Re: t-and-f: Reuters version of USATF-Rogge story

2002-02-08 Thread Ed Prytherch
I doubt that USOC would cut off funds to USATF because they covered up positive tests. After all, the two previous Medical Directors of USOC have said that USOC covered up positive tests. Better check USATF's accounts to see if they got a bonus from USOC. Ed Prytherch

Re: t-and-f: chip timing at European Cross-Country Chamionships

2001-12-31 Thread Ed Prytherch
folks would get worried about electromagnetic radiation (transmission line syndrome). Ed Prytherch Mike wrote - . However, somethings still have to be worked out for cross country races if it is to be used as the official timing/scoring system. One being all the transponders have to start

Re: t-and-f: ChampionChip Timing systems (was European Cross Country Champs)

2001-12-17 Thread Ed Prytherch
needed by $350 and add $1 per runner. You may need special programming to do the team scores, but there are probably lots of folks that could do that. Ed Prytherch - Original Message - From: Mcewen, Brian T [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 10:16 AM

Re: t-and-f: U.S. Women's 1500/Mile Bests by State...

2001-12-02 Thread Ed Prytherch
South Carolina Perry Fields4:43.26 indoor mile, 2001 Nike Fast Times FL, running for Clemson. She attended Spring Valley HS and Ridge View HS in Columbia SC. Ed Prytherch

Re: t-and-f: Athletes fighting their own battle on drugs

2001-10-21 Thread Ed Prytherch
But Inger Miller is not a distance runner. Ed - Original Message - From: Dan Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2001 4:23 AM Subject: Re: t-and-f: Athletes fighting their own battle on drugs I've mentioned from time to time that research of a few

Re: t-and-f: Athletes fighting their own battle on drugs

2001-10-21 Thread Ed Prytherch
Stimulants are an aid to sprinters. They have been taking them for decades. Caffeine is a stimulant. Inger got caught with a lot in her urine. Join the dots. Ed.

Re: t-and-f: DELTA AIRLINES STINK

2001-09-23 Thread Ed Prytherch
Take the plane! My son flew to England on Monday and my brother arrived from England on Thursday. Most rational people would do the same thing. Ed. - Original Message - From: John [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Track List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2001 3:28 PM Subject: t-and-f:

Re: t-and-f: What do Tiger Woods,

2001-09-02 Thread Ed Prytherch
a race. Ed Prytherch

t-and-f: Greene Bislet

2001-07-11 Thread Ed Prytherch
From the BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport/hi/english/athletics/newsid_1434000/1434664.stm Greene asks for too much Maurice Greene (c) will miss the Bislet Games World and Olympic 100 metres champion Maurice Greene has priced himself out of the Bislett Games Golden League meeting on Friday. The

Re: t-and-f: Bannister

2001-06-10 Thread Ed Prytherch
Phil is correct. The 4:53 that I gave as his freshman mile was run in October '46, at the start of his freshman year. That may have been his first mile race. The 4:24.6 was run in June 1947. Ed. - Original Message - From: Philip J Wyckoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

t-and-f: NY mini marathon

2001-06-09 Thread Ed Prytherch
From SportServer.com: NEW YORK (June 9, 2001 10:49 AM EDT) - World cross-country champion Paula Radcliffe of Britain trimmed 13 seconds off the course record as she won the Mini Marathon on Saturday. Radcliffe was timed in 30 minutes, 47 seconds for the 6.2-mile course through Central

Re: t-and-f: best mile improvements since high school

2001-06-08 Thread Ed Prytherch
Bannister ran 4:53 as a freshman at Oxford. He probably didn't have an opportunity to run track in high school. Ed - Original Message - From: Steve Grathwohl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 12:31 PM Subject: Re: t-and-f: best mile improvements since

Re: RE: t-and-f: Alan Webb

2001-05-30 Thread Ed Prytherch
In a message dated 5/29/01 07:17:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Has ANY other sub-4 miler in history dropped their outdoor PR by 8 seconds? Prior to running his WR 3:48.95, Coe's mile pr was 3:57.7, but there was almost a 2 year gap between them. Ed Prytherch

Re: t-and-f: Re: Fast twitch/slow twitch question?

