football- dream-is-over-it-was-fun-while-it-lasted Jamaican sprint great Usain Bolt has signalled that his hopes of a professional football career are over, saying: “It was fun while it lasted.” Bolt has had several stints in training and on trial at clubs around the world. Most notably, he scored twice in a friendly match for Central Coast Mariners but was unable to agree a contract with the Australian club. “I don’t want to say it wasn’t dealt with properly, but I think we went about it, not the way we should and you learn your lesson, you live and you learn,” he said. “It was a good experience. I really enjoyed just being in a team and it was different from track and field and it was fun while it lasted.” As well as his time at the Mariners, Bolt has trained with Norwegian team Stromsgodset and German giants Borussia Dortmund in his quest to become a professional footballer. Bolt rejected an offer from Maltese club Valletta shortly before his time with the Mariners came to an end. The 32-year-old, who won multiple Olympic sprint gold medals in , London and Rio, said his focus now was on his business endeavours. He said: “I’m just doing many different things ... the sports life is over, so I’m now moving into different busi- nesses, I have a lot of things in the pipeline, so as I say, I’m just dabbling in everything and trying to be a busi- ness man now.” From one legend to another: Kip Keino bails out Henry Rono By Elias Makori | Daily Nation | https://www.nation.co.ke/sports/athletics/From-one-legend-to-another-Kipchoge- Keino-bails-out-Henry-Rono/1100-4948198-vxbg3az/index.html At the peak of their careers in the 1960s and 70s, Kipchoge Keino and Henry Rono were a cut above the rest. But while Keino’s stellar career was crowned by two Olympic gold medals - in the 1,500 metres in 1968 (Mexico) and steeplechase four years later (Munich) - Kenya’s geopolitically-instigated Olympic boycotts of the 1976 (Montreal) and 1980 (Moscow) Games meant that Rono, in his prime, could not climb the Olympic podium. Had he competed in Montreal or Moscow, Rono could have won gold medals with ease in any race from the steeplechase to the 10,000 metres. Rono, now 66, couldn’t handle his fame and, equally, the disappointment of missing out of the Olym- pic Games, sinking deep into unbridled alcoholism. Having lived in USA for 32 years now, Rono on Monday sent out a passionate appeal, conceding that life has dealt him a major blow and all he wants now is an air ticket to fly back home and enjoy his twilight years on home soil. In Kenya. His appeal, published in yesterday’s Daily Nation, has received major sympathy with Keino himself offering to buy his fellow legend his ticket home. “I live like a handicapped person nowadays, because I have no help. People took advantage of me to steal my property. I need help,” Rono, who now works as an airport security guard, said on Monday from his base in Albuquerque, New Mexico. One of his American friends and admirer, Rich Dafter, has already started a fund-raising campaign for Rono’s upkeep. “He has been sick with the flu and can’t work. I saw him yesterday and he is the same Henry that I have always known. He has a Nandi warrior’s heart and his mind wants to be able to direct his body to do what it does best,” Dafter told Nation Sport. “It is like a person who has served in the military and ends up being homeless because we haven’t respected their service to their country. He electrified the running world with his accomplishments and we need to always remember that.” Keino yesterday narrated how he helped Rono secure a track scholarship at the Washington State University in 1976 and vowed to do all it takes for his fellow legend to come back home.

FAMILY RIFT “I’m ready to buy Rono his ticket. It is me who got him into competition in the US and I will make sure he comes back home,” Keino said yesterday. “We need him to come home and see his family.” Athletics Kenya President Jack Tuwei also said he had received numerous offers to support Rono. “Many other athletes are ready to help Rono because once he gets back home, he will also need financial support to settle down,” Tuwei said. On Monday, Rono’s daughter Maureen said her father had health challenges and has been struggling financially. The legend’s wife Jennifer and son Calvin declined to comment, unveiling a family rift which Rono confirmed, saying he has been receiving counselling on the same. TAFWA Newsletter - Page 18 - February 2019 Does Journalism Have a Future? In an era of social media and fake news, journalists who have survived the print plunge have new foes to face. By Jill Lepore | The New Yorker | https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/01/28/does-journalism- have-a-future? The wood-panelled tailgate of the 1972 Oldsmobile every city hall, the Bat-Signal over Gotham. station wagon dangled open like a broken jaw, making a wobbly bench on which four kids could sit, eight legs Most newspapers like that haven’t lasted. Between swinging. Every Sunday morning, long before dawn, 1970 and 2016, the year the American Society of News we’d get yanked out of bed to stuff the car’s way-back Editors quit counting, five hundred or so dailies went with stacks of twine-tied newspapers, clamber onto out of business; the rest cut news coverage, or shrank the tailgate, cut the twine with my mother’s sewing the paper’s size, or stopped producing a print edition, scissors, and ride around town, bouncing along on or did all of that, and it still wasn’t enough. The news- that bench, while my father shouted out orders from paper mortality rate is old news, and nostalgia for the driver’s seat. “Watch out for the dog!” he’d holler dead papers is itself pitiful at this point, even though, between draws on his pipe. “Inside the screen door!” I still say, there’s a principle involved. “I wouldn’t weep “Mailbox!” As the car crept along, never stopping, about a shoe factory or a branch-line railroad shutting we’d each grab a paper and dash in the dark across down,” Heywood Broun, the founder of the American icy driveways or dew-drunk grass, crashing, season- Newspaper Guild, said when the New York World ally, into unexpected snowmen. “Back porch!” “Money went out of business, in 1931. “But newspapers are under the mat!” He kept a list, scrawled on the back different.” And the bleeding hasn’t stopped. Between of an envelope, taped to the dashboard: the Accounts. January, 2017, and April, 2018, a third of the na- “They owe three weeks!” He didn’t need to remind us. tion’s largest newspapers, including the Denver Post We knew each Doberman and every debt. We’d deliver and the San Jose Mercury News, reported layoffs. In our papers—Worcester Sunday Telegrams—and then a newer trend, so did about a quarter of digital-native run back to the car and scramble onto the tailgate, news sites. BuzzFeed News laid off a hundred people dropping the coins we’d collected into empty Briggs in 2017; speculation is that BuzzFeed is trying to tobacco tins as we bumped along to the next turn, the dump it. The Huffington Post paid most of its writers newspaper route our Sabbath. nothing for years, upping that recently to just above nothing, and yet, despite taking in tens of millions of The Worcester Sunday Telegram was founded in dollars in advertising revenue in 2018, it failed to turn 1884, when a telegram meant something fast. Two a profit. years later, it became a daily. It was never a great paper but it was always a pretty good paper: useful, gossipy, Even veterans of august and still thriving papers are and resolute. It cultivated talent. The poet Stanley worried, especially about the fake news that’s risen Kunitz was a staff writer for the Telegram in the nine- from the ashes of the dead news. “We are, for the first teen-twenties. The New York Times reporter Douglas time in modern history, facing the prospect of how Kneeland, who covered Kent State and Charles Man- societies would exist without reliable news,” Alan son, began his career there in the nineteen-fifties. Joe Rusbridger, for twenty years the editor-in-chief of the McGinniss reported for the Telegram in the nineteen- Guardian, writes in “Breaking News: The Remaking of sixties before writing “The Selling of the President.” Journalism and Why It Matters Now.” “There are not From bushy-bearded nineteenth-century politicians to that many places left that do quality news well or even baby-faced George W. Bush, the paper was steadfastly aim to do it at all,” Jill Abramson, a former executive Republican, if mainly concerned with scandals and editor of the New York Times, writes in “Merchants mustachioed villains close to home: overdue repairs to of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for the main branch of the public library, police raids on il- Facts.” Like most big-paper reporters and editors who legal betting establishments—“Worcester Dog Chases write about the crisis of journalism, Rusbridger and Worcester Cat Over Worcester Fence,” as the old Wash- Abramson are interested in national and international ington press-corps joke about a typical headline in a news organizations. The local story is worse. local paper goes. Its pages rolled off giant, thrumming presses in a four-story building that overlooked City Excerpt: Rest is available at the link provided above. Hall the way every city paper used to look out over TAFWA Newsletter - Page 19 - February 2019 Fred Thompson, Who Championed Women in Track, Dies at 85 By Robert D. McFadden | The New York Times | https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/24/obituaries/fred-thompson-dead.html Fred Thompson, who founded a Brooklyn track club for girls and young women in 1963 and coached national and Olympic medalists as he championed the cause of female track-and-field athletes for a half-century, died on Tuesday at his home in Brooklyn. He was 85. Lorna Forde, a former track star for Mr. Thompson, said the cause was complications of Alzheimer’s disease. A lawyer and former New York State assistant attorney general, Mr. Thompson founded the Atoms Track Club of Brooklyn in a Bedford-Stuyvesant community center, mostly out of frustration with New York City public schools that, for budgetary and other reasons, limited the participa- tion of girls, but not necessarily of boys, in physical educa- tion and high school sports.

