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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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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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Olympic Athletes Will Have Blood Samples Retested for Steroids

By on Thursday, October 9th, 2008 | No Comments

The IOC has announced that it is going to retest all of the samples collected from the Olympic games in the wake of the positive tests found by the Tour de France for the latest version of EPO, Continuous Erythropoiesis Receptor Activator. CERA is a stamina boosting drug which was not detectable until recently. It [...]

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Olympic Games are not threatened by the financial crisis

By on Friday, October 3rd, 2008 | No Comments

Here in the United States, everything is in an uproar over the collapse of the financial industries. Personally, I do not worry about it because it lets me buy into the market at a discount. I’m not the only person who isn’t worried, though. IOC president Jacques Rogge has expressed his lack of concern over [...]

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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: Heart Attacks and the 4th of July

By on Sunday, July 6th, 2008 | No Comments

This week last year dealt mostly with current news with a the odd random article thrown in. Scott started off a discussion on technology and fitness by discussing the sustainable gym. They seem to be getting more popular as time goes on. I created a 4th of July race recap to celebrate the 4561+ people [...]

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Athletes will now be allowed to blog at Olympics

By on Friday, February 15th, 2008 | 3 Comments

Up until now, athletes have not been able to update their blogs during the Olympics. The International Olympic Committee was too scared about copyright infringement and the release of sensitive information. Athletes that did update their websites during the 2004 or 2006 games did so without permission from the IOC. Beginning with Beijing, athletes will [...]

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The New Olympic Selection Process

By on Friday, July 6th, 2007 | No Comments

The IOC has announced new rules about how it will decide which sports will be included in the Olympic Games and which ones will be removed. Previously, the committee had to vote individually for every sport, and a two-thirds majority was necessary to add or remove a sport or game from what was scheduled for [...]

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