2001-05-05 Thread Ed Prytherch
(Loren Seagrave, Charlie Francis) are strongly opposed to young sprinters doing much endurance work because they think that there may be a conversion of fast twitch to slow twitch fibers. But Monique Henderson ran cross country! Ed Prytherch - Original Message - From: Jon Entine [EMAIL

Re: t-and-f: inaccurate consistency (hand timing)

2001-04-29 Thread Ed Prytherch
The popular SPRINT EIGHT timer can be started by a transducer that is attached to the gun. How would you classify performances that are timed with this system, hand or FAT ? Ed Prytherch - Original Message - From: Dan Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April

Re: t-and-f: Why we question Chinese marks

2001-04-12 Thread Ed Prytherch
distances and he didn't medal. Ed Prytherch We;ll never really know, becauseas opposed to Ben, who made several well-publicized comeback attempts, we never heard from most of the Chinese again. One or two of them left China and had some subsequent world-class perofrmances, and a few

Re: t-and-f: What's next?

2001-03-23 Thread Ed Prytherch
Budd wasn't DQ'd because she didn't trip Slaney. Ed THE PRINCE wrote: I can't say I know a whole lot about distance running, but I can say this, Zola Budd didn't get disqualified for tripping Mary Decker. Bumping and shoving is part of the distance runners race. I have been told

Re: t-and-f: Proposed changes in IAAF rules

2001-03-14 Thread Ed Prytherch
There won't bemany more DQ's because there will be very few false starts. Ed Paul Banta Wrote: My guess is that few, if any, meet directors of invitational meets will be in favor of going to a one false start rule in races from 400 down. They put a lot of time, money and promotions

Re: t-and-f: Hurdle heights

2001-03-14 Thread Ed Prytherch
h track program, young kids can have different hurdle specifications. But here in South Carolina, middle school kids run with high school teams and once size fits all. Ed Prytherch.

Re: t-and-f: NCAA Results

2001-03-09 Thread Ed Prytherch
Try http://cavern.uark.edu/depts/wathinfo/championship/ Ed Prytherch - Original Message - From: "Mark J. Spitzer" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Track Field List" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2001 8:18 AM Subject: t-and-f: NCAA Results Does anyone kno

t-and-f: converted marks

2001-03-02 Thread Ed Prytherch
Couldsomeone please explain converted marks in the NCAA mile lists? Specifically: Jill Snyder, Rebecca Mitchell and Perry Fields ran automatic qualifying times at the Nike Fast Times meet in Gainesville on Wednesday. The times listed on the NCAA site are converted and are 0.6 sec faster

Re: t-and-f: water vs coke

2001-02-28 Thread Ed Prytherch
Anne Marie Lauck drank coke in the 2000 marathon trials and had a major stomach problem during the race. Ed. As I recall, Frank Shorter drank defizzed Coke during his gold medal run in '72. Kurt Bray _ Get your FREE download

Re: t-and-f: Results, results

2001-02-26 Thread Ed Prytherch
Answer to second question: http://www.ukathletics.com/news/trk/trk/2001/02/15/982253779608.html From: Ed Grant To: track net Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 10:41 PM Subject: t-and-f: Results, results Netters: Two queries: 1) Does anyone have a web address

Re: t-and-f: Sacto Trials seating or standing

2001-02-24 Thread Ed Prytherch
of the game. Also, seated fans are less likely to fight or throw missiles at players, officials or other fans. At most games, that stuff didn't happen, but it generated a lot of bad publicity when it did. I'll be with Rubio's rowdies at Eugene. Ed Prytherch.

