t-and-f: Brain Pope, 41ish, runs AR record 3K

Greetings, all Brian Pope, 41, smashed Tony Young's M40 American record in the 3,000-meter run Saturday (June 5, 2004) in Boston, clocking 8:16.87 -- almost seven seconds under Young's listed AR of 8:23.78, set in 2003. The world M40 record remains the otherworldly 8:05.08 by Finnish Olympian

t-and-f: Webb Dragila Excel today June 8, 2004

1,500 metres 1. Alan Webb (U.S.) 3:32.73 2. Ivan Heshko (Ukraine) 3:32.88 3. Timothy Kiptanui (Kenya) 3:33.34 Pole vault 1. Stacy Dragila (U.S.) 4.83 - world record 2. Edda Elisdottir Thorey (Iceland) 4.40 3. Monika Pyrek (Poland) 4.40 Long jump 1. Tatyna Kotova (Russia) 7.00 2. Tatyana

Re: t-and-f: Webb Dragila Excel today June 8, 2004

Outdoor WR. Matthew Starr wrote: 1,500 metres 1. Alan Webb (U.S.) 3:32.73 2. Ivan Heshko (Ukraine) 3:32.88 3. Timothy Kiptanui (Kenya) 3:33.34 Pole vault 1. Stacy Dragila (U.S.) 4.83 - world record 2. Edda Elisdottir Thorey (Iceland) 4.40 3. Monika Pyrek (Poland) 4.40 Long jump 1.

Re: t-and-f: Webb Dragila Excel

Earlier today, Matthew wrote that Stacy Dragila had set a new world record in today's Grand Prix meet in Ostrava. Martin corrected that to Outdoor WR. I'm wondering whether, given current IAAF categories, there was any world record at all. Certainly, Stacy's 4.83 was the best outdoor vault,

Re: t-and-f: Webb Dragila Excel

--- Roger Ruth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, Yanks. Dragila's 4.83m converts to 14'10. Feofanova's 4.86m converts to 15'11 1/4. Too bad, that Stacy didn't go for 16 feet, a mark that would be a new World Record, however categorized, and a goal for the women's vault that even I, as an

Re: t-and-f: Webb Dragila Excel

Earlier today, I wrote: BTW, Yanks. Dragila's 4.83m converts to 14'10. Feofanova's 4.86m converts to 15'11 1/4. Too bad, that Stacy didn't go for 16 feet, a mark that would be a new World Record, however categorized, and a goal for the women's vault that even I, as an ex-Kansan, could

t-and-f: Dragila's National Records

My files show these as Stacy's *36* USA records, including today's world outdoor best. Incidentally, the first of these, the 3.05 meters indoors, was under her maiden name of Mikaelson. It will be noted that I'm missing the exact date and venue of this and her 3.35 indoor mark. I'd appreciate help

t-and-f: Emmons on comebacks/Kingdom reacts to WR

Greetings, all Check out: http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/sports/8867568.htm?1c Mark Emmons talked to Al Joyner, Roger Kingdom and Mike Powell -- among others -- regarding the spate of ex-Olympians making elite comebacks. But our old masters friend Dwight Stones sounds a discordant