Let’s begin with Emma Coburn’s response to the Kenyan team saying before the World Championships that they would bring the women’s steeplechase medals in Doha back to Kenya where… Read more “A SAD STORY HOWEVER IT’S TOLD”
Tag: Nike Oregon Project
CONSIDERING CHICAGO 2017
People have been asking why I hadn’t written anything on the outcome of this year’s Chicago Marathon after the historic win by Galen Rupp in the men’s… Read more “CONSIDERING CHICAGO 2017”
TWIXT THE SPIRIT AND LETTER
As an athlete Alberto Salazar was willing to delve more deeply into the dark raging corridors within than any athlete I ever encountered. That do-or-die spirit is… Read more “TWIXT THE SPIRIT AND LETTER”
SALAZAR FIRES BACK
At long last Nike Oregon Project coach Alberto Salazar has come out with his response to the allegations made by a joint BBC/Pro Publica investigation regarding performance… Read more “SALAZAR FIRES BACK”
TIME FOR A CHANGE?
When is a man not a man? Whoever thought that such a question might one day have currency? We might have chuckled at the campy 1970s TV… Read more “TIME FOR A CHANGE?”
FALLING APART AT THE SEEMS
Good news — Bad news on this National Running Day 2015. The bad news comes from the BBC investigative show Panorama, which, in conjunction with Pro Publica… Read more “FALLING APART AT THE SEEMS”
GEOFF HOLLISTER & CHICAGO MARATHON SOLD OUT
The sport of running lost one its true guiding lights today as news of Geoff Hollister’s passing was announced in Portland, Oregon. Hollister succumbed to cancer just… Read more “GEOFF HOLLISTER & CHICAGO MARATHON SOLD OUT”
RUPP’S DILEMMA
Galen Rupp has been groomed for years by coach Alberto Salazar at the Nike-sponsored Oregon Distance Project in Portland. Now at age 25 the American 10,000 meter… Read more “RUPP’S DILEMMA”
WANDERING IN A RUNNING WORLD 