t-and-f: Re: building of temporary long/triple jump pits
Hello, A while ago I asked for info for the building of temporary long/triple jump pits on an infield with FieldTurf. I did get some responses, but I would like to try again and see if anyone has any other ideas, short of moving the meet If you have done this, or know where I might get an idea of pricing,hours to put together, etc. great, thanks Charles F. Wandler office phone: (360) 650-2831 WWU, MS9150, Chemistry Dept. office fax: (360) 650-2826 516 High Street Bellingham, WA 98225-9150 Organic Chemistry Laboratory Coordinator email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
t-and-f: FW: Winter throwing 2nd day report
Please reply to: David Eiger http://us.f356.mail.yahoo.com/ym/[EMAIL PROTECTED]YY=45153order=downsort=datepos=0view=ahead=b[EMAIL PROTECTED] Whereas the opening day of the 6th European Cup Winter Throwing in Tel-Aviv, Israel, belonged to the women, Sunday was very much a men's day. Favorites, shot putter Andrey Mikhnevich from Belarus and hammer thrower Szymon Ziolkowski from Poland, both came from behind and set All-comers records. The most dramatic competition came in the men's hammer. Vadim Khersontsev from Russia took the lead with a season's best of 78.54m in the second round, and only on his very last attempt did Ziolkowski, the 2000 Olympic champion, manage to overtake him by half a metre with 79.04m. Dmitri Shako from Belarus was in third place throughout the competition and threw 77m exactly. The presence of five out of the eight finalists at last week's World Indoor Championships guaranteed a quality competition in the shot. Manuel Martinez from Spain was the first to throw over the 20m line with 20.07m. The lead was taken by Pavel Sofin from Russia in the second round with 20.19m and then by Gheorghe Guset from Romania in the third with 20.41m. Mikhnevich, who fouled on his two opening attempts, then heaved the implement out to 20.61m for the gold medal, ahead of Guset and giant Tomasz Majewski from Poland, who reached 20.26m. The Polish anthem became a hit in Tel-Aviv following Saturday's three victories, and Wioletta Potepa caused the festivity to resume on Sunday, throwing the discus out to 61.89m in the second round. Oksana Yesipchuk from Russia was the athlete to come closest in the fifth round with 61.70m. Romania's Nicoleta Grasu (60.86m) took the bronze medal ahead of former Olympic champion 45-year-old Ellina Zvereva (60.63m) from Belarus. Strong winds meant that only one women was able to throw over 60 metres in the javelin, and surprisingly it was young Mareike Rittweg from Germany - a country with a great tradition in this event. The winner improved her personal best to 60.06m and the other medals went to Lada Chernova from Russia (59.15m) and Mercedes Chilla from Spain (57.28m). Both the men's and women's European Cups were won by the Russian throwers. For the women it was a sixth consecutive victory with 8178 points, ahead of Italy (7834) and Romania (7732). For the men it was a mere fifth victory with 8531 points. The Italians were again in second place (7981) ahead of the Polish, who collected 7662 points despite fielding only one javelin thrower. Full results can be found at http://www/tel-aviv2006.org.ilhttp://www/tel-aviv2006.org.il David -- The Unofficial Homepage of Israeli Athletics http://eiger.tripod.comhttp://eiger.tripod.com
t-and-f: Fwd: Mistreatment of Fans at Olympic Trials
any replies should be directed to Raymond Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Raymond Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Raymond Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mistreatment of Fans at Olympic Trials Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 23:47:29 -0500 Dear USATF Board Members and Sacramento Sports Commission, I would like to express my concern regarding the poor treatment of my family and other fans at the U.S. Track and Field Olympic Trials in Sacramento, California. My family and I planned for 4 years to take our vacation around the trials. We have attended previous Olympic Trials and numerous other USATF championships but never have we been treated in such a way that we felt uncomfortable cheering for athletes. When we stood up and cheered we were forced to sit and threatened with ejection from the meet. When my 3 year old dropped an item under the stands I asked to retrieve it and was told that I couldn't be allowed under the stands even though the item was in plain site. When I asked why I was told simply, those were the rules. When I asked why we couldn't stand and cheer I was told, those were the rules. We brought our bells to the meet that were given to us in Eugene at a previous USATF championship and they were confiscated. When I asked why we weren't allowed to bring bells I was told those were the rules. I witnessed several people in our section ejected by ARMED security personnel for standing, cheering and having fun! I guess having fun is against the rules too. I paid over $400 to attend the meet with my family and I expected to be treated no differently than any other major sporting event. I realize that security is a concern for all major sporting events but that was covered BEFORE we entered the meet by screening personnel. When I go to NBA, NFL or MLB games or championships I have never been told I can't stand up and cheer! All major sporting events have the same security concerns as the Olympic Trials yet they do not mistreat fans. Here is the bottom line. Our sport is dying and treating fans like this is not helping. Sincerely, Raymond Cook former USATF member.
t-and-f: Jason Lunn at adidas-Oregon??
Jason Lunn was a late scratch at aOTC for the 1500, which almost had 3 Olympic A qualifiers. Anyone know why he had to scratch? Would have been a great race to be in. Charles F. Wandler office phone: (360) 650-2831 WWU, MS9150, Chemistry Dept. office fax: (360) 650-2826 516 High Streetpager: (360) 758-6157 Bellingham, WA 98225-9150 Organic Chemistry Laboratory Coordinator email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
t-and-f: text only e-mails for AOL 7.0 and 8.0 users
here is the response I received from AOL: I understand that you have questions about how to send plain text to your mailing list from users that are using AOL 7.0 and AOL 8.0. NOTE: Also adviced the AOL member not use stationary in composing email. Set your own personal preferences or click Reset to use the AOL default settings. To return it to the Default Settings, please refer to these steps: 1. Click on SETTINGS on the AOL toolbar, and then click on PREFERENCES. 2. Click on FONT, TEXT GRAPHICS. 3. Click on RESET to use the AOL default settings. 4. Click Save to make the changes take effect. hope this works, if not we'll try again ... -charlie
t-and-f: to AOL users, version 7.0 and 8.0
Since I am not an AOL user, I am looking for AOL users that use version 7.0 and 8.0 and can post and can SEE their posts on the t-and-f lists. I have some AOL subscribers that are having problems posting and I need to know what setting the peoples that can post are using. It is probably in the options, something about turning off HTML encoding, or choosing to send text only. Please reply DIRECTLY to me. thanks -charlie, list error handler
Re: t-and-f: The Ton Dudes
Bill Roe Charles Wandler At 11:30 AM 1/8/2003, malmo wrote: Tracksters (and others) who play competitve darts: Scott Davis Tom Jones Bill Dellinger malmo -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Scott Davis Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 1:21 PM To: Randall Northam Cc: Martin J. Dixon; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: t-and-f: The REAL athlete of the year Let's not be so critical of Darts. This is truly one of the world's great games. In fact, I was a member of a team in the early 1970's in Westwood while in grad school at UCLA. I was the only non-Brit on the team of 8. We played 301 and cricket exclusively. Not the cricket with the bats and balls!! Darts is one hell of a hand-eye coordination game, just like pool and golf, but don't get me started with golf. Just please remember that golf is a game, like pool and darts, not an athletic endeavor. I do remember that the Ye Ole Mucky Duck, one of our competitive bars, had Tom Jones on their team. Yes, that Tom Jones!! He was a hell of a player and a really fun guy. I played competitively for 6 years and won a hell of lot of money in the process. Even today, I have a board in my garage and toss the darts every so often while thinking about the next track project!! Scott Randall Northam wrote: Aargh! I've put up with many other sports on this list - notably basketball, baseball and American Football, which no other country other than the USA and Canada plays with any distinction - and is therefore very, very parochial - but now we've got DARTS on the list for heaven's sake. To anybody who doesn't know, Darts involves fat men with a pint or two of beer throwing pointed objects from a few feet at a cork board with strange markings. It is not a sport or even a skill it is a pasttime which should be confined to pubs and bars. Usually the Brits win, which should tell you a lot about our prowess as a sporting nation, but now a Canadian is the world champion (how many countries play darts you might ask for it to be a true world championship) and I see the start of a slippery slope for Canada. But there is hope. Part beat Phil the power Taylor and those who know about these things said the reason Taylor was beaten after eight years was because he'd just lost three stone (42lbs) and some must have gone from his throwing arm. But Taylor reckons he has another three stone to go and said: health is more important than darts. So there is hope. Randall Northam On Tuesday, Jan 7, 2003, at 18:30 Europe/London, Martin J. Dixon wrote: Now here is a guy with a skill and we got him. Two nights ago, Part beat Phil Taylor, who had won the world championship title for eight years in a row.
t-and-f: list admin testing the airwaves
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t-and-f: message from list admin: please read
I am currently working on several user problems with the t-and-f and t-and-f-digest lists. If you are having an individual problem, please e-mail me and I will put you name on the list to see what's up. The list is currently getting hit with some SPAM of 250k per message, so sorting at times is obviously slow. Thanks for you patience -charlie, list admin-error handler Charles F. Wandler office phone: (360) 650-2831 WWU, MS9150, Chemistry Dept. office fax: (360) 650-2826 516 High Streetpager: (360) 758-6157 Bellingham, WA 98225-9150 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
t-and-f: USATF News Notes: March 13, 2002
-- Forwarded message -- From: USATF Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: USATF News Notes: March 13, 2002 Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 14:02:44 -0500 Contact:Melissa Beasley Communications Coordinator USA Track Field (317) 261-0478 x335 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.usatf.org USATF News Notes Volume 3, Number 25 March 13, 2002 Webb named a Sullivan Award finalist Alan Webb is one of five finalists for the 72nd Annual AAU James E. Sullivan Memorial Award, which recognizes the top amateur athlete in the nation. The award is based on qualities of leadership, character, sportsmanship and the ideals of amateurism. Athletic accomplishments and strong moral character are also considerations for the 5 finalists that were chosen from 14 initial nominees. The finalists were chosen by an 800-member panel of AAU board of directors, the U.S. Olympic Committee board of directors, the AAU Sullivan Award Committee, past Sullivan Award winners and selected sports media. Alan Webb was front-page news throughout 2001, beginning in January at the New Balance Games in New York, where he broke the indoor high school mile record and became the first prep to break four minutes since 1967 in running 3:59.86. Webbs history-making campaign continued at the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, Oregon on May 23, when the 18-year old from Reston, Virginia, ran 3:53.43, smashing the 36-year old high school record of Jim Ryun. En route, Webb also set a national high school record of 3:38.26 for 1500 meters. Webb is nominated along with swimmer Natalie Coughlin, figure skater Michelle Kwan, baseball player Mark Prior and gymnast Sean Townsend. The recipient will be announced at The New York Athletic Club on April 9, 2002. There have been numerous track and field winners of the Sullivan Award, including Jackie Joyner-Kersee (1986), the late Florence Griffith-Joyner (1988) and Michael Johnson (1996). Acuff posters available online 2001 U.S. indoor and outdoor high jump champion Amy Acuff is offering a limited edition series of posters online. The two-time Olympian is featured in a series that includes Acuff at the 2001 U.S. Outdoor Championships as well as images by world renowned photographers Heinz Kluetmeir and Howard Schatz. For information on the posters, including cost and how to order, visit Acuff s Web site at www.amyacuff.com. Wedding bells for Stringfellow 2001 World Championships long jump bronze medalist Savante Stringfellow recently tied the knot with long-time girlfriend Leah Hales, his college sweetheart from Ole Miss. Stringfellow and Hales married on Saturday, March 2, just outside of Jackson, Mississippi. Stringfellow is the 2001 U.S. outdoor and 2000 U.S. indoor champion and was a 2000 Olympian. He was a four-time NCAA champion while at Ole Miss. # # #
t-and-f: USATF News Notes - 3/15/02
-- Forwarded message -- From: USATF Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: USATF News Notes - 3/15/02 Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 18:30:15 -0500 Contact:Melissa Beasley Communications Coordinator USA Track Field (317) 261-0478 x335 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.usatf.org USATF News Notes Volume 3, Number 26 March 15, 2002 Field, purse for mens 8k champs gets deeper Tim Broe, the 3000m American record holder (7:39.23) announced Thursday that he will compete 2002 USA Mens 8k Championships on April 6 in New York City. Broes announcement came from Allan Steinfeld, President and CEO of the New York Road Runners (NYRR). Steinfeld also announced the addition of U.S. Olympians Abdi Abdiraham, Mark Coogan and Todd Williams to the starting field of close to 50 top American men, who will be competing for a total money prize purse of $20,000. NYRR has also offered a $25,000 bonus for breaking the American 8k record of 22:04 held by USA Track Field Hall of Famer Alberto Salazar since 1981. IAAF introduces EPO out of competition testing The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) announced Thursday that they will be the first international sport federation to test for EPO and related substances out of competition, all year round, and on an unannounced basis. EPO testing also will take place at all future World Athletic Series competitions, starting at the World Cross Country Championships in Dublin, Ireland on March 23-24. REMEMBER When - from indoor to outdoor March is a transition month for track and field, when the action moves from the tight confines of indoor tracks to the wider expanses of 400-meter outdoor ovals. For many years, almost 100 to be exact, indoor track was treated as a stepchild to its outdoor version. That all changed at Indianapolis, Indiana, on March 6-8, 1987, when the first IAAF World Indoor Championships were held at the RCA Dome. Two of the meets highlights were womens world records by Heike Drechsler of Germany in the 200 meters (22.27) and Stefka Kostadinova of Bulgaria in the high jump (6-8.75/2.05m). But that meet represented more than just championships and performances. It also brought indoor track into the mainstream of the track and field community. Prior to 1987, indoor world records fell under the world indoor best category. Starting in 1987, indoor records were offically recognized by the IAAF. Thus another chapter was written in the long history of the sport. CORRECTION: XC Winter Nationals team scores Due to a computer scoring error, the team results in the senior mens 12k race at the 2002 USA Winter Cross Country Championships February 10 in Vancouver, Washington, were incorrectly reported. Adidas won the team title with a low score of 34 points. The Nike Farm Team was second with 36 points and Hansons Running Shop was third with 41 points. # # #
t-and-f: USATF News Notes: March 11, 2002
-- Forwarded message -- From: USATF Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: USATF News Notes: March 11, 2002 Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 15:04:58 -0500 Contact:Tom Surber Media Information Manager USA Track Field (317) 261-0500 x317 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.usatf.org USATF News Notes Volume 3, Number 24 March 11, 2002 Hartwig does it again, and again Jeff Hartwigs amazing 2002 indoor season continued over the weekend as he set the American record in the pole vault on two occasions at two different meets. This marks the third time this season that Hartwig has set the American record. On Saturday Hartwig bettered his previous standard by clearing 6.01m/19-8.75 on his third attempt in Bad Oinhausen, Germany. On Sunday Hartwig did it again by soaring over 6.02m/19-9 at the HIS Indoor Meeting in Sindelfingen, Germany. With his performance, Hartwig becomes the second-best indoor pole vaulter of all time, trailing only world record holder Sergey Bubka of Ukraine. Hartwig first set the American record this year on February 25 with a clearance of 6.00 meters/19 feet, 8.25 inches, bettering the standard of 5.96m/196-5 set by Lawrence Johnson in winning the 2001 U.S. Indoor Championship. Drossin, Keflezighi successfully defend U.S. 15K titles at Gate River 2000 Olympian Deena Drossin smashed the twelve-and-a-half year old U.S. 15K record, and Meb Keflezighi became the third fastest American ever Saturday at the U.S 15K Championships at the Gate River Run in Jacksonville, Florida. Drossins victory in 48 minutes, 14 seconds also established her as the first woman ever to win three straight U.S. 15K road titles. As is her custom, Drossin took charge at the gun, ignoring the high humidity and temperatures reaching 80 degrees. Drossin went on to dominate a field that included five Olympians, beating both Francie Larrieu Smith's course record of 48:43 from 1991 and Lisa Weidenbach's U.S. record of 48:28, set at the Cascade Run Off in Portland, Oregon in 1989. Elva Dryer finished second behind Drossin in a 15K debut 48:50, good for 6th on the U.S. all-time 15K list. Jen Rhines placed third in 49:22, followed by Colleen De Reuck, fourth in 49:39 and Milena Glusac, fifth in 49:46. Drossin, 29, earned $10,000 for the victory, plus the $3000 course- and $5000 American-record bonuses offered by the Gate River Run organizers in this the 25th anniversary of the event. In the mens race, Meb Keflezighi successfully defended his title in 42:29, the second fastest course time ever by an American. Keflezighi defeated a quality field featuring eight Olympians by controlling the tempo and pushing the pace as needed. Keflezighis 2000 Olympic teammates Abdi Abdirahman (2nd- 42:49) and Alan Culpepper (3rd-43:33) provided a stiff challenge until late in the race. Chris Graff was 4th in 44:25, with Clint Wells 5th in 44:30 and Scott Larson 6th in 44:54. NCAA wrap-up Led by sophomore sprinter Justin Gatlin, the University of Tennessee mens team won its first-ever indoor team title over the weekend at the NCAA Division I Championships in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Gatlin edged his Tennessee teammate Leonard Scott in the 60 meters, winning the race in 6.59 seconds, with Scott finishing in second just 0.02 behind. Gatlin, who won the NCAA Outdoor 100m and 200m titles last year as a freshman, also won the 200 meter crown in 20.63. The Volunteers tallied 62.5 points in winning the title, followed by Alabama (2nd-47 points), Louisiana State (3rd-44 points) and Arkansas (4th-39 points). In the womens division, LSU won the team title with 57 points, picking up 14 points Saturday in the triple jump when Nicole Toney, Bianca Rocket and Andria Booker placed 1st, 6th 8th respectively. Defending champion UCLA was second with 43 points. Florida was third with 35 points. At the NCAA Division II Championships in Boston, Abilene Christian won its ninth team title, easily outdistancing St. Augustines and Western State, who tied for the runner-up spot with 44 points. John Kemboi led Abilene Christian to the title by winning the 800 meters and the mile. In the womens competition, Amanda Thieschafer and Crystal Cummins finished 1-2 in the triple jump in leading North Dakota State to its first-ever NCAA team championship. In totaling 67.50 points, North Dakota State finished ahead of St. Augustines (2nd-45 points), Adams State (3rd-41 points) and Abilene Christian (4th-36 points). Wheaton College (Massachusetts) won its fourth straight NCAA Division III womens title with 65.5 points, just missing the Championships record of 66 points by Christopher Newport (Va.) in 1988. Shimera Daniels led the way for Wheaton by setting two NCAA III records, winning both the long jump (5.96m/19-6.73) and triple jump (12.62m/41-5). Wheaton also got NCAA Division III record wins from sophomore Amber James, who won the
t-and-f: USATF Release: Hartwig named Athlete of the Week
-- Forwarded message -- From: USATF Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: USATF Release: Hartwig named Athlete of the Week Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 12:59:22 -0500 Contact:Tom Surber Media Information Officer USA Track Field (317) 261-0500 x317 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.usatf.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 12, 2002 Hartwig named Athlete of the Week INDIANAPOLIS Jeff Hartwig has been named USA Track Fields Athlete of the Week after breaking his own American record in the pole vault twice last weekend in Germany. On Saturday Hartwig cleared 6.01 meters/19 feet, 8.5 inches on his third attempt in Bad Oinhausen, Germany. On Sunday Hartwig did it again by soaring over 6.02m/19-9 at the HIS Indoor Meeting in Sindelfingen, Germany. With his performance, Hartwig becomes the second-best indoor pole vaulter of all time, trailing only world record holder Sergey Bubka of Ukraine. Hartwig first set the American indoor record this year on February 25 with a clearance of 6.00m/19-8.25, improving on the previous AR of 5.96m/19-6.5 set last year by Lawrence Johnson. This marks the third time this indoor season that Hartwig has been named USATFs Athlete of the Week. He also earned the distinction on February 5 and February 26. Other notable performances this past week include Denna Drossins record-setting victory at the USA 15K Championships at the Gate River Run in Jacksonville, Florida. Drossin won the event in 48 minutes, 14 seconds, smashing the twelve-and-a-half year old U.S. 15K record of 48:28 by Lisa Weidenbach in 1989 at the Cascade Run Off in Portland, Oregon. Drossins time also set a new course record, bettering Francie Larrieu Smiths 1991 standard of 48:43. In the mens race at Gate River Meb Keflezighi successfully defended his U.S. 15K title in 42:29, the second fastest course time every by an American. At the NCAA Division I Indoor Championships in Fayetteville, sophomore sprinter Justin Gatlin let the University of Tennessees mens team to its first-ever indoor title by winning the 60m and 200 meter titles. Gatlin edged his Tennessee teammate Leonard Scott in the 60 meters, winning the race in 6.59 seconds, with Scott finishing in second just 0.02 behind. Gatlin, who won the NCAA Outdoor 100m and 200m titles last year as a freshman, also won the 200 meter crown in 20.63. Collegiate records were set over the weekend by Arizonas Amy Linnen and Clemsons Jamine Moton at the NCAA Division I Indoor Championships in Fayetteville. Linnen set the collegiate record in the womens pole vault with a best of 4.53m/14-10.25, and Moton set the womens collegiate weight throw record in winning the NCAA title with a heave of 22.50m/73-10. Now in its second year, USATFs Athlete of the Week program is designed to recognize performers at all levels of the sport. USATF names a new honoree each week and features the athlete on the USATF Web site. Selections are based on top performances and results from the previous week. 2002 USATF Athlete of the Week winners: January 3, Jim Garcia; January 8, Mary Louise Michelsohn; January 15, Tamara Diles; January 22, Miguel Pate; January 29, Regina Jacobs; February 5, Jeff Hartwig; February 12, Meb Keflezighi; February 19, Curt Clausen; February 26, Jeff Hartwig; March 2, Nicole Teter; March 12, Jeff Hartwig. TOP INDOOR PERFORMANCES, WEEK OF MARCH 12 60 METERS 6.55 Leonard Scott (Tennessee) at NCAA Division I Indoor Champs 200 METERS 20.63 Justin Gatlin (Tennessee) at NCAA Division I Indoor Champs 800 METERS 1:47.41 Marc Sylvester (Tennessee) at NCAA Division I Indoor Champs 5,000 METERS 13:50.35, Jorge Torres (Colorado) at NCAA Division I Indoor Champs 60-METERS HURDLES 7.55 Ron Bramlett (Alabama) at NCAA Division I Indoor Champs HIGH JUMP 7-5 (2.26m) Tora Harris (Princeton) at NCAA Division I Indoor Champs POLE VAULT 19-9 (6.02m) (March 10) -Jeff Hartwig at Sindelfingen, Germany (American indoor record) 19-8.75 (6.01m) (March 9) Jeff Hartwig at Bad Oinhausen, Germany (American indoor record) LONG JUMP 27-4.5 (8.34m) Miguel Pate (Alabama) at NCAA Division I Indoor Champs TRIPLE JUMP 56-6.5 (17.23m) Walter Davis (Louisiana State) at NCAA Division Indoor Champs (U.S. leader) SHOT PUT 67-0 (20.43m) Christian Cantwell (Missouri) at NCAA Division I Indoor Champs WEIGHT THROW 76-1 (23.19m) Thomas Freeman (Manhattan) at NCAA Division I Indoor Champs WOMENS 60 METERS - 7.13 Angela Williams (Southern Calif) at NCAA Division I Indoor Champs (equals U.S. lead) WOMENS 200 METERS 22.82 Muna Lee (Louisiana State) at NCAA Division I Indoor Champs (U.S. leader) WOMENS 400 METERS 52.34 Demetria Washington (South Carolina) at NCAA Division I Indoor Champs WOMENS 800 METERS 2:02.39 Nicole Teter at Glasgow, Scotland WOMENS 3,000 METERS
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t-and-f: USATF Media Advisory: 2002 USA Indoor Championships
