Archive for September 3, 2011

Olympic champ Pierre Quinon a suicide; promoted 2015 Lyon worlds

This news is old, but the shock is still fresh: Pierre Quinon of France, the 1984 Olympic pole vault champion, committed suicide in mid-August. Becca’s site had the scoop and reaction. It’s especially a surprise to me, since I heard Pierre speak at the Sacramento worlds General Assembly only a month earlier. He was 49 […]

September 3, 2011   Posted in: Uncategorized  2 Comments

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  Ken has followed track as an athlete, writer and web-master since the late 1960s, and saw most sessions of track and field at the 1984 Los Angeles and 1996 Atlanta Olympics. He also attended the 1988, 1992, 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012 Trials, the last three as a blogger and Patch correspondent. [More...]
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