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TPR's Upcoming Travel/Coverage Schedule 13-March-09 TRACK PROFILE Report 2009 Coverage Schedule Update 2009 coverage confirmed: exclusive on-site coverage from at least 25 international competitions, including the European Indoor Championships in March, the entire six-meet Golden League series, the World Athletics Final, and the World Championships from Berlin in August. Check back regularly for updates or feel free to get in touch with specific questions or coverage requests... Complete Schedule... : Exclusive Features... Late-Breaking News... and Detailed On-Site Reports From Major Competitions Delivered Directly to Your Electronic Mailbox... Get Your FREE 21-Day Trial Subscription to The TRACK PROFILE Report Today! More about The TRACK PROFILE Report... : Agencies, Newspaper, Magazine and Website Editors: Looking for Exclusive Editorial Track and Field Content? For more information about the TPR NewsWire or to request a FREE trial subscription, contact The TRACK PROFILE Report Today. Some Recent On-Site Exclusive TRACK PROFILE Report Coverage Included: 2008 World Athletics Gala in Monaco. IAAF Athletes of the Year Yelena Isinbayeva and Usain Bolt. | 2008 Olympic champions Dawn Harper (100m hurdles) and Dayron Robles (110m hurdles) after their victories at the Zagreb Grand Prix. | All smiles: 2008 Olympic champions Shelley Ann Fraser (100m) and Angelo Taylor (4000m hurdles) at the Lausanne Super Grand Prix. | Usain Bolt and Maria Mutola at the Weltklasse in Zurich. | Freshly-minted Olympic champions Pamela Jelimo (800m) and Tia Hellebaut (high jump) prior to the Weltklasse in Zurich. Olympic 100 and 200m champion and world record holder Usain Bolt in Beijing Summer Olympic Games from the Bird's Nest Stadium in Beijing | World champions Yelena Isinbayeva and Tero Pitkamaki prior to the Golden Gala in Rome. | Haile Gebrselassie and Irving Saladino at the FBK Games in Hengelo, The Netherlands. 18-year-old Sudanese Superman Abubaker Kaki Khamis after his breathtaking gun-to-tape 800m victory at the 2008 World Indoor Championships in Valencia. TPR's Upcoming Travel/Coverage Schedule 13-March-09 TRACK PROFILE 2009 Coverage Schedule Update 2009 coverage confirmed: exclusive on-site coverage from at least 25 international competitions, including the European Indoor Championships in March, the entire six-meet Golden League series, the World Athletics Final, and the World Championships from Berlin in August. Check back regularly for updates or feel free to get in touch with specific questions or coverage requests... Complete Schedule... TPR Select Features 05-Feb-2007 Feature: Spearmon takes it to the next level At the post-race press conference in Stuttgart after the 200 metres at the World Athletics Final, Wallace Spearmon sat patiently, mostly watching and listening as his training partner Tyson Gay was the focus of attention. Gay had just lowered his personal best to 19.68 seconds to equal Frank Fredericks as the third fastest man ever over the half-lap distance. Spearmon too produced a career best of 19.88 to finish a distant second in the race, and vowed that after an off-peak 2006 season, that he’d be back in 2007. As the reigning World Championships silver medallist, Spearmon’s proclamation hardly seemed a brash boast. A feature for the IAAF Magazine... 05-Feb-2007 Feature: Xavier Carter the X-man storms to glory One would be hard-pressed to find an athlete who made as enormous and nearly instantaneous a splash in the sport in recent years than did Xavier Carter in 2006. Barely a month after producing the best showing at an NCAA Championship since the days of the legendary Jesse Owens, the 20-year-old American captured the imagination of the athletics world with his dazzling 19.63 dash in Lausanne, a performance second only to Michael Johnson’s seemingly insurmountable 19.32 run into immortality at the 1996 Olympic Games a decade ago. Suddenly, a record that seemed untouchable for perhaps another decade - or even more - seemed slightly less out of reach, thanks to the breakout performance of a young sprinter whose name was being mentioned in the same breath with Owens and Johnson. Throw in a nickname - ‘X-Man’ - with wide cross over appeal, and you have the makings of a true international sporting star. A feature for the IAAF Magazine... 