No good deed goes unpunished. So it went for two volunteer chiropractors who helped American athletes at Kamloops last week. Turns out Dr. Greg Summers, whose service I touted a few weeks ago, had a limited gig at worlds. “Dr.
On Sunday, the day after Kamloops closed the books on the 4th World Masters Indoor Athletics Championships, a strange post appeared on Annette’s Seite, which covers German masters track. Translated, it read: “German competitors at the World Indoors made it
Toledo firefighter Jim Wetenhall shattered the listed M55 American indoor record in the superweight throw Saturday at the USATF Michigan Indoor Open/Masters Championships. Complete results are here. He heaved the 56-pound sucker 10.55 meters (34-7 1/2) to beat the listed
Lesley Richardson, my Lahti foto friend, has begun posting thousands of pictures she took at Kamloops worlds. (She had to get home to Britain first.) Check out her galleries. Lesley competed in the W40 60 and 4×200 at Kamloops. But
On the final day of Kamloops, Nolan Shaheed of Pasadena gave it his best shot yesterday. He won the M60 1500 but missed the listed world record by four-tenths of a second. Had the 200-meter track been banked, he would
John Altendorf of Corvallis, Ore., forgot to wear his helmet on a couple jumps yesterday at Kamloops. No matter. He still lifted his own world indoor record in the M60 pole vault, raising the roof in the process. The fieldhouse
Expanding on day-old news, WMA President Stan Perkins wrote me this evening: “Athlete Val Barnwell has been suspended by USADA for two years, dating from 11 December 2009 for a positive doping test that was taken during the WMA World
WMA President Stan Perkins of Australia has reacted to the Val Barnwell drug suspension officially, or at least publicly: “My reaction is disappointment more than anything else,” said Perkins, who also served on the WMA anti-doping committee for 10 years.
Running essentially by himself, Orville Rogers of Dallas set an American indoor record for 3,000 meters yesterday at Kamloops worlds. At 92, Orville is the oldest member of Team USA. But he showed kids how it’s done with his 22:57.41,
Kamloops can’t hog all the glory. Down in New Zealand, a 60-year-old lady known as Bernie instead of Bernardine has informed us of two stunning world outdoor records. As we noted two months ago, Bernie Portenski is in record shape.
Medal counts at world meets are bogus, since they compare Half Moon Bay pumpkins to Australian Wolffia angustas . But for those who can’t help themselves, tallies are being told here. Please take them with a megagrain of salt. Kamloops
“The Soup” is a reliably funny, sarcastic and iconoclastic show on the cable network E! Thus it was inevitable that we got caught in their cross hairs. This report includes a video of how an 84-year-old pole vaulter was depicted