July 2019

Track and Field Contents Writers of P. 2 President’s Message America P. 3 2019 TAFWA Awards (Founded June 7, 1973) P. 4 Thank You Letter from Tony Duffy P. 5 USATF Media Accreditation PRESIDENT Jack Pfeifer P. 6 Shore Athletics Club 85th Anniversary Reunion 2199 NW Everett St. #601 P. 6 NCAA Says California Schools Could be Banned from Championships if Bill isn’t Dropped Portland, Oregon 97210 P. 7 Austin Meek: Where’s the Buzz for Oregon21? Office/home: 917-579- 5392. Email: P. 8 Happy Birthday to the International Olympic Committee - 125 Today [email protected] P. 10 Former Marathon World Record Holder Dale Greig Dies P. 11 Significant Changes to Olympic Bid Process Approved by IOC Session SECRETARY- TREASURER P. 12 IAAF Submits Response to Swiss Federal Tribunal Tom Casacky P. 12 Adidas 3-Stripes Logo Doesn’t Deserve Trademark Protection, EU Court Rules P.O. Box 4288 P. 13 Hilton Eugene Rebrand Underway Napa, CA 94558 Phone: 818-321-3234 P. 14 Female Athletes File Federal Discrimination Complaint Over Transgender Competition Email: [email protected] P. 14 Thirty-three Russians Face New Doping Allegations

FAST P. 15 Rosalie Fish Ran for a Cause Greater Than Herself at State Dave Johnson P. 17 Track Body IAAF to Rebrand as Email: P. 17 Stanford Men, Oregon Women Named NCAA DI Programs of the Year [email protected] Phone: 215-898-6145 P. 17 USOC Seeks Pregnant-Athlete Insurance Reform P. 17 Transgender Woman Who Last Year Competed as a Man Wins NCAA Track Championship WEBMASTER P. 18 Withering Heights Michael McLaughlin Email: P. 20 Can Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Live up to Legacy of 1964, When Japan Last Hosted? [email protected] P. 22 Talitha Diggs Has Found Her Lane Phone: 815-529-8454 P. 23 Rule 40 Guidelines to be Sent to NOCs as IOC Claims Balance Reached Between Athletes NEWSLETTER EDITOR and Commercial Rights Shawn Price P. 24 When the New Finally Opens for Business, Will Eugene Still be Track Town? Email: P. 25 Scramble for Olympic Tickets in Japan; Rest of World Waits [email protected] Phone: 979-661-0731 P. 26 History and Secrets at a Place Few Know Exists - Inside the Olympic Studies Centre P. 27 Fans Beware: Posting Olympic Videos to Social Networking Service Will be Banned P. 28 Six Pennies Richer P. 30 USA Track & Field’s Pan Am Debacle Gets Ever Weirder: An Arbitrator Has Apparantly Ruled Against USATF, but Only in Certain Events P. 31 Kenya’s Rio Olympics Team Manager Gets 10-Year Ban P. 32 : My Own Nike Pregnancy Story P. 33 First World Record for 2020 Virgin Money London Marathon P. 34 French Prosecutors Lay Out Allegations Against Former IAAF Chief Diack P. 35 The Match Europe v USA Minsk 2019 Website is Now Live P. 36 Whither Jamaica’s Track & Field ... P. 38 2019 TAFWA Awards - Austin P. 45 Partial Fixtures List President’s Message - July 2019 The NCAA Championships TAFWA’s annual Awards Breakfast was held at the NCAA again this year, on the Friday morning of the championships. A private organization affiliated with the host school, the University of Texas Club, was gracious enough to cohost the event at its quarters in Memorial Stadium, across the street from the track stadium. This meant the event was conveniently located and affordably priced for us. We are appreciative to the Club for its support. A complete rundown of this year’s recipients, along with a photo display by member Kim Spir, appears elsewhere in this issue. There were some issues involving the working conditions for the press in Austin this year. Rather than going into gory detail, I’ll try to be brief:

Credential Pickup The timing for pickup was inconvenient for many members of the press, and you had to pay to park in order to pick up … your parking pass Press box The Mike Myers Stadium press box – an excellent setup with two levels, multiple work rooms, air condition- ing, a good view of the finish line, and restrooms -- was closed to the press. Instead, it was used sporadically by the meet Games Committee. By Day 2, someone had handwritten a sign in capital letters that said NO MEDIA ALLOWED! – yes, with an exclamation mark – and taped it to the door to the Press Box. This was to block use of the restroom. On most of the four days, it was either raining or 98 degrees. It’s hard to do your job in such conditions when you have to work outside.

Interviews One more issue. With the exception of the postrace Mixed Zone and the premeet staged Press Conference, there is lim- ited access to athletes. Such access is tightly controlled. Want better coverage? Let your athletes speak to the press. There are good stories that go to waste because the schools prevent most interviews. (By the way, enough of some of the younger members of the working press asking juvenile questions such as, “What is your favorite snack food? What is your favorite song? What do you like to wear when you go out?” This is not high school.)

Hayward Field Our latest information here at the Home Office in Oregon is that construction is going well. The target completion date is May 1, 2020, and the first meet is now expected to be next spring’s Pac-12 Championships. (The multis would be a week earlier in Corvallis.) The rest of the spring schedule would be the Oregon State HS Championships, the and the Olympic Trials. Some ticket sales for the Trials have already begun. Official stadium capacity will be 12,500, with temporary seating doubling that for the Trials and for the 2021 World Championships.

Eugene Hilton You will not, however, be staying at the Eugene Hilton for any of those meets. As reported in this Newsletter, that hotel has been sold and is no longer a Hilton property. You won’t get a sad farewell from these quarters. A few years ago, that hotel canceled an agreement it had made with TAFWA with no notice and moved us to a windowless room on the first floor for our annual get-together. A followup letter received no apology or response. Good riddance. History of the Michigan HS State Meet 1895-2018 Just released by the longtime TAFWA member Jeff Hollobaugh and his collaborator, Jim Moyes: Decades in the making, this is the authoritative history of Michigan’s high school state finals in outdoor track & field, a meet that traces its origins to 1895. The- ac tion, the records, the stories, the fascinating athletes and coaches--it’s all here. Each year includes a write-up of the highlights and stars who broke records. There are also over 20 feature articles on many of the legends of Michigan track: Eddie Tolan, Eu- gene Beatty, Bill Watson, Lorenzo Wright, Rex Cawley, Hayes Jones, etc. Also included is a complete listing of every state champion individual ever, even the individuals on winning relays--a total of 24,000+ names!

It can be ordered directly for $24.99 + $5 shipping: Jeff Hollobaugh, 3130 Kensington, Dexter MI 48130.

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 2 - July 2019 2019 TAFWA Awards Cordner Nelson Memorial Award for a body of work writing about track & field, to Sheldon Mickles, Baton Rouge, La.

James O. Dunaway Memorial Award for excellence in track & field journalism, to David Hunter, of Silver Lake, Ohio

Sam Skinner Award for exemplary cooperation with track & field journalists, to , University of Houston

Adam Jacobs Memorial Award for online excellence, to Letsrun.com, Robert and Weldon Johnson

Pinkie Sober Award for past excellence in track & field announcing, to Stan Saplin, New York City

Scott Davis Award for excellence in track & field announcing, to Kevin Saylors, Seattle, Wash.

Manning Solon Award for a career of excellence in track & field photography, to Tony Duffy, Los Angeles

Rich Clarkson Award for excellence in track & field photography, to Pat Holleran, Eugene, Ore.

Don Potts FAST Award for statistical excellence, to Larry Story, Fort Worth, Texas, past editor of Texas Track & Field News

Bud Greenspan Memorial Award for excellence in film and video, to “ for Good: The Fiona Oakes Documentary,” producer/ director Keegan Kuhn, of Sedona, Ariz.

Armory Foundation Book Award, to “The Wizard of Foz: Dick Fosbury’s One-Man Revolution,” by Bob Welch, of Eu- gene, Ore., with Dick Fosbury

H. D. Thoreau Broadcasting Award, to Lewis Johnson, Dallas In several instances, the recipients will be recognized in person and receive their plaques at the next TAFWA Awards Ceremony, in Eugene, Ore., June 26, 2020

2018 FAST AWARD TO BILL PECK TAFWA is pleased to announce that Bill Peck is the winner of the FAST Award for 2018. We waited to announce this formally until we were able to locate Bill and present the award to him in person. Member Jack Shepard drove from his home in Los Angeles to Hemet, Calif., where Bill now resides, to make the presentation. (See photo.) An excellent runner in his own right, Peck began statistical compiling on his own in the early 1960s, probably while he was still an undergraduate at Occidental College in Los An- geles. He worked with data from early NCAA, AAU and Spalding guides at the beginning, and later prepared age-group lists for Starting Line magazine. In recent years he collaborated with Tom Casacky on the History of the California State Meet 1915 to 2006, a project he contin- ues to work on. Because he does not have a car, phone or computer, he uses old-school method- ology – transport by bicycle, recordkeeping by paper and pencil. As a runner, Peck was a scorer in the NCAA Championships for Oxy in ’60 (6th place) and ’61 (8th). He ran the Olympic Trials steeple in 1960 and had lifetime bests of 9:09.3 in that event and 30:38.0 in the 10k. He won the Mt U.S. Marine Corps. He grew up near Laurel Canyon Boulevard, in the Hol- SAC 10 in ’61 and is a member of the Occiden- lywood Hills, and graduated from Hollywood High School. After college he tal College Hall of Fame. taught history and coached at Eagle Rock and other high schools in the LA Prior to college, Peck served four years in the area. TAFWA Newsletter - Page 3 - July 2019 Thank you letter from Tony Duffy For the first 80 years of my life I’d avoided even one overnight in a hospital, and I recollect bragging about that to friends. Big Mistake! Since 1st January 2019 I’ve spent more time in hospital beds than in my own, including one spell of 4 months straight from which I’ve only recently returned. With that in mind I should perhaps keep news of the Manning Solon Award very quiet, lest it fall off a shelf and brains me.

Seriously, this Award came as a complete surprise, but a very welcome one. Although I started photographing track in 1967 my most productive years in the UK were in the Coe, Ovett, Cram era of middle distance running and Daley Thomp- son in the multis. During that whole era I’d been casting envious eyes across the pond to events in USA, the acknowledged leader of the sport, and wondering how I could manage to spend more time over there, especially at their Olympic Trials.

This finally happened in 1972 when the US Olympic Trials were held in Eugene, Oregon, for the first of what was to be a dominating run of Trials in that City, now known as Track Town USA. The two Press Officers were Pete Cava and the late Hal Bateman, giving their good cop/bad cop routine an airing with tongues in cheek. On the track John Smith set a WR in the 440 yards, which he still holds, as he constantly reminds me, if only because the USA converted to meters later that year. And Bob Seagren again raised the bar and set another WR. Both Dave Wottle in the 800 meters and in the 100 meters equaled world records.

In 1984, AllSport USA opened an office in Santa Monica and I didn’t miss another Olympic Trials until the Millennium arrived. 10 minutes from our office was the UCLA track where Flojo and Maurice Greene, the world’s fastest woman and man trained along with JJK, who had set the heptathlon WR which still stands. One event that the USOC ran in those days was the Olympic Festivals. Run along the lines of the Olympics these multi sport Festivals were the perfect introduction to the Olympics themselves for both athletes and media.

In 2000 I took out US citizenship and now regard San Diego as my home. I’m very grateful for all the opportunities I’ve had, particularly in the sport of track and field. This is the only Lifetime Achievement I’ve ever received and it means a great deal to me.

Thank you, Tony Duffy

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 4 - July 2019 Media accreditation open for 2019 Toyota USATF Outdoor Championships

The media credential application is now open for the 2019 Toyota USATF Outdoor Championships. Click here to see USATF’s credential guidelines and here for broadcast restrictions. The deadline is July 12, 2019. As a reminder, both media parking and media tribune space is very limited and we will work to accommodate as many media as possible.

Toyota USATF Outdoor Championships July 25-28, 2019 Drake Stadium - Des Moines, Iowa #ToyotaUSATFOutdoors Click here to access the credential form. The application deadline is July 12, 2019 at 5 p.m. ET.

Des Moines Accomodations - USATF Championships For TAFWA members attending the USATF Outdoor Championships in Des Moines July 25-28, 15 rooms have been set aside with special media rates at two hotel properties: Holiday Inn, downtown Mercy Campus -five minute drive to Drake Stadium Sheraton Hotel, West Des Moines - 15 minute drive to Drake Stadium

Here is the room block link for media for USATF: https://mmxreservations.com/fer/desmoines?groupCode=R ooms&eventId=5370 Details on both properties are on that link. Publications TAFWA member Marc Bloom’s new book, “Amazing Racers,” about the remarkable Fayetteville-Manlius (NY) cross-country team, published by Pegasus Books, will be launched Aug. 6-7, in the Syracuse area where the team is located. There will be a talk by Marc and F-M coach Bill Aris Tuesday, Aug. 6 at 7 PM, at the Barnes & Noble in DeWitt, and then a media-specific event the next day at a site to be determined. All media are invited to both. A fun run with Marc and some of the former team members he wrote about is also being planned. Art Hindle has available spares of Track & Field News and Track Newsletter dating from the 1950s. He is looking for pre-2000 issues of Track Stats, as well as Volume 42, #4 (2004), either in hard copy or scanned.

The following publications are available from Art. If interested, contact him at [email protected].

“Athletics Weekly” 1975 Bound volume

Sheridan, Michael L. :”British Athletics 1951-1959:Sunset of the Golden Years” [11 April 2008] Isbn 9780953659746 205 pages Original cost : £16.00

Sheridan, Michael L. , “ 1950: “Long Spikes, Short Rations” British Athletics 1950” isbn 9780953659720 Original cost : £11.00 120 pages published 2004

Sheridan, Michael L. ,”British Athletics 1951 : Complete Rankings for men & women for the 1951 season” ”Original cost: £17.50

Sheridan, Michael L. , “British Athletics 1952: Complete rankings for men & women for the 1952 season” Original cost: £12.00

Sheridan, Michael L. “ British Athletics 1953” Original cost : £13.00 Published 2015, 119 pages No ISBN indicated on book

Sheridan, Michael L. ,”British Athletics 1954” Original cost £14.00 141 pages, No isbn indicated on book Published 2015

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 5 - July 2019 Shore Athletic Club 85th Anniversary Reunion Shore AC is hosting an 85th Anniversary Reunion on Sunday, November 24, 2019, along with Elliott Denman’s 85th birthday party from noon to 4 p.m. at McLoone’s Pier House in Long Branch, New Jersey. The reunion and birthday party enables everyone to come together to celebrate ... the sports we love most, enjoy the company of fellow track and field enthusiasts and celebrate the 85th birthday year of long-time Club President Elliott Den- man with his wife Jo and many Denman family members. Festivities will take place at McLoone’s Pier House overlooking the ocean in Long Branch, where the old Shore AC began in 1964. Tim McLoone, past Shore AC President and Hall of Fame member, will emcee the event. Enjoy spectacular views of the Atlantic Ocean, two complimentary beer or wine tickets, passed hors d’oeuvres, buffet lunch, dessert, coffee and tea for $85. Under 21 tickets available. All net profits from the event will benefit the Shore Athletic Club’s many programs throughout the year.

Club History: The original Shore AC began in 1934 In 1964 Elliott Denman of West Long Branch, a US Olympian in the 50-km race walk at the 1956 Melbourne Games, and several collaborators revitalized the Shore Athletic Club. The old Shore AC was founded by brothers, Ed and Art Wisner of Long Branch, in 1934. The late Don Johnson had been a member of the early Shore AC from the 1930s onward and told Elliott and others of the club’s name and glorious history. The new track and field club decided to continue the Shore AC name and the rest is history. LINK: https://www.shoreac.org/store/p6/New_Jersey_Track_Reunion_Party%21_%7C_Sunday_November_24%2C_2019.html NCAA says California schools could be banned from championships if bill isn’t dropped By Steve Berkowitz | USA Today | https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/2019/06/24/ncaa-california- schools-could-banned-championships-over-bill/1542632001/ The NCAA is ratcheting up its opposition to a California The NCAA panel is scheduled to update the association’s bill that would allow college athletes in the state to earn of governors in August and make a final report in Oc- compensation for the use of their own name, image or like- tober. The California legislative session ends in September. ness, beginning in 2023. “We recognize all of the efforts that have been under- In a letter to the chairs of two State Assembly committees taken to develop this bill in the context of complex issues last week, NCAA President Mark Emmert implied that if related to the current collegiate model that have been the the bill becomes law as it is written, California schools could subject of litigation and much national debate,” Emmert face the prospect of being prohibited from participating in wrote in his letter to the committee chairs. “Nonetheless, NCAA championships. That includes 23 NCAA Division I when contrasted with current NCAA rules, as drafted the schools, four of which are in the Pac-12 Conference. bill threatens to alter materially the principles of intercol- The bill overwhelmingly passed the state Senate last legiate athletics and create local differences that would month. make it impossible to host fair national championships. As On Tuesday, it is scheduled to be the subject of a hearing a result, it likely would have a negative impact on the exact and a vote by the Assembly’s Arts, Entertainment, Sports, student-athletes it intends to assist.” Tourism and Internet Media Committee. A spokeswoman for Assembly member Kansen Chu (D- If the bill advances, it would go to the Higher Education San Jose), who will chair Tuesday’s hearing, said Emmert’s Committee, which would have to approve it by July 11 for it letter prompted Chu to seek an amendment from the bill’s to remain alive this year. author, Sen. Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley). Late last week, In his letter, Emmert asks the committees to postpone wording was added that says “it is the intent of the Legisla- consideration of the bill while the NCAA reviews its rules ture to monitor” the NCAA working group and “revisit this concerning athletes’ ability to make money from their issue to implement significant findings and recommenda- names, images and likenesses. tions of the NCAA working group in furtherance of the On May 14 – about a week before the Senate approved statutory changes proposed by this act.” the bill by a 31-4 vote – the NCAA announced the creation And the statutory changes proposed by the bill remain of a “working group” of school presidents and athletics intact. administrators to “examine issues highlighted in recently “We wanted to say that we know that a process is going proposed federal and state legislation related to student- on now, but we do want to see something substantial come athlete name, image and likeness.” out of that stakeholder group,” said Chu’s spokeswoman, Rep. Mark Walker (R-N.C.) introduced a bill in Congress Annie Pham. in in March that has an intent similar to the California bill.