03-Aug-2006 Feature: Impossible is nothing for Blanka When Stefka Kostadinova raised the World Record in the high jump to a seemingly impossibly high 2.09m on 30 August 1987, Blanka Vlasic had not yet celebrated her fifth birthday. Now, 19 years later, after the best indoor season of her career and recent injury and illness woes behind her, that 2.09m standard set by the Bulgarian legend so long ago no longer appears so, well, impossibly high for the rising Croatian star. A feature for the IAAF Magazine... 25-Jul-2005 Feature: Bev Kearney: “You learn that the impossible is possible” In 1981, Beverly Kearney accepted an assistant coaching position at Indiana State University merely to fulfill a requirement for her master’s degree. 24 years after that necessary diversion, Kearney is among the most successful and respected coaches in the world. And it all happened rather accidentally for the current head women’s coach at the University of Texas in Austin. A feature for the IAAF Magazine... 13-May-2005 Feature: Time to Deliver For Alan Webb A look back and ahead for U.S. miler Alan Webb. "Some of the pressure’s gone away," he said, "but the great thing about last year is that now it’s a different kind of pressure. There are new expectations. I finally moved on and it’s closer. It’s happening." A feature for the IAAF Magazine... 13-May-2005 Feature: New Tactics Needed for Bungei’s Quest Middle distance ace Wilfred Bungei usually spends the autumn and early winter months far removed from the spotlight he’s become accustomed to, choosing instead the solitude required for his rigorous end-of-the-year training regimen. His lead-up to the 2005 season, however, couldn’t have been more different. A feature for the IAAF Magazine... TRACK PROFILE in the news: 24-July-2004 - TPR featured in National Public Radio's Only A Game: "The Olympic Money Game." 11-July-2004 - Raleigh N.C. News and Observer: Sprinters Out Front in Scandal: Changes in Pay, Sport Are Among the Reasons TPR's EXCLUSIVE Prize Money Survey 31-March-2005 TPR #248 - Nearly $21 Million in Prize Money Awarded in 2004, Olsson, Williams-Darling Top Winners Nearly $21 million (USD) in prize money and bonuses was awarded in international track & field competitions in 2004, The TRACK PROFILE Report's third annual prize money survey revealed. Olympic triple jump champion Christian Olsson of Sweden and Bahamian Tonique Williams-Darling, the Olympic 400 meter champion, who shared the one million dollar TDK Golden League Jackpot after winning their respective events at each of the six Golden League competitions, topped the men’s and women’s tallies. The 25-year-old Olsson's winnings totaled at least $644,660, while those of Williams-Darling reached $571,950 in prize money earnings. More in TPR #248... 27-September-2004 $5.6 Million in Prize Money Awarded in September - TRACK PROFILE Report #149 More than US$ 5.6 million in prize money was awarded in international track & field competition in September, The TRACK PROFILE Report's ongoing prize money tally showed. Based upon winnings reported from the Brussels and Berlin Golden League meets, the Rieti, Italy Grand Prix, the season-capping World Athletics Final in Monaco, and the IAAF's Multi-Event Challenge, at least $5,664,044 in prize money and bonuses were awarded this month. More in TPR #149... 18-February-2004 2003 Track Profile Prize Money Survey More than $26 million in prize money was awarded in 2003, TPR's second annual prize money survey revealed. Maria Mutola, Justin Gatlin Are Top Prize Money Winners... 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Important Notice Over the past several months emails with the trackprofile.com domain have been spoofed, and used for sending unsolicited spam mail. Please be assured that those mails did not originate from this domain, nor were they sent by anyone associated with Track Profile. My apologies to anyone who may have received those unsolicited messages. We are working diligently to resolve the situation. Exclusive Newsfeed Produced by The TRACK PROFILE Report NOTE: Website is not updated daily. For, quick, concise, and exclusive coverage, try a FREE Trial Subscription to The TRACK PROFILE Report. More about TPR... 15-Mar TPR #872 – Barringer Clocks Collegiate 3000m Record, World Lead in 400m as NCAA Indoor Champs Conclude Jenny Barringer smashed the collegiate record in the 3000m on Saturday as the NCAA Indoor Championships concluded in College Station, Tex. Dominating the race, the University of Colorado senior clocked 8:42.03 to break the 8:48.77 collegiate standard set by Sally Kipyego at the Reebok Boston Indoor Games last month. The performance made the 2008 Olympic steeplechase finalist the fourth fastest of the year with the fifth fastest run. She is now the fifth fastest American ever over the distance. More in TPR# 872... 