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Russia’s track federation suspended by governing body
effect immediately, barring
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of international competition ever banned a country over
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The Russian federation is
possibly including next year’s
likely to be given a month or
Olympics in Brazil.
The suspension was so before appearing at a disci-
approved by a 22-1 vote plinary hearing, where the
during a teleconference of IAAF could then elevate the
the 27-member council of sanction to a full suspension.
The IAAF and WADA
the IAAF.
IAAF President Sebastian will need to set out the terms
Coe convened the meeting for what the Russians need to
after Russia was accused do to get a suspension lifted,
of widespread, systematic including complying fully
doping in a report released with the global anti-doping
Monday by a World Anti- code.
With the Olympics in Rio
Doping Agency commission.
Coe was under heavy de Janeiro nine months away,
pressure to take tough action, the big question is whether
despite efforts by Russian Russia’s track team will be
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and make reforms in their cials have said Russia should
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anti-doping system.
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By STEPHEN WILSON
Associated Press
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All-Russia Athletic Federation general secretary
Mikhail Butov speaks to the media the Russian Olym-
pic Committee building in Moscow, Russia, Saturday,
Nov. 14, 2015.
to the Olympics, which run
from Aug. 5-21.
Russian Sports Minister
Vitaly Mutko said Friday
he is “completely sure”
that Russia will be able to
compete at the Olympics.
Speaking before the IAAF
meeting, he said he thought
any suspension would be
short.
“We may miss one or two
competitions, but for athletes
with clean consciences to
miss the Olympics or a
world championships would
be real stupidity,” he said in
Moscow.
In the short term, the
suspension will keep Russian
out of a dozen or so interna-
tional events the rest of this
year, including the European
cross-country championships
in France on Dec. 13. The
athletes could then miss the
indoor season, including the
world indoor championships
in Portland, Oregon, from
March 17-20.
Other big events that
Russian runners could be
ineligible for include the
Boston and London Mara-
thons in April.
Russia also faces being
stripped of the hosting rights
of three IAAF events — the
Moscow indoor meet on Feb.
14, the world race walking
championships in Chebok-
sary from May 7-15, and the
world junior championships
in Kazan from July 19-24.
Russia has been the dominant
force in world race walking.
Russian athletes would be
eligible to compete in their
own national events during
a ban, which only covers
international competition.
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IAAF vice president Sergei
Bubka, the pole vault great
from Ukraine, had argued
against a blanket ban, saying
it would penalize “innocent”
athletes who haven’t been
found guilty or implicated in
doping.
However, the report by
the WADA panel outlined
a deep-rooted, systematic
doping system that cast
doubt on the entire Russian
athletics program, making
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athletes are clean or not.
The IAAF council met by
teleconference, chaired by
Coe in London.
Russia’s IAAF council
member, Mikhail Butov,
presented his federation’s posi-
tion at the start of the meeting,
but then recused himself from
the debate and the vote.
Russia’s initial reaction to
Monday’s doping report was
one of indignation and that
the allegations were politi-
cally-motivated. However, in
recent days, the tone shifted
as President Vladimir Putin
acknowledged the gravity
of the problem and ordered
an investigation by Russian
sports leaders.
RUGBY: Girls will play in 16-team league Soccer
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was excited to see not only
quantity but quality.
“I just looked across the
room and there was this great
mix of size and some girls
that you just look at them
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asked was, ‘How many of
you grew up wanting to play
football, but you weren’t able
to because of the taboo of
girls playing football?’
“And probably three
quarters of them raised their
hands, and I was like, ‘Well
now you get to hit someone.’
And they were like, ‘Yes!’”
Bailey Deming, a sopho-
more, was one of them.
“I’d been thinking about
doing football, but football
is for guys here and we
don’t have a girls’ team. I
wouldn’t belong. I wouldn’t
get enough of a chance,” she
said of the reasons holding
her back. “I wanted to play
rugby and actually tackle
somebody and have some
fun with that.”
Deming and Rinehart
were part of a mixed group
taking part in Gabriel’s rugby
passing camp on Wednesday
morning at Pendleton High.
Pendleton junior Kristina
Hardy was also in attendance,
and after a few drills capped
by a makeshift scrimmage
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back when practices begin in
January.
“I kind of wanted to do it
and was thinking a lot about
it,” she said. “I had done
some soccer but that was
about it. It’s usually not as
tackley. It’s the adrenaline
rush to it that is really kind
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Pendleton Sasquatch coach Eric Gabriel goes over form with Bayley Deming, 16,
during a passing clinic Wednesday in Pendleton.
of fun.
“I really liked it, I thought
it was really fun.”
The girls will compete in
a 16-team league with most
of their opponents residing
in Portland, which currently
boasts some of the best girls
rugby sides in the nation.
“We’ve got some teams
in the Portland area that are
nationally ranked, top 15 and
stuff like that, with some big
Polynesian girls,” Gabriel
said.
He likes the way his
“strong looking farm girls”
stack up, though, and the
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what he’d come to believe
shortly after moving to the
area.
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and I was seeing girls out
there playing basketball, the
dance team, and the softball,
and I knew as soon as I got
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the best athletes in this area,”
he said. “We’re starting from
ground zero but they’re all
decent athletes and they have
the passion to do something
physical, and that’s all it
takes.”
The boys and girls teams
will
have
independent
schedules, but Gabriel said
he still plans to have them
practice together, which
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have someone to go against
that’s already going to be
experienced. Not that they’ll
be tackling each other, but
they’ll always have a good
opponent to go against,” he
said. “Same thing with the
boys. The boys will have
an opponent to go against,
which is always great
because in the past when
we try to run live drills we
only have two or three extra
players, and we can’t get a
really good look with two or
three extra players.
