February 2017

Track and Field Contents Writers of P. 1 President’s Message America P. 2 Documentary to Premeire Live at Wang With Pops (Founded June 7, 1973) P. 2 New series launched P. 3 2017 TAFWA Awards PRESIDENT P. 4 Letter from USATF President Jack Pfeifer P. 6 USTFCCCA Names National High School Cross County Coaches of the Year 216 Ft. Washington Ave., P. 8 Marathon Investigator Derek Murphy Reveals How He Catches Cheaters NY, NY 10032 P. 10 “Lies and Hypocrisy” - New Whistleblower Levels Serious Charges Against Office/home: 917-579- Russian Athletics 5392. Email: [email protected] P. 12 Texas Sports Hall to Induct Pat Henry P. 13 ‘Pocket Rocket’ Vivian Cheruiyot Speaks About Motherhood, Retirement and VICE PRESIDENT Future Plans Doug Binder P. 14 Why 2028 Makes Sense For ... and the IOC Email: P. 16 Lightning Can Strike Twice: and Los Angeles, Part II [email protected]. P. 18 The Question of the Moment in Summer Games Host Selection Year - Should Phone: 503-913-4191 the IOC Award Two Big Prizes in Peru? TREASURER P. 20 The World’s Best Exchange Rate Tom Casacky P. 22 Anti-Doping Group Calls for Blanket Ban on P.O. Box 4288 P. 23 Sebastian Coe Defies Select Committee Over Russia Corruption Scandal Napa, CA 94558 P. 24 Why Freedom to Expose Corruption in Sport is Now Under Threat in the UK Phone: 818-321-3234 P. 26 Chula Vista Olympic Training Center Under New Ownership and Operation Email: [email protected] P. 27 Kiwi Olympian Jacko Gill Breaks Stone Throwing Record at Highland Games P. 28 European Track and Field Records to get Credibility Review SECRETARY Jon Hendershott P. 28 to Put 109 Athletes Under Doping Scrutiny Email: P. 29 RRCA Announces Distance Running Hall of Fame Inductees [email protected] P. 31 Partial Fixtures List Phone: 503-967-6553

FAST Dave Johnson President’s Message - February 2017 Email: [email protected] TAFWA’s Winter Awards Dinner is almost upon us: Phone: 215-898-6145

WEBMASTER Thursday Feb. 9 * 6 PM Michael McLaughlin Coogan’s Restaurant, Washington Heights, NYC Email: Open to Members & their Guests [email protected] Phone: 815-529-8454 $20 for dinner Four of our 2017 awards will be presented, and longtime member Walt Murphy will NEWSLETTER EDITOR be toasted. If you wish to present a Walt Murphy yarn to the assembled masses, let me Shawn Price Email: know in advance. [email protected] Phone: 979-661-0731 Millrose Games The 110th edition is this Saturday Feb. 11 at the Armory. Press conference is Thurs- day morning Feb 9 10 AM at the new NYRR Center on West 57th Street. The meet is Noon to 6, televised live on NBC 4 to 6. TAFWA Membership Dues for 2017

It’s never too early to think about your TAFWA dues. For 2017, they will remain at $30, and will buy you a series of excellent newsletters, the 2017 FAST Annual, and privileged entry to special TAFWA social events at New York’s Millrose Games in February, the NCAA Championships in Eugene (our yearly breakfast with athletes and coaches), and at the USATF meet in Sacramento. Don’t miss out! You can send a check, payable to TAFWA, to PO Box 4288, Napa, CA 94558, or use PayPal, to the ad- dress [email protected].

TAFWA World All-Time Indoor List

Ed Gordon’s latest edition of his World All-Time Indoor list is available on the TAFWA website under the “F.A.S.T.” menu item. This document can only be seen/accessed by logging on to the website and it would be ap- preciated if it is not shared outside of the TAFWA membership since this is Ed’s private work.

Boston Marathon documentary to premiere live at Wang with Pops By Zoë Madonna | Globe Staff https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/music/2017/01/27/boston-marathon-documentary-premiere-wang-with-boston-pops-esplanade- orchestra-live/CTqwynZWehKnh0IZyyagFI/story.html When “Boston,” a feature-length documentary about the nation’s oldest marathon, makes its world premiere April 15 at the Boch Center’s Wang Theatre, the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra will perform the full score live. But first, members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra will record Jeff Beal’s score for the film at Symphony Hall on Feb. 13. (Sorry, the recording session isn’t open to the public.) Beal, an Emmy-winning composer known for his soundtrack to the Netflix drama “House of Cards,” will conduct the recording and then the performance at the Wang. The premiere, scheduled for One Boston Day, will be sponsored by John Hancock Financial and hosted by WBZ-TV. Directed by Jon Dunham, the documentary traces the ’s history from its origins in 1897 through 2014, incorporating extensive archival material from the Boston Athletic Association. A percentage of premiere ticket sales will go to support Martin’s Park, a playground in the Seaport District to be built in honor of Marathon bombing victim Martin Richard, who was 8 years old when he was killed. New South Africa track and field series launched http://www.supersport.com/athletics/sa-track-and-field/ “We want to send the best possible teams across all news/170123/New_SA_trackandfield_series_launched age groups, in both individual and relay events, to carry the South African flag overseas, and we expect tough A new elite track and field series will be held this year, competition on the domestic circuit to propel our ath- Athletics South Africa have confirmed, with the federa- letes forward as they prepare to take on the world. tion releasing the final fixtures list for the 2017 season. “We are currently ranked fifth after last year’s Rio With our athletes preparing to qualify and compete Olympics and with the right support and enough op- at a host of international events, the four-leg Speed Se- portunities, we believe our athletes can continue to ries will assist them in launching their campaigns on climb the global ladder.” the domestic circuit. Later this year, the country’s elite stars will turn out The new track and field series will be held in Durban in various international competitions, including the (February 28), Bloemfontein (March 8), Potchefstroom World Relays in Bahamas (22-23 April), the CAA Af- (March 15) and Germiston (March 22). rican Junior Championships in Tlemcen (12-15 May), In addition, athletes will have a chance to compete for the CAA African Youth Championships in Bata (29 national titles across all athletics disciplines through- June - 2 July), the World Youth Championships in Nai- out the year. robi (12-16 July), the Commonwealth Youth Games in “This is a big season for our athletes and we want to Bahamas (19-23 July) and the IAAF World Champion- give them every chance to deliver their best both at ships in (4-13 August). home and abroad,” said ASA President Aleck Skhosana. TAFWA Newsletter - Page 2 - February 2017 2017 TAFWA Awards

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

H. D. Thoreau Award |For excellence in track & field broadcasting Award Chair: Jack Pfeifer ([email protected]) Nomination Deadline: January 1 TAFWA Newsletter - Page 3 - February 2017 Letter from USATF President Vin Lananna January 24, 2017

USATF Family, It has been a little more 23 days since I officially took the helm as President of USA Track & Field, and I can say without hesitation that I am more optimistic now about our future than ever. Your overwhelming support and enthusiasm are game-changing. My consistent conversations with the leadership of the Board and the National Office have gone quite well. As you know, progress will require a collaborative effort; therefore, the majority of my time has been dedicat- ed to working directly with leadership in the National Office, our Board Chair, and my colleagues on the Board to focus on a few key initiatives. We have work to do – not all of it easy – but I am confident that in 2017 we will continue the momentum begun in 2012 by CEO Max Siegel to strengthen our organization and our sport. With this letter, I want to report to USATFmembership the progress during this first month as your President and the goals for the next 100 days. Actions are far more important than words, so please take a look at the fol- lowing activities and look for places where you can immediately get involved:

1) I pledged during my campaign to be inclusive and engage the membership. I am actively calling for mem- bers to volunteer for Presidential appointments for various committees throughout the organization. I seek to balance those who have been appointees in the past with those who are “first timers, and will make decisions after consultation with the appropriate committee chairs as per the bylaws. If you have an interest in one of these positions (see list below), pleasewrite to me at [email protected], with a paragraph explaining your interest and relevant experience by January 31. You can find more information on these committees and appointments in the 2016 Governance Handbook at www.usatf.org. I will share your interest with the various committee chairs and make the appointments as soon as possible thereafter.

Positions Agent Member of the Men’s International Staff Subcommittee Agent Screening Committee Associations Committee, 4 at-large members Para-Athletes Committeeand Chair Club Coaches (4) for the Coaches Advisory Committee Diversity and Leadership Development Committee Chair General Competition Division Chair IAAF Technical Officials Subcommittee Chair Law & Legislation Chair and 5 additional members Medical Services Subcommittee Officials Committee - 4 at large members Organizational Services Chair and 7 additional members Panel on the Order of Business Psychological Services Subcommittee Records Chair and 5 additional members Road Running Technical Council Chair Rules Chair and 5 additional members Scientific Services Subcommittee Sports Medicine & Science Chair

2) I will continue to work with the Board of Directors, the National Office, and the concerned parties within the confines of the USATF Grievance Policy for a swift conclusion to the suspensions currently impacting our organization. I expect this to continue to be an agenda item at our next Board meeting. 3) I will engage your newly elected Board member for Officials and the Officials Committee Chair to explore the recruitment, certification, retention, and rewarding of our sport’s officials. They will present their findings and recommendations at the 2017 USATF Indoor Championships. TAFWA Newsletter - Page 4 - February 2017 4) I will begin discussions with our Board Member representing High Performance regarding the initiatives for the new quadrennial from the High Performance Committee. It is my understanding that the National Office is reviewing ways to better involve and reward the personal coaches who work to help our athletes reach the podium. 5) I will help to facilitate a meeting with USATF CEO Max Siegel, the CEO of USTFCCCA, Sam Seemes, and myself to explore ways that the two organizations can immediately begin the process of working in concert for the betterment of the sport, its coaches and athletes. 6) After consultation with Max Siegel and Board Chair Steve Miller, I am embarking on a Presidential Listen- ing Tour with our Associations throughout the country to better understand how we can improve practices and communications. It will be my goal to conclude these 25 visits at the Junior Olympics in July. The first two stops on the tour will be in New York (January 26) and New England (January 30). Be on the lookout for more infor- mationfrom your Association officers. 7) I will be working with the Board Member representing LDR and the relevant committees, including Cross Country, MUT, and Race Walking, to better understand our collective goals around development, events, cham- pionships, and coaching. 8) I will continue to work with my colleagues on the Board and the AAC leadership to identify the pressing issues for our elite athletes. I have asked the AAC officers and the Elite Athlete members of the Board of Direc- tors, as well as representatives of the National Office, to arrange for a conference call later this month where the athletes can share their goals and challenges for 2017.

As you can see, we have set an ambitious agenda for the first quarter of the year – our sport deserves the grandest of goals. I look forward to hearing from you throughout the year and encourage each of you to reach out to me via email at any time at [email protected]. I am excited to meet with you in person as well at one of the Listening Tour stops.

Have a Happy and Healthy 2017!