Mr. Thompson was also the founding organizer of the an- nual Colgate Women’s Games, the nation’s largest amateur track series for women. Since 1974, the games, open to girls and women from elementary school through college (and with a competitive division for women over 30), have attracted thousands of participants, mostly from East Coast states, to various venues from Boston to Virginia. A former track star at Boys High School in Brooklyn and the City College of New York, Mr. Thompson inspired remarkable loyalty in his Atoms, which often had 40 to 50 members. Most were runners, some as young as 9, but most were teenagers who regarded him as a counselor, friend and father figure. He paid nearly all the expenses of the club, which was independent of schools or sponsors. Early on, the Atoms practiced in community center hall- ways or in locked schoolyards (by scaling fences at twilight). But he eventually found a home for the club at Pratt Insti- tute in Brooklyn. His coaching combined sophisticated training techniques Mr. Thompson in 1985. Atoms, the name of his all-women with one-on-one skull sessions. And beyond coaching, he track team, “doesn’t really stand for track,” he said. “The Atoms stands for excellence in education, trying to better demanded good grades and personal responsibility from his yourself in this society.” athletes. Credit Jose R. Lopez/The New York Times “The Atoms doesn’t really stand for track,” he told The New York Times in 1978. “The Atoms stands for excellence in edu- cation, trying to better yourself in this society, and one way to do that is to go to college and get that piece of paper.” For many Atoms, the club was a refuge from broken homes and lives of poverty, as well as a path to education and upward mobility. In time, despite financial and logistical obstacles and a lack of the public support that flows readily to football, basketball and baseball, the club became a symbol of inner-city success as its runners won regional, national and finally Olympic recognition. Its stars included Cheryl Toussaint-Eason, a silver medalist at the 1972 Munich Olympics in the 1,600-meter relay and a gold medalist at the ; , who won Olympic gold in Los Angeles in 1984 in the 400-meter relay and was an 11-time national indoor champion; and Grace Jackson-Small, the silver medalist in the 200-meter sprint at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, . Mr. Thompson was an assistant coach of the track team in Seoul.

Many of the Atoms’ victories could not be clocked by stopwatches. In its first 15 years, the club produced 50 college graduates, a remarkable record given the economic status of their families. They became teachers, lawyers, nurses, psy- chologists, entrepreneurs — and mothers. “One’s a doctor now, and another runs a study program in a state college,” Mr. Thompson told The Times in 1979. “But we’ve lost some, too,” he added. “We had a little girl we called Cricket who still holds the 100-yard dash record for 12- and 13-year-olds. But the streets got her. She stopped coming to practice. Another girl, a shot-putter named Diane, they found her dead from an overdose of drugs. I made all my girls go to her funeral. It wasn’t easy. They were crying. They took it hard. But I thought it was something they should see.” The coach often sounded like a father, although he was a bachelor and had no children. “I’ve always been single,” he told the Times sportswriter Gerald Eskenazi in 1985. “I came close to getting married twice. I miss not having a kid. People say, ‘You have many kids,’ but it’s not the same.” TAFWA Newsletter - Page 20 - February 2019 Fred Thompson cheering on Stephanie Vega at a meet in Manhattan in 1977. (She won her heat in the 400-yard dash.) He founded the Atoms Track Club of Brooklyn, for girls and young women, in 1963. Credit Larry C. Morris/The New York Times Frederick Delano Thompson was born in Brooklyn on May 21, 1933. When he was 5, his parents, Hector Joseph Thomp- son and Evelyn Cethas, split up, and Fred and his brother, John, were sent to live with an aunt, Ira Johnson, who had a deep influence on the boys. “Life is two things,” Mr. Thompson recalled her saying. “One, get an education, because once you have a college diploma nobody can take that away from you. And two, get involved with people.”

Fred followed both suggestions. He grew up in Bedford-Stuyvesant and graduated from Boys High in 1950. At City Col- lege, he began as a chemical engineering major but switched to history and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in 1955. He then studied law at St. John’s University, earning his degree in 1958. After two years in the Army, he was admitted to the state bar in 1961 and opened a private law practice in Brooklyn. He worked mostly on negligence cases. Aware of the city’s shortage of track facilities for the young, and particularly concerned about limited girls’ participation in intramural and interscholastic sports activities, Mr. Thompson followed his aunt’s advice to become involved. He became a civilian volunteer with the Police Athletic League and then founded the Atoms Track Club. Soon he had dozens of mem- bers. “Most of them are not from circumstances and surroundings that you would call ideal,” he told The Times. “They have home problems, social problems, boy problems and many other problems. You can’t just sweep these under the rug if you want to see them develop their talents and succeed in life. So I involve myself.”

A decade later, in 1972, the landmark federal legislation known as Title IX, which banned sex discrimination in any edu- cational program receiving federal funds, became law. It was the beginning of a sea change for female athletes. Before the law, about 310,000 girls and women in America were participating in high school and college sports. Today, federal officials say, there are 3.3 million. Mr. Thompson, who handled legal cases for ABC-TV, the Federal Trade Commission and Madison Square Garden and was an assistant state attorney general from 1967 to 1969, gave up law practice in 1974, when he became the full-time paid director of the Colgate Women’s Games. Sponsored by Colgate-Palmolive, the games have been a huge, complex operation, often attracting as many as 20,000 competitors of all ages. He remained the coach of the Atoms until after the turn of the century, when its membership began to dwindle, and directed the Colgate Women’s Games for 40 years until his retirement in 2014.

Mr. Thompson, whose brother died some years ago, leaves no immediate survivors. He had Alzheimer’s disease in recent years but remained at his home in Brooklyn, cared for by Ms. Forde, one of his best and most devoted former runners. A sprinter from Barbados, she competed in the 1972 and 1976 Summer Olympics and in the 1975 Pan American Games. “Fred Thompson is one of those special people that a sport such as track and field needs,” the Times columnist Dave An- derson wrote in 1979. “In the big money sports, a coach can always dream of going on to a lucrative career in college or in the pros. In track and field, there is no big money as there is in football or basketball. In track and field, the love of the sport is true; the dream is pure.”

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 21 - February 2019 Olympic Champion Sumgong Slapped With Record 8 Year Ban By Eric Ochieng | SportsPesa News | https://www.sportpesanews.com/posts/post/Olympic-Champion-Sumgong- Slapped-With-Record-8-Year-Ban/17556? NAIROBI, Kenya-The 2016 Olympic marathon Article 10.6.3 of the Anti-Doping Rules permits champion Jemima Sumgong was on Friday banned an athlete facing a potential four-year sanction “by for eight years by the IAAF’s independent disciplinary promptly admitting the asserted anti-doping rule vio- tribunal committee, Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU). lation after being confronted by the RADO (Regional Anti-Doping Organisation)-Member Signatory of its This was after the body ruled that there were Delegate Organisation (ADAK), and also upon ap- evidence the marathon world beater fabricated her proval and at the discretion of both WADA and RADO- medical records and lied about her whereabouts after member Signatory or its Delegate Organisation, a positive test for EPO in 2017, for which she later received a four-year ban. Sumgong, through her defence lawyer, Wahome Ngugi, argued before the SDT she was eligible for a “The IAAF Disciplinary Tribunal has banned the Ke- shorter suspension under the provisions of this rule nyan distance runner and reigning Olympic women’s having claimed the EPO entered her body at the Ke- marathon champion for eight-years starting January nyatta Nairobi Hospital (KNH) when she sought treat- 17, 2019. ment for complications related to ectopic pregnancy.

“The remaining two years of her previous sanction She further requested that none of her previous will overlap with the eight-year sanction from that results-including victories at the Olympic and Lon- period. In effect, she will be ineligible until 2027,” the don last year- should be disqualified since AIU stated on their twitter handle. she had not participated in any competition since the February 28, 2017 out-of-competition test where her Brett Clothier, Head of AIU who embraced the news urine A-Sample tested positive for EPO. said: “We welcome the decision of the Disciplinary Tri- bunal. We hope that it sends a message to dopers that In rejecting her plea for a reduced sentence, the SDT the AIU has strong investigative capabilities and does dismissed her purported letter dated February 22, not tolerate false evidence in doping cases.” 2018 from KNH claiming she had been treated with EPO following complications from an ectopic preg- “We also want to underline the vital support of the nancy as fake. Anti Doping Agency of Kenya (ADAK) in pursuing this case. They are a valuable partner in the fight against In aprevious confidential letter obtained by SportPe- doping in Kenya,” Clothier added. sa News addressed to the Rio 2016 gold winner, AIU gave Sumgong the option of either accepting a second The AIU committee chaired by Michael Beloff said charge of lying about her positive test and serve an ad- they found “compelling evidence demonstrating the ditional four years ban or seek a hearing to contest the athlete submitted false medical documents to an anti- new allegations at their Disputes Tribunal. doping organisation and to the tribunal”. This is a very important letter. It confirms a charge Despite the ban, Sumgong has 21 days to appeal to against you for a second violation of the International the decision made by the commission under Article Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) Anti-Dop- 13(2) of the World Anti-Doping Code. This means that ing Rules (ADR- effective 3 April 2017). any appeal must be filed with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). This may result in a ban from all sport for a signifi- cant period, disqualification of results and the forfei- Sports Disputes Tribunal rejected Sumgong’s plea ture of any medals, titles, points and prize and appear- to reduce her doping ban to two years in 2017 after ance money. she admitted using the prohibited EPO. You should therefore give this letter your full and Sumgong who was handed a four-year international most urgent attention and we strongly advise you ban by the ADAK had sought a lighter sentence at the seek legal advice, the letter copied to Athletics Kenya SDT hearing of her case on grounds she had promptly (AK), ADAK, World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and admitted the presence of the banned blood booster in Disputes Tribunal Chair stated. her system and did not intentionally dope.