-- Forwarded message -- From: USATF Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: USATF Media Advisory: 2002 USA Indoor Championships Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 17:21:26 -0500 MEMO: February 20, 2002 TO: U.S. Athletics Media FROM: Tom Surber (317) 261-0500 x317 Media Information Manager USA Track Field SUBJECT:USA Indoor Championships MEDIA ADVISORY 2002 USA INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS CREDENTIAL APPLICATIONS: A reminder that media credential applications for the 2002 USA Indoor Track Field Championships March 1-2 in New York City were due on February 15. If you have not yet turned in your application and you wish to cover the Championships, fax your credential request on company letterhead IMMEDIATELY to Dave Herscher at Joe Goldstein Public Relations at (212) 629-0378; phone is (212) 629-0370. The Championships will be held at the Armory Track Field Center at 168th Street in New York. There will be limited seating for 25 working media in the press tribune with work space and electricity. Overflow media seating will be in the balcony, where power and tabletops are not available. Additional, a limited amount work space will be available in a small media workroom/interview room in the Armory. TELEPHONE/FILING INFORMATION: Media requiring their own, dedicated phone line for filing purposes must purchase a line through the Armory at a cost of $500 per line. To order a phone, call Bill Carney cell# (954)-328-7504. Other reporters needing to file stories from the Armory may use one of the two general-access phone lines that will be provided in the media tribune area. Phones may be used for local or credit-card calls. HOTEL/TRANSPORTATION INFORMATION: The meet headquarters hotel is the Grand Hyatt New York, located on the corner of Lexington and 42nd Street (at Grand Central Station). The phone number is (646) 213-6830. Several shuttles will run from the hotel to the Armory on Friday and Saturday. The Armory is also accessible via subway. CREDENTIAL PICK-UP: USATFs media office will open Wednesday afternoon, February 27, in room 1401 of the Grand Hyatt; direct phone line to the room is 646-213-6956. Credentials may be picked up at that location through Thursday evening. After that time they may be picked up at Will-Call at the Armory. PRESS CONFERENCE: USATF will host a pre-meet press conference at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, February 27 in the Regency Room of the Grand Hyatt (Mezzanine level). Additional information on the press conference and athletes who will attend the press conference will be distributed in coming days. In addition, the Track Writers Association of Metropolitan New York will meet at 12 noon on Monday, February 25, at Da Tommasso Restaurant, located at 908 8th Avenue near the corner of 54th Street. Officials from USATF, the Armory, NYC 2012, and athletes competing at Indoor Nationals will be at the luncheon or available via phone at that time. # # #
t-and-f: USATF News Notes: February 20, 2002
-- Forwarded message -- From: USATF Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: USATF News Notes: February 20, 2002 Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 14:48:34 -0500 Contact:Tom Surber Media Information Manager USA Track Field (317) 261-0500 x317 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.usatf.org USATF News Notes Volume 3 Number 15 February 20, 2002 Flowers wins gold in Salt Lake Vonetta Flowers, a seven-time track All-American at the University of Alabama-Birmingham and currently an assistant track coach at her alma mater, won a gold medal in the womens bobsled competition Tuesday at the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City. With her victory as the brakewoman for driver Jill Bakken, Flowers becomes the first black athlete in history to win a gold medal at a Winter Olympics. The win also provided the U.S. with its first Olympic bobsled victory in 46 years. This is the first year of Olympic womens bobsled competition. For the 28-year-old Flowers, competing in bobsled provided another route to the goal of an Olympic gold medal when her dream of being a summer Olympian in track and field ended following two knee operations and an ankle surgery. Im so happy, Flowers told the Associated Press. I have truly been blessed to come into this sport and pick it up so fast. I never thought I would be here. My goal was to make the Summer Olympics. God had a different plan for me. Known for most of her track career as Vonetta Jeffrey (now married to former UAB track and football star Johnny Mack Flowers), Flowers had national end of the year rankings in the womens long jump of #8 in 1994, #6 in 1995 and #8 in 1998. The Conference USA long and triple jump champion while at UAB in 1996, Flowers won the womens long jump at the 1994 Olympic Festival. Flowers placed sixth in the long jump in 1995 in her best ever finish at the USA Outdoor Championships. Flowers got involved with the U.S. bobsled team after reading a flyer announcing an open tryout while she was competing at the 2000 Olympic Track Field Trials in Sacramento. Flowers performed well during a six-event test that included sprinting, jumping and throwing a shot put. With only two weeks of training on how to push a bobsled, Flowers and her driver Bonny Warner set a new world start record in October 2000 at Park City, Utah, the site of this years Games. The two won four World Cup medals that season and ended the campaign ranked #3 in the world. Currently in her second year as an assistant coach at UAB, Flowers spent two years as an assistant at the University of Alabama, where she coached field events and was the head equipment manager. Flowers received her Bachelor of Science degree in Physical Education in 1997. Discount tickets available for USA Indoor Championships A new special offer for student discount tickets is now available for the 2002 USA Indoor Track Field Championships, March 1-2 at the 168th Street Armory in New York City. Tickets for the event are now only $10 for a two-day pass for high school students, and $10 for coaches or teachers accompanied by five students. To order student tickets contact Karl Smith at the Armory at (212) 923-1803 ext. 12, or Lou Vasquez at ext. 14. Tickets may also be ordered through Ticketmaster at (212) 307-7171, or at www.ticketmaster.com. You may also purchase tickets at the SuperRunners Shop at the Armory. # # #
t-and-f: USATF Release: Whitfield to donate Olympic gold medal to Hall ofFame
-- Forwarded message -- From: USATF Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: USATF Release: Whitfield to donate Olympic gold medal to Hall of Fame Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 14:39:13 -0500 Contact: Jill M. Geer Director of Communications, USATF 317-261-0500 x360 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.usatf.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, February 18, 2002 Whitfield to donate Olympic gold medal to Hall of Fame NEW YORK - Three-time Olympic gold medalist Mal Whitfield on Monday announced that he will donate his 1952 800m gold medal to the National Track Field Hall of Fame. Whitfield will make the presentation March 1 in ceremonies at the 2002 USA Indoor Track Field Championships, held March 1-2 at the Armory Track Field Center on 168th Street in Washington Heights. The Hall of Fame will reopen at the Armory in 2003. Whitfield, 77, made the announcement at a meeting of the Track Writers Association of Metropolitan New York. I thought, maybe what I need to do before I give up this whole thing is to try to let young people see what an Olympic gold medal looks like, said Whitfield, who displayed the medal at the luncheon. For 12 straight years I trained at the Armory with (coach) Joe Yancey and the New York Pioneers. I am willing to donate this medal to the Armory, and I am doing that in hopes that young people will have a vision. My vision goes beyond track field. It has taken me to 187 countries. The 800-meter Olympic gold medalist in 1948 and 1952 and 4x400m relay gold medalist in 1948, Whitfield was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1974. During his competitive days, Whitfield - or Marvelous Mal, as he was called - trained and competed at the Armory. Whitfield will join fellow members of the 1952 Olympic Team who will be honored during a special presentation during the Indoor Championships in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the 1952 Team. Born October 11, 1924 in Bay City, Texas, Whitfield held his share of world records. But first and foremost, he was an athlete who ran to win rather than running for time. Competitive at any distance from 220 yards to the mile, Whitfield put together a record that included two Olympic 800m crowns, six world records and eight National AAU titles, six of them outdoors. A sergeant in the U.S. Air Force while attending Ohio State, Whitfield won national collegiate 800 yard/800 meter titles in 1948 and 1949. He made his first Olympic team in 1948, taking the 800 meters in 1:49.2, an Olympic record, and placing third in the 400. He garnered a second gold medal in the 4x400m relay, which ran a world-record time of 3:10.4. In 1952, he repeated his 800m victory, again in 1:49.2, and earned a silver medal in the 4x400. Whitfield narrowly missed making the 1956 Olympic team while a student at Cal State Los Angeles. The 1954 Sullivan Award winner as the top amateur athlete in the U.S., he later worked for the U.S. State Department in Africa. He was elected to the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame in 1988. Earlier this month he was inducted into the Millrose Games Hall of Fame. For more information on the 2002 USA Indoor Track Field Championships, visit the USATF Web site, www.usatf.org. Sauer, Mueller ready to soar Also at the Track Writers luncheon, U.S. pole vaulters Mary Sauer and Mel Mueller discussed by phone hook-up their seasons, in which both women have vaulted over 15 feet in the span of just over a week. Sauer cleared 4.61 meters/15 feet, 1.5 inches Sunday in Flagstaff, Arizona, while Mueller cleared 4.60/15-1 the previous weekend, also in Flagstaff. The two train together under Anthony Curran at UCLA. Below are excerpts from their phone call-in. MEL MUELLER Q: Mel, you have had a great deal of success vaulting in New York, winning at Millrose in 1999 with a then-American record. How do you feel about coming back to New York for Indoor Nationals? MUELLER: I'm always excited to come back to New York, but Mary and I will probably be there for the shopping (laughter). I hear the Armory is a great place to compete. The crowd goes crazy - we thrive on that, and I'm really looking forward to it. Q: How do you account for your improvement this season? MUELLER: I am injury-free this year for the first time in two years. (Mueller had knee surgery in 2001). Both Mary and I went to UCLA to train with Anthony Current, so we will have a very good year. Q: Would you rather win an Olympic/World Championships gold medal or set a world record? MUELLER: I think I want it all. We want to jump well and do it when it counts. MARY SAUER Q: How have you and Mel going over 15 feet recently changed the complexion of the upcoming Nationals? SAUER: I think it's going to make for a great competition. I think it has been pretty one-sided with Stacy winning. It should be more interesting this year. Q: How has training together (with Mueller) under Anthony Curran affected your training? SAUER: He is a really
t-and-f: USATF Release: Clausen named Athlete of the Week
-- Forwarded message -- From: USATF Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: USATF Release: Clausen named Athlete of the Week Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 16:38:09 -0500 Contact:Tom Surber Media Information Manager USA Track Field (317) 261-0500 x317 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.usatf.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 19, 2002 Clausen named Athlete of the Week INDIANAPOLIS Curt Clausen has been named USA Track Fields Athlete of the Week after winning his third career U.S. 50K Race Walk Championship Sunday in Chula Vista, California. Clausen passed 2000 Olympian and defending champion Philip Dunn with about 2K remaining in the race before winning the championship in 3 hours, 58 minutes, 55 seconds. Dunn was second in 3:59:59. The bronze medalist in the 50K race walk at the 1999 IAAF World Outdoor Championships in Seville, Spain, Clausen now owns seven career U.S. outdoor race walk titles (four at 20K and three at 50K). Other top performances this week included world-leading marks by sprinter Shawn Crawford and pole vaulter Jeff Hartwig. Crawford ran a blistering 20.30 in winning the 200 meters in Birmingham, England over the weekend, while Hartwig, the U.S. outdoor record holder, cleared 5.91 meters/19 feet, 4.75 inches in Flagstaff, Arizona. Also at Flagstaff, Mary Sauer set a U.S. leading mark in the womens pole vault, clearing 4.61m/15-1.50. An additional U.S. leader was turned in by Kevin Mannon with a 35-pound weight throw of 23.37m/76-8.25 in Columbus, Ohio. Other notable performances were turned in by Susan Armenta, who won the U.S. womens 50K race walk title in the new American record time of 4:39:39, which bettered her old U.S. standard by more than 10 minutes. In masters action, Marie Louise Michelsohn continued her season-long assault on the womens 60-64 age group records by setting a new world and American record in the mile with a hand-timed mark of 6:15.5. She also set a new American record in the 3,000 meters by running 12:18.77, bettering the previous U.S. standard of 12:38.96. Now in its second year, USATFs Athlete of the Week program is designed to recognize performers at all levels of the sport. USATF names a new honoree each week and features the athlete on the USATF Web site. Selections are based on top performances and results from the previous week. 2002 USATF Athlete of the Week winners: January 3, Jim Garcia; January 8, Mary Louise Michelsohn; January 15, Tamara Diles; January 22, Miguel Pate; January 29, Regina Jacobs; February 5, Jeff Hartwig; February 12, Meb Keflezighi; February 19, Curt Clausen. TOP INDOOR PERFORMANCES, WEEK OF FEBRUARY 17 60 METERS 6.56 Brian Lewis at Birmingham, England 6.57 Shawn Crawford at Birmingham, England 6.59 Ray Saddler at Birmingham, England 200 METERS 20.30 Shawn Crawford at Birmingham, England (world leader) 400 METERS 46.42 Mike Kenyon (Arizona) at Flagstaff, Arizona 60-METERS HURDLES 7.56 Allen Johnson at Birmingham, England HIGH JUMP 7-4.5 (2.25m) - Nathan Leeper at Kansas State POLE VAULT 19-4.75 (5.91m) Jeff Hartwig at Flagstaff, Arizona (world leader) 19-0.75 (5.81m) Tye Harvey at Flagstaff, Arizona LONG JUMP 26-10 (8.18m) Kevin Dilworth at Birmingham, England TRIPLE JUMP 55-3.5 (16.85m) LeJuan Simon (Barton County CC) at Norman, Oklahoma SHOT PUT 66-1 (20.14m) Christian Cantwell (Missouri) at Kansas State WEIGHT THROW 76-8.25 (23.37m) Kevin Mannon at Ohio State (U.S. leader) WOMENS 60 METERS - 7.19 Gail Devers at Birmingham, England WOMENS 400 METERS 52.99 Monique Hennagan at Birmingham, England WOMENS POLE VAULT 15-1.5 (4.61m) Mary Sauer at Flagstaff, Arizona (U.S. leader) WOMENS TRIPLE JUMP 43-11.25 (13.39m) Tiombe Hurd at Fairfax, Va. WOMENS SHOT PUT 57-4.25 (17.48m) Teri Steer at Columbia, SC (U.S. leader) WOMENS WEIGHT THROW 75-3.5 (22.95m) Dawn Ellerbe at Columbia, SC # # # PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE: If you would like to respond, please direct your e-mail to the Contact person listed at the top of the text of this message. To be removed from this mailing list or to notify us of a change in your e-mail address, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
t-and-f: USATF Media Teleconference: Wade and Teter to speak on ThursdayTeleconference
-- Forwarded message -- From: USATF Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: USATF Media Teleconference: Wade and Teter to speak on Thursday Teleconference Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 15:56:19 -0500 MEMO: February 19, 2002 TO: U.S. Athletics Media FROM: Tom Surber (317) 261-0478 x317 Media Information Manager USA Track Field SUBJECT:Media Teleconference MEDIA ADVISORY: Wade and Teter to speak on Thursday Teleconference Larry Wade, winner of the 60m hurdles at the Verizon Millrose Games and the adidas Midwest Indoor Track Classic, and Nicole Teter, who ran a winning debut in the womens mile at the adidas Midwest Indoor Track Classic, will speak on a USATF media teleconference at 1 p.m. Eastern on Thursday, February 21. Both athletes are expected to compete at the USA Indoor Track Field Championships March 1-2 at the Armory Track Field Center in New York City. Wade has stormed onto the track scene in 2002, winning two Golden Spike Tour meets and proving he has recovered from a devastating injury suffered in a 2000 automobile accident. At the 2002 Verizon Millrose Games, Wade beat a tough field with winning time of 7.60. One week later, Wade beat an equally impressive field to win at the adidas Midwest Indoor Track Classic. Teter ran a world-leading time of 4:32.71 in her debut of the womens mile at the adidas Midwest Indoor Track Classic. Previously an 800m specialist, the California native pulled away from an impressive international field in the final 200m that included Russian Lyudmila Vasilyeva, Jamaican Mardrea Hyman and Americans Sarah Schwald and Miesha Marzell. To participate in Wednesday's teleconference, please dial (800) 791-2345 just prior to the beginning of the call. If you are dialing from outside North America, dial (317) 713-0120. The access code is 64186. Shortly after the call, a full audio replay and partial transcript will be available on the USATF Web site - www.usatf.org. # # #
t-and-f: USATF News Notes: February 11, 2002
-- Forwarded message -- From: USATF Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: USATF News Notes: February 11, 2002 Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 17:02:30 -0500 Contact:Melissa Beasley Communications Coordinator USA Track Field 317-261-0478 x335 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.usatf.org News Notes Volume 3, Number 12 February 11, 2002 Linnen breaks NCAA Pole Vault record Amy Linnen, a sophomore from the University of Arizona, broke the NCAA Women s Indoor Pole Vault record with a clearance of 4.52 meters/14 feet, 10 inches at the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational in Lincoln, Neb., on Friday. Linnens mark, the third best in the world as of February 8, automatically qualifies her for both the NCAA and USATF Indoor Championships. The previous record mark was 4.51m/14-9.5. World Records fall in Pole Vault and 10,000m Svetlana Feofanova of Russia broke her own womens pole vault world record for the second time in eight days, while Kenyas Mark Bett ran the fastest ever indoor 10,000 meters Sunday at the Flanders meet in Ghent, Belgium. Feofanova cleared 4.72m/15-6 to add a half-inch to the record that she set last Wednesday in Stockholm. Bett shattered the 27-year old world best, winning in 27 minutes, 50.29 seconds, more than 21 seconds faster than Belgian Emiel Puttemans previous world-best time of 28:12.04 NYRR will host the 2002 USA Mens 8k Champs Twenty of Americas top runners will be in New York City on April 6 to compete in the USA Mens 8k Championships, New York Road Runners (NYRR) President and CEO Allan Steinfeld announced on Monday. The event returns to New York after a nine-year absence and will be run in conjunction with the annual Police/Fire race in Central Park. Joining Steinfield in the announcement were the first two confirmed entrants, reigning USA Mens Marathon champion Scott Larson and 2001 USA 10k champion Nick Rogers. Also announced as entered is Dan Browne, the 2001 USA Running Circuit Grand Prix Co-Champion (with Larson). Runners will compete for a total prize purse of $20,000, with first place receiving $5000, second place $4000, third place $3000, fourth place $2000 and fifth place $1250. The USA Mens 8k Championships were last held in 1993 when Ed Eyestone (22:40) won the title in Portland, Ore. The American 8k record is held by 2001 USATF Hall of Fame Inductee Alberto Salazar (22:04) set in 1981. Marathons on view Fox Sports International has released the premiere episode of the series Marathons for worldwide distribution. The Marathons series features highlights and news items from the top marathons and road races around the world. The first episode focuses on the best events and performances in the past year, including Berlin, Paris, Chicago, New York City, Honolulu, Dubai, Osaka, plus cross-country racing from Europe. For distribution information contact Marcia Bylicki at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Capel heads back to the gridiron John Capel, the 2000 Olympic Trials 200m champion, signed a three-year contract with the NFLs Kansas City Chiefs on Monday. Capel, a two-sport athlete from the University of Florida was drafted by the Chicago Bears in the seventh round of the 2001 NFL Draft, but was cut before training camp began. Capel was ranked #1 in the U.S. (#6 in the world) at 200m by Track Field News at the conclusion of the 2000 season. ###
t-and-f: USATF Media Teleconference: Johnson and Norgren-Mahon to speak onWednesday Teleconference
-- Forwarded message -- From: USATF Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: USATF Media Teleconference: Johnson and Norgren-Mahon to speak on Wednesday Teleconference Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 16:05:36 -0500 MEMO: February 11, 2002 TO: U.S. Athletics Media FROM: Tom Surber (317) 261-0478 x317 Media Information Manager USA Track Field SUBJECT:Media Teleconference MEDIA ADVISORY: Johnson and Norgren-Mahon to speak on Wednesday Teleconference Joshua JJ Johnson, who won the mens 60m in 6.56 seconds at the adidas Midwest Indoor Track Classic on Saturday, and U.S. weight thrower Anna Norgren-Mahon, who threw a world-leading 23.56 meters/77 feet, 3.75 inches at the Verizon Millrose Games on February 1, will speak on a USATF media teleconference at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, February 13. Both athletes are expected to compete at the USA Indoor Track Field Championships March 1-2 at the Armory Track Field Center in New York City. Johnson, ranked #7 in the world at 200 meters by Track Field News, continues to tear up the U.S. Indoor circuit after winning his first Golden Spike Tour (GST) event on Saturday and finishing second at the Verizon Millrose Games. A relative newcomer to track and field, Johnson has only been running competitively the last two years but has quickly made his mark. Johnson won a 4x100m relay gold medal at the 2001 World Outdoor Championships, running anchor leg in the rounds. He posted the fastest 200m time in the world last year at 19.88 seconds. Norgren-Mahon, the U.S. leader in the weight throw in 2002, is one of the up and coming hammer/weight throwers in the U.S. Earlier this year, she came within 4 cm of Dawn Ellerbes world record in the womens 20-pound weight throw when she won at the Verizon Millrose Games. In 2001, Norgren-Mahon owned four of the top ten hammer marks in the U.S. outdoors and was runner-up to Ellerbe at both the U.S. Indoor and Outdoor Championships. To participate in Wednesday's teleconference, please dial (800) 791-2345 just prior to the beginning of the call. If you are dialing from outside North America, dial (317) 713-0120. The access code is 64186. Shortly after the call, a full audio replay and partial transcript will be available on the USATF Web site - www.usatf.org. # # #
t-and-f: USATF Release: Records fall at adidas Midwest Indoor Track Classic
-- Forwarded message -- From: USATF Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: USATF Release: Records fall at adidas Midwest Indoor Track Classic Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 21:45:13 -0500 Contact:Melissa Beasley Communications Coordinator USA Track Field 317-261-0478 x335 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.usatf.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Saturday, February 9, 2002 U.S. leaders and stadium records fall at adidas Midwest Indoor Track Classic LINCOLN, NE - USA Track Field's Golden Spike Tour (GST) made its third stop of the 2002 season at the adidas Midwest Indoor Track Classic (aMITC) a historical one for the University of Nebraska's year-old indoor track. Elite athletes, both American and international, rewrote the record books with stadium records in 9 of 10 elite competitions. The fast times coming despite a 20-minute delay when a citywide power failure caused the auxiliary lights to go out midway through the meet. Larry Wade ran a U.S. leading time of 7.47 to win the Verizon Men's 60m Hurdles. Wade, fresh off a win at the Verizon Millrose Games, led a cast of four hurdlers who bettered the previous Devaney Center record time of 7.72. Nicole Teter clocked a world-leading time of 4:32.71 to lower Regina Jacobs' mark from just last weekend. Teter pulled away from an impressive international field in the final 200m that included Russian Lyudmila Vasilyeva, Jamaican Mardrea Hyman and Americans Sarah Schwald and Miesha Marzell. Four of the milers lowered the Devaney Center record time of 4:38.33 from 1992. Another U.S. leader came in the men's shot put with Adam Nelson throwing 21.04m/69-00.50 to win the competition over South Africa's Janus Robberts (20.31m/66-07.75). Nelson, who now owns the two best throws in the U.S. in 2002, also bettered John Godina's Devaney Center record mark of 20.32m/66-8. In the most exciting race of the night, Kenya's Bernard Lagat, on a world record pace until the final 300 meters, clocked the first sub-four minute mile in the state of Nebraska with his winning time of 3:55.07 in the men's mile. The 3:55.07 was the second world leading time clocked in Saturday's meet. Joshua (J.J.) Johnson kicked off the action with a blistering 6.56 seconds in the men's 60 meters, edging out Barbados' Obadele Thompson (6.67) and Mickey Grimes (6.68). Thompson owned the Devaney Center record time of 6.60 from 1997 before Johnson lowered the time to 6.56. Jamaica's Lacena Golding-Clarke, competing in her first Golden Spike Tour event this season, edged out Melissa Morrison to win the women's 60m hurdles. Golding-Clarke (7.94) and Morrison (7.96) both ran lower than the Devaney Center record time of 7.99 by Perdita Felicien, set just seven days ago. Jearl Miles-Clark chalked up her second GST win with a 52.21in the women's 400 meters, also a Devaney Center record. Miles-Clark pulled away from Suziann Reid in the final 100m to claim the victory. In the best finish of the day, Derrick Peterson came from behind to win the men's 800 meters in 1:49.30 over fellow American David Krummenacker (1:49.40) and Kenyan David Kiptoo (1:49.55). Peterson, Krummenacker and Kiptoo were neck and neck coming down the final straight away, with Peterson giving a final kick for the win at the finish line. On the field, Derek Miles and Jeff Hartwig both bettered the Devaney Center record mark of 5.69 meters/18 feet, 8 inches, with Miles winning on fewer misses. The Visa Men's Pole Vault was without American Indoor recordholder Lawrence Johnson, who scratched from the event after re-injuring his left ankle while warming up. Miles and Hartwig raised the new mark to 5.70m/18-8.25. In the women's high jump, 2001 U.S. Indoor Champion Amy Acuff won her second GST competition with a Devaney Center record clearance of 1.92m/6-3.5. The previous mark for the Devaney Center was 1.91m/6-3.25 from1996. The adidas Midwest Indoor Track Classic will be broadcasted nationally from 4-5:00 pm Eastern Time on ESPN2, Sunday, February 10. The four-meet series concludes with the USATF Indoor National Championships, March 1 and 2 in New York City. For complete results from the adidas Midwest Indoor Track Classic, and for more information on the Golden Spike Tour, visit the USATF Web site, www.usatf.org. Winner's quotes - adidas Midwest Indoor Track Classic JJ Johnson, Men's 60m: I've been focusing on my start, it wasn't a great start tonight. I have to take over in the middle of the race since my start is so slow. I'm going to take the rest of the time off (until Indoor Championships) so I can focus more on my start and get more power coming out of the blocks. Lacena Golding-Clarke, Women's 60m Hurdles: I'm happy that I came out here and won, this was a very good field. The U.S. has very, very good athletes and its good that I came here and did great. Larry Wade, Men's 60m Hurdles: It feels great to come
