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Lead Stories: Monday, December 1, 2008

Bekele to Attempt 10,000m Record at Prefontaine Classic

Posted May 13th, 2008 at 1:30 PM by David Monti

Section: News & Results, Track & Field

kenenisa-bekele He’s already owns the two fastest 10,000m times in history, but reigning world and Olympic 10,000m champion Kenenisa Bekele hopes he can go even faster at next month’s Prefontaine Classic meeting in Eugene, Ore. It would be his first outdoor appearance in the United States.

“The record (26:17.53) is not easy,” said Bekele’s Dutch manager, Jos Hermens, through a media release. “But this is an absolutely serious attempt. His training is going well, and he is 100% ‘go’ for the record.”

The 10,000m race will be held in the morning at 9:30 on June 8, well before the regular meet begins at 12:30. Organizers feel the weather will be good at that time for a record attempt.
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TFS News Briefs: 2/20/2008

Posted February 20th, 2008 at 1:56 PM by Jimmie R. Markham

Section: News & Results, Cross Country, Track & Field, TFS News Briefs

TFS News Briefs
IAAF’s Preview Of Melbourne Grand Prix
At the Melbourne Grand Prix, a highly fit Craig Mottram will take on teen Ethiopian sensation Abreham Cherkos Feleke in the 5000m in front of a home crowd. Jeremy Wariner will run his first 400m of the 2008 season. Asafa Powell is still questionable for the 100m.
Read more at: [IAAF]

New Bookshop at Runner’s World
The Runner’s World website has a new feature: the Runner’s World Bookshop. Included among the offering is Runner’s World Guide To Road Racing, which offers “advice from the pros on training for and competing in the four most popular road races–5K, 10K, half-marathon, and marathon.”
Read more at: [Runner’s World]

No Indoor Championshipss For Bekele
Kenenisa Bekele will miss the IAAF World Indoor Athletic Championships. Instead, he will focus on the World Cross-Country Championships where he hopes to redeem himself after a disastrous 2007 race in Mombasa, Kenya. In that race he succumbed to the heat and the humidity and was forced to drop out.
Read more at: [Guardian Unlimited, UK]
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Gebreselassie & Million Dollar Purse On the Line in Dubai

Posted December 19th, 2007 at 2:15 PM by David Monti

Section: News & Results, Marathons

Both Haile Gebrselassie and a one million dollar prize money purse will be on the line for the 9th edition of the Standard Chartered Dubai Marathon set for Friday, January 18, in the United Arab Emirates.

Gebrselassie, who knocked down Paul Tergat’s marathon world record in Berlin last September to a previously unimagined 2:04:26, will be looking to go even faster in Dubai, organizers report. In addition to the $250,000 first prize, the largest in marathon running, the event has a $1 million bonus on offer for a new men’s or women’s world record.
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