Middle Distance Running

Boston.com
Dinner set to kick off FSU baseball season
Tallahassee Democrat (blog)
The Seminoles signed two of the world's best 17-year-old middle distance runners as part of their Class of 2012. New Jersey's Ajee' Wilson and Great Britain's Georgia Peel will come together in efforts of helping FSU to NCAA Championship contention.
Class JewelsSeminoles.com

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Versatile Hall seeks to add cross country title
STLtoday.com
As if Hall needed another identity on the national running scene: She's already a 1500-meter champion, mile queen, 3000-meter winner, steeplechase title-holder and the wife of Ryan Hall, a two-time Olympic marathoner. Today, she hopes to add another ...

Olympic hopefuls have five chances
Viet Nam News
HA NOI — Three Vietnamese athletes expected to book a berth at the London Olympics for Viet Nam are Truong Thanh Hang, Vu Thi Huong and Duong Thi Viet Anh. The trio have five chances left to qualify. Middle-distance sprinter Hang will leave for China ...

Track athletes Senior Andrew Hamer of M
Creston News Advertiser
Senior Andrew Hamer of Murray is a middle distance and steeplechase runner for Central College in Pella. In his third year as head coach, Joe Dunham led the men's squad to indoor and outdoor Iowa Conference championships as well as runner-up and ...

Adams back amid fine field for Porritt Classic
Stuff.co.nz
World and Olympic shotput champion Valerie Adams, fresh from another Halberg Award, will return to the Porritt Classic in Hamilton today after a two-year absence. Adams is expected to eclipse her meeting record of 20.25 metres set in 2010 after ...

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Ahram Online
Africa should host the Olympic Games, says Coe
African Business Review
Africa's successful hosting of the 2010 FIFA World Cup means it should be a future host continent of the Olympic Games, said former middle distance world-record holder Sebastian Coe. Coe, who chairs the London Olympic Games organising committee, ...
Time has come for Africa to host Olympics says CoeBusiness Day
African Olympic dream for CoeSPORT24
Morocco tells Coe of Africa's Olympic hopesAhram Online
Universal Sports (blog)
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Metro
Hannah England: Younger athletes now asking me for advice
Metro
Her graduation as a middle-distance runner to be reckoned on the global stage came with 1500metres silver at the world championships last summer. The most surprising of Britain's medals at the time, it underlined just what coaches had seen all those ...

USA TODAY
Centrowitz makes changes in training for 1500
USA TODAY
By David Leon Moore, USA TODAY Former Oregon middle-distance star Matthew Centrowitz is the latest prominent runner to join Alberto Salazar's troupe of elite pro striders in the Oregon Distance Project in Portland. Lee Jin-man, AP In this Sept.

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Ahram Online
Morocco tells Coe of Africa's Olympic hopes
Ahram Online
Sebastian Coe, left, the former two-time Olympic 1500-meter champion and Organizing Committee Chairman of London 2012 Olympic Games, is seen with two other Olympic middle-distance champions, Hicham El Guerrouj, center, and Nawal El Moutawakel, right, ...

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Armstrong's training peeps
Slowtwitch
Also on the track is U of Texas alum and Olympic middle distance runner Leonel Manzano. No, Armstrong does not try to run Manzano's workouts. On Thursdays, that's long run day, and running partners include pro triathlete Kelly Williamson and her ...

Athletics: Adams heads classy field
New Zealand Herald
The World and Olympic champion is using these competitions and one in Sydney on February 18 as a build-up to the world indoor championships in Turkey on March 10. The world indoor champion in 2008 will be all out to avenge her defeat at the hands of ...

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Time has come for Africa to host Olympics says Coe
Business Day
SA's experience in successfully delivering the 2010 Fifa World Cup was an indication that Africa could host an event as big as the Olympic Games, says former middle distance world record-holder Sebastian Coe. Coe, who chairs the London Olympic Games ...

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Athletics coach wins 100m final Olympic Games tickets
This is Hull and East Riding
A RUNNING enthusiast has won tickets to one of the most talked-about events of the year – the men's 100m final at the Olympics. After the bitter disappointment of missing out in the ballot last year, athletics coach Samantha Hodges now has four tickets ...

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StarAfrica.com
Coe: My 'dream' to see Africa stage Olympics
ESPN
AP NAIROBI, Kenya -- Sebastian Coe wants to help bring the Olympics to Africa for the first time. Coe, the middle-distance great who heads the organizing committee for the London Games, said Africa is a powerhouse in running events and deserves to host ...
Sebastian Coe says he'll help bring Olympics to Africa for 1st timeWashington Post
Olympic medallist Lord Coe jets in TanzaniaStarAfrica.com

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StarAfrica.com
Sebastian Coe wants to see Africa host Olympics; South Africa expected to bid ...
SI.com
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Sebastian Coe wants to help bring the Olympics to Africa for the first time. Coe, the middle-distance great who heads the organizing committee for the London Games, said Africa is a powerhouse in running events and deserves to ...
African Olympic dream for CoeSPORT24
Olympic medallist Lord Coe jets in TanzaniaStarAfrica.com

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Morocco's trailblazing female golfer is going for Olympic gold
CNN
Her lifetime ambition is to follow in the footsteps of the North African nation's legendary middle-distance track and field athletes and win Olympic gold. Golf will return to the four-yearly sporting showpiece in Brazil in 2016 after an absence of more ...

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Irish Independent
Former Olympic athlete Eamonn Coghlan joins Fine Gael
thejournal.ie
Born in Drimnagh in south Dublin in 1952, Coghlan enjoyed unparalleled success as a middle-distance runner for Ireland winning numerous titles in indoor and outdoor events. He won gold in the 1500m at the European Indoor Championships in Vienna in 1979 ...
Senator Eamonn Coghlan joins FGIrish Times
Athlete Eamonn Coghlan joins the ranks of Fine GaelIrish Independent

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Athletics Association of Ireland
Woodie's DIY Irish Indoor Athletic Championships - Middle-Distance Preview
Athletics Association of Ireland
The Men's 800m looks like it is a wide open competition with a few of the bigger names missing but young 400m specialist Billy Ryan of Ferrybank has moved up to 800m and could be one to watch as will European Youth Olympic medalist Karl Griffin.

International Association of Athletics Foundation
Analysis and takeaways from New Balance Indoor Grand Prix
Universal Sports (blog)
Meseret Defar, the only Ethiopian woman to medal in a distance event in Daegu, seems determined to prevent a repeat of that occurrence again this summer at the London Olympics. "I don't think the dominance of Kenya will happen again this year," Defar ...
A Fan's Guide To The 2012 New Balance Indoor Grand PrixLetsRun.com

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Asbel to Seek Harvest of Blessings At London Games
AllAfrica.com
By Jonathan Komen, 6 February 2012 He is the most talented middle distance runner ever on grass, with nearly all global 1500 metres jewels safely tucked under his belt. He has won the Olympic Games (2008) World, Inter-continental Championships (2010) ...