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 6 - May 2019 Austin Meek: Where’s the buzz for Oregon21? https://www.registerguard.com/sports/20190615/austin-meek-wheres-buzz-for-oregon21 Preparations for the 2021 World Track & Field Championships must be going swimmingly.

If not, surely we would have heard about it, right?

That seems to be the attitude of organizers responsible for staging this massive event in Eugene two summers from now. We heard a great deal about the transformative nature of the world championships when local organizers were lobbying for funding and public support. Now that the transformation is underway, details of the preparations have been scarce.

Representatives of Oregon21, the entity managing the event, gave a closed-door presentation to the IAAF last weekend. IAAF president Sebastian Coe said he was pleased with the report but referenced some unique challenges associated with the rebuilt Hayward Field.

“These will be a very different type of championships but that in essence is a good thing,” Coe said. “We don’t want to just become a homogeneous series of events.”

That’s about all the detail we’ve gotten about how Eugene is getting ready for the one of the largest sporting events in the world. You can drive along Agate Street and see the structure of Hayward Field taking shape, but finding someone to talk about the world championships is a surprisingly difficult task.

TrackTown USA, the local organization that led the charge to secure the world championships, now defers all questions about the event to Oregon21, an LLC formed to represent the various world championship stakeholders. Planning for the event is being handled by Niels de Vos, the executive director of Oregon21.

“When he gets his plan in place, we’ll be in a position to help,” TrackTown CEO Michael Reilly said.

De Vos, the former head of UK Athletics, was hired seven months ago to lead Oregon21. Since then Oregon21 has cut ties with a public affairs agency working on its behalf, and attempts to interview de Vos have been unsuccessful.

“I appreciate your support but honestly I don’t think that there is a lot to report at present as my focus remains very much internal, aligning all our planning with the IAAF event requirements,” de Vos wrote last week in response to an email from The Register-Guard. “The meeting with the IAAF last weekend was simply one in a sequence of regular updates as part of that sharing process. I’m pleased to say that they continue to be happy with the progress update that we provided.”

Left unanswered are some key questions surrounding the world championships, including the biggest of all: Who’s pay- ing for all of this?

Eugene’s bid was predicated on up to $40 million in state funding. It’s not clear where all of that will come from, or who will be on the hook to cover the difference if organizers fail to raise what they need.

“It’s a very reasonable question,” Reilly said. “I’m just not in a position to answer it.”

What’s apparent here is just how much Vin Lananna was doing to keep track and field in the public consciousness. La- nanna was the force behind these big events, and his departure from TrackTown has left a leadership in the local track scene.

Lananna understood the importance of promotion. Some of it was over the top, but there was always a countdown clock, a ribbon-cutting or some other form of public outreach to keep fans engaged.

It’s important to understand that Eugene is fundamentally different from any other community that’s ever hosted the world championships. It’s an enclave of passionate track fans in a country that, on the whole, doesn’t really care about the sport.

Lananna recognized the importance of treating local fans like they’re special, making them feel included. If Oregon21 organizers grasp that, they haven’t shown it yet.

The 2021 world championships are more than two years away, so maybe this is the calm before the storm. But if the world championships are shaping up to be the kind of life-altering event track fans were promised, you’d think organizers would be eager to say so.

I guess we’ll have to infer it instead. TAFWA Newsletter - Page 7 - July 2019 Happy birthday to the International Olympic Committee - 125 today By Phillip Barker | Inside The Games | https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1081072/happy-birth- day-to-the-international-olympic-committee-125-today It is the “the supreme authority and in 1896 were awarded to after a self-made millionaire and apologist for the leadership” of a global movement which speech by Dimitrios Vikelas, the Greek German regime, stepped into Jahncke’s has more than 200 member nations and delegate who lived in . He was elected IOC shoes. has endured world wars, decades of politi- President. The Games planned for 1940 or 1944 cal boycotts, financial scandals and doping. It was initially intended as a short term proved impossible because of war. When Today, the International Olympic Com- appointment, drawn from the country peace returned, there were tricky waters to mittee (IOC) celebrates its 125th anniver- about to stage the Games. Had the rule negotiate. sary as President Thomas Bach cuts the been in force today, the current IOC Presi- and Japan were excluded from ribbon at their new headquarters on the dent would be Japanese. the first post-war Olympic Games, but the shores of Lake Geneva. When bid for 1908, others Cold War threatened peace once again. The IOC was founded after a meeting stepped aside. Coubertin proclaimed it Over the next few years the IOC faced divi- called by French nobleman Baron Pierre would be a “sumptuous toga” for Olymp- sion in Germany, on the Korean Peninsula de Coubertin in 1894. The great and good ism. The eruption of Vesuvius forced the and in China. gathered at the Sorbonne in Paris and re- Games’ abandonment. London stepped in Since joining the IOC, Brundage had solved to revive the Olympic Games which instead, and although there were contro- become very influential and in 1952 he be- had been established in antiquity. versial moments, the Games were consid- came President. He was delighted that East French was established as the official ered a success. and West Germany marched together in language, which is why announcements at The Olympic reputation was enhanced the late 1950s and early 1960s but the Ko- any Olympic event are in both French and further by the Stockholm Games in 1912. rean and Chinese problems proved harder English. The IOC was 20 years old in 1914, to solve. There was also South Africa in the Early IOC Sessions were often accom- but within a few days, the world was at apartheid years. As many other African na- panied by a Congress. These were seen as war. had already been chosen for tions became independent, they demanded important academic events with delegates the 1916 Games and had already built a action but it was not until 1970 that their often including distinguished scholars at stadium. Most expected the conflict to end formal expulsion came. They did not return universities. quickly. to the fold until 1992. The IOC was described as a “gentle- In fact, it lasted four years and many Brundage was particularly hostile to the men’s club”. Coubertin had been greatly Olympians died in the fighting. Winter Games in which he saw flagrant impressed by the club system in London By the time the IOC reconvened in 1919, breaches of amateurism. Matters came to a where members, invariably men, were Coubertin had established headquarters in head when Austrian skier Karl Schranz was not elected but “co-opted”. It inspired his Lausanne. expelled from the Olympic Village before recruitment of IOC members. The IOC would also occupy the Casino the 1972 Games in Sapporo. With refreshing candour, Coubertin Montbenon before establishing more per- “He had a little black book,” said admitted: “I was allowed a free hand in the manent headquarters at Mon Repos. Schranz. “He could afford to get rid of me choice of members for the IOC. Nobody The 1920 Olympics were awarded to in 1972 because we were a small nation. I seemed to have noticed that I had chosen Antwerp. Germany and her allies were not tried to talk to him about the decision but almost exclusively absentee members. re-admitted until 1928. he said ‘we do not talk to individuals.’” “As their names figured on the long list Throughout the 1920s, amateur regula- It was an episode which for many epito- of honorary members, people were ac- tions were frequently debated. Many felt mised Brundage’s shortcomings as IOC customed to seeing their names and readily athletes should be compensated for loss of President. assumed that they were staunch members earnings or “broken time”. He stepped down in 1972 aged 83, but always at their tasks. I needed elbow room More seriously, the spectre of war not before making an insensitive speech from the start.” returned. Adolf Hitler came to power after at a memorial service for the Israelis who Even today, members are described as Berlin had been awarded the 1936 Games. were killed in a terrorist attack at the Mu- “volunteers”. They are not delegates from Previously critical of the Olympic Move- nich Olympic Village. their countries, but rather representatives ment, he seized the opportunity to use it to His successor was Irish peer Lord of the Olympic Movement. glorify the Third Reich. Killanin, who cut a more conciliatory Initially, membership was by personal Sophisticated organisation hid a regime figure. Yet his tenure was beset by turmoil invitation but now the IOC also has catego- in which Jewish athletes were effectively which threatened the very existence of ries for active athletes and officials. Their barred. Many feel the Olympic Movement the Games and affected his own personal membership is “linked to a function” with should have taken a stronger line. health. either a National Olympic Committee or The IOC did act decisively when Denver, anointed Winter Olympic hosts International Federation. American member Lee Jahncke insisted for 1976, handed them back after a refer- In 2019, there are still just more than he “couldn’t reconcile sportsmanship with endum. The 1964 hosts Innsbruck stood in 100 active IOC members. Most agree that Hitlerism” and called for a Berlin boycott. at short notice. any more would make the organisation too IOC minutes record that “the Com- Preparations for Montreal 1976 were unwieldy, although it means that half the mittee unanimously decided to exclude beset by rising costs and strikes. When The Olympic “family” has no say in who hosts him”. William May Garland, the other Queen opened them, the stadium was still the Games. American member, abstained but nonethe- unfinished. Early decisions on Olympic hosts were less expressed his deep disapproval of his A tour of South Africa by the New reached in elegant fashion. The first Games colleague’s attitude. Avery Brundage, a Zealand rugby union team also triggered a TAFWA Newsletter - Page 8 - July 2019 boycott by African nations who called it an “One day you will be IOC President”. step we must take is to clean our house. We “an eloquent protest” against apartheid. He was the first since Coubertin to live must root out all forms of inappropriate or Political games continued with an im- in Lausanne full-time. There was soon a unethical behaviour among our member- passe between the nationalist Republic of power battle with IOC director Monique ship.” China − Taiwan − and the People’s Republic Berlioux, at the time the most powerful Six were accused of improper conduct of China. woman in the Movement. Berlioux eventu- and after a secret ballot, all were expelled Killanin tried hard to broker a settle- ally resigned. from the IOC. Others had already resigned. ment and by the end of his Presidency, it Flor Isava Fonseca of Venezuela and Reforms included new bidding rules. was at hand. In “Olympic speak” offshore Pirjo Haggman of Finland had become the Athletes became full IOC members for the Taiwan was styled as “Chinese Taipei” with first women to actually join the IOC. It first time. New ethical guidelines were pro- a special “Olympic” flag. The communist was a gentlemen’s club no more, although duced and the World Anti-Doping Agency mainland was the People’s Republic of it took a while for female numbers to was established. China. increase. Samaranch took his leave after a hugely Since 1984 the two have both competed. Even Samaranch was unable to head-off successful Sydney 2000 Games which did The delicate name game was threatened a Soviet-bloc boycott of the 1984 Games in much to restore faith in the Olympic Move- with disruption earlier this year, but a vote Los Angeles where Yugoslavia and Romania ment. His successor was surgeon Jacques in Taiwan went with retaining the ‘’Olym- were the only Eastern Europeans to attend. Rogge of . pic’’ name of Chinese Taipei. Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu In an echo of Montreal 1976, construc- Many hailed the choice of Moscow for was later awarded the Olympic Order. In tion delays put the 2004 Athens Games the 1980 Games as a grand symbol of the years which followed, East Germany’s in jeopardy. Yet although there were some détente. In 1979 all seemed to be progress- Erich Honecker and ’s Todor rough edges, Rogge was eventually able to ing well. The Soviets opened their national Zhivkov were also honoured in similar describe them as “dream Games”. people’s Games, known as the Spartakiade, fashion. It emphasised the political tight- His own legacy will be hallmarked by the to western nations and NBC set up camp in rope which the IOC President was forced introduction of the Youth Olympic Games the Russian capital. to walk. in August 2010. First staged in Singapore, But in late December, Soviet tanks rolled The 1984 Games attracted 140 nations they will also take Olympic competition to into Afghanistan. The response from the and even delivered a profit of some $225 African soil for the first time in 2022 when White House was swift. million (£177 million/€197 million). It the summer version is held in Senegal. “I’ve sent a message today to the United made the Olympics a desirable property at Rogge stood down in 2013. A very States Olympic Committee, spelling out a time when many had predicted their de- competitive leadership race was won by my own position,” said American President mise. The Olympic Partner programme was Germany’s Thomas Bach, the team foil gold Jimmy Carter. now introduced to streamline sponsorship. medallist in 1976, who thus became the “That unless the Soviets withdraw their Against many forecasts, Seoul 1988 first Olympic champion to lead the Move- troops within a month from Afghanistan, was also a great success. The few absentees ment. that the Olympic Games be moved from included North Korea who had made a In the early years of his Presidency he Moscow to an alternate site, or multiple late demand to co-host events. Although developed his Agenda 2020 which included sites, or postponed or cancelled.” everyone went through the motions, there the launch of an Olympic Channel. By chance, the American resort of Lake was no real hope of success. His first Games in charge were Sochi Placid hosted the Winter Olympics that For the first time invitations were 2014 where there had been remarkable year. At the IOC Session, a highly politi- sent from Lausanne rather than the local transformation. But in the years that fol- cal speech by US secretary of state Cyrus Organising Committee. This made it more lowed came revelations of widespread, and Vance repeated Carter’s demands. difficult to refuse without seeming to insult it transpired, officially-sanctioned doping ‘’As these words came down from the the entire Olympic Movement. described by IOC doyen Dick Pound as a rostrum there were a lot of white knuck- Seoul and Nagoya had been the only two “flagrant attack on the Olympic Games and les gripping the arms of chairs to conceal cities to bid for 1988 but 13 cities travelled on clean athletes by Russia”. anger,” fumed Killanin later. to Lausanne in 1986 where the 1992 Sum- Some criticised the IOC for not doing The US did not attend Moscow. Other mer and Winter Games were to be chosen. enough to sanction the Russians while oth- refuseniks included Canada, West Germany There was fierce lobbying and many were ers felt they had gone too far. and Japan. Of those who went, 18 agreed uneasy at the largesse on offer. Lavish gifts But the problem of doping remains a to use the Olympic flag and anthem. Most were offered to members and there were major challenge everywhere. Retesting striking of all, New Zealand marched under cruises on Lake Geneva alongside a range of samples from as far back as 2008 has a black flag emblazoned with rings and the of other parties. Accusations of pressure forced record books to be re-written on a silver fern, the emblem of their National were brought to bear. regular basis. Olympic Committee. The warning signs were not heeded. In Despite initiatives intended to encour- At the Opening Ceremony, Killanin talk- 1998, senior IOC member Marc Hodler age bidding cities, it has proved impossible ed of those who had “shown their complete revealed that there had been serious ir- to achieve more than a two-horse race for independence to travel to compete despite regularities in Salt Lake City’s 2002 Winter the 2026 Winter Games. many pressures placed upon them”. Games bid. Some IOC members were impli- This week though, it will be celebration At the Closing Ceremony, he asked the cated in receiving money or gifts in kind. all the way at the impressive new Olympic world to “unite in peace before the holo- “Make no mistake, there has never been House. It “combines symbolism, function- caust descends”. a crisis of this magnitude faced by the ality and sustainability,” said Prince Albert The keys to Lausanne were handed to IOC and the Olympic Movement,” warned of . Purpose-built, it seems the new IOC President Juan Antonio Sama- Samaranch when the IOC gathered for an perfect HQ for the next 125 years. ranch who had been Spanish ambassador Extraordinary Session in 1999. Just how the Olympic Movement will in Moscow. “Bidding cities which may have acted develop in that time is another question. He had fulfilled a prophesy by former improperly are a matter of the past. It is President Brundage who had told him: our IOC which is now on trial. The first TAFWA Newsletter - Page 9 - July 2019 Former Marathon World Record Holder Dale Greig Dies By Richard Sandomir | The New York Times | https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/16/sports/dale-greig-dead.html Dale Greig had been a champion cross-country runner in when she decided to run the Isle of Wight Mara- thon in 1964. It was a bold decision. Not only was it her first marathon; she was also entering what had been an exclusively male preserve. Women were all but excluded from running the 26-mile 385-yard race because the track authorities believed that they were too weak to endure it. There would be no women’s Olympic marathon until 1984. Race organizers on the Isle of Wight were sympathetic enough to let Greig (pronounced GREG) run. But they required her to start four minutes before the 67 men in the field, and sent an ambulance behind her in case she faltered or collapsed. Her mother, Anna, followed in a car. Greig was nervous but survived the day’s rigors — unlike 19 of the men, who did not finish. Running in the 80-degree heat on a hilly course, she completed the race in 3 hours 27 minutes 25 seconds. The International Association of Athletics Federations, the governing body of track and field, would later record that time as a world best for a woman on a certified course. “Once I started, I knew things would be all right,” she said afterward, adding, “I felt sorry for the men I kept passing in the closing stages — they looked embarrassed.” Greig died on May 12 in a hospice in Paisley, Scotland. Her death, confirmed by Co-Op Funeral Care, was not widely reported at the time. She was 81. Her finish at the Isle of Wight bettered two previous world bests. The British runner Violet Piercy posted a 3:40:22 time for a solo run in 1926 in London (which may have been only 22 miles long, Runner’s World magazine The Scottish runner Dale Greig in an undated photograph. reported in 2014). In December 1963, Merry Lepper ran Women were all but excluded from running in marathons the Western Hemisphere Marathon in Culver City, Calif., in when she entered the Isle of Wight Marathon in 1964. 3:37:07, after sneaking into the race with a female friend, Pictorial Parade/Archive Photos, via Getty Images also a runner. Together they leapt from behind a hedge after the starter’s pistol went off, but the friend quit before women’s amateur athletics at the time. In a letter, the group finishing the race. warned that “in athletics women are not allowed to compete “At the time, women weren’t allowed to run long-distance with men” because “the resulting publicity is not good for events,” Lepper wrote in 2017 on The Players’ Tribune. “In the sport.” fact, the longest Olympic race that women were allowed to She continued to race all the same, including in the Isle compete in was the 800 meters. I wanted to demolish those of Man 40-mile race and the Ben Nevis 10-mile mountain expectations.” marathon in Scotland, both in 1971. She gave up the sport Women’s times have improved in the decades since; Paula in 1982, after she cracked bones in the heels of both feet Radcliffe of Britain set the fastest time to date, 2:15:25, at jumping into a pool; she had misjudged the depth of the the 2003 London Marathon. water. Dale Sheldon Grieg was born on May 15, 1937, in Paisley, No immediate family members survive. Her twin sister, about 10 miles west of Glasgow. She started as a sprinter Cynthia, died in 2013. in school before extending herself to races of 880 yards and Greig, who worked for many years in a printing business a mile, winning four bronze medals at the latter distance and as a race organizer and track writer, earned no money between 1958 and 1966 in the Scottish women’s national from her races, although she did win prizes, including cut- championships. In 1960, she won the first of four national lery sets and table lamps. titles in cross-country races. “I believe in the amateur code and actually gave away my By 1964 she felt ready for that first marathon on the prizes,” she told the Scottish newspaper The Herald in 2015. Isle of Wight, off the southern coast of England. She was Arnold Black, the historian for Scottish Athletics, the confident in her preparation, which focused on training country’s governing body for track and field, wrote about runs of at least 30 miles. On race day, May 23, 1964, she Greig on the organization’s website: had the stamina to catch up to some of the men in the last “Her pioneering efforts opened the way for women few miles. throughout the world to be admitted to marathon races, The organizers’ decision to let her race — albeit by having having ventured into uncharted territory at a time when her start before the men — earned them a reprimand from some respected authorities still believed that running such a regional athletics association that reflected the state of long distances was harmful for a woman.” TAFWA Newsletter - Page 10 - July 2019 Significant changes to Olympic bid process approved by IOC Session By Liam Morgan | Inside The Games | https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1081246/significant-changes-to- olympic-bid-process-approved-by-ioc-session International Olympic Committee (IOC) members have approved a series of proposals set to dramatically change the bidding process for the Olympic Games, including ending the seven-year period before the event is awarded and creating powerful commissions to control the selection of the host city. The IOC Session gave unanimous backing to the changes, including those to the Olympic Charter, here today. It marked the latest step in a considerable overhaul of the troubled bid process. The alterations, initiated following a spate of withdrawals for recent edition of the Summer and Winter Olym- pics will come into force once the Executive Board has determined how exactly they will be implemented but they could be used to select the host from as early as 2030. Under the reforms, devised by a working group chaired by Australia’s John Coates, a flexible timeline has been installed by removing from the Olympic Charter the requirement for the host city to be elected seven years in advance. Separate Future Host Commissions will be set up for the Summer and Winter Games to replace the current IOC Evaluation Commission. They will comprise 10 and eight members, respectively, and will be tasked with targeting and eventually rec- ommending cities or joint-bid concepts to the IOC Executive Board before it is put to the Session. The Session will remain the supreme body for the host city election but it is likely to have less of a say than under the previous process. IOC President Thomas Bach has admitted it is possible only one candidate could be proposed to stage the Games by the Executive Board based on the recommendation of the Future Host Commission. The Future Host Commissions, which have become part of the Charter following Session approval, will be made up of members who do not sit on the Executive Board. The IOC Executive Board will choose the members on each of the two Commissions, while officials will be removed from the panel if their city or country is among those to express an interest in hosting the Games. Cities considering entering the race for future editions of the Olympic Games will be asked to hold a referen- dum if so required before they can be considered as a candidate. “We cannot, I suggest, continue to be damaged as we have in the past,” Coates told the Session. A change to the charter to reflect how candidatures can come from multiple cities, regions or countries was also approved and the Host City Contract will now simply be called the “Host Contract”. The changes on how the Olympic Games host will be picked follows Bach claiming that, under the current model, there are “too many losers”. In future, there might not be an election at all and the IOC Session will mainly be asked to approve a candi- date to stage the Games. The IOC has also claimed the updated process offers greater flexibility, while Coates suggested further double awards following the decision to give Paris and Los Angeles the 2024 and 2028 Olympic Games, respectively, in 2017 were “fully possible”. Coates told reporters that it was now up to cities to understand the new system now the radical changes have been given the green light. “The challenge for them is to understand that this is not just putting up a candidature and rolling along with that for a number of years and then being considered before a vote by the Session,” he said. “This should lead to a much more thorough appraisal at a much earlier stage but on the positive side gives them the opportunity to be told it is is not good enough. “You have got to show us that you have the Government support if you want to take this forward, for exam- ple. “If you don’t, we will continue to work with you towards a later one.” The approval followed extensive questioning at the Session, with IOC doyen Richard Pound warning of the po- tential issue of Future Host City Commissions members approaching cities directly and without prior approval from the group. “We have been pronounced dead on many occasions,” Pound said. “We cannot change the winds but we can adjust our sails. “We can’t have people in dinghies rowing secretly ashore, there has to be some indication of interest.”

