what about Ledbeyeva's 15.25m TJ at WC's? Kebba Tolbert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ================= Men's and Women's Jumps & Multis Coach Syracuse University Track & Field
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: t-and-f: Women's POY >Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 18:53:30 EDT > >In a message dated Thu, 4 Oct 2001 2:17:31 PM Eastern Daylight Time, >"Post, Marty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > While there has been some recent discussion as to whether Takahashi >merits > > AOY consideration, maybe a better question would be whether her 2:19:46 > > should be the Performance of the Year. > > > > There were of course several notable gold medal efforts at the World > > Championships (e.g. Pintusevich over Jones), but a world record that is >also > > a major time barrier breaker might outweigh any Edmonton performances. > > Dragila also set a big-time WR (4.81) this year, but how much does the >still > > relative newness of the event affect its POY status? Other women's world > > records/world bests in the javelin, 20-K walk and steeple have even less > > event history than the pole vault or marathon.>> > >while I'd be likely to go w/ Simon (or Ndereba, should she add Chicago to >Boston in fast time on Sunday) as No. 1 in the marathon itself, I can see >very good cause for making the Takahashi mark the POY. It's infinitely more >statisticially significant than any of the other "record" things that >happened this year. The fact that Feofonova is challenging Dragila at the >top end has removed a lot of the lustre from the vault marks. > >gh _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
