Tom Petranoff, whose monster javelin throws helped force a change in the specs, became a great masters thrower for a time. Now he’s pointing his daughter, Leigh, toward the Games. I interviewed Leigh for Times of San Diego. I also
Lemme tell you. If I had run a couple more years of college — instead of being cut after my sophomore year — I would have run sub-54 in the 440 hurdles. But I’m not alone in woulda-coulda-shoulda. Some months
The two biggest questions in masters track are: 1) How do I rank? And 2) Where are the meets? John Seto and his mastersrankings.com are beginning to answer Query 2 as well as 1. On Sunday, he wrote: “You all
Can you think of any couple more powerful in masters track than Stan and Wilma Perkins? Hubby Stan has been president of World Masters Athletics since 2009. Wilma, formerly the president of Oceania Masters, is now Australian Masters Athletics president.
Friday afternoon, when the IAAF made the stunning announcement that it was provisionally suspending the Russian track federation for all sorts of naughty stuff, I wrote to WMA prez Stan Perkins. Would a ban on Russian masters follow suit? Would
Several stories are linking to this BeCalm treatise saying ice as in RICE therapy is a bad thing. In other words, no more ice baths after workouts or between events. I neved liked them anyway. In fact, the guy who
“We baby boomers are very concerned with physical and mental decline,” says M60 world champion hurdler George Haywood in a great Washington Post story on masters athletes. “What many of us do not realize is how much of that decline
Masters weight folks are again mourning another loss. Steve Filipski, an M65 Texas thrower nationally ranked since at least 2000, died of a heart attack over the weekend, Seth Brower reports. “This is a huge shock to the throwing community
IAAF and IOC are thinking about banning Russia from the 2016 Rio Olympics. The monster WADA report on Russia’s doping system, summarized here, doesn’t mention “masters” or “veterans.” But WMA generally follows the lead of IAAF. In the 1970s, when
According to the minutes of the Lyon General Assembly, masters in 2016 may join elites in being drug-tested at their homes. So-called “out of competition” testing is a nuisance for the kiddies, but it would be a holy hassle for
I presume Britain’s David Heath and Germany’s Silke Schmidt have heard the news — that they won’t be honored at the IAAF Gala in Monaco. The Nov. 28 shindig has been canceled. The doping/bribery scandal is to blame. The WMA
Annie Skinner, senior communications manager for the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency in Colorado Springs, got back to me Friday. I had written her nine days earlier with the simple question: Why did Robert Arello lose his medals if he was granted