Vin Lananna President USA Track & Field

USATF Board of Directors Chair: Steven Miller ([email protected]) President and Vice Chair: Vin Lananna ([email protected]) Treasurer: Mickey Carter ([email protected]) Secretary and 5C Rep: Becky Oakes ([email protected]) IAAF Council Member: Stephanie Hightower ([email protected]) Curt Clausen ([email protected]) Michael Conley ([email protected]) Fred Finke ([email protected]) Lauren Fleshman ([email protected]) Sam ([email protected]) Jackie Joyner-Kersee ([email protected]) Len Krsak ([email protected]) William Shelton Jr ([email protected]) Ryan Wilson ([email protected]) Eve Wright ([email protected]) Athlete alternate: Michelle Carter ([email protected]) Non-Voting Chief Executive Officer (ex-officio): Max Siegel ([email protected]) Board Member Emeritus: Evie Dennis ([email protected])

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 5 - February 2017 USTFCCCA Names National High School Cross Country Coaches of the Year NEW ORLEANS — Coaches get into their profession for a Three weeks after that, the Hawks stunned many with an number of reasons. upset victory at Nike Cross Nationals in which they scored Some, like Bozeman (Mont.) High School coach Casey 105 points. Jermyn, find their way after competing at a high level and While those titles stand out in Jermyn’s mind, it’s the wanting to give back to the community in which they live. progression his athletes made during the season that will Others, like Desert Vista (Ariz.) High School coach Jeff leave the strongest imprint. Messer, had an epiphany that their life calling was to men- “We went through all of the PRs at the end of the season tor, serve and teach. and top down, all but one of our athletes improved,” Jermyn Whatever their path was, Jermyn and Messer found said. “When you have a group that is as good as we had run- themselves connected at the hip at the end of the 2016 ning PRs that means the program is continuing in the right cross country season. direction.” That’s because Jermyn and Messer are the U.S. Track & Messer just completed his fourth season at Desert Vista Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) High School. Prior to coaching the Thunder, Messer spent National Boys and Girls High School Cross Country Coaches six years at Xavier College Prep and won six state titles of the Year for 2016. there. Jermyn and Messer were chosen by an esteemed panel of The girls team at Desert Vista High School made quick their peers from the pool of state-level winners that were work of the 2016 season as they steamrolled the field at just announced last week. about every meet in which they competed. And it wasn’t like “I’m humbled,” Jermyn said when notified that he won the Thunder never left the state of Arizona: Messer took his the award for Boys Coach of the Year. “I’m in shock. There team to the Cool Breeze Evening Invitational and Wood- are a lot of deserving coaches across the nation and for me bridge Cross Country Classic, both in California. to be honored by other coaches like this is incredible.” “As a coach you must provide your team with a great Messer, the Girls Coach of the Year, quickly praised his opportunity,” Messer said. “My team is a team that likes to student-athletes, saying the special years are “predicated compete. I only let them compete in big races. It’s the type upon” by them and they are “great students, accomplished of schedule they wanted and I knew they’d thrive in those competitors and great community members.” environments.” Jermyn took over as coach at Bozeman High School Desert Vista captured the title at the Woodbridge Classic before the start of the 2016 season after the previous coach over Great Oak (Calif.) and it was at that moment Messer moved up to the collegiate ranks. The former Division I realized he had a special team. The Thunder only got better runner at Montana State also owns a local running store in from there as they cruised to a state title (took five of the Bozeman and became friendly with the athletes on the team top-6 spots), won the regional title (resting their top-7 run- when they patronized his business, which made the transi- ners in the process) and then finished 6th at NXN. tion a bit easier in his mind. While another trophy would have been welcomed in the It’s safe to say Jermyn’s debut season couldn’t have gone school’s overflowing case, Messer said his team understands better. Jermyn led the Hawks to team titles at the state and “The Process” and to him, it’s never about accolades. national level. Bozeman High School easily won the MHSA “Serving is the greatest privilege a person can enjoy,” Class AA crown in October and then more than three weeks Messer said. “If you embrace the privilege with all of your later stood atop the podium at the Nike Cross Northwest energy — and I urge my fellow coaches to do the same — Regional. you’ll get back 10-fold what you put in.” 2016 High School Cross Country Coaches of the Year NEW ORLEANS — The U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) announced the state-by-state winners of its third annual High School Coach of the Year award for cross country. One boys coach and one girls coach from each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia — as seen in the lists below — were honored for their successes during the fall of 2016, as selected by a committee of experts from around the nation. State-by-state winners were selected based on their teams’ performances throughout the 2016 cross country season. Among the factors taken into consideration were team score and placement at the state championships, margin of victory, performance against rankings if available, individual championships, and how their teams’ performances stacked up to previous years (e.g. first title in school history, consecutive titles, etc.). Each honoree will receive a trophy from the USTFCCCA recognizing his or her achievements. The winners from each state are in consideration for the association’s National High School Cross Country Coach of the Year award. One boys coach and one girls coach from among all the states will be selected by a panel of experts and be announced later this month as the national winners. TAFWA Newsletter - Page 6 - February 2017 2016 USTFCCCA High School Cross Country Coaches of the Year (State-by-State Winners) State Boys Coach Name School State Girls Coach Name School Alabama Luke Robinson Scottsboro HS Alabama Brad Hood Pleasant Valley HS Alaska Ruth Barndt West HS Alaska Bill Steyer Homer HS Arizona Chris Hanson Desert Vista HS Arizona Jeff Messer Desert Vista HS Arkansas Carlton Efurd Rogers HS Arkansas Johnette Goldman Heber Springs HS California Doug Soles Great Oak HS California Doug Soles Great Oak HS Colorado Kent Rieder Monarch HS Colorado Gregory Weich Broomfield HS Connecticut Laddie Lawrence Staples HS Connecticut John Goetz Ridgefield HS Delaware Dan O’Connell St. Andrew’s Delaware Steve Sinko Newark Charter HS Dist. Columbia John Ausema Gonzaga College HS Dist. Columbia Kevin Hughes Georgetown Visitation Florida Kenneth Vinal Trinity Prep School Florida Ladd Baldwin Steinbrenner HS Florida Mike Hill Trinity Prep School Georgia Brian Robinson Alexander HS Georgia Amy Eubanks The Westminster Schools Hawaii Jack Kuo ‘Iolani School Hawaii Bobby Grossman Seabury Hall Idaho Sean Schmidt Skyline HS Idaho Jeff Horsley Soda Springs HS Illinois Paul Vandersteen Neuqua Valley HS Illinois Dan Iverson Naperville North HS Indiana Phil Yoder Carroll Jr./Sr. HS Indiana Mark Ellington Carmel HS Iowa Darrell Burmeister Nodaway Valley HS Iowa Pat Hennes Johnston HS Kansas Steve Heffernan Lawrence Free State HS Kansas Nick Rodriguez Hugoton HS Kentucky Chuck Medley Saint Xavier HS Kentucky Tim Holman duPont Manual HS Louisiana Terryl Chatham St. Paul’s School Louisiana Mark LaHaye St. Joseph’s Academy Maine Jorma Kurry Falmouth HS Maine David Dowling Greely HS Maine Dan Paul Falmouth HS Maryland Tom Martin Walter Johnson HS Maryland Paul Hugus River Hill HS Massachusetts Tom Shaw Milton HS Massachusetts Tim Broe Wellesley HS Michigan Steve Long Otsego HS Michigan Bryan Heid Corunna HS Minnesota Matt Gabrielson Edina HS Minnesota Mark Popp Wayzata HS Mississippi Wayne Williams Presbyterian Christian Mississippi Price Chadwick St. Andrews Episcopal Missouri Marcus Bridges Fatima HS Missouri Bryant Wright Festus HS Montana Casey Jermyn Bozeman HS Montana Casey Jermyn Bozeman HS Nebraska Ron Haden Aurora HS Nebraska Colin Johnston Millard West HS Nebraska Tony Sigler Aurora HS Nevada Ron Cross Spanish Springs HS Nevada Jim Parker Reno HS New Hampshire Mike Clark Pinkerton Academy New Hampshire Geoffrey Wilson Souhegan HS New Jersey Jim Smirk Princeton HS New Jersey Tim Mooney Ridge HS New Bob Jackson Hobbs HS New Mexico Sal Gonzales Rio Rancho HS New York Ray Lawson Corning-Painted Post HS New York Brian Diglio North Rockland HS North Carolina David Christian Needham Broughton HS North Carolina Nick Mangum Cardinal Gibbons HS North Dakota Bill Jansen Rugby HS North Dakota Julie Stavn Century HS Ohio Jeff Howard Woodridge HS Ohio Jessie Magoto Minster HS Oklahoma David Ayres Bartlesville HS Oklahoma David Ayres Bartlesville HS Oregon Justin Loftus Crater HS Oregon Carol McLatchie Summit HS Pennsylvania David Marrington Council Rock North Pennsylvania Tom Kennedy Cardinal O’Hara HS Rhode Island Kenneth Skelly La Salle Academy Rhode Island Kelly Martin La Salle Academy South Carolina Eric Cummings Riverside HS South Carolina Eric Cummings Riverside HS South Dakota Luke VanderLeest Sioux Falls Christian South Dakota Karen Karim Custer HS Tennessee Billy Anderson Brentwood HS Tennessee Cathy Cheeseman Brentwood Academy Texas Mike Barnett Luling HS Texas Paul Darden Sundown HS Utah Todd Mitchell Olympus HS Utah David Holt Pine View HS Vermont Mark McKenna Rice Memorial HS Vermont Scott Bliss Champlain Valley Union HS Virginia Marc Hunter Loudoun Valley HS Virginia Brandon Bear Blacksburg HS Washington Jon Knight North Central HS Washington Gwen Robertson Issaquah HS West Virginia Steven Nutter St. Marys HS West Virginia Ed Frohnapfel University HS Wisconsin Kevin FitzPatrick Lakeland Union HS Wisconsin Matt Roe Sun Prairie HS Wyoming Ty Draney Star Valley HS Wyoming Jeff Jackson Hole HS TAFWA Newsletter - Page 7 - February 2017 Marathon Investigator Derek Murphy Reveals How He Catches Cheaters By Stephanie Gosk, Rich McHugh and Tracy Connor http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/marathon-investigator-derek-murphy-reveals-how-he-catches-cheaters-n707426 After a big marathon, Derek Murphy sits down with his by side the whole way. But photos told another story: He laptop in his western Ohio living room and gets to work, crossed the finish line alone and she was caught on camera pulling up the online results and looking for red flags. miles behind. Like half a million other Americans, the 46-year-old busi- After Murphy confronted them, the couple came clean, ness analyst used to run himself but he slacked admitting they cheated in at least five races across the coun- off after starting a family. Now he chases cheaters — armed try, including several marathons. She would peel the chip off with race data, finish-line photos, anonymous tips and an her bib and give it to him, and he would carry it across that algorithm. last timing mat. “I think most people aren’t aware of how much cheating The wife said she ran the full distance at each event, just goes on in marathons,” Murphy said. slower than her husband — but their ruse allowed her to The rule-breakers generally fall into two categories: collect those coveted Boston qualifying times and, in one course-cutters, who start a race and finish it but don’t run case, a trophy. every mile in between, and bib-swappers who give or sell “I realized it made her happy,” the husband told NBC the tag with their race number to a faster runner. News, which agreed not to publish their names. “And fortu- It’s a risky business because every bib contains an electro- nately or unfortunately, putting a chip on another bib is a magnetic chip that is read by timing mats placed along the very simple process.” course, and cameras are set up to take photos of the runners The wife said she had convinced herself it wasn’t cheat- — and all of it is posted online. ing because she pounded every inch of the course, had once The cheaters’ motives? Some crave the Facebook likes that been able to run as fast as her husband, and never collected stack up after they post a personal best; others are desper- any prize money. ate for a time that qualifies them to run in the elite Boston “I think the human mind can justify just about anything,” Marathon, a bucket-list race. she said. All of them, Murphy and his fellow marathon detec- tives say, undermine the ethos of an ancient sport that is supposed to be about respecting the distance. And in some cases, they’re robbing other runners of medals or the chance to compete in Boston. “This sport is built on hard work. There’s a code of honor,” said John Conley, the former longtime director of the Aus- tin marathon. “People who cheat corrupt that value system.” Since Murphy began sleuthing a year and half ago and posting his findings on a blog, Marathon Investigation, he estimates he has caught up to 250 road warriors trying to pull a fast one. When he crunched the numbers for the 2016 Philadel- phia Marathon — one of the biggest in the nation — he quickly found 12 entrants who apparently had qualified for Boston by taking a shortcut. They had missed timing mats and their splits — the amount of time it took for them to run certain sections of , of New York, waves to the crowd after receiv- the race — didn’t make any sense. In one case, a runner ing the laurel wreath from the wife of Boston’s mayor, would have needed to make world record time in the final Katherine White, second from right, and is about to receive miles for his splits to add up. the medal from Gov. Edward J. King, left, after she was Philadelphia race organizers spotted those inconsisten- announced winner of the women’s division of the Boston Marathon in Boston on April 22, 1980. Ruiz pretended to cies, too, and quietly disqualified the fishy finishers. But win the 1980 Boston Marathon by coming out of the crowd Murphy also found some suspects the officials didn’t catch: about one mile before the finish line. AP a couple he believed cheated together, with the husband running with the wife’s chip to get her a faster time. Marathon mendacity is nothing new. He dug into their history and found more races with In 1980, novice Rosie Ruiz stunned the running world peculiar results. In some, timing mats showed the husband when she was the first woman to cross the finish line, barely and wife with identical splits, suggesting they ran side sweating, at the Boston Marathon. When the also-rans TAFWA Newsletter - Page 8 - February 2017 complained they never saw her until the final stretch, and gumshoes regularly post their suspicions and evidence on spectators claimed she darted onto the course at 25 miles, the message boards of sites like LetsRun.com. she was stripped of the award. Recent casualties include a Washington DC man banned She insisted her win was legit, but then an investigation for life from the Marine Corps Marathon after missed tim- into her 24th place finish in the previous year’s New York ing mats exposed his fraud, and a New Jersey running coach City Marathon uncovered a witness who saw Ruiz, still banned from Boston after it was revealed that she got her wearing her bib, on the subway when she should have been qualifying time by having a friend run with her bib. sweating it out. In 2015, a Pennsylvania dad made headlines when his Back then, marathons were a niche sport; according to kids were given unexcused absences from school while they Running USA, only 25,000 men and women finished one in watched him run Boston. That brought scrutiny to his race 1976. In 2015, more than half a million people completed history and questions about his qualifying time — though a marathon and more than 17 million had participated in he insisted it was legitimate. some kind of running event. Road racing is now estimated It was his case that sparked Murphy’s interest marathon to be a $1.4 billion industry. investigations. How many people, he wondered, are cheat- The exponential growth means running 26.2 miles is ing with impunity and how easy would it be to nail them? no longer a unique achievement. These days, the glory for Murphy’s first major probe was a deep dive into 2015 many is in doing it fast. Boston Marathon finishers. He found 47 he believes cheated “The first question anyone ever asks when you run a to get a spot. Based on the work he has done since, he marathon is, ‘What was your time?’ Not, like, ‘How was it? thinks up to 5 percent of all marathon entrants may be Congratulations! What was the experience?’ It’s, ‘What was deceptive. your time?’” said the wife Murphy tracked. “We find them multiple times...find the same people She was feeling that pressure when she and her husband cheating year after year, race after race,” he said. cheated for the first time — by accident. They mixed up “I think a lot of it’s this social media — ‘Hey look at me’ their bibs and when the results were posted, the wife had — just wanting to get validation and get patted on the back the better time because the husband was wearing her chip. for accomplishing something, whether you accomplish it or After that, she said, she felt like she needed to keep up not.” the pace. And her husband obliged. The thought makes Daphne Matalene’s blood boil. “I was basically thinking it’s a victimless crime and mak- After several tries, the 44-year-old New Yorker finally ing someone happy,” he said. “It really wasn’t malicious scored a qualifying time for the . motives. It just grew.” But because so many people qualified, race organizers set a The wife boasted about her phony times on social media, faster cutoff, and she missed getting a slot in her age group and the Instagram love poured in. She said it gave her a by 28 seconds. self-esteem boost and incentive to train harder to get legit “I turned myself inside out to run a nine-minute mile times. personal best at the age of 41 and it really stinks if someone “I think in my mind, I thought, ‘I’m worthy of this. I can who cheated got to run and I didn’t,” Matalene said. do this,’” she said. Conley, the Austin race director, said he has caught plenty of cheaters without outside help - including doctors and Derek Murphy, lawyers - but he appreciates the digging that Murphy and back when he used his compatriots do. to run marathons, before he started “Having that information really cuts down on the amount chasing cheaters. of detective work a race director would have to do,” he said. Courtesy of Derek As for the cheating couple, they claim they have no hard Murphy feelings toward Murphy and will have their dishonest times removed. The couple didn’t “I was never angry at him,” the wife said. “I actually think give much thought to he’s someone of integrity. I think he truly loves the sport.” the possibility they would be caught. And they might have gotten away with it if an anonymous tipster had not encouraged Murphy to take a closer look. Murphy, who has run 10 marathons, is part of a small confederacy of arm- chair detectives who have earned some notoriety in the race world for their sophisticated forensic work. Other amateur

