More details to come. But here’s the USADA press release. Appears to be someone who should have gotten a TUE waiver. USADA says: “Colorado Springs, Colo. (September 30, 2011) USADA announced today that Stephen Craig Shumaker of Glenmoore, Pennsylvania, an
Hands down, this is the best single-athlete masters track video of all time! M65 world champ and record-setter Joe Johnston opened his “Joe Dome” in central Florida to Marc Middleton, founder and CEO of The (Growing) Bolder Media Group. See
Sandu Rebenciuc won’t say it, but I will: He had an easier time dealing with Romania’s dictatorship than USATF’s when it comes to records. I didn’t know Sandu from Adam until a couple days ago when, out of the blue,
Simply incredible. Check out this video of W50 freak of nature Merlene Ottey running an 11.84 for 100 meters September 20 at the Kamila Skolimowska Memorial meet in Warsaw, where she took fourth. She tells a Polish interviewer that her
World champions Joy Upshaw and Kathy Bergen saved some of their best efforts for last, setting American records in the W50 long hurdles and W70 200, respectively, on a gorgeous Saturday at Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego. They
From The Associated Press report on today’s Fifth Avenue Mile: “American Bernard Lagat, coming off a silver medal in the 5,000 at worlds, earned his first victory in the men’s race in his fourth try, finishing in 3 minutes, 50.5
It ain’t perfect, but it’s all we have. Martin Gasselsberger of Austria has been adding great seasonal stats to his mastersathletics.net world rankings page. See it here. He’s even reaching down to M30 and W30 submasters. It’s out of date
Larry Barnum is Don Quixote in a track suit. He’s a world-class M65 long sprinter who ran an amazing 58.62 for 400 meters last weekend at Long Beach State — the same meet where Clare Look-Jaeger set her W45 American
Jerry Bookin-Weiner officially is USATF Masters T&F throws coordinator. Unofficially, he’s the conscience of our weight segment. That comes through stunningly in his latest Throwers Circle column in National Masters News. (You can download it here.) He rips the sport
Southern Hemisphere aside, track season has weeks to go. But then it resumes shortly later — with the all-comers circuit. High schools and colleges are good for this. One especially noteworthy series is at Santa Monica High School near Los
Clare Look-Jaeger never made it to the Olympics (although she made the Olympic Trials in 1992 and 1996 in the hep or high jump, or both.) But Sunday at Long Beach State, she topped an Olympian — beating Trish Porter’s
The Eurovets are doing something a little crazy next year at their 18th European Veterans Athletics Championships — holding the meet in three countries at the same time. Actually, it’s not as bad as it sounds. The countries are Poland,