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 11 - July 2019 IAAF submits response to Swiss Federal Tribunal https://www.iaaf.org/news/press-release/iaaf-submits-response-swiss-federal-tribunal The IAAF today submitted its response on provisional measures to the Swiss Federal Tribunal (SFT), explain- ing why its DSD regulations should remain in force during an appeal by a single athlete (the appellant) following a “superprovisional order” issued by the SFT and received by the IAAF on 4 June 2019.

The IAAF has specifically requested: 1. Reversal of the order to the IAAF to super-provisionally suspend the implementation of the DSD Regulations in respect of the appellant. 2. Dismissal of the appellant’s application to suspend the implementation of the DSD Regulations in respect of the appellant pending the outcome of the appeal.

The IAAF fully respects each individual’s personal dignity and supports the social movement to have people accepted in society based on their chosen legal sex and/or gender identity. However, it is also committed to female athletes having the same opportunities as male athletes to benefit from athletics, be that as elite female athletes participating in fair and meaningful competition, as young girls developing life and sport skills, or as administrators or officials. This requires a protected category for females where eligibility is based on biology and not on gender identity. This crucial point was accepted and emphasized by the CAS in its 30 April 2019 decision to uphold the DSD Regulations. To define the category based on something other than biology would be category defeating and would deter many girls around the world from choosing competitive and elite sport after puberty. The IAAF will continue to defend its DSD Regulations and the CAS Award in the appeal proceedings before the SFT, because it continues to believe in equal rights and opportunities for all women and girls in our sport today and in the future. Adidas 3-stripes logo doesn’t deserve trademark protection, EU court rules https://www.cbsnews.com/news/adidas-logo-three-stripes-undeserving-of-trademark-protection-eu-ruling-says/ The General Court on Wednesday ruled against Adidas’ claim that its famous three stripes, applied in any direction, deserve trademark protection. The ruling dealt a blow to a sports apparel giant that famously polices other companies and designers for any possible infringement on its logo. The high court judgment upheld a 2016 decision from the European Union Intellectual Property Office, which dismissed Adidas’ 2014 trademark application after determining the logo was “devoid of any distinctive character.” Similarly, the General Court said the German company could not prove that the stripes had a distinctive enough char- acter throughout the 28-nation trade bloc. “The mark is not a pattern mark composed of a series of regularly repetitive elements, but an ordinary figurative mark,” the court said in a statement. Adidas said it is disappointed in the ruling and is considering its next options.

A series of “three-stripe” lawsuits It’s a rare loss for the sports apparel company, which has earned a tough reputation among competitors and fashion designers for aggressively litigating against anyone who has used stripes in their collections. New York designer Thom Browne switched the number of stripes from three to four in his signature line of grey suits after he was sued by the sportswear company. Adidas also exchanged blows with footwear brand Skechers. After partially winning a lawsuit in May 2018 over a Stan Smith tennis shoe lookalike, Adidas continued to notify Skechers over trademark violations throughout the year, leading Skechers to file a countersuit in late 2018, reported the Fashion Law website. Skechers asked a federal court to determine that it was not running afoul of Adidas infringement claims for a different 4-stripe sneaker, arguing that consumers are unlikely to confuse Adidas sneakers with Skechers footwear, citing significant design differences. Its suit also noted that companies — including DVF, Gucci, Marc Jacobs, Miu Miu, Paul Smith, Steve Madden, Tommy Hilfiger and Tory Burch — have all used variations of stripes with segmented color panels in their sneak- ers, according to the legal news website. Adidas also filed filed a lawsuit in 2015 against design house Marc Jacobs for using the three stripes in its Fall/Winter 2014 collection, demanding the company cease all sales of the offending garments.

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 12 - July 2019 Hilton Eugene rebrand underway By Elon Glucklich | The Register Guard | https://www.registerguard.com/news/20190104/hilton-eu- gene-rebrand-underway

It’s the Hilton Eugene no more. After paying nearly $80 million for the iconic downtown Eugene hotel last year, Chicago-based AJ Capital Partners has rebranded the property “Hotel Eugene.” But that appears to be only a temporary change, as the owners are promoting an unveiling of the “Graduate Eugene” hotel later this year. Hilton signage has been replaced around the property with Hotel Eugene banners. Online searches for the ho- tel now turn up the result “Hotel Eugene — Formerly Hilton Eugene.” Hilton’s website no longer lists the Hilton Eugene as one of its properties. AJ Capital and Hilton officials didn’t return messages seeking comment. AJ Capital Partners bought the Hilton Eugene in June for $79.7 million, in one of the largest real estate deals by dollar value in Lane County history. In a promotional statement released by the company in December, a spokeswoman said the former Hilton Eugene “will transform over the coming months with a comprehensive redesign featuring Graduate Hotels’ signature style and paying tribute to the town’s local culture and celebrated history.” The company in November filed for a $2.8 million permit with Eugene’s Planning and Development Depart- ment to make improvements to the building. But the permit hasn’t been issued yet, records show. AJ Capital owns 20 hotels across the country, according to its website, with most in the eastern . But its site lists Graduate Eugene as one of 12 hotels coming soon to major college towns around the country. The Hilton Eugene opened on East Sixth Avenue in 1981, in the middle of a deep economic recession. But the project came as the bond-funded Hult Center for the Performing Arts one block west was under construction. Eugene officials at the time called the two projects the centerpiece of their downtown improvement efforts. A Home2Suites by Hilton hotel opened on West 11th Avenue in downtown Eugene in 2016. Plans were an- nounced last month for a Tru by Hilton hotel in Glenwood. TAFWA Newsletter - Page 13 - July 2019 Female athletes file federal discrimination complaint over transgender competition By AP | https://www.10tv.com/article/female-athletes-file-federal-discrimination-complaint-over-transgen- der-competition-2019-jun HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Three Connecticut girls who around intersex and transgender athletes as they break have run high school track have filed a federal discrimina- barriers in sports around the world from high school to the tion complaint saying a statewide policy on transgender pros. athletes has cost them top finishes in races and possibly Earlier this week, Olympic running sensation Caster college scholarships. Semenya — who reportedly has some intersex traits — won The complaint filed Monday with the U.S. Education an interim ruling in her battle against track and field’s gov- Department’s Office for Civil Rights was submitted by the erning body. The Swiss supreme court ordered the suspen- conservative Christian law firm Alliance Defending Free- sion of regulations that would require female runners with dom on behalf of the girls, who are asking for an investiga- unusually high testosterone to take medication to reduce tion of the policy and orders that would make competitions their levels of the male sex hormone if they want to com- fair. The complaint also cites the federal Title IX rules aimed pete in certain events. at equal rights in sports for female athletes. The complaint from Connecticut says transgender girls “Girls deserve to compete on a level playing field,” said have been consistently winning track and field events and Christiana Holcomb, legal counsel for Alliance Defending the policy violates federal protections for female athletes. Freedom. “Women fought long and hard to earn the equal The athletes who filed the complaint include Selina Soule, athletic opportunities that Title IX provides. Allowing boys of Glastonbury High School, and two others whose names to compete in girls’ sports reverses nearly 50 years of ad- and schools were not disclosed. vances for women under this law. We shouldn’t force these Soule told The Associated Press earlier this year, after young women to be spectators in their own sports.” competing in a 55-meter dash won by a transgender stu- The Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference, dent, that the issue is about fairness on the track. which governs high school sports in the state, says its policy “We all know the outcome of the race before it even follows a state anti-discrimination law requiring students to starts; it’s demoralizing,” she said. “I fully support and am be treated in school according to the gender with which they happy for these athletes for being true to themselves. They identify. That means that athletes can compete according should have the right to express themselves in school, but to their expressed gender identity as opposed to their sex athletics have always had extra rules to keep the competi- assigned at birth. tion fair.” A spokesman for the conference had no immediate com- Connecticut is one of at least 17 states that allow trans- ment on the complaint Tuesday. gender high school athletes to compete without restrictions, The argument that gender identity amounts to an unfair according to Transathlete.com, which tracks state policies in advantage in sports is a recurring one in the complex debate high school sports across the country. Thirty-three Russians face new doping allegations By AP | https://olympics.nbcsports.com/2019/06/17/russian-doping/ MOSCOW — Thirty-three Russian athletes from a range of sports face doping cases for using banned treatments from a doctor, the Russian anti-doping agency said Monday. The agency, known as RUSADA, plans to file cases against 19 track and field competitors — two of them athletes with disabilities — as well as five cyclists, a boxer and a gymnast.

The athletes haven’t been named, but RUSADA deputy CEO Margarita Pakhnotskaya told The Associated Press some were national team members. They are suspected of receiving infusions of various substances. Under international anti-doping rules, athletes need a valid medical reason for any intravenous infusion over 100 milliliters in 12 hours, even if the substance itself isn’t ordinar- ily a banned drug. At least 11 of the athletes were underage at the time, Pakhnotskaya added.

All of the athletes in the new Russian case are from a sports academy in Chuvashia in central Russia, a region known for its track and field squads.

RUSADA said it reported a sports doctor to law enforcement under a Russian law against inducing athletes to dope. How- ever, RUSADA said the case was closed after authorities ruled her conduct wasn’t a crime because she hadn’t been officially informed the treatment was banned. TAFWA Newsletter - Page 14 - July 2019 Rosalie Fish Ran For A Cause Greater Than Herself At State By Cory Mull | Milesplit.com | https://www.milesplit.com/articles/262612 Rosalie Fish was nervous. As an 18-year-old Native American woman on the doorstep of a poignant moment of activism, there was a sense of curiosity as to how it would be received. Would they understand? Would they care? Would it make a difference? And that it came during her final Washington Interscholastic Athletic As- sociation State Track and Field Cham- pionship meet last Thursday, Friday and Saturday at Eastern Washington University? That was bold, too. “I know there are people who might say to keep politics out of sports or something along those lines,” said Fish, a high school senior at Muckleshoot Tribal School. “And this might sound a little irresponsible, but I knew nobody could tell me no if I didn’t ask.” Fish had long made up her mind as an advocate for Missing, Murdered Indigenous Women, which is a long- running coalition that is shedding light on the pervasive issue of violence on women on reservations and the lack of accountability surrounding justice for those missing. According to one Justice De- partment report, women on reservations are much more likely to be murdered than the national average. So this statement she was about to make, while vying for four state championships in the Class 1B meet? She knew she needed to pursue it, that she needed to represent these four missing indigenous women who had some connection to her life. “This was the first time I ran for anyone but myself,” Fish said. “It was a powerful experience. I don’t know if I felt any- thing like that before.” Over the course of three days, however, Fish’s statement wasn’t for naught, as she won three individual state titles in the 800m, 1,600 and 3,200 and was second in the 400m. She dedicated each race to a MMIW with some connection to her life, and eventually found the footing she was looking for, inspiring not only competitors around her, but thousands more in the stands and many thousands more online through social media. Not only did Fish wear paint across her face and legs, but she laid out, in writing, information on each indigenous woman from the reservation who were missing, and presented medals for each of them. “She wanted to be able to win for each woman,” Fish’s coach, Mike Williams said, “She’s run better times, but this was bigger than that. She was sacrificing that. She said it was pretty heavy on her running out there, thinking about those women. But she was willing to do that to bring awareness.” “I think what she did was really powerful,” said Tammy Ayer, a features writer who had begun reporting on MMIW for the Yakima Herald-Republic a year earlier and whom was focusing on Fish for an upcoming story. The idea to wear paint was spurred, Fish said, by an inspiration, and soon, a mentor. Jordan Marie Daniels had first worn a hand print across her face during the Boston Marathon in April. Daniels, a citizen of the Kul Wicasa Oyate/Lower Brule Reservation in South Dakota and a mentor for the Wings of America--a national Native American running program--advo- cated for 26 MMIW in April, gaining traction for the cause in various ways. Fish contacted Daniels on social media out of the blue, knowing she wouldn’t want to steal an idea first done by someone else. But to her surprise, Daniels responded with some thoughts and approval for Fish’s plan. “I was in awe when she responded and gave me support,” Fish said. The night of her first race, Fish found a secluded part of the bathroom inside the stadium. She covered her left hand with red paint, then pressed it against her face. She did it again. And again, until long a bright red handprint was visibly etched across her face, the symbol of #MMIW. “We’re finding that woman on the reservation want answers,” Ayer, the reporter, said. “They’ve been promised answers and haven’t gotten them. So younger women like her are saying, ‘No more silence.’ We need to talk about this, we need to address it.”

