>No Astreik for flo-jo. If the judges and their equipment made an error it
>is
>not the fault of the athlete and they should not be penalized.
>In every sport there are judgement errors by refs, umps and officials, We
>don't attach asteriks to those games. Why should this sport be any
>differen
- Original Message -
> No Astreik for flo-jo. If the judges and their equipment made an error it
is
> not the fault of the athlete and they should not be penalized.
So instead we punish every athlete who comes after her?
Get rid of the record
No Astreik for flo-jo. If the judges and their equipment made an error it is
not the fault of the athlete and they should not be penalized.
In every sport there are judgement errors by refs, umps and officials, We
don't attach asteriks to those games. Why should this sport be any different?
.
I
In a message dated 1/19/01 3:06:12 PM Pacific Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Good theory. I would agree with this but
<.. Have hearings .. Convene a panel >
Bd idea. The sport would be dragged through the mud for years.
Steve S.
Sideshow wrote:
>
> What kind of evidence would you use? Sure, there is strong evidence that
the East Germans used drugs. But I'm sure you could get people to testify
and provide evidence that lots of other athletes were doped but never tested
positive. Couldn't the fact that Marion Jones is marr
In a message dated Fri, 19 Jan 2001 7:33:45 PM Eastern Standard Time, "Conway"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Actually not .. In a previous post I stated that we work only with those
marks for which we have evidence .. So FloJo's marks remain .. Of course
there is nothing preventing anyone to list
GH wrote:
> In a message dated Fri, 19 Jan 2001 6:05:59 PM Eastern Standard Time,
"Conway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> < ALL is complete you make a one time adjustment .. Of all records that need
> adjusting .. You take out all "bad marks" and what you are left with are
the
> new records ..
In a message dated Fri, 19 Jan 2001 6:05:59 PM Eastern Standard Time, "Conway"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
<>
Gee, what a great idea. What's the over-under on the Flojo family filing a
multi-million dollar lawsuit for defamation of character? About 4 seconds? Yeah, sign
me up for that panel.
Sideshow wrote:
>
> No, it would be a problem for all of us. I was in favor of wiping out ALL
world records at the end of last year, but to set up some kind of
investigation to selectively get rid of dirty WR's would be deadly for the
sport. Track's few headlines are already dominated by drugs.
In a message dated Fri, 19 Jan 2001 3:55:45 PM Eastern Standard Time, "Martin J.
Dixon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
We aren't
talking about those marks. We're talking about known dirty marks that have been
admitted to. Whatever the fall-out is from thatis irrelevant. Not knowing
whether
10 matches
Mail list logo