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 9 - February 2017 “Lies and Hypocrisy” - New whistleblower levels serious charges against Russian athletics By Von , Florian Riesewieck und Thilo Neumann http://www.sportschau.de/doping/doping-whistleblower-englisch-100~_variant-android.html A new whistleblower tells ARD German television of serious allegations concerning Russian athletics. Secret film footage supports the suspicion that coaches banned for doping offences are still free to continue working at the professional level. Andrey Dmitriev knows that his testimony is unlikely to go down well back home - but the Russian 1,500 me- tres runner is determined to speak out. “”If everyone remains silent, as is usual in Russia, nothing will change”,” says Dmitriev in an ARD exclusive interview. Seeing no sign of change in the Russian athletics world, he has declared his willingness to work as a whistleblower. Dmitriev has evidence to support his claims. Like Yuliya and Vitaly Stepanov, the first Russian whistleblow- ers, he shot secret video footage. Recorded on January 12, the resulting images feature Vladimir Kazarin, one of the most successful 800 meters coaches in the world - and currently suspended due to doping practices. He is seen in a sports hall in Chelyabinsk during a training session for runner Artem Denmukhametov. “”I would not see him just letting it go. He just continues coaching”,” said Dmitriev during a meeting in Kazakh- stan.

“It’s imitating changes, but there are none really” He also reports having seen Kazarin at a training camp in Kyrgyzstan in November 2016. This is the same man who previously supplied with banned substances, and coached 800 meters Olympic champion Mariya Savinova. The latter was later stripped of her gold medal due to doping offences. In April 2016 the Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) instructed its regional associations to cease working with Kazarin - albeit, as it seems, to no avail. Andrey Dmitriev is in no doubt: ””You say that we are changing, but these people are still there. This is just hypocrisy for me. It’s lying. It’s imitating changes, but there are none really.”” Dmitriev stresses that Kazarin is not the only individual still working despite earlier doping practices. He has given Germany’s ARD further names of prominent Russian coaches who ”are unable to work without doping” and who he claims are still active. Kazarin is not even the biggest name involved, claims Dmitriev. “I see the coaches who I know use doping, they are still there. And the athletes who I know for sure were doping, they still train there.”” Vladimir Kazarin himself has not commented on the accusations made against him, likewise all other coaches and athletes named by Andrey Dmitriev. The Russian athletics federation failed to respond when contacted by ARD.

IAAF has reacted with alarm The sport’s global governing body has reacted with alarm to these new developments captured on film. IAAF chief executive Olivier Gers confirmed to ARD: ””If it is indeed one of the coaches that has been provisionally suspended by the IAAF, then RusAF should have been in a position to enforce that suspension. And therefore RusAF has not fulfilled the conditions for reinstatement.”” Whether the Russian federation can be allowed back into the fold under these circumstances, he adds, will now have to be decided by a special taskforce set up by the IAAF. On Monday its members will be convening in Moscow to meet the parties responsible. Given the new disclosures, the Kazarin case will be a major issue. In 2009 Andrey Dmitriev made it into the Russian junior athletics team before spending five years in the US, where he studied at the Virginia Military Institute. He’s now a professional athlete in Russia - but is determined to remain in the country and help to solve the problem even after now going public.

Younger: “Incredibly brave” Günter Younger, the World Anti-Doping Agency’s chief investigator, says Dmitriev is ””incredibly brave”” to have made the move. “Of course we will be contacting him, and will try to find a way together to ensure his pro- tection,”, said Younger in an ARD interview. TAFWA Newsletter - Page 10 - February 2017 Whistleblower Dmitriev insists he never himself took any illicit substances. His philosophy: ””Running a little slower but remaining clean is better than being quicker via dirty means.”” That stance, he believes, puts him in the minority in the Russian athletics world. “Maybe 70 or 80 percent are dirty, and the rest of them are clean”, he estimates. “I do think there are clean athletes, even on the national team.” He says the latter, however, remain silent just like the majority of the Russian population when it comes to sensitive issues - for Dmitriev a mentality-related problem: ””As a people, we’re not used to speaking up. We don’t believe it can bring changes. We wait until the president comes and changes something.”” The Russia athletics federation has been suspended from all international competitions since November 2015. The IAAF imposed the ban following the revelations by Yuliya and Vitaly Stepanov on systematic doping in the country’s athletics community. Russia promised to improve and introduce reforms, while pushing for a swift re- peal of the ban. In light of the disclosures made by Andrey Dmitriev, however, its chances of a successful resolu- tion appear to have decreased significantly.

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TAFWA Newsletter - Page 11 - February 2017 Texas Sports Hall of Fame to Induct Pat Henry Texas A&M University legend joins seven other honorees at February 21 dinner in Waco By Jay Black | [email protected]

