The World Masters Games, a multisport festival held every four years, is ramping up for its 2009 edition in Sydney, Australia. It includes a big ol’ track meet, which can conflict with the masters circuit. Now comes word that the
Knut Henrik Skramstad of Norway won the M70 decathlon and pole vault at last year’s Riccione world masters championships in Italy. And he was appalled at how the meet was conducted. In an undated narrative he lists several outrages, including
Reprising her gig at Clermont-Ferrand, France, Linda Carty informs us of her latest masters video production — a couple dozen clips of finals in some 200s, relays and assorted other Sunday events at last weekend’s WMA regionals in Clermont, Florida.
M40 sprinter John Simpson from Texas is used to heat, but he wasn’t ready for the poor facilities at the WMA regionals over the weekend in central Florida. So he took some pictures to document the site of the 2009
Patricia Girard may be this season’s Usain Bolt in masters track. She ran the 100-meter hurdles yesterday in 13.22 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. “Unbelievably, the wind was -1.9. Reina-Flor Okori of France won the race in 12.95,” reports Ed Gordon,
As you may have read in these comments, some sprinters have been circulating this online petition rapping Clermont, Florida, as the site of the 2009 masters nationals. Tellingly, it doesn’t ask for a new venue. But that’s how it might
Yesterday’s finals at the WMA regionals in Clermont, Florida, included the 400, 800, steeple, short hurdles and some jumps and throws. This very tight M45 finish in the 4 caught my eye: Paul Brown (51.95), Marcus Shute (51.99) and Courtney
The latest WMA handbook is prefaced with this revealing note from South Africa’s Monty Hacker, interim president (until 2009). “Fellow WMA members, I must begin by drawing your attention to the loss of two of our former presidents in the
The WMA regional championships got under way today in Clermont, Florida, site of the 2009 masters nationals, and results for Day 1 have been posted. (Click here for the results PDF.) Officials aren’t cutting entrants any slack, however. Among the
The September issue of Masters Athlete magazine (formerly GeezerJock) is the biggest money-maker ever, I’m told by founding editor Sean Callahan. That’s thanks to the staff’s own efforts, and not the company that owned it, however. A year ago, Turnstile
As mentioned in the previous post, USATF held a workshop over the weekend in Indianapolis on the looming restructuring of the group’s Board of Directors, which previously backed a plan to deep-six many committee chairs, including that of masters track
The following note, posted with extreme prejudice, is part of an email exchange over the issue of delayed meet results from the national masters weight pentathlon championships. Not a word has been changed in this dyspeptic missive, sent with extreme