March 5, 2010
 Global Athletics and Marketing is pleased to announce that nine of its athletes have been named to compete at the 14th IAAF World Indoor Championships in Doha, Qatar, including defending champions Meseret Defar, who will be attempting to be only the second woman to win four consecutive titles, and Liu Xiang, who continues his comeback from injury. Complete list:
Trell Kimmons (USA) - Men's 60m
Bershawn Jackson (USA) - Men's 400m and 4x400m Relay
Dejen Gebremeskel (ETH) - Men's 3000m
Liu Xiang (CHN) - Men's 60m Hurdles
Dee Dee Trotter (USA) - Women's 400m and 4x400m Relay
Anna Pierce (USA) - Women's 800m
Kalkidan Gezahegn (ETH) - Women's 1500m
Sentayehu Ejigu (ETH) - Women's 3000m
Meseret Defar (ETH) - Women's 3000m
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March 4, 2010
 Reigning World Cross Country Champion Gebre-egziabher Gebremariam and Irish 10000m record holder Alistair Cragg have been named to compete at the NYC Half Marathon. Gebremariam is one of the most decorated runners in the history of cross country, having won four individual medals at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships, including his thrilling gold medal winning run last year in Amman, Jordan. Gebremariam has competed in two previous half marathons, setting his personal best of 1:00:59 last year. Cragg, a two-time Olympian at 5000m, is the 2005 European Indoor Champion at 3000m and was a seven-time NCAA Champion while at the University of Arkansas. New York will be Cragg's debut at the distance. Read more...
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March 2, 2010
 2004 Olympic gold medalist Liu Xiang confirmed his intention to defend his World Indoor 60m Hurldes title at the upcoming IAAF World Indoor Championships in Doha, Qatar. Liu, the former world record holder in the outdoor high hurdles, has battled back from injuries that curtailed his season following his world indoor title in 2008, and has won three of his last four races, capturing gold medals at the National Games, the Asian Championships and the East Asian Games. Liu's toughest opposition is expected to come in the form of Dayron Robles of Cuba, the reigning Olympic Champion and the man who dethroned Liu as outdoor world record holder, and from Terrence Trammell, the 2001 and 2006 World Indoor Champion. Read more...
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March 1, 2010
 Anna Pierce extended her undefeated streak over 800m with her win yesterday at the USATF Indoor Championships in Albuquerque. Pierce, who went undefeated in her four 800m races in 2009, took the lead with 200m ago and never relented, breaking the tape in 2:00.84A, a personal best by more than two seconds. With her victory, Pierce secured herself a spot on the US team for the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Doha, Qatar. Also qualifying for Doha was Bershawn Jackson, the 2005 World Champion in the 400m Hurdles. Jackson charged out in front early in the Men's 400m and led from gun to tape, winning in 45.41A, nearly a second quicker than his previous lifetime best. Dee Dee Trotter finnished second in the Women's 400m in 51.23A, qualifying for Doha and breaking the personal best she had set six years earlier. Morgan Uceny, who trains with Pierce in California, led the Women's 1500m early on, and held off World Championship bronze medalist Shannon Rowbury to win her first national title. Read more...
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February 20, 2010
 Double Olympic Champion Tirunesh Dibaba held off strong finishes by both World 5000m Champion Vivian Cheiyout of Kenya, and Sentayehu Ejigu to win the Women's 2 Mile at the Aviva Grand Prix in Birmingham, England. Dibaba led Cheriyout and Ejigu through the final 400m, and managed to hold the two off at the line, winning in 9:12.23, 0.12sec ahead of Cheriyout and 0.45sec ahead of Ejigu. Kalkidan Gezahegn ran a well paced race to take second behind compatriot Gelete Burka in the Women's Mile, relegating reigning World Indoor and Outdoor Champion Maryam Jusuf Jamal to third. Gezahegn's time of 4:24.10 breaks the world junior record, which had belonged to American Darlene Beckford for over thirty years. In the Men's 1500m, Nick Willis broke John Walker's 31 year old record with his fifth place mark of 3:35.80. Willis now both the indoor and outdoor New Zealand records at 1500m. Read more...
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February 15, 2010
 Tickets are now on sale for the adidas Grand Prix, scheduled for June 12, 2010, at Icahn Stadium on Randall's Island in New York City. In its sixth year, the New York event has already announced that sprint sensation Usain Bolt will return to the meet for the first time since he first broke the world record for 100m there in 2008. For more information, click here...
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