t-and-f: Jacobs wins second 4K Title at USA Winter XC Champs
-- Forwarded message -- From: USATF Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: USATF Release: Jacobs wins second 4K Title at USA Winter Cross Country Championships Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 18:17:49 -0500 Contact:Tom Surber Media Information Manager USA Track Field (317) 261-0500 x317 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.usatf.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 10, 2002 Jacobs wins second 4K Title at USA Winter Cross Country Championships VANCOUVER, Wash. - Two-time World Outdoor Championships silver medalist Regina Jacobs ran away from a talented field in the final kilometer to win her second consecutive U.S. women's 4K title at the 2002 Winter Cross Country Championships Sunday in Vancouver, Wash. Jacobs won the race in 12 minutes, 55 seconds, and later announced that she will compete in the women's 3,000m steeplechase during the 2002 outdoor season (see details below). Other winners today included 2000 Olympian Meb Keflezighi, who successfully defended his U.S. men's 12K title by barely edging Abdi Abdirahman in an amazingly close finish, with both competitors completing the course in 35:45. In the Junior Men's 8K championship, Tim Moore of Novi, Michigan won the race by a seven-second margin over the rest of the field. Dathan Ritzenhein, who won the bronze medal in the Junior race at the 2001 World Cross Country Championships and was the runner-up in last year's U.S. Junior Championships, placed fifth today in the men's senior 12K race in 36:19. The top six finishers in the senior and junior races are eligible to compete at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships, March 23-24 in Dublin, Ireland. The following is a listing of the top 15 finishers in Sunday's races, along with quotes from selected athletes and a race in review for each contest. Complete results may be found on the USATF Web site: http://www.usatf.org. SENIOR WOMEN 4,000 METERS 1. Regina Jacobs (Nike), 12:55 2. Carrie Tollefson (adidas), 13:01 3. Suzy Favor Hamilton (Nike), 13:11 4. Sarah Hann (New Balance), 13:20 5. Janet Trujillo (Nike), 13:22 6. Mary Jayne Harrelson (Nike), 13:27 7. Sarah Toland (Unattached), 13:32 8. Kim Fitchen (Nike), 13:33 9. Sara Gorton (Univ. of Colorado), 13:34 10. Priscilla Hein (Indiana Invaders), 13:35 11. (tie) Sally Hauser (Nike), 13:37 Kristin Schwartz (Nike), 13:37 13. Katie McGregor (adidas), 13:39 14. Marie Davis (Nike Farm Team), 13:44 15. Cheri Kenah (adidas), 13:45 TEAM SCORING 1. Nike 10 points 2. Team Oregon 34 Race Conditions: Mostly sunny with temperatures in the low 40s and breezy. The course has thick grass with a few slick spots. Race in Review: 37 women toed the line for two loops of the 2-kilometer course. At the mile (5:02) and through 2 kilometers (6:30) the lead pack consisted of Carrie Tollefson, Regina Jacobs, Suzy Favor Hamilton, Cheri Kenah and Mary Jayne Harrelson, with Priscilla Hein five seconds behind. During the second lap, Jacobs pulled ahead for the victory, with Tollefson running strongly in second, putting Favor Hamilton into third. Sarah Hann also ran very strongly during the second lap, moving into fourth behind Janet Trujillo and Harrelson. Jacobs Notes: Jacobs wins her second consecutive U.S. women's 4K cross country title to add more luster to one of the most successful middle distance careers in U.S. history. A four-time Olympic qualifier and a two-time World Outdoor Championships 1,500m silver medalist, Jacobs' victory today comes after a win in the women's mile at last weekend's Millrose Games. Jacobs also set a new world's best in the women's two mile last month at the adidas Boston Indoor Games, winning the race in 9:23.38, bettering the previous standard of 9:28.15 by Lynn Jennings in 1986. Last year Jacobs won her tenth U.S. Outdoor 1,500m title and she also won the national outdoor crown at 800 meters. The 1995 World Indoor 1,500m champion, Jacobs won the bronze medal in the 3,000 meters at the 1999 World Indoor Championships. Jacobs Quotes: This was a really great race today. Carrie (Tollefson) really ran a great race today to keep it interesting. It was windy and cold, but not wet like they predicted. Suzy always has a great kick, so I tried to take it harder on the hills. This is a great race to meet Suzy at because it's middle ground for us, totally different from our races on the track. The course is different than last year in that they added more turns, and it was a little more challenging. The tight turns reminded me of the Foot Locker course that the high schoolers run on. Jacobs also mentioned that she will attempt to set a new American indoor record in in the 5,000 meters in February prior to the USA Indoor Championships March 1-2 in New York. The American record is held by Marla Runyan (15:07.33 set in 2001). Jacobs also said that she will try a different event
t-and-f: USATF Release: USA Winter XC Nationals preview
sorry, better late than never =) -- Forwarded message -- From: USATF Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: USATF Release: USA Winter XC Nationals preview Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 14:51:31 -0500 Contact:Tom Surber Media Information Manager USA Track Field (317) 261-0500 x317 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.usatf.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 8, 2002 USA Winter Cross Country Nationals this weekend in Vancouver INDIANAPOLIS - Top U.S. distance runners Deena Drossin, Regina Jacobs, Meb Keflezighi and Tim Broe lead the list of entries for the 2002 USA Winter Cross Country Championships, February 9-10 at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site in Vancouver, Wash. The Winter Cross Country Nationals serves as the U.S. National Championships, and is also the selection event for the U.S. team that will compete at the 2002 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, March 23-24 in Dublin, Ireland. The Championships will be aired on Fox Sports Net as part of its New Balance Elite Racing television series. The men's races will air on February 20, with the women's competitions televised on March 8. Both telecasts will air at 3:30 p.m. Eastern Time. Six championship races will be conducted in Vancouver over a two-day period, featuring more than 500 athletes. The top six finishers in the Senior and Junior competitions qualify for the U.S. team that will travel to Dublin for the World Championships. In addition, the U.S. Masters Men and Women National 6K Cross Country Championships will take place on Saturday, February 9. The Fort Vancouver course is a 2000-meter, spectator-friendly, international-style championship venue, designed to simulate many of the conditions that the runners will face at the World Cross Country Championships. Senior athletes returning to defend their U.S. titles include Tim Broe (Men's 4K), Meb Keflezighi (Men's 12K), Regina Jacobs (Women's 4K) and Deena Drossin, who won her fourth career women's 8K U.S. title last year in Vancouver. 2001 U.S. junior women's champ Laura Zeigle of South Jordan, Utah, will also defend her title. In the men's junior race, look for prep standouts Tim Moore of Novi, Michigan (Novi HS) to battle it out with Bobby Lockhart of John Handley High in Winchester, Virginia. Moore defeated Lockhart by 1.14 seconds in winning the Foot Locker National Cross Country Championships in Orlando, Florida, on December 8. Five members of last year's bronze medal winning men's 12K team at the World Championships in Belgium are entered in the Championships. They are (with Worlds finish in parenthesis): Meb Keflezighi (13th), Abdi Abdirahman (15th), Nick Rogers (47th), Greg Jimmerson (52nd) and Matt Downin (80th). University of Colorado freshman Dathan Ritzenhein, who won the bronze medal in the junior men's competition at last year's World Championships, is entered in the senior men's 12K race. Several Oregon athletes will compete, including 2001 World Championship team members Lisa Nye (Bend) and Nick Rogers (Eugene). University of Oregon standouts Seth Pilkington (junior men's 8K), and Jason Hartmann (men's 4K) are also entered, along with ex-Ducks Milena Glusac, and Dan Nelson. Former University of Portland runners Tim and Pete Julian will also compete. In Masters competition, Tim Minor was last year's fastest finisher and he will defend his men's title on Saturday. Jennifer Teppo, who placed third last year, is a favorite in the Masters women's 6K race. The following is a list of some of the top senior competitors expected to compete this weekend in Vancouver: Abdi Abdirahman: After finishing third at this event in 2001, Abdirahman looks to win his first U.S. cross country title. He finished 15th at the World Cross Championships last March before winning the 10,000 meters at the USA Outdoor Championships in June. Last summer he finished 10th in the 10K at the Goodwill Games and 19th in that event at the World Outdoor Championships. He ended the 2001 campaign ranked #1 in the U.S. at 10,000 meters by Track Field News. Bryan Berryhill: After placing third in the 1,500 meters at the NCAA Outdoor Championships three straight years, Berryhill finally grabbed the collegiate title in 2001. Berryhill enjoyed a strong season last year, setting new personal bests in the mile (3:54.87) and the 1,500m (3:35.48). He finished eighth at the 2001 Goodwill Games and ended the 2001 season ranked #4 in the U.S. by TFN. Tim Broe: After winning his first U.S. 4K cross country title last year, Broe returns to Vancouver ready to defend his crown. Earlier this year on January 27 in Boston, Broe ran 7:39.23 to break Steve Scott's 3,000 meter American indoor record of 7:39.94, set in 1981. The 2001 U.S. indoor 3,000m champion, Broe finished fourth in the 3,000m steeplechase at
t-and-f: USATF Release: Michelsohn named Athlete of the Week
-- Forwarded message -- From: USATF Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: USATF Release: Michelsohn named Athlete of the Week Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 16:15:28 -0500 Contact:Tom Surber Media Information Manager USA Track Field (317) 261-0500 x317 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.usatf.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 8, 2002 Michelsohn named Athlete of the Week INDIANAPOLIS Mary-Louise Michelsohn has been named USA Track Fields Athlete of the Week after setting a new masters world record over the weekend at a meet in Brentwood on Long Island in New York. Michelsohn, 60, of Stony Brook, N.Y., set a new world and American record in the 1,500 meters in the 60-64 age group. Michelsohn, who competes for the Bohemia Track Club, ran 5:50.2. Now in its second year, USATFs Athlete of the Week program is designed to recognize outstanding performers at all levels of the sport. USATF names a new honoree each week and features the athlete on the USATF Web site. Selections are based on top performances and results from the previous week. 2002 USATF Athlete of the Week Winners: January 3, Jim Garcia; January 8, Mary-Louise Michelsohn. # # # CORRECTION: USATFs News Notes on Monday mistakenly reported that Kathy Martins performance of 5:02.8 in the 1,500 meters over the weekend in Brentwood was a masters world record. Although the performance does not qualify as a world record, it is an American record in the 50-54 age group. PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE: If you would like to respond, please direct your e-mail to the Contact person listed at the top of the text of this message. To be removed from this mailing list or to notify us of a change in your e-mail address, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
t-and-f: USATF RELEASE: USATF announces 2002 Indoor Golden Spike Tour
-- Forwarded message -- From: USATF Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: USATF RELEASE: USATF announces 2002 Indoor Golden Spike Tour Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 13:45:34 -0500 Contact:Jill M. Geer Director of Communications 317-261-0500 x360 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.usatf.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, January 7, 2002 USATF announces 2002 Indoor Golden Spike Tour INDIANAPOLIS - USA Track Fields 2002 Indoor Golden Spike Tour will swing from the East Coast to the Heartland before culminating at the 2002 USA Indoor Track Field Championships in New York City. The Tour, announced Monday by USA Track Field (USATF), begins January 27 with the adidas Boston Indoor Games at the Reggie Lewis Center in Boston. It continues February 1 at the Verizon Millrose Games at New Yorks Madison Square Garden, and on February 9 moves to the adidas Midwest Track Classic in Lincoln, Nebraska. Many of the United States top international stars, to be announced in coming weeks, are expected to compete in the Golden Spike Tour. The final stop returns the Tour to New York for the 2002 USA Indoor Track Field Championships, held March 1-2 at the Armory Track Field Center at 168th Street. The Championships were first held in New York in 1888, resuming in 1906 and held primarily in New York from 1906 to 1993, most recently at Madison Square Garden. The Championships were held in Atlanta from 1994-2001. This years Golden Spike Tour is being held in some of the top track and field venues in the nation, said USATF CEO Craig Masback. With last years Golden Spike Tour being our best ever, we expect to build on that success. To bring it all together in New York City, which has become our second home, is the perfect way to finish the Tour. The Golden Spike Tour puts athletes and track fans in a New York State of Mind, as USATF reinforces its strong presence in New York City, the indoor track capital of the country. The National Track Field Hall of Fame will reopen in the Armory in 2003, while the 2001 USA Mens and Womens Marathon Championships were held last November at the New York City Marathon. Now in its fourth year, the Golden Spike Tour provides Americas best athletes the opportunity to compete in the United States and earn substantial prize money in front of a nationally televised audience. Live crowds at Golden Spike Tour meets typically have averaged more than 10,000 fans, with TV ratings rising as much as 25 percent in 2001 for individual broadcasts. The 2002 Golden Spike Tour will be broadcast nationally on ESPN and ESPN2, with the adidas Boston Indoor Games (Feb. 2) and Verizon Millrose Games (Feb. 3) being broadcast the first weekend in February, the adidas Midwest Track Classic airing Feb. 10 and the USA Indoor Championships airing March 3. In addition, Fox Sports NY will air live coverage of the Verizon Millrose Games in New York City on February 1. Sponsors of the 2002 Indoor Golden Spike Tour are Verizon, Visa and SoBe Sports System. For more information on USA Track Field and the Golden Spike Tour, including ticket information, visit the USATF Web site, www.usatf.org http://www.usatf.org. 2002 Indoor Golden Spike Tour Event Schedule DateEvent Site Jan. 27 adidas Boston Indoor Games Boston (Reggie Lewis Center) Feb. 1 Verizon Millrose Games New York (Madison Square Garden) Feb. 9 adidas Midwest Track ClassicLincoln, Neb. (Bob Devaney Sports Center) March 1-2 USA Indoor ChampionshipsNew York (Armory Track Field Center) 2002 Indoor Golden Spike Tour TV Schedule (All times Eastern; check local listings) Event Network TimeDate adidas Boston Indoor Games ESPN2 3-4 p.m.Feb. 2 Verizon Millrose Games FOX Spts NY 8-10 p.m. (LIVE)Feb. 1 ESPN4:30-6 p.m. Feb. 3 adidas Midwest Track ClassicESPN2 4-5 p.m.Feb. 10 USA Indoor ChampionshipsESPN4-5:30 p.m. March 3 # # #
t-and-f: USATF News Notes: January 7, 2002
-- Forwarded message -- From: USATF Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: USATF News Notes: January 7, 2002 Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 16:08:26 -0500 Contact:Tom Surber Media Information Manager USA Track Field (317) 261-0500 x317 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.usatf.org USATF News Notes Volume 3, Number 2 January 7, 2002 Verizon new title sponsor for Millrose Games As part of its sponsorship of USA Track Field, Verizon has signed on as the title sponsor of the Millrose Games, the worlds oldest and most prestigious indoor track meet. During the three-year sponsorship, the event will be named the Verizon Millrose Games. The Millrose Games are the premiere indoor track and field event in the world, said Bruce Gordon, Verizon president for Retail Markets. Our sponsorship of this time-honored event reflects Verizons commitment to the youth of our country and the communities where our customers live and work. We are especially proud that we can be involved in such a quality event in New York City, our headquarters city. The 2002 Verizon Millrose Games, which will be held Feb. 1, will be the 95th edition of the longest-running sporting event in Madison Square Gardens history. Along with title sponsorship privileges, Verizon receives premium on-camera signage, commercial inventory during the events national broadcast, on-site hospitality, and the opportunity to sponsor the Verizon Millrose Games Youth Clinic. We are thrilled that Verizon has agreed to title sponsor the oldest and most important indoor track meet in the world and we look forward to having them on board for this great event, stated Mark Bingham, president of Octagon Marketing N.A., which owns and manages the Millrose Games. As part of its larger sponsorship of USATF, Verizon also sponsors the USA vs. THE WORLD television broadcast, supports the Golden Spike Tour and U.S. National Team, and works with USATF to develop ground-breaking Youth and Junior programs. After announcing its sponsorship of USA Track Field last April, Verizon sponsored the 2001 Verizon Youth Series, a set of youth track and field events that comprise USA Track Fields junior development program, and recently named University of Michigan freshman runner Alan Webb 2001 Verizon Youth Athlete of the Year. Throughout its 94-year history, the Millrose Games have featured some of track and fields greatest legends including Jesse Owens, Jackie-Joyner Kersee, Carl Lewis, Gwen Torrence and Mary Decker-Slaney. The Millrose Games features events in sprinting, hurdles, pole vault and high jump and distance running, including the famed Wanamaker Mile. For more information about the event, visit the Verizon Millrose Games Web site at www.millrosegames.com For the event, Verizon customers will receive a 10-percent discount off $25 and $35 seats. They should show a copy of their current bill at the Madison Square Garden box office to take advantage of the discount. Webb voted 2001 Top Mens Prep Athlete Middle-distance runner Alan Webb is the unanimous choice as Track Field News 2001 mens High School Athlete of the Year. In November, Webb was named Verizon Youth Athlete of the Year. After compiling a season unmatched in U.S. track and field history, Webb became the first unanimous choice for this award since Calvin Harrison in 1993. In January, Webb ran 3 minutes, 59.86 seconds at the New Balance Games in New York, becoming the first American prep miler ever to break the four-minute barrier indoors. Just four months later, Webb ran 3:53.43 in the Bowerman Mile at the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, breaking the national high school record of 3:55.3 set by Jim Ryun in 1966. Webbs time was the fastest mile by an American in 2001. He is now a freshman at the University of Michigan. Michelson Martin set new records Mary-Louise Michelsohn and Kathy Martin each set new world and U.S. indoor masters records over the weekend at a meet in Brentwood on Long Island in New York. Michelsohn, 60, of Stony Brook, N.Y., set a new world and American record in the 1,500 meters in the 60-64 age group. Michelsohn, who competes for the Bohemia Track Club, ran 5:50.2. Martin, 50, of Northport, N.Y., also set a new record in the 1,500m. Martin s 5:02.8 is the new world and American record in the 50-54 age group. Martin, who competes for the Northport Running Club, has dual citizenship with the United States and Canada. Spring marathon slated for D.C. For the first time in nearly two decades, a marathon will take place this spring in the nations capitol. The inaugural Washington D.C. Marathon on March 24 will take runners past many of the citys well-known monuments and museums, along with many other parts of the city. The course includes views of the National Mall, Capitol Hill, Dupont Circle, Chinatown and other parts of downtown
t-and-f: USATF News Notes: December 21, 2001
-- Forwarded message -- From: USATF Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: USATF News Notes: December 21, 2001 Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 14:13:47 -0500 Contact:Tom Surber Media Information Manager USA Track Field (317) 261-0500 x317 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.usatf.org USATF News Notes Volume 2, Number 120December 21, 2001 NCAA honors Maggie Maloy with Inspiration Award The NCAA Honors Committee announced that Maggie Maloy, a 2001 graduate of Defiance College and member of the track and field team, has been awarded the Associations Inspiration Award to be presented January 13 at the NCAA Honors Dinner in Indianapolis. The Inspiration Award was created this year by the NCAA Honors Committee to be presented to a coach or administrator currently associated with intercollegiate athletics or a current or former varsity letterwinner at an NCAA institution who, when confronted with a life-altering situation, used perseverance, dedication and determination to overcome the event. At the age of 15, Maloy was abducted during a training run, raped twice and then shot five times. She still carries two bullets in her lungs and one in her head as a reminder of the day. The perpetrator is serving a 103-year jail sentence. Six years later in February 2000, Maloy lost control of her car on icy roads when returning from a shopping trip. Her car was struck on the drivers side by an oncoming van, breaking her pelvic bone in three places. Following the accident, she was immobilized for four months, but Maloy continued to rehab while taking summer courses. She continued to run both track and cross country and graduated on time at the end of her spring semester. During her career at Division III Defiance College, Maloy was twice named to the All-Heartland College Athletic Conference team. Maloy continues to speak before youth groups about what a person can overcome to achieve goals. SIGMA Heroes Awards Announce National Finalists The Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association and the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association (NSSA) have announced the ten finalists for the eighth annual SGMA Heroes Awards. Each finalist will be recognized in his/her community with a Key to the City presentation within the next few months. The SIGMA Heroes Awards recognizes and rewards special individuals who, through their unique commitment and humanitarian spirit, have made an exceptional and lasting contribution to the pursuit of sports excellence. The program honors these unsung heroes of sports within local communities across the country, recognizing one winner in every state (including the District of Columbia), as well as three national winners. Three of the ten finalists are track and field coaches. They are: Tim Hooker (New Braunfels, Texas) For more than 30 years, Hooker has devoted 20-40 hours a week to local athletes at the Southridge Track Club. Hooker has worked closely with the area youth sending athletes to world competitions, including some athletes who have overcome cancer to compete again. He has assisted a number of athletes in acquiring college scholarships, while helping other participants with physical and mental handicaps to compete. Robert Smith (Atlanta, Georgia) Smith founded the Northside Red Runners track program in 1971 and has been a pioneer in women and youth sports in Georgia. Since his first group of five female runners, the program has continued to grow and Coach Red has now touched the lives of more than 3,000 runners. His program encouraged female athletes in track field and cross country to excel in high school and college. During his tenure, Smith has coached 600 county champions, 300 state champions, 50 national champions and 10 national cross country champions. Henry Doc Woods: (Natchez, Mississippi) Woods has served as a volunteer director, head coach and head recruiter of the Natchez Track Club summer program for the past 23 years. During that period, Woods established the track club parent board and he coordinated all the necessary USA Track Field Southern Association materials so the club could participate in state, regional, national and international events. Woods has also served as the first vice president of the USA Track Field Southern Association from 1991-present. His dedication to athletes has assisted many in earning college scholarships. Three national winners will be chosen and they will be recognized on January 21, 2002 at SGMAs An Evening with the Heroes of Sport in Las Vegas. The three national winners will each receive a $1,000 cash award, with another $10,000 donated to their respective sports program. OBrien/Batson win state SIGMA Awards Olympic decathlon champion Dan OBrien and youth track coach Jack Batson have been awarded SIGMA Awards in their respective states. OBrien, the American record
t-and-f: USATF News Notes: December 17, 2001
