Starting this Thursday, a town in Slovenia will host 3,700 masters athletes. They’ll compete in the 16th European Masters Athletics Championships. As usual, Germany dominates the field — with 655 men and women entered. Britain is second with 333. But
Doug Logan is a shiny new car, and the powers that be at USATF have fallen in love with him. That’s understandable. New owners want to feel good about their wheels. Despite a few scratches and dents in his career,
Jeff Watry, the engineer/athlete for Gill Athletics, shares these results from the USATF Masters National Decathlon/ Heptathlon Championships held June 21-22 at a university in southwest Missouri. Among the nearly 50 entrants were quite a few Britons and Canadians, who
On this date in 1968, the San Diego Track & Field Association together with the city Recreation Department and the Los Angeles Seniors Track Club joined under the leadership of David Pain to stage a track meet at historic Balboa
Matthew Cavanaugh of the European Pressphoto Agency took a nice action shot of USATF Masters Media Chairman Bob Weiner near the end of the half-mile Bastille Day Race in the nation’s capital. See below; that’s Bob in the Potomac Runners
Reuters reports from Lubljana: “Jamaican-born sprinter Merlene Ottey will race twice in four days in a last-ditch effort to become the first athlete to take part in eight Olympic Games. Ottey, 48, will run at meetings in the Slovenian city
Doug Logan, the new CEO of USA Track & Field, apparently promoted himself as the soccer savior of MLS. Well, maybe. But did he fully disclose his failures as well? One was in the mid-1990s, when he was the owner
Doug Logan: will new CEO’s gray hair make him masters-mindful? I’m keeping an open mind on this BIG news from Indy: A former exec with Arena Football League and Major League Soccer is the new CEO of USA Track &
Last weekend saw the finale of the two-part German masters nationals. Yes, the Germans have so many masters tracksters they hold two separate meets — for under-50 and for 50-plus. The first meet was June 27-29 (see results) and the
Olympian Dalton Grant of Great Britain has become the oldest man to clear 7 feet in the high jump, accomplishing that miraculous feat at age 42 years, 4 months over the weekend. He thus equals a never-ratified 2.15-meter (7-0 1/2)
America doesn’t have a monopoly on milers. Today we learn that M45 star Jesus Borrego of Spain has bettered John Hinton’s M45 world record for 1500 meters, clocking 3:52.43 on July 12, according to a note that Jesus sent to
By this time next week we’ll know. We’ll know whether Merlene Ottey, 48, will compete in the world’s most important track meet. Yesterday, over at my MAD blog, I wrote about Merlene’s dream to run in her eighth Olympics. That