prelim start lists up for V, D Asq and oslo.

[doug091463]

preliminary start list's as of june 26th 2009 are up for next weeks meets the villanueva d asq in france on tuesday, which has a very good 10k, and oslo which has some great distance events, although there are not many americans, which weakens the sprints ,due to it probably being to close to nationals.

[AS]

link(s)?

[EPelle]

Oslo:
http://www.bislettgames.com/2009/startlist.htm

villanueve-d'Ascq:
http://we055.lerelaisinternet.com/2009/listes260609.pdf

[EPelle]

villanueve-d'Ascq (meeting Lille Métropole) is on today's calendar.

Results:
http://we055.lerelaisinternet.com/2009/resultats09.htm

[doug091463]

iaaf.org is reporting t. dibaba has been added to bisletts 5k on friday against defar, melkamu and v. cheruiyiot, what a race.

[Powell]

villanueve-d'Ascq:
http://we055.lerelaisinternet.com/2009/listes260609.pdf

They give Nicoleta Grasu's YOB as 1904. I knew she's been around for a long time, but wow, I didn't realize she was quite as old as that :P

[joeltetreault]

Mehdi Baala had to pull out of the French meet...seems like he had to take time off in June for a plantar fascia injury:

http://www.ouest-france.fr/actu/actu_sp ... 3_flux.Htm

1500 (H): Baala back in July

Mehdi Baala, who suffered a tear of the plantar fascia in early June, should make his return to competition in mid-July. Mehdi Baala resumed training after becoming a tear of the plantar fascia early July. An injury in the continuity of a sprained left ankle incurred during a training in Font-Romeu, May 24 Selon l' AFP , According to AFP, Baala should make his return to competition in mid-July.

[nbonaddio]

Oslo:
http://www.bislettgames.com/2009/startlist.htm

villanueve-d'Ascq:
http://we055.lerelaisinternet.com/2009/listes260609.pdf

Noted a Matti Viren on the Oslo startlists, and of course my Finnish eyebrows were immediately raised. An heir, perhaps?

[LopenUupunut]

Yep, he's the great champion's third and youngest son.

[LopenUupunut]

Nice enough javelin comp. Kovals won with 82.47 SB (and a very solid series); Janik second with 81.56 and Pyatnytsya third with the first two 80+ (and first 81+) efforts of his career, ahead of new US champ Hill.

[nbonaddio]

Yep, he's the great champion's third and youngest son.

Any elite talent to him? Or is he less a Viren and more another Matti V, as in Valimaki?

[LopenUupunut]

Yep, he's the great champion's third and youngest son.

Any elite talent to him? Or is he less a Viren and more another Matti V, as in Valimaki?

Hurts to say, but no, I don't think he has elite talent (and he started training too late in any case). I think he has a decent chance of eventually breaking into our national elite but alas, that tells more about the current poor state of middle-to-longish-distance track running in Finland than about his talent.