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 15 - May 2019 Walking out of the bathroom Thursday night, Fish contained her nerves. But at first, her actions were misunderstood. “I’m walking by and they’re staring at me and I can feel everyone l looking at me,” Fish said. “Everyone is saying ‘Nice war paint.’ So then, I’m getting frustrated. They’re making it as an assumption that it’s war paint. It was a little intimidating.” That’s one reason why her first race, the 1,600 meter final, was so difficult. She felt a different kind of pressure. “Each race was difficult in its own way, I guess in a different way,” Fish said. “The [1600], emotionally, I still wasn’t quite sure what I was running for. And it was really hard. I felt so heavy. My arms and my chest, I felt heavy when I was trying to run. And it was a weird feeling, because it felt like I should be able to beat this record heavily.” But Fish was running out front anyway. She finished in first by 19 seconds, winning in 5:15.22. She missed the state record by a little less than a second. That first race opened the doors for awareness. Afterward, she began to receive questions about the cause she was advo- cating for. “When they started to ask me what I was doing, their attitudes changed,” Fish said. ‘Oh, this native with paint on her face, it means something important.’” Fish went home that night a little more resolved, too. She contacted Daniels again. Why was that first race so hard? “I said to her, ‘My PR is this, the record is this, I’m rested, so why did I feel so heavy when I was trying to run,’” Fish remembers saying. “She told me, ‘It’s who you’re representing. It’s the lives of the women you’re representing.’ She told me to reexamine what I was running for.” Fish returned the next day with more confidence. To shed more light on her cause, she scribbled with red paint on her legs, MMIW. “She definitely changed my mindset,” Fish said. “I asked myself, ‘What are my goals now?’” By then, the high school senior started to figure it out. She responded in the 400m and 800m rounds, qualifying for each race’s final. On Saturday, Fish readied for her big day. She had race finals in the 800m, 3,200m and 400m, with some separated by just a few hours. Meanwhile, Williams tried to keep her focused on what was ahead. On Wednesday, he arranged for Billy Mills, a USA Olympian in 1964 who won gold in the 10K and a Native American from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Da- kota, to call Fish. The 80-year-old Mills drilled in on something simple. Focus on what you can control. Focus on the race’s themselves. That became something Williams stuck on, too. “I told her, no matter what happens in this race, what you’ve done has been a great thing for all of Indian country and all of your fallen sisters,” Williams said. “All you can do is go out and have fun and do the best you can.” Fish won the 800m in 2:20.93, missing the meet record by eight-hundredths of a second. Then she circled back in the 3,200, winning in 11:44.11--a full 39 seconds ahead of the second-place runner. Finally, a few hours later, she culminated her state meet in the 400m. By then, a photographer from a Spokane Tribe, Alex Flett, had taken a photograph that would became viral. By Tuesday of this week, the Tribal Tribune reported, Flett’s black-and-white photo with emphasis in color on Fish’s red paint had gained over 500,000 views. “I remember telling a fellow photographer, ‘Wow!’” Flett told the Tribal Tribune. “I thought that was a huge statement, and I knew I had to capture this moment. I had no idea it was going to explode like it has.” Fish ran with her heart in the last race but fell by less than a second, finishing second overall in 1:01.25 seconds. But by then, Fish’s statement had been well received. “My goals was to be impactful,” Fish said. “But I didn’t want to represent the women in a way where I felt I could have done more.” Looking back, she said, the meet took on a bittersweet tone. While she experienced an incredible amount of success, some of it felt empty. She couldn’t help but feel that way during interviews. “My running felt more significant than it ever has before,” Fish said. “And I had an interview with the 3200m where I was asked, ‘How do you feel now that you’re a state champion?’ But it felt silly, I guess, trying to celebrate this because it felt insignificant to the matter I was representing.” Fish, however, knew that this wouldn’t be the last moment she would advocate for MMIW. She’s headed off to Iowa Cen- tral Community College in the fall--she’s the first athlete in Muckleshoot’s history to sign an NLI. Her eventual goal, as she told Dyestat ahead of the state meet, is to attend and compete for the . But her activism, she says, will remain a part of her life -- whether big or small. “I don’t think there’s a way I could run again and not doing something like this,” she said. While the entire experience was a whirlwind for Fish, the most powerful moments were smaller. Some time after her last race, she was standing next to the poster board she created with information on the women she was representing. A fellow competitor, Gabriel Salinas-Kieffer, approached. The high school senior, who hailed from another of the state’s reservations and attended Wellpinit High School, had finished eighth in the Class 1B 400 meter run on the boys side. He held his medal in his hand. “He handed her his medal,” Williams said. Graciously, Fish accepted, tears beginning to duct down her face. “Maybe that’s then when she realized she really made a difference,” Williams said.

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 16 - July 2019 Track body IAAF to rebrand as World Athletics MONACO (AP) — Track and field’s world governing body is to change its name from the IAAF to World Ath- letics. The new name and logo will be introduced in October after one last edition of the world championships under the IAAF banner. The IAAF has kept the same initials since it was founded in 1912 as the International Amateur Athletic Fed- eration, but changed that to International Association of Athletics Federations in 2001 as track and field became more professionalized. IAAF president Sebastian Coe says the rebranding is part of a plan to attract a younger audience. IAAF leadership has faced criticism over its handling of widespread doping, especially in Russia, and allega- tions of corruption among its former leadership. Stanford Men, Oregon Women Named NCAA DI Programs of the Year

NEW ORLEANS – Consistency was rewarded on Wednesday as the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Asso- ciation (USTFCCCA) revealed its NCAA Division I Men’s and Women’s Programs of the Year. Stanford was named the John McDonnell Men’s Program of the Year for the first time. The Cardinal had finished in the top-3 on four different occasions – including runner-up finishes at the conclusion of the 2008-09 and 2010-11 academic years – before earning this nod. Oregon was named the Terry Crawford Women’s Program of the Year for the 10th time in the 11-year history of the award. The only other time the Ducks did not win this honor, which was last year, they finished second in the standings. Coaches from both programs will be honored at the 2019 USTFCCCA Convention in December, which will be held at the JW Marriott Grande Lakes Resort & Spa in Orlando, Florida. USOC seeks pregnant-athlete insurance reform https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/26906686/usoc-seeks-pregnant-athlete-insurance-reform DENVER -- The U.S. Olympic Committee said it is work- In response to the request from the senators -- Richard ing on reforms to prevent athletes from losing health insur- Blumenthal, a Democrat from Connecticut; Edward Markey, ance coverage when they become pregnant. a Democrat from Massachusetts; and Tammy Baldwin, a Three senators wrote to USOC CEO Sarah Hirshland on Democrat from Wisconsin -- the USOC put out a statement Wednesday, asking her to provide details about the federa- saying, “Pregnancy or needing a break from competition for tion’s insurance program, saying the discontinuation of cov- other important reasons can’t unfairly impact eligibility, erage when an athlete becomes pregnant is “unconscionable and we are working to ensure that policy is uniform across and may put at risk her health and that of her child.” each NGB’s eligibility standards.” The USOC provides funding for insurance to the na- U.S. sprinter Alysia Montano wrote in an editorial piece tional governing bodies that run individual sports, and last month in the New York Times outlining how she and those NGBs are responsible for determining which athletes distance runner lost their health insurance receive coverage and under what conditions. The pool of while pregnant because they were unable to compete. athletes eligible for insurance is limited mainly to Olympic The senators requested a briefing from the USOC on June hopefuls and other top-line elite prospects. 14 to discuss the issue.

Transgender woman who last year competed as a man wins NCAA track championship By Chris Pastrick | TribLive.com | https://triblive.com/sports/biological-male-wins-ncaa-womens-track-championship/ A transgender woman who competed as a man as recently as last year won an NCAA women’s track national champion- ship on Saturday. Franklin Pierce University senior Cece Telfer beat the eight-woman field in the Division II women’s 400-meter hurdles by more than a second, with a personal collegiate-best time of 57.53. Telfer also earned All-American First Team honors with a fifth-place finish in the 100-meter hurdles earlier in the day at Javelina Stadium at Texas A&M-Kingsville.

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 17 - July 2019 Withering Heights How generational high jump star Blanka Vlašić punished her body in pursuit of glory and in the process came to find her true identity By Joe Battaglia | FloTrack | http://featured.flosports.tv/withering-heights

As Blanka Vlašić limped around Estádio Olímpico Nilton Santos in Rio, there was a part of her that was elated to have come away with a medal. After enduring unspeakable pain for nearly five years, and recovering from two surgeries, the fact that she was competing at all was nothing short of a miracle. To land on the podium was a blessing. Yet the competitive side of her couldn’t help but formulate a mental checklist of all the things that might have instead gilded her bronze-medal celebration.

What if I had surgery sooner? What if I had more time to recover? What if the pain injection would have worked? What if I squeezed just another 25 or 30 percent more out of my 33-year-old body? What if I had listened to my body earlier in my career?