WACO, TX – February 3, 2017 – The Texas Sports Hall of Fame (TSHOF) announces legendary track and field coach, Pat Henry, as another member of its 2017 class. Pat, along with seven other exceptional athletes, will be formally recognized and inducted into the TSHOF on Tuesday, February 21 in Waco, Texas. Pat is currently the track and field coach at Texas A&M University. He is also known for leading his teams to 27 national championships during his former role as track and field coach at Louisiana State Univer- sity (LSU). “The honor of being selected to become a part of the Texas Sports Hall of Fame is profound for me. I’m not a native Texan, but my family roots are in Texas; my grandfather coached in Texas,” said Pat. “This kind of award involves a lot of people – my wife and family, current and former assistant coaches, and current and former athletes and institution administrations. This is a great honor for me and a privilege to represent Pat’s 35 team national titles are the third most of all Texas A&M University.” time in any NCAA sport. He has the most indoor and Pat was born into a family of coaches in Albuquer- outdoor track and field national team titles of any que, N.M. and he knew from a young age he wanted to coach, with 130 individual event champions. He is carry on that legacy. He was too small to play foot- the only NCAA head coach to win both the men’s and ball in high school, so he ran cross country and track women’s outdoor national titles in the same year. instead. Pat served as head coach of the U.S. men’s national Pat’s first coaching position was at Hobbs High team during the 2007 World Championships in Osaka, School in New Mexico. He was head coach for ten . He led the U.S. men’s team to a record 10 gold years, leading his teams to three state championships medals. Pat has also coached 77 Olympians. During and three runner-up finishes. the 2016 Rio Games, Texas A&M was represented by His first role in Texas was as head coach at Blinn 18 athletes – more than any institution in the country. College, where he won two NJCAA titles. This led him His success at two institutions has never been ac- to a career at LSU from 1988-2004. complished by any coach, in any sport, on the NCAA In Pat’s first season in 1988, he guided the LSU Division I level. Lady Tigers to the NCAA Outdoor Championship. At the 1989 NCAA Outdoor Championship, LSU became Presented by Texas Farm Bureau Insurance, Pat will the first school in NCAA history to claim both the join other inductees at the February event including men’s and women’s national titles. This was repeated former Houston Cougars NCAA women’s volleyball in 1990. He closed his time at LSU by making it the player Rita Buck-Crockett, former Texas A&M & Los first school in NCAA history to sweep the men’s and Angeles Rams defensive back Dave Elmendorf, former women’s national team crowns at the NCAA Indoor Houston Cougars NCAA women’s volleyball player Flo Championships. In all, LSU won 27 team NCAA cham- Hyman (deceased), 2008 Olympic all-around gym- pionships during the Pat Henry era. nastics champion Nastia Liukin, former University of In 2005, Pat led the Texas A&M University Aggies Texas dual-sport athlete Eric Metcalf, Denver Broncos to dominate the Big 12, winning 14 total conference football defensive coordinator Wade Phillips and for- titles. He was the first coach to lead a school to three mer Dallas Cowboys All Pro safety Darren Woodson. consecutive NCAA men’s and women’s track & field This class joins a long list of Texas sport legends for- titles: 2009, 2010 and 2011 – something no other ever being honored as a member of the Texas Sports coach with a combined men’s and women’s program in Hall of Fame. any sport has been able to accomplish. The February 21 event will begin with a reception at Since moving to the SEC, Pat has helped the women the Texas Sports Hall of Fame at 4 p.m., with a 6 p.m. win the outdoor title in 2013 and men win the out- banquet at the Waco Convention Center. door track title in 2014. With eight more NCAA na- To purchase tickets, please call the museum at 800- tional championship team titles in a 12-year span, 567-9561 or visit http://www.tshof.org/buy-tickets/. TAFWA Newsletter - Page 12 - February 2017 ‘Pocket rocket’ Vivian Cheruiyot speaks about motherhood, retirement and future plans By PHILEMON SUTER | Daily Nation | http://www.nation.co.ke/sports/athletics/Vivian--speaks-about-moth- erhood-retirement-and-future-plans/1100-3790938-nv47bn/index.html Olympic 5,000 metres champion Vivian Cheruiyot has said she wants to retire at 40 to take up coaching and mentoring of young athletes. In her meticulously-planned career, the 33-year-old police- woman, who was recently crowned the 2016 Sports Per- sonality of the Year, also said she would like to have a second baby in 2020. Speaking at a 2017 IAAF World Under-18 Champion- ships media workshop in Eldoret town, Cheruiyot emphasised the need for good Vivian Cheruiyot poses with some artefacts in her house on January 20, 2017 in Ngong, planning for athletes. Kajiado County. PHOTO | CHRIS OMOLLO | NATION MEDIA GROUP “As an athlete, planning for your life is key. When I had my first child I had also planned myself adequately, including how I will shed off the weight gained during pregnancy,” said Cheruiyot who has quit track and will make her marathon debut in London on April 23. “The reason why I would want to retire at 40 to do other things is because I don’t want to strain myself in old age,” said the mother of one. She said women athletes were most vulnerable to career distractions in life unlike their male counterparts because of child bearing and social challenges. “As a female athlete, you will need to develop yourself, have a family and get a child. “However, all these come with challenges because of gaining weight during pregnancy and having quality time to rest without carrying out training unlike our male athletes who don’t face all these,” explained Cheruiyot who is attached to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations. She called on athletes to ensure they planned for their future well by putting their prize money into meaning- ful use to avert a possibility of plunging into poverty when they retire. Speaking candidly, Cheruiyot for the first time highlighted her investments which include an apartment block in Eldoret and homes in Nairobi and Eldoret’s high end Elgon View Estate. She also said she intends to start up her own sports academy to nurture sports talent. Speaking at the seminar, World Under-18 Championships media director Chris Mutungi said the champion- ships’ Local Organising Committee has nominated Cheruiyot as an ambassador for the championship to be held at Kasarani from July 12 to 16. Mutungi said the LOC secretariat had taken cognisance of the fact that Cheruiyot started her career at the under-18 championship previously known as the World Youth Championships. Cheruiyot won a bronze medal in the 3,000 metres at the inaugural championship in 1999 in Bydgoczcz, Po- land and then transited to the senior level to becoming a world and Olympic champion.

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Why 2028 makes sense for Los Angeles ... and the IOC

Chatter is intensifying about the idea, or possibility, or hallucination that the International Olympic Committee could award both the 2024 s n

o and 2028 at its Session in September. m m o

C Proponents note that the IOC has two very high-quality candidates in a i d

e front of it in Los Angeles and Paris and a good-quality candidate in p i k

i Budapest. By awarding two Games – ostensibly to L.A. and Paris – the W

a IOC could lock in two excellent hosts and then have time to deal with i v

n its structural and disciplinary issues, such as doping, without worrying o r a

l about how this will impact the awarding of the Games. E Although the IOC hasn’t done this in nearly a century, there are no restraints against such an action in its rules. And for Los Angeles, especially, the possibility of hosting a third Games, after the revolutionary successes of its 1932 and 1984 Games, has been met with considerable excitement in many sections of the city.

But Paris is still the favorite for 2024. The British site Betfair still shows Paris as a 5/7 odds-on choice, with Los Angeles at 9/4 and Budapest at 4/1. There are good reasons for this:

C The Paris bid of is high quality. Most of the venues exist, or will be temporary, holding down construction costs.

C The French national government and the regional governments are in for more than a billion Euro to back the infrastructure aspects of the bid.

C In the history of the modern Games, there has never been more than 12 years between European hosts. From London in 2012, the Games moved to Rio in 2016 and in 2020, meaning Europe is due once again. In fact, there hasn’t been a summer Games in continental Europe since 2004 and the last summer Games in a Francophone city was in Montreal in 1976.

C Despite the domination of English as the world’s main language today, the IOC has its roots in and in French language and culture. Returning to Paris for the first time in a century – Paris hosted in 190o and 1924 – would be a acknowledgment of the history of the modern Olympic Movement.

C The French have been active hosts of world championships. The men’s Handball World Championship is underway there now and Paris has been the host of multiple recent championships, including Fencing in 2010, Judo and Weightlifting in 2011, Track Cycling and Rowing in 2015, and more, with Wrestling coming in 2017.

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In addition, France and Budapest have the advantage of being European cities in a Euro-centric IOC. If you check the current membership and geography – as every bid committee does in excruciating detail – you will see the uphill battle any non-European city has to deal with:

C IOC members in Europe: 44 (Includes Israel) C IOC members in Africa: 12 (4 from Francophone countries) C IOC members in the Americans: 15 (Includes Caribbean nations) C IOC members in Asia: 15 C IOC members in the Middle East: 4 C IOC members in Oceania: 5

This is a total of 95 members, of which only 88 can vote in the first round as members from bid-city countries are disqualified (3 U.S. - 2 France - 2 Hungary). So out of 88 first-round voters, 40 will be European, 15 from Asia, 13 from the Americas, 12 from Africa (four from French-speaking nations), five from Oceania and four from the Arabic-speaking Middle East. That’s a tall order for any American city to overcome and Los Angeles has that challenge.

But here’s the rub. Let’s assume that Budapest is dropped in the first round and Los Angeles and Paris advance to the final round. There are compelling arguments for both of these cities, as Los Angeles offers its brilliant history in hosting the Games that speaks for itself, as well as its no-construction budget, wide experience in staging high-caliber sporting events of every kind on a daily basis and an unprecedented level of support from public entities, including $500+ million in fiscal guarantees in case the organizing committee fails financially.

So how to separate them? It could come down to this: a centennial Games in Paris in 2024 is attractive, historic and will be the most convenient for the majority of athletes attending the Games, who will have had to go to South America and Asia for the prior four Games. Give 2024 to Paris.

Then, take advantage of having Los Angeles available. It is primed for a Games and although current Mayor Eric Garcetti will be termed out well before 2028 (in 2021, in fact, if he is re-elected later this year), so will U.S. President Donald Trump. If Trump were to be re-elected in 2020, he would open a 2024 Games in Los Angeles.

By taking advantage of the current fervor for the Games in Los Angeles and placing a Games there after the Trump presidency is concluded, the IOC will secure its immediate future and placate the desires of current city leaders – and some IOC members – to steer clear of the Trump administration.

There are issues with this, notably an IOC responsibility to support Los Angeles with some funding for operations from 2017-21 as an organizing committee there will be prohibited from selling sponsorships or other fund-raising until the early 2020s. But these can be solved. The question is whether the IOC is bold enough to see its future in both Paris and Los Angeles.

Rich Perelman Editor (This version has been updated to correct two errors.)

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Lightning can strike twice: Paris and Los Angeles, part II

The concept of choosing Paris and Los Angeles to host the 2024 and 2028 Olympic Games, examined in our last issue (click here) got lots s n

o of responses. m m o

C Many were insightful, a number noted our typographical error a i d

e regarding Paris’s first hosting of the Games back in 1900 (1904 was p i k

i typed in error and corrected) and then there was an important note W

a from Dr. Bill Mallon, who wrote a guest editorial in our 12 January i v

n issue promoting Al Oerter as the greatest Olympian of all time. o r a l E Mallon, whose depth of knowledge in Olympic history makes him one of the world’s outstanding scholars of the Movement, wrote:

“[Regarding] a double award of 2024-28 Olympics and your Sports Examiner comment that the [International Olympic Committee] has never done that before.

“Actually, they have, and it also involved Paris, and it pertained to Olympics exactly 100 years removed from 2024-28.

“This from an older book of mine, The Golden Book of the Olympic Games:

At the 18th IOC Session in Lausanne on 2 June 1921, Baron Pierre de Coubertin requested that the IOC formally vote for Paris to host the 1924 Olympic Games and Amsterdam to host the 1928 Olympic Games. This request was based on his intended retirement as IOC President shortly after the 1924 Olympic Games. The IOC voted on this matter with 14 votes for the proposal, 4 against the proposal, and 4 abstentions.”

We corrected our story, but most important is the precedent and how well it fits into the narrative for 2024 and 2028. Amsterdam had been in the running to host the 1920 Games as well as 1924, but had deferred to the wishes of de Coubertin. They persisted and were rewarded, much as Paris and Los Angeles are doing this time.

Paris has bid and lost for the 1992, 2008 and 2012 Games and Los Angeles, since 1984, has bid and lost at the domestic level for 2012 and 2016 and lost to Boston to be the U.S. candidate city for 2024, but was selected when Boston decided to abandon its bid in mid-2015.

Mallon further notes on his OlympStats Web site that neither Paris nor Los Angeles ever won a vote against other cities to host the Games. The award of the Games to Paris for 1900 and 1924 were by acclamation, and the same for Los Angeles for 1932. The awarding of the Games to Los Angeles for

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1984 was voted on by the IOC, but only as to whether to accept the only bidder for the Games on new terms: private financing, without a municipal guarantee.

Mallon’s comment also stirred thoughts about the IOC’s more recent behavior. In fact, the IOC has considered – and agreed – to make commitments for multiple Games, but for sponsorships and television rights ... so far. To note some of the more obvious examples:

C In 2005, the IOC and Coca-Cola executed a TOP sponsorship agreement that extended the company’s status through the 2020 Games, a period covering eight Games in all.

C In 2012, McDonald’s committed to TOP sponsorship of the Games through 2020.

C On 17 January of this year, the IOC and ’s Alibaba Group agreed to a TOP sponsorship in the “cloud computing” and E-commerce services categories through 2028, covering six Games.