“It can only help both
sides.”
Gabriel said there is still
plenty of time for interested
girls to get involved.
“The best thing to do right
at this point is to like (Pend-
leton Sasquatch Rugby) on
Facebook,” said Gabriel,
“and go to RugbyOregon.
com to get some information
about registration.”
Gabriel said prospec-
tive players shouldn’t let
registration fees deter them,
and payment plans as well
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SENIORS: Excitement high, but still just another game
emotions going into Satur-
day’s pregame warm-ups,
Heppner is the place to play
but once the whistle blows
football and we have a great
he knows where his team’s
crowd every game.
focus will be.
“It’s going to suck, being
“They started to talk about
the last game, but we’ve got
it a little bit last week but one
to play regardless. Last game
thing that I think they’ve
or not. We’ve got to show up
learned to do is, ‘What am I
to play and do our job. I’m
doing right now, what’s my
excited for this weekend.”
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in the process and don’t look
home games alongside
at the big picture, because
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Kaden
Clark,
lineman
big picture is going to miss
Patrick Collins, receiver/
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a couple steps along the way.
linebacker Weston Putman, In this 2014 file photo, Heppner’s Saul Erickson and Pat- We’re constantly reminding
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back/linebacker rick Collins (67) wrap up Central Linn’s Jesse Wibbens them.
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“These guys are pretty
Saul Erickson, receiver/ Heppner won the game’ 45-8.
mature competitors and I
defensive back Ryan Smith, passes for 1,025 yards and recoveries, two interceptions think they get it.”
and lineman Tre Cimmiyotti. has thrown only one intercep- and a blocked kick.
Heppner is 6-1 at home
“We don’t really have any tion to 17 touchdowns. He’s
Erickson was an all-league in the playoffs the last four
captains because we’re all added 369 yards rushing with pick on the offensive line, seasons, their only loss
just expected to be leaders,” a 7.4 per-carry average with and Smith and Cimmiyotti coming in the 2012 quarter-
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when this year’s seniors were
that it’s spread out, nobody yards rushing and eight
“Just being my last home freshmen.
has complete control over touchdowns on a surgically game win or lose, I want
“The motivation is just to
everything.”
repaired knee and is second to go out there and make it keep going each week, just
The group accounted for on the defense with 61 my best and play as great get that extra game, get that
11 of Heppner’s 19 all-league tackles.
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roster selections with Kindle,
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sport in the world and I love
and have been the backbone leading the team with seven
“We can’t get too excited, it and I don’t want to stop
of the team’s 10-0 season interceptions and four fumble just go in and play it as a playing.”
that has seen them outscore recoveries.
normal game,” Erickson said.
Heppner and Reedsport
opponents 50-10 on average.
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Grant said he understands mentrup@eastoregonian.
completed 57 percent of his 57 tackles, three fumble if there are a few extra com or (541) 966-0838.
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Johnson put the 33rd-ranked
Americans ahead in the 29th
and Altidore scored two
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and routed tiny St.
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Friday night in the
second goal in the
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Wednesday, took United States streak in quali-
fying to 28 games
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(26-0-2) since 2001.
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the score in the 11th, Fabian the second half.
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team, ‘Let’s go out there
and make our way back
home winners.’”
And they did just that
despite being down 14
points at halftime on the
road to No. 1 Central
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with two Dylan Grogan
touchdown passes, blocked
the potential game-winning
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the Cobras on a two-point
conversion in overtime.
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running game to wear down
the Cobras. Junior running
back Thyler Monkus, who
has been banged up in
recent weeks but was close
to 100 percent Friday night,
carried 27 times for a quiet
218 yards.
Quiet, because classmate
Grogan was wonderful.
The lanky junior carried
21 times for 114 yards
and two scores, and also
completed seven of 17 pass
attempts for 117 yards and
two more scores.
“I train my kids every
day to run,” Salas said.
“We don’t stop running.
They take their running
and training seriously. In
that fourth quarter, we were
able to move the ball pretty
easily. It’s a testament to
their training and keeping
their head in the game.”
Central Linn (9-2) led
20-6 at the break after
Andre Holmes picked off
a wayward Grogan pass
and took it 30 yards for a
score. Central Linn had
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gave the ball right back, and
some points, too.
But Grogan hit Enoel
Angel for a 12-yard score
with four seconds left in
the third quarter, then hit a
diving Justin Keeney for a
9-yard scoring pass with
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tie. Grogan also ran in a
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half.
Central Linn, led by
quarterback Jesse Wibbens
and running backs Pettner
and Chandler Jeppsen,
marched right down the
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it to force overtime.
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blocked kick by the Tigers,
who had blocked a point
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Cobras couldn’t do much in
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into the second quarter
ended shortly thereafter
when Pettner bulldozed in
from a yard out with 11:40
on the clock. After a couple
exchanges of possession,
including a Cobras fumble
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nothing, Central Linn went
on another methodical
drive on the legs of Pettner
and Chandler Jeppsen.
Pettner, who fumbled
earlier, made up for it with
an easy 10-yard scoring run
to double Central Linn’s
lead. The point after was
blocked, though, and that
point proved huge.
Grogan
hurdled
a
defender with 4:28 left and
scored on the play from 13
yards out to halve Central
Linn’s lead, then Holmes
extended the lead with his
pick-six.
But Grogan hit Angel,
then Keeney to force over-
time. He then powered in
for a 6-yard score before
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Tigers to the semis.
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take care of two big games
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head coach Davy Salas
said. “They gave us an
opportunity to go play two
league champs and were
still playing.”