The cheering crowd did little to drown out the voices in her head. The Croatian flag draped around her shoulders could not shroud her disappointment. “I was destroyed,” she said. “This was the easiest championships, an Olympic final, to win gold, in my career and I failed to do it.” To hear Vlašić tell it, she was born with an unrepentant will to win, a motivation to succeed the source of which she cannot place. She calls it, “her gift from God.” And while her drive to achieve victory on the grandest levels of track and field may indeed be entwined in the fibers of her DNA, the same quality that molded her into one of the world’s generational high jump talents also contributed to her physical undoing. Today, Vlašić finds herself motivated to give the Olympics one final go next summer, two decades after her debut, but uncertain whether her body will allow her to do so. Simultaneously, she wrestles with transitioning to the next phase of her life and distinguishing between what she does from who she is. Not surprising, she has embraced that challenge like a champion. “Let’s face it, I am 35, so I’m closer to the end than to the beginning of my career. That’s a fact,” Vlašić said. “The biggest challenge of this whole story for me isn’t accepting that, maybe, I will not compete ever again. It’s also the fear of losing my identity.” Winner From The Womb When you peel back the layers of Vlašić’s public persona -- supremely-gifted athleticism, exuberant showmanship, runway-model beauty and physique -- you find a woman who at her core was born to win. Her mother, Venera, was an accomplished basketball player and cross-country skier in the 1970s. Joško, her father and coach, was a Yugoslavian decathlete who won five straight national championships between 1979 and 1983, and won gold at the 1983 Mediterranean Games in Casablanca. Vlašić’s name is inspired by the city of his greatest triumph as an athlete. From the moment she began crawling faster than the other children her age, Vlašić became “a rough diamond,” in the eyes of her father. Those feelings were exacerbated as she got older and showed even greater competitive spirit. “When I was a little girl, I couldn’t play board games with other kids unless I would win,” she said. “The moment I would start to lose, I would end every game. I couldn’t stand it. I was a sore loser. I was aware that that wasn’t a socially-accepted quality. But my dad said that it was good that you want to win. Now we need to polish that.” TAFWA Newsletter - Page 18 - July 2019 After Vlašić was born, Joško remained in the sport as a coach with the ASK club team in Split. She would tag along with him to prac- tices and meets and, before long, she became an active participant. “Somehow it all came spontaneously,” Vlašić said. “First, I started to train in a group with other children, but later on my father took me under his wings. I tried some other events, mainly sprint and . But I was the best at jumping. I was around 14 when I started to jump more often, and it was clear that I had huge potential.” As a 15-year-old, Vlašić set a personal best of 1.80m/5-10¾ and competed at the inaugural IAAF World Youth Championships, finish- ing eighth. The following year, she improved all the way up to 1.93m/6-4, competed at the Sydney Olympics, and won gold at the IAAF World Junior Championships. “When I first saw her, she was a kid like 16 or 17,” track and field analyst Dwight Stones, a two-time Olympic bronze medalist and 10- time world record holder in the high jump, said. “Her first Olympics was Sydney and I remember seeing her in Zurich a couple of years later, maybe 2003. She had baby fat. She was tall, but she was not fit. I said, ‘God, if this girl ever gets her act together and trains properly, she is going to challenge the world record. She was doing a lot of stuff right.’” Even as a teenager, Vlašić had aggressive goals for herself. When Joško tried to soften his daughter’s expectations, she scolded him. “At one point, I said to him, ‘Dad, this is my goal and there are no excuses for not achieving them so you need to do whatever you can to help me achieve them,’” Vlašić said. “He approached me once and said, ‘Blanka, you need to accept that sometimes things might not happen the way you plan. You may not be the best, jump the world record, and win the World Championships.’ I said, ‘No, that’s not ac- ceptable!” In 2004, Vlašić competed at her second Olympics in Athens, but was not yet a medal contender. As she matured physically and gained more experience, the potential that Stones saw began to materialize. In 2006, she upped her personal best to 2.03m/6-8, won silver at the World Indoor Championships in Moscow, and finished just off the podium at the European Outdoor Championships in Gothenburg. With winning being the only acceptable option in Vlašić’s eyes, the intensity and focus of her training and competition only ratcheted up from there. Foreshadowing There were physical danger signs early in Vlašić’s career. During the 2007 season, she experienced stiffness and minor irritation after jumping that she paid no mind because it faded during warmups. She competed in 29 meets that year, winning all -- including the World Championship in Osaka -- but six en route to becoming the first high jumper to be named European Athlete of the Year. Over the course of those 29 meets, Vlašić averaged six jumps per competition. That’s 174 competitive jumps in one year. Prior to 2007, Vlašić competed in 130 meets. Extend that math back to the start of her career in 1999, and that would up her total number of jumps in competition to 954 prior to her 25th birthday. And that wear and tear does not count the thousands of more jumps taken in training. “Up to that point, when you don’t have experience of severe pain, unfortunately, you don’t take much time to spend time with a physi- cal therapist,” Vlašić said. “I wasn’t aware of all this maintenance our bodies actually need because, basically, I didn’t feel like I needed anything more than just a massage.” Vlašić continued to brush off what she viewed to be minor job-related irritants as she fixated on jumping high and winning major championships. Her tunnel vision narrowed even further as she overcame the two biggest disappointments of her career along the way to establishing herself as one of the top track and field athletes on the planet regardless of discipline. She went into the Beijing Olympics in 2008 as the overwhelming favorite but found herself locked in an unexpected battle with Bel- gian , a strong jumper, for sure, but not one who had competed remotely as well before the Games. With the bar at 2.05m/6-8¾, Vlašić missed her first attempt and Hellebaut cleared hers for a PR and the lead. Conventional jumping strategy dictated Vlašić should have passed her next attempt at that height and raised the bar to 2.07m/6-9½ to go for the win. However, Vlašić said that before she could make that decision, the officials started the clock on her second attempt at 2.05m/6-8¾, forcing her to take that jump. She cleared it, but when both women’s missed at the next height, it left Vlašić with the silver medal on a countback. “Sometimes I think, what would have happened if I had enough time to rest, to focus on that 2.07 because I had that 2.07 in me. Maybe the peak of my competition was just that (second) jump of 2.05 but I spent it jumping 2.05, and not 2.07. In the end, I was disap- pointed because I was so close and I was ready to have the Olympic gold.” After a poor performance at the 2009 European Indoor Championships -- she finished fifth at just 1.92m/6-3½ -- Vlašić found herself in, “a dark place.” She regained her motivation, however, during a trip to Los Angeles for a photo shoot with her longtime sponsor, adi- das, and opened up the outdoor season with eight victories in 10 meets, all with clearances over 2.00m/6-6¾. At the World Champion- ships in Berlin, she successfully defended her crown in a bar-for-bar duel for the ages against Germany’s Ariane Friedrich. A few weeks later at the Hanžeković Memorial in Zagreb, Vlašić secured victory with a 2.05m/6-8¾ clearance and was presented an opportunity to raise the bar to whatever height she chose. She put the bar at 2.08m/6-9¾ and cleared it on her first attempt, registering the second-best mark in history behind only Stefka Kostadinova’s world record of 2.09m/6-10¼. She then moved up to 2.10m/6-10¾ but missed all three attempts. “I’ve never told anyone this before, but the biggest regret of my career was not putting the bar right at 2.10 that day in Zagreb because I was ready for 2.10,” Vlašić said. “I don’t know why I put it at 2.08. Maybe in my head, I thought, ‘Let me get more familiar at this bar and maybe next time I will jump it.’” That next time never came. “I think she squandered some opportunities in 2008 and 2009,” Stones said. “Before she jumped 2.08 late in the season, I said on a broadcast that if she didn’t jump the world record soon, that window was going to close. She responded not in a positive way. I said, ‘Hey, I’m just keeping it real. You only have so much time where you can do this.’ “That record is hanging over the event like an albatross. Blanka should have it.” Excerpt of full article, available at this link: http://featured.flosports.tv/withering-heights TAFWA Newsletter - Page 19 - July 2019 Can Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games live up to legacy of 1964, when Japan last hosted? The Guardian | https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/3014070/can-tokyo-2020-olympic- games-live-1964s-legacy-when-japan-last There is a simple riposte to anyone who doubts an Olympics Olympics and Paralympics remain a money pit. Last year Japanese can truly transform a city: Tokyo. When Japan’s capital first won government auditors predicted the Games would cost around the right to host the Games, in 1959, it suffered from a desperate US$24.8bn – close to four times more than originally forecast in shortage of housing and functional infrastructure – and the lack 2013. of flush toilets meant most waste had to be vacuumed daily out of To make matters worse, the president of the Japanese Olympic cesspits underneath buildings by “honey wagon” trucks. But with- Committee, Tsunekazu Takeda, was forced to step down in March in five years Japan’s capital had undergone such a metamorphosis following corruption revelations about the bid, first revealed in that visitors to the 1964 Olympics responded with stunned awe. 2016. Tokyo might be about to throw the greatest sporting party “Out of the jungle of concrete mixers, mud and timber that has of them all. But, some of its residents ask, at what cost?’ been Tokyo for years, the city has emerged, as from a chrysalis, to So what will Japan get for its investment next summer, aside stand glitteringly ready for the Olympics,” the Times of London’s from eight shiny new arenas? correspondent swooned, citing a long list of buildings and accom- In their office in Tokyo’s bay area, organisers stress that the plishments “all blurring into a neon haze … that will convince the Olympics and Paralympics will be “a catalyst for social change” – new arrival he has come upon a mirage.” particularly by improving attitudes and facilities towards disabled But Tokyo’s makeover was real. There were 100km of freshly laid people and opening up the country more. That makes sense. Japan motorways, a new sewage system, new luxury hotels and 21km of remains the world’s third largest economy, but that position is monorail from the new international airport to downtown. Mean- in jeopardy due to a growing shortage of workers and an ageing while, the new Tokaido Shinkansen bullet train blasted to Kyoto population and back at world-record speed, and startlingly modernist arenas Another key aim for Tokyo 2020 is for it to be the “recovery and such as the Tokyo metropolitan gymnasium, which was shaped like reconstruction Games”, following the Tohoku disaster in 2011, a flying saucer, only added to the futuristic wonderland vibe. when an earthquake and tsunami led to over 10,000 deaths and There were also technological innovations. Computers were a meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. “Baseball and used for the first time at an Olympics, along with timing devices softball matches will be held in the disaster-affected areas,” said that could separate competitors to one-hundredth of a second. Masa Takaya, spokesman for the Tokyo 2020 organisers, “and And the Syncom III satellite, combined with cutting-edge Japanese restore vitality through the power of sport.” technology, enabled live TV pictures to be beamed across the globe But these Games will be more about hearts and minds than – another first. No wonder it was hailed as the “science fiction” bricks and mortar. “Tokyo 2020 is focusing more on the softer Olympics. legacy,” said Takaya. “Of course we have a similar spirit as 1964 Tokyo 1964 was, according to David Goldblatt in his excellent by leaving new sporting facilities. But we are even more keen to book The Games, “the single greatest act of collective reimagining leave an intangible legacy for future generations, who will have in Japan’s post-war history”. And there was a clear message for the a first-hand experience of the Games with a massive number of wider world too, reflected in the choice of Yoshinori Sakai, born in people with different backgrounds, religions and languages coming Hiroshima on the day the atomic bomb was dropped on the city, together in one place.” to light the Olympic flame. The 19-year-old athlete was not only a Some of the 1964 playbook will be dusted off, with Japan keen symbol of his country’s rebirth following the second world war – to show it still leads the world in tech. Toyota not only plans to but also its hope for a brighter future. showcase its driverless cars at the Games but has also designed Such was the event’s success that it has set the bar dazzlingly robots for the new Olympic stadium that, among other things, high for Tokyo 2020 can take – and then bring – food and drinks orders to wheelchair . Every Olympian knows, after all, that while winning a gold spectators. medal is a formidable task, repeating the trick years later is tough- Panasonic, meanwhile, has created motor-assisted power suits er still. On the 24th floor of the Harumi Triton Y building, organis- to allow people to carry heavy luggage with ease. And Aruze Gam- ers finalising plans for next year’s Olympics and Paralympics says ing’s Arisa – a sharply dressed six-foot robot that can show passen- the world will see the “most innovative” Games in history. gers the way to toilets and lockers, offer directions and recommend Not everyone, to put it mildly, is as upbeat. tourist attractions in Japanese, English, Chinese and Korean – was Soon after Japan won the right to host the 2020 Games, the trialled at two metro stations earlier this year. country’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, toured the Queen Elizabeth “We are still discussing what sort of other robots can we use for Park in Stratford, London, with Sebastian Coe, who had steered the Games operations,” says Takaya. “It is important to showcase the hugely successful 2012 Olympics. There was only one thing on our robot technology.” Abe’s mind: money. It certainly sounds appetising enough. But in a coffee shop near “The only question he kept asking was: ‘How much was that? Yoyogi Park, Misako Ichimura and Kumiko Suto of the Hangorin How much was that?’” Coe said. “He loved the velodrome, which he no Kai (No Olympics 2020) activist group, paint a much bleaker thought was a beautiful building architecturally. I also explained picture of the Games’ impact. Among their many concerns, they the difficulties we had with the Olympic Stadium because we claim that the construction of the new national stadium, along couldn’t get football engaged and he said: ‘Oh yeah, I get that.’ with other “upgrading” projects, has led to homeless people in “Then he pointed at the Aquatics Centre and said: ‘And that areas like Shibuya and Shinjuku being forcibly removed from parks one?’ I told him that was the most expensive and that Zaha Hadid and streets. They also express dismay that nearly 300 residents had designed it. At that point blood drained out of his face and he were evicted from 10 public housing projects near the stadium to said: ‘She’s done our new Olympic stadium.’” make way for luxury buildings. By 2015 Hadid’s plans for the stadium, which had spiralled “Many of these people were elderly residents living alone, to US$1.65bn, had been cancelled – and a new design by Kengo and around 10 passed away just before or soon after their cruel Kuma, blending steel and layers of latticed larch wood and in- removal from their homes,” says Ichimura. “Public housing is being tended to “restore the link that Tokyo lost with nature”, chosen destroyed in favour of high-end housing, but no new projects are instead. But while it is hundreds of millions of pounds cheaper, the going up to offset these displaced people. To make matters worse, TAFWA Newsletter - Page 20 - July 2019 Part of Tokyo’s modern-day skyline, in the Marunouchi Zaha Hadid’s original plans for the Olympic stadium in business district. Photo: Alamy Tokyo were cancelled. Photo: Reuters the government has also pushed the homeless tent communities out of Meiji Park.” Activists also have concerns about health and safety at con- struction sites that were backed up by The Dark Side of the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics, a recent report by the global trade union federation Building and Wood Workers’ International. It docu- ments how low pay, overwork and poor access to grievance proce- dures have created a “culture of fear” among construction workers – and says some workers have been required to work up to 28 days in a row on Olympic projects. There are unwelcome echoes of the past here. Before Tokyo 1964, safety standards were so low that “that there were more than 100 deaths and 2,000 injuries on Olympic-related projects”, according to Goldblatt, while the beggars and vagrants who made their homes in Ueno Park were also swept aside. Kenzo Tange’s Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo. Photo: Meanwhile, Ichimura says many residents are dreading next Wikimedia Commons summer. “Schools and other events are being cancelled or having highest ever recorded in the country – and caused the deaths of altered schedules,” she said, “and the already difficult summertime 138 people. However, Koike says the city has put in place a series transportation will be much more crowded and hot. Tourists might of measures that will ensure the Games are bearable for athletes enjoy a happy and fun experience but for citizens it will be hellish.” and spectators. Not all criticism of the Games comes from left-wing social “We are introducing heat-blocking road surfaces that can reduce activists. Makoto Yokohari, a professor at the department of urban the temperature of the road by eight degrees,” she says. “This is engineering at the University of Tokyo, said that while he agrees being installed in more than 100km in the city centre and this that the Games needs to promote soft legacies, he hasn’t seen any covers the marathon course. We have also have low-tech responses sign of them yet. that have existed since the Edo period [1603-1868], such as water “The Olympics may merely be a snapshot event which may sprays.” become like an illusion within a couple of years,” he said. His Sebastian Coe is better placed than most to understand the criticisms carry weight given he serves on the urban planning and journey cities go through after winning an Olympic bid. sustainability panel as a part of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics/Para- “There have been some challenges which I think Tokyo 2020 lympics Organising Committee. “I’m afraid my thoughts are shared would be the first to admit,” he says. “There is permanently a dy- by most members,” he said. namic of stress and tension in the build-up to a Games, and always Meanwhile, the respected architect Hiroshi Ota has another four or five car crashes along the way.” criticism: Tokyo 2020 is not daring enough compared to 1964, “The first big crunch comes with costs – because you always find when buildings such as Kenzo Tange ’s Yoyogi gym were immedi- stuff that you can’t possibly know when making a bid. Then you ately seen as design masterpieces. As the Times put it at the time: end up in that odd period where everything that is going wrong in “The arenas have approached new heights of architectural imagina- the country is down to the Olympic Games. Yet eventually the ex- tion and efficiency. In the press room journalists look blankly over citement will start to build, especially when you start talking about their typewriters at each other. They still feel stunned as they try torch relays and volunteers and things that engage the public.” to pay tribute.” Slowly these wheels are starting to turn. Last month nearly 5 That, says Ota, will not be happening in 2020. “I am not million Japanese registered with the official ticketing site, more optimistic,” he says. “Most of the design for the new venues were than double the initial target. And Koike insists she sees parallels chosen in closed competition and, more generally, I really think with the London 2012 Games, where a modest build-up gave way Tokyo has missed the chance to include people in urban planning to an outpouring of sustained joy and exhilaration for both the and regeneration.” Olympics and the Paralympics. There is, however, one thing on which everyone agrees: the Tokyo 2020 may have suffered so far from the same vaguely potential for Tokyo to be unbearably hot next summer. The city’s underwhelming feeling that Japan itself has laboured under since governor, Yuriko Koike, concedes it is the one thing that keeps her the nation’s firework-like rise after the second world war. up at night, saying: “Obviously climate change Yet come next July, Koike and millions of others will be watch- is a global issue, and it needs to be tackled globally, but the pos- ing a torch-bearer climb the steps of the Olympic Stadium during sibility of extreme temperatures in 2020 is a concern for me.” the opening ceremony of the XXXII Olympiad – hoping that out Her fears are well-founded. Last year Japan suffered from a of the darkness of the Tokyo sky comes raging and sustained il- month-long heatwave that saw temperatures peak at 41.1 C – the lumination.

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 21 - July 2019 Talitha Diggs Has Found Her Lane By Cory Mull | Milesplit.com | https://www.milesplit.com/articles/262156 It took a little bit of time for Talitha Diggs to gain per- While most young athletes can ride the wave of momen- spective on the idea of competing in the aftermath of her tum up state and national charts in near anonymity before family’s rich track and field success. they hit it big, Diggs has always had a certain spotlight on But maybe that’s what the Saucon Valley High School her. junior, the daughter of 4-time Olympian While her mother never put pressure on her to run, and the niece of 3-time Olympians and Jearl Talitha decided to compete in the sport from a young age Miles-Clark, needed. anyway. And she felt no greater pressure to succeed than in Maybe finding her road never had to be about following her freshman season at Saucon Valley. in another’s footsteps. “I was trying to live up to that standard and race with “I feel like everyone has to find their own purpose, in that in the back of my mind,” she said. track or life, wherever it is, you have to find what makes you What’s helped, though, is that Diggs has found her own tick and what you’re best at,” Diggs said. “No one else can path. She’s shied away from the event where her mother decide your fate for you. and aunts succeeded. “That’s really why I tried to focus on my own races, my Joetta ran a personal best 1:57.84 in the 800m, while own practice. Although my mom, again, she was unbeliev- Hazel Clark went 1:57.99 and Miles-Clark went 1:56.40. So able and she’s given me genetic talent, the person who’s far, Talitha has run one competitive 800m in her life. been working hard and sacrificing so much to be where I am Instead, she’s training exclusively in the sprints, manag- today is myself.” ing a versatile resume in 2019 that’s included Pennsylva- Today, Diggs is ready to challenge herself in the best way nia’s second fastest 100m (11.72), its second fastest 200m possible: By going after the 200 and 400 meter Class AAA (24.39), its third fastest 400m (55.47) and its 11th fastest titles on Friday and Saturday at the Pennsylvania Interscho- 300mH (44.61). lastic Athletic Association Championships. She’s also leading the state in the long jump (19-3). Onlookers may be hard-pressed to bet against the District “I feel like I have a little more speed,” Diggs said. “And 11 talent, whose career PRs of 23.90 and 54.21 seconds that’s kind of why I tried to find my own lane.” stack up nicely to her competition, among them Bria Barnes That’s not to say everything has come easy. Most weeks, of Cheltenham. Diggs trains on her own. “This year I just want to work on executing my race,” She has a couple close coaches, including a Godfather and Diggs said. “I know fast times and everything else will come another whom the family trusts. They both write workouts into play as I execute.” for Diggs. But no doubt, the memory of losing those titles last year Meanwhile, Joetta, whom Talitha calls ‘The Implementor,’ has motivated her. coaches her up, tells her the splits and reps, and supports After making championship finals of both races as a her daughter in hitting the prescribed goals. freshman -- the only first-year athlete to do so in the Class “It takes a lot of mental toughness,” Diggs said of train- AAA races -- Diggs narrowly missed out on claiming titles as ing. a sophomore, despite the fact that she ran personal record In the end, Diggs’ success will derive from her own work times in both races. ethic. And those two misses are high on her priority list. But she likes it that way. “Just to get over that hump, that freshman and sopho- She loves the feeling she gets when she makes the final more year I wasn’t able to,” she said. turn in the 400m, sees the homestretch, and opens it up, While Diggs keeps her goals closely guarded -- along with whether it’s practice or competition. being superstitious, she says goals can “limit you to a cer- “I like the 400 so much because it’s a mix of speed and tain extent” -- it’s not hard to figure out what she’s thinking. strength. It’s a technical race,” she said. “You have to have a A total of 21 athletes have broken 54 seconds in the good strategy and you have to execute.” 400m in 2019, and the country’s top 53 have gone under 24 Diggs knows her future is bright, and she’ll get more op- seconds in the 200m. Wissahickon graduate Krista Simkins portunities to race beyond the state championships. She’s owns the 400m state record of 53.23 seconds from 2005. headed to a meet in Cuba sponsored by a national organiza- Diggs is capable of dropping those benchmarks this tion in June, and then from there she’ll likely race at New weekend. Balance Nationals Outdoor. “As long as I execute my race plan and I do my best race, But she isn’t getting ahead of herself. First, there’s an the times will come and the times will come,” she said. important meet this weekend. But it’s also important to understand just how strong “For right now, I’m trying to focus on my states and we’ll she’s become, both physically and mentally, and how dis- get beyond that later,” she said. tancing herself from the expectations of others has helped her grow.

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 22 - July 2019 Rule 40 guidelines to be sent to NOCs as IOC claims balance reached between athletes and commercial rights By Michael Pavitt | Inside The Games | https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1081272/rule-40-guidelines-to-be- sent-to-nocs-as-ioc-claim-balance-reached-between-athletes-and-commercial-rights Rule 40 guidelines will be sent to National Olympic Committees (NOC) to determine their implementation, the Interna- tional Olympic Committee (IOC) have revealed. IOC Legal Commission chair John Coates presented a change to the Olympic Charter at the IOC Session at the swiss Tech Convention Center in Lausanne regarding Rule 40. Rule 40.3 of the Olympic Charter warns “no competitor, team official or other team personnel who participates in the Olympic Games may allow his person, name, picture or sports performances to be used for advertising purposes during the Olympic Games”. It is seen as major reason why companies are willing to sign up as part of the lucrative The Olympic Partner (TOP) spon- sorship scheme which guarantees huge exposure during Games-time. However, it has often caused contention with athletes who claim they are unable to make money during the most impor- tant time of their career. The charter change will amend bylaw three of Rule 40 of the Olympic Charter to read: “Competitors, team officials and other team personnel who participate in the Olympic Games may allow their person, name, picture or sports performances to be used for advertising purposes during the Olympic Games in accordance with the principles determined by the IOC Executive Board.” The rule had previously read: “Except as permitted by the IOC Executive Board, no competitor, team official or other term personnel who participate in the Olympic Games may allow his person, name, picture or sports performances to be used for advertising purposes during the Olympic Games.” Coates claimed the change showed the rule in a more positive light than it had previously been viewed, particularly by athletes. Canadian doyen Richard Pound questioned whether the IOC were “rearranging deckchairs on the titanic” regarding the rule, before asking whether there had been discussions with athlete groups who have been vocal in seeking changes. Coates responded by saying there was strong discussion with the Athletes Forum in Lausanne, an independent German Athletes group, the IOC and the competition authorities in Europe. The Australian added that drafts of new principles will be sent to NOCs next week, following approval from the IOC. “There is a feeling that the new drafts and principles which were approved last week are much more liberal than those which have been in the past,” Coates said. “The drafts were run by the NOCs of Europe and seen by others. There has been strong discussion. There are concessions that have been made that we can live with, that is the view of our marketing people.” Discussion and the implementation of Rule 40 has come into sharper focus in recent months, after the independent Ger- man athletes group succeeded in achieving a partial rollback of the ruling. Under the new rules in Germany, the list of banned Olympic terminology is now “considerably smaller” and will apply to advertising and social media platforms. The judgment by the German Federal Cartel Office also ruled that sporting sanctions must not be applied in any dis- putes, with hearings having to take place in civil courts. The revised ruling will only apply in Germany as it stands, but the decision has been viewed as potentially paving the way for similar decisions in other nations. The IOC has claimed the new principles represent a balance between protecting and maintaining Olympic marketing programme and athletes’ rights. They claim this will ensure funding of the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement, as well as allowing athletes to generate income in relation to their sporting career, name and likeness. Despite this, IOC President Thomas Bach insisted that no “one size fits all” solution exists with implementation remain- ing down to the respective NOCs. The German had previously called on athletes to begin negotiations with their NOCs over the rule. “The amendments of the Olympic Charter show a clear demonstration of the new approach of the IOC, which is based on openness and flexibility, without infringing the existing agreements,” Bach said. “We want to look at this in a positive way and we want to be as liberal as possible without affecting the sponsorships contracts of the NOCs. We are protecting them and that’s why we don’t have a one size fits all solution. I don’t think such a solution exists.” The NOCs will be responsible for the implementation in their respective territories, the IOC said. The organisations are expected to take into consideration their specific applicable legal framework, after receiving the guidelines.

