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Day 1 at Boston nationals: World records by Burke and Hewitt

Tom Petranoff would smile. Remember how he threw the javelin so far in the early 1980s that they changed the specs to make the spear land sooner? Well, they can’t make the 16-pound weight any lighter. But when officials at Boston nationals saw how Olympian Ed Burke was throwing, they avoided bodily harm by switching […]

March 15, 2014   Posted in: Uncategorized  5 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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