Organizers of Lyon worlds have to pack 8,042 athletes into four stadia in hundreds of events over two weeks in August. A schedule-maker’s nightmare. One hopes they used a Cray computer. In any case, the detailed schedule is now posted.
In July 2000, I took my family to the Sacramento Olympic Trials. Under a blazing sun, we saw blazing speed. In the stands I met Jimson Lee, a Canadian masters sprinter. Jimson, of course, went on to fame and fortune
Could it be the weather? Ambience? Status? For whatever reason, entry lists at the National Senior Games track meet now under way in St. Paul, Minnesota, are a lot fatter than those for Jacksonville masters nationals in a couple weeks.
The Greyhounds Track Club under coach Harold Morioka on Tuesday broke the Canadian W60 4-by-400 record with a time of 5:27.92 in the Ocean Athletics twilight meet in Surrey, British Columbia. For the second time this season, the team pulled
Irie “Izzy” Hill did it again. Competing at a German meet on July 3, she raised her own W45 world record in the vault to 3.76 meters (12-4). It’s her third WR this season, after earlier efforts of 3.65 and
Momentum is building. More people are joining my call for USATF to pay for Anselm and Renee’s way to Beijing for their masters races at IAAF worlds. (Fifty have signed my petition.) One notable supporter is Donald Schaefer, an Oregon-based
In the 800 final of the British open nationals over the weekend, the field was made up of kids aged 19, 29, 32, 23, 21, 23, 21 and 43. Say what? Yup, masters mile recordholder Anthony Whiteman, at 43, was
After posting the news about Sergey Bubka pitching his masters ideas, I wrote to Stan Perkins, president of World Masters Athletics. Stan responded speedily (perhaps because I had gone out on a limb to predict Sergey was promising more money
Lenore Montgomery has been a Canadian middle-distance star for years, and she added to her legend over the weekend with a W85 world record at 800, clocking 4:39.14. She smashed the listed WR of 4:56.10 by Ukraine’s Vladylena Kokina in
I don’t know whether to treat this news as Christmas in July or pie-in-the-sky. But IAAF presidential candidate Sergey Bubka has announced that he’d throw money at WMA and even give IAAF a role in age-group records vetting. This could
The wedding is set: Saturday, Sept. 12. As noted in March 2014, M70 Roger Pierce and W45 Diane Tedford Pomeroy became engaged amid a shared love of track. I wrote Roger for details, and he graciously replied: “We will be
When I heard that the IAAF world meet would have masters exhibition races, I assumed that USATF would help with expenses if Americans were chosen. Boy, was I wrong. On Friday, Anselm LeBourne launched a GoFundMe drive to raise $3,000