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 23 - July 2019 When the new Hayward Field finally opens for business, will Eugene still be Track Town? By Ken Goe | The Oregonian | https://www.oregonlive.com/sports/2019/06/when-the-new-hayward-field-finally- opens-for-business-will-eugene-still-be-track-town.html EUGENE — It’s been nearly a year since the last runner finished able to buy seats for the 2021 college season and select where they the last race at historic Hayward Field. want to sit. But the 2021 home schedule has not been announced, Ten days after the 2018 NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Champi- and UO season tickets are not expected to include that summer’s onships ended, crews drove in heavy machinery to tear apart what World Championships. former University of Oregon coach Vin Lananna once described as By 2021, UO college track fans will be five years removed from a the Fenway Park or Carnegie Hall of U.S. track & field. Ducks regular season with as many as three regular-season home The question now is whether something besides an aging sta- meets. dium has been demolished, too. One longtime UO track supporter and Eugene resident says he A new stadium, paid for by private funds, is rising in place of first became a fan while running in and around Hayward Field to the one where ran to glory and set stay in shape. a world decathlon record. “We would go on a long run and stop for about 30 minutes to Some in Track Town USA are excited about the gleaming, mod- talk to the athletes, take off and run for another 30 minutes,” says ern facility scheduled to stage the 2020 U.S. Olympic trials and the the fan, who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the 2021 World Outdoor Championships. topic and his friendship with some of the stakeholders. “I devel- But there remains also a residual bitterness because of the way oped a relationship with the athletes and coaches. I got to know a the old stadium was crushed. lot of the parents.” Little community input was solicited or, apparently, wanted. He says the relaxed informality began to tighten up in recent A design incorporating Hayward’s east grandstand by former UO years. And this year, with Hayward inaccessible and no home pole vaulter and Nike executive Tinker Hatfield was rejected. meets, he has lost the connection. The connection between fans and athletes at Hayward Field was “I don’t even like to go by there,” he says. unique, and Hatfield said at the time he labored to retain it. To be sure, the new stadium will comply with the Americans Olympic marathoner and track and field writer Kenny Moore with Disabilities Act. The other one was hopelessly deficient. once described the way Prefontaine was inspired by the Hayward There will be rails on the aisles, adequate restrooms and improved crowd. concessions. “There was a symbiosis,” Moore said. “The crowd would get Tradition wasn’t always comfortable. louder and he would run harder. The people would see him running Longtime season ticket-holder Dave Campbell says former UO harder and get louder. It would go back and forth.” basketball star John Dick, a 6-foot-4 retired Navy rear admiral, It worked for Prefontaine, and for Eaton when he set the world used to sit behind him and his wife. decathlon record in 2012. It worked for Eugene residents Nick “He would wrap his legs around my wife,” Campbell says. “He Symmonds, and Christian Smith in their im- would say, ‘Where am I supposed to put them?’ Old Hayward Field probable charge from behind to finish 1-2-3 in the 800-meter final was built for people who were 5-3, 100 pounds.” at the 2008 Olympic trials. Campbell compares the hubbub over Hayward’s demolition and It’s been called “Hayward Magic.” But the magic has been in reconstruction to that over McArthur Court, the venerable UO short supply in recent years. basketball arena that was replaced by Matthew Knight Arena in The Ducks had just one regular-season home meet in 2017 and 2011. two 2018, in part, because of delays in Hayward’s reconstruction The furor died after the new arena opened. Few now advocate timeline. for a return to Mac Court. There were no home meets this year. Next year is in question. Nike co-founder Phil Knight was the driving force behind both The NCAA championships, held at Hayward from 2013-18, have the new arena, named for his son, and the new Hayward Field. moved to Austin, Texas, for this year and next. Knight was a mid-distance runner at Oregon and joined with for- The NCAA meet is scheduled to return in 2021 and 2022. But mer UO track coach Bill Bowerman to found Nike. there is pushback among college track coaches in other parts of “I have to trust Phil,” says John Gillespie, a former UO track the country to the idea that Eugene should become the meet’s coach who has become a season ticket-holder. “It’s not like he’s permanent site, the way Omaha is for NCAA baseball’s College some fisherman or lacrosse player. He loves track. He will do right World Series. by that facility. The new stadium will have 12,500 permanent seats, making it “It might not be what I would design. That’s not the point. It significantly larger than historic Hayward Field, which sat no more will be a good facility. People have forgotten about Mac Court.” than 8,500 without temporary bleachers and often was not more But the move from Mac Court to Matthew Knight was seamless. than half full. The Ducks didn’t stop playing basketball in Eugene for years in The new version should work nicely for the annual Prefontaine between leaving one for the other. Classic and the 2020 Olympic trials, which have been awarded to Attendance in Eugene for the monthly TrackTown Tuesday Eugene, assuming the stadium is finished by next summer. But the booster meetings has declined this year. Enthusiasm seemingly trials only happen every four years and are unlikely to take place in has waned. Eugene forever. Fans might become reinvigorated when the new Hayward Field When the 2021 World Championships are over, it looks for all opens, when the 2020 Olympic trials are contested, when the the world that the University of Oregon will have a track stadium World Championships come to town. built for major meets that afterward will fill for … what? But the real test will come later, when the big events have come “Tractor pulls?” asks Peter Thompson, a coach and former and gone, when the gates open for a UO home meet on a soggy, senior manager with the International Association of Athletics 45-degree spring day. Thompson, the former IAAF official, is not Federations (IAAF), who makes his home in Eugene. “It will be a optimistic. lovely concert venue if they get the acoustics right.” “Track Town USA is a branding exercise by Nike,” Thompson This week, University of Oregon season ticket-holders will be says. “It doesn’t exist anymore.” TAFWA Newsletter - Page 24 - July 2019 Scramble for Olympic tickets in Japan; rest of world waits By Stephen Wade | AP | https://apnews.com/a1885d6bf8934e179170158a3aae8b16 TOKYO (AP) — The scramble is underway by residents of Japan to land tickets for next year’s Tokyo Olym- pics. It begins for the rest of the world in a few weeks. Tokyo Olympic organizers said millions had shown interest by Wednesday when the first phase of ticketing closed for Japan residents. Applicants will learn on June 20 what tickets they were allocated in a lottery system. Organizers extended the application period by 12 hours, citing high demand. Overseas residents will have to wait until June 15, when tickets can be put on sale by special distributors in each country — known as Authorized Ticket Resellers. Organizers estimate 7.8 million tickets will be available, with 20-30% dedicated to sales outside Japan. This is the first phase of sales in Japan, with other chances available as the games get closer. Tokyo Organizers on Wednesday declined to say how many tickets had been applied for through the on-line system. They say only that 7.5 million “ID registrations” have been recorded, which allowed people to apply and enter the lottery. “Tokyo 2020 is not disclosing additional details at this stage,” organizers said in a statement. Buying tickets in Japan is not cheap. But it’s more expensive outside Japan where the resellers — appointed by each national Olympic Committee — can add a 20% percent “handling fee” to the cost of each ticket. In addition, many tickets are packaged by resellers with top hotels and other perks, and the markups can be more than 20%. Many of these packages are aimed at corporate buyers, for whom price is not always a concern. The resellers also run the risk of getting stuck with tickets they can’t sell. The reseller for the United States is CoSport , which also handles sales in Australia, Jordan and several Euro- pean countries. Fans earlier this month complained to soccer governing body FIFA about buying tickets for next month’s Women’s World Cup in , and then learning that friends and family were not given seats together. The same thing can happen buying Olympic tickets. CoSport says on its website that it cannot guarantee seats together. “While CoSport will make every effort to seat parties together, it is not possible to guarantee that all tickets for a given session and seating category will be seated together,” the company said. It also warns that tickets are sold by price category, not by exact seat location. Buyers outside Japan might get some deals if they are patient. It happened at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, and also at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang a year ago. Tokyo organizers will open sales globally in the spring of 2020, meaning any remaining, unsold tickets can be purchased at the prices offered in Japan. In Rio de Janeiro, many tickets were unsold as the games neared, and some desirable tickets were put back into the pool after they were sold but never paid for. Ticket prices in Japan vary greatly and are listed in the competition section on the organizers’ website. The opening ceremony on July 24 features the most expensive ticket — 300,000 yen ($2,680). The most -ex pensive ticket for the closing ceremony is 220,000 yen ($1,965). The most expensive ticket for the men’s 100-meter final is 130,000 ($1,160), while the men’s basketball final goes for 108,000 yen ($970). Tokyo organizers say 50 percent of the tickets will sell for 8,000 yen ($70) or less, with the cheapest ticket costing 2,500 yen ($22). Organizers hope to generate about $800 million from ticket sales, a large source of revenue for the $5.6 bil- lion privately funded operating budget. Overall, Japan will spend about $20 billion to prepare for the games, and about 70 percent is public money. Japan recently passed a law that bans selling tickets at above the original prices. Violators face fines of up to 1 million yen ($9,100), or a one-year jail term — or both. The International Olympic Committee was embarrassed in Rio de Janeiro when IOC member Patrick Hickey was arrested and charged with ticket scalping, which is also illegal in Brazil. He denied any wrongdoing.

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 25 - July 2019 History and secrets at a place few know exists – inside the Olympic Studies Centre By Liam Morgan | Inside The Games | https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1079789/liam-morgan-history-and- secrets-at-a-place-few-know-exists-inside-the-olympic-studies-centre

