TFS News Briefs: 3/31/08
Posted March 31st, 2008 at 2:41 PM by Jimmie R. Markham
Section: News & Results, Marathons, Cross Country, Track & Field, Drugs In Sports, TFS News Briefs
Reluctant IAAF Hands Jones’ Silver Medal To Thanou
Even though she herself is under a cloud of suspicion, the IAAF said they “had no other choice” but to hand Marion Jones’ silver medal from the 2001 World Championships 100m dash to Greek sprinter Katerina Thanou. Jones lost all her medals last year after confessing to doping.
Read more at: [Google News]
If Only Fan Reaction In the US Were This Rabid
Even though they won both men’s and women’s team titles in the 2008 IAAF World Cross-Country Championships, the Kenyan team returned home to mixed crowd reaction. Since the Ethiopians swept the individual titles, some of the Kenyan fans look at this outing as a failure. Here in the US, our own delegation was greeted with confused looks and people who were heard saying, “cross country? What’s that?”
Read more at: [Kenya Broadcasting Corporation]
The Day The Music Died
If you need more than the sound of your own breathing and footsteps to accompany you while you try to reach that marathon finish line before your glycogen level drops further south than a penguin during mating season, you might be troubled to learn that the IAAF is considering a world-wide ban on mp3 players during competition.
Read more at: [Guardian UK]
Wariner’s Beijing Preparations Going Well
If switching coached in the midst of an Olympic campaign have distracted him, Jeremy Wariner is showing no signs of it. He won the men’s 200m dash at the UTA Bobby Lane Invitational in Arlington, TX this weekend in 20.37 seconds, the world’s fastest time in this early 2008 season. Wariner uses the shorter race as a speed tune up to make him faster in his specialty, the 400m dash.
Read more at: [Fort Worth Star Telegram]
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Tags: doping, drugs in sport, IAAF, ipod, Jeremy Wariner, katerina thnou, kenya, Marion Jones, mp3 player, music banned during marathons, World Cross Country Championships
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