Dick Fosbury. Ed Caruthers. Otis Burrell. Phil May. Art Walker. And a bunch of other vertical and horizontal jumpers are featured in this compilation of 1960s legends. Track & Field News posted the link, and it’s worth your perusal —
In his latest update, M65 role model Rex Harvey says of his cancer fight: “Got some action going now. I have finished the current 12 chemos which went well but were getting very tiresome. We went to Houston [the MD
Last year, Marc Bloom wrote about 49-year-old Sean Wade, asking: “Can a 50-year-old run a 4:20 mile? Sean Wade, who at age 30 ran the 1996 Olympic marathon in Atlanta for his native New Zealand, hopes to attempt that feat
Within hours of my posting the list of over-60 men invited to the IAAF Portland 800-meter race, I was getting private messages. They basically said: “What? At 66, Nolan Shaheed has a recent 2:17.5?” Some cited mastersrankings.com, where Nolan’s best
If Drew Hunter has his mom’s guts and smarts, look for him to go sub-4 in the mile Saturday at the Armory Invitational. Drew, as most track fans know, set a high school record in the indoor 3000 recently at
Doug “Shaggy” Smith of Ontario Masters Athletics reported Wednesday night that bidders have been announced for the 2020 World Masters Athletics Championships. The WMA website says nothing, but Doug lists these cities in the hunt: Bogotá, Colombia; Gothenburg, Sweden; Tampere,
Hartshorne Masters Mile honchos Charles Fay and Tom Hartshorne report: “The 2016 races are now a wrap! Videos of each of the eight races comprising the 2016 Hartshorne Masters Mile can be found online at the Finger Lakes Running Club’s
Greg Pizza is serious, folks. He hopes to raise $15,000 to retain Howard Jacobs as his lawyer in the USADA testosterone case. Complete details are in my Times of San Diego story, posted Tuesday night. Greg PIE-zah tells me: “This
For the fourth year in a row, Erika Pierce has raised a W40 American record in a combined event. This time it was the indoor heptathlon — after she scored 4547 points over the weekend at Jeff Watry’s annual USATF
With the Lyon gold and silver medalists and a 1500-meter indoor WR man joining Hall of Famer Nolan Shaheed, the men’s 800 masters exhibition at IAAF Portland worlds should be a doozy. At least three have set world records. Top
American Lesley Chaplin and Britain’s Karen Brooks, who took 2-3 at Lyon worlds in the W55 800, headline the masters invitational 800 at IAAF Portland worlds on March 19. Lesley is one of three Yanks in the elite-woman field, joined
USATF Masters T&F national Chairman Gary Snyder replied Friday to my query on the Greg Pizza HRT case. Gary wrote: “After reading NMN, Times and MTF, it once again becomes apparent there is a lot of misinformation and misunderstanding regarding
