t-and-f: James Davis repeats in USA Indoor 400
James Davis repeats in USA Indoor 400 Camera Staff and Wire Reports ATLANTA Ex-Buff James Davis repeated as national champion in the 400 meters at the USA Indoor Track and Field Championships Saturday, winning the final in 46.16. It was Davis's sixth consecutive victory this year. Kevin Little, a former member of Team U.S. West who still trains at the Balch Fieldhouse on campus, placed second in the 200 meters. And in the pole vault, Pat Manson of Superior placed sixth with a vault of 18-2 ½. Both Davis and Little qualified for next weekend's World Indoor Championships, set for Lisbon, Portugal. They leave for worlds on Monday. "I'm happy to have back-to-back titles and excited to be going to worlds," Davis said after his victory. "I wish I had run faster in the final, but it is winning that counts." full item: http://thedailycamera.com/sports/misc/04sdavis.html Ex-Buff Davis hitting stride By Michael Sandrock Camera Sports Writer James Davis is the defending U.S. indoor national champion over 400 meters. With the 2001 U.S. indoor track and field championships coming up this weekend in Atlanta, you would think that the former University of Colorado All-American would be on the Balch Fieldhouse indoor track every day preparing to defend his title. Not so. Davis has not set foot on the indoor track this winter. Instead, he trains by running outdoors on the streets, through the Colorado cold, snow and sleet. And that is after a full day's work at SCC Communications in Gunbarrel. "It works out better for me this way," said Davis. "I do not get as beat up as I would running on the track. I am not burned out. I just take precautions, like warming up better. I prefer training alone. That way I can focus on what I need to do and not on what someone else is doing." full item: http://www.thedailycamera.com/buffzone/sports/27sdavis.html == "It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it." Amelia Barr _ Visit i-run.com and register for a $75 Road Runner Sports Gift Certificate - Monthly Drawing
t-and-f: National Depth--Racewalks
The charts summarize the number of athletes each country placed in the world top-100 rankings for 2000 (plus ties) and the highest-ranked of these. Since one or two placings may represent only exceptional individuals, rather than national program strength, I've truncated the lists to three placings or more. The data base drawn upon is the world list from Mirko Jalava's web site http://www.tilastopaja.com/. MEN'S 20km WALK 2000MEN'S 50km WALK 2000 Country Top 100 Highest Country Top 100 Highest Russia 23 1 Spain9 6 Italy9 21 Italy7 35 Spain7 7 Slovakia 7 43 Mexico 7 8 Russia 6 1 Japan6 11 Germany 6 29 China6 15 Mexico 5 8 Belarus 5 2 Japan5 32 Germany 4 6 Poland 4 4 Latvia 4 19 France 4 16 Australia4 27 China4 23 Poland 3 4 Latvia 3 7 Slovakia 3 35 Australia3 15 United States3 52 Great Britain3 57 Cuba 3 75 Sweden 3 79 25 countries represented34 countries represented 100th = 1:24:33 100th = 4:07:59 16 countries with 3 or more! WOMEN'S 20km WALK 2000 WOMEN'S 10km WALK 2000 Country Top 100 Highest Country Top 101 Highest Russia 18 1 Russia 24 1 Italy8 6 Italy 10 8 China7 8 China8 9 Ukraine 6 20 Belarus 6 15 Belarus 5 12 Germany 6 52 Australia5 17 Ukraine 5 16 Romania 5 19 Romania 5 26 Spain5 30 Mexico 5 37 Mexico 5 37 Spain4 30 United States5 51 Hungary 4 43 Greece 4 47 United States3 75 Kazakhstan 3 28 Germany 3 33 27 countries represented26 countries represented 100th = 1:35:46 100th = 46:42 (Like the women's steeplechase, the women's 10K is not yet an Olympic or world championship event. Neither will be included in additional stat treatments.)
