On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Roger Ruth wrote:
USA has over six times the population of RSA (275,562,673 vs. 43,421,021).
Each of those Americans, on average, has nearly five times the annual
income of each South African ($33,900 vs. $6,900).
Clearly, comparing the depth of RSA talent to that of
How many other women can claim the competitive range from 1500 to marathon
that O'Sullivan has?
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Der O'Donovan wrote:
http://www.rte.ie/aertel/p206.htm
DUBLIN MARATHON
Ireland's Sonia O'Sullivan followed up
her Olympic silver medal with a victory
in
Is this really any deeper than the U.S. in the early 1980s?
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, David Monti wrote:
Track Listers,
While not attempting to play down the role of performance-enhancing drugs in
athletics, I sometimes think Westerners are out of touch with the depth of
talent in other
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's your only conclusion? You couldn't possibly have come to the
conclusioin that Coe was so great that he put the 800 record at a level that
no one would could match for many years to come?
I think that Coe was as good a miler as an 800m man
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Justin Clouder wrote:
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Indeed it is. I thought it surprising that, despite the Kenyan advances in
recent years, the national 800m record is 16 years old. Having said that,
it's a very very good record,
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greetings from Sidney Dwight and I are here to do the Paralympics track
and field for wemedia.com...Please pass
On 23 Oct 2000, Jay Ulfelder wrote:
Yes, I know Khannouchi
is an American, but because the focus here is on the sport's
development in the U.S., I'm looking only at "home-grown" runners.
Isn't Khannouchi "home grown?" I thought he didn't start running until
after he had emigrated to the
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My initial reaction to the ad was one of shock and revulsion. I know the ad
is meant to be somewhat surreal but the implied violence is sickening and out
of place for a SNEAKER ad.
JT
I think this reaction shows what I (or apparently Nike) never
On 16 Oct 2000, Jay Ulfelder wrote:
And that's really the point, isn't it? After all, one would typically
assume that the body would adapt to the new, more intense stimulus, so
that, for example, a 27:30 10K would feel to a "doped" athlete like a
28:15 does to a "non-doped" athlete. Only if
On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Matthew H Fraser Moat wrote:
You can have long debates about who is the best 1,500m/Mile runner of all
time, you can have long debates about who is the best 800m runner of all
time, but few people would argue that Coe should be included in both
discussions.
My question
On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Ed Dana Parrot wrote:
Also, didn't Coe's speed improvement come at a fairly young age? And wasn't
he always an 800/1500 guy with the 3000m being more of a stretch.
No, he was a 1500/3000m guy through his teens and ran few 800s, at 18 he
couldn't break 50 for 400m (at
For those of you interested, Colorado beat Western handily in the second
half of the race, but Western was without three of their top five. At
full strength Western would have given CU a very tough battle. Western
would certainly be a top-5 team in DI. CU's surge in the second half of
the race
Don't forget Shorter, 1972: 10k 5th (AR), marathon 1rst.
On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Kurt Bray wrote:
Virtually overlooked in the women's 10,000m in Sydney was Tegla Loroupe
completing arguably the most amazing long distance double in championship
competition.
Amazing? Maybe yes; most amazing?
he ring would listen to music and read poetry?
I just can't believe it!
UG
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To play devil's advocate in Entine's defense, his argument has always been
about *performance* not placings. Where does 20.09 fit in in the greater
scheme of things? If he runs under 20.00 then the case against Entine is
a little stronger, if he breaks 19.90 then it really is.
That said, I've
Another way of looking at it: does it matter anymore if she wins five
golds? The drive for five golds was great marketing that made Marion
Jones a household name, but who will make use of this now and ask her to
endorse thier products? She has likely lost millions of dollars.
Paul
On Wed, 27
Netters,
Does anyone else get the feeling that this could be a very special race?
There are at least five guys who could go under 1:43.5 if the race goes
fast. Kipketer is the favorite but he seems more vulnerable than he has
in the past (though perhaps not much more).
Borzakovskiy's
I believe that Noakes points this out in his book.
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 9/26/00 4:54:42 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
.most guys who move up from 10 to the marathon end up
running their best marathon time in their 2nd or 3rd race at the distance
That's wierd, he said this in 1992 and then apologized for it in 1996
citing the number of irate letters he recieved from race walkers and
their supporters.
Did he actually say it again?
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, andrew mcdonagh wrote:
He said this last night and I thought it was funny.