Re: Re: t-and-f: Short/Long course cross country

2001-02-20 Thread Ed Prytherch
with the obsession with times. Ed Prytherch. Alan Tobin wrote: I often find it funny that a lot of XC races are run over flat, clipped grass courses. Even worse is the multi-loop courses such as Worlds. I think to qualify as an XC course you have to jump, scramble, or wade through something. I can think

Re: t-and-f: Imperialist

2001-02-19 Thread Ed Prytherch
Rugby made the change from yards to meters without dumbfounding the players or the fans. Ed. - Original Message - From: "Wayne T. Armbrust" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 8:13 PM Subject: Re: t-and-f: Imperialist Changing the dimensions of a

Re: t-and-f: USATF 8K Saturday

2001-02-09 Thread Ed Prytherch
Carolina 8K Start list updated at 9:00 p.m. 2/9/2001 Janice Addison Susannah Beck Anne Boyd-Stewart Jackie Brooks Katie Courtwright Rebecca Crowder Jodie D'Ariano Colleen DeReuck Dian Ford Missy Foy Judy Johnson Claudia Kasen Kim Kauls Betsy Kempter Lynn Kepper-Hudson Mary Knisley Michelle

t-and-f: video analysis of technique

2001-02-03 Thread Ed Prytherch
I'm looking for adviceon downloading from a camcorder to a pc and doing frame by frame analysis. Are there any good software/hardware packages? Thanks Ed Prytherch

Re: t-and-f: USATF Development Projects Site??

2001-02-01 Thread ed prytherch
It is at http://www.sjs.org/sports/TF/VideoListUSATF.htm Ed Prytherch -Original Message- From: Todd Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Track Listserve [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, February 01, 2001 5:13 PM Subject: t-and-f: USATF Development Projects Site?? Netters- Does Lyle Knudson

Re: t-and-f: Racewalking MumboJumbo

2001-01-17 Thread ed prytherch
Kurt: The big difference between hurdling and racewalking is that you can hurdle as fast as you possibly can and you are still a hurdler. But if you racewalk as fast as you can, you turn into a runner. Ed Prytherch -Original Message- From: Kurt Bray [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

t-and-f: USATF Women's 8k National Championship

2001-01-14 Thread ed prytherch
as soon as possible. Ed Prytherch.

Re: t-and-f: Dick Ault

2001-01-04 Thread ed prytherch
Dick Ault is listed as 4th in the 400 hurdles in the '48 Olympics. His time was 52.4. The race was won by Roy Cochran of the USA in 51.1 Ed Prytherch -Original Message- From: Wayne T. Armbrust [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: T-AND-F [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, January 04, 2001 3:36 PM Subject

Re: t-and-f: How good was a 10.07 100m in 1972.

2000-12-23 Thread ed prytherch
had to be a major factor in the improvement." He wrote that his own knowledge of drug use came from a US book "Getting Stronger" written by Bill Pearl. Ed Prytherch. Mats asked us to remember: Remeber that the USSR and the GDR imported their doping science Hardly. The US is cer

Re: t-and-f: AOY

2000-12-02 Thread ed prytherch
ultra than there were for a couple of State Championship race walks (which I helped officiate). If this list is representative of US tf fans, then Randall probably does speak for the silent majority. Ed Prytherch.

Re: Subject: Re: t-and-f: Footlocker Regionals QUESTIO

2000-11-28 Thread ed prytherch
school athletes. Ed Prytherch. -Original Message- From: R.T. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Steve Isham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 2:22 PM Subject: Re: Subject: Re: t-and-f: Footlocker Regionals QUESTIO

Re: t-and-f: Fwd: IAAF Athletes of the Year announced

2000-11-26 Thread ed prytherch
I thought that the race walking chappie was supposed to win. Ed. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sunday, November 26, 2000 6:29 PM Subject: t-and-f: Fwd: IAAF Athletes of the Year announced

Re: t-and-f: Embarassment

2000-10-23 Thread ed prytherch
Darrell Do you think that Marion Jones was also wrong to skip the Olympics when she was a teenager? Ed Prytherch -Original Message- ... Mark Lewis-Francis should have been in Sydney, period! He opted out of Sydney so he could go to Lesser competition, dominate, and "clown"

t-and-f: ALL TIME FAVOTITE ARTICLES??

