On Mon, 6 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
John Friedman wrote:
Why this nonesense with junior status where the cutoff of a couple of days
prevents competing as a junior for an entire year? Why not have a systme in
which an athlete could compete as a junior and set records as a junior
If I were a lot faster, we'd be saying that I'm the greatest distance
runner ever. But I'm not, so we're not. Geb over Tergat,
definitely. Geb wins on a head-to-head basis and on a PR basis. Tergat's
only better at XC.
Geb v. Rono? Geb v. Viren? Those are topics for discussion.
On Thu, 1
Before we get too far into who's-better-who's-best amongst these
well-known
athletes, though, I would love to hear from the list's historians and
non-USA members about candidates for the Greatest Track And Field
Performance Not Known By The Average American.
All of them.
On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, P.F.Talbot wrote:
You could, of course, use O2 during training either with a max or a
superoxegenated training room on a treadmill. This might allow one to do
workouts previously not possible. It would be legal too.
Now this is taxing my memory from a class taken 4
And of course there's always their Stars of Track and Field, with
its chorus of stars of track and field are beautiful people.
-paul
On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Andrew Eldredge-Martin wrote:
Of course there is always The Lonliness of the Middle-Distance Runner by
Belle and Sebastian. They played
I'll second this. I did some research as an undergrad where we were able
to convert the muscle fiber type in mice from type 1 (slow) to type IIB
(fast). This was the gastrocnemius muscle; there was no switching or
trauma involed. We induced the conversion by completely unweighting the
hind
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Michael Rohl wrote:
Remember all the medals are the same.
Yeah, why bother going all out for that gold medal when you can get a
bronze one that's just as good?
Paul
(whose opinion on racewalks is that they are among the "less equal" of the
equally significant tf
