Tony at the 2008 Trials. He’s smiling today, too. This time it counts. Tony Young leveraged his fitness and access to a legal (200-meter) indoor track today at the USA indoor open nationals in Boston, running 1500 meters in 3:57.91
Val Barnwell holds the M50 world indoor record at 60 meters — his 7.18 at last year’s world indoor championships in Clermont-Ferrand, France. But it’s being threatened by Everad Samuels, who clocked 7.23 last week in Cambridge (beating Val in
Every few months, a world-class tracko announces retirement. The latest is 36-year-old John Godina, shot put world champ and Olympic medalist. After John’s disappointing 12th-place finish in the discus at last summer’s Olympic Trials, I ran into him outside Track
Monty Hacker of South Africa, the acting president of World Masters Athletics, walked a fine line when he finally responded to my questions about the 2009 World Masters Games. I wrote about this issue a few weeks back. Would the
In 1973, 55-year-old Bobby Riggs challenged 29-year-old Billie Jean King to a tennis match in Houston. BJK spanked old Bobby good. Yesterday at San Diego’s old Balboa Stadium, 54-year-old Rita Hanscom had a sprint rematch with a 38-year-old male co-worker who
Payton Jordan’s friends and admirers would fill L.A. Memorial Coliseum. But his family has opted against a funeral for Payton, who died three weeks ago. According to this newspaper account, “The family of the late Payton Jordan has decided to
Tony Young is flying cross country this weekend to compete in the masters exhibition 1500 at the USATF indoor championships in Boston. He’s in shape, we know from his recent 4:13 mile and 1:55 half-mile clockings on the oversized track
Alan Roth was edged by our Willie Banks for a seat on the USATF Board of Directors, but Alan is still in the game — at least in the chatfest known as the USATF Associations listserve on Yahoo Groups. Yesterday,
Doug Smith reports from Ontario: “Three Canadian (age-group) records were broken at Sunday’s Athletics Ontario Senior Championships at the Toronto Track & Field Centre. W55 Karla Del Grande continued her assault on the record book with a 28.34 in the
Almost making good on a promise made at the Reno convention, masters Chairman Gary Snyder has announced that the day-by-day event schedule at the USATF National Masters Outdoor Championships in Oshkosh is now posted here. In other words, you can find
The second-oldest WMA world indoor record for 800 meters is 2:08.15 by M55 Reginald Phipps of Great Britain in January 1999. (The oldest is an M65 mark by Canadian Earl Fee in 1994.) But Alistair Dunlop had a great try
Derek Lau writes of the upcoming Landover indoor nationals: “I hope everyone is pumped up for this year’s meet.” No question he was impressed with last year’s in Boston. Derek, of aideM Media Solutions Inc. in Pennsylvania, has posted 20