USATF News Notes (www.usatf.org) Volume 2, Number 118December 17, 2001 Lee Evans named head coach at South Alabama The University of South Alabama has named two-time Olympic gold medalist Lee Evans its head track and field/cross country coach. In winning the 400-meter gold medal at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, Evans blew away the competition in 43.86 seconds, a time that stood as the world record for twenty years. Evans also ran the anchor leg on the 1968 gold medal winning U.S. 4x400m relay team. The time of 2 minutes, 56.16 seconds, was a world record that lasted 20 years. For several years beginning in 1966, Evans was the world’s top 400 meter runner. During that period, he won the U.S. 400m outdoor title in 1966, 1969 and 1972. He was also the 1967 Pan American Games 400 champion, and was a relay alternate on the 1972 Olympic Team after placing fourth at the Olympic Trials. After graduating from San Jose State in 1970, Evans served as an assistant track coach for the Spartans from 1970-72. Between 1975 and 1997, Evans directed the national track and field programs of Nigeria, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Evans has trained athletes in 20 countries and has been the Olympic coach for four countries. He has tutored six Olympic medalists. Evans was inducted into the National Track Field Hall of Fame in 1983. He was named one of the 100 Golden Olympians at the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta and he is a member of the NCAA Hall of Fame. USATF visits local battered women’s shelter Two-time Olympian and American record holder Bob Kennedy, USATF Director of Elite Athlete Programs and 1992 Olympic gold medalist Michael Conley, USATF President Bill Roe and USATF CEO Craig Masback on Monday visited the Julian Center for Battered Women as part of USATF’s community outreach efforts. While on the visit, USATF and Kennedy, representing Team USA athletes, donated sweatshirts, jackets and sweatsuits to be distributed to women and families staying at the Julian Center, located in downtown Indianapolis. “As athletes, we have been fortunate to represent the United States in athletic competition,” said Kennedy, a graduate of Indiana University and co-owner of The Running Company in Indianapolis. “This is a small way for us to help others who are working through difficult times during the holidays.” Hosting USATF at the Julian Center and accepting the donation was Shelter Director Carlene Richardson. “The holiday season is always a difficult time for the women and children here at the Center,” Richardson said. “They literally come here with what is on their backs. This will let them know that people out there care.” “USATF is in the business of helping others achieve their goals,” said USATF President Bill Roe. “We admire the women at the Julian Center for their strength, and hope that this donation helps the Center and the families it supports.” Added USATF CEO Craig Masback, “Indianapolis has been a gracious host to USA Track Field. Reaching out to the community is part of our mandate as a nonprofit organization, and it is something that the Julian Center does every minute of every day. We are happy to be able to support an institution that is so vital a part of the fabric of Indianapolis.” Webb, Drossin Take USA Runners of the Year Honors Alan Webb and Deena Drossin have been named the 2001 Runners of the Year by Runner’s World Magazine. Webb was front-page news from the beginning of the year when he broke the indoor high school mile record and became the first prep runner to break four minutes since 1967. Webb’s history-making campaign continued at the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, Oregon on May 23, when the 18-year-old from Reston, Virginia, ran 3:53.43, smashing the 36-year-old high school record of Jim Ryun. En route, Webb also set a national high school record of 3:38.26 for 1500 meters. In winning the women’s award for the second year in a row, versatility was the key for Deena Drossin, who won her fourth U.S. long course cross-country title in 2001. A few weeks later she won the national 15-K road championships, and in June she earned another USATF 10,000 meters track crown. She also scored some notable road victories at the Bolder Boulder 10-K and the Rock 'n' Roll Half-Marathon , where she ran the fastest time ever by an American in an all-women's race, 1:10:08. Drossin ended the year in impressive fashion, placing 7th at the New York City Marathon to win the U.S. women’s marathon national championship. Her 2:26:58 was an American debut record and the fastest time by an American since 1991. Wheaties Selects Everyday Champions; Marathoners Rule After a nationwide search, Wheaties Energy Crunch cereal has chosen to put marathoner and triathlete Marie Bartoletti of Finleyville, Pa., on the front of its cereal boxes. Energy Crunch bills itself as the Breakfast of Everyday Champions, and so it conducted a
t-and-f: USATF News Notes: December 5, 2001
-- Forwarded message -- From: USATF Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: USATF News Notes: December 5, 2001 Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 15:51:53 -0500 Contact:Tom Surber Media Information Manager USA Track Field (317) 261-0500 ext. 317 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.usatf.org USATF News Notes Volume 2, Number 114December 5, 2001 Jones to appear on Millionaire Olympic and world champion sprinter Marion Jones will tape an appearance on the ABC game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire this weekend at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. Jones will join an impressive list of gold medal winning athletes, who will play for charities. Other athletes appearing on the show include decathlete Bruce Jenner, gymnast Mary Lou Retton, speed skater Dan Jansen, soccer player Mia Hamm, hockey player Mike Eruzione and boxer Oscar de la Hoya. The programs taped this weekend in Orlando will air in January. Last year, Maurice Greene won $125,000 on the show, donating half of his winnings to his chosen charity, the United Negro College Fund. Dragila nominated for Award Olympic gold medalist and world record holder Stacy Dragila has been nominated for the United States Sports Academy Athlete of the Year Award. Presented for the first time in 1984, the United Sports Academy Awards recognize the outstanding male and female athletes in all areas of sport, with previous winners including Lance Armstrong, Martina Hingis, Mia Hamm and Mark McGuire. A list of the nominees for this years awards appears on the organizations Web site at: www.ussa.edu/2001vote.htm. Voting on the Web site is open to everyone, and must be completed by December 24. Team USA athletes earning honorable mention recognition for this years awards included Marion Jones, Marla Runyan, Angela Williams and Savante Stringfellow. New York Marathon raises $$$ for Twin Towers Fund New York Road Runners (NYRR) President and CEO Allan Steinfeld presented New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani with a check for $250,000 for the Twin Towers and September 11 funds at the inaugural United We Run 4-Miler race in Central Park on December 2. The money was raised at last month's New York City Marathon from individual donations by runners, by running clubs and races around the globe and NYC Marathon sponsors. The NYRR contributed $50,000. Elite athletes support talented youngsters at Foot Locker Finals An impressive list of Americas finest elite middle and long distance runners will be on hand at the 23rd Foot Locker High School Cross Country Nationals December 8 in Orlando, Florida. The list includes two-time Olympian and U.S. mens 5,000m record holder Bob Kennedy, U.S. mens 10,000m record holder and 2000 Olympian Meb Keflezighi, three-time U.S. steeplechase champ and 2000 Olympian Pascal Dobert and 2000 Olympian Abdi Abdirahman. Four-time Olympic team qualifier and ten-time U.S. 1,500m womens champion Regina Jacobs will also be on hand, along with three-time Olympian and nine-time NCAA champion Suzy Favor Hamilton. Michael Johnson will also make a special appearance, along with womens pole vault world record holder and 2000 Olympic gold medalist Stacy Dragila. Look for a preview of the 2001 Foot Locker High School Cross Country Nationals in Fridays edition of USATF News Notes. L.A. Invitational set for February 23 The 42nd L.A. Invitational track and field meet will take place Saturday, February 23 at the Los Angeles Sports Arena. The nations second-oldest indoor meet will feature Olympic caliber athletes and collegiate standouts from successful programs such as USC, UCLA, Stanford, Arizona and many more. The event will also showcase nearly 2,000 high school athletes representing 500 different schools. The age group competition will begin at 11 a.m., with the elite competition beginning at 6 p.m. A total of 105 Olympic gold medalists have competed at this event including luminaries such as Wilma Rudolph, Bob Beamon, Jim Ryun, Bob Seagren, Parry O Brien, Carl Lewis, Renaldo Nehemiah, Evelyn Ashford, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Gail Devers and many more. For additional information, visit the L.A. Invitational Web site at www.frankenenterprises.com. Monaco to host next three Grand Prix Finals The IAAF Council announced last week that the organizations Grand Prix Final will be held in Monaco beginning in 2003 thru 2005 to ensure that the meet has a stronger sense of identity. The event will also go from a one-day meet to a two-day event beginning in 2003. The group is also exploring the possibility of hosting the annual World Athletics Gala on the same weekend of the Grand Prix Finals in Monaco to further promote the sport. The Council also agreed to reduce the IAAF Golden League to five meets beginning in 2003. The next meeting of the IAAF Council will take place April 13-14, 2002 in Nairobi, Kenya. # # #
t-and-f: USATF Release: Birmingham to host 2004 Men's Olympic Marathon Trials
-- Forwarded message -- From: USATF Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: USATF Release: Birmingham to host 2004 Men's Olympic Marathon Trials Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 15:02:46 -0800 Contact:Jill M. Geer USATF Director of Communications In Mobile: 251-208-2186 http://www.usatf.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, November 30, 2001 Birmingham to host 2004 Mens Olympic Marathon Trials MOBILE, Ala. - Birmingham, Alabama, will host the 2004 Olympic Team Trials - Men's Marathon, USA Track Field (USATF) announced Friday at its 2001 Annual Meeting. Im especially pleased that we are opening up new territory, said USATF President Bill Roe. This is a place that has never had an Olympic Trials before. I hope well be able to infect a new group of people with Olympic fever. We are especially grateful to (University of Alabama-Birmingham Athletic Director, USOC vice president and former USATF vice president) Herman Frazier for his leadership role. The Alabama Sports Foundation and Birmingham Marathon, Inc., organizers of the Mercedes Marathon, partnered on the successful bid, which will provide $350,000 in prize money and development funds for the Olympic Trials and men s long distance running. The race will be held February 7, 2004, with the Olympic Games to follow in August in Athens, Greece. Birmingham also will provide travel and accommodations to all athletes who qualify with a U.S. Olympic Trials A standard time of 2:20:00 or faster. Athletes qualifying with an Olympic Trials B standard time of 2:20:01 to 2:22:00 may compete in the race but do not receive funding. Olympic qualifying standards have not been set yet by the International Association of Athletics Federations. Birminghams own Scott Strand qualified for the Olympic Trials at the 2001 New York Marathon, where he ran 2:21:16 to finish 10th among Americans. Meeting the Olympic Trials A standard in New York were Scott Larson, Clint Verran, Chris Lundstrom, Shawn Found and Keith Dowling. Birmingham beat out competing bids from New York City, St. Louis and Washington, D.C., in a selection process conducted by USATF's Men's Long Distance Running Committee. This is a tremendous victory for Birmingham, said Alabama Sports Foundation Chairman Dr. Larry Lemak. To be chosen for both the 2003 U.S. Mens Marathon Championships and the 2004 Mens Olympic Marathon Team Trials gives us a great opportunity to make Birmingham a training city for mens long distance runners. On February 7, 2004, men's marathoners competing in the Olympic Trials will run on a criterium course in downtown Birmingham. Our Birmingham Marathon will be run on the following morning on its regular course. Running the 2003 U.S. Mens Marathon Championships and the 2004 Mens Marathon Trials on the day before our marathon gives the everyday runner an opportunity to watch the heroes of our own sport compete, said Valerie McLean, President of Birmingham Marathon, Inc., and owner of the Trak Shak Running Shop in Homewood. Most competitions such as the Olympic Trials have been historically run in conjunction with a bigger race, which doesnt allow the average race participants the opportunity to see the fast guys finish. In structuring the events as we have, we hope to bring in runners from all around the country for a whole weekend of marathon activities. According to Gene Hallman, Executive Director of the Alabama Sports Foundation, the benefits to be reaped on the city of Birmingham and state of Alabama for hosting the 2004 Mens Marathon Olympic Trials are huge. We foresee a large economic impact and tremendous media coverage for the 2003 Championships and for the 2004 Trials. We are thrilled to have beaten out outstanding sports cities like New York, St. Louis and Washington, D.C. # # #
t-and-f: USATF News Notes - 11/30/01
-- Forwarded message -- From: USATF Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: USATF News Notes - 11/30/01 Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 17:01:27 -0800 Contact:Jill M. Geer USATF Director of Communications In Mobile: 251-208-2186 http://www.usatf.org USATF News Notes Volume 2, Number 112November 30, 2001 Raczko named Nike Youth Coach of the Year Scott Raczko of South Lakes High School in Reston, Va., has been named Nike Youth Coach of the Year, USA Track Field (USATF) announced Friday at its 2001 Annual Meeting in Mobile, Ala. Frye was to receive his award Friday night at the Jesse Owens Awards Dinner and Xerox Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. A former assistant coach at George Mason University, Raczko is most known for coaching prep sensation Alan Webb, who became the fastest high school miler in U.S. history this year after his 3:53.43 at the May 27 Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, Oregon. Webb also set a national record for 1,500m in that race at3:38.26. Under Raczko, South Lakes enjoyed tremendous success on the track. With Webb running anchor, South Lakes won two coveted titles at the 2001 Penn Relays and two more relay crowns at the National Scholastics meet in North Carolina, where Webb anchored South Lakes to a national high-school record of 9:49.78 in the distance-medley relay. Im surprised and honored to get this award from Nike, Raczko said. Alan is an incredible talent, and it was the experience of a lifetime to work with him over the years to achieve the goals we had set. Everyone on our team put in a tremendous amount of hard work, and everyone made sacrifices in deciding to run relays. Penn Relays titles and a national record come from teamwork and dedication, and Im happy to accept this award for everyone on the South Lakes team. And the winner is USATFs committees handed out a variety of honors Friday morning, Nov. 30, at the annual Awards Breakfast. Heres a look at the winners: Harrison Dillard Award (Outstanding male athlete in sprints or hurdles) Allen Johnson. Jim Thorpe Award (Outstanding male athlete in the field events and decathlon category) John Godina. Glen Cunningham Award (Outstanding male athlete in the distance events of 800 meters and longer) Mebrahtom Keflezighi. Joseph Robichaux Award (Outstanding contributor to womens track field) Deanne Vochatzer. C.C. Jackson Award (Outstanding female athletes in running and field events) Marion Jones. Womens Development Athletes of the Year: Marion Jones, sprints; Anjanette Kirkland, hurdles; Deena Drossin, Marla Runyan, distances; Stacy Dragila, jumps; Dawn Ellerbe, Seilala Sua. Scott Hamilton Award (Leadership at the association level) Bob Rush. Robert E. DeCelle Award (Outstanding male long distance runner) Mebrahtom Keflezighi. H. Browning Ross Long Distance running Merit Award - Joe Vigil. Cross Country Merit Award (Outstanding male cross country runner) - Dathan Ritzenhein and 2001 U.S. Mens 12K World Championships Team. Womens Subcommittee Cross Country Award Jeff Johnson Ted Corbitt Ultra Distance Runner of the Year Award Rich Hawnatt Womens LDR Runner of the Year Deena Drossin Womens LDR Contributor of the Year Jerry Crockett Ultra Distance Running Athletes of the Year Rich Hanna Ann Trason Mountain Running Athletes of the Year Eric Morse Kari Di Stefano Masters Ultra Distance Runners of the Year Rudy Afander Sue Ellen Trapp Captain Ron Zinn Memorial Awards: Curt Clausen (20K 50K) and Michelle Rohl Outstanding Association (Race walking) Ohio Mike Riban Award for Outstanding Contributor to Race Walking Ginger Mulanax Masters Administrator of the Year George Matthews Gwilym Brown Award (Outstanding Masters male and female track field athletes) Male -Nolan Shaheed, Female Johnnye Valien. Outstanding Male Multi-Event Masters Athlete Phil Byrne Outstanding Female Multi-Event Masters Athlete Johnnye Valien Outstanding Male Cross Country Masters Athlete Tom Dalton Outstanding Female Cross Country Masters Athletes - Outstanding Masters Single Performances Male - Lad Pataki, Female Vanessa Hiliard Otto Essig Award (Meritorious service to Masters LDR) Jerry Crockett Frank Sevigne Award (Outstanding contributor to Youth Athletics) Dorothy Dawson Bill Hargrove Award (Top youth association) Illinois Andy Bakjian Award (Outstanding official) Susan Polansky Horace Crow Award (Officials) Len Krsak USATF Association of the Year New Mexico Horace Crow Award (Top Association Administrator) Ruth Van Kuren Outstanding Masters Track Athletes of 2001 30-34 Robert Thomas Devon Sargent 35-39 Chris YorgesRebecca Heuer 40-44 Karl Smith Rose Monday 45-49 Neville Hodge Denise McField 50-54 Nolan Shaheed Carolyn Smith-Hanna 55-59 Steve Robbins Joan Ottaway
t-and-f: USATF Release: Frye named Nike Coach of the Year
-- Forwarded message -- From: USATF Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: USATF Release: Frye named Nike Coach of the Year Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 10:16:38 -0800 Contact:Jill M. Geer Director of Communications 317-261-0500 x360 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.usatf.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, November 30, 2001 Frye named Nike Coach of the Year MOBILE, Ala. University of South Carolina head coach Curtis Frye was named 2001 Nike Coach of the Year Friday by USA Track Field (USATF) at USATFs 2001 Annual Meeting. Frye was to receive his award Friday night at Jesse Owens Awards Dinner and Xerox Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. The Nike Coach of the Year Award is a very prestigious award, Frye said. It's one I didn't expect to get so early in my career. To receive an award that John Smith (Maurice Greenes coach) and Trevor Graham (Marion Jones coach) have received the past two years - that's great company. I am thankful that I am coaching athletes that can bring that type of recognition to South Carolina. We have an outstanding coaching staff and support staff here, which allows our athletes to succeed at many levels. Already recognized as one of the nations top coaches, Frye and the elite athletes he coaches in 2001 had an extraordinary year. Allen Johnson won his third World Championships gold medal in the 110m hurdles, his fourth U.S. Outdoor crown in the event, the Goodwill Games title and part of the IAAF Golden League jackpot for winning five Golden League races; fellow hurdler Terrence Trammell won the U.S. and World indoor titles in the 60m hurdles and was second to Johnson at the GMC Envoy USA Outdoor Track Field Championships in Eugene, Oregon. Monique Hennagan won Goodwill Games gold as part of the womens 4x400m relay team; Demetria Washington won the World University Games womens 400m, with fellow South Carolina athlete Miki Barber third. Washington and Barber also were part of the winning U.S. 4x400m relay team at WUGs that included Barber s twin, Lisa, who also attends South Carolina and is coached by Frye. All told, 11 athletes with ties to Frye and South Carolina competed at the World Outdoor Championships. Curtis has become one of the nations leading coaches on the collegiate and elite levels, said John Capriotti, Global/US Sports Marketing Athletics Director of Nike. Our sport is fortunate to have someone of his caliber coaching American athletes, and Nike is honored to be able to present him with the Coach of the Year Award. Fryes South Carolina womens team was second at the NCAA Indoor Championships, where USCs 4x400m relay team set the collegiate indoor national record. Washington won the NCAA 400m title indoors, while USC athletes combined to collect 30 All-America honors in indoor and outdoor track. Fryes mens team placed 16th at the NCAA Indoor Champions and 19th Outdoors. In addition to his duties at South Carolina, Frye served as the Team USA head coach at the 2001 Goodwill Games in Brisbane, Australia. # # #
t-and-f: USATF Release: Charlie Ruter wins Giegengack Award
-- Forwarded message -- From: USATF Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: USATF Release: Charlie Ruter wins Giegengack Award Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 09:34:45 -0800 Contact:Tom Surber USATF Media Information Manager 317-261-0500 http://www.usatf.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Saturday, December 1, 2001 Ruter wins Giegengack Award MOBILE, Alabama - Longtime official, meet director, international team staff member and former vice president of USA Track Field (USATF), Charlie Ruter, has been named the 18th winner of the Robert Giegengack Award. Ruter received the award Friday evening at the Jesse Owens Awards Dinner and Xerox Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, held in conjunction with USATFs 2001 Annual Meeting. The award is presented annually to an individual who excels in contributing to the excellence and high standards of the sport. The Giegengack is USATF s only accolade for contributions not limited to one of the sports three disciplines track and field, long distance running and race walking or to any one of the three areas of consideration official, coach, administrator. The award was established in 1982 and named after the former Yale University track and field coachs half-century of superior and outstanding contributions as an Official, as a Coach, as an Administrator to the sport and to the Organization. During his many years of involvement in track and field, Ruter placed his thumbprint on nearly every aspect of the sport, especially in the area of meet officiating. When he began directing meets in the late 1940s and early 50s, Ruter was frustrated that he had to rely on fans or inexperienced volunteers to officiate his track meets. When he took over the national certification of officials in 1976, there were 67 registered officials. There are now more than 8,300. A highly acclaimed official in his own right, Ruter was selected as the head field referee at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, and he officiated at every U.S. Olympic Trials from 1972 through 1996. He also served as the chief umpire at the 1987 World Indoor Championships and Pan American Games. Ruter served on many U.S. international team staffs, including as the head manager of the first U.S. track team to compete in Red China. His service to the sport also included stints on USATFs Board of Directors, and a term as the organizations vice-president. Ruter got his start in track and field as a hurdler and 440-yard runner in New Albany, Indiana. He played basketball at Western Kentucky University for three years before enlisting in the U.S. Navy in 1943. He returned to Kentucky in 1948 to finish his degree and went on to earn a masters degree and teach English at Fern Creek High School. # # #
t-and-f: USATF RELEASE: MEDIA ADVISORY
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 15:39:14 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: USATF Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MEDIA ADVISORY MEMO: November 28, 2001 TO: U.S. Athletics Media FROM: Tom Surber In Mobile, Ala. : (251) 208-2186 Media Information Manager USA Track Field SUBJECT:Media Teleconference MEDIA ADVISORY A USA Track Field media teleconference featuring 2001 Jesse Owens Award winners Stacy Dragila and John Godina has been scheduled for Friday, November 30 at Noon Eastern Time. Dragila continued her dominance of the women's pole vault this year by setting eight world records and winning her second World Championships title, 6th U.S. indoor crown and 5th U.S. Outdoor title in the span of just a few months. In 2001 she has been named Athlete of the Year by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) and Track Field News, as well as being the Women's Sports Foundation Sportswoman of the Year. Godina had a dominant year in the shot put in 2001, winning the World Indoor title, his third World Outdoor crown and third U.S. Outdoor title. He also had perhaps the best single-day double in the shot put and discus in history, winning the shot at 21.95m/72-0.25 (2nd best in the world this year) and placing second in the discus (67.06m/220-0). His shot put series included a staggering five throws over 70 feet. Note: If you would like to participate in Friday's media teleconference at Noon Eastern Time, dial 1 (800) 791-2345 a couple minutes prior to the call. For reporters calling in from out of the country, dial 1 (317) 713-0120. The access code is 64186. # # # PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE: If you would like to respond, please direct your e-mail to the Contact person listed at the top of the text of this message. To be removed from this mailing list or to notify us of a change in your e-mail address, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
t-and-f: USATF RELEASE: St. Louis to host Women's Olympic Marathon Trials
