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IAAF Falls Short By “Restoring” Paula Radcliffe’s Record

By on Wednesday, November 9th, 2011 | 9 Comments

A month and a half ago, the IAAF enacted a sexist rule that stripped some women of their world records and made it more difficult for them to set new world records going forward (as of January 1st, 2012). Most notably, Paula Radcliffe’s near-unreachable 2:15:25 was going to be removed as the world record, with [...]

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Women Shouldn’t Be Allowed to Run With The Boys

By on Thursday, September 22nd, 2011 | 9 Comments

Not according to the IAAF anyway, which is the sport’s international governing body. They currently have a motion in place to invalidate all world records for women who ran in “mixed” races that included men. For a very high profile example of what this means, it will raise the women’s marathon world record by over [...]

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Oscar Pistorious Qualifies for 400m World Championships

By on Friday, July 22nd, 2011 | No Comments

There hasn’t been a lot of news about Oscar Pistorius for a few years. Oscar is a double amputee that was banned by the IAAF for having an unfair advantage over able-bodied athletes, and then allowed back into competition following a ruling by the Court of Arbitration for Sport. The position that the CAS took [...]

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Oscar Pistorius Has An Unfair Advantage (Again)

By on Friday, November 20th, 2009 | 3 Comments

You may recall a couple years ago when Oscar Pistorius was banned by the IAAF from competing because they felt that his prosthetics gave him an unfair advantage over people that still had both of their legs. This news was quite a sensation, since there seemed (at the time) to be a very good chance [...]

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IAAF Removes The “Free False Start” Rule Starting in 2010

By on Wednesday, August 12th, 2009 | 3 Comments

Traditionally, a runner that false starts a race is allowed to remain in the field if he is the first one to do so, although any subsequent false starts mean that the runner will be disqualified. That first false start is charged to the field. Starting on January 1st, 2010, that will no longer be [...]

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Cross Country Running to be Considered for 2014 Olympics

By on Monday, March 23rd, 2009 | 6 Comments

Last September, Bekele, Tergat, and Gebrselassie wrote an open letter to the International Olympic Committee to try to get cross country reinstated into the Olympic Games. Cross country was originally removed after the 1924 Paris Games when unseasonably hot weather combined with the course going by an industrial chimney spewing noxious fumes led to 23 [...]

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Will cross country racing return to the Olympics?

By on Friday, September 12th, 2008 | 3 Comments

Kenenisa Bekele, Haile Gebrselassie, and Paul Tergat have written an open letter to IOC President Jacques Rogge in an effort to return cross country running to either the Summer or Winter Olympics. Here’s a copy of that letter: AN OPEN LETTER to the President of the IOC, Mr. Jacques Rogge and president of the IAAF, [...]

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This Week Last Year » Running Shoes and Lots of News

By on Sunday, July 27th, 2008 | 1 Comment

This week last year covered a lot of news, and I answered quite a few reader questions. This week last year started off with The Running Shoe FAQ, which explained why runners wear specialty shoes and what makes them different from normal walking shoes. I answered a question from an aerobics instructor about how to [...]

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