August 2015 Track and Field President’s Message Writers of America It’s all about Parking If you work meets at Hayward Field, this first item is for you. If you don’t, skip to (Founded June 7, 1973) Item #2. PRESIDENT Jack Pfeifer, 6129 N. Lovely St., Portland, OR 97203. Office/home: 917- Contents 579-5392. Email: [email protected] P. 1 President’s Message P. 4 Flotrack Throwdown, Duniway Park, Portland, Oregon VICE PRESIDENT Doug Binder. Email: P. 6 Frank Haviland, 80, Still a Stud [email protected]. P. 8 Unnaturally High Testosterone Levels in Women Begs the Phone: 503-913-4191. Question: Who Is, and Who is Not? TREASURER P. 11 Drugs in Kenyan Athletics Tom Casacky, P.O. Box 4288, Napa, CA 94558. P. 11 NCAA Home Track Advantage for the Ducks in Eugene? Phone: 818-321-3234. Email: [email protected] Point/Counter-Point with Pat Henry and Robert Johnson P. 15 Aisha Praught Runs the Steeple for Jamaica - Finds Birth Father SECRETARY/ AWARDS CHAIR P. 17 Dauphin Street Pole Vault Don Kopriva, 5327 New- P. 18 SN Reviews the Sir Walter Miler and the Flotrack Throwdown port Drive, Lisle IL 60532. Home: 630-960-3049. P. 20 Nike Undermines U.S. Track and Field??? Cell: 630-712-2710. P. 24 USTFCCA Announces 2015 Class of the Coaches Hall of Fame Email: donkopriva777@ aol.com P. 30 Chancellor of the University of North Carolina @ Wilmington Saves NEWSLETTER EDITOR the Track & Field Program Kim Spir, University of P. 32 Nick Symmonds vs. USATF as told by the NY Times Portland, 5000 N. Willamette Blvd., P. 34 Capriotti Accused of Threatening Brooks Beast Coach Danny Mackey Portland, OR 97203. P. 39 Member Steve Ritchie from Salem, OR: Nick Symmonds Work: 503-943-7314. Email: kim.spir@gmail. Banned From Worlds com P. 41 Coach Pat Henry Sends a Follow-Up Message FAST re: the NCAAs in Eugene Dave Johnson. Email: P. 44 Klishina Can Cook in More Ways Than One According to the IAAF [email protected] Phone: 215-898-6145. P. 46 The Track & Field Athletics Association Crunches the Numbers WEBMASTER P. 48 Ewan MacKenna Michael McLaughlin. P. 50 Jere’ Longman’s Update on the Symmonds Situation in the NY Times Email: supamac@comcast. net. Phone: 815-529- P. 56 Peter Gambaccini Reports on the Symmonds Situation 8454. P. 58 Partial Fixtures List For those of us who still consider ourselves part of the working press and who do NOT work in televi- sion, the parking situation in Eugene has gone from bad to worse. Here at TAFWA Headquarters, we have decided not to ask – politely or resolutely – anymore. The time has come to try to solve this on our own, because neither the University of Oregon nor the NCAA is going to do anything. Much of the street parking in the vicinity of Hayward Field has gone over to 2-hour limits. Some long-term parking meters remain, but when school is in session, they are used up quickly, and many of those require a bagful of quarters. What about fans? The university’s football stadium and baseball field have huge adjacent parking lots. Hayward Field? Nada. There was a long tradition that the working press had some privileges in this area. If you had a press pass, you were entitled to park nearby. That is gone, at least for the NCAA Championships, which are held while school is in session. A limited number of press parking passes are given to the Eugene Register-Guard and The Oregonian, and perhaps to one or two other individuals. The criteria for these decisions are not released, and the name of the person making these decisions has never been divulged. Other press are allowed to park in Lot #4 -- a long walk across Franklin Boulevard -- or at Autzen Stadium, which is served by an oc- casional shuttle van. The remainder of the parking spaces at the premier lot across Agate – next to the fire station – go to VIPs, some officials, and to as many members of the TV crew as possible. If you are willing to pay to park, TAFWA offers the following possible solutions, beginning with the 2016 NCAA meet: 1. University Lots #34 and 35, just down 17th Street from Hayward Field. We may be able to secure parking spaces in these lots for $30-35 a day. Would you pay this? If not, how much would you pay? 2. Central Lutheran Church, up 18th Street, across from the cemetery. This is a longer walk. Would you pay $15 a day to park at this location if we can get spots in their parking lot? For the 2016 Olympic Trials, we have been assured that press parking will not be a problem, because the meet will be