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 14:32:08 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: USATF Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: USATF RELEASE: St. Louis to host Women's Olympic Marathon Trials Contact:Jill M. Geer USATF Director of Communications In Mobile: 251-208-2186 http://www.usatf.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, November 29, 2001 St. Louis to host Women's Olympic Marathon Trials MOBILE - St. Louis will host the 2004 Olympic Team Trials - Women's Marathon, USA Track Field announced Thursday at its 2001 Annual Meeting. The 2003 USA women's marathon champions also will be held in St. Louis. A century after hosting the first Olympics on American soil and the first marathon west of the Mississippi River, St. Louis will again welcome the nation's top women's distance runners as a gateway to Olympic glory on April 4, 2004. The Olympic Games will be held in Athens, Greece, in August, 2004. The St. Louis Sports Commission, Spirit of St. Louis Marathon, and St. Louis 2004 partnered on the successful bid, casting the race as a cornerstone to the region's yearlong civic celebration marking the centennial of the 1904 Olympics and World's Fair, and the bicentennial of the Louisiana Purchase treaty signing and the Lewis and Clark expedition. Competition for hosting the Olympic Trials was intense, said USATF CEO Craig Masback. St. Louis put together an attractive bid package that incorporated all the elements that our athletes have said are important to them: prize money, a fast and fair course and their own race. All of us at USA Track Field are looking forward to coming to St. Louis in 2003 and 2004 for a great event. St. Louis beat out competing bids from Birmingham, Ala.; Washington, D.C.; and New York City in a selection process conducted by USATF's Women's Long Distance Running Committee. As part of the selection process, the Committee surveyed athletes to determine their priorities for the Olympic Trials. The rank order of priorities were prize money, a separate start if the race was to be held in a mixed-gender race, a moderate course and television coverage. St. Louis will provide $250,000 in prize money in addition to paying travel and lodging costs for athletes who achieve the Olympic Trials A qualifying standard of 2:39:59. In 2000, 25 met the Olympic Trials A standard. Athletes who qualify with a time faster than 2:48:00 may compete in the race but do not receive funding. The qualifying window for athletes to achieve their qualifying times is November 4, 2001 (at the New York City Marathon) and January 1, 2002 through early March, 2004. Olympic qualifying standards have not yet been set by the International Association of Athletics Federations. This is a tremendously special day for all of us in St. Louis, said Sports Commission President Frank Viverito. Our region is very proud of its rich history and there is perhaps no better event that connects 2004 with 1904 than the Women's Olympic Marathon Trials. We genuinely tried to impress upon the Women's Long Distance Running Committee how much the Marathon Trials will mean to our community. In no other city but St. Louis will the 2004 Trials carry as much significance or historical relevance. In 2004, women's marathoners competing in the Olympic Trials will run on a four-lap criterium course in Forest Park, site of the 1904 World's Fair. A well-shaded course of moderate hills, it provides the fair course requested by USA women's runners. The Women's Olympic Marathon Trials will be held on the same day as the Spirit of St. Louis Marathon, which will be held on a different course. Nearly 3,300 people took part in the 2001 Spirit of St. Louis marathon and its affiliated events, with participation expected to as much as double by 2004. In 2004, St. Louis will host a series of community-wide events that showcase our recent revitalization accomplishments and mark our rich history and promising future, said former U.S. Senator Jack Danforth, chairman of St. Louis 2004. It is with great pride and enthusiasm that the Women's Olympic Marathon Trials will be among the highlights of a spectacular year in St. Louis. The Trials will create a wonderful excitement in our region. And in return, we look forward to providing the event a one-of-a-kind experience that only St. Louis can offer in 2004. # # # PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE: If you would like to respond, please direct your e-mail to the Contact person listed at the top of the text of this message. To be removed from this mailing list or to notify us of a change in your e-mail address, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
t-and-f: USATF RELEASE: Greene named Visa Humanitarian Athlete of the Year
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 11:19:06 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: USATF Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: USATF RELEASE: Greene named Visa Humanitarian Athlete of the Year Contact:Tom Surber USATF Media Information Manager In Mobile: 251-208-2186 http://www.usatf.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, November 28, 2001 Greene named Visa Humanitarian Athlete of the Year MOBILE, Alabama - Olympic gold medalist and three-time world 100 meter champion Maurice Greene has been named the 2001 Visa Humanitarian Athlete of the Year, which recognizes contributions U.S. track and field athletes have made off the field of competition. The announcement was made by USATF at its 2001 Annual Meeting in Mobile. In addition to donating $62,000 to the United Negro College Fund in 2001, Greene established The Maurice Greene Finish the Race Youth Foundation in his hometown of Kansas City, Kansas. The mission of the Foundation is to encourage and enable today's youth to acquire the skills necessary to more effectively face the difficult challenges of life. The mission will be accomplished through a holistic approach by providing program services that address the academic, social, emotional, physical, and personal needs of each child. Teachers, school counselors and psychologists, parents and program staff will identify the youth participating in the program, who are considered to be living in challenging circumstances. The program will strive to help each individual to excel to their fullest potential and allow them to become a valuable resource to themselves, their family their school and their community. In addition to recognizing Maurice Greene as the Visa Humanitarian Athlete of the Year, Visa will also donate $2,500 to the Maurice Greene Finish the Race Youth Foundation. Maurice provides a wonderful example that successful athletes have what it takes to make a tremendous difference in the lives of American children, said George Perry director, event and sponsorship marketing, Visa U.S.A. Through his success on and off the track, Maurice serves as a terrific role model to young people that they can achieve what they set their mind to. All of us at Visa are proud to have this opportunity to acknowledge his many accomplishments. I'm very grateful to Visa for this tremendous honor, said Greene. I've always enjoyed taking a leadership role in giving back to the community, and I look forward to continuing with those efforts in the years to come. Visa is the world's leading payment brand and largest consumer payment system, enabling banks to provide their consumer and merchant customers with a wide variety of payment alternatives. More than 14,000 U.S. financial institutions rely on Visa's processing system, VisaNet, to facilitate over $835 billion in annual transaction volume - including roughly half of all Internet payments - with virtually 100 percent reliability. U.S. consumers carry 353 million Visa-branded smart, credit, commercial, stored value and check cards, accepted at approximately 22 million locations worldwide. Visa's people, partnerships, brand, payment technology and security standards are helping to create universal commerce - the ability to safely conduct transactions anytime, anywhere, anyway. Please visit www.visa.com for additional information. # # # PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE: If you would like to respond, please direct your e-mail to the Contact person listed at the top of the text of this message. To be removed from this mailing list or to notify us of a change in your e-mail address, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
t-and-f: NCAA HS women
-- Forwarded message -- From: Micheal Hubbard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Track List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: NCAA HS women Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 07:28:06 -0800 How did states compare on high school women and the NCAA cross country? 1. Ohio (8 entries) 125 pts 2. CANADA (15 entries) 133 pts 3. New York (14 entries) 141 pts 4. Colorado (14 entries) 153 pts 5. Utah (6 entries) 159 pts 6. Massachusetts (13 entries) 182 pts 7. (tie) Texas (12 entries) Virginia (7 entries) 210 pts 9. California (19 entries) 211 pts 10. Illinois (7 entries) 231 pts 11. Pennsylvania (6) 293, 12. Michigan (9) 304, 13. North Carolina (5) = 330, 14. Wisconsin (5) 333, 15. IRELAND (5) 357, 16. Washington (8) = 361, 17. Arizona (7) 375, 18. New Jersey (6) 384, 19. Minnesota (5) = 519. others: 4 entries - SWEDEN, Kansas, Indiana, GREAT BRITAIN, Florida, Georgia 3 entries - North Dakota, New Hampshire, Missouri, KENYA, Maryland, = Rhode Island 2 entries - Vermont, Idaho, Oregon, Montana, Maine, New Mexico, Wyoming 1 entry - CHECH REPUBLIC, Connecticut, BULGARIA, GERMANY, NEW ZEALAND, = NORWAY, SCOTLAND, Mississippi, Alaska, VENEZUELA, Arkansas, South = Carolina, Iowa, South Dakota, HOLLAND, LATVIA unknown - 4 - Sarah Ellis (southern California), Christa Benton (S = Florida), Jolene Hampson (Virginia), Kristin Cisowski (Massachusetts)
t-and-f: USATF News Notes
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 17:51:07 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: USATF Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: USATF News Notes Contact:Jill M. Geer Director of Communications USA Track Field (251) 208-2186 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.usatf.org USATF News Notes Volume 2, Number 111November 29, 2001 Clausen wins 1999 World Championships bronze medal U.S. race walking standout Curt Clausen will be awarded the bronze medal from the 50K race walk at the 1999 World Outdoor Championships more than two years after completing the race. The IAAF confirmed Thursday that Clausen will be awarded the bronze medal following the announcement that Russia's German Skurygin, who won the 50K race in Seville, Spain, had tested positive for the banned substance human chorionic gonadotropin. The IAAF has stripped Skurygin of his world title. Italy's Ivano Brugnetti, who finished second in Seville, will be presented with the gold medal. Edgar Hernandez of Mexico moves up to the silver and Clausen, who was fourth in 3 hours, 50 minutes, 55 seconds, will receive the bronze. Clausen, who finished seventh at 50K at the 2001 World Outdoor Championships, becomes the first American to win an Olympic or World Championships race walk medal since Larry Young won bronze in the 50K at the 1972 Olympics in Munich. This came as a total surprise to me, said Clausen. A friend of mine from Sweden sent me an email yesterday to tell me about it and I thought he was kidding me. Finishing in the top three in the world has always been a dream of mine, and I'm very excited about it. Team USA staffs named USATF's men's and women's track and field committees on Thursday named several national team staffs for competitions in 2002 and 2003: NCAC U-25 Championships, San Antonio, TX, July 2002 - men: Head coach Dave Wollman, head manager James Williams, Assistant coaches Jack Sands, Steve Lattimer and Ralph Spry. NCAC U-25 Championships, San Antonio, TX, July 2002 ñ women: Head coach Annie Switzer-Bennett, head manager Carol Smith, assistant coaches Mike Smart, Jay Hartshorn and Dianne Wholly. IAAF World Junior Championships in Kingston, JAM, July 16-21 2002 - men: head coach Bill Whittaker, head manager Ernie Gregoire, assistant coaches Edrick Floreal, Chris Huffins, Jack Warner, and Bryan Blutreich. IAAF World Junior Championships in Kingston, JAM, July 16-21 2002 - women: head coach Monica Gary, head manager Mary Ayers, assistant coaches Sue Parks, Connie Price-Smith, Gwen Wentland and Cedric Walker. Multi-Event International Meet, TBD, July 27-28 2002 - men: head coach Scott Hall, head manager Kevin Reid. Multi-Event International Meet, TBD, July 27-28 2002 ñ women: head coach Dave Nielsen, head manager Deleatha Quarles. USA vs. GBR in Glasgow, GBR, July 2002 - men: head coach Ron Bazil USA vs. GBR in Glasgow, GBR, July 2002 - women: head coach Jim Barber IAAF World Cup in Madrid, ESP, Sept. 20-21 2002 -men: head coach Ron Bazil, head manager Brad Hackett, assistant coaches Rick Sloan and Cliff Rovelto. IAAF World Cup in Madrid, ESP, Sept. 20-21 2002 -women: head coach Jim Barber, head manager Angie Taylor, assistant coaches Barbara Edmondson and Robert Vaughn. IAAF World Indoor Championships in Birmingham, GBR, March 2003 - men: head coach Stan Huntsman, head manager Tracy Sundlun, assistant coaches Dave Swan and Ed Jacoby. IAAF World Indoor Championships in Birmingham, GBR, March 2003 - women: head coach Bert Lyle, head manager Martha Watson, assistant coaches Pam Spencer, Erroll Anderson and John Babington. Junior and Youth sites chosen Three cities on Thursday won in their bids to host junior or youth events. Eugene, Oregon, was awarded the 2004 National Junior Olympic Track Field Championships. Providing competition for athletes ages 9-18, the meet will be held July 27 through August 1, 2004 and is the grand finale topping off a series of Junior Olympic regional qualifying meets throughout the country. Walnut, California, was the other city bidding for the meet. Albuquerque, N.M., was awarded the 2003 Junior Olympic Cross Country Championships, to be held December 13, 2003, winning the meet over San Diego, Calif. Youth Athletics Nationals were awarded for 2003 and 2004. An all-comers meet for youth athletes, the 2003 meet will be held July 2-6 in Buffalo, N.Y., with the 2004 event June 30-July 4 in Landover, Md. USATF takes to the links The inaugural USATF golf challenge was held Thursday in Mobile in an event that raised $3,000 for the Twin Towers Fund. Additional funds from the tournament will go to the USATF Youth Program. The winners in the A-flight in the scramble format held in windy and rainy conditions were Olympic relay gold medalist Harvey Glance, Mark Kaiser, Cheryl
t-and-f: Drossin makes stunning debut, Larson wins U.S. men's title
From: USATF Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 15:26:05 -0500 Contact:Jill M. Geer Director of Communications 317-261-0500 http://www.usatf.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Sunday, November 4, 2001 Drossin makes stunning debut, Larson wins U.S. men's title NEW YORK - On Sunday afternoon, Deena Drossin became the fastest American woman ever at the New York City Marathon, the fourth-fastest American woman marathoner in history and the 2001 USA women's marathon champion. Not bad for a rookie run. Drossin, 28, was seventh overall in the women's race with a time of 2:26:58, easily winning the U.S. title and easily become the fastest American marathon debutante in history. Leslie Lehane at the 1988 Twin Cities Marathon had run 2:32:11 in her first run at the distance. It was a bravura performance in a race that Drossin entered with the hopes of U.S. marathoning resting on her shoulders. I'm ecstatic, said Drossin, an Alamosa, Colo., resident who has spent the last few months training with Team USA Long Distance Running in Mammoth Lakes, Calif. The field was fabulous and intimidating this year. To finish this high is extraordinary. Putting in all the hard work that you do for a marathon, luck also plays a part. I feel very lucky today. It's an incredible time for my first one. Scott Larson of Boulder, Colo., was never challenged by the rest of the American field, running 2:15:26 to finish 13th overall and win the 2001 USA men's crown, the first U.S. title of his career. It's unbelievable, Larson said. If I could pick one race in my career to be national champion, it would be at New York, especially after everything that has happened. The crowd was incredible. I'm speechless. Larson and Drossin each won $15,000 for their wins, and Drossin earned an extra $15,000 for running under 2:27. In the U.S. men's race, Clint Verran of Rochester, Mich., was the second American in a personal-best time 2:17:20 to place 14th overall. Chris Lundstrom of Saint Paul, Minn., was the third American in 2:18:08, finishing 16th overall. Milena Glusac of Fallbrook, Calif., the 2001 U.S. 20k, 25k and half-marathon champion, was second among the women in 2:34:46 to place 13th overall. Colleen De Reuck of Boulder, Colo., was the third American in 2:35:31 to finish 14th. Margaret Okayo of Kenya and Tesfaye Jifar of Ethiopia each took home $80,000 and a Pontiac Grand Am for their wins in the women's and men's races, respectively. Jifar won in a men's course record time of 2:07:43 to win an additional $50,000 in time bonuses. Okayo broke clear of the field with a 5:13 17th mile and ran alone for the rest of the race, finishing in 2:24:21 to win an additional $35,000 for her women's course record, breaking Lisa Ondieki's time of 2:24:40 set in 1992. Jifar broke clear of Japhet Kosgei of Kenya at the 24-mile mark and ran alone through Central Park to the finish line, breaking Juma Ikangaa's record time of 2:08:01 set in 1989. Kosgei finished second in 2:09:19 with Rogers Rop of Kenya third in 2:19:51. In the women's race, Susan Chepkemi of Kenya was second in 2:25:12 and Svetlana Zakharova of Russia was third in 2:25:13. Drossin and De Reuck led the U.S. women throughout the first half of race, running with the lead pack. The two came through the half-way point at 1:13:42 - nearly ideal pace under ideal weather conditions. Drossin separated herself and went on in uncharted territory for her, finishing a tremendously successful marathon debut. Drossin had shown her long-distance potential on September 2 when she won the Rock N' Roll Half Marathon in Virginia Beach, Va., in 1:10:08 - an American record for a women's race. In New York, Drossin went from having the potential to be America's #1 marathon to winning that title outright. The fans were fabulous the whole way, said Drossin, who owns a 10k best of 31:51.05 on the track. They were shouting 'Go USA' and holding banners with my name on it. It truly made the difference. In the U.S. men's race, Larson ran much of the race alone, easily separated from the rest of the American men's field. The 31-year-old was fourth at the 2000 Olympic Marathon Trials, and in New York, Larson was 2 ½ minutes ahead of the next-fastest American by mile 17. The leaders were running a little faster than I wanted to run, but the American pack was going slower that I wanted to go, Larson said. So I was in no-man's land. I knew I was strong, but the last two miles I slowed down. For complete results from the New York City Marathon and the USA Championships, visit the New York City Marathon Web site, http://www.nyrrc.org # # #
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t-and-f: USATF RELEASE: News of the Worlds
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 16:19:08 EDT Subject: USATF RELEASE: News of the Worlds To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact: Jill M. Geer Director of Communications At the Xerox Media Center: 780-821-4130 http://www.usatf.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, August 6, 2001 News of the Worlds ... from Edmonton Worlds broadcast second-highest rated sports show of weekend Sunday's ABC broadcast of the IAAF World Championships continued the upward trend of USA Track Field's Golden Spike Tour telecasts, achieving a 2.4/6 overnight rating. The Worlds broadcast was second to NBC's broadcast of the Brickyard 400 and beat CBS' coverage of the PGA International tournament, the WNBA on NBC, and others. Saturday's ABC broadcast of the IAAF World Championships achieved a 1.7/4 national overnight rating. Frye Girls Team USA's women's 400m crew provides a who's who of University South Carolina track and field, and a walking advertisement for coach Curtis Frye, the USC head coach. Demetria Washington is the 2001 NCAA indoor 400m champion and two-time outdoor runner-up. Miki Barber is the 2000 NCAA Indoor 200m and Outdoor 400m champion, the 1999 runner-up outdoors, and fifth-place Olympic Trials finisher. Her twin sister, Me'Lisa, is a 12-time All-American for the Gamecocks. The sisters have encountered success off the track as well, having been featured on Oprah Winfrey's Oxygen Sports network and in Sports Illustrated. Washington is running the 400 meters in Edmonton; the Barber twins and Washington are in the 4x400 pool. Not surprisingly, South Carolina won the 2000 NCAA indoor 4x400 relay in a record time of 3:28.64. Olympic 4x400m relay gold medalist Monique Hennagan, a 1998 graduate of North Carolina, currently lives in Columbia, S.C., and is trained by Frye as well. Hennagan is running the 400 at Worlds and is in the 4x400 relay pool. In addition, hammer thrower Dawn Ellerbe is a '97 grad of South Carolina. The American record holder has returned to Columbia to train and is an assistant coach for the USC team. She will compete Monday in hammer qualifying. and Frye Guys Frye also coaches two-thirds of Team USA's men's 110m hurdles delegation, mentoring South Carolina's former six-time NCAA champion Terrence Trammell the 2000 Olympic silver medalist and 2001 World Indoor gold medalist and Allen Johnson, the 1996 Olympic gold medalist, two-time world champion, 1995 World Indoor champion and co-American record holder. Men's hurdles rounds canceled The first round of the men's 110m hurdles, originally scheduled for Monday, have been canceled. The four-round competition has now been reduced to three. Competition in the event will begin on Tuesday for American hurdlers Allen Johnson, Terrence Trammell and Dawane Wallace. Saying goodbye to Bert Longtime Associated Press track and field reporter Bert Rosenthal in Edmonton is making his last official appearance at the World Championships. Rosenthal has covered track and field for AP since 1973 and is retiring this year. His stories on American athletes have appeared in newspapers around the world over the last 28 years, helping to raise the profile of the sport of track and field and its athletes for nearly three decades. USATF honored Rosenthal at the GMC Envoy USA Outdoor Championships in June. A native of the Bronx, Bert plans to relax and relocate to Arizona in his retirement with his wife of 29 years, Emily.
t-and-f: USATF Release: Xerox Athletes of the Day
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 00:08:10 EDT Subject: USATF Release: Xerox Athletes of the Day To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit For their performances at Monday's session of the World Track Field Championships, Stacy Dragila and Antonio Pettigrew have been named the Xerox Athletes of the Day. Dragila won her second consecutive World title, while Pettigrew placed fourth in the 400 meters.
t-and-f: USATF Release: Jones, Montgomery lead Team USA relay pools
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 13:27:46 EDT Subject: USATF Release: Jones, Montgomery lead Team USA relay pools To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact: Jill M. Geer Director of Communications At the USATF Xerox Media Center: 780-821-4130 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, August 7, 2001 Jones, Montgomery top Team USA relay pools EDMONTON Three-time Olympic gold medalist Marion Jones and World Championships 100m silver medalist Tim Montgomery will lead the women's and men's Team USA 4x100m relay pools at the 2001 World Outdoor Championships. Team USA head coaches J.J. Clark and Orin Richburg announced the pools Tuesday. Any athlete on the U.S. team may be added to the pool this week. First-round lineups will be announced Thursday, with the lineups for the final announced Saturday. Joining Jones as leaders in the women's pool are 1996 Olympic relay gold medalists Inger Miller and Chryste Gaines. Also in the pool are 2000 Olympic relay bronze medalist Torri Edwards, three-time NCAA 100m champion Angela Williams, sub-11.00 sprinter Kelli White and U.S. championships 6th-place 100m finisher and NCAA 200m champion Brianna Glenn. We're very pleased to have our country's strongest sprinters in the relay pool, Clark said. We have worked on several combinations in practice. The next step is to determine which combination will work best to bring us the gold medal. Four Olympic relay gold medalists are in the men's pool. Joining Montgomery - a 2000 Olympic relay gold medalist - in the men's pool are Sydney Olympic relay gold medalist Jon Drummond, Olympic relay gold medalist and Worlds 100m bronze medalist Bernard Williams, 1992 Olympic relay gold medalist Dennis Mitchell, U.S. 7th-place finisher J.J. Johnson, 8th-place finisher Jonathan Carter and U.S. Championships semifinalist Mickey Grimes. Recovering from a strained quadriceps muscle sustained in Sunday's 100m final, Maurice Greene will not compete in the relay or in the 200m in Edmonton. Even without Maurice, we have a great group of athletes to come out and do what we're hoping to do, and that is win the relay, Richburg said. The current men's 4x400m relay pool, as announced July 18, is Antonio Pettigrew, Angelo Taylor, Leonard Byrd, Jerome Young, Derrick Brew, Andrew Pierce, Thomas Gerding and Geno White. The women's relay pool, also announced last month, is Jearl Miles-Clark, Monique Hennagan, Michelle Collins, Demetria Washington, Miki Barber, Me'Lisa Berber, and Suziann Reid.
t-and-f: note from list supervisor Re: attachments and viruses
Since the University of Oregon has had plenty of majordomo lists (ours included) be attacked by the W32/SirCam@MM worm, a new policy on all lists has been adopted. The new policy will not allow ANY posts with attachments to be forwarded on to the list subscribers. If the post has an attachment it will be bounced to the list error handler (your truly) for review. Thanks for you attention into this important matter Charles F. Wandler, list error handler, t-and-f lists, Univ of Oregon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
t-and-f: For Sale -- Power/Resistance Sleds
For more info, please e-mail Sheryl Bell at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Charles F. Wandler, list error handler, t-and-f lists, Univ of Oregon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Forwarded message -- Subject: For Sale Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 16:33:31 -0600 From: Sheryl P Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ricks College has 4 power/resistance sleds for sale. Sleds are designed to be very rugged, but lightweight and are easy to use. Each sled weighs 8.5 pounds and can accomodate up to 200 lbs. of Olympic or regular weight plates. Welded steel construction. Includes harness and lead lines. These sleds have been used 2 seasons. 3 are in very good condition, the 4th is in good condition. Purchased new for $250 each. We would sell the 3 in very good condition for $125 each and the 4th for $75. Please call Doug Stutz at 208-356-2334 for more information, or e-mail me with questions at [EMAIL PROTECTED] We will furnish digital pictures in you are interested.
t-and-f: June 9 World's Best in Athletics at Stanford!
