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New Time Bonuses Spice Up Bolder Boulder 10-K
Posted March 11th, 2008 at 11:30 AM by David Monti
Section: News & Results, Road Racing
Organizers of the DICK’S Sporting Goods BolderBOULDER 10-K announced yesterday that they would cease to run the professional athletes on a separate criterium course used since 1998, and had beefed up their athlete compensation package with generous time bonuses.
Dubbed the International Team Challenge when it was debuted in 1998 and introduced team scoring as a major component of the race, the BolderBOULDER ran separate single gender races for the professional men and women on a criterium course after the conclusion of the massive citizens race which remained on the event’s traditional point-to-point course. For the 2008 edition of the race, scheduled for Memorial Day, May 26, the pros will be back on the traditional course with the masses competing for a $110,600 prize purse based on international team scoring PLUS the new time bonuses.
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Kipyego Too Tough To Beat in Women’s NCAA XC Champs
Posted November 19th, 2007 at 6:00 PM by Bob Ramsak
Section: News & Results, Cross Country, College
From gun to tape, the women’s division of today’s NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships had only one leader: Sally Kipyego of Texas Tech. The junior from Kenya ran away from the field to defend her individual title in 19:30.9 (unofficial) over the 6 km course in Terre Haute, Ind.
Last year, Kipyego sprinted to the fore at the gun and never looked back. However, Kipyego was content to run most of the first mile with a lead pack this year that included three others: Colorado’s Jenny Barringer, the 2006 runner-up, Florida State’s Susan Kuijken, and Iowa’s Diana Nukuri.
Kipyego started to edge ahead on a long downhill just past the mile passing the 2 km in 6:26. Barringer, Kuijken, and Nukuri were only a second behind at the split before the field made their way up the course’s second long incline.
From that point on, Kipyego simply extended her lead over the chase pack — passing 4 km in 13:01, 11 seconds ahead of Barringer, Kuijken, and Nukuri.
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Adventure Xstream Race Series Set to Air on Altitude Sports Network
Posted November 9th, 2007 at 10:40 AM by Jeremy Sussman
Section: News & Results, Running & Training, Cross Training
Gravity Play Sports is excited to announce the first national television broadcast of the Adventure Xstream Race Series & Xstream Expedition Adventure Race on Saturday, November 10th at 3:30pm MST on Altitude Sports Network.
Altitude will televise the hour long broadcast of the Adventure Xstream Adventure Race Series on Saturday, Nov. 10th in addition to 13 other times throughout the fall.
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Big XII Cross Country Conference Championships Results
Posted October 28th, 2007 at 8:30 AM by Jimmie R. Markham
Section: News & Results, Cross Country
Women
Team
1. Colorado, 59 points
2. Texas Tech, 83 points
3. Nebraska, 98 points
4. Baylor, 155 points
5. Oklahoma State, 156 points
6. Oklahoma, 170 points
7. Iowa State, 175 points
8. Texas A&M, 176 points
9. Texas, 177 points
10. Missouri, 193 points
11. Kansas, 254 points
12. Kansas State, 257 points
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TFS News Briefs: 10/24/07
Posted October 24th, 2007 at 11:21 AM by Jimmie R. Markham
Section: News & Results, Marathons, Cross Country, Track & Field, Olympics, TFS News Briefs
Profile of Cuban 110m Hurdler Dayron Robles
Cuba News Headlines/Cuban Daily News profiles 100m hurdler Dayron Robles and explains why the Cuban people believe he ought to be the 2007 Track & Field Athlete of the Year. Read more at: [Cuba News Headlines/Cuban Daily News]
Poor Air Quality in Beijing May Force the Move of Some Distance Events to Another VenueInternational Olympic Committee inspectors are in Beijing in continuing efforts to monitor the city’s notorious pollution and to try and determine whether or not some long-distance events will be need to be moved to another city. Read more at: [Washington, PA Observer-Reporter]
NCAA Cross Country: Conference Championships Weekend
The top 5 ranked teams in NCAA Division I Cross Country (1. Oregon, 2. Northern Arizona, 3. UTEP, 4. Iona, 5. Colorado) will all be competing in their conference championship meets this weekend. Read more at: [USTFCCCA]
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Oregon shoots for Pac-10 repeat on conference championship weekend
Posted October 23rd, 2007 at 12:15 PM by Martin Kennedy
Section: News & Results, Cross Country
Top-ranked Oregon defends its title at the Pacific-10 Championships as other nationally ranked Division I teams also prepare for conference meets this weekend.