14-Mar TPR #871 – Tennessee Runs Distance Medley World Best at NCAA Indoor Championships, 1.98m Collegiate HJ Record for Hooker The University of Tennessee women clocked a world best 10:50.98 in the distance medley relay to highlight the opening day of the NCAA Division I Indoor Championships in College Station, Tex., on Friday. The quartet of Phoebe Wright, Brittany Jones, Chanelle Price and Sarah Bowman eclipsed the previous mark of 10:54.34 set by Villanova in 1988. More in TPR# 871... 13-Mar TPR #870 – CAS Rules Against Slovenian Distance Runner Javornik, Recieves Two-Year Ban for EPO LJUBLJANA, Slovenia - Slovenian distance runner Helena Javornik, the national record holder in all events from the mile to the marathon, has been banned for two years by sport's highest court after testing positive for EPO. The Lausanne-based Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld an appeal submitted by the IAAF after the Slovenian Athletics Federation (ASZ) initially cleared Javornik last summer. More in TPR# 870... 13-Mar TPR #869 – Kanter, Heidler the Key Names at This Weekend's European Winter Throws Cup Olympic discus champion Gerd Kanter and Betty Heidler, the reigning world champion in the hammer throw, will be the key names at this weekend’s European Cup Winter Throwing competition in Los Realejos on the Spanish island of Tenerife. More in TPR# 869... 13-Mar TPR #868 – Kipyego Chasing NCAA History as Collegiate Career Winds Down Sally Kipyego will be chasing a record 10th national title at this weekend NCAA Division I Indoor Championships in College Station, Texas. More in TPR# 868... 04-08-Mar * Coverage from the European Indoor Championships TURIN, Italy -- A sampling of TPR's coverage from Torino that is available on the world wide web. 08-Mar WOMEN’s Summary - European Indoor Champs, Day THREE TURIN, Italy – It was to be the most attentively-watched duel of the final day of the 30th European Indoor Championships, but ultimately and fairly quickly, the expected battle for High Jump honours between co-world leaders Blanka Vlasic and Ariane Friedrich ended before the medals were even decided. More for the IAAF... 07-Mar WOMEN’s Summary – European Indoor Champs, Day TWO - PM Session TURIN, Italy – With three victories in the four finals held at the Oval Lingotto today, team Russia underscored yet again that their nation remains the women’s continental athletics powerhouse on the second day of action at the 30th European Indoor Championships. More for the IAAF... 07-Mar WOMEN’s Summary – European Indoor Champs, Day TWO - AM Session TURIN, Italy – High jumpers Blanka Vlasic and Ariane Friedrich began their trek towards this weekend’s most eagerly anticipated match-up as competition at the 30th European Athletics Indoor Championships resumed at the Oval Lingotto this morning. More for the IAAF... 06-Mar TPR #867 – WOMEN’s Summary – European Indoor Champs, Day ONE, PM Session TURIN, Italy - A dominating performance by Anna Bogdanova, a surprise by Eline Berings in the 60m Hurdles and some final round drama in the Shot Put were the chief highlights on the women’s side on the first evening of competition at the 30th European Athletics Indoor Championships in Turin. More in TPR# 866 and for the IAAF... 06-Mar TPR #866 – WOMEN’s Summary – European Indoor Champs, Day ONE, AM Session TURIN, Italy – With a pair of solid performances, pre-meet favourite Anna Bogdanova jumped to solid lead in the Pentathlon as the 30th European Athletics Indoor Championships kicked off this morning at the Oval Lingotto in Turin. More in TPR# 866 and for the IAAF... 04-Mar European Indoor Championships – PREVIEW TURIN, Italy – With several key head-to-head match-ups topping the bill, this weekend’s 30th European Indoor Championships (6 to 8 March) at the Oval Lingotto in Turin will provide a fitting climax to this indoor season, and in some instances, even a glimpse at what is to come at the 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Berlin next August. More