Archive for April 6, 2012

USATF issues misleading news releases on Jyväskylä worlds

USATF has been posting daily summaries from Finland. Nice. But Jared Slinde, USATF communications manager, is too trusting of the results site. Not so nice. For example, he wrote: “Robert Lida recorded his second world record in as many days to win one of two gold medals for Team USA … Thursday. Lida (M75) grabbed […]

April 6, 2012   Posted in: Uncategorized  6 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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