Tuesday Morning Coffee Talk
Tuesday Morning Coffee Talk
Flotrack news and links for January 14th,
Happy Tuesday Flotrack! Did everyone talk to you about the Golden Globes yesterday? Did anyone really care? Since I knew I was going to be forced into at least one conversation about either someone winning or someone's dress, I figured I just knock the two out with the following quote:
"I'm really happy Steve Prefontaine won for Best Supporting Actor. I mean, I know he's fallen on hard times since his days at Oregon, but I didn't expect to be playing an HIV positive transsexual woman in Dallas Buyers Club. I haven't seen a performance like that out of him since the '72 Olympic Trials."
On a related note, watch out Alexi Pappas: there's a new bun in town.
And now the "news"
I fought the USATF and the USATF won
The 2016 Olympic Marathon Trials will either be in Houston, where the volunteers want it, or Los Angeles, where USATF wants it. HURRAY BUREAUCRACY!
More: L.A. Marathon CEO Still Awaiting Olympic Trials Decision - Toni Reavis
Woman who lost her legs in the Boston Marathon bombings is now running for the first time
Here's your daily dose of inspiration and hope for the world.
It's like if Arthur Miller set "The Crucible" in Jamaican and replaced witches with drugs
It is interesting to note that unlike previous hearings, Sherone Simpson's doping trial was public. The author suggests that the decision to make it open to the public was due to pressure stemming from a number of "negative reports coming chiefly from the British media."
More: The Sherone Simpson hearing and the public fiasco - Track Alerts
Speaking of which...
This article has one of the best ledes that I've read in a while.
More: Asafa Powell to appear before Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission on Tuesday - The Guardian
Apparently, being pregnant is equivalent to a nine-month injury
Babies are so in right now, right Jessica Ennis, Christin Wurth-Thomas, and Stephanie Rothstein Bruce?
More: Jessica Ennis-Hill's pregnancy did not lend itself to breaking news coverage - The Telegraph
Now for "Things We Didn't See Coming"
UNC - Greensboro's Paul Katam is enlisting in the U.S. Army. Best of luck, Paul.
More: Paul Katam leaving UNCG, will enlist in U.S. Army - News & Record