As the International Olym- pic Committee (IOC) Execu- tive Board met to agree to whatever decisions President Thomas Bach had come to in Lausanne last week, a group of us in the media were given a tour of a facility which even its director admitted few knew existed. Tucked away beside the Olympic Museum, located down the hill from the IOC’s temporary headquarters in Pully, is the Olympic Studies Centre. The unassumed building is a dream for any historian, academic or anorak with an interest in the Olympic The Olympic Studies Centre is a home for reams of information about the Games and the Games or the Movement in Movement ©IOC general. Bogner, a few of us cynics could not help but quip: “Well, Neatly categorised on shelves spanning several rooms that can’t be particularly long…” are books and documents dedicated to past editions of the Rather sceptically, I assumed the building would be mere- Games, stretching back to the first Modern Olympics in ly stacked full of files littered with gushing praise for the 1896, sports, athletes and the IOC itself. IOC and its administration, both in its current and former Or, to put it in the words of the centre’s website, the facil- guises, and anything nearing criticism would be banished to ity houses “collections such as the IOC archives, the official the incinerator bin. Bogner insisted that was not the case. publications of the IOC and the Organising Committee of “Don’t worry, you will find critical documents here too!” the Olympic Games, as well as books, articles and journals”. she said. This might seem like a mundane subject to some and I Unfortunately for those of us with an eye for that sort of admit I was somewhat reluctant to join the rabble of media thing, most of those files are buried deep in the annals of who were invited to check out the centre. the archives. The members of the IOC communications team will not These special documents, including letters dating back mind me saying that. At times, they are fully aware we are over a century from De Coubertin and others, are kept in not necessarily buying what they are trying to sell. the basement of the centre in conditions designed to pre- But, in this case, I was not alone in being pleasantly serve their authenticity. surprised. We were taken down to a room big enough for no more Whatever feelings you harbour towards the IOC, it is than eight people, where the temperature and lighting are difficult not to be impressed by the sheer volume of infor- kept to a certain level, and given an overview of the vast mation stored at the centre, the main hub of a network of reams of documents stored there. similar facilities dotted all around the world. It includes reports from the IOC administration at the Candidature files from every Olympic Games bidding height of the Cold War, documentation on members and race since 1920 – contests which are fast being consigned files dedicated to boycotts from nations unwilling to com- to history under Bach’s Presidency – correspondence from pete at the Olympic Games for political reasons. founding father Pierre de Coubertin to various officials and Also stored there are boxes and boxes of files relating dignitaries to biographies on IOC members, the centre, to Canadian IOC doyen Richard Pound, official correspon- complimented by an online service called the “Olympic dence between senior members of the leadership and those World Library”, has it all. outside of the Olympic bubble and minutes from Executive One of the documents housed at the facility is the legacy Board meetings. report from the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Most of these can be freely accessed – under supervision, When we were shown it by the head of the centre, Maria of course – except the Executive Board minutes, which are TAFWA Newsletter - Page 26 - July 2019 embargoed for 30 years. It does not appear such candour will be making its way to To put that into perspective, the minutes from the latest Olympic Towers any time soon and the answer we received gathering of the IOC’s ruling body last week, where the In- when a couple of us asked what the statute is for the Ethics ternational Boxing Association was suspended and several Commission’s minutes told its own story. new members were proposed, cannot be viewed by anyone “There isn’t one,” a staff member at the centre replied. “It outside of the IOC until 2049. could be 100 years.” According to those at the centre, this is done to “protect While it was perhaps not surprising to hear the informa- the members”, but it does little to dispel the theory that the tion was under embargo, the length of the time restriction IOC is a secretive organisation which merely pays lip service certainly raised an eyebrow or two. to transparency. I was similarly taken aback by Bogner’s honesty when she Even the World Anti-Doping Agency, which has been conceded that the Olympic Studies Centre, which she de- through the most tumultuous period in its relatively short scribes as “one of the most unique collections in the world history following the Russian doping scandal, openly pub- on the Games”, was not a path well-trodden. lishes minutes from its meetings. “Many people do not know we are here,” she said. Should you wish to do so, you can read through the exact It is a shame, as the myriad information stored at the details of the discussions held on a January conference building she runs is staggering, both in its quantity and its call of Executive Committee members as they mulled over quality. whether or not to punish the Russian Anti-Doping Agency The IOC has been culpable of questionable decision-mak- for its failure to meet a December 31 deadline to grant ac- ing in recent years but creating this centre, and lending the cess to the Moscow Laboratory. facility its support, is not one of them. Fans beware: Posting Olympic videos to Social Networking Service will be banned The Asahi Shimbun | http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201905250047.html Fans lucky enough to win a lottery for tickets to next year’s Tokyo Olympics should be aware of the fine print that bans the posting of videos and audio taken with smartphones and other devices to social networking services. The organizing committee for the Tokyo Olympics is accepting ticket applications until May 28 for the first round of distribution. The purchase application website clearly states that fans cannot upload any videos they take at a sports venue without prior approval of the International Olympic Committee. That restriction extends to scenes taken of the stands that may not have an athlete in sight. The strict control of videos is meant to protect the interests of TV networks that have paid vast amounts for exclusive broadcasting rights. The ban has led to tweets asking for a degree of leniency so fans can take selfies at the venues with the field of competi- tion serving as a background. Some individuals are already raising doubts about the effectiveness of the restrictions since so few people seem to be aware of it. In general, copyright of videos taken by fans belong to the individual. However, ticket regulations also state that the individual in making the ticket purchase agrees to turn over all rights, including copyright, to the IOC for any photos, video and audio recordings they may take. Atsushi Igarashi, who heads the legal affairs department at the Tokyo Olympics organizing committee, noted that the rights of broadcasters needed to be protected. “We have included a restriction that will allow the IOC to request (service providers) to delete inappropriate videos posted to the Internet,” Igarashi said. Addressing why the restriction extends even to videos in which no athletes appear, Igarashi said: “The Olympics are not only about the events. The major precondition is that the IOC possesses rights to everything found within a venue.” He said similar restrictions applied to the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. There are differences with posting restrictions in other sports. For example, the J.League bans the online posting of photos and videos taken by fans in the stands. However, there is no regulation asking that all copyright be turned over to the soccer league. An official with the Yakult Swallows professional baseball team said there were no restrictions on the taking and posting of photos and videos as long as the flash was not used and there was no profit motive. The IOC restrictions are also clearly at odds with the music industry. The music producer Masahiro Nakawaki noted that in the United States the posting of videos from concerts was often encouraged because it is seen as a way to drum up publicity. Kensaku Fukui, a lawyer and specialist in intellectual property rights, said: “Unlike concerts, greater freedom has been allowed for photographing and cheering at sports events. While there are circumstances from the standpoint of event organizers, I feel asking fans to transfer copyright for Olympic events and banning posts to SNS sites is excessively limiting their freedom.” TAFWA Newsletter - Page 27 - July 2019 Six Pennies Richer By Phoebe Wright | Photo by Kirby Lee, Image of Sport | https://journal.tracksmith.com/six-pennies-richer All great runners have one thing in com- was not going to race, I sighed with relief. athlete. Jax was an anomaly. She’d either mon: a sense of purpose. You must have a “Get it done,” I told myself. “A 2:05 should run a “super easy” 15 at in the 5k, or she’d reason to plunge deep into the well of lactic do the trick. You can run a 2:05 with your run “the hardest 18-min- ute 5k of her life.” acid and then keep going. But every runner eyes closed.” I was never quite sure which Jax would is different. Some seek perfection. Some The rest of the squad, on the other hand, show up. She was our anchor for the DMR. run on anger. Others run for the sheer was talking about going after the American Entering the bullpen, we knew Oregon thrill of being objectively the best. Record. To me, chasing the record without was the team to beat. It was a replay from I ran for my team. I felt most valuable LSU seemed close to impossible, but I nod- Indoors. But Oregon had switched their when they could rely on me, and I could ded along to keep things positive. lineup and their anchor was now another rely on them. This purpose is very useful in Kimarra led off in style. She got out 5k athlete. I watched Jax realize the situ- relay races. It’s why being part of six Penn in good position, closed hard, and ran a ation and turn from timid to predatory. Relays Championship teams at Tennessee season’s best 2:08. When she handed off There was no way a 5k athlete was going to is easily the proudest achievement of my to Chanelle, I realized they weren’t kidding beat her, especially not in a 1600. Jax, for- career. about going after the record. Chanelle ran merly a miler, had been hesitant to move The atmosphere at the a blistering 2:02, essentially by herself. up to longer distances. She prided herself is something like the Super Bowl. The “These fools are going to make me run,” I on being a 5k runner with a miler’s kick. competition is fierce and the stands are thought. Before we went to the line I hugged her. completely full, mostly with high school- Chanelle handed off to Sarah, who “When you come down the homestretch in ers, athletes and Jamaicans. Jamaicans are widened the lead with a 2:03.9 PR before first,” I said, “Put up the Number 1 finger the best spectators in Track and Field. They handing off to me. because it is going to be in all the papers cheer for any good performance. Anyone Some quick math told me I needed a tomorrow. I’ll be there doing it too so you who gains on a leader instigates their infa- 2:02 for the record, not the easy 2:05 I’d remember.” mous “WHOOP! WHOOP!” chant. I’ve had hoped for. I cut a deal with myself. “If you Shef led off and within the first thirty nightmares about leading a race at Penn run a 1:30 600, we can see how you feel the meters, I knew she did not come to play. and getting “WHOOP WHOOP’d.” last 200.” She seemed to gain confidence with every Each team gets a bib with “AA”, “AB”, I came through the quarter in 59 sec- stride, handing off to Eleanor Francis “AC” ... The number one seed is AA, which onds and heard the announcer say, “A 64 Worthem in third. Eleanor was a sprinter is functionally the same as a bullseye. The second lap gets the record.” I’d been doing with a slender body like Popeye’s Olive Oyl. winning team gets to run a victory lap and the math and I knew they were wrong. I Her stride was so long, she only had to take take home a giant trophy called a “Penny.” needed a 62. There is a world of difference maybe ten steps before making it around This is the story of how Tennessee earned between a 62 and 64. the track. Her unassuming frame and her six Pennies and I got to keep one. I ran another thirty second 200 and wicked kick had the all the Jamaican fans came through 600 in 1:30, like I’d prom- WHOOP! WHOOPING! She passed the — 2009 — ised. I could feel the crowd–all 20,000 baton to me in first. Before my team strung together one of people–anticipating the record, watching I knew that the bigger the lead I gave the most impressive hot streaks in Penn the clock. Every one of the next 32 seconds Jax, the better. I pretended someone was Relays history, we had two years of losses. felt like a lifetime. Somehow, I snuck in on my shoulder the whole 800 and handed These weren’t mid-pack, “oh-well” losses under the record. off to her with a solid lead. She clicked off either. They were the neck-in-neck-down- Before I could comprehend what hap- laps and on the third one she threw me a the-homestretch, barely-second-place, pened, Kimarra hugged me so hard my legs knowing smile. I positioned myself at the heart-wrenching losses. None of us liked it. gave out. I whispered in her ear, “You fools 40-meter mark so I could throw her the We hated it, actually. We hated it so much made me run.” Number 1 reminder. With a roll of her eyes, that we used it as motivation, coming On the flight home, Coach Clark asked she reluctantly threw up the 1 for maybe back to Philly to claim six Pennies, three me, “Do you know how special that was?” 0.2 milliseconds. We scooped her up at the American records, and one World Record I nodded and asked, “If we do it again finish line and smiled so hard on the vic- over two years. next year can I keep a big Penny?” tory lap that my jaw hurt the next day. The streak started in 2009. We went He laughed, “Sure, kid.” He didn’t know to Penn with the most talented group of I was serious. 4x1500 women I have ever run with: Sarah Bow- We woke up on day two and the first man, an NCAA Champion miler, the incred- — 2010 — thing I did was grab the paper. There it ibly fit Kimarra McDonald and Rolanda DMR was: a big picture of Jax throwing up the Bell, and Chanelle Price, a top collegian in We came into 2010 without our main Number 1. the 800 meters. weapon, Sarah Bowman, who’d graduated But Penn was far from over. I was most On day one we won the DMR, but and was running professionally. Returning, nervous about the 4x1500. Not only was were disappointed when we didn’t set any we had Chanelle, Kimarra and myself. But it about 700 meters too long for my liking, records. We were crazy like that. So on day we had reinforcements. Brittany Shef- but it felt a little weird because each hand-o two, Sarah anchored our team to victory fey, “Shef,” was our dark horse – fiery and was at a different point around the track. and a world record. When the press asked unbeatable when she was confident. Shef Our line-up was Chanelle to Jax to Shef to what she was thinking, she eloquently said, had every right to be confident: she’d just me. We hugged before the officials ushered “I was just trying to win.” anchored the indoor DMR to a National us to our respective spots. I felt anxious On day three, I woke up exhausted and title, holding off Oregon superstar Jordan without my team. nervous to anchor the 4x800. So when we Hasay. The nerves settled when I saw Chanelle heard that LSU–our biggest competition– We also had Jackie Areson, “Jax,” a 5k round the track. Chanelle was so consis- TAFWA Newsletter - Page 28 - July 2019 tent. No matter what, she always gave 100%, which is the most valuable quality in a teammate. I believed in her more than I did myself. She ran a solid leg and handed off to Jax ten meters behind Villanova and Oregon. Jax was excited. She hated Oregon and loved stalk- ing their runners before unleashing a furious kick. She stalked for three laps before starting her move with a glance down at her legs as if to tell them, “Ok, it’s time.” She handed to Shef with a slight lead over Villanova. Oregon was thirty meters back. Shef had been practicing running with confidence all year, and it showed. We made eye contact every lap, and I knew she was running to put me in the best position possible. I got the baton one stride ahead of Villanova’s . Sheila was a 1500m NCAA Champion with a wicked kick. I could sense her excitement to stalk me. Every time we got to the backstretch, the entire Villanova squad cheered, “LET’S GO NO-VA.” In my head I screamed, “Let’s go PHOE-BE!” so their cheers couldn’t penetrate my confidence. At the bell lap, the announcer proclaimed, “This is a 400-meter race! Who has the best speed over 400?!” I felt like it was God talking, because that’s exactly what I needed to hear. *I* was the fastest over 400. But still, Sheila was there. She could taste the win, and I knew it. Sheila made her first move exactly where I Jax throwing up the Number 1 finger. This was all over the papers. expected her to—at 300 meters to go with the “LET’S GO NO-VA” been undefeated champion. chant. I gently responded just enough to keep her from passing. From the gun, she attacked with purpose, taking a bite out of I wanted to have the lead on the curve. LSU’s backside and never letting go. She passed off to Chanelle She hit a hard gear at 200 meters, so I burned a lot of matches twenty meters behind. Chanelle stalked LSU for 400. She ran covering it. I knew I only had maybe one more gear left, and was incredibly well, but so did they. We were still twenty meters back, nervous. Then I saw the finish line, where Shef was waiting. I made and I started to get nervous. It was going to be hard to beat Latavia eye contact with her, letting her know I was running for her like even with good positioning; a de cit would be a disaster. she ran for me. In that moment, I felt Sheila break, but I didn’t Chanelle passed off to Shef. Shef, a 5k runner, was up against take any chances. I ran all the way through the line and into my an 800-meter All-American. I couldn’t watch, instead I picked my teammates’ arms. fingers and looked down at my feet. But when I reengaged, Shef We’d all given so much, we walked the victory lap. was gaining momentum. Realizing I was going to get the baton neck-in-neck with Latavia, I reminded myself, “Don’t abandon the 4x800 plan.” That night I sat in bed reliving the win. In the morning, I asked Latavia was quicker than me over 400, but I was stronger over Coach Clark to breakfast. “If I anchor us to a win,” I asked. “I get to 1,600. I knew that to zap her kick, I’d have to run an honest race. keep the Penny, right?” Or as Coach Clark said, “Make her hurt.” I stayed as smooth as pos- Caught off guard once again by my confidence, he laughed. “I sible for the first 400. Then from 400 to 600, I pushed. However did promise that, didn’t I?” much I was hurting, Latavia was hurting worse. We reviewed the game plan as a team. We knew LSU was bring- I regrouped at 200 to go and prepared for her to pull up on my ing their A-squad, and they had the talent to take a crack at our shoulder. When she made her move, I could feel her breath in my 4x800 record. A wave of anxiety-nausea hit me when Coach said, ear. I prayed I had enough in the tank to hold her off. “Phoebe will make LSU hurt.” And then, when I was running on fumes and motivation, the On the warm up everyone was quiet. Kimarra didn’t blink for announcer asked, “Who wants it? Who wants it?!” I screamed the a solid ten minutes. She finally worked up the courage to ask, answer in my head, “I DO. TENNESSEE DOES.” “You’re nervous, right?” I smiled. “100%,” I said. “Enjoy it.” Then I retreated into my head to over think the race. I have never hurt so much for a win. LSU’s anchor, two-time NCAA Champion Latavia Thomas, was We ran the victory lap intoxicated with lactic acid and accom- my collegiate nemesis. We were in the same conference and region, plishment. Afterwards, I saw Coach and started remind him about so we battled almost weekly. If she was going to beat me, today my Penny. But before could, he asked, “All right, kid, which one do was it. She had fresh legs and–as a Philly native–a home crowd. I you want?” was physically roasted from the previous two days. “The one I worked hardest for,” I said. I broke my negativity black hole with a pep talk, “Don’t abandon “So the 4x800?” the plan, Phoebe!” I repeated this mantra until an official broke I nodded, “The 4x800.” my trance, yelling, “Tennessee ladies! Lane 3!” into a bullhorn six We shared a team hug and Coach again said, “Do you know how inches from my ear. special that was?” Turning to Kimarra, Chanelle and Shef, I said the only words To this day, I still do. could muster without throwing up, “Don’t abandon the plan!” Kimarra led off. She always brought her A-game to Penn be- cause she loved relays. If NCAA’s was run with a baton, she’d have TAFWA Newsletter - Page 29 - July 2019 USA Track & Field’s Pan Am Debacle Gets Even Weirder: An Arbitrator Has Apparently Ruled Against USATF, But Only In Certain Events By Robert Johnson | Letsrun.com | https://www.letsrun.com/news/2019/06/usa-track-and-fields-pan- am-debacle-gets-even-weirder-an-arbitrator-has-apparently-ruled-against-usatf-but-only-in-certain-events/ If you thought USA Track & Field’s (USATF) 2019 team selection debacle couldn’t get any crazier, you were wrong. Since December, USATF has said they would pick the team based off of 2019 results only. Then last week they sent out an email stating that, actually, they were going to defy their own selection criteria and pick the team off of 2018 and 2019 results. Then the team came out on Monday and it reflected neither of those options as some of the team came from the 2019 list, while some came from 2018 and 2019 list, the result of multiple clerical errors. On Wednesday, without telling the public, USATF quietly changed the roster so that the entire team came from the combined 2018 and 2019 list.

That didn’t please A LOT of people, but many of them didn’t know what to do. One who did know what to do was Ameri- can Distance Project coach Scott Simmons. Simmons, who coaches at least two athletes who were not initially named to the team but were poised to make it if USATF chose it off of 2019 marks, filed a Section 9 grievance on behalf of them. On Friday, Brooks Beasts coach Danny Mackey told LetsRun.com that the arbiter has ruled in Simmons’ favor and said that the team should be chosen using the 2019 marks only as the that’s what USATF initially said would be the case. However, the ruling only applies to the men’s steeple and men’s 10,000 (we’re not sure if it applies to everyone in those events or just Simmons’ athletes), presumably because those are the two events where Simmons filed an appeal (another source told us that the hearing did discuss the men’s 5,000, but it’s possible that Simmons withdrew that appeal as he has an athlete that gets in off of the 2018-19 marks in the 5,000).

Five of the six men on the 2019 USA XC team were coached by Scott Simmons

What’s mind-boggling is that with the arbiter limiting the ruling to just two events, it means that Simmons now has ath- letes on Team USA under both sets of rules. will run for the USA in the 5,000 based off of 2018-2019 marks being incorrectly used (he would not make it in the 10,000 if it was only 2019 marks). And now thanks to Simmons’ appeal, Benard Keter (who only recently got his US citizenship and has run 8:29.94 this year) is in the steeple, as is Lawi Lalang in the 10,000 (28:03.34 in 2019), and those two only get in if only 2019 times are used to qualify.

As a result of the ruling, the Brooks Beasts’ Garrett Heath has been told he is no longer in the 10,000. Presumably that would also mean that Jordan Mann (8:28.55 in 2018) is off of the steeple team, but we do not know if Isaac Updike (8:25.38 in 2018) is also off the steeple team because the man in line to replace him, Travis Mahoney (8:28.76 in 2019), is not one of Simmons’ athletes and thus may not have been affected by the arbitration. It’s going to blow my mind if Ma- honey is left off of the team even though he’s run faster than Keter this year simply because Mahoney didn’t know to file an appeal on his own behalf. Update at 7:09 am on 6/29/19: We’ve been told Mahoney is on the team.

Regardless, the team would be drastically different if the 2019 standards were used for all events. Someone told me that it would impact as many as 39 individuals. As things stand, tons of 2019 studs like NCAA leader Tyler Day of Northern Arizona, who ran 13:25 this year and would be on the team if the 2019 list was used, are still being screwed over royally.

I spoke to Day’s coach, NAU head coach Mike Smith, both last night and today, and he was extremely frustrated by the fiasco and the lack of transparency coming from USATF. “Will someone just own this and take responsibility?” he asked. Smith said all week long he’s been trying to reach a human being at USATF — to no avail — to get an explanation as to why Day was initially told he was on the team and then was taken off of it. After leaving six different voicemails, he finally got a call back this afternoon from USATF Managing Director of International & Championship Teams , but that call left him just as confused as he was before. Smith said he thought Thurmond told him they were using 2019 times to select the 5,000 squad and that Day was initially put on as a result of a clerical error (but the part about using only 2019 times can’t be true as Day has run faster than both Riley Masters and Shadrack Kipchirchir this year — the two guys cur- rently on the team).

We’re now five days into this debacle, and things still may not be over as one source told us that someone at USATF told him more arbitration hearings could be coming. If you are interested in filing arbitration, please email me at robert@ letsrun.com. TAFWA Newsletter - Page 30 - July 2019 Kenya’s Rio Olympics Team Manager gets 10-year ban By Ayumba Ayodi | Daily Nation | https://www.nation.co.ke/sports/athletics/Michael-Rotich-Kenya-Rio- Olympics-Team-Manager-gets-10-years-ban/1100-5126676-u9npxl/index.html Michael Rotich, the team manager of Kenya’s athletics team in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, has been banned for 10 years from any athletics-related activities besides being fined Sh 1.9 million. While delivering the ruling on Wednesday, the International Association of Athletics Federa- tion (IAAF) Ethics Board found Rotich, who is a retired Major in the Kenya Defence Forces, culpable of having breached its rules. The panel comprising Lauri Tarasti (chairman), Akira Kawamura and Juan Pablo Ar- Kenya Olympics Field and Track manager Michael Rotich in a Nairobi court on Au- rigada detailed that Rotich was gust 10, 2016. PHOTO | PAUL WAWERU | NATION MEDIA GROUP found guilty of having agreed to provide advance notice of drug tests to athletes and coaches in exchange for money. The panel noted that Rotich knew when doing so, it would allow athletes to flush banned substances from their systems in order to circumvent doping tests. “Major Rotich suggested excuses which athletes could use to avoid being penalised for missing a drug test,” said the statement. The sanction comes to effect from the date of decision on May 22, 2019. “Rotich has a right of appeal against the decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, within 21 days of the date of this decision, in accordance with the procedure set out in rule R47 et seq. of the CAS Code of Sports- related arbitration.” At all relevant times, Rotich was the Head of Athletics Kenya North Rift Province and was the team manager of the Kenyan athletics team for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro held from August 5-21, 2016. Rotich was suspend on August 12, 2016 by IAAF and kicked out from the Rio Olympics Games after allega- tions arose from an article entitled “Rio Olympics hit by new doping scandal” and accompanying video footage, both of which were published by the Sunday Times on August 7, 2016. “In these circumstances the Panel has concluded that Major Rotich should be banned for 10 years from taking part in any athletics-related activity including holding any relevant office in athletics.” “In addition, the Panel has levied a fine upon Major Rotich. He is ordered to pay the sum of US$ 5,000 dollars (Sh 500,000) to the IAAF.” The Panel also found that Rotich has committed violations of the Code of Ethics and accordingly the general rule is that the procedural costs amount to US $ 14,000 (Sh 1.4 million) should be borne by him. “Major Rotich has not identified any exceptional circumstances such as would warrant the costs being reduced or waived,” stated the ruling. “When the Panel had noted that it has not been necessary to hold a hearing because of the nature of the evidence, which was contained entirely in documents and footage, and because of the Defendant’s failure to file a Defence in these proceedings, the costs incurred by the IAAF Ethics Board are more limited than they might otherwise have been.”