for the IAAF... 26-Feb TPR #865 – Defar Runs 9:06.26 Two Miles World Best in Prague PRAGUE – Meseret Defar capped her short but sterling indoor campaign with a 9:06.26** World best to highlight a thoroughly entertaining inaugural edition of the aptly named Meeting of World Record Holders meet in the Czech capital tonight (26). More in TPR# 865 and for the IAAF... 26-Feb TPR #864 – Ukhov Jumps 2.40m [7-10 ¾] in Athens Ivan Ukhov's hangover is officially over. The 22-year-old Russian, whose drunken attempts at high jumping at last September's Athletissima Super Grand Prix in Lausanne became a YouTube sensation, last night became only the sixth man to ever scale 2.40m [7-10 ½ ] indoors. More in TPR# 864... 26-Feb TPR #863 – With Record Endorsement Contract, Isinbayeva Hoping to Set a New Tone in Track and Field PRAGUE – World and Olympic pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva has often said that she aims to be one of the sport’s most positive role models and most visible stars. Her recent record endorsement deal, she said, is just the latest step in fulfilling those lofty ambitions. More in TPR# 863... 25-Feb TPR #862 – Isinbayeva and Defar Targeting More Records in Prague PRAGUE – Two World indoor records have been broken this winter and both record setters will be capping their respective seasons at the aptly named Meeting of World Record Holders in the Czech capital on Thursday. More in TPR# 862 and for the IAAF... 21-Feb TPR #861 – Vlasic Clears 2.02m Before a Hometown Crowd of 12,000 in Split Jumping before an energized capacity crowd of 12,000, Blanka Vlasic cleared two metres for the 42nd consecutive time at the Slobodna Dalmacija Women’s High Jump Meeting in her hometown of Split, Croatia on Saturday More in TPR# 861 and for the IAAF... 21-Feb TPR #860 – Capacity Crowd of 12,000 Expected at Women's High Jump Meet in Split Today While organizers of this afternoon’s Slobodna Dalmacija Women’s High Jump competition in the Dalmatian coast city of Split, Croatia, may not witness a world high jump record by local celebrity Blanka Vlasic, they will certainly play host to the largest crowd ever gathered for an indoor single-event competition. More in TPR# 860... 18-Feb TPR #859 – Skolimowska, 2000 Olympic Hammer Throw Champion, Dies After Training Session Polish media are reporting that Kamila Skolimowska, the 2000 Olympic champion in the hammer throw, died today after collapsing during a training session in Portugal. She was 26. More in TPR# 859... 18-Feb TPR #858 – Defar Smashes World 5000m Record in Stockholm After a near-miss at a world record in the 3000m 11 days ago in Stuttgart, Meseret Defar said that she would “Try for a good time in Stockholm”. The 25-year-old Ethiopian delivered tonight in Stockholm, where she clocked 14:24.37 to smash the world record in the 5000m at the DN Galan meet. More in TPR# 858... 15-Feb TPR #857 – 5.00m World Record by Isinbayeva in Donetsk For the sixth consecutive season, Yelena Isinbayeva raised the world indoor record in the pole vault at the Pole Vault Stars Meeting in Donetsk, Ukraine. The 26-year-old Russian did it twice this afternoon, first adding two centimeters to her previous record with a 4.97m [16-3 1/2] jump, before raising it again to 5.00m [16-4 3/4] on her second attempt. More in TPR# 857... 13-Feb TPR #856 – Jones Targeting Devers' American 60m Hurdles Record With no major meets on the schedule for Americans this indoor season, Lolo Jones said her target this winter is Gail Devers’ national record in the 60m hurdles. “I really want to break Gail Devers’ American record,” Jones said after her victory at last Saturday’s Sparkassen Cup in Stuttgart, Germany. “That’s the goal.” More in TPR# 856... 10-Feb TPR #854 – Vlasic's Mantra Remains: Jump High, Jump Often STUTTGART, Germany – Blanka Vlasic has cleared two meters (6-6 ¾ ) or better in 39 consecutive competitions, a streak she hopes to extend at Wednesday’s Europa SC High Jump meet in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia. While that still-formidable barrier has become second nature to the 25-year-old Croatian, her impressive streak nearly came to an abrupt halt on Saturday in Stuttgart when she needed a third try at a relatively lowly 1.98m (6-6). More in TPR# 854... 