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 22 - February 2019 Shearman details life behind sporting lens By Ed Odeven | Japan Times | https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2015/12/19/olympics/shearman-details-life- behind-sporting-lens/#.XFkZa6B7nX6

Finland’s Lasse Viren leads the 10,000 meters at the 1972 Munich Olympics. Viren won the gold in the 5,000 and 10,000 in Munich. | MARK SHEARMAN Mark Shearman has achieved extraordinary success as a sports photographer, specializing in track and field. He has a re- markable portfolio — containing images of Olympic legends such as Edwin Moses and Carl Lewis, Usain Bolt and Sebastian Coe — that few can ever hope of compiling. But, he admits without hesitation, he’s as hungry as ever to remain at the top of his game. He’s traveled to more than 80 countries. He’s had, by his own estimate, more than 1,000 cover photographs for the London-based Athletics Weekly magazine. And he’s adapted to the changing technology to remain one of the best in the business. “Since 2001,” he recently told The Japan Times, “I have shot exclusively digital and cannot ever envisage ever shooting in film again.” The reason? “Working predominantly against a deadline,” Shearman noted, “it has made my life so much easier with the ability to transmit images within seconds of taking the pictures, and when returning from an event in the U.K. by train or from abroad by plane, I can utilize the traveling time by working on the images I have taken.” He described his laptop as a “portable darkroom.” Decades before laptops popped up in every corner of the globe, Shearman established himself as a photographer. Now 72, he has captured images at 13 Summer Olympics (and the 1976 Innsbruck Winter Games). On the global stage, he got his start at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, but that October, he was not a credentialed photogra- pher in Japan’s capital city. No problem. He purchased spectator tickets and got to work and “moved around the stadium as much as I could,” Shearman recalled, citing his methodology at the now-torn-down National Stadium. “My initial impression of the Tokyo 1964 Games was really the size of the games,” he recalled. “I had never attended an event of this importance or magnitude before.” Two years earlier, Shearman got his big break, one that would set the stage for his life’s work. What was the catalyst? A meet at the Tooting Bec track, in South London, on May, 6, 1962, when, for the first time, he attended an athletics event with a camera. A friend had informed him that pole vaulter Trevor Burton had planned to break the U.K. record at the meet. And, for Shearman, it turned out that the fact that, his friend said, Athletics Weekly “might be interested in a picture” was of greater significance. On that day, Shearman, who lived about 13 km away in Worcester Park, only took pictures of the pole vault competition. Burton failed to break the U.K. record, but he sent a photo of Burton to Athletics Weekly. That picture landed on the cover. “I would today consider it a very ordinary picture, but at the time it was exciting to see it used, it was my very first pub- lished photograph — anywhere, not just in AW,” he said. TAFWA Newsletter - Page 23 - February 2019 Mark Shearman worked at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and has been a regular fixture at the quadrennial extravaganza ever since.

As for his first cover photo, Shearman admits it’s still “very special to me.” “At the time I thought ‘that was easy,’ but quickly found out that it was not always that straightforward to get pictures published,” he continued. “But it gave me the confidence to attend events every weekend and submit them to AW, as well as local and national newspapers. . . . It opened a door to a lifetime of sports photography.” His determination and commitment to his craft paved the way for the success and recognition that followed. But it took some time to reach the pinnacle of his field. Between 1960 and ’73, Shearman was employed by photo agency Fox Photos and photo departments within government bureaus. He used every weekend and his annual leave to attend local and major events, including the Summer Games in Tokyo, and Munich. The hard work paid off. “In 1973”, he noted, “I had built my freelance business up to a stage where I was able to become self-employed. In 1962, I was determined to make sports photography my life, but I certainly did not think that I had the knowhow. After 53 years I am still learning.” The rest is history. “Mark has consistently been the best athletics photographer I have come across,” Randall Northam, a former treasurer of the Sports Journalists’ Association, was quoted saying on the British organization’s website. Shearman said, “The biggest compliment I regularly receive is that magazines in many countries are still happy to publish my photographs.” He revealed that his images of American Dick Fosbury’s back-first high jump, which earned him the gold, at the 1968 Mexico City Games and Coe’s gold medal-winning 1,500 triumph at the 1980 Moscow Games rank as his favorites from those 13 Olympiads. Here’s his recollection of Fosbury’s revolutionary approach to the high jump: “This was the first time I had seen anyone clear the high jump bar with that technique. I wondered at the time whether other athletes would copy him. Now, of course, this is the accepted way to jump.” For Coe, the future IAAF president, the Moscow Games delivered unforgettable emotion — for him and observers span- ning the globe. It’s worth noting that Coe was the favorite in the 800, but finished second behind compatriot Steve Ovett, who was then tabbed the favorite to win the 1,500. “But as we know, Coe won and my photo shows the joy and relief on Coe’s face as he crossed the finish line,” Shearman stated. Shearman offered the view that his best pictures are probably those of euphoric gold medalists Bolt or Mo Farah at the 2012 London Games or Briton’s Kelly Holmes, who claimed victories in the women’s 800 and 1,500 in in 2004. In addition to Olympic duties, Shearman, official photographer for UK Athletics since 1996, is a regular at domestic weekend events — cross country, track and field (indoors and outdoors), road racing — as well as major international com- petitions, including the Commonwealth Games and European Championships. TAFWA Newsletter - Page 24 - February 2019 Beyond the realms of sports media and athletics, Shearman’s work has not gone unnoticed. For the 2014 New Year’s Honours List, he received an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) for services to sports photography. Queen Elizabeth II gave him the award at Windsor Castle that July. “The pride I felt when I was awarded the MBE was as a professional photographer, ” he said, adding that “I derived a lot of pleasure in knowing that someone (I don’t know who) thought I was worthy of being nominated . . .” A beautifully packaged seven-page feature in Practical Photography showcased Shearman’s work and some of the stories behind his iconic photos a few years ago. The magazine also declared this: “From humbled beginnings, the Surrey-born photographer has amassed the largest and most significant athletics portfolio of the modern era.” About that glorious portfolio, let’s turn to Shearman for some insight. For instance, Bolt’s triumphant celebration in Beijing after grabbing gold in the 200 meters included this description alongside the photo: “. . . (It) was the event that in- troduced Usain Bolt to the world. Rather than shoot him head on, I moved about 40 meters beyond the finish line, knowing that if he broke the world record he’d throw his arms up as he continued to run round the bench.” Mission accomplished. Shearman envisions what will happen next and puts himself in a position to succeed. To do so, he’s constantly looking for the best angle, experimenting with various backdrops throughout the day and night. In short, he refuses to rest on his laurels. Laziness is not an option. “I noticed at major games like the Olympics that many photographers are happy to work from one position,” Shearman said. “I don’t. I will move around the stadium to get the best viewpoints and estimate I will walk up to 10 km during a day’s photography.” To make this a realistic approach for work, he dedicates himself to a regular fitness regimen, running and walking for about an hour each day. Shearman also makes a genuine effort to chronicle each Olympiad in a slightly different way. After all, he wants there to be something unique about shots from each of the various quadrennial extravaganzas. He admitted that “I do try to include where possible signage that indicates the city and games where the event is taking place. “For the events that take place outside the stadium, i.e. the marathon and the race walking,” he added, “I make sure that famous landmarks are included in some of my shots, e.g. the Houses of Parliament at the London Games and Tiananmen Square at the Beijing Games.” There have been adventures and disappointments along the way. Shearman didn’t capture the iconic image of Bob Beamon’s world record jump (8.90 meters) at the 1968 Mexico City Games. The record stood for 23 years — until Mike Powell soared 8.95 meters at the 1991 IAAF World Championships in Tokyo. Shearman was there, too. (He’s been to Japan on two other occasions: for the 1999 World Indoor Athletics Champi- onships in Maebashi, Gunma Prefecture, and the 2006 World Cross Country Championships in Fukuoka.) “I got a very ordinary couple of pictures in the qualifying round,” Shearman said of Beamon. “On the day the long jump final was held, there were a number of events going on at the same time so I decided that I would photograph the final three rounds. Frustratingly for me, he only took two jumps in the final (round) then retired from the competition.” Shearman called that “a bitter lesson for me.” He added: “I do now try to photograph the first couple of rounds of all the field events to ensure I have action shots of all the competitors.” Another incident forced him to frantically improvise in order to recover from a camera malfunction. It was in 1973, at Crystal Palace in London, where Briton Dave Bedford set a world record (27 minutes, 30.80 seconds) in the 10,000. “Those were the days before digital cameras,” said Shearman. “After about 20 of the 26 laps it occurred to me that I had taken more than 36 pictures but the film was still winding on; well, it wasn’t, the film had not taken up and I had no pic- tures.” The veteran camera man exhibited poise under pressure, which he described vividly more than four decades later this way: “I hurriedly put the situation right and got shots of him over the last four laps and crossing the finish line. Dave is now a good friend of mine and 42 years later, he still reminds me of the disaster that I narrowly avoided.” Shearman credits Gerry Cranham, a south London photographer in the 1960s and early 1970s who was considered the U.K.’s top sports photographer as being a helpful mentor. “When we met at events he was always happy to give me tips and advice,” Shearman said. Among his colleagues in the business today, he said he respects the work of fellow Brits Michael Steele and Stu Forster, both of are employed by Getty Images. They’ve worked together at numerous World Championships and Olympics “(They) both have the knack of being at the right place at the right moment,” Shearman said of his professional col- leagues. Indeed, that’s one portion of the recipe for photographic success. By all accounts, Mark Shearman has accomplished an inimitable level of success and sustained excellence in sports pho- tography. But beyond the 2016 Rio Olympics and all the intrigue of another sporting festival to photograph, he has another long-term goal in mind: to return to Tokyo for the 2020 Games for his 15th Summer Olympics. That, he said, would be “a fitting time and place to finally retire.” TAFWA Newsletter - Page 25 - February 2019 Feeling the Tug of His Roots, Parsons Poised to Represent Germany By David Monti, @d9monti | (c) 2019 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved Last July Sam Parsons lined up for the top section of the 5000m at the KBC Nacht van de Atletiek in Heu- sden, Belgium. He had finished eighth at the USATF Outdoor Track & Field Championships in the same dis- cipline about a month before, and he was looking for a big performance. He went hard from the gun, passed 3000m in around eight minutes flat, and was on pace for a sub-13:20 finish.

