Our local paper quotes an 11-year old girl who won both sprints: "I
think the 200 might be my best event, but I like the 100 better. I'm not
really a long distance runner."
I wasn't going to say anything, because anything starts arguments here,
but since Garry has put me on the spot with this:
"pps--maybe Cordner Nelson will be able to log on later while in Eugene and
provide some insight from the point of view of somebody who has seen it all,
but he did say
It would seem that all of the greatest Dutch athletes are
>women.
Perhaps Jon Entine has an answer.
Somebody wrote, about Webb:
If the record is so good that it needs elite-level drafting,
Nobody drafted Webb. He was too far back for a long time and then he went
past world-class men so fast that the only draft was what they felt as he
whipped by.
Watching last night's 10k at Stanford was certainly an other-wordly
experience. Here on a balmy windless evening under a full moon, ideal for a
stroll by young lovers, a pack of men set out on a fast run accompanied by a
dozen of Gabe Jenning's percussionists. Right from the start, the tim
It seems to me that the simplest way to solve most of the problems
involving regionals would be to set back the NCAA championship meet by a week
or two -- where it used to be.
Oleg wrote:
>Seems like we now have much deeper field in women's 10,000m - in Sydney
>4 women went under 30:26. In a championship race without rabbits!
As I remember it, that race in Sudney had one of history's best
rabbits -- Paula Radcliffe -- and certainly gutsiest.
Five of the ten fastest 2-miles ever run by high schoolers belong to
Californians.
I don't know what happens to them in college.
Long ago, the British and the Americans were by far the dominant
countries in track. The French used the metric system, and there were tracks
of 500 meters in some places. The French chose 1000 meters, 1500 meters, and
3000. The French had some power because the Olympic movement starte