10-Feb TPR #853 – For Lagat, Double Ambitions Remain STUTTGART, Germany – When he effortlessly kicked past Ethiopian Abreham Cherkos to win the 3000m at Saturday’s Sparkassen Cup in Stuttgart, it was abundantly clear that this was not the same Bernard Lagat who struggled at last summer’s Olympic Games. “Yeah, I have my speed back,” said Lagat, who was hoping to succeed Hicham El Guerrouj as the Olympic champion at both the 1500 and 5000m. But it wasn’t quite in the cards for the Kenyan-born American, who captured both world titles the year before in Osaka. More in TPR# 853... 08-Feb Ukhov Raises his World Lead to 2.36m, Friedrich Improves to 2.02m in Arnstadt Ivan Ukhov improved his own world lead in the High Jump with a 2.36m clearance at the 33rd High Jump Meeting in Arnstadt, Germany on Saturday. More for the IAAF... 07-Feb TPR #852 – World Record Assaults by Defar and Kaki on Tap in Stuttgart on Saturday STUTTGART, Germany – Meseret Defar and Abubaker Kaki may have come up short in their world record-setting bids, but the pair still managed to rewrite the all-time lists at tonight’s 23rd edition of the Sparkassen Cup in Stuttgart. In all, eight world-leading performances were set in front of a packed house at the Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle. More in TPR# 852... 06-Feb TPR #851 – World Record Assaults by Defar and Kaki on Tap in Stuttgart on Saturday STUTTGART – World record attempts by Meseret Defar and Abubaker Kaki will hope to attract the headlines at Saturday’s 23rd edition of the Sparkassen Cup in Stuttgart. But with solid line-ups spread throughout the three-hour long program, in recent years the finest all-around indoor meet annually, other surprises may well emerge. More in TPR# 851... 31-Jan TPR #848 – Hooker Vaults 6.01m [19-8 ¾], Challenges WR at Millrose Games Olympic pole vault champion Steve Hooker cleared 6.01m [19-8 ¾] and challenged Sergey Bubka’s 15-year-old world record in the event to highlight the 102nd edition of the Millrose Games in New York on Friday night. More in TPR# 848... 28-Jan TPR #846 – Newcomer Gordeyeva Scales 2.01m in Cottbus Little known Irina Gordeyeva of Russia continued her rise in the high jump tonight, clearing 2.01m [6-7] at an international jumpers meet in Cottbus, Germany. More in TPR# 846... 28-Jan TPR #845 – Despite Vlasic's Withdrawal, Solid Jumping Fields in Gothenburg Fans will have to wait a little bit longer for the season’s first meeting between the world’s top women’s high jumpers following Blanka Vlasic’s late hour withdrawal from tomorrow night’s SamsungGalan in Gothenburg, Sweden. More in TPR# 845... 27-Jan TPR #844 – Vlasic debuts with 2.03m leap in Rijeka RIJEKA, Croatia - With a boisterous capacity crowd as a backdrop, Blanka Vlasic made her eagerly anticipated debut an auspicious one with a world-leading 2.03m leap at the Rijeka 2009 High Jump Meeting in this northern Adriatic port city. More in TPR# 844 and for the IAAF... 05-Jan 7000 Points Realistic Target for Olympic Champion Dobrynska Prior to last summer’s Olympic Games, Natalya Dobrynska hadn’t won a single major international multi-event competition. Indeed, heading to Beijing, her modest accomplishments kept her well off the radar screen as a potential successor to Carolina Klüft. But when she crossed the line of the 800m the 26-year-old Ukrainian loomed large, standing before a trail of exhausted bodies as the Olympic Heptathlon champion. More for the IAAF... 11-Dec TPR #840 – IOC Strips Devyatovskiy and Tsikhan of Olympic Medals Belarussian hammer throwers Vadim Devyatovskiy and Ivan Tsikhan have been stripped of their 2008 Olympic medals after failing drug tests at the Beijing Games, the International Olympic Committee announced today. More in TPR# 840... 05-Dec TPR #839 – Hellebaut, Olympic High Jump Champion, Announces Retirement Just three months after her upset victory in Beijing, Olympic high jump champion Tia Hellebaut of Belgium has announced her retirement. “I won Olympic gold and won the world indoor championship this year,” Hellebaut, 30, said. “Could I ask for more?” More in TPR# 839... 02-Dec 'Concentrated and Focused', Vlasic to Open Indoor Season in Croatia After cruising through the winter, spring and summer of 2008 piecing together one of the longest winning streaks in recent memory, it’s rather unfortunate for Blanka Vlasic that her season may be mostly remembered for the two occasions in which she faltered in her 24 starts this year. More for the IAAF... 27-Nov TPR #837 – IAAF to Challenge Russian Federation Over Timing of Doping Suspensions, Will Seek Longer Bans As expected, track & field's international governing body has challenged the All Russia Athletics Federation in the Court of Arbitration or Sport over the timing of doping suspensions handed down to seven athletes who were found guilty of manipulating doping tests. More in TPR# 837... 