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Hollywood Stars, Olympic Medalists Lead Another Impressive Group of Celebrities Running NYC Marathon
Posted October 28th, 2008 at 3:00 PM by Adam Jacobs
Section: News & Results, Marathons
Former soccer star Brandi Chastain (pictured, right) and former gymnastics sensation Kerri Strug (pictured, below), will trade in their old Team USA uniforms for orange running jerseys as they take on their next athletic challenge — the 2008 ING New York City Marathon.
On Sunday, November 2, 2008, the Olympic gold medalists will lead another impressive group of star athletes from other sports 
and international celebrities that will join nearly 40,000 participants for one of the world’s premier distance running events. These sporting greats will be joined by supermodel Beth Ostrovsky and actor Ryan Reynolds.
Strug and Chastain will join global financial service leader ING and wear orange shoe laces to serve as ambassadors for the ING Run for Something Better, a national program that promotes youth fitness and provides funding for free community and school-based running programs across the country.
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TFS News Briefs: 1/26/08
Posted January 26th, 2008 at 12:17 PM by Jimmie R. Markham
Section: News & Results, Track & Field, TFS News Briefs
Jones Scandal Damaged Credibility of Track, Says Sprinter
Jamaican 100m world champ Veronica Campbell-Brown, training in Florida for Beijing, said that the Marion Jones doping scandal has “put a dark cloud over the sport” of track and field and damaged its credibility.
Read more at: [Jamaica Gleaner News]
Razorback Track Appealing NCAA Sanctions
The Arkansas Razorbacks track & field team is appealing sanctions put down on it by the NCAA, sanctions they call “excessive and inappropriate.”
Read more at: [ESPN]
Huckabee Officially Enters Boston Marathon
Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee has officially registered to run on a relay team in this April’s Boston Marathon. He was granted a waiver to run for Team Hoyt, a local charity that seeks to integrate the physically disabled into everyday life.
Read more at: [WCSH, Boston]
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TFS Podcast: “Best of” Series
Republican Presidential Candidate MIKE HUCKABEE
Posted January 9th, 2008 at 1:25 PM by Adam Jacobs
Section: Motivation, Success Stories, Special Features, Interviews, Podcasts
Having won last week’s Republican Caucuses in Iowa, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee hopes to carry that momentum throughout the U.S. Presidential Primaries and this April’s Boston Marathon (where he will compete on a charity relay team).
TheFinalSprint.com had a chance to speak with Governor Huckabee in a podcast interview last March and he discussed his life-saving battle with obesity and how that experience has influenced his plans for health care reform as a 2008 candidate for the U.S. presidency.
Download this installment of the TFS Podcast “Best of” Series to hear how Huckabee, who once had trouble even walking up the steps of the U.S. Capital Building without being out of breath, changed his life and inspired others by losing over 110-pounds, holding off Type-2 Diabetes, and becoming a marathon runner!
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Host: Adam Jacobs | Guest: Mike Huckabee
Producer: Greg Cherniet
Musicians: Ryan Ahlwardt, Darnell Perkins
File Size: 17.9 MB | Length: 26:04 MIN
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Podcast 22: Interview with Mike Huckabee, fitness success story & presidential candidate
Posted March 4th, 2007 at 3:00 PM by Adam Jacobs
Section: Motivation, Success Stories, Columns, Success Stories, Special Features, Interviews, Podcasts, Health & Fitness, Weight Loss
Today’s podcast features my interview with the TFS’s March 2007 Success Story: former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee.
In 2003, Mike learned that he had developed adult-onset (type-2) diabetes and would not live more than 10 years without losing weight. Faced with his own mortality, Mike decided to completely change his life.
He took up running, significantly altered his diet, lost 110 pounds and completed several marathons. Mike continues to maintain a healthy lifestyle, runs on a regular basis and has become a passionate national advocate for proper health and nutrition.
Download the podcast to hear about Mike’s life-saving battle with obesity, how his experience has influenced his plans for health care reform as a 2008 candidate for the U.S. presidency, his advice for others and much more!
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[RSS] Add The Final Sprint Podcast RSS feed to your RSS reader to have the show delivered to youHost: Adam Jacobs
Guest: Mike Huckabee
Producer: Greg Cherniet
Music: Ryan Ahlwardt & Darnell Perkins
File size: 17.9MB
Length: 00:26:04
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Shorter, Huckabee, Tergat & Kastor Among Those Honored as Runner’s World’s 2006 “Heroes of Running”
Posted November 1st, 2006 at 12:00 PM by Hariz Siddiqui
Section: News & Results, Announcements, Running & Training
American running pioneer Frank Shorter, an Olympic gold and silver medalist in the marathon who has also helped enact important policy changes in the sport of distance running, and Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, whose personal battle against obesity led him to take up running, lose 110 pounds and become a passionate national advocate for proper health and nutrition practices, are among the nine runners who are honored this year as Runner’s World magazine’s 2006 Heroes of Running.
Shorter, Huckabee and the seven other 2006 Heroes of Running are featured in the December 2006 issue of Runner’s World on newsstands everywhere October 30, and will be honored by the magazine at a gala event in New York City on Friday, November 3.
Joining Shorter and Huckabee on Runner’s World’s third annual Heroes list are: Read the rest of this entry »
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