Would seem to me that if we are talking about a performance that should be
confined to an event or days worth of competition ... And in that regard,
while I have never been a big Carl Lewis fan, his 100/LJ competition in
Tokyo (9.86 WR and best LJ series ever) should rate as #1 !!! The LJ itself
c
My mistake, thanks for correcting me. I had the idea right, just the
wrong numbers... For what it's worth, 45 minutes is the time span I've
always seen posted for his record setting spree.
Dan
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> > Plus, weren't one or two of the records converte
THE IRISH TIMES
Wednesday, October 17, 2001
Ian O'Riordan
A strong African presence, coupled with substantial prize-money, is
guaranteed to produce an exciting elite race in the forthcoming Dublin
Marathon. Set for the Bank Holiday of Monday October 29th, this year's
26.2-mile race includes a
I agree totally with Bruce. The Armory is the ideal
venue for the Archbishop Malloy Stanner Games or the
Ridgewood Varsity Classic, but I can't imagine how it
can accomodate a meet like nationals. It can barely
accomodate Easterns!
I sure hope they figure it out because I love the
armory. It
W/O adding the seats, 3,500 - 3,000. The problem is warm-up area, THERE IS
NONE and all the seat (not being brought in) are not track friendly.. Sort
of like sitting in the upper decks on the back stretch @ Penns w/ the over
hang, you have to wait until the runners come back into view.
The Armo
There were a bunch of "studies" which extrapolated that women's marathon
times
will get faster than men's in very near future - in 1992 Nature published an
article by physiologists Susan Ward and Brian Whipp who predicted that by
1998 (!) women will catch up to men in marathon, and in the followin
Joe D's 56 game hitting streak is the most overrated of all sports records.
Somebody who had two 28 game hitting streaks in the same 57 games with a
hitless game in the middle instead of the end had the same value to his
team. I believe Joe's average for the hitting streak was about .420 or .430
b
A quick glance at the world records/bests provides little evidence that the
men versus women gap is significantly closer over the marathon than other
championship distances. In fact, Ndereba's time compares far less favorably
with the men's record than Florence Griffith-Joyner's 100m record stacks
>Before we get too far into who's-better-who's-best amongst these
well-known
>athletes, though, I would love to hear from the list's historians and
>non-USA members about candidates for the Greatest Track And Field
>Performance Not Known By The Average American.
All of them.
>HERSHEY, Pa. (AP) -- Wilt Chamberlain
>set a National Basketball Association scoring
>record of 100 points tonight as the
>Philadelphia Warriors defeated the New
>York Knickerbockers, 169-147. The
>combined score was an association record,
>too.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/basketball/nba/n
First SI and now The Paper of Record.
It's not on the site so I'm just quoting an excerpt. One Jere Longman's
weigh in on the women's marathon record:
"...Ndereba...broke the previous mark by 59 seconds, and rekindled
discussions about whether women might eventually run the marathon faster
than me
What is the seating capacity of the Armory?
Paul Banta
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Plus, weren't one or two of the records converted marks for
distance en route, i.e the 200m split of his 220y record?
To TRY to set the record straight regarding Owens' May 25, 1935 performance,
the following was included in an ESPN article
(http://espn.
>> Jordan scoring 69 points in a playoff game, or making any dozens
of game-winning shots is certainly noteworthy and I will disagree
with Christopher and say that I think he has a number of
performances in the top 5-10 in NBA history
Jordan's high in the playoffs is 63 (in DOUBLE OVERTI
--- Kurt Bray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Wait a minute Jeff, you are conflating your Owens' performances. The
> "three world records in 45 minutes" performance was in a college meet
Plus, weren't one or two of the records converted marks for distance en
route, i.e the 200m split of his 220y re
Owens was great--Lewis was argueably better, but neither should top the
list.
Individual: Heiden-5 golds (500 to 1 meters)
Spitz-7 golds
Woods(assuming it's a sport)-4 consecutive majors.
Team: Joe D's-56 game hitting streak--the greatest record in all of s
>Three world records in a 45 minute period of time is pretty hard to argue
>with. Carl Lewis did duplicate the results (in terms of gold medals), but
>he did not set three world records, nor did he win them in 45 minutes, but
>rather over a series of days.
Wait a minute Jeff, you are conflatin
Netters:
Learned today that Rich kenah, who has "retired" from 800M
competition, will be running the NY Marathon this year. Will ask him why
this Sunday when I see him at the Pennsylvania Ave. Mile in Washington, DC<
where wife Cjeri will run the elite women's race.
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Craifg Masback, CEO of USATF, announced today that the U.S. Indoor
Championships are returning to NYC after an 8-year stay in Atlanta.
Previously held at Madison Square Garden, the Indoor Champs will be held at
NY's fabled Armory.
The meet will be held on March 1-2, w
The media poll was regarding the "greatest individual sports performance"
and not the greatest individual sports career. I think Lewis has a strong
claim to that over Owens, however in terms of an individual sports
performance it's hard to argue with what Owens did at the Olympics.
Jeff
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USA Indoor Track & Field Championships to return to New York
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I think the issue of contention here as Christopher points out is individual
performance versus career performance. I have long been a Jordan fan and am
frankly thrilled that he's returned to the NBA this year, but I think it's
fair to say that Jordan's successes have been a result of continuous
What Jordan accomplishments, Marty, do you consider to be anywhere close to
winning four Olympic gold medals or breaking three world records and tying a
fourth in a single 45 minute period?
I will let the baseball purists explain why Ruth's achievement cannot be
compared to this season's home run
Not only did Carl lewis match Owens' olympic feat in 1984 (against stronger
adversaries), HE ALSO PICKED UP FOUR CONSECUTIVE LONG JUMP OLYMPIC TITLES
AFGAINST FORMIDABLE OPPOSITION AND THREE SUCCESSIVE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS TITLES
OVER 100M (1983, 1987 AND 1991). And he remains the only man ever
One more footnote re the Beijing Marathon.
Note that it was part of the 9th Chinese National Games. The track and
field part of the CNG will be held in Guangzhou, from Nov. 17-23. Recall
what happened the last two times the CNG were held, at Beijing in '93 and
Shanghai in '97.
There was some re
As I recall, Jesse Owens four wins at the Big Ten Cchampionships also set
World Records? That has to be the greatest feat by an athlete in a single
day! I love Ali, Lance Armstrong, etal, but I don't think they come close.
Gerald
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More "WJR" tomfoolery ...
Similar to the Kenyans who want the world to swallow a 16-year-old male
running 27:43 ... check this out ...
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1 Liu Min 29.11.83 Liaoning2:23:37 NR WJR
(début, broke Wang Junxia NR 2:24:07 from Tianjin 4 Apr 1993,
earlier WJR 2:27:30 Ai Do
According to a news item today Jesse Owens has finished 1-2 in a media poll
to determine the greatest individual sports performance "in the USA" [sic]
from 1901-2000. In nationwide voting for the Gillette 100 Greatest Sports
Performances, Owens' four gold medal performance at the 1936 Olympics in
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> Can someone post the men's and women's rankings?
I couldn't find a women's poll for this week, but here's the men's poll. Sorry if
someone's already done this.
Neal Davis
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Alexandria, Virginia
Mondo Coaches' poll for NCAA Division I Men's Cross
Can someone post the men's and women's rankings? Our company has blocked access
to all sports related web sites and it's killing me.
Thanks,
Bob
Greetings, all
I've updated my Masters Track & Field Links page to add some nice live sites
and prune some dead ones (Clay, where's your Arizona site?).
Best new links include an English-language version of the Russian Veterans
Sports Council and a musical Japanese masters Web site that can be
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