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Lead Stories: Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Chepkemei Sanctioned for Doping Violation

Posted February 26th, 2008 at 9:30 AM by Bob Ramsak

Section: News & Results, Marathons, Track & Field, Drugs In Sports

Four-time IAAF World Half-Marathon medalist Susan Chepkemei has been sanctioned for a doping violation, the IAAF reported yesterday. In an out-of-competition test in Kenya last September, Chepkemei’s sample returned a positive result for Salbutamol, a medication commonly prescribed for breathing problems, usually asthma.

Indeed, according to Valentijn Trouw of Global Sports Communications, the Dutch management firm which represents Chepkemei, the medication was given to their athlete by a doctor in a Nairobi hospital where Chepkemei had presented herself for treatment.

“Beginning of September Susan Chepkemei had a severe pneumonia,” Trouw said in a written statement. “After investigation in the hospital in Nairobi, she was told by the doctor to take a medicine (which contained the substance Salbutamol). Susan was convinced the doctor who gave her the prescription knew she was an international top athlete and she was given a medicine that didn’t contain any substance which is prohibited according to the doping list. She took the medicine that evening.”
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Video: HealthWatch: Kids & Sleep, Pregnancy & Running

Posted November 9th, 2007 at 8:00 PM by Hariz Siddiqui

Section: News & Results, Marathons, Health & Fitness, Exercise

In the following video report, Dr. Holly Phillips of CBS-2 New York discusses the connection between children, sleep, and how marathon world record holder Paula Radcliffe won Sunday’s 2007 NYC marathon just 9 months after giving birth.

For more information on Paula Radcliffe and the 2007 ING New Yrok City Marathon, please visit: http://newyork.thefinalsprint.com

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Daughter of Legendary Boxer Floyd Patterson to Run ING New York City Marathon

Posted October 17th, 2007 at 11:30 AM by Jamal Walker

Section: News & Results, Marathons

Jennifer Patterson-Jankowski, daughter of famed boxer Floyd Patterson, will run the ING New York City Marathon 2007, 24 years after her father finished the marathon in 1983.

Patterson began his boxing career at age 10 in upstate New York at a reform school. He went on to win the middleweight gold medal in Helsinki, Finland, at the 1952 Olympic Games. In 1956, Patterson became the youngest World Heavyweight Champion and the first Olympic gold medalist to win a World Heavyweight title. In June 1960, Patterson became the first boxer to regain the World Heavyweight Championship.

Before he lost his battle to prostate cancer on May 11, 2006, Patterson began putting together some preliminary efforts to establish a chapel for troubled youth in Highland, NY, 15 miles from his home. Patterson never had the opportunity to finish the chapel; however, before his death Patterson-Jankoswki promised she would finish the project in her lifetime.

Patterson-Jankowski will run the ING New York City Marathon in honor of her father, the man who inspired her to begin running after she saw him cross the finish line in New York in 1983.
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Protecting the rights of pregnant athletes in the NCAA

Posted August 9th, 2007 at 11:45 AM by Kristin Bland

Section: News & Results

NCAA Committee on Women’s Athletics met last month in Charlotte N.C. to focus on how best to educate athletes on their rights and protections. More specifically, the committee met to discuss rights pertaining to female athletes who become pregnant. Discussion of the issue surfaced after athletes at Clemson and Memphis were asked to sign a contract which stated that, in the event of pregnancy, their scholarships would be lost; such a contract influenced one athlete to choose an abortion over violating her contract and losing her scholarship.

Janet Kittell, the outgoing chairwoman of the NCAA’s Committee on Women’s Athletics, described the meeting as a very amicable, productive, and positive discussion, centered around the objective question: “How can we help?”

The committee focused their discussions on Title IX, an important federal law which requires schools to treat pregnancy and childbirth equivalent to treatment given for a “temporary disability”.

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Baby Girl for Anastasia Ndereba

Posted June 18th, 2007 at 7:40 AM by Bob Ramsak

Section: News & Results, Marathons

Kenyan marathoner, Anastasia Ndereba, gave birth to a baby girl, Joyruth Njeri, on Monday, June 11, at 1:00 p.m.

“She weighs 8 lbs. (3.6 kg) and mother and baby are doing fine,” wrote Lisa Buster, Ndereba’s manager, in an e-mail to friends.

Ndereba, 32, is the younger sister of 2003 IAAF World Marathon champion, Catherine Ndereba. She has a career best time of 2:29:03 set in Venice in 2002.

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Paula Radcliffe, proud new mother & marathon record holder, returns to the track

Posted February 16th, 2007 at 3:00 AM by Kevin McGinn

Section: News & Results, Marathons

Paula Radcliffe has started running again just twelve days after delivering her baby girl. Her daughter, Ilsa, was born after 27 long hours of labor on January 17, 2007.

The world record holder runner gave an exclusive interview with “Hello!” magazine, a popular publication in the UK. “After five days I was doing lots of pushing the pram but I wasn’t doing much else.” She told the magazine with her husband, Gary Lough, by her side. She went on to say:

“I did my first little jog after 12 days and since then I’ve been running alternate days.”
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