But soon his legs got heavy, he began to struggle, and knew he was in trouble.

“I just blew up,” Parsons told Race Results Weekly in a telephone interview last week, calling the race his “shitty 5-K in Belgium.”

Parsons ended up 14th out of 15 competitors, clocking 13:47.96, his slowest 5000m of the year. Parsons, 24, who trains with Tinman Elite in Boulder, Colo., under coach Tom Schwartz was crestfallen. Looking for solace, he abruptly changed his summer plans.

“I canceled my European schedule and took a train to Germany,” said Parsons, who has family in the town of Diez in the Rhein-Lahn district about five miles southwest of Limburg. Upon arrival, he quickly felt a little boost, a sense of belonging. “When I got there I was immediately was welcomed,” he recalled.

That welcome was anything but random. Parsons’s mother, Christina, grew up in Germany and and he has dozens of family members there. They set up a big dinner in his honor, and he really felt the love and embrace of his family.

Sam Parsons (left) leads the 2018 B.A.A. Invitational Mile in Boston last April with Pat Casey (center) and Drew Hunter (right); he finished fifth in 4:10.0 (photo by Jane Monti for Race Results Weekly) TAFWA Newsletter - Page 26 - February 2019 “They cared about what I was doing, they cared about my future,” said Parsons, who speaks German. He continued: “We had a huge German dinner with the long table, and the whole neighborhood was there. They considered me as one of their own.”

Parsons was filled with warmth, and the sting of the bad race in Belgium began to subside. But he didn’t an- ticipate what would happen next at that dinner table.

“It was my uncle who looked at me and said, ‘When are you going to race for Germany? When are you going to race for us?’ I couldn’t believe it. Everyone at the table was looking at me and waiting for a response. I didn’t know what to say.”

Right then, it hit him. Parsons --who was born in Newark, Del., graduated from Tatnall High School in 2012, and ran for North Carolina State-- would become a German citizen and switch his allegiance to Germany.

“I remember looking at my Mom one morning in Germany together and telling her that I want to run for Ger- many, and I want to run for you,” Parsons wrote in a follow-up e-mail. “She was overtaken by emotion. And it’s a moment I will forever cherish for the rest of my life. I had no idea that it would mean so much to her. As we sat together at the breakfast table she explained that watching me grow up and slowly become more and more ‘Americanized’ was hard on her.

Despite speaking German with my Mom growing up, she always felt ashamed for not instilling enough Ger- man values and way of life into my sister, Molly, and me. For me to go and run for Germany meant everything to her. And because of that meant everything to me.”

When he got home to the States, he completed the process of applying for a German passport. Getting that passport was assured because his mother, who had come to the United States as a young woman to further her education, was already a German citizen. On September 6, of last year he obtained his German passport. Sud- denly, he felt different.

“I do every thing out of passion,” Parsons explained, who described his mother as his “best friend.” “I do what my heart is telling me. I never thought I would have the drive to run in a German singlet. That all changed.”

With guidance from European steeplechase champion Gesa Krause, and former Columbia University runner Natalie Tanner (who also has dual American/German citizenship), Parsons found a German club to join, LG Ein- tracht Frankfurt. Parsons plans to represent that club next month at the Deutsche Hallen-Meisterschaften, the German Indoor Championships, in Leipzig with an eye towards qualifying for the European Indoor Champion- ships in Glasgow in March at 3000m. He would also like to run for Germany at the IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Doha in September in the 5000m.

Looking at his potential rivals for team berths, Parsons has a good chance of national squad selection. Only one German, Richard Ringer, broke 13:30 for 5000m last year (13:22.48). The #2 German was Floian Orth (13:34.03) followed by Amanal Petros (13:34.15). So far this indoor season, the fastest German at 3000m is Aaron Bienenfeld at 8:14.21, who competes for the University of Cincinnati. Parsons just ran 7:49.16 at the Doctor Sander Invitational in New York last Saturday.

Besides the leaders of his club, Parsons said he hasn’t communicated with any of the German athletes he’ll potentially be racing, and he has no idea what kind of reception he’ll receive. That doesn’t bother him.

“I like to think I’m a fun-loving guy and I’m appreciative of my rivals and competitors,” he said. “I plan on going into Germany pissing people off by beating them. I have no sense, I have zero sense of what they think of me.” He added: “They’ll have to get used it.”

Parsons emphasized that he will continue to train with Tinman Elite where his closest training mate is miler Drew Hunter. His group knows about his plans and they look forward to continuing to train with him.

“They’are all supportive,” Parsons said. He added: “I know that they’re with me through anything.” TAFWA Newsletter - Page 27 - February 2019 ‘100 percent track’: For Auburn football stars, T&F isn’t viewed as 2nd sport By Sam Blum | AL.com | https://www.al.com/auburnfootball/2019/01/100-percent-track-for-auburn-football-stars- track-field-isnt-just-a-2nd-sport.html It was just about three days after Auburn’s Music City Bowl win seconds. that Anthony Schwartz returned to his home in Florida with a whole new set of priorities. Shivers said he built up his endurance for shorter races by run- The freshman had just run for a touchdown in AU’s 63-14 bowl ning sprints twice the distance. He too practiced in Florida, in his victory on Dec. 28. He’d just finished an unexpectedly good pre- hometown. Schwartz said the hardest thing for him was getting mier campaign that saw him rise from relative unknown to one of from the blocks into his acceleration. the faces of the future for the football program. “I make subtle changes, because I don’t like to come in and make But that was three days ago, and at the outset of 2019, he was a major drastic change because sometimes they don’t pick it up now the face of the future for a different team — possibly a team right away,” Spry said. “No matter how good of a runner you could where his future is even more promising — with track & field. be, how good your are technically, you could always get better.” Schwartz was the No. 10 receiver prospect nationally by ESPN It’s a consistent work in progress. Both Shivers and Schwartz out of high school. But he was probably the best track prospect in didn’t compete in the first two meets of the indoor season. the country, setting youth world records, with a continued eye on Schwartz won’t be competing in the upcoming meet this weekend the 2020 Olympics. in South Carolina. So the two-sport star returned home, put football out of sight And as they work their way into a full winter/spring hustle of and out of mind, and started training with his high school running competitive track and field, the question will continue to remain coach to get ready to showcase something totally new. how Auburn handles spring football practice, which will start in “You can’t just go straight into running full speed, you’ve got to March and stretch into April. It’s a crucial stretch of 15 practices, get that condition down, get that base down,” Schwartz. “It’s kind especially for young players. Igbinoghene said he needed to do of like, how when you go into any sport, you start off with like a lot football last spring to earn the starting spot he eventually got. of not fast running, just a lot of running.” Spry said those decisions were made mostly during the recruit- Schwartz isn’t the only star football player who’s hanging up ing process, but he deferred final decisions to Malzahn. the cleats for, well, different cleats. There’s also freshman running There have been meetings with Spry, Malzahn, the athlete, the back Shaun Shivers, a speedster who is less than a step slower than strength and conditioning coach from both programs and director Schwartz, but is confident he’ll beat his classmate. of operations. That’s where the lines of communication open up, There’s DB Noah Igbinoghene, a sophomore jumper, who which becomes especially important for the workout routines of competed on the T&F team last year, but only in the spring season. athletes training for two totally different end goals. Lastly there’s junior CB Javaris Davis, who is actually joining the Both Shivers and Schwartz used the phrase “100 percent track” track team for the first time in his third year. He likely won’t com- in reference to their plans for the spring. Igbinoghene is unsure pete until the spring, since he hasn’t done track since high school. whether or not he’ll be participating in spring football — he cur- He joined the team after football coach Gus Malzahn called track rently has a cast on his left arm to heal a broken thumb he suffered coach Ralph Spry to see if his services could be helpful. during the football season.

