TFS News Briefs: 2/20/2008
Posted February 20th, 2008 at 1:56 PM by Jimmie R. Markham
Section: News & Results, Cross Country, Track & Field, TFS News Briefs
IAAF’s Preview Of Melbourne Grand Prix
At the Melbourne Grand Prix, a highly fit Craig Mottram will take on teen Ethiopian sensation Abreham Cherkos Feleke in the 5000m in front of a home crowd. Jeremy Wariner will run his first 400m of the 2008 season. Asafa Powell is still questionable for the 100m.
Read more at: [IAAF]
New Bookshop at Runner’s World
The Runner’s World website has a new feature: the Runner’s World Bookshop. Included among the offering is Runner’s World Guide To Road Racing, which offers “advice from the pros on training for and competing in the four most popular road races–5K, 10K, half-marathon, and marathon.”
Read more at: [Runner’s World]
No Indoor Championshipss For Bekele
Kenenisa Bekele will miss the IAAF World Indoor Athletic Championships. Instead, he will focus on the World Cross-Country Championships where he hopes to redeem himself after a disastrous 2007 race in Mombasa, Kenya. In that race he succumbed to the heat and the humidity and was forced to drop out.
Read more at: [Guardian Unlimited, UK]
Maryam Yusuf Jamal Determined To Continue Her 2007 Success
Coming off an outstanding 2007 season, Bahraini 1500m runner Maryam Yusuf Jamal is determined to continue that success. That includes trying to beat Yunxia Qu’s world record of 3:50.46. Jamal said, “Whenever I have tried to run a fast time, I have always had problems with the pacing. On current form and if I get good passing, I am sure I can do 3:53. But the World record is not impossible. It will be extremely difficult and will need lots of preparation and planning, but it is not entirely impossible.”
Read more at: [IAAF]
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Tags: 100m, 1500m, 400m, 5000, abreham cherkos feleke, asafa powell, Craig Mottram, Jeremy Wariner, Kenenisa Bekele, Maryam Yusuf Jamal, melbourne grand prix, Runners World, running books, World Cross Country Championships, world record attempt
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