The most numerous team in Greece's athletics
history.
The Greek Federation announced the national
athletics team for Sydney, the most numerous team of the greek athletics
history. The team was verified just after the international meeting of Patra,
the last test for the champions into the
It is difficult to provide a fair critique of meet coverage when so much of
the action is being condensed. I caught about half of the Berlin meeting on
Friday evening. I'd give the coverage I saw a B+. However, the effort from
the TV Commentators was A.
Larry Rawson continues to optimize his
This is a minor complaint but a pet peeve for me. Posters should give their
first and last names. Thanks, Linda Honikman
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Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2000 9:34 AM
To: [EMAIL
We have now posted at the ATHLETICS
SITEthefull results of the International Meeting TOFALIA 2000 held
in Patra yesterday, as well as the Greek team for Sydney.
Sydney pages are also opened, featuring events,
history,a lot of information on the Olympics and details about the greek
My thanks to all of you who took the time to respond to Walt's and my request
for your thoughts on our telecast. The least I can do is respond to a number
of your points.
-- Next year, I will see if we can leave the graphics of the start lists up
longer.
-- The idea of leaving the camera
It would be interesting to see word-count totals (sans embedded and quoted
"" material) as contrasted to number of postings per individual. Garry
Hill's posts are often just one or two sentences, and also the recent
"SURVIVOR" postings have skewed his "usual" output upward considerably, so
the
I understand ESPN has to accept the European feed and doesn't control the
camera angles. But if they ever do get control, the worst camera angle to me
is the wide shot of the runners in staggered lane events on the back
straight. A hard core fan may be able to pick out runners, but a casual
By word count: either R.T or Eamon Condon.
malmo,
always striving for the elusive quarter-liner.
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Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2000 6:33 PM
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Subject: Re: t-and-f:
Please let me know who is in charge of this rule!
I have to believe that this is a joke. If it is not, then the Olympic Games are a
joke.
Please clarify. Bunston, you are a smart guy, but don't BS us.
Schieferh
I have been away for about 10 days, so I found an appalling amount of
email waiting to be read. As I worked on the t-and-f collection, it
occurred to me to see where the posts were coming from. Today, as I
am waiting around for some truck parts, I looked into it. I had
already deleted a number
Electronic Telegraph
Monday 4 September 2000
Peter FitzSimons
THE NEWS has finally broken. The biggest billboard in the history of the
world -and I'm talking right back to the time Noah slung his famous 'THE END
OF THE WORLD IS NIGH' sign off the side of the ark - is devoted to
Australia's
This is getting a far bit of press Down Under:
http://www.olympics.smh.com.au/athletics/2000/09/04/FFXI3K82KCC.html
They didn't exactly kiss and make-up but they came as close as two big
boofy blokes dare after staging a langing match.
United States long jumper Savante Stringfellow and his
Story of contest:
http://sport.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,1160603%255E5282,00.html
AMERICAN Savante Stringfellow won the long jump at the pre-Olympics meet in
Brisbane today, making a mockery of Australian Jai Taurima's taunt that
black men could not leap in the cold.
Taurima said
Athletes greeted by drug blitz
By Trudy Harris and John Lehmann
04sep00
DRUG testers have swooped on star athletes within hours of their arrival in
Australia,
marking the start of the biggest-ever Olympics drug-testing regime.
As more than 4000 athletes poured in to Sydney at the weekend,
In a message dated 9/3/00 6:53:06 PM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
MEN'S LONG JUMP
1. Savante Stringfellow, USA 8.23m w:0.7; 2. Jai Taurima, AUS 8.13m w:1.1;
Well, well what now to say Mr. Taurima?
jp
Three is presumably a whole lot more on this floating around the Web:
Flo-Jo's doctor believes the world's fastest woman was a drug cheat
Yet just 11 days before the Sydney Games, there is open speculation that
Florence Griffith Joyner used
drugs. An investigation by British newspaper The
ATHLETICS AUSTRALIA
INFORMATION RELEASE
Sunday 3rd September 2000
Pre Olympic Meet, Nudgee College, Brisbane
WOMEN'S 100 METRES (2 heats, collated results)
1. Melinda Gainsford-Taylor, AUS 11.16 w:2.1; 2. Veronica Campbell, JAM
11.18
w:2.1; 3. Nova Peris Kneebone, AUS 11.45 w:2.1; 4. Elly
MEN'S LONG JUMP
1. Savante Stringfellow, USA 8.23m w:0.7; 2. Jai Taurima, AUS 8.13m w:1.1;
Well, it looks like Taurima and his big mouth are finding out that American
jumpers CAN jump well outside the US, or least well enough to beat him.
Kurt Bray
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