“Last year, I was by myself,” Igbinoghene said “So for this year, Regardless of where everything stands, Spry believes the two just to have more guys with me, that’s better of course, because programs are starting a pipeline that will help in recruiting and I got my other teammates with me. I think it’s just gonna make results for both programs. us closer. I’ve got another DB in the room, so it’s gonna make us “We’ve opened up a box now that’s gonna attract a lot more big closer.” time football-track guy,” Spry said. “Because of the relationship Igbinoghene placed second out of 13 competitors in his first Gus and I have now, and the direction, they know they’re gonna meet of the year, recording 7.44 meters in the long jump. Shivers do both. So now, we’ve opened up the radar, we’re gonna get a lot placed fourth in the 60-meter dash, running at 6.72 seconds in more kids on our radar ... that are serious superstar football play- the preliminaries, and 6.83 seconds in the finals. Schwartz was the ers that have serious track speed.” star, winning his collegiate debut in the 60-meter dash. He ran a The three athletes currently competing seem to view track and 6.65 on both occasions. football on equal footing. For these athletes, it’s year-long grind. Igbinoghene said he’d like to compete in the 2020 Olympics, as Schwartz said he’s often spending extra time recovering, in ice did Schwartz. For Schwartz, there’s the potential for difficult deci- baths. Even when he’s hanging out in his room, he’s stretching on sions for his future. Schwartz said he could drop track if he finds the floor in his downtime. that he’s a first-to-third round pick in the NFL Draft at some point. Igbinoghene said he thinks competing year-round is something He was also asked about the possibility of prioritizing track over he’ll do all four years. He wants to “go pro in both, that’s some- football, especially if the Olympics are involved — and didn’t rule thing I’m trying to do.” He’s confident in his abilities, much like that out, either. Even head tack coach Ralph Spry acknowledged it Schwartz who’s never surprised with himself when he sees success would be difficult to compete at the Olympic level, while splitting in either sport. He quickly said “No,” when asked if he thought time at football. missing spring football would set him back. “I haven’t really thought about it yet,” Schwartz said. “I’ve kind “I just feel like to me, I’m gonna outwork everyone,” Schwartz of thought about it, but right now I’m trying to focus on what’s said, just about to end his interview. “I’m never satisfied with what going on right now. I don’t want to overestimate what I do.” I do.” For now, the priority is just competing, getting back in the flow After he got up, Shivers sat down for an interview, and immedi- after months on the gridiron. For Schwartz and Shivers, one of ately his confidence burst through before a question was asked. the hardest things to re-learn can be getting out of the blocks. It’s “I heard you said you were gonna outwork somebody, fam,” technique-based and steeped in repetition. Ff not practiced repeat- Shivers said to Schwartz in a friendly manner, just feet away. “You edly, the break can be costly in a race that takes fewer than seven can’t outwork me.” TAFWA Newsletter - Page 28 - February 2019 Doping: London 2012 high jump champion Ukhov among 12 Russians banned By Mitch Phillips | Reuters | https://ca.reuters.com/article/sportsNews/idCAKCN1PQ59P-OCASP?rpc=401&feedTy pe=RSS&feedName=sportsNews&rpc=401 LONDON (Reuters) - London 2012 Olympic high jump champion Ivan Ukhov is among 12 Russian track and field ath- letes to be handed doping bans by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) acting for the IAAF in the absence of the banned Russian Athletics Federation (RUSAF). Ukhov and Svetlana Shkolina, who won high jump bronze in 2012 and gold at the 2013 world championships, were given four-year bans on Friday, starting from Feb. 1 2019, and retrospectively disqualified, meaning they will be stripped of their medals. American Erik Kynard is expected to be promoted to gold in the 2012 Olympic men’s event while compatriot Brigetta Barrett, who took silver in London, is in line to be promoted to world champion after finishing second in Moscow. Double world champion and former world record holder hammer thrower Tatyana Lysenko, who had previously been stripped of her 2012 Olympic gold, was given an eight-year ban for a second offense, as was fellow hammer thrower Gulfiya Agafonova. CAS said the 12 athletes “participated in and/or benefited from anabolic steroid doping programs and benefited from specific protective methods”. The athletes can appeal their cases to a separate division of CAS, and Russian officials said they were awaiting CAS’s full decisions in the cases before deciding on any action. “So far, the decision has been made by the first instance authority which, as far as I know, made it on the basis of (Rus- sian whistle blower Grigory) Rodchenkov’s testimony. Now we need to wait for the substantive part (of the court’s deci- sion), after which we will think what to do,” Russian athletics chief Dmitry Shlyakhtin told TASS news agency. The decisions were the first case of CAS issuing disciplinary procedures since it replaced the RUSAF in hearing cases after its suspension by the IAAF which remains in force. The cases are based mainly on evidence gathered in an independent World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) report carried out by Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren and the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU), which was set up in 2017 to act indepen- dently from the IAAF. “Today’s CAS rulings confirm that the evidence underlying the McLaren Reports is reliable and is capable of establishing Anti-Doping Rule Violations (ADRVs),” AIU head Brett Clothier said in a statement that also said CAS’s decision established that the violations were committed as part of a centralized doping scheme. “It needs to be noted that some of these cases were fought solely on the basis of the McLaren evidence, while others were combined with analytical evidence gathered through re-testing. It is very encouraging for us and gives us the possibility to pursue more cases in the future.” WADA also praised the decisions. “This should serve to reassure athletes that a lot of work is being conducted behind the scenes by various organizations that are committed to ensure that justice is rendered,” WADA Director General Olivier Niggli said in a statement. “It reinforces the importance of ensuring that due process is followed and that evidence is carefully presented. “This creates an important precedent that will be used in future cases.” The bans are the latest in a long line handed down to Russians across a range of sports since widespread and organized doping was uncovered. Russian authorities have denied that it was “state-sponsored” but have accepted that many senior officials were involved either in providing the illegal products or interfering with anti-doping procedures and covering up positive tests. WADA last month finally gained access to data held in a Moscow laboratory, the last condition for making Russia’s anti- doping agency compliant, that is expected to produce more retrospective positive tests. “The data is crucial to build strong cases against cheats and exonerate other athletes suspected of having participated in widespread doping in Russia,” Clothier said.

The banned athletes are:

Tatyana Firova (400m) - four-year ban from June 9 2016 Svetlana Shkolina (high jump) - four-year ban from Feb. 1 2019 Ivan Ukhov (high jump) - four-year ban from Feb. 1 2019 Lyukman Adams (triple jump) - four-year ban from Jan. 31 2019 Anna Bulgakova (hammer throw) - four-year ban from March 29 2017 Gulfiya Agafonova-Khanafeeva (hammer throw) - eight-year ban from Jan. 6 2017 Tatyana Lysenko Beloborodva (hammer throw) - eight-year ban from July 2 2016 Ivan Yushkov () - four-year ban from July 2 2016 Mariya Bespalova (hammer throw) - already suspended since 26 October 2015 Vera Ganeeva (discus) - two-year ban from July 2 2018 Yekaterina Galitskaia (100m hurdles) - four-year ban from Feb. 1 2019 Yuliya Kondakova (100m hurdles) - four-year ban from Feb. 1 2019 TAFWA Newsletter - Page 29 - February 2019 French feminist group calls for hijab ban at Paris 2024 By James Diamond | Inside The Games | https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1075127/french-feminist-group-call-for-hijab-ban-at-paris-2024 French feminist group, the International League for Women’s Rights (ILWR), has called on the organisers of the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris to ban the hijab and other items of Islamic clothing during the Games, to ensure female Muslim athletes can compete free from religious restrictions.

In a blog posted on ILWR’s website, Annie Sugier called for Islamic nations to be prevented from forcing female athletes to cover their entire bodies during competition as it against the Olympic Charter.

Sunier, co-author of a book How Islamism Perverted the Olympics, claimed Islamic countries have been allowed to ban women from taking part in mixed team events and only allowed women to compete in sports “compatible with Islamic law”.

“It is high time that the Paris 2024 Organising Committee reacts and applies all the universal principles of the [Olympic] Charter,” she said.

“Yet two countries - Iran and Saudi Arabia - still contravene both the letter and spirit of the Olympic Charter as they sub- ject the participation of women in international competitions to considerations above mentioned that are in total contra- diction to the terms of the Olympic Charter.

“Such archaic measures are among other humiliating ways sexual apartheid is imposed on their peoples by those political regimes.” At Rio 2016, fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad became the first Muslim-American woman to win an Olympic medal, competing in a hijab as she was part of the squad that took the bronze in the team sabre event ©Getty Images At Rio 2016, fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad became the first Muslim-American woman to win an Olympic medal, competing in a hijab as she was part of the squad that took the bronze in the team sabre event ©Getty Images

To back up her argument, Sunier highlighted that the Olympic Charter states no kind of “religious propaganda” is per- mitted in any Olympic sites, venues or other areas.

“How could the IOC (International Olympic Committee) accept such serious violations of the basic principles of the Charter [with regard to Islamic nations] when it excluded when racial apartheid was its rule?” she wrote.

“The organisation of the 2024 Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games offer a unique opportunity to demonstrate the ne- cessity of a strict implementation of these principles as stated in the Olympic Charter.”

At Rio 2016, fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad became the first Muslim American woman to wear a hijab while competing for the United States in the Olympics.

She earned a bronze in the team sabre, becoming the first female Muslim-American athlete to earn a medal at the Olym- pics.

American-born and raised Sarah Attar had run in the 2012 Olympic Games in London with her hair covered, in keep- ing with a request that she do so to respect Islamic law by Saudi Arabia, for whom she ran on the basis of her father having been born in Saudi Arabia.