t-and-f: New York and National Indoors
TrackMeets.com will webcast live every lap of every race from both the New York State high school indoors (Saturday March 10 in Syracuse) and the National Scholastic Championship (Friday-Sunday March 9-11, Armory NY). As a consequence of TrackMeets.com's expansion into a multi-sport Internet broadcast corporation under the name "i2sports", viewers will require a password to watch our live webcasts. Passwords for the NYS and NSC will be issued at no charge on a first-come-first-served basis up to the capacity of our server farm. DR KAMAL JABBOUR - Engineer, Educator, Runner, WriterO o 2-222 Center for Science and Technology /|\/ |\ Syracuse University, Syracuse NY 13244-4100 | | Phone 315-443-3000, Fax 315-443-2583 __/ \ \/ \ http://running.syr.edu/jabbour.html\ \
t-and-f: International Men's LDR Coaching staffs announced
Hi. Fred Finke here (On behalf of the men's Long Distance Running Committee). Below are the selected coaching staffs for this years (2001) international trips and World Cross Country, 2002. The nominations were made and the Men's LDR selection committee voted on the nominations. The members of the committee were: Bill Roe (LDR Board), Dan Browne (Athlete Representative), Danny Grimes(Men's LDR Chair), Ed Eyestone (athlete Representative), Fred Finke (Coaching Selection Coordinator) and Creigh Kelly (LDR Board). Also a member of the committee initially was Basil Honikman, but due to his nomination, removed himself from the committee before evaluation and voting took place. I am also including related information. Of the people that were initially offered positions by the executive committee, only one (Nancy Ditz, family obligations) had to withdraw. Fred Finke Coaching Selection Coordinator What has been done: 1. We (LDR committee) have purged the database of people to be leaders by contacting them and asking them if they intend/want to remain in the pool of available leaders. 2. We have tried to cover all ranges of involvement (LDR, RRCA, Road Race director, College, HS and former athletes, experienced leaders where needed and rookies) 3. We have tried to put experienced people in the key positions that demanded experience. 4. Developed a list of available candidates for each event. 5. Verified the nominators nominations if verified by someone else. 6. I have also been working with Andrea Johnson and Malaika Ware (If anyone would like to know, these two people are doing an INCREDIBLE job at the national office! What a pleasure to work with them) in updating the database of all past staff positions. I have also expanded the people in the database to include the people that have served as women's team leaders. This was probably a good idea, because I have run across several people that have been serving both on the men's side as well as the women's side. I am still trying to find the staffs for 1995 and 1996 (the only years that I am missing). I have over 800 people that have served in staff positions in the current database. 7. Contacted everybody on the list to confirm availability. A major problem that we have encountered and hope to correct: Everybody wants World Cross and because of the dates (late October to Late November) of Road Relay, World 1/2 and Chiba,(this coincides with the College XC season and several major road races) there is a VERY short list of available leaders. (Generally 2-5 candidates and of those, several of them had already been on that trip). SOLUTION: Solicit more candidates for the pool. FINAL STAFF SELECTIONS - 2001-2002 Final staff selections for 2001-2002. We have not posted the Road Relay because there is a great deal of question as to whether or not the event will happen. There also has not been a date set. Below are the staff selections for the 2001 World Half Marathon; 2001 Chiba Ekiden, Japan; 2002 World Cross Country Championships. The Staffs: EVENT: 10th IAAF World Half-Marathon Champs., Bristol, England, DATE: October 7, 2001 POSITION: TEAM LEADER SELECTED LEADER: Mark Curp (Former Athlete, national conventions, much experience) NOMINATED BY: Bob Wood CREDENTIALS VERIFIED: Yes AVAILABLE: Yes EVENT: Chiba International Ekiden, Japan Men's and Women's USA teams DATE: November 23, 2001 POSITION: Manager SELECTED LEADER : Scott Simmons (Club Coach) NOMINATED BY: Bill Roe CREDENTIALS VERIFIED: Yes AVAILABLE: Yes EVENT: Chiba International Ekiden, Japan Men's and Women's USA teams DATE: November 23, 2001 POSITION: Coach SELECTED LEADER: Carey Pinkowski (Chicago Marathon Race Director) NOMINATED BY: Fred Finke CREDENTIALS VERIFIED: Yes AVAILABLE: Yes EVENT: World Cross Country Championships, Lausanne, Switzerland (?) DATE: March 2002 POSITION: Coach SELECTED LEADER: Basil Honikman, (USATF Road Running Information Center) NOMINATED BY: No Idea, been around forever CREDENTIALS VERIFIED: Yes AVAILABLE: Yes EVENT: World Cross Country Championships, Lausanne, Switzerland (?) DATE: March 2001 POSITION: Junior Men's leader SELECTED LEADER: Jim Nichols (DIII College, Long time service, Level 3 Coaching Ed) NOMINATED BY: Phil Henson CREDENTIALS VERIFIED: Yes AVAILABLE: Yes On behalf of the Men's LDR I would like to congratulate the selected leaders for their dedication to the sport and on their selections. Fred *** Fred Finke, LDR Men's Coach Selection Coordinator --- O Men's Team Leader, World Cross, Morocco, 1998 -- ^_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- \/\ Visit me at: www.Coachnet.net
Re: t-and-f: `Real' cheats prosper claims drugs chief