21-23-Nov * Coverage from the IAAF World Athletics Gala MONTE CARLO -- A sampling of TPR's coverage from Monaco that is available on the world wide web. 24-Nov For Bolt and Isinbayeva, Near Perfection in 2008 – World Athletes of the Year MONTE CARLO, Monaco -- With their displays of unrivaled speed and agility, Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt and Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva confirmed that their generation remains the sport’s driving force after earning the World Athlete of the Year Awards for 2008. More for the IAAF... 23-Nov TPR #836 – Bolt, Isinbayeva Named 2008 IAAF Athletes of the Year MONTE CARLO, Monaco -- Olympic champions Usain Bolt of Jamaica and Yelena Isinbayeva of Russia were named the 2008 IAAF World Athletes of the Year at the World Athletics Gala in Monte Carlo, tonight. More in TPR# 836... 23-Nov Athlete Quotes – World Athletics Gala press conferences Day 2 MONTE CARLO, Monaco -- Several of the world’s leading athletes made themselves available to the media on the eve of the World Athletics Gala. Below are some excerpts from the second day of press conferences (Sunday, 23-Nov) held at the Fairmont Hotel in Monaco. More for the IAAF... 22-Nov TPR #835 – New World Cup Format Announced as IAAF Council Meeting Concludes in Monaco MONTE CARLO, Monaco -- A new format for the IAAF World Cup, the possible inclusion of cross country into the Olympic program and the high profile mid-summer suspensions of leading Russian athletes were among the key topics discussed at the two-day meeting of the IAAF Council which concluded today in Monte Carlo. More in TPR# 835... 22-Nov Athlete Quotes – World Athletics Gala press conferences Day 1 MONTE CARLO, Monaco -- Several of the world’s leading athletes made themselves available to the media on the eve of the World Athletics Gala. Below are some excerpts from the first day of press conferences (Saturda, 22-Nov) held at the Fairmont Hotel in Monaco. More for the IAAF... 22-Nov TPR #834 – Liu to Undergo Surgery, 2009 season Uncertain MONTE CARLO, Monaco -- Liu Xiang can’t remember the last time he competed pain-free. Well before his dramatic withdrawal from last summer’s Olympic Games in Beijing, the 25-year-old reigning Olympic champion was dogged by severe pain in his right heel, he said, a serious ache he kept only to himself and those closest to him. But it all finally caught up to him moments after the gun sounded in the opening round of the 110 meter hurdles. More in TPR# 834... 19-Nov TPR #833 – Clay, Brown Trafton Selected 2008 US Athletes of the Year Olympic champions Bryan Clay and Stephanie Brown Trafton were named winners of the 2008 Jesse Owens Award, the highest accolade presented by USA Track & Field, the sport's national governing body. More in TPR# 833... 19-Nov TPR #832 – End of the Line: Winning Streaks in 2008 In terms of unbeaten streaks in the sport, 2008 will perhaps be most remembered not for the winning streaks that emerged over the course of the year, but for those that came to their dramatic conclusions. More in TPR# 832 and for the IAAF... 22-Oct 'Attack, just attack' - Eight Years on Taylor Used Same Tactics to Join Historic Ranks By becoming in Beijing only the third two-time Olympic 400m Hurdles champion in history, Angelo Taylor secured his place among the event’s all-time greats. But the 29-year-old American veteran says he’s hardly finished yet. More for the IAAF... 20-Oct Paula Radcliffe: What Does it Take to Defend the New York City Marathon Crown? For Paula Radcliffe to defend her title on November 2, she simply needs to look back and do what she did four years ago when she won in New York for the first time. If she pulls off a third win in New York, she will be the first woman to accomplish this feat since nine-time champion Grete Waitz. More for the New York Road Runners/NYC Marathon... 20-Oct Tegla Loroupe: What Does it Take to Start a Running Movement? For Tegla Loroupe, it took the type of determination, stubbornness, and self-belief that few could ever imagine. More for the New York Road Runners/NYC Marathon... 