The ILWR has previously called on Iran to end their ban on women attending football matches in the country, while they have frequently campaigned for more to be done to tackle sexual abuse in sport.

France as a nation has a history of attempting to restrict public displays of Islam. In 2010 the Government passed a law banning full face veils such as the niqab, in public. Anyone caught breaking the law would be fined up to €150 (£131/$171).

The law caused significant controversy and was challenged at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) which up- held the ban in 2014. At the time Sugier wrote a letter to the court, urging it to rule in favour of the ban.

“The full-face veil, by literally burying the body and the face, constitutes a true deletion of the woman as an individual in public,” her letter read.

Despite the ECHR’s ruling, last year the United Nations declared the law a violation of human rights that risked confin- ing Muslim women to their homes.

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 30 - February 2019 You Don’t Need Sports Drinks To Stay Hydrated Just trust your thirst. By Christie Aschwanden | FiveThirtyEight| https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/you-dont-need-sports-drinks-to-stay-hydrated/ In the early 1990s, Gatorade ran a television commercial featur- back in 1970,3 after Ohio State team doctor Robert J. Murphy ing Michael Jordan called “Be Like Mike.” It featured slam dunks challenged it at a meeting of the American Medical Association). by Jordan interspersed with footage of kids shooting hoops and, of In a stroke of genius, Gatorade turned the drink’s sodium, course, Jordan and other happy people drinking Gatorade. phosphorus and potassium into a special selling point by rebrand- Stuart Phillips remembers that ad campaign well. As an aspiring ing these ordinary salts with their scientific name — “electrolytes,” athlete, he, too, wanted to be like Mike. “Michael Jordan drank which is simply the scientific term for molecules that produce ions Gatorade, so I drank Gatorade,” Phillips says. Despite guzzling the when dissolved in water. Your body maintains some reserves of sports drink, Phillips never did make it to the pros, but instead these vital ions that it can tap into as needed to keep your body’s grew up to become the director of the Centre for Nutrition, Exer- fluid and salt balance in check. We do lose electrolytes through cise, and Health Research at McMaster University in Hamilton, sweat, but even when you exercise continuously for many hours, Ontario. The Jordan ad taught him a lesson about the power of you will simply correct any losses via your normal appetite and marketing, though: “If you can get an endorsement from an ath- hunger mechanisms. (You’ve already experienced this if you’ve lete that everybody recognizes, then who needs science?” ever had a hankering for a salty snack.) One small study of cyclists Scientific facts don’t sell products; stories do. Jordan was and triathletes found that it didn’t really matter whether they already a basketball superstar by the time Gatorade came calling, drank plain water, a sports drink or a milk-based beverage after and the public was eager to experience something of his greatness. an hour of hard exercise. As long as they drank some liquids along Enter Gatorade — Michael Jordan drank it, and young Stuart with a meal, they restored their fluid levels just fine. Phillips could too. To drink Gatorade wasn’t just to mimic a sports Gatorade may not have been the first to use this term, but hero, it was to imagine a causal relationship — Jordan drank Ga- they’re the ones that landed electrolytes in the public lexicon. In torade and then made all those slam dunks, so the one must have 1985, the Gatorade Sports Science Institute was founded to pro- had something to do with the other. mote the study of hydration and nutrition for athletes, research Psychologists call such thinking the “illusion of causality,” and that also happened to make for great marketing. Conveniently, it’s so powerful that it has spawned an entire genre of advertising the studies that came from the GSSI could be used to support the — the celebrity endorsement. No one would care that a pro athlete product’s claims. A 1990 magazine ad read: “We test Gatorade in uses a particular product if it didn’t somehow appear that the item laboratories. We test it at major universities, with sports science played some role in that star’s success. The Irish have a saying, experts, on sophisticated scientific equipment with names that are “An umbrella accompanies the rain but rarely causes it.” The same longer than this sentence. What does it prove? Gatorade works.”4 could be said of product endorsements and athletic greatness. Still, Early advertisements presented thirst as the problem that Gato- our minds are quick to connect the dots in the wrong direction. rade was designed to solve, but as the GSSI’s research program pro- The age of the athlete-endorsed sports drink began on a Florida gressed, the emphasis moved to a more clinical concept of hydra- football field in the mid-1960s. Back then, most coaches and ath- tion and the notion that thirst was not a good indicator of whether letes didn’t give much thought to fluid replacement during practice an exerciser was drinking enough. “Unfortunately, there is no or competition. In some instances, athletes were even counseled clear physiological signal that dehydration is occurring, and most to avoid drinking close to a workout lest they upset their stomach. athletes are oblivious to the subtle effects of dehydration (thirst, But in 1965, a University of Florida football coach came to Dr. growing fatigue, irritability, inability to mentally focus, hyperther- Robert Cade and his team of university doctors1 complaining that mia),” wrote GSSI co-founder Bob Murray in one report. Instead, his players were “wilting” in the heat. (He also wondered why his athletes were advised to drink according to scientific formulas. A players never urinated during games.) After some investigation, Gatorade ad that ran in Northwest Runner in 2001 depicted the Cade and his colleagues concluded that two factors were causing glistening torso of a runner with the race number 40 pinned to her the players to fall victim to the heat — they weren’t replenishing shorts and the words, “Research shows your body needs at least the fluids and salts they were sweating out, nor were they restor- 40 oz. of fluid every hour or your performance could suffer.” That’s ing the carbohydrates their bodies were burning for fuel. the equivalent of five 8-ounce glasses of liquid, which means that In a stroke of genius, Gatorade turned the drink’s sodium, a runner finishing a marathon in a fast three hours would need to phosphorus and potassium into “electrolytes,” which is simply the drink 15 glasses of fluid along the way. Gulp. scientific term for molecules that produce ions when dissolved in Gatorade wasn’t alone in promoting the benefits of drinking water. before, during and after exercise. Other sports drink manufactur- Cade figured that he could solve the problem by helping players ers, such as the drug company GlaxoSmithKline (Lucozade Sport), replace those lost resources, so he stirred together some sodium, also pointed to science when marketing its products. Lucozade, sugar and monopotassium phosphate with water to create a drink for example, established a “sports science academy” to promote its soon dubbed Gatorade, after the University of Florida’s nickname: drink. Together, these campaigns fostered the idea that exercise the Gators. Legend has it, the drink turned the struggling Ga- depletes your fluids and electrolytes (which, remember, is just a tors football team around. It finished the season with a winning fancy name for salts) and that special measures are required to record, and in 1967, the team won the Orange Bowl for the first make things right again. time in school history. Other teams took notice of the newfangled It was no longer sufficient to simply drink some water and eat a beverage, and in 1967, Cade and the University of Florida signed meal after exercising. The idea these marketing campaigns fostered an agreement with canned goods company Stokely-Van Camp to was that physical activity created extraordinary nutritional needs produce Gatorade commercially.2 Orders for the drink poured in. and that these specially formulated beverages were the best way to What followed was a national campaign to sell the public on meet them. This was science speaking. the idea that exercise caused dehydration, the cure was Gatorade’s specially developed drink, and this tonic was critical for sports The Limited Science Behind Hydration Advice performance — it was created by a doctor and tested in studies, af- Sports doctors were also urging athletes to drink. The American ter all. One of the brand’s early print advertisements boasted that College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), a professional organization Gatorade was absorbed 12 times faster than water (a claim walked of sports science experts (which receives financial support from TAFWA Newsletter - Page 31 - February 2019 Gatorade), put out a consensus statement in 1996 recommend- hand that inflate the benefits of the drinks (for instance, one study ing that “during exercise, athletes should start drinking early increased the benefit of carbohydrate drinks from 3 percent to 33 and at regular intervals in an attempt to consume fluids at a rate percent by excluding a segment of the test from the analysis), and sufficient to replace all the water lost through sweating (i.e., body sports drinks don’t come out looking so impressive. weight loss), or consume the maximal amount that can be toler- When Heneghan’s and Cohen’s reports came out, some sports ated.” The message coming from experts was that athletes needed science experts blasted it as unnecessarily rigid, because they set to replace the fluids they lost during exercise lest their perfor- their standards based on the conventions of clinical medicine mance and health suffer. rather than sports science, where, for instance, small sample sizes In the wake of all this promotion, sports drinks have become a are common. Which standards and methods should be used for multimillion-dollar business. But when a team of medical research- assessing evidence is an important debate that is gaining atten- ers trained in the evaluation of scientific findings had a look at the tion within the sports science community. In the meantime, the research underpinning the boom in sports drinks, they reached a emphasis on hydration has created another problem to address. startling conclusion. “As it turns out, if you apply evidence-based methods, 40 years of sports drinks research does not seem- Hydrate Till You Drown ingly add up to much,” Carl Heneghan and his colleagues at the Exercise scientist and physician Tim Noakes was a believer in University of Oxford’s Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine wrote the dangers of dehydration until two separate experiences left him in a 2012 analysis published in the British medical journal BMJ. questioning what he thought he knew. When Heneghan’s team gathered and examined all of the available First, Noakes was involved in a study examining participants in evidence on sports drinks (it even consulted sports drink manu- a four-day canoe race. During a particularly rough day, one of the facturers to ask them for their supporting studies, though not all paddlers lost all of his drinking water when it washed overboard complied), they found what amounted to a bunch of preliminary or as he went through some breakers. Despite having canoed about inconclusive evidence packaged as more definitive proof. 