Archive for October 16, 2009
WMG cancels ocean swim event, fearing water was too cold
Glad this didn’t happen to us! Aussie news site reports: “Hundreds of open water swimmers were left boiling mad by a decision to cancel their World Masters Games race because the water was too cold. Many slammed the ruling as ‘crazy’ and ‘unbelievable’ as they stormed off from the Sydney Harbour starting point, where one […]
October 16, 2009
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Race walkers given runaround in directions to WMG course
As mentioned earlier, entrants at the World Masters Games have encountered problems finding their venues. (Fun fact: the track meet isn’t being held inside the Sydney Olympic stadium but at the adjacent practice track, I’m told.) Race walkers are the most recent victims. Stefan Waltermann passed along a translation of a post on Annette Koop’s […]
October 16, 2009
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Results botched at WMG? M60 champ robbed of 5 meters
Tom Fahey, our perennial national discus champion, is a connossieur of fine track meets. He knows how things are supposed to be run. Usually that includes posting the correct results. Duh. But that didn’t happen to him at the World Masters Games. Tom sent me three photos showing that he had better distances than the […]
October 16, 2009
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Shuttle bus from Seattle to Kamloops in the works for worlds
Robert Thomas, the M40 world 400-meter champ at Lahti, has found a way to save big money on Kamloops travel: Find a flight to Seattle and hop a chartered shuttle bus! Robert writes: “I took the liberty of contacting a charter bus company to see what it would cost from Seattle to Kamloops (site of […]
October 16, 2009
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Sportswriter covering Sydney WMG leaps to conclusions
I’m Olga Kotelko’s biggest fan. But I don’t exaggerate her credits. No need for that. Not so with Lisa Martin, a sportswriter in Australia who profiled Olga in the Brisbane Times today. Lisa wrote: “At 90-years-old, Canadian Olga Kotelko is the oldest known long jump competitor in the world.” Well, no. My own city, San Diego, […]
October 16, 2009
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Dirty little secret of World Masters Games revealed in story
A site called Monsters and Critics has posted this little article. The headline tells it all: Cost decisive factor for many athletes at World Masters Games. So tell me something I don’t know. Of course, with all the hoohah celebrating the supergeezers and the economic impact of World Masters Games, few articles discuss whether these […]
October 16, 2009
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