18-Oct Chelanga and Kuijken Impress in Terre Haute, Kipyego Debuts Kenyan Samuel Chelanga and Susan Kuijken of The Netherlands ran to impressive victories at the NCAA Pre-National in Terre Haute, Indiana, USA on Saturday. More for the IAAF... 17-Oct Kozmus's Stamp of Approval - Slovenia Issues Stamp to Honor Olympic Champion LJUBLJANA, Slovenia - Two months after his triumph in Beijing, Olympic Hammer Throw champion Primoz Kozmus received another accolade almost as unique: his feat was commemorated on a postage stamp issued by Slovenia Post. More for the IAAF... 21-Sep TPR #831 – Campbell-Brown, Harper the Standouts in Shanghai Olympic champions Veronica Campbell-Brown and Dawn Harper produced the leading results at today's Golden Grand Prix in Shanghai. More in TPR# 831... 12-14-Sep * Coverage from the IAAF World Athletics Final STUTTGART -- A sampling of TPR's coverage from Stuttgart that is available on the world wide web. 14-Sep TPR #830 – Richards, Defar Take Double as World Athletics Final Concludes in Stuttgart STUTTGART -- Bouncing back from personal disappointments at the Olympics Games, Sanya Richards and Meseret Defar capped their seasons with double victories to highlight the second and final day of the IAAF/VTB Bank World Athletics Final in Stuttgart on Sunday. More in TPR #830... 14-Sep Event Reports - Day 2 STUTTGART -- Day 2 event reports produced for the IAAF. [ Men's 200m ] [ Men's 1500m ] [ Men's 5000 ] [ Men's Hammer Throw ] 13-Sep TPR #829 – Spotakova Breaks Javelin World Record in Stuttgart STUTTGART -- Olympic champion Barbora Spotakova broke through the 72- meter barrier in the women's javelin with a world record 72.28m to highlight the first day of the season-capping World Athletics Final on Saturday. “This is strange because I did not expect it,” said the Czech who shattered the previous mark of 71.70m, set by Osleidys Menendez of Cuba at the 2005 World championships in Helsinki. More in TPR 829... 13-Sep Event Reports - Day 1 STUTTGART -- Day 2 event reports produced for the IAAF. [ Men's 100m ] [ Men's 400m ] [ Men's 800m ] [ Men's 3000m ] [ Men's Discus Throw ] 12-Sep TPR #828 – Powell, Isinbayeva, and Key Beijing Rematches on tap as World Athletics Final Kicks off in Stuttgart STUTTGART -- Asafa Powell downplayed a potential assault on the 100 meter world record when the 6th edition of the IAAF/VTB Bank World Athletics Final kicks off on Saturday, but he didn’t discount another fast performance at the season-capping two day event. “The shape I’m in right now I feel I’m going to run very fast,” said Powell, who’s produced an impressive post-Olympic run including a personal best of 9.72 seconds in Lausanne 10 days ago. More in TPR 828... 12-Sep World Athletics Final Press Conference Summary STUTTGART -- The IAAF Press Conference on the eve of the 6th IAAF / VTB Bank World Athletics Final was held today at the Mercedes Benz Arena. More for the TPR 828... 08-11-Sep World Athletics Final Previews STUTTGART -- Event previews produced for the IAAF. [ Sprints ] [ Middle & Long Distance Events ] [ Hurdles ] [ Jumps ] [ Throws ] 10-Sep Robles, Harper and Vlasic prevail in Zagreb ZAGREB, Croatia –- For Blanka Vlasic, there’s no place like home. Just four days after watching $500,000 slip out of reach at the AF Golden League finale in Brussels, the World High Jump champion last night (Tue 9 Sep) once again defended home turf at the 58th Hanzekovic Memorial but it didn’t come without a bitter fight. And in the end, a somewhat confusing conclusion. More for the IAAF... 08-Sep Robles, Campbell-Brown, and Vlasic's homecoming in Zagreb ZAGREB, Croatia –- Six recently-crowned Olympic champions will converge on Zagreb for Tuesday’s 58th edition of the Hanzekovic Memorial, the finest field assembled in recent memory for Croatia’s Grand Prix status meeting stop on the IAAF World Athletics Tour. More for the IAAF... 05-Sep Jelimo: In five months, from unknown to athletics Golden Girl BRUSSELS –- When the ÅF Golden League Jackpot disciplines were designated last December, high jumper Blanka Vlasic was in the midst of what would become the longest unbeaten streak in the sport. And Pamela Jelimo, a virtually unknown quantity even in her native Kenya, had yet to contest her first 800m race. More for the IAAF... More from the NewsFeed

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