50 kilometers without drinking, the paddler’s body temperature The first, almost universal, problem among these studies was hadn’t become elevated, as the dehydration theory would have pre- that they were too small to produce meaningful results. “Small dicted. “We weighed him, and he’d lost about eight or nine pounds, studies are known to be systematically biased toward the effective- but his body temperature was normal and I thought, oh my gosh ness of the interventions they are testing,” Heneghan and his col- — body weight loss has nothing to do with body temperature,” leagues wrote. Out of the 106 studies they analyzed, only one had Noakes says. This was a lightbulb moment, because conventional more than 100 subjects, and the second-largest study used only 53 wisdom held that one of the reasons that dehydration was (sup- people. The median sample size? Nine. posedly) so dangerous was that it put people at risk for heatstroke, “Worryingly, most performance tests used to assess sports and this finding contradicted that assumption. drinks have never been validated.” The canoe study prompted Noakes to reconsider the idea that Another common shortcoming was that the studies were often maintaining full hydration was essential to staving off heatstroke. designed in a way that almost assured that they’d find a benefit Then, in 1981, a runner wrote to Noakes describing a strange ex- from sports drinks. Deborah Cohen, an investigations editor at the perience she’d had at that year’s Comrades Marathon — a famous BMJ who was involved in the project and wrote a summary of the 90-kilometer ultramarathon in South Africa. It was the first time findings, recalls a study in which volunteers who fasted overnight that the event had provided drink stations every mile of the 56- were divided into two groups, one whose members were given a mile course, he says, and the runner wrote to say that she’d begun sports drink containing water, salts and sugar and another whose feeling really strange about three-quarters of the way through the members received water. “People who were given the sports drink race. Her husband pulled her off the course and delivered her to fared better,” she says. “Well, no shit.” If you haven’t had any the medics. The first responders assumed she was dehydrated and food in 12 hours and then you get a bit of sugar, of course you’ll gave her two liters of intravenous fluid, after which she lost con- perform better than the people still running on empty. But to say sciousness. She had a seizure on the way to the emergency room. that this means the sports drink is superior to whatever a normal At the hospital, doctors discovered that her blood sodium person would consume leading up to or during exercise just isn’t concentration was dangerously low. The ultimate diagnosis was a generalizable, she says. “Who starves themselves overnight and medical condition called “water intoxication” or hyponatremia — then goes to perform some exercise?” And yet the BMJ investiga- too little sodium in the blood. Contrary to what the medical crew tion found that this type of study design is surprisingly common at the race had assumed, the runner wasn’t dehydrated— she was among tests of nutritional products. overhydrated. She’d drunk so much fluid that her blood sodium Some of the dazzling powers that sports drinks display in the had become dangerously diluted. Low blood sodium causes cells in studies touted by their makers may be nothing more than the the body to swell, and when it happens in the brain, the results can placebo effect. When people volunteer for a study to test a new be deadly. sports drink, they come to it with an expectation that the product Noakes has built a reputation as a loud contrarian on a variety will have some performance benefit. Studies use a placebo group of issues. He is perhaps most famous for his theories about exer- to factor out such effects, but a placebo only controls for these cise fatigue and has made a career out of pushing against conven- expectations when it’s indistinguishable from the real deal. So it’s tional scientific wisdom, some say to his own detriment.5 So it’s telling, Cohen says, that studies using plain water for the control not surprising that he was one of the first and loudest voices on group found that the sports drink had positive effects, while the overhydration (the guy wrote a whole book about it). ones that used taste-matched placebos didn’t. Yet Noakes is far from alone in worrying that the rush to pre- The BMJ analysis also concluded that many of the measures vent dehydration may have put exercisers at risk of the far more made in these studies may not matter for real-world performance. serious condition of water intoxication. In 1986, a research group “Worryingly, most performance tests used to assess sports drinks published a paper in the Journal of the American Medical Associa- have never been validated,” Heneghan and his colleagues write, tion describing the experience of a medical student and a physician and some of them are known to produce highly variable results who’d become stuporous and disoriented during an ultramarathon. that may not be reproducible. The men were diagnosed with hyponatremia, and they concluded Heneghan and his team concluded that claims about sports that they’d developed the condition by drinking too much. drinks rely on small studies with comparison groups that favor There’s never been a case of a runner dying of dehydration on the products being studied, a lack of rigorous blinding so that a marathon course, but since 1993, at least five marathoners have participants were likely nudged to perform better while taking in died from hyponatremia they developed during a race.6 At the the sports drinks, and measurements of effectiveness that might , researchers from Harvard Medical School not be meaningful in real life. Add to that statistical sleights of took blood samples from 488 marathoners after the finish. The TAFWA Newsletter - Page 32 - February 2019 samples showed that 13 percent of the runners had diagnosable it contains more waste than water, it looks dark, and if it’s mostly hyponatremia, and three had critical cases of the condition. Ger- water, it’s light or almost clear. But that’s not what’s important. man researchers similarly took blood samples from more than a What you really want to know is what’s going on in your blood, thousand finishers of the Ironman European Championship over and your urine can’t tell you that. Dark pee might mean that you’re multiple years and found that 10.6 percent of them had hypona- running low on fluid, but it could also mean that your kidneys are tremia. Most of the instances were mild, but nearly 2 percent of keeping your plasma osmolality in check by conserving water. Very the finishers had severe or critical cases. Although the findings in- light or clear urine just means that you’ve drunk more water than dicate that hyponatremia is still a rare condition, what makes them your body needs, and that’s not necessarily a good thing, especially especially concerning is that the early symptoms of hyponatremia right before an athletic event. are very easily confused with those of dehydration — weakness, Because of the way the body adapts to fluid loss, the common headache, nausea, dizziness and lightheadedness. advice to drink a lot in advance of a big event like a marathon The problem with this model of hydration is that it overlooks may actually backfire. If you drink a bunch of excess water leading basic physiology. up to a competition, you prime your body to become less adept How did hyponatremia become an affliction of athletes? In ret- at holding on to precious fluids, says Mark Knepper, chief of the rospect, it may come down to an error of shifted priorities. In the Epithelial Systems Biology Laboratory at the National Heart, Lung wake of Gatorade’s massive success, sports drink makers turned and Blood Institute. When you’re very hydrated, your body doesn’t to science to promote their products, and researchers focused on need to activate many aquaporins, and over time, it reduces the things that were easy to measure — body temperature and sweat number in reserve, meaning that you’ll have fewer of these water losses. Based on an idea that dehydration must be a risk factor for straws at the ready when you need them. heatstroke, attention moved to replenishing fluid loss. Yet everywhere I look, it seems that people are telling me to The problem with this model of hydration is that it overlooks drink more water. In his best- selling 2017 book, “The TB12 Meth- basic physiology. It turns out, your body is highly adapted to cope od,” New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady presents his with losing multiple liters of fluid, especially during exercise. magic hydration formula — drink at least one-half of your body When you exercise, you lose fluid and salts through sweat, and weight in ounces of water every day. “At 225 pounds, that means I that translates into a small change in what’s called your “plasma should be drinking 112 ounces a day, minimum,” he writes. (Brady osmolality” — the concentration of salts and other soluble com- also contends that “the more hydrated I am, the less likely I am to pounds in your blood. You need enough fluid and electrolytes in get sunburned,” a claim disputed by scientists.) If our bodies are so your blood for your cells to function properly, and this balance is good at adapting to moderate fluid loss and letting us know when tightly regulated by a feedback loop, says Kelly Anne Hyndman, a we need to drink, why are there still so many messages out there professor of medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham urging us to drink before we feel thirsty? and leading expert on kidney physiology. An obvious explanation for this is that most of what we hear When you sweat, your brain senses the corresponding rise in about hydration comes from companies and researchers with a plasma osmolality and directs the release of antidiuretic hormone vested interest in making it all seem complex and highly scientific. (ADH), which prods the kidneys to activate aquaporins, which The current guidelines from the ACSM and the National Athletic are like tiny straws that poke into the kidneys to draw water back Trainers’ Association have been updated to warn about hypo- into the blood. “It’s a pathway to conserve water,” Hyndman says. natremia, but they still promote the ideas that thirst is a poor As your body reabsorbs water, your plasma osmolality returns to indicator of hydration and that more than a 2 percent body weight normal, your brain senses the change, and it shuts down ADH. loss should be avoided. The ACSM, NSCA and NATA all receive This feedback loop is finely tuned to keep plasma osmolality in a funding from sports drink makers, as do some of their members. safe range. Even a tiny drop in electrolytes will activate this system If staying hydrated were as simple as just drinking to thirst, you to keep your fluid balance in check. “People always worry they’re wouldn’t need expert advice or scientifically formulated products going to be dehydrated when the reality is, it’s much easier to like Gatorade. over- hydrate because our bodies are so good at conserving water,” From a biological perspective, it’s hard to imagine that the Hyndman says. “Being a little dehydrated is not a bad thing. Our human body is so delicate that it can’t function properly without bodies can handle it.” scientists (or football stars) swooping in with calculators to tell Athletes who develop hyponatremia during exercise usually get us how to keep it running properly. “You have to trust your body,” there by drinking too much because they’ve been conditioned to Knepper says. Humans have evolved to survive exercising without think they need to drink beyond thirst, says Tamara Hew- Butler, chugging water or sports drink on some rigid schedule. “You get a professor of exercise science at Oakland University and the lead clues about what you need if you listen to your own body,” he says. author of several papers on hyponatremia. Even if you don’t drink “You don’t have to know chemistry to survive.” anything (which she does not recommend), your blood sodium After examining the science, I can’t help thinking we’ve made levels will rise in response to sweat losses, and as a result, your hydration unduly complicated. I take my dog running with me body will shift fluid into the blood to maintain your fluid balance, most of the time, and I’ve never measured the color of her pee Hew-Butler says. or forced her to drink (as if I could). I make sure she has regular The same feedback loop that calls in the aquaporins also acti- access to water, but she doesn’t always take it. At times, she won’t vates your thirst. “You don’t have to drink above thirst — you’ll drink at all during a long run, and on those occasions, she always be fine!” she says. Just as sleepiness is your body’s way of telling goes straight to her water dish when we get home and slurps until you that it’s time to sleep, thirst is how your body ensures that you she’s satisfied. I’ve never had to give her an emergency IV for low seek fluids when you need them. No one tells you to sleep before fluid levels. If drinking to thirst is good enough for her, it’s prob- you’re tired, and unless you’re in a situation where you can’t drink ably good enough for me too. for a prolonged period, there’s no sense in drinking before you feel thirsty either. Your body is a finely tuned machine that that Reprinted from “GOOD TO GO: What the Athlete in All of Us is capable of adapting to changing conditions, and it’s not usually Can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery” by Christie necessary to try to outsmart it. Aschwanden. Copyright © 2019 by Christie Aschwanden. With You can also forget those pee charts that look like paint permission of the publisher, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. All swatches for urine, and ignore anyone who says that yellow pee rights reserved. is a sign that you need to drink more water. If you think about hydration from the standpoint of what’s going on inside your body, it’s easy to see why urine hue isn’t helpful. The color of your pee is essentially just a measure of how concentrated your urine is. If TAFWA Newsletter - Page 33 - February 2019 Atlanta Track Club Unveils Course for 2020 U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Marathon https://www.atlantatrackclub.org/news/atlanta-track-club-unveils-course-for-2020-us-olympic-team-trials-marathon Atlanta Track Club and USA Track & Field unveiled the course map for the 2020 U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Marathon today. The route highlights Atlanta’s Olympic history and legacy as Olympic hopefuls chase their dreams of representing the United States at the Olympic Games in Tokyo. It will also provide an unprecedented number of opportunities for spectators to cheer on America’s top distance runners at all stages of the race which will be held on February 29, 2020.