C In the U.S., NBC has purchased multi-Games broadcast rights from the IOC twice in the last five years. In 2011, it agreed to pay a reported $4.38 billion for the 2014-16-18-20 Games. Then in May, 2014, it agreed to a $7.75 billion extension to cover six more Games through 2032.

C In June of 2015, the IOC sold the European broadcast rights to the 2018-20-22-24 Games to Discovery Communications for 1.3 billion Euro (~ $1.4 billion at the time).

The IOC is, thus, very much in the business of choosing partners for multiple Games, but has not done so with more than one Games of the Olympiad – as summer Games are known – since 1921.

About time, isn’t it?

Rich Perelman Editor

A special tip of the cap to Chuck Cale and Douglas Stewart for their comments (and corrections) on our last column.

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TAFWA Newsletter - Page 17 - February 2017 David Owen: The question of the moment in Summer Games host selection year - should the IOC award two big prizes in Peru? By David Owen | Inside The Games http://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1045801/david-owen-the-question-of-the-moment-in-summer-games- host-selection-year-should-the-ioc-award-two-big-prizes-in-peru

Should the International Olympic Committee (IOC) got the nod. appoint the hosts of both the 2024 and 2028 Summer Furthermore, we know how seriously the IOC takes Games when it meets in Lima this year? the matter of keeping the Movement in the public eye It is a question that has been much under discussion during the intervals between individual editions of in the small, esoteric world of Olympic bid junkies for the Games: that is why it has gone to the trouble and a good few months; Alan Abrahamson wrote a widely- expense of launching an Olympic Channel. read column on the theme last September. The glamour and excitement of the bidding battles And, to judge by ’s non-committal for the greatest prize in world sport – the right to host response when asked directly about it five weeks ago – the Summer Olympics – have acted as an effective “let us study this question” - it is a matter to which the vehicle for achieving this in recent times. IOC President may well have devoted a certain amount of thinking time during the recent holiday period. These high-octane races have been a big factor too in boosting the Movement’s political influence, helping The consequences of taking this momentous step – to ensure that it has the ear of world leaders. both upsides and down – are relatively straightforward That is the balance-sheet for if they take the plunge; to identify. much harder to assess accurately are the consequences On the plus side, it would enable the IOC, which if the IOC resists the temptation to make both Paris finds itself in its weakest position for a generation, to and Los Angeles winners when they gather in Septem- nail down strong hosts for its flagship event – presum- ber in the shadow of the Andes. ably Los Angeles and Paris – for the balance of the The key variable to assess here is how the 2028 field next decade, taking this key issue altogether off the would stack up in the event that the 2024 contest pro- agenda until 2023 and giving itself space to focus on ceeds to a conclusion in the orthodox manner, leaving the myriad other problems that assail it. the IOC to fire the starting-pistol anew, undoubtedly These would include the matter of whether the host with some modifications, in two years’ time. selection process itself needs further reform, and if so Would the 2024 losers, for one thing, storm off in how. a huff, not to be seen for dust when the call came for There might be marketing, and therefore income, 2028? benefits too to knowing the Summer Games hosts 11 Also worth pondering, I feel, is whether the present years out. IOC leadership would like to clip the wings of ordinary IOC members and, if so, what repercussions this might On the other hand, the step would amount to a star- have for future bidding races. tling confession of weakness and loss of confidence in So, here goes: what follows is a personal attempt to the future on the part of sport’s most prestigious club. peer into the future, based on little more than gut in- Unless very skilfully managed, it would risk handing stinct and around a decade and a half of observing this the whip-hand in negotiations over all details of the endlessly fascinating world from behind a keyboard. Games’ organisation to the designated 2028 host, as It is offered honestly and without fear or favour, well as seriously angering Budapest, a city that, while but will inevitably turn out wide of the mark, perhaps viewed almost universally as the minnow in the race in many respects; it is how the cookie looks most for 2024 as currently configured, has proud and ex- likely to crumble at the moment from my perspective tensive Olympic traditions of its own and would in all should the IOC be courageous (or perhaps foolhardy) probability be capable of staging a delightful Olympics enough to allow space for a full-blooded 2028 contest on the Danube in seven years’ time if it unexpectedly to develop.

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 18 - February 2017 1. Budapest, I think, if treated sensitively would So, while incomes in many wealthy industrialised come back, and could be a strong contender for 2028 – countries remain under pressure and the world seems though its chances would be reduced, clearly, if anoth- in its most turbulent, tetchy, unpredictable state for er European capital, ie Paris, wins the 2024 Games. a good 20 years, the cupboard does not look to me entirely bare when it comes to plausible 2028 Olympic 2. If LA loses, I would still be surprised if the United candidate-cities. States did not ultimately throw its hat into the ring I would be surprised if Bach had not used the festive for a 2028 race, perhaps with another city; if Paris holiday quiet period to arrive at his own assessment, loses – again – I think it would be much harder to coax much better-informed than mine obviously, of the back, even though there promise to be many new faces outlook for any 2028 race. among the top ranks of French political and sporting So massive an admission of weakness would it be for leaders by the time a decision would have to be taken. the IOC to fall back on divvying up the 2024 and 2028 spoils between the two current heavyweight contend- 3. The problems with Rio probably mean that it will ers that I tend to think Bach and his colleagues should be a while before another serious South American stick it out on the basis that an acceptably strong field contender emerges. This unhappy 2016 experience will would emerge from the various possibilities for 2028 I also, I imagine, have set back the cause of an African have tried to set out above. Olympics further into the future and may contribute Then again, it would be a gamble, and it is not me to a sense that 2028 is too soon for India. who would have to live with the consequences if the gamble went wrong. 4. Whoever wins in Lima, we can expect Asia to be a Bach, moreover, has shown himself in the past to likely source of 2028 bidders. An Australian bid, based be careful and pragmatic when the really big decisions around Brisbane, is under consideration. I have little are at stake, moving decisively early in his Presidency doubt that China would take little persuasion to enter to lock NBCUniversal into a deal for US broadcasting the contest, if the IOC sent out the right signals. There rights all the way through to 2032, even at the price could also, once again, be interest from the Middle of relatively conservative growth from the IOC’s most East, particularly I fancy if Governments there sense lucrative broadcast market for a long time into the that Europe and the Americas are set to sit the race future. out. Ashgabat might even be tempted. I mentioned clipping IOC members’ decision-mak- ing wings. 5. Interest from Europe would be limited in the It is my opinion that the present leadership would wake of a Paris or Budapest victory, but not necessar- have few qualms about doing this in the right circum- ily LA. Baku, ambitious, hydrocarbon-rich host of the stances, which in turn makes me wonder if they might inaugural European Games might assess its chances. not try to manoeuvre towards a sort of half-way house Rome could conceivably return if the Italian political that endeavours to keep the 2024 losers onside with- landscape changes. out closing the door to new 2028 entries. Madrid might try again. You could also foresee Maybe, for example, the unsuccessful 2024 bidders circumstances in which a chastened Russia, eager for could be told that, should they bid again with similar rehabilitation, proposed St Petersburg, or perhaps blueprints, they would have to pass only the last stage even Sochi, for 2028. Russian Olympic Committee of the 2028 process before going through to the final President Alexander Zhukov indicated only this week vote. he thought a Russian bid for 2028 “completely pos- New bidders, by contrast, would be assessed as rig- sible”. orously as the 2024 candidate-cities this time around, on the understanding that, in all probability, only one 6. Finally, if Paris (or Budapest) did win and the of them would make it through to that decisive ballot. sat on its hands, well that could pro- We shall see. In the meantime, the New Year has vide a perfect opportunity for media darling Justin brought a marked ratcheting-up of the intensity of a Trudeau’s to make its play, most likely with contest that both acknowledged heavyweights appear 2015 Pan American Games host Toronto. dead set on winning.

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 19 - February 2017 The World’s Best Exchange Rate https://spikes.iaaf.org/post/japans-secret-to-relay-success “The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour,” reads a Japanese prov- erb. Or, in the case of Japan’s 4x100m relay team, by the conduct of just 37.60 seconds. SPIKES finds out how four athletes, none with a personal best quicker than 10 seconds, defeated a host of the world’s fastest sprinters. When Ryota Yamagata (24), Shota Iizuka (25), Yoshihide Kiryu (21) and Aska Cambridge (23) arrived at Rio 2016, not many of their competitors knew who they were. They left with an Olympic silver medal around their necks, an Asian record of 37.60 in their pockets and a raft of new fans. Despite its surprise factor, Japan’s Olympic relay success did not come from nowhere. It was the result of years of biomechanical data analysis with meticulous attention paid to baton exchanges. Since the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton, the Japanese team have employed the underhand (or up-sweep) baton exchange. The front runner receives the baton at waist level with his palm facing down. Unlike with a traditional down-sweep exchange, the up-sweep fits with the natural movements of top speed running and allows the giver to be closer to the receiver at the moment of exchange, ensuring minimum loss of speed. But there’s another argument that supports the techniquie. “The foremost reason for using the underhand pass is that it is least prone to errors,” explains Shunji Karube, director of sprint events at the Japanese national federation (JAAF). The stats check out. Since adopting the underhand baton exchange, the Japanese men’s 4x100m relay team has been one of the most consistent teams in the world, featuring and placing in ten out of twelve global finals between 2001 and 2016. In comparison, Jamaica have placed in nine finals since 2001, Trinidad and Tobago in eight, the US in six (and was retrospectively disqualified from two of them), Canada in five and Great Britain in only four. All of these teams use the down-sweep technique. “Who on earth are these guys?” But there is a difference between making a final and bringing home a gong. At Beijing 2008 the Japanese men made Olympic history by winning relay bronze – a first for an Asian nation. In 2004 and London 2012 they finished fourth, narrowly missing out on medals. When Karube, a former 400m sprinter and world indoor medallist, took on his role with JAAF in 2014, he realised that in order challenge for medals, they would need to review their technical approach. JAAF analysed biomechanical data and discovered it is faster to pass the baton in the middle of the designated changeover zone than at its end, with the exception of the first exchange where the optimum point is in the -fi nal third of the changeover zone. Karube also introduced a revised underhand exchange with the front runner’s elbow raised higher than waist level. His amendments focused on “a beautiful baton exchange”. However the adjustments did not instantly reso- nate with the team. 2014 and 2015 represent a transition period, while Asian rivals China flourished. They won world championship silver in front of a home crowd at Beijing 2015 setting an AR 38.01. Japan missed out on the final for only the second time in fourteen years. The pressure was on the team, not only from coach Karube, whose aim for Rio was “to record a sub-38 seconds clocking, take back the Asian record, and win a medal,” but also from a public hungry for heroes ahead of Tokyo 2020. Like most nations, relay places in Japan are awarded on merit and ath- letes’ performances at championships. Karube had to introduce his refined baton exchanges without knowing the actual team – a challenge. “Relay practice started at the training camp in March [in Okinawa],” recalls Ya- magata, who was the leading leg in Rio. Relay candidates were brought together regularly in training camps. Baton ex- changes were practiced extensively with Second baton exchange during the 4x100m finals in Rio (AFP / Getty Images) all kinds of running orders. Despite its proven benefits in efficiency, Japan are one of the few inter- It wasn’t until July, just a few weeks ahead of Rio, that the team was final- national 4x100m teams to employ the underhand baton pass ised, but it was no issue for the well- TAFWA Newsletter - Page 20 - February 2017 drilled team. “Because of these extensive practices,” explains third leg runner Kiryu, “we were able to get away with minimum number of baton pass practices when the four team members as well as the running order was finally determined.” Just as important as practising those baton exchanges were frequent and honest verbal exchanges between all members of the team. “We talked to each other all the time,” says Kiryu. “We can confidently talk about all thoughts, including our concerns. One of the secrets behind our success as a relay team highly depended on forming a team with these four members.” Second leg Iizuka adds: “Granted we are rivals on the track, but since we have a mutual goal of becoming truly world-class sprinters, we help each other in day to day training as well as exchanging ideas.” The extensive work in the lead-up to Rio showed from the off. In heat 1, China set an AR of 37.82. Japan responded immediately, reclaiming their record in heat 2 with a time of 37.68. Yet coach Karube saw there was still room for improvement and threw a last minute change at his well-oiled machine. Between the heat and the final he moved the position markers for the outgoing runners by seven centimeters. “The adjustment of the position markers for the start for second and subsequent sprinters was the biggest challenge for the team,” he admits. His gamble paid off – the team shaved a further 0.08 secs off their record from the heat to take silver in 37.60. It was the highest ever finish for an Asian team in an Olympics sprint relay and a timely confidence boost for the nation that will host the Games in less than four years’ time. The impact of the medal resounded not only in Japan, but around the world. Japanese journalist and statisti- cian Ken Nakamura points out that the relay performance was voted Japan’s best moment of Rio 2016 across various platforms – ahead of twelve gold medals the rest of the Japanese Olympic team won. Ever the perfectionist, Karube already has his eyes set on further improving on the team’s performance. “The baton pass in the Rio Olympics was ideal, but we do not think it was perfect. Several small improvements are still necessary,” he says.

