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Lead Stories: Friday, November 21, 2008

Pending World Record for Tune in Ostrava

Posted June 12th, 2008 at 1:15 PM by David Monti

Section: News & Results, Track & Field

Ethiopian Dire Tune backed up her surprise Boston Marathon victory with a pending world record in the rarely contested one hour run today in Ostrava, Czech Republic.

Less than one month past her 23rd birthday, Tune made it around the track a little more than 46 times, covering 18,517 meters before the one hour time limit. That easily surpassed the 18,340 meters Kenya’s
Tegla Loroupe covered in Borgholzhausen, Germany, on August 8, 1998, the previous world record.
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Programming Note: IAAF Grand Prix in Ostrava on WCSN at 1:00 p.m. EDT

Posted June 12th, 2008 at 10:13 AM by David Monti

Section: News & Results, Track & Field

You can watch today’s IAAF Grand Prix. meeting in Ostrava on WCSN.com at 1:00 p.m. EDT in the United States.

The direct access link is extremely long, so I recommend using this shortened link: http://tinyurl.com/6dwdw4

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The Week in the Rear View: Racing News June 2 - June 8

Posted June 10th, 2008 at 12:00 PM by Jay Hicks

Section: News & Results, Track & Field, Columns, Olympics, Drugs In Sports, Week in Rear View

The Week In the Rear View is a weekly column wrapping up the week’s events in running and track & field. I am normally found at PreraceJitters.com, writing about the fast life of track and field.

This was a week that saw records drop. The Prefontaine Classic is one of the hallowed places in the United States to host a track and field meet. The standing ovation for Maria Mutola was griping. The track great won her 16th and final Pre Classic 800. One track expert I spoke with on the phone after the meet summed it up best saying, “The fans at Pre really get it. They really get the sport.”

Jeremy Wariner did more than “bounce back” from the rare loss to LaShawn Merritt in Berlin last week. The Olympic and World Champion ran 43.98 in the IAAF Golden League Meet in Oslo on Friday. Some of the pundits may have forgotten that Michael Johnson lost to Frankie Fredricks in the 200 after the 1996 U.S. Olympic Trials and before going on to run 19.32 the Olympics Games.

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Programming Note:
Track & Field on WCSN.com

Posted June 9th, 2008 at 10:30 AM by David Monti

Section: News & Results, Track & Field

WCSN, the Home of World Champions, has full coverage of the 2008 IAAF indoor and outdoor season, along with numerous other highly anticipated major track and field events on the web.

Next up will be the IAAF Grand Prix meeting in Ostrava, Czech Republic, on Thursday, June 12. Go to the shortened link, below, to see the full schedule of heart pounding IAAF race action, only at WCSN.com and learn how to watch:

http://tinyurl.com/6dwdw4

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On the Road & Around the Track: TFS News Briefs
September 11, 2007

Posted September 11th, 2007 at 1:18 PM by Jimmie R. Markham

Section: News & Results, TFS News Briefs

Live Internet Video Broadcasts of Brussels and Berlin Golden League Meets
Sportnet will have live video broadcasts of the Memorial Van Damme meet (Brussels, Belgium) on 9/14/2007 and the DKB-ISTAF meet (Berlin, Germany) on 9/16/2007. Both meets have storied histories so new world records are not out of the question. Watch the meets and read more at: [Sportnet][Memorial Van Damme][DKB-ISTAF]

Bergqvist Calls it Quits for ‘07; Sets Sights on Beijing
Kajsa Bergqvist, ‘05 world champ in the high jump, has ended her ‘07 season saying, “it does not seem meaningful or fun to carry on competing the way things feel right now.” Having missed the ‘04 Olympics in Athens, she is now focusing on the ‘08 Olympics in Beijing. Read more at: [Guardian Unlimited]
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Ostrava Preview: Defar, Haile, Isinbayeva and more

Posted June 26th, 2007 at 5:00 AM by Bob Ramsak

Section: News & Results, Track & Field

With an impressive slate of Olympic, World and continental champions and a handful of World record assaults, the IAAF World Athletics Tour 2007 resumes with a bang on Wednesday at the 46th edition of the Golden Spike in Ostrava.

DEFAR LOOKING FOR FAST OSLO FOLLOW-UP

While organiZers have again lured a strong collection of talent to this eastern Czech city, one of the most keenly observed will Olympic 5000m champion Meseret Defar. Hot on the heels of her staggering 14:16.63 World record in Oslo 10 days ago, Defar returns to action to try and take that 5000m mark down even further.

After breaking her own mark by almost eight seconds, the 23-year-old Ethiopian said in a quite straightforward fashion in Oslo that there’s no reason not to try again in Ostrava. Besides compatriots Gelete Burka and Meselech Melkamu, organizers have also brought in Russian Olga Komyagina to set the pace, just as she did in that unforgettable run in Oslo.
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VIDEO: Jeremy Wariner edges Gary Kikaya in the 400m

Posted May 28th, 2007 at 4:01 PM by Hariz Siddiqui

Section: News & Results, Track & Field

World and Olympic 400m champion Jeremy Wariner missed a $10,000 bonus after missing the 44 second barrier, but won his specialty handily in 44.43, well outside his season’s best and world-pacing 44.03 from Osaka. Gary Kikaya of the Democratic Republic of Congo was second.

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VIDEO: Barber wins 100m race at the IAAF Grand Prix in Hengelo

Posted May 27th, 2007 at 1:07 PM by Martin Kennedy

Section: News & Results, Track & Field

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New York City joins IAAF World Athletics Tour

Posted March 12th, 2007 at 8:00 AM by David Monti

Section: News & Results

The IAAF announced today that the Reebok Grand Prix, scheduled for Saturday, June 2, at Ichan Stadium in New York City, had been upgrated to IAAF Grand Prix status and is now part of the IAAF World Athletics Tour.

The Reebok meeting joins the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, Ore., on June 10, as the only other IAAF Grand Prix meeting in the United States. The World Athletics Tour has a total of 24 meetings, most of them in Europe. The Tour concludes in Stuttgart on September 22-23 with the World Athletics Final.
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