2000-10-21 Thread ed prytherch
ntary on the US cross country teams at The Worlds in South Africa. The title was inspired by the behaviour of one of her team mates. I wish that Joan would start writing again. Ed Prytherch.

t-and-f: Re: wHO ELSE WON THREE IN A ROW?

2000-10-08 Thread ed prytherch
Professor: We both missed one more 3 time champion - John Flanagan. Does that mean that neither of us is a "genuine track and filed connoisseur"? Ed. -Original Message- From: Prof. Uri Goldbourt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ed prytherch [EMAIL PROTECTED]; t-and-f list [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: t-and-f: AOY Voting starts now

2000-10-07 Thread ed prytherch
AOY should go to Jan Zelezny, the greatest javelin thrower of all time. Third gold in a row, plus a silver in '88. He HAD to break the Olympic record to win because Steve Backley had broken it in the previous round. Ed Prytherch

Re: t-and-f: AOY Voting starts now

2000-10-07 Thread ed prytherch
PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; ed prytherch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, October 07, 2000 11:25 PM Subject: Re: t-and-f: AOY Voting starts now Netters Acknowledging Drew's points that unfortunately many don't consider the walks a track event. I do believe it is to bad because the achievement

Re: t-and-f: devers at GP Final

2000-10-06 Thread ed prytherch
Tony will continue to have fun as long as the cloak of secrecy persists. He appears to want an end to this as he favors abandoning testing. The National federations keep his fire burning. Ed Prytherch. Randall wrote: Surely Gail Devers could sue Tony Craddock for this. But then again why would

Re: t-and-f: Jim Rome on the 4x100, Michael Johnson

2000-10-02 Thread ed prytherch
Jim Bendat wrote: No, MJ only acts like a jerk when he loses. He quits on the track or comes up with some lame "injury". He's a great winner all right, but his true character comes out when he loses. That's because Mike hasn't had too many opportunities to practice. Ed Prytherch

Re: t-and-f: women's 10,000m records

2000-10-02 Thread ed prytherch
Wang's Atlanta performances - 1st/5000, 2nd/1 are superior to Tegla's in Sydney. Ed Prytherch -Original Message- From: Kurt Bray [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, October 02, 2000 8:09 PM Subject: RE: t-and-f

Re: t-and-f: u.s. women

2000-10-02 Thread ed prytherch
Many athletes were affected by a flu type virus. Monique Hennagan's temperature was 102 the day of her 400 race. Maybe some of the women you list were similarly affected. Glover and Richardson looked like medal prospects. Ed Prytherch -Original Message- From: Jack Pfeifer [EMAIL

Re: t-and-f: 5 gold medals

2000-09-21 Thread ed prytherch
I agree with Conway's analysis. Monique Hennagan twice split sub 51 in high school when her best open time was 52.6. Ed Prytherch -Original Message- From: Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Uri Goldbourt [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: t-and-f: 1) CBC 2) drugs

2000-09-18 Thread ed prytherch
According to reports that I have read, the IOC will publish the names of all athletes who test positive to the EPO blood test, after the games are over. It is likely that some athletes are skipping the games because they don't want their names published. Ed Prytherch -Original Message

Re: t-and-f: Let's talk track

2000-09-12 Thread ed prytherch
We tend to concentrate on physical recovery, but mental recovery is also a factor. Charlie Francis has written that it takes 10 to 14 days for the central nervous system to recover from an all-out 100 meters. Ed Prytherch -Original Message- From: Ed Dana Parrot [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: t-and-f: NBC monopoly

2000-08-02 Thread ed prytherch
"walkers" would break into a run. One of the skills of Olympic race walking appeared to be knowledge of where the judges were located. Ed Prytherch

Re: t-and-f: Leave Dwight alone! (was NBC monopoly)

2000-08-02 Thread ed prytherch
Justin Clouder would have more sympathy for US track fans if he had to put up with the TV coverage that we get. I too would think that things were fine and dandy if I lived in Europe (I used to). Ed Prytherch

t-and-f: Lisa Misipeka story

2000-07-27 Thread ed prytherch
Lisa Misipeka story In The State - Columbia SC http://www.thestate.com/columnists/gillesp/bgill026.htm