Last leg of the men’s 4x100m relay in Rio Bolt on Japan: “I could tell that they were going to be good ... the execution they have is always extremely good” “For the team to improve further, baton pass work is still necessary, but it is also important to improve the raw speed of individual sprinters. We need sub-10 seconds sprinters.” With an average age of 23, the team still has bags of potential. Rising talents such as double world U18 cham- pion Abdul Hakim Sani Brown, 17, will play a vital role in cementing the nation’s position at the top end of the world’s relay rankings. “All four of us can be on the relay team in 2020,” Cambridge, who ran the anchor leg in Rio, says confidently. Yamagata adds: “With the experience from the Rio Olympics under our belt and the home track advantage in four years, I believe we have a chance of winning gold in 2020.” We wouldn’t bet against them. TAFWA Newsletter - Page 21 - February 2017 Anti-doping group calls for blanket ban on Russia http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2017/01/11/anti-doping-group-calls-blanket-ban-russia Leaders from 19 NADOs held a special summit visible progress. in Dublin to discuss the fallout from the second “We certainly haven’t seen it and by all public state- part of Richard McLaren’s report for the World ments they can’t even admit that they admitted there Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) which last month was institutional doping happening in their country,” exposed the huge scale of state-sponsored, sys- Tygart told Reuters. tematic doping and cover-ups in Russia. The New York Times reported last month that Rus- Following Tuesday’s meeting, the organisation is- sian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) officials had for sued a statement listing a series of desired reforms, the first time admitted there was an organised con- and although Russia was not the only nation to spark spiracy to dope in Russia. concerns, the scale of the problem there ensured it It cited Anna Antseliovich, the acting director dominated the summit’s conclusions. general of RUSADA, as making the admission in an These included the exclusion of Russian sports interview. organisations from all international competition, with However, in response to the article RUSADA said in a uniform process for athletes to compete as neutrals, a statement that Antseliovich’s words had been “dis- until there is substantive progress in reform efforts; torted” and “taken out of context.” the removal of all major international competitions “We want to underline that RUSADA does not have from the country; and a moratorium on the awarding and could not have the authority to admit or deny of new competitions to Russia. such a fact (of an institutional conspiracy),” RUSADA More than 100 Russian athletes were barred from said. competing at the 2016 Rio Olympics after the Inter- national Olympic Committee set criteria for Russian NO ACTION athletes to meet, including a clean doping past and Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters sufficient testing at international events. last month that the Russian authorities had always Russia’s athletics ban has continued into 2017 and denied that the Russian state had been involved in may include the August world championships after doping. a Task Force monitoring the nation’s anti-doping Russian President Vladimir Putin added that there programme refused last month to put any dates on a were some problems with sports doping in Russia but “road map” for a return. there was no state-sponsored doping system as critics Russia has already been stripped of the right to host had alleged. next year’s bobsleigh world championships in Sochi in Tygart said on Tuesday: “We hear the talk and the March and a speed skating event scheduled for Chely- talk is not very satisfying, but we have certainly seen abinsk in the same month by the governing bodies of no action.” the respective sports. NADOs leaders gave their backing to WADA’s efforts to stamp out doping but said the organisation needed SYSTEMATIC PROBLEM more support and funding to deal with the unprec- “The second part of the McLaren report included edented workload. an appalling set of evidence exposing a systematic Tygart added that the NADOs group met in Dublin problem (in Russia) that hasn’t been fully addressed,” “to continue to show the importance and urgency of NADOs CEO Joseph de Pencier told Reuters in a tele- dealing with the worst, almost egregious situation of phone interview. corruption in international and Olympic sport that “There needs to be a sweeping package of reform the world has ever seen. and until we have some centralised anti-doping back “It is easy to forget and allow time to pass and no in Russia we can’t be confident. change happens. This group (NADOs) is committed, as “The road map is pretty clear but at the moment we hear from clean athletes on a daily basis, not to let there is still denial, there has been no contrition.” that happen. De Pencier said it would take “maybe a couple of “We have sent a loud message to clean athletes that years” for a credible anti-doping system to be put in we are behind them and we are going to stand with place but hoped the prospect of Russia potentially them to make sure their rights are protected and get missing out on the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in justice for those who were individually robbed. 13 months’ time would instil some urgency. “We need accountability from the Russian state Travis Tygart, head of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency that perpetuated this fraud and, most importantly, we (USADA), shared De Pencier’s frustration at a lack of need reforms to ensure this can never happen again.” TAFWA Newsletter - Page 22 - February 2017 Sebastian Coe defies select committee over Russia corruption scandal By Sean Ingle | The Guardian |https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/jan/10/sebastian-coe-athlet - ics-corruption-undermined-dave-bedford Sebastian Coe will defy a summons from parliament to answer further questions concerning when he first heard about corruption within the corridors of the International Association of Athletics Federations and the extent of Russia’s doping problems because he believes he has no fresh information to give MPs. Damian Collins, the chair of the culture, media and sport select committee, called on Lord Coe to return to parliament saying he was “concerned” after hearing testimony from Dave Bedford which appeared to contra- dict when Coe had claimed he had first heard about the marathon runner Liliya Shobukhova being extorted for €450,000 by IAAF and Russian officials. When Coe first appeared before the MPs in December 2015 he told them he “was certainly not aware of the specific allegations that have been made around the corruption of anti-doping processes in Russia” until he had watched a documentary on the German TV channel ARD in December 2014. Bedford, the former race director of the , told MPs he made several attempts to tell Coe about the Shobukhova case in August 2014 – including a phone call, an email with an attachment detailing what had gone on, and text messages. He also told MPs that when he spoke to Coe on 21 November at a British Ath- letics Writers’ Association lunch he “had no inkling from that conversation that he was not aware of the subject matter in general terms”. Bedford explained he had initially contacted Coe when he was walking in the mountains with his son. “It was a short conversation,” he told MPs. “I asked him whether he was aware of the allegations that had been put for- ward to the IAAF ethics committee related to Shobukhova. And he said no, and I said: ‘In that case I am going to forward by email copies of the documents, because I believe you need to see them.’” After sending Coe the email on 8 August 2014 and getting no response, Bedford followed up with another text message, to which Coe again did not reply. Coe maintains that while he received an email from Bedford that month he had never opened the attachment that outlined how Shobukhova was blackmailed and named the senior figures involved in extorting money from her. Instead he says he immediately referred it to the IAAF’s independent ethics committee. Last year the ethics committee banned several of those named in the document – including Papa Massata Diack, a former IAAF marketing executive and the son of the former president Lamine Diack, Valentin Balakh- nichev, the former president of the Russian athletics federation and IAAF treasurer, and Alexei Melnikov, the former chief coach for Russian endurance athletes – for life. The IAAF’s head of anti-doping Gabriel Dolle was banned for five years. In a statement the IAAF said Bedford’s testimony had “offered nothing new” and that “all information, includ- ing the emails central to their questioning, were sent to their committee chair in June 2016 and acknowledged. Based upon this Coe has no further information he can provide to the inquiry.” Collins disagreed, calling on the IAAF to release the full email exchange between Coe and Beloff and warning Coe he needed to explain what he knew and when. “He said that he was unaware of the specific allegations until they were broadcast in the ARD documentary, but Bedford’s evidence casts some doubt on this,” he said. Collins conceded that because Coe is a member of parliament the committee did not have the power to make him attend their summons but he urged him to take the opportunity to assuage their doubts. “There are a whole range of questions that remain unanswered and he needs to clear the air,” he added. “We are all concerned that, given the evidence David Bedford has provided, Lord Coe’s statement that he was unaware of allegations relat- ing to doping in Russian athletics in particular lacks credibility.” Earlier Bedford was asked by MPs whether he found it strange that Coe forwarded his email to Beloff without opening the attachment. “It is fair to say I was very surprised and quite disappointed,” he replied. The SNP MP John Nicolson suggested to Bedford that given Coe had been brought in to clean up athletics, his lack of curiosity about corruption was “extraordinary”. Bedford told him he accepted that view but suggested Coe may have been playing the long game, waiting to see if he could get elected as the IAAF president in August 2015 so he could have the authority to make significant changes to track and field. “If you look at what has happened subsequently to him being elected to a position of power, there are clear implications that he wants the integrity of our sport brought back and he has made significant steps towards that happening,” added Bedford. “I think that it might be true that he decided that the best way he could help the sport was to make sure that he got elected as president, because if it didn’t happen then there was no future for the sport.” TAFWA Newsletter - Page 23 - February 2017 Alan Hubbard: Why freedom to expose corruption in sport is now under threat in the UK http://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1045444/alan-hubbard-why-freedom-to-expose-corrup- tion-in-sport-is-now-under-threat-in-the-uk When Lord Sebastian Coe was in the throes of organising the 2012 Olympics in London, he observed that Britain had the most forensic media in the world. He was not complaining, but simply pointing out that there was little chance of anything underhand in respect of the preparations and orchestration of the Games. Anything not fully transparent would surely be exposed. And that, he said, was absolutely right. He has not wavered from that view about the necessity of a free press despite later himself becoming akin to a fox being chased by the newshounds over any alleged knowledge - or lack of it - about corruption within the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) he now leads. Subsequently, it was said he took too long to sever his conflicting professional connections with Nike after assuming office; and that he knew nothing about the backhanders allegedly pocketed by his dodgy predecessor from the Senegalese judiciary, Lamine Diack, despite being for several years his vice-president. It was a situation which some of those close to him maintained was tantamount to a vendetta. Coe rode out the storm, obviously piqued and uncomfortable but sticking by the Voltaire maxim: “I disap- prove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it”. He has always argued, and still does, that journalists should be free to write things those in authority might not like, not least in sport. Alas, not everyone in high office shares that philosophy. Press freedom, as far as the UK media is concerned, is now under dire threat of being eroded, and this could severely affect highlighting sporting skulduggery if pro- posed legislation is passed in parliament. Following the Leveson Re- port into conduct by the media under Section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act, which is now under review by the new Secre- tary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Karen Bradley, any newspaper that refuses to join a regulator approved under a Royal Charter and is sued for libel will be forced to pay the other side’s legal costs even if they win. This could bankrupt many pub- lications - local and national - and force them out of business. Moreover, the UK media would need to think twice about pub- lishing things such as corruption within FIFA, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) or the Sebastian Coe described the UK media as the most forensic in the world ©Getty IAAF. Even the Russian drugs scandal. As an example Sepp Blatter could take them to court, lose the case and it would still cost the newspapers mil- lions. Last weekend The Sunday Times warned that its historic exposure of drugs cheat cyclist Lance Armstrong would never have happened had Section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act been enacted. Like other newspapers, it has published a form urging readers to respond to a Government consultation pro- cess by backing the scrapping of Section 40. Section 40 was passed by Parliament in 2012 as a way of forcing publishers to sign up to a Leveson-compliant regulator but has never been enacted. Armstrong sued The Sunday Times in 2004 after it linked him to the taking of banned drugs. It was forced to TAFWA Newsletter - Page 24 - February 2017 pay him £300,000 ($370,000/€353,000) in damages and more than £700,000 ($862,000/€823,000) in costs. In 2013 it recovered that money after Armstrong admitted taking performance-enhancing drugs. The paper said “had Section 40 been in force at the time, the burden of paying Armstrong’s libel costs whether or not we won the case would have stopped us from publishing the story in the first place”. In addition, the paper noted that under Section 40, it could never have recovered the £850,000 ($1 mil- lion/€999,000) in costs it recovered from the “gangster” David Hunt who unsuccessfully sued the paper for libel in 2013. The Government is considering whether to repeal Section 40, keep it under review, scrap it, or enforce it only partially - meaning the few publishers signed up to Royal Charter-backed regulator named Impress would be protected from paying both sides’ costs in libel cases - even if they lost - but other publishers would not be pun- ished. Publishers are concerned that their voices on the consultation will be outweighed by the backers of a vigilante campaign group, Hacked Off, which has encouraged its own mass response to the consultation and provided supporters with a template letter. If Section 40 is passed, most news publishers could be forced to either sign up to Impress or agree changes to the constitution of the main press regulator IPSO, to make it compliant with the Royal Charter on the regula- tion of press. This would mean providing a libel and privacy arbitration scheme which is free for claimants, something which many publishers fear would increase the number of claims. The spiky Daily Mail columnist Richard Littlejohn declared: “It would be like putting the Kray Twins in charge of the Police Complaints Commission and forcing the victims of their crimes to pick up the bill”. Impress is mainly funded by multi-millionaire former Formula One chief Max Mosley, son of wartime Fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley, and who has been a vociferous supporter of shackles on the press after winning a privacy case against the News of the World. The former sports minister Kate Hooey has warned that if Section 40 is enacted “very quickly the choice every newspaper will face will be to submit to state regulation under Impress, drop any investigative activity at all, or shut down”. She added: “Shutting down will be the only honorable option. “The UK will lose not just a free press, but any print press at all.” The outcome is awaited with some trepidation as many members of parliament are still smarting from expo- sure of the crooked expenses claims and cannot wait to bring Fleet Street to heel by what could be interpreted as State regulation of the press, something of which quite a few IOC members will have knowledge. Just like it was back in the USSR, eh? As far as sport is concerned it could lead not only to the stifling of possible wrongdoing by governing bodies and individuals, but reason- able criticism say, of football refer- ees, who could take newspapers to court knowing that they have noth- ing to lose, even if they lose. Because either way the papers would pay. And, for instance would the cur- rently valid pursuit by the Daily Mail and others about the truth of what was in that mysterious jiffy bag delivered to Sir Bradley Wiggins back in 2011 ever have got off the ground? And if Section 40 is enforced, will we ever know? Max Mosley has been a leading voice for press reforms ©Getty Images TAFWA Newsletter - Page 25 - February 2017 Chula Vista Olympic Training Center under new ownership and operation By Kelsey Meksto http://www.cw6sandiego.com/chula-vista-olympic-training-center-new-ownership-operation/

