In late 1999, the hit counter on our home page stood at 000000. In the next week or so, that counter will click over to 1,000,000 –a million page loads of the gateway to masterstrack.com. To celebrate this humbling milestone,
At the 1997 nationals in San Jose, one of the many studs who beat me in the M40 long hurdles was Stan Vegar, a fellow San Diegan. Better known as a decathlete (in which he once held the M40 American
Willie Banks won’t break the M50 triple jump record in Yokohama after all. Becuz he ain’t jumpin’. He reports that the Japanese meet organizers won’t let him join the meet. But Willie writes, hopefully: “Oh well, I will have to
Graeme Shirley, a lightning rod in USATF masters politics, was struck by a bolt from the blue Wednesday night at his USATF association’s annual elections (see photos) in San Diego. He was voted out of office. At the start of
Two-time Olympic champion and former WR man Roger Kingdom has set up a pair of hurdle races in April 2007 at the college where he coaches in Pennsylvania. His goal: to determine the best masters hurdler in the world. (It’s
World masters champion Hella Böker (sometimes Boeker) of Germany, a W65 thrower, has been suspended by the Leichtathletik federation (DLV) after the diuretic hydrochlorothiazide showed up in her urine sample at the European masters championships in Poznan, Poland. Normally, I’d
Hanover, Germany, hosted the third World Masters Athletic Championships in late July and early August 1979. And thanks to the miracles of scanning, Adobe Acrobat and Canadian medalist Ed Whitlock (who sent me 90 photocopied pages), complete results are now
The wires report that Jan Zelezny has scratched from what would have been his final competition — Sunday’s meet at Yokohama, Japan, “as he is suffering from a painful Achilles.” The Agence France Presse story said: “The 40-year-old three-time Olympic
M50 sprinter Tom Phillips of Britain — who has the bad luck of being in Dr. Stephen Peters’ age group and events — has found a winning niche nevertheless. He photographs fellow Brits at major meets. He writes: “I have
Pete Clentzos, a one-time masters athlete and longtime announcer (and meet director) at the Pasadena Senior Olympics near Los Angeles, died last week at age 97 and got some deserving obituary coverage, reports our friend Andy Hecker, who sent the
At 35, he’s still on top of the world. Jim Dunaway’s quickie report from today’s World Cup meet in Athens: “Allen Johnson could not have gotten a better start if he had been fired out of a cannon. The 35-year-old
Willie Banks was disappointed today in Sendai, Japan, fouling four of his six jumps at the Japanese masters nationals and falling short of his ultra-ambitious goal to put the M50 triple jump record out of sight. He writes: “Unfortunately, I