-- Forwarded message -- Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Clay Bullwinkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: June 9 World's Best in Athletics at Stanford! Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 00:50:05 -0700 If you have children or coach children who play sports, or are a sports fan yourself, this email is for you. Please mark your calendar for June 9, 5:30 pm (3:30 pm if you have or coach children) for a great world-class athletic event. Stanford's Cobb Track plays host to many of the world's best runners, jumpers and throwers in the U.S. Open Track and Field Invitational. See the charming Marion Jones - the world's fastest women, 5 time Olympic medallist, and NCAA basketball champion. See the amazing speed and agility of Terrence Trammel, Olympic silver medallist in the 110 meter hurdles, and Shaun Crawford, world 200 meters champion. Also expected are world leading pole vaulters, high jumpers, shot putters, and discus throwers, all demonstrating amazing combinations of strength, quickness and grace. Stanford fans can cheer for recent Olympians Robert Weir, Michael Stember, and Brad Hauser. Plus many more. For further information and tickets see www.ustfopen.org http://www.ustfopen.org . You'll have a chance to watch yourself on national TV when CBS broadcasts the event on the following day, Sunday June 10. Prior to the event, at Cobb Track beginning at 3:30 pm, there will be free all-sport youth clinics for children ages 5 to 18. These will be focused on explosive running and jumping, endurance running, and strength training. The clinics are for children playing any sport - soccer, basketball, baseball, football, volleyball, tennis, track etc. Entire teams are welcome. Parents and coaches are welcome to observe and ask questions. The clinics will be led by Bay Area experts in the respective training disciplines. Participants 12 and under receive free admission to the meet. Please register for the clinics in advance at www.ustfopen.org http://www.ustfopen.org . Registration on-site is also possible but there may be a line, requiring early arrival. Last year during the vacation week of July 4 the clinics had nearly 200 participants and were well-received. Therefore many more are expected this year. Thank you and we look forward to seeing you! Members of the Organizing Committee: Nancy Ditz, Meet Chairperson Joy Margerum, Youth Events Coordinator Patti Sue Plumer Jody Smith Gary Hill Vin Lananna Larry Lettieri Darrin Nelson Keith Peters Nick Petredis Ray Purpur Mike Reilly, Meet Director Peter Skinner Rob Thompson Tim Warner Clay Bullwinkel
t-and-f: Two-year ban for Chinese athletes
-- Forwarded message -- From: "Paul V. Tucknott" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Track Field List" [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Track Canada" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Two-year ban for Chinese athletes Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 08:49:23 -0400 http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport/hi/english/athletics/newsid_1287000/1287060.stm China has banned three runners and a race walker from competing for two years after they tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs, the government announced on Friday. Two discus throwers were also banned for one year after they failed to show up for testing. According to the country's Sports Administration the bans were imposed in February. Chinese sports officials are in the midst of a multi-year anti-doping crackdown, in an attempt to restore the country's battered reputation after a series of drug scandals. Distance runners Yin Lili and Song Liqing, sprinter Cui Danfeng and walker Liu Yunfeng were banned after failing pre-Olympic urine tests at the end of last year, according to the running administration. The sports official refused to say for what drug the runners had tested positive. Discus throwers Liu Fengying and Cheng Xianhong, both women, received one-year bans for failing to show up for out-of-competition testing within the required four hours after receiving notice of the test, the agency said. The penalty for such an infraction was increased from a three-month ban to one year as part of the crackdown.
Re: t-and-f: Tommy Skipper Pole Vault
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 05:50:49 -0500 From: Shawn Devereaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Listproc: UORE_TF [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: t-and-f: Tommy Skipper Pole Vault Jacob Davis jumped 17'6" as a sophmore. Charles F Wandler wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 23:46:46 EDT Subject: Tommy Skipper Pole Vault Sandy Hi vs Centenial Hi in Sandy Oregon. Tommy Skipper (Soph., Sandy Hi) jumped 16'8 3/4" to break Jacob Davis's national sophomore class record. He had the bar raised to 17' and was WAY over on 2 only to pull it off with his arms. Way to go Tommy! Rick Baggett Willamette Striders Pole Vault club -- "I have plenty of talent and vision. I just don't give a damn."
RE: t-and-f: USATF News Notes - 4/19/01
-- Forwarded message -- From: "Mcewen, Brian T" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: t-and-f: USATF News Notes - 4/19/01 Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 10:21:34 -0400 Elite U.S. athletes competing at this year's event include sprinters Brian Lewis, Ken Brokenburr, LaTasha Colander-Richardson, Michelle Collins and Passion Richardson. Athletes competing in the 400-meter hurdles include Calvin Davis, Tonja Buford-Bailey and Sandra Farmer-Patrick. Will there be any events longer than 800m at the Mt. SAC or Kansas Relays? Or are "featured athletes" only brought in for the short events? -Brian P.S. Will there be any "featured/elite athletes" or Olympians competing in the 1500/Steeple/5k/10k? Get with it USATF.
t-and-f: Sprinting Toward the Tape
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 08:42:50 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "T. Jordan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Alan Webb Sprinting Toward the Tape By Todd Jacobson---Special to The Washington Post---Friday, April 20, 2001; Page D11 Alan Webb will graduate from South Lakes High in Reston in less than two months, but the record-setting senior doesn't plan to take it easy as his illustrious track and field career draws to a close. In January, Webb became the first American high school runner since 1967 to run a sub-four-minute mile, and the first to do so indoors. In February, he set a national high school record in the 1,000 meters. Now, using the same determination that earned those marks, he is about to make a final run at Jim Ryun's 36-year-old high school mile record of 3 minutes 55.3 seconds set in 1965. Webb, who ran 4:01.81 a week ago at the Arcadia (Calif.) Invitational, will likely have his best shot to break Ryun's record at the Prefontaine Classic Grand Prix in Eugene, Ore., May 27. Until then, he will tune up at the Penn Relays, an invitational meet in Ohio, and locally at the Concorde District Championships. "Really, nothing is any different than it ever has been," South Lakes Coach Scott Raczko says. "The level of intensity and focus is the same. I can't really put a number [on how fast he can go] but I am sure he can go faster with some good training and some more race opportunities. Only time will tell how fast that is." Since Webb ran a sub-four-minute 1,600 split (3:59.9) in the distance medley relay at the Penn Relays last year, he has been deemed the heir apparent to Ryun -- the avatar of U.S. high school running. As a sophomore, Webb broke Ryun's class mile record, but Webb's junior season was cut short by a hip injury and he did not run in the Prefontaine Classic. This year has included a second-place finish at the Foot Locker Cross-County Championship and two national records, so Webb believes he is primed for a run at the record. "I think [breaking] Ryun's record is a possibility. It's a goal of mine. I would like to just keep improving. I think I can go faster," Webb said. So far, high school records have landed at Webb's feet, but time is running out. In the fall, Webb will head to Ann Arbor as a University of Michigan freshman and start all over again. But for now, he has two months to try and make history. "It's been going by pretty fast," Webb said. "There has been a lot of stuff that has kept me busy, but the biggest meets are yet to come. I am excited and hope things go well." ___ For more information on the Prefontaine Classic, contact Tom Jordan by e-mail or at 1-541-687-1989. preclassic.com
Re: t-and-f: High mileage high schooler
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 09:14:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Reuben Frank [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: t-and-f: High mileage high schooler I find this kid's workouts far more offensive than those pictures! Reuben He runs 4 miles in 23:41, rest, 3 miles in 16:35, rest, 2 miles in 9:50, rest, 1 mile in 4:34, rest, 300 meters in 38, then 5 minute recovery, followed by 1.5 miles in 7:05 (5-min rest), 1200 in 3:25 (3-min rest), 800 in 2:17 (2-min rest), 1200 in 3:15 (1-min rest), 800 in 2:17 (30-sec rest), 400 in 69 (30-sec ?rest) and 400 in 57. = "This content in no way reflects the opinions, standards, or policy of the United States Air Force Academy or the United States government." __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: t-and-f: Why a Brit or an American (Black or White) May NeverWin Another Major Marathon
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 16:06:44 From: alan tobin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: t-and-f: Why a Brit or an American (Black or White) May Never Win Another Major Marathon Let's see, Dehaven was 6th at Boston, that's pretty close to winning it don't you think? Also it would seem that Kenyans/East Africans did not fare as well at Boston. Cox showed us that he wasn't afraid to lead a big marathon. Rome was not built in a day. Give it time. Alan _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Re: t-and-f: Tommy Skipper Pole Vault
-- Forwarded message -- Subject: Re: t-and-f: Tommy Skipper Pole Vault To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 10:49:02 -0500 Is Tommy related to Art Skipper the javelin thrower? Keith Whitman Head Cross Country Coach Assistant Track Field Coach University of Nebraska at Kearney Office (308) 865-8070 Home (308) 338-1115 http://www.unk.edu/athletics/track/ Fax # (308) 865-8187
t-and-f: Sports Illustrated feature on Kenyan distance running
-- Forwarded message -- From: "Post, Marty" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "'t-and-f@darkwing. uoregon. edu' (E-mail)" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Sports Illustrated feature on Kenyan distance running Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 10:42:41 -0400 Check out the latest issue of SI (Allen Iverson cover) for a big feature on how the dominance of Kenyan marathoners begins with countless miles in the hills of Kenya. Marty Post Senior Editor Runner's World Magazine www.runnersworld.com
t-and-f: Another race for Campbell
-- Forwarded message -- From: "Ed Grant" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "track net" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Another race for Campbell Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 21:15:06 -0700 Netters: Following (long after) the example of the man he succeeded as = Olympic decathlon champion, Milt Campbell has declared his candidacy for = the New Jersey Senate in the 2001 elections. At 66, Milt is running for office for the first time. His = chances are not considered favorable as he is running as a Republican in = a newly-drawn (but being chellenged) district which is reportedly = heavily Democratic. Mathias, of course, served a couple of terms in the = U.S. Congress some years ago. Ed Grant
t-and-f: RE: Why a Brit or an American (Black or White) May Never Win AnotherMajor Marathon
-- Forwarded message -- From: "Rich Harrington" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Listproc: UORE_TF" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Why a Brit or an American (Black or White) May Never Win Another Major Marathon Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 19:37:04 -0400 Jon, To see the decline in performances by "whites", one needs look at the top few hundred or so performers, in the 1500 on up, to see that among that group, the majority of best performers predate 1990. In fact, the number of performers before 1985, give one even more reason to raise one's eyebrow. I exclude Spanish and Portuguese athletes, who you discount for the purposes of your article. Look at the 1500, 10k and marathon, and my point is backed up with facts. These lists are over 1,000 deep: http://w1.196.telia.com/~u19603668/athletics_all-time_best.htm The flaw in your opinion is not with the facts that you present, but rather with your underestimation of the impact of what you CANNOT MEASURE. While I give credence to some of what you state, I believe few things in life are so simple. There are intangible forces at work here, that are impossible to quantify. Rich === -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 16:34:44 -0700 Subject: Re: t-and-f: Why a Brit or an American (Black or White) May Never Win Another Major Marathon (long) From: Jon Entine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Rich Harrington [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] I believe you overstate the case. The performance of the US and European middle distance runners has not declined very much when you look at overall performance at the elite level. Sure, there may not be any more runners who compete at the incredibly elite level of the 3 or 4 INDIVIDUAL athletes that you cite, but that sheds little light on the issue of the genetic component at work here. Population genetics only speaks to overall trends. There are now more elite East (and in a very few cases North) African middle and long distance runners, putting up incredible times, then there were American or European runners 16, 20 and 25 years ago. You only have to look at the charts of the to distance performers to show that. 800 meters: whites represent about 21 percent of top 100 times. 1500 meters: 14 percent 5000 meters: 8 percent 10,000 meters: 22 percent Marathon: 37 percent. Sure, there CAN be extraordinary INDIVIDUAL runners who are white (and at the longest distances, Asian or of Asian ancestry, such as Ecuadorians). That would be expected with normal human variation. But to say that white performances have declined would be overstating the case. 15, 20 and 25 years ago, there were virtually no Africans competing. The playing field is still heavily tilted toward whites, with the surface potential of East and North Africa barely being scratched, but already the mismatch in natural talent is overwhelming. And it will probably get worse. That does not suggest whites are "lazy" and don't train as hard, as Bill Rodgers keeps hinting it. It just means you can't turn silver into gold, with rare individual exceptions. On 4/19/01 4:20 PM, "Rich Harrington" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jon, I have still yet to hear anyone explain why the performance of US and European middle-distance and distance runners has generally DECLINED. Look at the early to middle 1980's vs. the last 10-15 years. Break it down by depth in each event, from 800m on up, and see if I'm wrong. Here are some interesting peaks for that "group" (if you don't include athletes from the Iberian Peninsula) as well: 800m Coe '81 1000mCoe '81 1500m Cram '85 (unless you count Cacho '98) Mile Cram '85 2000mCram '85 3000m 3 legibly faster than Moorcroft's '82 race (excluding 3 Spanish athletes) 5000m Only 2 have run faster than Moorcroft's '82 time 10,000A few negligibly faster than Mark Nenow '86 (Only Jon Brown faster if you exclude Portugal and, Spain and Italy) Marathon Jones '85 (if you exclude Pinto and Lopes) No one (exept the might El Guerrouj)has challenged Coghlan's '83 indoor mile time either. And one could argue that El G's time had the advantage of a superior track!!! That's fascinating to me? Rich Harrington
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-- Forwarded message -- From: "Ed Grant" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "track net" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Donohue at Penn Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 21:20:00 -0700 Netters: Erin Donohu,e who had been expected to anchor a Haddonfield team = which would have been among the DMR favorites at Penn this year, will be = running the individual mile instead. The reason is that Haddonfild's No. = 2 runner, Holly Cosnett, who had the team in 2nd place after the = eopening 1200M leg last year, is nursing a stress fracture. The change also cancels out Erin's plans to compete in the = javelin as Penn limited individual athletes to oine event apiece. As a = relay runner, she would have been eligible for the spear-chucking event. Another potential NJ DMR contender in the girls' race, Red Bank, = will probably be running, but with a slight handicap as Katie Kingsbery, = who ran the 800 leg indoors in a narrow loss to Boys and Girls at the = Easterns, will not be eligible until a few days after Penn due to NJ's = stringent transfer rule which assesses a 30-day penalty in any season in = which an athlete won a letter the previous year at his/her former = school. However, she is a junior and the Trotter twins, due to run the = two long legs at penn, are sophs, so look out next year. = ED Grant
t-and-f: featured athletes at Mt SAC, KU Relays
-- Forwarded message -- From: "Kebba Tolbert" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: featured athletes at Mt SAC, KU Relays Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 17:08:34 -0400 -- Forwarded message -- From: "Mcewen, Brian T" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: t-and-f: USATF News Notes - 4/19/01 Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 10:21:34 -0400 Elite U.S. athletes competing at this year's event include sprinters Brian Lewis, Ken Brokenburr, LaTasha Colander-Richardson, Michelle Collins and Passion Richardson. Athletes competing in the 400-meter hurdles include Calvin Davis, Tonja Buford-Bailey and Sandra Farmer-Patrick. Will there be any events longer than 800m at the Mt. SAC or Kansas Relays? Or are "featured athletes" only brought in for the short events? -Brian P.S. Will there be any "featured/elite athletes" or Olympians competing in the 1500/Steeple/5k/10k? Get with it USATF. The problem is that we don't (except Regina Jacobs) we don't have anyone who is "elite" to bring in. maybe suzy hamilton but she hasn't proven she can make a final. When we have someone who can medal at 800m or above then we can start caaling them elite. --Kebba _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
t-and-f: London Marathon: Going gets tough even for the toughest
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 17:41:47 -0700 From: "Eamonn Condon" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Track Field" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: "Eamonn Condon" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: London Marathon: Going gets tough even for the toughest The Electronic Telegraph Saturday 21 April 2001 Sarah Edworthy When Sir Steven Redgrave announced his retirement from international rowing and his intention to run the London Marathon, a gaggle of retired sportsmen must have felt tempted to take him aside. A number of sportspeople - Frank Bruno, Michael Lynagh and Graham Gooch to name a few - have added the 26-mile event to their list of achievements. Accustomed to meticulous preparation for their disciplines, few have ventured to say they found it anything other than "quite a challenge". And here was our ultimate athlete, a man whose five gold medals made him a sporting icon and the national embodiment of a high pain threshold. Did he appreciate fully the challenge of the 26-mile run? His respect for endurance training goes without saying, but he was surely not viewing the day's run as a doddle after 20 years of Olympian endeavour, was he? "That was exactly what I was thinking in 1989 when I ran my first marathon," admitted Nick Gillingham, the double Olympic swimming medallist. "After the 1988 Olympics, I thought, `I'm fit and healthy, and I compete with the best of the world in the swimming pool. I'll have a go'. After I'd got around, I said I'd never do it again. "I suffered terribly from the impact of each stride on my knees and leg muscles. I felt battered. I got to 19 miles and had to walk. On a personal note that meant I'd failed. "And I'm a lightweight, 73 kilos. I wouldn't like to be carting 15 or 16 stone of muscle around that course. It's a common mistake to think, `I'm fit, it'll be easy'. I viewed it as two back-to-back training sessions in the pool. The nature of sport is debilitating, even if you are racing for two minutes in the pool. You need a big aerobic and anaerobic base. But the marathon requires more than just the fitness you've acquired from your event and make-up. "I had wanted to cover the distance in under four hours, and I'd wanted to run. I'd got to the half-way stage in 1hr 38min and then it took more than 2.5 hours to do the second half. It was painful. I didn't enjoy it at all. The next day I had my legs elevated on the sofa, it was so uncomfortable. The only good thing was eating two dozen cream cakes. I was starving." Gillingham's competitive instinct kept nagging him, and he ran again eight years later after his retirement following the Atlanta Games. "The second time I trained specifically to get used to being on my legs for two hours," he said. "I ran the first half in 1hr 59min and ran the second half even quicker. The whole experience was thoroughly enjoyable. The crowds were very supportive. I kept remembering 1989 when there were lots of dead spots around Docklands, and I'd hit the wall, broken into a walk and my body temperature fell. I was hurting so badly. Having worked out how to train for it, I think now I would run it again . . . when I'm 40." Jeremy Bates, the former British No 1 and Davis Cup tennis player, is another who saw the marathon as an athletic focus to help climb down from top-level competition. He ran in three successive years following his retirement in 1996. "I got it all wrong the first time. I was used to lots and lots of high stress training but after 20 miles I hit a wall. It was absolute agony. I couldn't run. I couldn't walk. I guess I shuffled. "It was incomparable to anything I had ever experienced on a tennis court. I got through it. There was no way I was going to stop but it was horrible. "The next year I took training advice from a friend who had done the Iron Man in Hawaii. That made the difference. I ran it easily, no problem at all. He explained how when you get fatigue, as you will in an endurance event, your heart rate rises significantly. If you haven't trained with your heart rate up, you get more and more fatigued. But if you do a lot of intensive interval training with your heart rate up in the 180s, your body gets used to it and can cope. It worked. I ran the second half faster than the first." Event rider Ian Stark joins Redgrave, his fellow Olympian, tomorrow. He intended to race 10 years ago but withdrew after injuring himself in a fall. Tomorrow, at the age of 47, he will fulfil his ambition. "It is one of those challenges I could not resist," he said. "I tended to watch it on TV but couldn't commit to the training because of my eventing schedule. "I feel not too bad," he said, gingerly, after weeks of uphill and downhill running in the Borders. However, he confessed that he had visited his back man on Thursday night to get his knees right for the big day. "I've been running seven miles every other day and 14 or 15 miles every weekend. My knees were in pain from the concussion of
t-and-f: London Marathon: Loroupe's school run of glory
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 17:25:41 -0700 From: "Eamonn Condon" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Track Field" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: "Eamonn Condon" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: London Marathon: Loroupe's school run of glory The Electronic Telegraph Saturday 21 April 2001 Sue Mott TEGLA LOROUPE had a school run, but not like yours and mine. We think of a school run as double parking in a people carrier waiting for a dirty-faced moppet to appear on the horizon with their jumper on backwards. Loroupe's was less abstract. It was simple. She ran. Ten kilometres there, 10 kilometres back. Every day. From the age of seven. "I didn't know I was training," she said, a giggle escaping from behind a smiling string of pearl-white teeth. Twenty years on, the daughter of a Kenyan Rift Valley farmer is the London Marathon's defending champion and the fastest woman over 26.2 miles. So it worked, the inadvertent training, and her reward has been not merely the amassing of a decent fortune with which she supports her dead sister's six children, and puts two other sisters through medical school in Ohio, but she also fomented a cultural revolution back home in the tribal lands of the Pokot. In her childhood it was not done for girls to aspire to a career in athletics. They had work to do. When little Tegla ran home from school she would tend the cattle, sheep and goats. She would be sent out to collect firewood and at certain times of the year she would be required, like the rest of the family, to heft sacks of maize weighing more than she did up to the farm's mountainous storage area. That was the accidental high altitude training. She became as strong as an ox while being about the size of a cricket. Even now, at 27, the indisputable queen of marathon running is only 4ft 11in and weighs little more than six stone. She looks as though she needs her running shoes less for foot support than to anchor her to the earth. Without them, she might simply go sailing through the air, a mote untethered by gravity. That would be in keeping with her life story, which has been a series of quietly accomplished, steel-willed escape. It began gently enough, with the wish to avoid a good thrashing for being late to school. "You got punished if you were late. I didn't like to be beaten. None of us did so everybody ran. Also running in Kenya is like football in your country. It was our main sport, our main love. "I wanted to be the fastest in my class and I wanted to be more quick than my brothers because my father, he used to favour his boys. That is normal in Kenya. So I wanted to prove I was better than his sons." And could she beat them? "Of course, yes!" she replied, as though the matter could never have been in the slightest doubt. Her father, Abraham, was a polygamist. She had many stepbrothers and sisters but her immediate family consisted of three sisters and two brothers, William and Julius, and it was upon these two that she concentrated her considerable energies. "But it was not easy for me. My community, they did not like me to run. My mother didn't like me to compete. She was afraid that if her daughter was taken out of the family she would be spoiled." Little could her mother have known that one day her daughter would fly her to New York to watch her win the marathon amid the soaring concrete and urban chaos of Manhattan. "She was just amazed," Loroupe said. "Amazed by the buildings and the people." But indomitable spirit plainly runs in the family. Mum absorbed her culture shock and went shopping. In the end, young Tegla's competitive running career was saved when her parents sent her to boarding school in Kenya, where an English headmistress, whose name she still remembers - Barbara Cottier - first spotted, and then fiercely encouraged, the wondrous athletic talent of her tiny pupil. First, though, there was a major problem to overcome. Her father, still unconvinced by such a competitive daughter, had made her pledge to abandon running at school in favour of her studies. She tried hard to bow to the demand. But her fame as a runner had spread and the school insisted she should run on sports day. "A teacher said there is a very good, very small runner in this school and she must run. But I was in the first year. I was shy. I didn't want to say it was me and also I had made that promise to my father. I said, `No, I am not a runner'. Then they say, `If you don't run we will make you run 400 metres on your knees as a punishment'. So I must run, not in the first team, not in the second team, but in the last team with the fat ladies. I ran very fast and when I reached the one kilometre mark I looked around and there was no one there." The whole school had been left for dead by a Lilliputian first year on light speed. The "fat ladies team" won the cup for the first time in the school's history and there was no looking back for Loroupe. "I realised then that running is something that is
t-and-f: Fwd: Milers Wanted!
