Archive for June 29, 2007
Track meet cancelled for San Diego Senior Olympics
An Olympics without track and field? Unthinkable! But that’s the case this September in San Diego, where the Senior Olympics entry form says the annual meet has been “postponed till 2008.”. Why? I’m not sure. It might have something to do with the fact that the organization has no executive director at the moment. Brad […]
June 29, 2007
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Bob Lida on record rampage at National Sr. Olympics
Bob Lida of Wichita apparently plans to rewrite the M70 record book at Louisville. Yesterday in the 200 prelims of the National Senior Olympics, he led all qualifiers with a 27.26 into a 1.0 mps wind. The world age-group record is 26.71. The American record? Payton Jordan’s 26.8 hallowed hand-time from 1987. In the 400 […]
June 29, 2007
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Payton Jordan moving down coast to Laguna Beach
Payton Jordan, the masters sprint god and subject of a recent biography, is moving from Santa Barbara to the Orange County town of Laguna Beach, (later correction: He moved to Leisure World in Laguna Woods.) according to this gem of an article. Payton is moving this week, John Zant writes, to be closer to his […]
June 29, 2007
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