My Hall of Fame friend Bud Held is 88, and his brother, Dick, is 90. For years, they’ve been working on a written history of the modern javelin. They were central to that history — with Bud setting world records
Hey, Barry! You meet with every sports champion the Oval Office can squeeze in. Why not Ida Keeling, our W100 sprint goddess? That’s my hope now that Ida is world-renowned for her latest record — 100 meters at age 100.
Thanks to Nat Larson’s comment, we’ve learned about three-time Olympian (and 5X NCAA champion) Jen Rhines crushing the W40 American record at Stanford University on Sunday. At the same Payton Jordan meet where Bernard Lagat went sub-28 in the 10K
Bernard “Kip” Lagat at 41, looking for new worlds to conquer, raced a 10K Sunday at the Payton Jordan Invitational. Stanford reported: “The meet peaked when … Lagat provided the night’s signature moment after winning the 10,000 in a U.S.-leading
It was near 100 degrees last September when Don Pellmann crushed the M100 WR in the 100-meter dash at the San Diego Senior Games. He had a dozen fans in the stands and several dozen watching from the infield. Flash
Italy’s Giorgio Maria Bortolozzi, a retired gynecologist almost 80, is a world champion masters long and triple jumper who competes in many events. But at his indoor nationals, he tested positive for DHEA and testosterone — after neglecting to apply
Competing at Penn for the first time since 2013, Bill Collins was in his element Friday at Franklin Field, again anchoring a winning 4×100 in 50.37 and taking the M65 100 in 12.57. Most other 100s were run as well
I have trouble fathoming stellar distance marks. But Runner’s World helpfully noted that M85 Ed Whitlock’s latest world record — a half-marathon in 1:50:47 — averaged 8:27 per mile. He broke the listed WR of 2:00:05 by Germany’s Georg Gabriel
You’ve heard of the Age-Graded Tables, right? Now The New York Times writes about the converse — Professor Ray Fair’s Age-Declining Tables. That’s what I call them, at least. In a story headlined: “Aging Runners Find Help for a Question:
In December 2014, Butch Reynolds confirmed he was shooting for a masters comeback in the 400 — and a world record in M50. But he didn’t record a time in 2015. Now a new profile of the Ohio coach shows
A Bristol, England, paper reports that masters photographer Alex Rotas is a finalist in the Be a Game Changer Awards for the Women’s Sport Trust’s “Imagery of the Year” category. You can help by taking the survey that includes her
Many people sent me the link to Friday’s Wall Street Journal story about TUEs and masters athletes. I knew (back in January) that “recreational” (non-elite) masters could get therapeutic use exemptions for medications that include testosterone, but I buried that