Begin Forwarded Message Date:04/20 23:03 Received:04/20 20:14 From:Deacon, Bruce EDUC:EX, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am helping to set up the mile at the Victoria International Track Classic, and was wondering if you might circulate this to the US track list and to your many contacts. Thanks in advance! Regards, Bruce WANTED...SUB FOUR MINUTE MILERS! The Victoria International Track Classic is searching for milers for its men's international mile. The Victoria International Track Classic is run in beautiful Victoria, BC on May 25th. Victoria has a rich track tradition which includes the '94 Commonwealth Games, a long history of international meets, and the first sub-4 minute mile for Kiwi legend John Walker. Check out our web site at www.britishcolumbia.com/miraclemile If you have run sub 4 minutes or 3:42 in the last year, WE WANT YOU! Travel assistance is available for qualified athletes. Contact Bruce Deacon at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for more info. - End Forwarded Message -
Re: t-and-f: Tommy Skipper Pole Vault
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 22:43:25 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: t-and-f: Tommy Skipper Pole Vault (fwd) In a message dated 4/20/01 10:30:29 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Subject: RE: t-and-f: Tommy Skipper Pole Vault Yes he is. He is only a Sophomore and little bro to the legend Art Skipper. Mike Mahoney Not quite .. he's Art Skipper's nephew. Jim Spier
t-and-f: Baumann loses appeal to run in marathon
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 00:20:38 -0400 From: "Michael J. Roth" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: USATF-Long Island To: Track Listserve [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Baumann loses appeal to run in marathon Baumann loses appeal to run in marathon FRANKFURT, Germany (April 18, 2001 5:12 p.m. EDT http://www.sportserver.com) - Former Olympic champion Dieter Baumann lost his appeal of a drug ban on Wednesday and won't be allowed to run in Sunday's Hamburg Marathon. Many leading runners had threatened to withdraw if Baumann was cleared. Track and field's ruling body can suspend any athlete competing against a banned runner. The court ruled the 1992 Olympic 5,000-meter champion was not eligible to run in Germany as long as he remains ineligible internationally. The judge said the IAAF had the right to ban Baumann for two years after he tested positive for the performance-enhancing steroid nandrolone in October 1999. The 36-year-old runner can now appeal to Germany's supreme court as a last resort. Baumann said he intends to continue his legal fight against the IAAF. He was cleared by the German track federation after contending his toothpaste had been spiked with nandrolone. But an independent arbitration panel ruled against him just before the Sydney Olympics and banned him for two years. Baumann raced in the 3,000 meters at the German indoor championship in February after gaining a court order allowing him to compete. The IAAF retaliated by suspending his eight competitors on Feb. 26. One of the runners, Jan Fitschen, was forced to miss the indoor world championship the following month because of the ban. IAAF officials said at the time that Baumann's original ban would be automatically extended for another year, until Jan. 21, 2003.
Re: t-and-f: Tye Harvey's Unique Style
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 19:42:57 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: t-and-f: Tye Harvey's Unique Style In a message dated Wed, 18 Apr 2001 7:17:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Bob Bettwy writes: After Milrose, we were talking about Tye Harvey's and his unique style for pushing the pole along the runway. I noticed he did not employ that technique at the World Indoors. Does anyone know why? i asked him that in the Lisbon airport on the way out of town, but since it was 6:30 in the morning on half an hour's sleep (staying on California time while in Europe does have its downside on getaway-day), my recollection of the event is a tad fuzzy. As I recall, he said it was because there was a slight crown (laterally speaking) on the runway, which meant the pole would slide off one way or the other. He said that's more of a problem than any seams in the surface, which the pole actually just rides right over. gh
Re: t-and-f: Book recommendations?
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 16:18:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Mark Bomba [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: t-and-f: Book recommendations? try advanced book exchange www.abe.com or bibliofind www.bibliofind.com Bomba -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 19:37:51 +0200 From: fred [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Charles F Wandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: t-and-f: Book recommendations? Hi, Sorry I kwow only a bookshop in Paris (suburban) whose name is la memoire du sport. You can find all the lists at www.polymedias.fr - Original Message - From: Charles F Wandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Listproc: UORE_TF [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 10:18 AM Subject: t-and-f: Book recommendations? -- Forwarded message -- From: "Mcewen, Brian T" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Book recommendations? Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 11:50:14 -0400 * Can listmembers recommend some books related to elite training for distance running? I am already aware of the usual suspects from the local Barnes and Noble: Martin/CoeBetter Distance Running Daniel's Running Formula Lydiard/Gilmour Running the Lydiard Way Benson/Ray RWTB Lydiard Running to the Top/Run to the Top * Any advice on how to get old or rare books like "Run to the Top" or biographies of stars from the past (Viren, Walker, etc.)? Is the library a worthwhile start for authors and titles? * Additionally, can you recommend any biographies or books, along the lines of "The Unforgiving Minute" or "Once a Runner"? Any and all recommendations will be appreciated. I will append all the recommended books into one summary and post the collection to the list. Thanks! = "Cassidy early on understood that a true runner ran even when he didn't feel like it, and raced when he was supposed to, without excuses and with nothing held back. He ran to win , would die in the process if necessary, and was unimpressed by those who disavowed such a base motivation. You are not allowed to renounce that you have never possessed, he thought." (Quenton Cassidy - 'Once a Runner') __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: t-and-f: Hand timing
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 20:04:19 -0700 From: Ed Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: t-and-f: Hand timing -- Forwarded message -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 15:11:03 EDT Subject: Hand timing To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.N. wrote: Trouble is, if you "get it right" then, assuming the fully automatic timing is accurate, you have likely got it w r o n g . I usually agree with my friend from New Zealand (who is no horses butt, but rather one of the top track historians of all time), but in this case I have a comment. You aren't wrong when you come close to aurtomatic timing while using a stop watch. All it takes is a knowledge of correct procedure and the self-discipline to wait until you see the runner reach the finish line before you begin your reaction to stop the watch. Hand times are generally much faster than automatic timing because timers anticipate and so begin their reaction before the runner hits the tape. In my early years as a track fan I always had a stop watch in my hand, but I quit when it became impossible for me to time with the officials. I was getting times two tenths slower all the time. I remember a straightaway 220 race at San Jose when coach bud Winter pressed me into service as a timer at the 200 meter line. As I stood there waiting to see the first runner reach the 200 line I heard stop watches clicking at the 220 line. Cordner Nelson (ex-timer) Cordner: That last reminds me of a story my good friend Tommy Mitchell (the guy who taught Andy Stanfield how to start) once told me. Tom, one of the greatest track coaches in NJ history, was a longtime teacher at Lincoln HS in Jersey City. he coaches there twice, from around 1930 to0 1942 and again from around 1955 to 1965. In between, however, he continued to teach their with Art Wisner (the founder of the Shore AC and later coach of the Grand Street Boys Olympic Gold MR team), who was also coach twice, before Tommy and then in that 1943-55 "interlude. The Lincoln team used to train indoors on a "made-up" track around the posrts that surrounded their cellar basketball court. One day, Wisner was putting his boys through their [aces with Mitchell looking on. Tommy noticed that Art was stopping his watch before runners actually got to the "finish line." When he asked why, Wisner replied, "Well, they should have finished by then." Ed Grant
Re: t-and-f: Webb's record
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 22:13:47 -0400 From: DANIEL DEYO [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: t-and-f: Webb's "record" Unfortunately the NFHSAA is not a TF body, is a private organization does not understand that when the high schools went metric, that the times could be converted into a metric equivalent. This is the same body that gave us the 1600 3200 distances that are only run in the USA only by the high schools. The only logical move would have been to go to the 1500 3000, but then the extra $20 dollars to put two waterfall marks was thought to be totally outrageous; so just spend $10 only put one waterfall run weird distances that few people outside the USA high schools would understand. Try explaining to an athlete her parents that when she ran 4:59.5 for a 1600, that she DID NOT run a sub 5:00 mile!! Or the 10:58.7 3200 is not a sub 11:00 2 mile!! Dan Deyo University Liggett TF, CC Grosse Pointe Woods, MI -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 15:56:27 -0400 From: bobhersh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: t-and-f: Webb's "record" Message text written by Dan Deyo Luckily, Michigan at least posts both the metric imperial records, if the imperial record is still superior to the metric. The point, in the case of the Webb "record" is that because the imperial time is faster and the imperial distance longer, the imperial record IS the metric record and listing the separate metric record would be wrong.
Re: t-and-f: Webb's record
-- Forwarded message -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 21:19:56 EDT Subject: Re: t-and-f: Webb's "record" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 4/18/01 7:18:07 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Luckily, Michigan at least posts both the metric imperial records, if the imperial record is still superior to the metric. The point, in the case of the Webb "record" is that because the imperial time is faster and the imperial distance longer, the imperial record IS the metric record and listing the separate metric record would be wrong. We had the same thing here in CT last year. A girl broke her school's 1600m record, even though another girl had run several seconds faster for the MILE years before. I could not convince the coach that it HAD to be the 1600 record as well. Sometimes it doesn't pay to get up in the morning. Jim Gerweck Running Times
t-and-f: Message from Mike Rohl
-- Forwarded message -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 09:47:23 - Netters My sever went down or something. Which has caused poor Charles to forward past messages (thank you). If anyone has tried to reach me, try again it seems to be working again. Sorry for any trouble this may have caused. Michael
t-and-f: Dawn Burrell injured
-- Forwarded message -- From: "Mike Takaha" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Dawn Burrell injured Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 11:28:15 -0500 A bit of unfortunate news - world Indoor LJ champion Dawn Burrell = suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament in her right (jumping) leg = while working out on Monday, April 16. She will have surgery within the = next two weeks and will miss the 2001 season. There is a short note on the Houston Chronicle website at=20 http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/sports/tf/882758 Mike Takaha
RE: t-and-f: Why a Brit or an American (Black or White) May NeverWin Another Major Marathon (long)
-- Forwarded message -- From: "Mcewen, Brian T" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Listproc: UORE_TF" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: t-and-f: Why a Brit or an American (Black or White) May Never Win Another Major Marathon (long) Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 11:25:53 -0400 But suck gimmickry cannot conceal the reality that top countrymen such as Jon Brown and Mark Steinle are long shots at best in a field studded with marathoners from East and North Africa, southern Europe, and East Asia. Notably absent among the elite: Northern American and European whites and blacks. Jon Brown was a close 4th in Sydney. Will he win London? I don't know. Can he win London? It is certainly possible. Is he a "long shot at best"? That is garbage.
Re: t-and-f: Webb's record
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 09:53:37 -0700 From: Ed Dana Parrot [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: t-and-f: Webb's "record" To: "'t-and-f@darkwing. uoregon. edu' (E-mail)" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unfortunately the NFHSAA is not a TF body, is a private organization does not understand that when the high schools went metric, that the times could be converted into a metric equivalent. I know what you mean, but stay away from the use of the word converted. As others have said, the point is not that times can be "converted". Although it is reasonable to convert times for seeding purposes and even yearly performance lists, you do not convert times in order to get records. I suspect just about everyone on the list understands this, but. . . What people are saying is that if Jim Ryun ran 3:55 for 1609 meters (a mile), we KNOW that he ran at least 3:55 for 1600 meters. He could not have passed the 1600m split in a slower time than he ran he mile in, unless there was some sort of time machine available to him, which would probably constitute illegal assistance and invalidate any record. Therefore, if no one has run faster than Jm Ryun's mile time for 1600m, the 1600m record should be identical to the mile record and would be the only time listed since the high school federation only keeps official 1600m records. There should be no argument, debate, questioning, etc of this, which is in line with the laws of physics as we understand them to apply to track records. But many people fail to see the logic in this. As some have pointed out, the bigger problem arises when someone runs slightly faster than the "english" record. What if someone runs 3:54.9 for 1600m? Most would agree that this is intrinsically inferior to Ryun's 3:55 for a mile, but since we don't know what Ryun's actual 1600m split was, we would have to declare 3:54.9 as the official 1600m record. This would be a case where, as the gentleman from Michigan indicated his state does, both the official metric record and the intrinsically superior mile record should be listed. Finally, I can't remember if the high school federation even accepts the 3:55 at all, for reasons that escape me now. - ed Parrot
t-and-f: High mileage high schooler
-- Forwarded message -- From: "Scott Fickerson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "T-and-F" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: High mileage high schooler Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 10:09:26 -0400 With all the talk of high school runners stepping up to levels not seen = since the 70's and 80's, there has been much speculation as to why this = might be happening. Some think that high schoolers are running faster = because of higher mileage and tougher workouts...in that vein I thought = I'd share this with the list...I found this killer workout on the site: = http://www.anna.k12.oh.us/d3/T_F_Homepage/NEWS/news.htm Workouts: Start With Distance, Finish With Speed It's not easy putting distance, long intervals and speedwork--pretty = much everything you need--into the same workout, but Florida state = cross-country champion Mike Swope of Winter Park High seems to have = figured it out, with help from his coach Mike Hill. He runs 4 miles in = 23:41, rest, 3 miles in 16:35, rest, 2 miles in 9:50, rest, 1 mile in = 4:34, rest, 300 meters in 38, then 5 minute recovery, followed by 1.5 = miles in 7:05 (5-min rest), 1200 in 3:25 (3-min rest), 800 in 2:17 = (2-min rest), 1200 in 3:15 (1-min rest), 800 in 2:17 (30-sec rest), 400 = in 69 (30-sec rest) and 400 in 57. That's some day's work.=20 Scott Fickerson Heidelberg College Track Field (419) 448 - 2179 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: t-and-f: Dawn Burrell injured
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 14:05:31 -0700 From: Conway Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: t-and-f: Dawn Burrell injured Didn't her brother (Leroy Burrell) suffer a similar injury his frosh or sohp season at Houston ??? Conway Mike Takaha wrote: A bit of unfortunate news - world Indoor LJ champion Dawn Burrell = suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament in her right (jumping) leg = while working out on Monday, April 16. She will have surgery within the = next two weeks and will miss the 2001 season. There is a short note on the Houston Chronicle website at=20 http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/sports/tf/882758 Mike Takaha Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
t-and-f: Princeton Golden Spike Meet
-- Forwarded message -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 16:18:38 EDT Subject: Princeton Golden Spike Meet USATF will conduct a Golden Spike meet at Princeton on May 12. Many elite athletes have already been invited, but there may be openings for others who are capable of meeting the standards(a rough guide) listed below. Contact Fred Samara at [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you're interested. Walt Murphy MEN 100--10.31 400--46.00 1500/mile--3:41.8/3:59.3 110h-13.75 WOMEN 100--11.48 800--2:05.5 Mile--4:37 100h--13.25
t-and-f: London Marathon: Tergat's day of reckoning
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 15:30:50 -0700 From: "Eamonn Condon" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Track Field" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: "Eamonn Condon" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: London Marathon: Tergat's day of reckoning The Electronic Telegraph Thursday 19 April 2001 Tom Knight PAUL TERGAT'S decision to make his marathon debut in London has been accompanied by much hype and anticipation, and with the race only two days away, the question now is whether his run will be worth the wait. No athlete has ever come to this event with a better pedigree than the Kenyan. Tergat, 31, confesses to having hated sport so much at school that he used to feign sickness and did not start running until he was conscripted into the Kenyan air force in 1990. He went on to claim five consecutive world cross-country titles and dominate the road-running circuit, with two world half-marathon titles. Tergat might have been equally dominant on the track but for the presence of Haile Gebrselassie, the Ethiopian who beat him to the last two Olympic and world championship gold medals at 10,000 metres. After losing out to Gebrselassie by 0.09sec in Sydney, Tergat set his sights on making marathon history and pundits talked of Tergat breaking Khalid Khannouchi's world record of 2hr 5min 42sec at his first attempt. The athlete is far too clever to make rash predictions but has trained hard in the hills near his home in Eldoret and listened to the advice offered by his more experienced running partners, Moses Tanui and Elijah Lagat, both winners of the Boston Marathon. Tergat said: "I cannot predict what time I will run because I have nothing to base it on. I have run a good 3,000, 5,000, 10,000 and half marathon. But I am sure my future is at the marathon. "I have thought about it for three years now and I hope it will be a good event for me. Who knows what I will do?" Tergat is concerned about the need to take on water during marathons. "I have found it a difficult thing to do," he said. "While my training partners can carry on running, I find I have to stop to drink my water and they always pull ahead. I've worked hard on sorting my drinking routine out." Dr Gabriele Rosa, the Italian-based coach who looks after more than 100 Kenyan athletes, is in no doubt about Tergat's potential. Rosa said: "Paul has enjoyed some extremely good training but this is no time to go it alone. He is ready to follow any pace and the real test will come after 35 kilometres." Part of London's attraction for Tergat, as well as his enormous appearance fee, is the sheer quality of the field, which includes three-time champion, Antonio Pinto, the world champion, Abel Anton and Abdelkader El Mouaziz, who won in the capital in 1999. They know that Tergat, although the new kid on the block in marathon terms, is, nevertheless, capable of covering their every move until the leaders leave the Tower of London. Only then will the racing start and the questions be answered. Eamonn Condon WWW.RunnersGoal.com
t-and-f: World Cross Country on CBC this Saturday
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 19:10:43 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: World Cross Country on CBC this Saturday To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CBC, the Canadian channel, is broadcasting the World Cross Country this Saturday at 2:00pm eastern time. Is there anyone in Canada or the northern part of the U.S. record this for me? I would be more than willing to give financial compensation and/or send you a copy of a tape from my stash. I've got the '96 and '97 World Cross on tape as well as some good Eurosport coverage of some late '90's GP meets. My local sports bar gets CBC, but I don't know if they're gonna put it on just for one track geek. sideshow
Re: t-and-f: Why a Brit or an American (Black or White) May NeverWin Another Major Marathon
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 16:34:44 -0700 Subject: Re: t-and-f: Why a Brit or an American (Black or White) May Never Win Another Major Marathon (long) From: Jon Entine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Rich Harrington [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] I believe you overstate the case. The performance of the US and European middle distance runners has not declined very much when you look at overall performance at the elite level. Sure, there may not be any more runners who compete at the incredibly elite level of the 3 or 4 INDIVIDUAL athletes that you cite, but that sheds little light on the issue of the genetic component at work here. Population genetics only speaks to overall trends. There are now more elite East (and in a very few cases North) African middle and long distance runners, putting up incredible times, then there were American or European runners 16, 20 and 25 years ago. You only have to look at the charts of the to distance performers to show that. 800 meters: whites represent about 21 percent of top 100 times. 1500 meters: 14 percent 5000 meters: 8 percent 10,000 meters: 22 percent Marathon: 37 percent. Sure, there CAN be extraordinary INDIVIDUAL runners who are white (and at the longest distances, Asian or of Asian ancestry, such as Ecuadorians). That would be expected with normal human variation. But to say that white performances have declined would be overstating the case. 15, 20 and 25 years ago, there were virtually no Africans competing. The playing field is still heavily tilted toward whites, with the surface potential of East and North Africa barely being scratched, but already the mismatch in natural talent is overwhelming. And it will probably get worse. That does not suggest whites are "lazy" and don't train as hard, as Bill Rodgers keeps hinting it. It just means you can't turn silver into gold, with rare individual exceptions. On 4/19/01 4:20 PM, "Rich Harrington" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jon, I have still yet to hear anyone explain why the performance of US and European middle-distance and distance runners has generally DECLINED. Look at the early to middle 1980's vs. the last 10-15 years. Break it down by depth in each event, from 800m on up, and see if I'm wrong. Here are some interesting peaks for that "group" (if you don't include athletes from the Iberian Peninsula) as well: 800m Coe '81 1000mCoe '81 1500m Cram '85 (unless you count Cacho '98) Mile Cram '85 2000mCram '85 3000m 3 legibly faster than Moorcroft's '82 race (excluding 3 Spanish athletes) 5000m Only 2 have run faster than Moorcroft's '82 time 10,000A few negligibly faster than Mark Nenow '86 (Only Jon Brown faster if you exclude Portugal and, Spain and Italy) Marathon Jones '85 (if you exclude Pinto and Lopes) No one (exept the might El Guerrouj)has challenged Coghlan's '83 indoor mile time either. And one could argue that El G's time had the advantage of a superior track!!! That's fascinating to me? Rich Harrington
Re: t-and-f: Webb's record
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 19:20:40 -0700 From: Ed Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: t-and-f: Webb's "record" -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 09:53:37 -0700 From: Ed Dana Parrot [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: t-and-f: Webb's "record" To: "'t-and-f@darkwing. uoregon. edu' (E-mail)" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unfortunately the NFHSAA is not a TF body, is a private organization does not understand that when the high schools went metric, that the times could be converted into a metric equivalent. I know what you mean, but stay away from the use of the word converted. As others have said, the point is not that times can be "converted". Although it is reasonable to convert times for seeding purposes and even yearly performance lists, you do not convert times in order to get records. I suspect just about everyone on the list understands this, but. . . What people are saying is that if Jim Ryun ran 3:55 for 1609 meters (a mile), we KNOW that he ran at least 3:55 for 1600 meters. He could not have passed the 1600m split in a slower time than he ran he mile in, unless there was some sort of time machine available to him, which would probably constitute illegal assistance and invalidate any record. Therefore, if no one has run faster than Jm Ryun's mile time for 1600m, the 1600m record should be identical to the mile record and would be the only time listed since the high school federation only keeps official 1600m records. There should be no argument, debate, questioning, etc of this, which is in line with the laws of physics as we understand them to apply to track records. But many people fail to see the logic in this. As some have pointed out, the bigger problem arises when someone runs slightly faster than the "english" record. What if someone runs 3:54.9 for 1600m? Most would agree that this is intrinsically inferior to Ryun's 3:55 for a mile, but since we don't know what Ryun's actual 1600m split was, we would have to declare 3:54.9 as the official 1600m record. This would be a case where, as the gentleman from Michigan indicated his state does, both the official metric record and the intrinsically superior mile record should be listed. Finally, I can't remember if the high school federation even accepts the 3:55 at all, for reasons that escape me now. - ed Parrot Ed: I couldn't have puit it better myself and, believe me, I've had to innumerable times in the past 20 yyears, usually without success. The problem with the National federation is not that it is a private group, but that it is run by the public school administrator mentality which says that they can do things better than anyone in the past. If they had a chance, they would rewrite Shakespeare. Ed Grant
Re: t-and-f: Webb's record
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 15:48:49 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: t-and-f: Webb's "record" In a message dated 4/19/01 3:22:03 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Finally, I can't remember if the high school federation even accepts the 3:55 at all, for reasons that escape me now. I haven't seen it, but I'm told the Federation has a special section in the back of their Rules/Records book that lists "notable marks" in "discontinued" events. I'm assuming that the mark they list for Ryun is the 3:58.3 that he ran in the Kansas state meet in 1965. All of his other sub-4s were run in open competition. Walt Murphy
Re: t-and-f: Dawn Burrell injured
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 19:32:21 -0500 From: Mike Takaha [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: t-and-f: Dawn Burrell injured To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Conway Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] The answer is yes. Leroy tore his ACL while jumping at the Southwest Conference championships his freshman year. The difference is Leroy injured his non-jumping leg - Dawn's injury is to her takeoff leg. Mike Takaha - Original Message - Didn't her brother (Leroy Burrell) suffer a similar injury his frosh or sohp season at Houston ??? Conway Mike Takaha wrote: A bit of unfortunate news - world Indoor LJ champion Dawn Burrell = suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament in her right (jumping) leg = while working out on Monday, April 16. She will have surgery within the = next two weeks and will miss the 2001 season. There is a short note on the Houston Chronicle website at=20 http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/sports/tf/882758 Mike Takaha Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com Message-id: 001d01c0c931$5d0d3120$7cf0fea9@oemcomputer MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 Content-type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Priority: 3
Re: t-and-f: Webb's record
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 22:11:55 -0400 From: DANIEL DEYO [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: t-and-f: Webb's "record" The National Federation will only accept performances in high school only competition with at least 5 or six schools competing. So all running records were eliminated when the high schools went metric. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 09:53:37 -0700 From: Ed Dana Parrot [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: t-and-f: Webb's "record" To: "'t-and-f@darkwing. uoregon. edu' (E-mail)" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unfortunately the NFHSAA is not a TF body, is a private organization does not understand that when the high schools went metric, that the times could be converted into a metric equivalent. I know what you mean, but stay away from the use of the word converted. As others have said, the point is not that times can be "converted". Although it is reasonable to convert times for seeding purposes and even yearly performance lists, you do not convert times in order to get records. I suspect just about everyone on the list understands this, but. . . What people are saying is that if Jim Ryun ran 3:55 for 1609 meters (a mile), we KNOW that he ran at least 3:55 for 1600 meters. He could not have passed the 1600m split in a slower time than he ran he mile in, unless there was some sort of time machine available to him, which would probably constitute illegal assistance and invalidate any record. Therefore, if no one has run faster than Jm Ryun's mile time for 1600m, the 1600m record should be identical to the mile record and would be the only time listed since the high school federation only keeps official 1600m records. There should be no argument, debate, questioning, etc of this, which is in line with the laws of physics as we understand them to apply to track records. But many people fail to see the logic in this. As some have pointed out, the bigger problem arises when someone runs slightly faster than the "english" record. What if someone runs 3:54.9 for 1600m? Most would agree that this is intrinsically inferior to Ryun's 3:55 for a mile, but since we don't know what Ryun's actual 1600m split was, we would have to declare 3:54.9 as the official 1600m record. This would be a case where, as the gentleman from Michigan indicated his state does, both the official metric record and the intrinsically superior mile record should be listed. Finally, I can't remember if the high school federation even accepts the 3:55 at all, for reasons that escape me now. - ed Parrot
t-and-f: Tommy Skipper Pole Vault
-- Forwarded message -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 23:46:46 EDT Subject: Tommy Skipper Pole Vault Sandy Hi vs Centenial Hi in Sandy Oregon. Tommy Skipper (Soph., Sandy Hi) jumped 16'8 3/4" to break Jacob Davis's national sophomore class record. He had the bar raised to 17' and was WAY over on 2 only to pull it off with his arms. Way to go Tommy! Rick Baggett Willamette Striders Pole Vault club
RE: t-and-f: Any marks from meets?