held in July, after school is closed. If that changes, we’ll let you know and look for solutions for that event as well. 2016 Awards Banquets TAFWA expects to host four get-togethers in 2016, two during the indoor season, two outdoors. We plan to repeat our successful NYC Winter Awards Dinner in ’16, at Coogan’s Restaurant, 168th and Broadway, on Thursday night, Feb. 18, two days prior to the Millrose Games. Millrose will be held around the corner at the Armory. In March we are planning a social get-together in Portland, Ore., during the World Indoor Champion- ships. This will be for members of FAST, TAFWA and ATFS and will likely be held on Sunday morning, March 20, the final day of the meet. Details TBA. Our annual Awards Breakfast will be on Friday morning, June 10, Day 3 of the NCAA Championships in Eugene. We expect to use Gerlinger Hall on-campus again. That seemed to work well this year. We have no interest in returning to the Hilton. TAFWA Newsletter - Page 2 - August 2015 Finally, during the Olympic Trials July 1-10, we will have a social event but do not have details yet. One thing we will probably NOT do is schedule something on one of the two mid-week off days, be- cause many people leave town then. We are open to suggestions. FAST Annual The 2015 annuals have been mailed out. If you did not receive yours, notify Dave Johnson right away. Annuals go to all paid-up members. If you are interested in being an event compiler for 2016, please notify the book’s editor, Tom Casacky, A S A P. We are in discussion to have the 2016 edition completed in time for next year’s U.S. and World indoor championships, both of which will be held in March in Portland. This will mean earlier deadlines but also a much more useful book. In recent years, the Annual has not been ready until June, because of long delays in getting it printed and distributed. We continue to try to improve this situation. Nike Just when you thought the only thing that mattered in Track & Field any longer was drug suspen- sions, Nick Symmonds came along. We have tried to pass along some of the reporting in this issue on Symmonds’s battle with the USATF over apparel, logos and shoe-company sponsorships, though it has been a fast-moving target. Nike, of course, was also at the center of the recent dispute involving allegations against Coach Alberto Salazar, and more recently with a police incident involving one of its executives, John Capriotti, at Hayward Field. Letsrun’s account of that is in this issue. TAFWA Newsletter - Page 3 - August 2015 http://www.flotrack.org/coverage/252141-FloTrack-Throwdown-2015/article/32479-The-FloTrack- Throwdown-The-Peoples-Meet#.VcWHgPlVikq The FloTrack Throwdown: The People’s Meet Meg Bellino on Jul 16, 2015 Have you ever invited your friends to one of your track races? No. Why? Because it’s boring. Rogue Ales and Spirits, founded by a trio of former Nike executives, has partnered with FloTrack to change all of that with the inaugural FloTrack Throwdown. And tickets are on sale now. The first-ever #FloThrowdown will be a one-of-a-kind track and field experience in Portland, Oregon featuring Olympi- ans, world record-holders, and a festival atmosphere. Hardcore track fans will be drawn by star names such as Ash- ton Eaton, Trey Hardee, and Nick Symmonds, but FloTrack is on a mission to expand the interest in the sport to the newest of track spectators. Inspiration began after hosting the inaugural FloTrack Beer Mile World Championships last December — people had fun. Spectators and athletes hung around the Circuit of the Americas, wanting another similar style sporting event. The FloTrack Throwdown is a re-creation of just that - a track meet featuring world-class talent with a focus on fun for all who attend. “Maybe at some meets, if you have a really-expensive VIP ticket – I wouldn’t know – you could enjoy a beer, but at the FloTrack Throwdown we want this to be the people’s meet,” FloSports co-founder and COO Mark Floreani said. “Track fans should be able to bring their friends to a meet and be confident they’ll have a good time.” The #FloThrowdown, to be held in Portland’s Duniway Park, will feature a beer garden open to the public, with $1 from every beer sale going to the athletes’ purse. This is a new revenue-sharing model that is already garner- ing notice. Can you recall the last world-class track meet in the United States that you were able to enjoy a beer at? Didn’t think so.