The course consists of three 6-mile loops and one 8.2-mile loop. The start line will be located just outside of Centennial Olympic Park in front of the College Football Hall of Fame on Marietta Street near Atlanta’s popular downtown attractions including Georgia Aquarium, The Center for Civil and Human Rights and the World of Coca Cola before heading toward the city’s best known thoroughfare - Peachtree Street. On Peachtree, the run- ners will pass the Fox Theatre and loop around the Margaret Mitchell House, a museum honoring the legendary author of “Gone with the Wind.” From Peachtree Street, the course takes the competitors into Atlanta’s Historic Old Fourth Ward where they will find the Martin Luther King National Historic Park, birthplace and burial site of the Civil Rights icon.

The final loop will include a 2.2-mile section of the course, which will take the athletes by the Georgia State Capitol building and underneath the Olympic Rings and Cauldron structure outside Georgia State Stadium that served as the Olympic Stadium at the 1996 Atlanta Games. In the 26th mile, the race for a Tokyo Olympic berth will pass the homes of the Atlanta Falcons, Atlanta United FC and the Atlanta Hawks, and the Georgia World Congress Center before finishing inside Centennial Olympic Park, downtown’s transformational Olympic legacy green space.

Over the marathon distance, the Trials competitors will experience approximately 1,000 feet of elevation gain with a net elevation loss of 17 feet due to the proximity of the start and finish lines.

A virtual tour of the course can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX1QDIdJT74&feat ure=youtu.be

Map link: http://dynamix-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/atlantatrackcluborg/atlantatrackcluborg_554301737.pdf

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 34 - February 2019 Russia’s Athletics Federation sends to IAAF 172 apps of athletes seeking neutral status http://tass.com/sport/1043289 MOSCOW/TASS/. The All-Russia Athletics Federation (RusAF) has received 188 applications from national athletes requesting to grant them a neutral status, of which 172 have been already sent to the International As- sociation of Athletics Federations (IAAF), RusAF spokeswoman Natalia Yukhareva told TASS on Tuesday.

The IAAF Doping Review Board approved on December 18 an updated version of the Guidance Note for Au- thorized Neutral Athlete (ANA) status applications and sent the document to the RusAF. According to the docu- ment, “Athletes who were granted ANA status in 2018 are able to re-apply for eligibility in 2019 by completing a simplified application form.” The RusAF started accepting neutral status applications from national track and field athletes on December 19 and announced on January 21 that IAAF already granted permissions to 42 Rus- sian athletes.

“As of early February 5, we [RusAF] have received a total of 188 applications from national athletes and 172 of them were forwarded to IAAF,” Yukhareva said.

According to the IAAF regulations, the global athletics body has the right to disregard individual applications unaccompanied by an official document from the RusAF with all the necessary information, which the federa- tion has in regard to a particular applicant. The document must also state whether the RusAF confirms that an applicant is in compliance with all requirements and whether it grants its own approval.

The IAAF suspended RusAF’s membership in late 2015 following a wave of anti-doping rules violations and put forward a host of criteria, which the Russian ruling body of track and field sports was obliged to implement in order to restore its membership in the global federation.

The IAAF, however, permitted clean athletes from Russia to participate in the international tournaments under the neutral status or the Authorized Neutral Athlete (ANA) until the membership of the RusAF was rein- stated. IAAF’s previously issued neutral-status permissions for Russian athletes expired on December 31, 2018.

In late December, the IAAF reported that in 2018 the world’s athletics body received more than 200 appli- cations from Russian athletes. A total of 73 Russian athletes were declared eligible to compete as authorized neutral athletes in 2018. Sixty eight applications were denied and six athletes had their ANA status revoked. A number of further applications have been withdrawn or were submitted out of time.

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TAFWA Newsletter - Page 36 - February 2019 Partial Fixtures List 2019 Feb. 9 , New York City Feb. 22-24 USATF Indoor Championships, Staten Island, New York March 1-3 European Indoor Championships, Glasgow, Scotland March 8-9 NCAA Division I Indoor Championships, Birmingham, Alabama NCAA Division II Indoor Championships, Pittsburg, Kansas NCAA Division III Indoor Championships, Boston, March 27-30 Texas Relays, Austin, Texas March 30 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, Aarhus, April 15 Boston Marathon April 24-27 Drake Relays, Des Moines, Iowa April 25-27 Penn Relays, Philadelphia April 28 London Marathon May 11-12 IAAF World Relays, Yokohama, Japan May 23-25 NCAA Division I East Preliminary Rounds, Jacksonville, Florida NCAA Division I West Preliminary Rounds, Sacramento, California NCAA Division II Championships, Kingsville, Texas NCAA Division III Championships, Geneva, Ohio June 5-8 NCAA Division I Outdoor Championships, Austin, Texas June 30 Prefontaine Classic, Stanford, California (Tentative) June 23-28 European Games, Minsk, Belarus July 25-28 USATF Championships, Des Moines, Iowa Aug. 6-10 Pan-American Games, , Peru (tentative dates for track and field) Aug. 9-11 European Team Championships, Bydgoszcz, Poland Sept. 9-10 Europe vs. USA, Minsk, Belarus Sept. 27-Oct. 6 IAAF World Championships, Doha, Qatar Nov. 3 New York City Marathon Nov. 23 NCAA Division I Cross Country, Terre Haute, Indiana NCAA Division II Cross Country, Sacramento, California NCAA Division III Cross Country, Louisville, Kentucky

2020 Feb. 29 U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Marathon, Atlanta, Georgia March 13-14 NCAA Division I Indoor Championships, Albuquerque, New Mexico NCAA Divsion II Indoor Championships, Birmingham, Alabama NCAA Division III Indoor Championships, Geneva, Ohio May 21-23 NCAA Division II Outdoor Championships, Kingsville, Texas NCAA Division III Outdoor Championships, Rochester, New York May 28-30 NCAA Division I East Preliminary Rounds, Lexington, Kentucky NCAA Division I West Preliminary Rounds, Lawrence, Kansas June 10-13 NCAA Division I Outdoor Championships, Austin, Texas June 19-28 U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Track & Field, Eugene, Oregon July 7-12 IAAF World U20 Championships, Nairobi, Kenya July 24 - Aug 9 Olympic Games, Tokyo, Japan (Track & Field dates: July 31 - August 8) Nov. 21 NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships, Stillwater, Oklahoma NCAA Division II Cross Country Championships, Evansville, Indiana NCAA Division III Cross Country Championships, Pittsburgh, 2021 Aug. 6-15 IAAF World Championships, Eugene, Oregon

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