This is the kind of bitter rhetoric that is killing the efforts of progress in our sport. Although, a minor point, athletes are held at a higher standard than Joe Schmo, and his private affairs, i.e., DUI are a matter of public record, most times the cameras are at the station before the lawyers. As for track and drugs, and his whining about his drug program. That is his fault! Do not blame others when you have failed to do your job. Every person has a right to privacy, and random drug testing is a hot topic in all industries. What people will not talk about is the fact that sports is the only arena where the employees are subjected to random testing with minimal recourse. The governing bodies of track stand up and decide that they want to test, and the athletes are bound to that by honor, public opinion, and the protection of one's reputation. If you work at Ford the Union steeped in and drew boundaries for those test. In track, it is decried when the athletes stand up for their rights. I can only imagine what would happen if Marion, Maurice, MJ, or any other top athlete decided to challenge the constitutionality of the drug testing policy of track. And I still want someone to make sense to me the grounds that the IAAF has to charge the USATF about CJ, when he failed IAAF sanctioned test. I know the procedure, but how does that pin the "corruption" on the USA? It is a witch hunt, that has no end. Folks it is time to start the process that will end this. If you KNOW, then tell. If you think, get a better disposition on life. As a witness, I know the top do not have to use to get the edge. I have been party to many top performances to buy into this nonsense. Darrell Faith is a road seldom traveled
t-and-f: How to prevent the injury to Coby Miller
I watched the ESPN2 broadcast of the 200 meters from Atlanta today. Shawn Crawford stumbled at the finish and crashed into Coby Miller. Why don't we tell athletes to stay in their lane after a sprinting event? You also see this happen outdoors in the 100 and 200. Some runners stay in their lanes past the finish line, while others run straight into the outer lanes. Keith Conning 735 Brookside Drive Vacaville, CA 95688-3509 FAX: 707-778-7667 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WEB: http://hometown.aol.com/conning/myhomepage/index.html
t-and-f: Enough Already!
On today's telecast of the US Indoor Champs on ESPN2, for the umpteenth time the interviewer confronted Maurice Greene about the post-race antics of the US 4x100 team in Sydney. Once again Mo graciously did his best to explain, apologize, and promise that it won't happen again. How many more times do we have to go through all this? The Olympics have been over for nearly six months. Greene has endlessly publicly apologized even more times than Bill Clinton did about Monica. When the relay incident first happened, I was one of those very critical of the US team and said so right here on the list. But come on - it's time to move on. Forgive and forget. Give it a rest guys. Kurt Bray _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Re: t-and-f: `Real' cheats prosper claims drugs chief
DGS wrote: Every person has a right to privacy, and random drug testing is a hot topic in all industries. What people will not talk about is the fact that sports is the only arena where the employees are subjected to random testing with minimal recourse.If you work at Ford the Union steeped in and drew boundaries for those test. True, but the difference is that sports is the only arena where drugs are significantly performance enhancing. But guess what, if the athletes were willing to form a union and take all the attendant risks that entails, they could get drug testing legislation changed or removed. If most of the athletes boycotted the World Championships - ashappened in a minor way before prize money was instituted - they could make demands and those demands would have to be considered. Do the athletes really want to do away with random drug testing? Is it a coincidence what has happened to most of the women's performances and some of the men's field eventperformances since random drug testing has been implemented? If that's what the athletes want, I can only conclude that they don't care abouthonesty, and the sport will have certainly lost me as a fan and likely as a coach of young people as well.I doubt I am the only one who feels this way. I can only imagine what would happen if Marion, Maurice, MJ, or any other top athlete decided to challenge the constitutionality of the drug testing policy of track. I doubt anyone really knows, although I suspect the answer can be indirectly gathered from the reaction that American courts have had to various legal challenges by specific individuals. The courts appear to recognize that this invasion of privacy is necessary to the conduct of the sport but that it must follow certain rules and procedures, ones which USATF has generally followed for the past few years, but which the IAAF is not willing to accept. But again, what do the athletes want to change? Folks it is time to start the process that will end this. If you KNOW, then tell. Admirable sentiment, but that's not a solution that will work. I know there were drugs on both my high school and college teams, none of which had any really national class athletes. I can only assume from conversations with people at other instututions that this was not that unusual. And I won't believe that somehow it stops at the elite level. It's been going on for decades - and I have no idea about percentages or who does and who doesn't - and you can count the number of people who have named nameson a very small number of fingers. They're not about to start now. - Ed Parrot
