Willie Gault is just warming up. So is Aaron Thigpen. Both M40 sprinters crashed the 10.70 barrier for the 100 Saturday at the Southern California USATF Association Masters Championships at West Los Angeles College in Culver City. For reasons I
The meet ain’t even half done and already a bunch of world and American age-group records have fallen at the National Senior Olympics at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Yesterday, for starters, Bobby Whilden of Texas knocked a hallowed Payton
Tony Young of Washington state apparently has discovered the fountain of youth. (Or maybe just hard training and wise choice of races.) On June 4 he nearly matched his own American M40 record in the mile — set two years
The biennial National Senior Olympics track meet gets under way today at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennyslvania, and event organizers are promising something interesting: customized results at one’s request. I simply wrote that I wanted all track and field
Willie Gault having to step aside? Only 20 days after Willie lowered the venerable American masters record in the 100 to 10.73, Don Fields reportedly ran a truly hard to fathom 10.38 in an M40 race at the BAYTAF meet
Mark Cleary, coordinator of masters invitational programs for USATF, sez he’s trying to line up a 110 hurdle race involving former giants Roger Kingdom, Renaldo Nehemiah and Greg Foster, along with Willie Gault, Jack Pierce, Henry Andrade and current masters
I’m flattered. Again. USATF Masters T&F Chairman George Mathews in his April report cited me by name while discussing (the lack of) drug-testing in masters track. Now, in his June report (not yet online but on page 5 of the
Posted June 3, 2005, with biography By Ken Stone Masterstrack.com: Why are you running for WMA president? What are your goals as president? Perkins: I believe our organization lacks leadership direction and has done so for many years. Our past
Posted June 3, 2005 (updated with appended resume on July 9, 2005) JULY 22, 2005, ADDENDUM By Ken Stone Masterstrack.com: Why are you running for WMA president? What are your goals as president? Beccalli: I’m seeking the presidency because in
WMA prez candidate Cesare Beccalli has responded to my interview request, despite taking “great offense” at a question that suggested he bribed Hungarians to vote for him the first time he ran for president. Whatta guy. Stan Perkins, the only
With no public fanfare, coordinator Mark Cleary has announced the events that will serve as masters exhibition races at the USATF nationals at Carson (near Los Angeles) in less than four weeks: a men’s 110 hurdles and a women’s 1500.
I guess the Monaco Mother Ship can have its senior moments, too. The International Association of Athletics Federations, or IAAF, refers to WMA as the “World Masters Asssociation” in its latest PDF newsletter, dated May 31. Common mistake, I guess,