Oregon, the top-rated team in the most recent U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association poll, will be challenged Saturday by eighth-ranked California, No. 14 Stanford, No. 19 UCLA and 25th-ranked Arizona State. The Pac-10 Championships will be held in Corvallis, Ore.
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Dick’s Sporting Goods
Named Title Sponsor of BolderBOULDER 10K
Posted October 22nd, 2007 at 9:45 AM by Martin Kennedy
Section: News & Results
Dick’s Sporting Goods, the largest full-line sporting goods retailer in the United States, and the BolderBOULDER, the second largest road race in the nation, have announced a 5-year agreement making Dick’s Sporting Goods the race’s title sponsor.
“We at Dick’s Sporting Goods are both proud and excited to become the title sponsor of the BolderBOULDER, which we consider to be one of the premier athletic events in the country,” said Jeffrey R. Hennion, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Dick’s Sporting Goods. “This sponsorship ensures that our brand message will be represented to over 50,000 race participants annually as we continue to add stores throughout the state of Colorado.”
The BolderBOULDER, the nation’s largest timed race, is held annually on Memorial Day. The race attracts over 50,000 runners, walkers and wheelchair racers, and draws the top professional runners from around the world to compete for one of the largest non-marathon prize purses in road racing.
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Video: Chicago Runners Can Finish At Denver Marathon
Posted October 11th, 2007 at 1:52 PM by Jeanie Rebb
Section: News & Results, Marathons
The LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon was stopped mid-way through due to high temperatures and extreme humidity on race day.
However, now Denver Marathon officials are offering free registration to Chicago runners who want to get to the finish line.
Click here for the press release and check out the video below to watch CBS4 Denver’s report on this unique situation:
Video: Circus Elephants Set Pace For Denver Marathon
Posted October 10th, 2007 at 7:00 AM by Martin Kennedy
Section: News & Results, Marathons
We couldn’t have made this up if we tried . . .
Elephants from the Ringling Brothers Circus ran a mini-marathon near the Denver Coliseum Wednesday morning to set the pace for the Denver Marathon on Sunday.
Click here for textual coverage of the Dumbo pacesetters’ trek in downtown Denver and click on the image below to watch video footage from provided by our friends at CBS4.
TFS News Briefs: 10/05/07
Posted October 5th, 2007 at 2:22 PM by Jimmie R. Markham
Section: News & Results, Marathons, Cross Country, Track & Field, Olympics, Drugs In Sports, TFS News Briefs
Chicago Marathon Race Director Predicts “Heck of a race”
‘’Robert wants to push, and Felix [Limo] is in top form,'’ Pinkowski said. ‘’Rutto, outside of Khalid Khannouchi, is the best natural talent I’ve ever seen, and Gharib is a champion. These are the top guns, and they have come here seeking each other out. It’s going to be a heck of a race.'’
Read more at: [Chicago Sun-Times]
IOC and IAAF Will Move Quickly to Strip Jones of Medals
The IOC and th IAAF are both expected to move quickly to complete the investigation into the Marion Jones doping case, which could result in her being stripped of her 3 gold and 2 bronze Olympic medals. IOC VP Thomas Bach said to the Associated Press, “We welcome that there is now some light to be shed on the whole affair. Now, with this admission, we can accelerate and speed up the procedures.” Ironically, silver medalist Katerina Thanou – currently under criminal investigation for perjury after missing a doping test – would inherit the 100m gold medal if Jones were tyo be stripped of it.Read more at: [IHT]
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The Stanford women managed to hold onto their lead and season-long number ranking at the championship meet held Monday November 20, in Terre Haute, Indiana; winning their second consecutive NCAA title. Lead by coach Peter Tegen, who in his second year with the team, was named the “Peter Tegen Coach of the Year,” an award […]
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