LONDON (GBR): Insidethegames informs that Nick Davies, deputy general secretary of the IAAF has described media stories alleging that 150 athletes, including several Olympic champions, had suspicious blood values between but were not subject to proper target testing as “misleading” and “unethical”. The allegations surfaced following the third installment of the German broadcaster ARD’s investigation on doping in athletics. In a letter to the American website, LetsRun.com, Davies, a highly respected figure in the sport and its official spokesman, acknowledges the first two installments as being “very useful”, in that they uncovered evidence which can be used “to investigate alleged infractions and perhaps end up with concrete sanctions.” But the third episode, which claimed that a number of athletes – including many from Russia as well as others from Kenya, Germany, Spain, Morocco and one well known Briton – had allegedly produced abnormal blood values between 2006 and 2008, was strongly criticized by Davies.
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Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys. Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."
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