CHULA VISTA, Calif. – January 10, 2017 – The Chu- elite sport complexes. la Vista Elite Athlete Training Center (CVTC) launched The mission of U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Train- on Jan. 1, 2017, under new ownership and operation. ing Sites is to provide athletes and National Governing Ownership of the former Chula Vista Olympic Train- Bodies with access to additional resources, services ing Center was transferred to the City of Chula Vista and facilities, while providing an elite athlete training from the United States Olympic Committee. environment that positively impacts performance. Following a thorough application and vetting “The Chula Vista Elite Athlete Training Center has process, Point Loma Trust was selected by the City of demonstrated a commitment to supporting America’s Chula Vista to operate the training center. Point Loma top athletes, and we look forward to our ongoing Trust has established Elite Athlete Services as the ef- partnership with the newly minted U.S. Olympic fective organization for day-to-day operations. and Paralympic Training Site,” said Alicia McCon- Under the new operating model, the Chula Vista nell, USOC director of training sites and community Elite Athlete Training Center will continue to function partnerships. “Under the City of Chula Vista and Elite as an elite athlete-focused facility. Athlete Services, the CVTC will continue providing “Over 60 medals were won by Chula Vista athletes critical services, resources and world-class facilities for over the past six Olympic and Paralympic Games, our athletes, while helping to grow the Olympic and along with American records, world records, and Paralympic movements.” numerous world championship and world cup medals. Among the immediate changes are the center’s We look forward to building on that legacy of success,” branding, management and increased capacity for said Elite Athlete Services President Greg Jamison. international visitors, professional teams and cor- “We are on target to hit our organizational revenue porate events. In the short term, new Chula Vista goals and can’t wait to watch our CVTC-based athletes Elite Athlete Training Center signage will be installed hit their own personal goals.” throughout the campus. As part of the ownership transfer, the USOC will The new Elite Team Shop is anticipated to open continue funding athlete programming at the center in February, while an expanded and enhanced tour at a minimum through 2020, while also retaining program is also expected to resume in February. Long- the sports medicine clinic and offering on-site sport term venue enhancements and additions, as well as service providers. increased housing capacity are planned. A new 100- Many of the Olympic and Paralympic sports previ- bed dorm building is expected to open later in 2017. ously based in Chula Vista will continue to train at “The City has worked closely with the USOC to the CVTC in 2017. Archery, BMX, track and field, and ensure we maintain the training center for high caliber wheelchair tennis will remain as resident programs in athletes in Chula Vista,” said Deputy City Manager Chula Vista. Kelley Bacon. The men’s and women’s national teams for rugby “We look forward to our relationship with Elite sevens will be based in Chula Vista as they have been Athlete Services and the Point Loma Trust as we all since 2011, and the rugby 15s program will spend look to continuing the success of the training center. more time in Chula Vista in 2017. Short-term train- We invite the community to attend the Celebration of ing camps that vary in length from a few days to three Champions event on February 25.” months will round out the athletic programming at The Celebration of Champions event is scheduled the CVTC. for Saturday, Feb. 25. The City of Chula Vista is join- Athletes from the Ukrainian track and field team ing together with Elite Athlete Services to celebrate and both the U.S. and Canada under-19 men’s rugby the Chula Vista Elite Athlete Training Center and the teams kicked off the first week of 2017 with training athletic, academic, arts and other accomplishments of camps at the CVTC. The U.S. National Rowing Team Chula Vista residents, including the athletes who train will again spend its winter in Chula Vista, staying at at the CVTC. the CVTC through March. The public event will include a Fun Run throughout The Chula Vista Elite Athlete Training Center is now the CVTC campus, a ceremony and festival. designated as a U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Training Visit EASChulaVista.com for more information on Site, joining a list of 18 Training Sites, including Olym- the Chula Vista Elite Athlete Training Center and Elite pic and Paralympic Games host sites, universities, and Athlete Services. TAFWA Newsletter - Page 26 - February 2017 Kiwi Olympian Jacko Gill breaks stone throwing record at Highland Games in Waipu By Imran Ali | New Zealand Herald http://www.nzherald.co.nz/the-country/news/article.cfm?c_id=16&objectid=11775670

Former heavyweight competitor and now judge Pat Hellier watches his record get smashed by Olympian Jacko Gill, in the 22-pound (9.97kg) stone throw. Photo / Michael Cunningham Kiwi Olympian Jacko Gill threw his weight around at his “These events are a lot different and harder than shotput first Waipu Highland Games and smashed the New Zealand but I think they are more relaxed and fun. It’s really impor- Highland stone throw record set a decade ago. tant for these events to continue in years to come and if I The 22-year-old shot-put star won five of eight events and can help promote it, I will,” he said. was declared the overall winner in the heavyweight compe- Doctor Jan Walsh, who arrived from England five weeks tition. ago on a three-month stint with the Northland District The Aucklander was the drawcard at the event at Cale- Health Board in Whangarei, said the Waipu Games were the donian Park that attracted a good crowd, including inter- best “Christmassy thing” she has seen in New Zealand so national tourists, on a slightly overcast but pleasant day far. yesterday. “You feel at home ... People lined central Waipu for the Grand March, which “Everyone’s so friendly. It’s a great place.” started at 9am, followed by piping and drumming competi- Retired school teacher Joe Pinfold travelled from Rotorua tions at the 146th Highland games. with wife, Colleen, to watch their first Waipu Games. But most eyes were on the heavyweight competition that “We made time available this holiday for the games here featured the stone and hammer throw, weight for distance, instead of chasing folks. I played the drums for 25 years so weight over bar, wheat sheaf and caber toss. I’ll be watching that and the dancing.” Gill, a shot putter at Rio Olympics, threw the 22-pound Mr Pinfold said his links with Northland dated back to (nearly 10kg) stone 15.6m to break the old record of 13.7m 1961 when he was appointed principal of Towai School set by previous Highland Heavyweight Competition 13-time which had two teachers, including himself, and 73 children. winner Pat Hellier, who is now a judge. Planning consultant Blair Telford and his wife, Sharleen, Gill also came first in the 16-, 22- and 28-pound hammer from North Shore were also at their first Waipu Games and throw and the 56-pound weight for distance events. planned to return. The Olympian was excited to test his skills against experi- “You don’t go to a lot of places and see the Scottish enced competitors and reckoned the caber toss would be his continue their heritage and culture but in this place they do toughest challenge. which is great,” he said. TAFWA Newsletter - Page 27 - February 2017 European track and field records to get credibility review By Associated Press http://www.islandpacket.com/sports/article128841419.html#storylink=cpy LAUSANNE, - The track and field record book in Europe is being reviewed to see if it can still be believed to be clean of doping. European Athletics said Thursday it has created “a task force to examine the credibility of European records.” Current records include several set in the 1980s by athletes from Soviet Bloc countries, including East Germany. Some times in women’s track events still stand as world records. European Athletics president Svein Arne Hansen said records should be 100 percent credible. “However, there is a view that this is currently not the case with some of the performances on the European record list,” the Norwegian official said in a statement. Hansen is a board member at the IAAF, which will await Europe’s findings. “I have been in regular contact with IAAF president Sebastian Coe on this matter and the IAAF will monitor this work closely before deciding on any actions at the world level,” Hansen said. “This is obvi- ously a contentious and difficult issue that they will be looking into.” The task force has been set a September target to report back. It is chaired by Irish official Pierce O’Callaghan, the head of operations for the 2017 world championships in London. The current seven-member group also includes the IAAF’s head of technical services, Imre Matrahazi of Hungary.