-- Forwarded message -- From: "John Dye" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "T-and-F" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: t-and-f: Any marks from meets? Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 04:14:56 -0400 Well, if you want high school performances . . . . . Sub-4 Alan Webb of Virginia ran a 4:01.81 mile tonight at the Arcadia CA Invitational, blowing away Ryan Hall, who had dogged him through 3.5 laps, with a killer kick on the far turn. Hall faded to fourth (4:08.37) as the Jefferson twins -- John 4:05.54 and Sean 4:07.25 -- passed him in the stretch. The Jeffersons, who are signed for Indiana University, came back 3 hours later to lead their Atlantic Del Ray Beach FL team to victory over Webb's South Lakes Reston VA team in the DMR -- Atlantic ran 9:57.88, third best all time for a US high school boys team. Webb got a National Federation record of 3:59+ for 1600 meters en route (apparently they wiped out Jim Ryun's marks when they changed to meters). Good as Webb was, he didn't even get outstanding male athlete of the meet award. That went to Nik Arrhenius of Utah, who clobbered the national discus record with a throw of 234-4, nine feet better than the existing record, on his last throw. Arrhenius doubled in shot put at 63-5. And then we come to the distaff side. Lashinda Demus was voted outstanding female for a 40.70 300 meter hurdles (7th best all time) and a 51.4 second leg split to blow open a great race in the 4x400 for her Wilson Long Beach CA team, which finished in 3:39.12, best in the country this year and 3 seconds better than cross town rival Poly Long Beach CA 4:42.80, with two more teams under 3:44 -- defending California champion J.W. North Riverside 3:42.86 and William Penn of Philadelphia PA 3:43.91. Demus would surely have got the national record for 300 meters if she hadn't stutter stepped going into the last hurdle. She was going over the last hurdle when the rest of the field was clearing the next to last hurdle. Her mother said she was going to buy her contacts next week -- Lashinda wears glasses off the track and said she couldn't see the last hurdle well. What have we left out? There was too much for this list in the greatest meet of the season outside of the nationals in June. But Monique Henderson, outdooor national record holder in the 400 meters, beat Angel Perkins, indoor national record holder, 52.51 to 53.21, in a fierce struggle of wills down the entire stretch. For the rest of the story, see DyeStat at www.dyestat.com PS - we would put up more HS marks on this list if half the time they didn't get so much negative responses -- "HS is not elite" -- "you didn't go to the hundredths of a second' -- blah, blah, blah. John Dye [EMAIL PROTECTED] DyeStat - www.dyestat.com Internet home of high school track field cc -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Guy Oekerman Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2001 4:21 PM To: Track Listserve Subject: t-and-f: Any marks from meets? It is Saturday night. A year or two ago, this list would be full of noteworthy marks by high schoolers, collegians, national elites, and international elites (although it is probably too early for the top guns to start running exceptional times). There would also be thoughtful commentary on those marks. Would anybody know where a person could find such information? Guy Oekerman Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
t-and-f: London Marathon: Party off on wrong foot
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 19:55:07 -0700 From: "Eamonn Condon" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Track Field" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: "Eamonn Condon" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: London Marathon: Party off on wrong foot The Electronic Telegraph Wednesday 18 April 2001 Tom Knight THE organisers of the London Marathon could have been forgiven for launching Sunday's race with more than the usual hype and hoopla because the event is about to celebrate its 21st birthday with three hours of live television and a cast of thousands. Instead, yesterday's opening press conference for Kenya's Tegla Loroupe and Joyce Chepchumba, and Romania's Lidia Simon - three of the main contenders for the women's title - was an unusually subdued affair. It was not helped by the fact that Ethiopia's Derartu Tulu, the Olympic 10,000 metres champion, failed to make the opening day line-up because she missed her flight from Addis Ababa. Far from heralding a week of celebrations for one of Britain's greatest sporting occasions, the atmosphere at the race's headquarters in London's Tower Thistle Hotel suggested the event was not quite ready to start partying. It could be that, behind the scenes, an army of hundreds are still frantically putting the final touches to their preparations for race day and the main party guests have yet to arrive. The chief event of the week's build-up will be a dinner for 140 people at the hotel on Saturday, when among the star guests will be all but two of the previous champions. Only Katrin Dorre, of Germany, who won three in a row from 1992, and Grete Waitz, the Norwegian who was triumphant in 1983 and 1986, will be missing. It promises to be a massive occasion. As well as welcoming back old friends, the marathon organisers will reflect on how, in just 20 years, this extraordinary race has become an integral part of the national sporting calendar and continues to capture the public imagination. The brainchild of Chris Brasher, the marathon first stopped the capital's traffic in 1981, when 6,255 of the 7,747 starters made it across the finish line on Constitution Hill. Then, the race was established with a budget of £75,000. In Sunday's race, which will finish in the more exalted setting of The Mall, more than 30,000 runners will cross the line in an event boasting a turnover of £7.7 million. Taking their places at the table of champions, of course, will be Loroupe and Chepchumba, who have benefited from the race's generous prize fund. Chepchumba was the Olympic bronze medallist in Sydney but first made her name in 1997 when she beat Liz McColgan in London by just one second in a sprint finish. The 30-year-old former Post Office worker, who became a full-time athlete five years ago, hit the jackpot in 1999 when she collected a total of £159,700 in prize money and bonuses after winning here in 2hr 23min 22sec. Although Loroupe, her training partner, topped the all-time rankings with the 2-20-47 she had clocked racing alongside the men in Rotterdam a year earlier, Chepchumba's time was judged by London organisers to be worthy of being called the world's fastest because it came in a women-only event. Understandably, Chepchumba loves coming back to London. She said: "Winning here in 1997 changed my life. Not only did it convince me that I was a good marathon runner, it convinced others and there were many invitations to compete all over the world. "I have run in New York and Chicago but London is my favourite marathon. It is extremely well organised but the course and the crowd make it something special." She is looking forward to meeting past champions such as Ingrid Kristiansen and Rosa Mota but sad that the American athlete, Joan Benoit, her all-time heroine, has played no part in London's history. Benoit, who won the first Olympic marathon for women in 1984, wrote Running for Women, a book Chepchumba rates almost as a bible. "I have read it many times and I'm sorry that in my rush to come to London, I left it behind," she said. "Whenever I have an ache or pain, I refer to Joan's book. It has all the answers and I always recommend it to other women runners." Dorre is missing London's party because it clashes with the Hamburg Marathon, but her participation there could be affected by Dieter Baumann's desire to defy his doping ban. Baumann, banned until 2003 after testing positive for nandrolone in 1999, is awaiting a final decision by a Frankfurt court on whether his right to run will be restored in Germany. The 1992 Olympic 5,000m champion has said he plans to compete if he wins the court case but organisers fear Baumann's determination to thwart the international anti-doping rules could destroy the marathon. Under International Amateur Athletic Federation rules, athletes who compete against a banned runner can also be suspended. In February, Baumann ran in the 3,000m at the German indoor championships. The IAAF retaliated by suspending the other
t-and-f: Top Finishers Boston Marathon 2001
-- Forwarded message -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 15:00:16 EDT Subject: Top Finishers Boston Marathon 2001 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Men: 1.Lee Bong-Ju, Korea2:09.43 2.Silvio Guerra, Equador2:10.07 3.Joshua Chelang, Kenya 2:10.29 4.David Kiptum Busienei 2:11.47 5.Mbarek Hussein 2:12.01 6. Rod De Haven2:12.47 7. Laban Nkete 2:12.44 8.Fedor V. Ryjov 2:13:54 9.Makhosonke Fika 2:14:13 10. Timothy Cherigat 2:14:21 Women: 1. Catherine Ndereba2:23.53 2. Malgorzata Sobanska 2:26.42 3. Lyubov Morgunova 2:27.18 4. Lornah Kiplagat 2:27.56 5. Fatuma Roba 2:28.08 6. Irina Timofeyeva 2:2850 7. Ludmila Petrova 2:29.23 8. Wei Yanan 2:29.52 9. Bruna Genovese 2:30.39 10. Kaori Tanabe 2:31.31
Re: t-and-f: Any marks from meets?
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 13:58:55 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: t-and-f: Any marks from meets? To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated Sat, 14 Apr 2001 11:12:25 PM Eastern Daylight Time, "Guy Oekerman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It is Saturday night. A year or two ago, this list would be full of noteworthy marks by high schoolers, collegians, national elites, and international elites (although it is probably too early for the top guns to start running exceptional times). There would also be thoughtful commentary on those marks. Would anybody know where a person could find such information? Who will bell the cat? Like so many things web-oriented, what's fun in the early days, working for nothing (and i mean that as much in the gratitude department as I do any monetary recompense) can get old pretty fast. Suspect it's very tough for people to get motivated to be the "servants" of the rest of hte list. But if you want good ongoing results and commentary, I hope everybody remembered that this is Boston morning, and the RW website is provoding some great stuff "live." gh
t-and-f: BYU at Weber State Invite Recap
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 08:48:40 -0600 From: "R. Craig Poole" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Recipient List Suppressed: ; Women Second, Men Fourth at Weber State Invitational OGDEN, Utah (Apr. 14, 2001) - Competing against mostly in-state competition in a field of eight teams, the BYU women's track team recorded a second-place finish , and the men's team came in fourth Saturday at the Weber State Invitational. Colorado State won the women's competition with 121 points, followed by the Cougars with 107 and Utah State with 103. BYU struggled against cold, wet conditions, managing only two event wins in the entire meet. Junior Nikki Hughes won the long jump with a leap of 19'4", and senior Kristel Berendsen finished second in the event with a mark of 18'3.75". Senior All-American Jeana Bingham cleared 5'8.5" to win the high jump competition and record the only other victory for BYU. Teammate Analee Carter took third place with a mark of 5'6.5". Becky Beachler finished second in the shot put (45'9.5") and fourth in the discus (146'1.5"), and the Cougars took second and third place in the javelin as Carrie Sanders threw 137'0" and Maret Komarova recorded a mark of 133'11". The BYU men's team recorded a total of five event wins at the Ogden meet, and finished with 97 points. Utah State won the meet with 120 points, followed by CSU (119) and host Weber State (103). Senior All-American Kenneth Andam won the 100 meters in a time of 10.12 seconds, improving on his season best of 10.13. Senior Slade Combs scored 20 team points by recording wins in the 110-meter hurdles (14.15) and the 200 meters (20.88). Senior Jim Roberts took first place in the shot put with a toss of 62'9.25"to record the only other individual win for the Cougars. The BYU 4x100-meter relay team circled the track in 40.48 to record a first-place finish. Next week, the Cougars will compete with split squads as some team members will travel to Walnut, California for the Mt. SAC Relays. The rest of the team will compete in the Mark Faldmo Open, hosted by Utah State University. For complete results of the Weber meet, go to http://weber.edu/athletics/mTrack/default.htm -- *** R. Craig Poole [EMAIL PROTECTED] BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY SFH BOX #33 PROVO, UTAH 84602 801-378-7508 Office 801-377-0960 Home 801-372-7617 Mobile 801-378-9083 FAX
t-and-f: Body Suit Info
-- Forwarded message -- From: "Hill, Anthony L. (NASWI)" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Body Suit Info Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 13:59:28 -0700 Is there any one here that has or knows how to get full body speed suits, or if u have one or 2 that u would like to get rid of (size L)...I am a sprinter here in the Pacific Northwest, and it is hard to keep warm when it is about 40 degrees outside with no sun and a head wind... If possible, email me directly and any information on how I can get one will be greatly appreciated... Lo
t-and-f: Ndereba's half-marathon record at Boston
-- Forwarded message -- From: "Post, Marty" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "'t-and-f@darkwing. uoregon. edu' (E-mail)" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Ndereba's half-marathon record at Boston Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 14:49:17 -0400 Catherine Ndereba covered the last half of today's Boston Marathon in an unofficial 1:10:47- after a 1st half of 1:13:05. Best 2nd half ever for a woman was 1:10:55 by Pippig in 1994. Marty Post Senior Editor Runner's World Magazine www.runnersworld.com
t-and-f: UCLA-Nebraska: Notable Open Performances
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 15:36:43 -0700 To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Margaret Robert Tatar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: UCLA-Nebraska: Notable Open Performances Several performances of note from open competitors who jumped into the action at the UCLA-Nebraska-CSUN meet on Saturday: 400: Tyree Washington 44.85 (Almost a solo effort. Only 3 competitors in race. Al-Bishi 2nd in 45.79) Shot: Godina 21.20 (69-6 3/4) Discus (M): Godina 62.54 (205-2)Godina had 5 fair throws, all over 200' Discus (W): Sua 58.36 (191-6) 110H: Wade 13.49 (+0.9) 4X400: HSI 3:06.27 (Fell, Soyan, Watts, Al-Bishi). Not sure, but I think Watts' split was 46.2 PV (W): Sauer 4.30 (14-1 1/4); Mueller 4.10 (13-5 1/4)
t-and-f: Webb's record
-- Forwarded message -- From: "Ed Grant" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "track net" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Webb's "record" Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 21:03:51 -0700 Netters: Walt Murphy asked for comment on the timing situation with = regard to Alan Webb's 100 "record" and I would like to do so, but, if I = said what I really thin. I might run afoul of strictures on language, = so I'll be careful This idiocty from the puiblic-school controlled National = Federation and its state affiliates has been going on since we converted = to metrics in 1980.=20 In NJ, and I presume in other states, they simply threw out all the = state records, including field events (which, I guess, hadn't been = measured by the politically correct system_). It took me a long while to = get the field event marks put back, but the superior "imperial" marks = are still not recognized in some instances and, even where they, are the = inferior metric marks are listed beside them. The prime example of this = is our indoor all-grouop meet where the "infamous" Chris Lear (just = kdding) is given credit for a 1600 mark that is almost 10 seconds slower = than Vince Cartier's classic 4:06.6. We are dealing here, I believe, with what my Jesuit teachers = used to call "invincible ignorance" and we just have to put up with it, = even if it make the U.S. the laughing stock of statisticians around the = world. Of course, there was a time when the IAAF was also guilty of = this. Wric Lidell was given credit for a world 400M "record" with a mark = inferior to Ted Meredith's 440Y standard back in the 1920s. But that got = streightened out sometime before Jesse Owens' "Day of days" at Ann Arbor = when he was credited doubly with metric and yard marks in the two 220Y = races. I have found it almost impossible to explain to some non-track = peop,e including sports editors, why you can't credit an inferior mark = from a shorter distance over te proper record from the longer distance. = You just have to shrug your shoulders and put uip with it. This nonsnese is just one of several rerason why noi one has = paid any serious attention to National Federation Marks for the past 40 = years, beginning with the organization;s refusal to credit Tom Carroll = with a national 880 (and 800) mark because his school (Fordham Prep) was = not a member of one of the affiliated organizations.=20 Ed Grant
t-and-f: How a snitch becomes an oracle
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 18:00:56 -0700 From: "Eamonn Condon" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Track Field" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: "Eamonn Condon" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How a snitch becomes an oracle THE IRISH TIMES Monday, April 16, 2001 Tom Humphries He thought he was doing them a favour but they rode him out of town on a rail. Friends had worried about him. They'd whispered stuff into his ear about messengers always ending up getting shot. In the end, though, he thought everyone would be grateful. It would wrap up nicely. Australia would be grateful and Werner Reiterer could look his kids in the eye. Athletes don't live in the real world, though. They grow up in hermetically sealed bubbles with nothing but ambition and self-delusion to nourish them. When it comes to big decisions they should really take the advice of grown-ups. Reiterer published his book Positive last summer. Then Australia came around to his house and gave him a good kicking. For a start, Reiterer announced he had been a cheat. He said how he had cheated, when he had cheated, and detailed the process of becoming disillusioned with the soiled nature of sport, fed up with the hollow wins. He wrote, too, about the culture in which he cheated, a smirky underworld of double lives. He painted a picture, but didn't add detail to the faces. He wrote the story but didn't name the names. That's how it goes in sport. Names cannot be named. When a guy called Darrell Robinson put away his spikes in California in the late 1980s he found that out. When he was crying about what went on he was just another loser who couldn't even name names. When he put names like Florence Griffith Joyner and Carl Lewis and coach Tom Tellez into the air they came down on him like a ton of lawyers. When Willy Voets wrote Massacre a la Chaine arising out of the Tour de France, the writs hit the fan and he was dismissed as a bitter little loser - right until the point where he sat in court and saw Richard Virenque confess that, well, yeah, all his denials had been rubbish, he was as dirty as Voets said he was. When Paul Kimmage wrote A Rough Ride, still the best book written on the subject, people had just two questions: Did Roche take gear? Did Kelly take gear? Names cannot be named. People make up their mind about sports stars intuitively. Despite the androstenodione, despite the tampering, despite the missed tests, despite the dodgy coach and shonky improvements, there are people out there, some writing for papers, some working on the radio, who believe Michelle de Bruin to be clean. That's after. So when Werner Reiterer chose Sydney Olympic year as the occasion to mount a one-man campaign alerting people to the problem of drugs in sport, telling them of his experiences on the battlefield, they had only one thing to say to him before the kicking began. Name the names. Put up or shut up. AS anyone who has been there knows, this is the rock and the hard place option presented by the fans-with-typewriters media which acts as a free gratis PR machine for sport. If you name the names you are a two-dime snitch whose ass will be sued to infinity and beyond. If you don't name the names you are a coward, you are a bitter little man. The fact you might have something to say about the way sport is run is coincidental. The argument disappears into a Catch 22 cul de sac: you tell people how testing is a joke and here's how people got away with it. People put their hands over their ears and say we're not listening, we're not listening, all the tests were negative, so there. And you can't name names because the tests were negative. So on. Then, last week, Gennadi Touretski's safe turned up in half a metre of water near the Dunlop Dam outside Canberra. It had been stolen from his house the previous Sunday. Touretski is a Russian who was hired to coach swimming at the Australian Institute of Sport. When he arrived, he was followed by Alexander Popov, the most charismatic swimmer of his generation, a man so at one with the water that for a swimming nation like Australia he became the son they never had. Touretski's safe had been forced and then abandoned. Inside were medals given to him by three swimmers, including an Olympic gold from Popov. Also there was a glass phial with 10 stanozolol tablets. Two heroin addicts were later arrested for the theft. And a slurry spreader of rumour and doubt began to operate. What was Touretski doing with stanozolol. Why something so primitive? Why still in the safe? Could Michael Klim, could Popov? If you found Paula Radcliffe dealing EPO down a back alley it couldn't be more surprising. Could it be a frame up? Two smack addicts concocting such a thing? Suddenly there were more questions than answers and Werner Reiterer's telephone began to ring again. In recent months the only person calling was his lawyer. When the Olympic circus went away the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) had its
t-and-f: Boston marathon coverage
-- Forwarded message -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 22:38:24 EDT Subject: Boston marathon coverage To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I know I might get flamed by many posters, but I have something positive to say about today's coverage. (I have not checked the charter, but maybe positive posting is not allowed) ESPN2 did a great job. Michelle Tafoya was not the greatest, but did not interfere with the broadcast. Larry Rawson was his usual excellent self and guest commentaries by Gwyn Coogan and Craig Virgin were a pleasant suprise. They kept the camera's on the men's and women's lead packs and provided 2 1/2 hours of coverage without the NYC marathon ABC-type up close and personals. I would recommend going to the ESPN web site and sending them an e-mail encouraging more track and field and distance running coverage on their network. As far as the race went, huge pack until 14 or 15 miles. Josh Cox took the lead while passing the Wellesley crazies and then faded soon after. Rod Dehaven fought boldly to stick with the pack and was the first American in the top 10 since 1994. Great 3 man race until the last few miles. Lee was great today. Ndreba also ran brilliantly. There was a very large women's pack for a great deal of the race as well. As a side note, in the Red Sox pregame, Jerry Remy, the Red Sox announcer picked Lee to win the men's and Roba in the women,so he was close to going 2 for 2. And the Red Sox beat the Yanks, so it was a good day here in New England. Brian Fullem
t-and-f: Olympic trials to Albany?
-- Forwarded message -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 21:36:19 EDT Subject: Olympic trials to Albany? To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I just read in a local club magazine that the Olympic marathon trials are awarded to Albany. The mag did not say men or women. I saw no mention of this on the USATF site (shocker). What's the dealio? Mike Platt, fully clothed.
t-and-f: DeHaven With a Serious Run
-- Forwarded message -- From: "Ryan Grote" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "TF List" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: DeHaven With a Serious Run Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 14:31:06 -0400 Rod DeHaven was 6th at Boston in 2:12:41. Pretty good. Nice to see a = US guy racing with the heavy hitters. He seemed to move up throughout, = going from 10th to 7th to 6th. =20 As for the time, I dunno if there was a headwind or what...but PLEASE no = comments from anybody about how his 2:12:41 woulda/coulda/shoulda been = sub 2:10 on a day like '94 or whatever. He ran what he ran, a good, = solid, tough race and placed 6th in the biggest spring marathon in this = hemisphere, if not anywhere. Leave it at that. Mixed results for the rest of the US contingent it seems. Grote adiRP/MMRD
t-and-f: re: a great stadium game
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 13:23:02 +1200 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "P. N. Heidenstrom" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: re: a great stadium game On Sun, 15 Apr 2001 15:23:02 EDT, in digest #3548, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (in part): Subject: Re: t-and-f: a great stadium game (was: Women 400m hurdles age bests If you want to play a fun game at major meets (and improve your timing skills at the same time), get a group of your friends together and throw a quarter into the pot for each race (best played in a meet like a nationals where there are lots of heats . Then try and match the auto time. You'd be surprised how good you can get with a little practice. As in within 0.05 with regularity, and getting it right at least a couple of times an afternoon. . . . . gh -- Trouble is, if you "get it right" then, assuming the fully automatic timing is accurate, you have likely got it w r o n g . For reach-me-down digital stop-watches, including those advertised in a well-known publication, the probability of "rightness" in a test like gh's, p 0.65. One particular model has achieved p = 0.94 but only when it was used in lap/lap mode; when it was used in normal mode (start/stop), p = 0.45. - "that horse's but's, P.N. from New Zealand" - M M Rohl. (hopefully he meant "butt")
Re: t-and-f: Webb 4:01.81-1600/mile
-- Forwarded message -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 22:35:06 EDT Subject: Re: t-and-f: Webb 4:01.81-1600/mile To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ah, maybe his REAL goal was that all-important, very meaningful 1600m record, which they'll really appreciate everywhere else in the world. Having gotten that, he was doubtless just jogging to the mile finish line ;-) Jim Gerweck Running Times
t-and-f: Boston Results
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 21:47:18 -0600 From: John Lunn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Boston Results After reading some of the more intellectual posts that were written to this list over the last week or ten days, I found myself ready to believe that anyone other than a Kenyan entered in the Boston Marathon must only be running the race in order to get the participation ribbon. Whew! I sure am happy that races are run, that researchers re-search, and that all these fabulous athletes only believe what they want to believe. John ps Dan Wilson, we forgive you. Now, go stand in the corner.
