This is a hoot. Becca Gillespy Peter shares a link to this great story about a University of Manitoba track squad where a 37-year-old mother and her 20-year-old son are vault teammates! And when I checked back on Becca’s forum,
Fourteen superstars make up the 14th class of the USATF Masters Hall of Fame. The list was formally posted yesterday on USATF’s Web site. And Bill Rodgers, the marathon man, became at least the third masters athlete to be in both this HoF
Canadian delegates gathered Monday in lasix furosemide Toronto for their Annual General Meeting. They chose a new leader, reports Doug Smith of Ontario, who writes: “Brian Keaveney’s term as president expired. Paul Osland was elected as the new president. Paul
Four months after the meet, photos of WMA Lahti worlds are online and for sale. Click here for the store. A pair of young Finnish fotogs took more than 7,500 pictures — helpfully arranged by age group and then event.
New USATF bylaws “permit an athlete (over 18) to be a member of any Association within 100 miles of his or her bona fide residence.” In other words, automatic transfers! No other masters trackster will have to go through what
Yeah, everyone suspected a hoax. And everyone was right. The 11.40 credited to M55 John Andrew was too good to be true. As detailed here three weeks ago, this superfast 100-meter mark found its way onto mastersrankings.com. How good is
M55 vaulter Mike Soule reminds me that it’s that time of year again. Yup! Time to create an “Elf yourself” greeting card for your friends and family. Mike reminds us that you can send these out and not worry about
Deadline for entries is still three weeks off, but according to the Koops’ site, only 21 Germans have entered the 2010 World Masters Indoor Athletics Championships in Kamloops, British Columbia. How bad is that? Well, in 2006, when indoor worlds
M55 superstar Stephen Peters has a day job worth noting, as I’ve frequently noted before. He’s a psychologist for the British Olympic cycling team. Now the BBC’s Tom Fordyce has discovered Dr. Peters and featured him in great story on
W50 sprinter Debi Lurie, whose Senior Olympic quest was chronicled in essay form last July, has sent me something new. Just in time for Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, comes a bright little memo to Santa (who brings eight times as many gifts for
Early this morning, I posted an entry about the USATF ledgers from 2008 that showed how much various committees paid officers and subcommittee chairs. I mistakenly said these folks were subject to the same Code of Ethics prohibitions that Dave
Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no! USATF’s decision to sweep aside records set at the National Senior Games is considered a closed book. But not to me. USATF is picking on the wrong guy. It’s dissing the