Kenya to put 109 athletes under doping scrutiny http://www.sport24.co.za/OtherSport/Athletics/International/kenya-to-put-109-athletes-under-dop- ing-scrutiny-20170110 Nairobi - Kenya is to put 109 elite athletes under the watch of a team of selected doctors in a bid to stop dop- ing, a practice that has tarnished the image of its famed sportsmen and women. Athletics Kenya chief Jackson Tuwei said that in conjunction with the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), five trusted doctors had been selected to work with the country’s top athletes. This is an effort to limit bad medical practices by some Kenyan doctors who have been accused of supplying athletes with performance-enhancing drugs. Kenya was placed on the IAAF doping watchlist in 2016 after being ruled non-compliant by the World Anti- Doping Agency (WADA) following a string of drug scandals. “It is in this regard that we have worked on (this) action plan with the IAAF ... in order to confine the actual doping epidemic in the country,” Tuwei said at a news conference where an initial list of 109 athletes who will enter the programme was released. He said it would be mandatory for elite athletes to go through the newly formed “Kenyan Doctors Network” if they wanted to participate in international competitions. Tuwei said the rules would be implemented from January 17 and monitored by the newly formed Anti-Dop- ing Association of Kenya (ADAK), in a bid to get Kenya off the IAAF watchlist. “As a top athletics federation and country, we cannot continue to be doubted by the world,” added Tuwei. Tuwei said Kenya strongly supported the creation of the IAAF Athletics Integrity Unit which is set to be launched in April 2017. The unit, which will manage anti-doping and other integrity-related programmes in elite athletics, was an- nounced as part of a set of reforms passed at the IAAF’s 207th Council Meeting in Monaco in December.

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 28 - February 2017 RRCA Announces Distance Running Hall of Fame Inductees http://www.rrca.org/publications/news-archives/2017/01/31/rrca-announces-distance-running-hall-of-fame-inductees 46th class includes Olympians Desiree Linden and and legendary race directors Dave McGillivray and George Hirsch

Arlington, VA - Since 1971, the Road Runners Club of America (RRCA) has honored dedicated individuals for their contributions and service to the sport of distance running through its National Distance Running Hall of Fame. We are delighted to announce the 2017 inductees, who will be honored at the upcoming RRCA National Running Awards Ceremony on Saturday, March 11, 2017 in ​Detroit, Michigan. We encourage the running com- munity to join us in celebrating the tremendous accomplishments of the RRCA Hall of Fame inductees. Presenting our 46th Hall of Fame class:

Desiree Linden Two-time U.S. Olympic Marathoner Desiree Linden, born July 26, 1983, is a native of San Diego suburb Chu- la Vista, California. Linden, nee Davila, earned All-American honors in both cross country and track during her tenure at before joining the Hansons-Brooks Distance Project in Rochester, Michigan. Linden wowed the marathon world with her near win at the . Her second place finish, an incredible 2:22:38, set an all-time U.S. record on the Boston course (since broken) and made her the third fastest American ever. Linden was named USA Track & Field’s Athlete of the Week for her performance. In 2015, Des participated at the Boston Marathon which featured a strong international field and the top three U.S. marathoners. She finished as top American and held on for a strong 4th place finish, less than 45 seconds from the win. She bested two former Boston champions, a Berlin and Rotterdam Marathon champion, and the World Junior Record holder. Des now owns three of the six top American times in history on the famed Boston course. In the summer of 2015, Des earned the Pan-Am Games Silver Medal in the 10,000 meter race. In early 2016 she finished 2nd at the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials in LA, she followed that up with a runner-up performance at the U.S. Championships and a strong showing at the 2016 Rio Olympics, finishing 7th. Other career highlights include earning her spot on the U.S. Olympic Team at the 2012 London Summer Games with a runner up performance at the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials (2:25:55), a runner up performance at the 2013 U.S. Half Marathon Championships, 11th at the 2009 Marathon World Championships (2:27:53) and multiple top five performances at four of the six : her Boston runner-up in 2011, 3rd at the 2010 (2:26:20), and 5th place showings at the 2008 Chicago Marathon (2:31:33), 2013 (2:29:15) and blustery conditions at the 2014 NYC Marathon (2:28:11) where she was the top Ameri- can. Earlier in 2014, she clocked an impressive 2:23:54 in Boston. ​Linden graduated from Hilltop High School in Chula Vista in 2001 and studied psychology at Arizona State University. A self-proclaimed bacon aficionado, her hobbies include writing, collecting assorted whiskeys, coffee drinking, throwing out first pitches at Major League ballgames, relaxing with her dogs Miles and Atlas, listening to good music and outrunning her husband, fellow marathoner and budding triathlete and Kona veteran, Ryan Linden.

Ryan Hall Ryan Hall, born October 14, 1982, is a two-time U.S. Olympic marathoner and the American record holder in the half marathon. Hall’s 2:04:58 at the 2011 Boston Marathon is the fastest marathon ever run by an Ameri- can; the time doesn’t count as the American marathon because Boston’s point-to-point, net-elevation-loss course makes it ineligible for record purposes. After graduating from Stanford in 2005, Hall began his professional career as a 5,000-meter runner, and rep- resented the United States in the event at the 2005 World Championships. He soon after concentrated on road racing, starting with the national 20K title in the fall of 2006. Hall’s big road breakthrough came at the Houston Half Marathon in January 2007. He won in 59:43, an American record. Hall remains the only American to have broken an hour for the half marathon on a record standard, certified course. Hall made his marathon debut at the 2007 London Marathon, where he placed seventh in 2:08:24. Hall won the 2008 Olympic Marathon Trials, which were held the day before the 2007 . His time of 2:09:02 is the event record. At the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Hall placed 10th. Hall finished third at the and fourth at Boston in 2010. His 2:04:58 personal best got him fourth at Boston in 2011. That fall, he was fifth in 2:08:04 at the Chicago Marathon. Three months later, TAFWA Newsletter - Page 29 - February 2017 Hall finished second to at the 2012 Olympic Marathon Trials. He dropped out of the 2012 Olym- pic Marathon after 10 miles with a hamstring injury. On January 15, 2016, Hall announced his retirement from competitive running. He is married to fellow pro- fessional runner Sara Hall, and they have four adopted daughters.

Dave McGillivray Dave McGillivray, born August 22, 1954, is Race Director of the B.A.A. Boston Marathon, the B.A.A. Half Marathon, the B.A.A. 5K and the B.A.A. 10K, manages and oversees all operational and logistical aspects of these world-class events. McGillivray also directed the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Women’s Marathon in Boston. In 1996, McGillivray established himself as one of the world’s premier race directors with his successful coordination of the 100th Boston Marathon, which attracted a field size of nearly 40,000 participants, the larg- est in B.A.A. history. McGillivray is president of Dave McGillivray Sports Enterprises (DMSE), Inc., an event management company which creates, markets, and produces mass-participatory athletic events throughout the U.S. DMSE directed the U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Women’s Marathon in 2004, the 1990 ITU Triathlon World Championship, and consulted on the 1996 Olympic Games. DMSE also directs the TD Beach to Beacon 10K, the New Bal- ance Falmouth Road Race, and the Boston Marathon Jimmy Fund Walk, as well as numerous other world-class events. Athletically, McGillivray first gained national prominence in 1978 when he ran across the U.S. to raise money for the Jimmy Fund. In 2004, McGillivray ran cross-country again as part of a relay team event called TREK USA, which he founded. He has run 137 marathons including 42 consecutive Boston Marathons, completed 9 Hawaii Ironman Triathlons, run up the East Coast of the U.S., run for 24 hours, biked for 24 hours, and swam for 24 hours – all to raise money for numerous worthwhile causes. In 2003, the DMSE Children’s Fitness Foun- dation was established with a focus on funding nonprofit organizations that use running as a vehicle to promote physical fitness in children. In 2005, McGillivray was inducted into Running USA’s Hall of Champions. Among other recognitions he has received are Competitor magazine’s Lifetime Achievement Award for more than 30 years of service to the sport of road racing and triathlons. In 2000, he was named Race Director of the Year by the running industry’s Road Race Management, Inc., and in 2007 Runner’s World named him one of their Heroes of Running. In 2011, he was inducted into the USA Triathlon Hall of Fame. The Last Pick, (Rodale Press), authored by McGillivray (with Linda Glass Fechter), was published in April 2006. It chronicles his career while motivating and inspiring readers never to underestimate their own ability to set and achieve goals. McGillivray resides in North Andover, Massachusetts with wife Katie. He has five chil- dren, Ryan, Max, Elle, Luke and Chloe.

George Hirsch George Hirsch, born June 21, 1934, helped Fred Lebow start the five-borough New York City Marathon in 1976 to celebrate the nation’s bicentennial. With the success of the first race, it became an annual event that has become one of the world’s leading sporting events. In 1979, Hirsch founded the Midnight Run in New York’s Central Park, a race that is held every New Year’s Eve. In 2005, Hirsch became the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the New York Road Runners where he has served in the role for 12 years. From 1984 to 1986, Hirsch was the on-air host of a weekly segment on ESPN’s SportsCenter called “The Run- ner’s Corner.” He has done television commentary for many distance running events including the New York City, Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Cincinnati (Flying Pig) Marathons. He has also been a commenta- tor for three Olympic Games: Los Angeles in 1984, Seoul in 1988 and Barcelona in 1992. Hirsch was the founding publisher of New York magazine and The Runner magazine. In January 1987, Ro- dale, Inc. acquired The Runner and merged it with Runner’s World, and Hirsch became its worldwide publisher after launching a number of international editions of the magazine. Hirsch was also the first publishing director of Men’s Health and director of international magazines, positions he held until his retirement from Rodale in 2004. From 2005 to 2011, he was the chairman and publisher of La Cucina Italiana, the English language edi- tion of ’s oldest and largest food and cooking magazine. Beginning in Boston in 1969, Hirsch has run forty marathons with a personal best of 2:38 set in Boston in 1979 at the age of 44. In 2009, on a promise to his wife Shay, he ran his final marathon in New York at age 75. He won his age group in each of his last eight marathons. In 2014, Hirsch was also the recipient of a lifetime achievement award from the Association of International Marathons (AIMS).

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 30 - February 2017 Partial Fixtures List 2017 Feb. 9 TAFWA Winter Awards Dinner, Coogan’s Restaurant, NYC, 6 PM Feb. 11 Millrose Games, Armory, NYC March 2-4 NAIA Indoor Championships, Johnson City, Tennessee March 3-5 USATF Indoor Championships, Albuquerque, New Mexico March 10-11 NCAA Division I Indoor Championships, College Station, Texas NCAA Division II Indoor Championships, Birmingham, Alabama NCAA Division III Indoor Championships, Naperville, Illinois

March 26 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, Kampala, Uganda April 22-23 IAAF World Relays, Nassau, Bahamas April 27-29 Penn Relays, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Drake Relays, Des Moines, Iowa May 25-27 NCAA Division I East Preliminary Rounds, Lexington, Kentucky May 25-27 NCAA Division I West Preliminary Rounds, Austin, Texas NCAA Division II Championships, Bradenton, Florida NCAA Division III Championships, Geneva, Ohio NAIA Championships, Gulf Shores, Alabama May 26-27 Prefontaine Classic, Eugene, Oregon June 7-10 NCAA Division I Championships, Eugene, Oregon June 23-25 USATF Outdoor Championships, Sacramento, California July 12-16 IAAF World U18 Championships, Nairobi, Kenya Aug. 4-13 IAAF World Championships, London

Nov. 18 NCAA Division I Cross Country, Louisville, Kentucky NCAA Division II Cross Country, Evansville, Indiana NCAA Division III Cross Country, Elsah, Illinois

2018 March 2-4 IAAF World Indoor Championships, Birmingham, England March 9-10 NCAA Division I Indoor Championships, College Station, Texas

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

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