In Kenya’s Western Highlands around the towns of Eldoret and Iten, young runners chase dreams of glory around dusty tracks and along rutted red-clay roads, often matching… Read more “The Price of Purity: Why Doping Is an Economic Crisis, Not Just a Moral One”
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SUB-2:10s – 2024
With the congregation of the original five World Marathon Majors in 2006, the sport of marathon running entered a new professional era. The $1 million on offer… Read more “SUB-2:10s – 2024”
EXPANDING ACCOUNTABILITY IN CONTROLLING PEDs
ADDENDUM: 17 July 2025 Today, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) provisionally suspended marathon world record holder Ruth Chepngetich due to a doping violation. Ms. Chepngetich tested positive… Read more “EXPANDING ACCOUNTABILITY IN CONTROLLING PEDs”
SKEPTICISM RATHER THAN CELEBRATION FOLLOWS WOMEN’S WORLD RECORD IN CHICAGO
The hue and cry about Ruth Chepngetich’s 2:09:56 women’s world marathon record in last Sunday’s Bank of America Chicago Marathon is not toning down. Poor John Korir,… Read more “SKEPTICISM RATHER THAN CELEBRATION FOLLOWS WOMEN’S WORLD RECORD IN CHICAGO”
“WHAT A WORLD!” (RECORD)
I mean, what can you say at this point? There’s no winning here. If you embrace this weekend’s marathon performances in Vienna and Chicago at face value,… Read more ““WHAT A WORLD!” (RECORD)”
MARATHONING 2017 – BY THE #s
When the calendar flips, I always like to do a deeper dive into the past year in marathon running, just to see what the numbers might suggest.… Read more “MARATHONING 2017 – BY THE #s”
KILLING THE GOLDEN GOOSE
It’s a completely defensible position because it has been taken from a completely defensive posture. If your product can’t guarantee purity, even with improved testing, you do… Read more “KILLING THE GOLDEN GOOSE”
ABBOTT WORLD MARATHON MAJORS: MAKING AN “IS” OUT OF AN “ARE”
Before America’s Civil War people said, “these United States of America ARE’, in referring to their country, seeing the country as primarily an aggregate of individual states… Read more “ABBOTT WORLD MARATHON MAJORS: MAKING AN “IS” OUT OF AN “ARE””
TESTING: PUTTING THE MONEY WHERE IT NEEDS TO BE
We see a version of the honor system every weekend at road races across the globe where thousands of strangers align themselves into a solid grid behind… Read more “TESTING: PUTTING THE MONEY WHERE IT NEEDS TO BE”
YOU GOTTA BELIEVE!
Sport, like life, is a series of self-fulfilling prophecies, for what you think you can do sets the stage for the reenactment of the belief in performance.… Read more “YOU GOTTA BELIEVE!”
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