"Race
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, R.T. wrote:
then why in the world are Merode and Lundquist choosing the
forum of Sydney to take shotgun blasts at U.S. procedures,
strongly implying that there is subterfuge going on?
I'm not talking '88, I'm talking '00.
They are fully aware of U.S. court restrictions,
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, david lesley wrote:
In fact, it seems to me that the North Africans are much more
closely related to the Portuguese and Spanish (also formidable runners) than
they are to the Ethiopians and Kenyans.
This of course is very true. North Africa has always been part of the
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Bryan Beel wrote:
Unless I'm really missing something, it seems that NONE of
the mentioned athletes would TEST POSITIVE unless they were total morons.
EPO: can't test positive
unless you've used the "juice" in the last three days. Isn't that what
everyone was howling
IT DOESN'T HAVE TO! It just has to react equally slow to both the start
and the finish.
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, malmo wrote:
THAT IS PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE. The human body simply cannot react that fast!
malmo!TM
Another self-anointed "Award-Winning" Pundit for the Sydney2000TM Olympics
Hopefully Dayne will return to competition in a very public way... and
get soundly trounced by the top throwers out there. This would be great
publicity. The American public thinks of football players as the
strongest, most powerful athletes out there. If Dayne couldn't compete
maybe people
Someone just asked about the reasons behind the United States marathon
woes. The problem (if you believe there is a problem) has many facets but
one that hasn't come up is the U.S. college system. While I'm generally a
big fan of collegiate track and field, I wonder if college distance
prevents
or JUCO
organizations. Maybe I'm just mis-remembering that there were collegiate
team entries in an open championship. Can anybody out there help on this one?
Bill Bahnfleth
At 02:00 PM 9/5/2000 -0600, P.F.Talbot wrote:
College coachs,
with some exceptions, don't train
Will he turn 20 by the end of the year or is he officially a junior? If
he is, how does this rank him among juniors?
Secondly, is this guy taking Franno's advice and bypassing the U.S.
college system or will he be travelling south to take advantage of warm
training climes and free
On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, R.T. wrote:
If the IOC also threw out "B" standard qualifiers at
the same time, along with the "each country can enter one
person in each sport", countries like Kenya would no longer feel
obligated to take the single 100m sprinter, the single long
jumper, and so forth.
On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Justin Clouder wrote:
Nonsense. There are 101 ways to ensure objective criteria for selection of
non-3rd place finishers which avoids selection committee politics.
For example:
Third place athlete gets picked unless there is another athlete who fulfills
these criteria:
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Justin Clouder wrote:
The simple truth is that the US is not strong enough any more to allow for
so many great athletes to fall by the wayside.
Why is it so important to you that the U.S. send its strongest possible
team to the games? Is the American medal count really
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Ward Nicholson wrote:
Randy Treadway writes:
The article says nothing about the trade-offs that usually
result from building up a shoe solely to reduce shock.
Ward's response is below, but my own input here
It has actually been shown that shock is less running barefoot
I think Ed's idea below is a good one. Added to it could be an eikiden
road relay to include distance runners and would simply replace the
marathon.
On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, CORA KOCH wrote:
Getting events added to the Olympics (except to further parity for women's
events) would be tough given
On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Jon Entine wrote:
The flaw in Steve's belief coaches are the primary reason why one runner
excels over another is possible but certainly conjectural. There are
other factors, most prominently genetics, that might reduce the coaching
factor to insignificance.
Jon Entine
On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, alan tobin wrote:
past coaches like Lydiard turning 4 no-bodies into great
champions.
Let's put a little perspective in here. While Lydiard did an amazing
job and started out with a very small pool of runners, lets recognize the
talent that Snell was. Before he came to
This is pretty interesting.
For you conspiracy theorists, you can make note of the fact that KAAA does
have money to pay western doctors... :)
Paul
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On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Kurt Bray wrote:
I also noticed on last night's broadcast of the exciting races that the
people in the stands often stood up as the runners went by, refuting the
earlier post that said that the Europeans stay seated during track meets.
One of the coolest things I've
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, George Parrott wrote:
And Rod Dixon and Craig Virgin also had almost this kind of "range" of
performance excellence, so the "reach" is not that absurd...
Dixon yes, Virgin no. Virgin never broke 4:00 in the mile much less ran
the 1:46 that Dixon covered 800m in. One of
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, R.T. wrote:
True had planned on competing in the U.S. trials, but decided that the
guarantee of Olympic participation was too good of an experience to pass
up and agreed to take the Liberian spot.
Competing at the U.S. Trials doesn't preclude subsequently taking
a place
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