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 31 - July 2019 Allyson Felix: My Own Nike Pregnancy Story I’ve been one of Nike’s most widely marketed athletes. If I can’t secure maternity protections, who can? https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/opinion/allyson-felix-pregnancy-nike.html Video: https://nyti.ms/2ErAnDe I’ve always known that expressing myself could hurt where for more money. my career. I’ve tried not to show emotion, to antici- But when I met with the company’s leadership in pate what people expect from me and to do it. I don’t 2010, one woman told me about a Nike-sponsored like to let people down. But you can’t change anything initiative called the Girl Effect that promoted adoles- with silence. cent girls as the key to improving societies around the Last week, two of my former Nike teammates, the globe. By joining Nike, she said, I could help empower Olympian runners Alysia Montaño and Kara Goucher, women. She told me Nike believed in women and girls, heroically broke their nondisclosure agreements with and I believed her. the company to share their pregnancy stories in a New Which is part of why my recent experience has been York Times investigation. so heartbreaking. They told stories we athletes know are true, but have My disappointment is not just with Nike, but with been too scared to tell publicly: If we have children, we how the sports apparel industry at large treats female risk pay cuts from our sponsors during pregnancy and athletes. This isn’t just about pregnancy. We may stand afterward. It’s one example of a sports industry where behind the brands we endorse, but we also need to the rules are still mostly made for and by men. hold them accountable when they are marketing us to I have my own pregnancy story as a professional appeal to the next generation of athletes and consum- runner. ers. For most of my life, I was focused on one thing: Last week, thanks to the voices of a few brave winning medals. And I was good at it. At 32, I was one women, the industry took a step in the right direc- of the most decorated athletes in history: a six-time tion. Brands like Burton, Altra, Nuun and Brooks came Olympic gold medal winner and an 11-time world forward to announce new contractual guarantees for champion. But last year, my focus expanded: I wanted women who have children while being supported by to be a professional athlete and a mother. In some their sponsorships. A few days later, Nike also com- ways, that dream was crazy. mitted to changing its maternity policy, announcing, I decided to start a family in 2018 knowing that according to The Wall Street Journal, that “it is adding pregnancy can be “the kiss of death” in my industry, language to new contracts for female athletes that will as the runner Phoebe Wright put it in The Times last protect their pay during pregnancy.” I applaud Nike for week. It was a terrifying time for me because I was seeing that change was necessary, and I look forward negotiating a renewal of my Nike contract, which had to specifics, from Nike and the rest of the industry ended in December 2017. who has yet to commit to contractually protecting I felt pressure to return to form as soon as possible women. after the birth of my daughter in November 2018, Athletes are told to shut up and play. We are told even though I ultimately had to undergo an emergency that no one cares about our politics. We are told that C-section at 32 weeks because of severe pre-eclampsia we’re just entertainers, so run fast, jump high, and that threatened the lives of me and my baby. throw far. And don’t mess up. Meanwhile, negotiations were not going well. But pregnancy is not messing up; for women it can Despite all my victories, Nike wanted to pay me 70 and should be able to be part of a thriving professional percent less than before. If that’s what they think I’m athletic career, as my teammates have shown and I worth now, I accept that. hope to show too. And I dream of a day when we don’t What I’m not willing to accept is the enduring status have to fight in order to try. quo around maternity. I asked Nike to contractually Protection during maternity isn’t just limited to guarantee that I wouldn’t be punished if I didn’t per- Olympians; working women all over the U.S. deserve form at my best in the months surrounding childbirth. protection when they have children. We shouldn’t I wanted to set a new standard. If I, one of Nike’s most have to rely on companies to do the right thing. Our widely marketed athletes, couldn’t secure these protec- families depend on it. tions, who could? Nike declined. We’ve been at a standstill ever since. As a result of public comments by Felix and other Ironically, one of the deciding factors for me in sign- athletes, Nike and other companies have begun making ing with Nike nearly a decade ago was what I thought changes to their policies on pregnant athletes. were Nike’s core principles. I could have signed else- TAFWA Newsletter - Page 32 - July 2019 First world record for 2020 Virgin Money London Marathon https://www.virginmoneylondonmarathon.com/en-gb/news-media/latest-news/item/first-world-record-for- 2020-virgin-money-london-marathon/ The Virgin Money London Marathon, the most popular marathon on the planet, set a new world record for a third successive year as an incredible 457,861 applicants registered for a ballot place in the 2020 event, which will be the 40th edition of the race.

The new world record total represents an increase of 10.5 per cent on last year’s previous world record of 414,168 applicants for the 2019 race.

373,736 of the applicants for 2020 were from the UK. This is 25,860 up from the previous UK applicant re- cord of 347,876 for the 2019 event. A total of 84,125 people applied in the international ballot.

More than 56 per cent of the UK applications for 2020 were from people who have never run a marathon and just under 48 per cent of the total UK applicants were women.

“This world record reflects the extraordinary inspirational effect of the 39th London Marathon on 28 April and our social media campaign, #ThanksaBillion, which celebrated the many runners who have raised over £1 billion for charitable causes since the event started in 1981,” said Hugh Brasher, Event Director for London Mar- athon Events. “One of our goals is to inspire people to take up sport and it’s fantastic that more than 210,000 people from the UK have been inspired to apply to run a marathon for the first time in 2020.”

“At the first London Marathon back in 1981, fewer than 300 of the 6,300 finishers were women. More than 179,000 women from the UK have applied to run in 2020 and, for the third successive year, there are more female than male first-time marathon runners from the UK (54.4 per cent v 45.6 per cent).

“Our #ThanksaBillion campaign celebrated the extraordinary achievement of so many runners and support- ers of the London Marathon in raising over £1 billion for charity and, through its massive reach on social media, will have inspired many to apply. The commitment of more than 75 per cent of our runners to fundraise each year is a part of what makes the London Marathon unique. No other mass participation event comes anywhere near this kind of fundraising.

“We were particularly proud to welcome ‘Barbara’s Revolutionaries’, a team of runners from EastEnders run- ning in honour of their former cast member Dame Barbara Windsor, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s dis- ease in 2014. Together with Barbara’s husband Scott Mitchell, the eight EastEnders raised more than £100,000 for the charity of the year, Dementia Revolution. We were also honoured to feature a commemorative mile marker at Mile 18 in memory of Stephen Lawrence, celebrating his life and legacy with the concept ‘Because of Stephen we can’.

“The London Marathon continues to have an extraordinary impact that has inspired profound social change. It is an iconic event, recognised as the world’s greatest marathon, and compels people to take up running and to raise millions for charity. In addition, The London Marathon Charitable Trust has enabled thousands more to get active through its funding of a huge range of recreational projects.”

Entrants will be notified of the ballot results in October 2019.

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 33 - July 2019 French prosecutors lay out allegations against former IAAF chief Diack By Emmanuel Jarry | Reuters | https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-athletics-france-diack/french-prosecu- tors-lay-out-allegations-against-former-iaaf-chief-diack-idUKKCN1SR1NX?rpc=401& PARIS (Reuters) - French prosecutors have described a web of corruption once rife in world athletics, includ- ing bribes paid to cover up athletes’ positive drugs tests, in an indictment recommending that Lamine Diack, the Senegalese former head of the IAAF, and his son stand trial. The indictment handed to judges by France’s financial prosecutors’ office on Monday accuses Diack and his son Papa Massata of a host of illicit practices over a number of years, including bribe-taking and money-laun- dering, with the active involvement of international athletes and their federations. Lamine Diack, 85, who is under house arrest in France, and Papa Massata Diack, who is in Senegal, have denied wrongdoing. Senegal has refused extradition requests for Papa Massata, a businessman who worked as a marketing consultant for the IAAF. Under French law, the investigating judge now has three months to decide how to proceed with the indict- ment. Prosecutors began their investigation in 2015, shortly after the IAAF’s ethics commission and the World Anti- Doping Authority (WADA) uncovered evidence a Russian marathon runner paid 600,000 euros to cover up a positive drug test, allowing her to compete in the London 2012 Olympic Games. “Under the leadership of its president (Lamine Diack) and over the course of several years of wrongdoing, the IAAF managed to combine corruption with the encouragement of doping,” the prosecutors wrote in the indict- ment, seen by Reuters. “(Diack’s) actions, which were in complete contradiction with his role, allowed doping athletes from one coun- try to continue to compete and participate in the biggest world competitions in exchange for money,” it said. A lawyer representing Diack, William Bourdon, declined to comment. Papa Massata Diack and representatives of the IAAF did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Citing witnesses and documents, the prosecutors highlight what they describe as the “extremely complacent” attitude of the IAAF towards the Russian athletics federation, and set out the relations between a number of IAAF and national federation officials allegedly involved in corrupt practices. The Russian athletics federation has been suspended from world competition since November 2015, after WADA published a report containing evidence of widespread, state-sponsored doping in Russian athletics. In March, French officials issued international arrest warrants for two former Russian athletics officials as part of their investigation into doping cover-ups. Diack, who led the IAAF from 1999-2015, brought enormous influence to bear on the organisation during that time, including raising the leverage of African athletics federations in decisions over the hosting of interna- tional events. According to the prosecutors, Diack and his son, who oversees a sports consulting business called Black Tid- ings, solicited payments from athletes, either directly or indirectly, totalling 3.45 million euros in exchange for covering up positive doping tests, allowing the athletes to go on competing. The investigations being carried out by French authorities into athletics have already resulted in several ar- rests and agreement by some of those accused to cooperate. French doctor Gabriel Dolle, the former head of the IAAF’s anti-doping department, has accepted the ac- cusations made against him and asked to receive preferential treatment if he pleads guilty, a deal that is being considered.

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 34 - July 2019 The Match Europe v USA Minsk 2019 website is now live The website for The Match Europe v USA Minsk 2019 is now live and in addition to news about this historic contest, which will be staged in the Belarusian capital on 9-10 September, there is also the opportunity to pur- chase to tickets and find out more about the host city itself.

The website (http://europe-usa.com/) also contains links to Instagram and Facebook accounts for the event, which will be updated regularly.

The recently renovated 22,000-seater Dinamo National Olympic Stadium will be the venue for this innovative head-to-head competition, which will see many of the world’s best athletes in action at the last major meeting before the IAAF World Championships Doha 2019.

The brainchild of European Athletics President Svein Arne Hansen, The Match harks back to the famous dual international matches of the 1960s and 70s and is aiming at establishing a regular Europe v USA rivalry, like those in golf which has the Ryder Cup and Solheim Cup, which transcend just the sport’s own aficionados and where every top performer in the sport is desperate to be selected and a member of the winning team.

“Team competition always brings out the best in athletes and fans love to see stars in peak condition fight- ing to lift the cup at the end of the day,” said Hansen. “I am sure The Match will give the 2019 season an extra dimension of interest and it could well turn into a regular feature on the international calendar.”

The Match organisers are expecting a capacity crowd over the two days of competition and local ticket sales have already been strong but if you can’t be there in person then a television rights agreement has been signed with the European Athletics’ International Partner the European Broadcasting Union, which will broadcast The Match around Europe and beyond.

Dinamo National Olympic Stadium in Minsk after the 2018 renovations

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 35 - July 2019 Whither Jamaica’s track & field... By Richard Blackford | Jamaica Observer | http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/opinion/whither-jamaica-s-track-field-_164799?profile=1096 The curtain came down over the weekend on the 2019 My assessment is that the JAAA has been an abysmal running of the IAAF Word Relay Championships in Yoko- failure to Jamaica as an administrative body for athletics hama, Japan, and for the first time in more than a dozen over decades. As, beyond the God-given talents possessed years in international competitions Jamaica failed to win a by these athletes, the organisation has done very little for single gold medal. At least two years ago at the 2017 IAAF which it can claim any athlete’s individual success. The fact World Championships in London, Omar McLeod saved us is that the outstanding individual performances on the total blushes when he sped to victory in 13.05 seconds in international scene since 2007 served to mask the JAAA’s the men’s 110-metre hurdles. At the end of those champion- deficiencies as Jamaican athletes enjoyed those majestic 12 ships I wrote an opinion piece presaging the kind of results years. that we are now seeing. After all, the gargantuan figure of thundering out of the starting blocks over the 12 Watching Bolt tumble and Olympic champion Elaine years that he graced the track guaranteed Jamaica at least Thompson failing to medal back in 2017 in London and our two gold medals in those competitions, and almost as an relay teams fumble again and again in Japan last weekend, afterthought, a win in the sprint relays. Not anymore since it seemed as if the skies had fallen...or colloquially, that the Bolt pulled the curtain on his career. athletic gods had suddenly deserted Jamaica. Fans of the sport are asking how this could have happened. What could The truth be told, Bolt’s dominance over the period possibly have gone wrong with Jamaica’s programme? masked the fact that the overabundance of talent exposed by each of those years at Champs has not been coming My answer is simple: Nothing has happened that wasn’t through. Further, the long occupation by , there before. The truth is that there is always a strong inevi- , , , and Yohan tability component at play in all sport, summed up simply Blake meant that there has been little opportunity to ap- as “eventually, winners will eventually lose”. It is the same prentice much, if any at all, of that talent. Thus, with Bolt’s premise that underscores the rise of empires. Eventually, departure, and that of the regular guard, as far as Jamaica’s they too will fall. male sprinting is concerned we have moved from an embar- rassment of riches to a position in which pole medals may Perhaps now is a good time for the JAAA to step back become few and far between. and to take stock of how effective it has been at adminis- tering the sport in Jamaica. Maybe it is time for not only The women’s division, although not mining gold in the a reinventing of itself as an organisation, but also time to last two years, still shows some promise, with defending look, holistically, at Jamaica’s athletics programme and to double Olympic champion Elaine Thompson spearheading ensure that everything is being done to maintain the solid our women’s efforts alongside her mentor, former Olympic reputation built on the performances of all our athletes over and IAAF champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce. Those two the years. apart, there is still some gap between them and the mem- bers of the waiting pool. Certainly, the veteran Veronica In the process, we may need to embrace a little more Campbell Brown, who has been around now for nearly two grace and humility even as we appreciate the efforts of all decades, should not be allowed to become another Merlene those who toil to bring us fame. Their failure to deliver is no Ottey, looking to make five Olympic Games at the expense harbinger of doom, but a mere wake-up call for us to work of the ocean of talented young women that the Inter-sec- even harder. ondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) Boys’ and Girls’ Championships has produced over the past 12 years. Richard Hugh Blackford is a self-taught artist, writer I believe that we should ask ourselves the question as to and social commentator. He shares his time between how many of the outstanding performers at ISSA Champs Lauderhill, Florida, and Kingston, Jamaica. www.yard- over the past 20 years have actually been elevated to the abraawd.com Send comments to the Observer or rich- national track team, and the extent to which their junior [email protected]. success has translated to success at the national senior level. For, if high school championships programme is the incuba- tor that it is publicly recognised as, where exactly are the results? How has the Jamaica Athletics Administrative As- sociation (JAAA) capitalised on ISSA’s efforts given the huge expenditure among high schools to produce world-beating athletes at the junior level?

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 36 - July 2019 2019 TAFWA AWARDS - AUSTIN Left: Kathy Harston, senior associate athletic director at the Univer- sity of Texas; above right: Dave Johnson presented the Scott Davis Announcing Award to Kevin Saylors of Seattle, WA. Below: Leroy Burrell, Director of Track and Field at the University of Houston. Opposite: Kevin Saylors receives congratulations from Bob Hersh.

Opposite page, above: the Don Potts FAST Award was accepted by Lee Nichols, of Austin, on behalf of Larry Story, past editor of Texas Track & Field News. A plaque was sent to Larry in Fort Worth. Opposite page below: Phil Pierce, media coordinator for the NCAA and Shawn Price, Texas A&M’s Assistant Director - Athletics Communications (track and field, cross country) and TAFWA newsletter editor. Current page: above left (l-r): Jane Bunting, wife of Penn Relays director Dave Johnson, Ruth Laney, writer and former contributor to Track & Field News, and Sylvia Huntsman. Above right (l-r): Errol Anderson, photographer and Ruth Laney. Below center: Dave Johnson, Howard Willman, Track & Field News contribu- tor, Sam Seemes, president of the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association, Mark Cullen, trackerati author and Track & Field News contributor, and Errol Anderson. Above: Bob Hersh and Sylvia Huntman. Below left: Sheldon Mickles, and Jon Alquist, Ari- zona. Above left: Jack Pfeifer and Leroy Burrell. Above right: Don Steffens and Lee Nichols. Below: Sylvia Huntsman with Art Morgan, Las Cruces, New Mexico. Errol Anderson announces the photography winner Bob Bettwy, Los Angeles

Sam Seemes presents the Cordner Nelson award to Sheldon Mickles Above left: TAFWA President Jack Pfeifer. Above right: Sylvia Huntsman, widow of the late Texas coach , announced the Jim Dunaway Memorial Award for Track & Field journalism. The winner, David Hunter of Ohio, received the plaque at the track. Above left: Dave Johnson also presented the Pinkie Sober Life- time Announcing award to Stan Saplin. That plaque will be sent to Stan’s widow, Gail Saplin, in NYC. Above right, Jack Pfeifer with Sheldon Mickles, who was awarded the Cordner Nelson Memorial Award for Lifetime Achievement. Partial Fixtures List 2019 July 18-21 Pan American U20 Championships, San Jose, Costa Rica July 25-28 USATF Championships, Des Moines, Iowa Aug. 6-10 Pan-American Games, Lima, Peru (tentative dates for track and field) Aug. 9-11 European Team Championships, Bydgoszcz, 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, , Georgia March 13-14 NCAA Division I Indoor Championships, Albuquerque, New Mexico NCAA Division II Indoor Championships, Birmingham, Alabama NCAA Division III Indoor Championships, Geneva, Ohio March 13-15 IAAF World Indoor Championships, Nanjing, China March 25-28 Texas Relays, Austin, Texas April 22-25 Drake Relays, Des Moines, Iowa April 23-25 Penn Relays, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 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 TBA USATF U20 Outdoor Championships, Miramar, Florida 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, Pennsylvania

2021 March 11-12 NCAA Division I Indoor Championships, Fayetteville, Arkansas NCAA Division II Indoor Championships, Birmingham, Alabama NCAA Division III Indoor Championships, Geneva, Ohio March 20 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, Bathurst, Australia

May 27-29 NCAA Division II Outdoor Championships, Allendale, Michigan NCAA Division III Outdoor Championships, Geneva, Ohio May 27-29 NCAA Division I East Preliminary Rounds, Jacksonville, Florida NCAA Division I West Preliminary Rounds, College Station, Texas June 9-12 NCAA Division I Outdoor Championships, Eugene, Oregon

Aug. 6-15 IAAF World Championships, Eugene, Oregon

Nov. 20 NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships, Tallahasse, Florida NCAA Division II Cross Country Championships, Tampa, Florida NCAA Division III Cross Country Championships, Louisville, Kentucky

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