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Lead Stories: Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Happy New Year from TFS!

Posted January 1st, 2008 at 5:00 PM by Adam Jacobs

Section: Announcements

On behalf of the entire TheFinalSprint.com and the TFS Media Network family, have a happy and healthy New Year!

We can’t thank you enough for all of your loyal support and wish you and yours all the best in 2008!

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Douma-Hussar, Slattery to Celebrate the Countdown to 2008 at the Emerald Nuts Midnight Run in Central Park

Posted December 30th, 2007 at 2:00 PM by Hariz Siddiqui

Section: News & Results, Road Racing

Canadian Olympian Carmen Douma-Hussar, Americans Steve and Sara Slattery and defending champions Thomas Morgan and Aziza Aliyu lead a competitive professional field that will ring in the New Year at the Emerald Nuts Midnight Run on Monday, December 31 in Central Park, it was announced by New York Road Runners president and CEO Mary Wittenberg.

As a special companion to this year’s event, more than 200 service members stationed in Al Asad, Iraq, will run their own version of the Midnight Run at the stroke of midnight - an eight-hour time difference from New York. This is the first time NYRR has staged this race outside New York. The idea came from Staff Sergeant Jacqueline Caputi of San Diego, who ran in the Midnight Run in 2000 when she lived in Brooklyn and saw it as one of the best ways to start the New Year “with new shoes and fresh soles” underneath her.
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Olympic marathon champion Stefano Baldini plans 2007

Posted January 18th, 2007 at 11:09 AM by Doug Berger

Section: News & Results, Marathons, Olympics

Italian marathon champion Stefano Baldini may never be able to top his 2004 season (when he won the Olympic gold in the marathon), but 2006 was certainly a successful season. Baldini won the European marathon title in Sweden, finished sixth at the ING New York City Marathon (2:11:33) and improved his own national record to 2:07:22 at the Flora London Marathon.

Although Baldini had hoped to do better in New York, he did have an average marathon time of 2:10:35 for the season and was anything but disappointed:

“Looking back at 2006 it was one of the best years in my career. I hope that 2007 will be as successful as 2006.”

So with 2007 now under way, what exactly are this champion’s plans for the new year?
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