Re: t-and-f: The Relay team

2000-09-02 Thread Conway
On Friday, September 01, 2000 9:48 PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: By the way, has a "club" team ever run faster? And has a "club" ever held the world record? HSI's 37.65 is the fastest by a club eclipsing the 37.79 run by Santa Monica in 1991 1994 ... Not aware of any club holding WR in the

t-and-f: REPORT: CHINESE WALKER FAILS TEST

2000-09-02 Thread Christopher Goss
REPORT: CHINESE WALKER FAILS TEST BEIJING (AP) - A Chinese race walker has been kicked off the Olympic team after failing a drug test, an official newspaper said. Liu Yunfeng, who was China's top prospect in the men's 20-kilometer walk, tested positive July 13, the China Daily said Saturday.

t-and-f: JONES, GREENE WIN 100-METER RACES

2000-09-02 Thread Christopher Goss
JONES, GREENE WIN 100-METER RACES BERLIN (AP) - Maurice Greene ran the fastest 100 meters of the year, winning in 9.86 seconds Friday at the ISTAF meet, the last major track and field competition before the Sydney Olympics. Marion Jones won the women's 100, finishing in 10.78 to match her

t-and-f: SURVIVOR--day 11

2000-09-02 Thread GHTFNedit
Attention all people without a life (i.e.. those who are reading this instead of doing major Labor Day beer-busting): you've got 24 hours (i.e., until noon PDT Sunday) to cut yet another Sacto champion from the dinner table. If you didn't vote previously, doesn't mean you can't vote now. And

Re: t-and-f: SURVIVOR--day 11

2000-09-02 Thread Namehere2
Vote Deal because throwers eat to much

Re: t-and-f: ESPN Coverage

2000-09-02 Thread Alan Shank
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Larry Rawson and myself are confused...during the U.S. Trials, this list was flooded with commentary, both positive and negative, about the coverage by NBC and PAX, yet there has been virtually NO discussion about ESPN's coverage of five Golden League meets. Has

Re: t-and-f: Berlin with feet and inches

2000-09-02 Thread A.J. Craddock
Yeah!! And it must be true because we also saw it on TV (good coverage IMHO). Tony Craddock At 08:08 AM 9/2/00 -0500, Beard, Cory wrote: IAAF Golden League ISTAF 2000 Berlin, 01-Sep-2000 RESULTS MEN GP HIGH JUMP - MEN Pts 1

Re: t-and-f: SURVIVOR--day 11

2000-09-02 Thread Ajohn79
Vote Deal because throwers eat to much I didn't know lobbying was allowed...?

Re: t-and-f: The Relay team

2000-09-02 Thread Mike Moyes
I believe in 1991 the Santa Monica Track Club held the 4x100m world record at 37.80 in winning Zurich. I don't believe any club team has gone faster than HSI's recent time though. Mike By the way, has a "club" team ever run faster? And has a "club" ever held the world record? William E.

t-and-f: Comments On/After Berlin

2000-09-02 Thread Bettwy, Bob
Just some comments after watching the Berlin meet and reading the latest digest post (#3167). First, who is Willy Beamon? Obviously from LA, is this really someone named "Bill Beamon"? Coach, official, agent, athlete? Thank goodness for ESPN and the Golden League series. I was really looking

t-and-f: Use the freakin power of the net, will ya?

2000-09-02 Thread malmo
I believe in 1991 the Santa Monica Track Club held the 4x100m world record at 37.80 in winning Zurich. I don't believe any club team has gone faster than HSI's recent time though. Mike A third-grader could look up this stuff. Here, you figure it out:

t-and-f: [02 Sep 00] The Olympics are on a collision course with a Sydney influenza epid

2000-09-02 Thread FranciCash
[02 Sep 00] "The Olympics are on a collision course with a Sydney influenza epidemic, and athletes and spectators have been warned they should be vaccinated before heading for the games..." http://www.stuff.co.nz/inl/index/0,1008,351107a1992,FF.html

Re: t-and-f: ESPN Coverage

2000-09-02 Thread Thomas Pinckney
Walt and Larry: (1) Same day coverage is vastly superior to coverage delayed by a couple of days. I'll rearrange my schedule to watch a Golden League meet if broadcast the same day. If delayed by a day, I won't -- just tape it and look at it at my convenience. Same day, it's easy to avoid

t-and-f: my thoughts on ESPN coverage

2000-09-02 Thread Kebba Tolbert
I thought the coverage of the meet was pretty good. I was in Europe for three weeks during August and got to watch Zurich, Brussells, and a few other meets on Eurosport, DSF adn other chanells. They basically all use the same vidoe feed though. Anyway, it seemed as if the pot of gold jackpot

Re: t-and-f: WAVA

2000-09-02 Thread Roger Ruth
Ed Koch wrote, I seem to recall a rule of thumb told me about masters competition some time ago that the average athlete who stays in shape can expect to lose 1% on their performance every year past age thirty. Perhaps, the lose of performance is slower for elite athletes or it starts later

Re: t-and-f: The Relay team

2000-09-02 Thread Kebba Tolbert
From: "Conway" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: "Conway" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: t-and-f: The Relay team Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 22:21:27 -0700 HSI's 37.65 is the fastest by a club eclipsing the 37.79 run by Santa Monica in 1991 1994 ... Not aware of

Re: t-and-f: Berlin with feet and inches

2000-09-02 Thread Dirk Wagner
Hi Cory schrieb am 02.09.2000: HIGH JUMP - MEN Pts 1 Boswell Mark CAN 2.32 (7' 7 1/4") 12.0 2 Hammad Abderahmane ALG 2.29 (7' 6") 10.0 3 Klyugin Sergey

Re: t-and-f: SURVIVOR--day 11

2000-09-02 Thread R.T.
On Sat, 2 Sep 2000 17:04:24 EDT, you wrote: Vote Deal because throwers eat to much I didn't know lobbying was allowed...? It's the New Deal- a chicken in every pot- and that kind of stuff. Better than Buddhist-temple-style grubbing :-) RT

t-and-f: Oztrack 100,000

2000-09-02 Thread Steve Bennett
The Oztrack Website reached 100,000 visitors yesterday. http://www.oztrack.com Based in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, The website was started as a novelty in July 1996 as a way to meet and exchange ideas with other coaches and flush out more Australian Athletics results onto the

Re: t-and-f: ESPN Coverage

2000-09-02 Thread northam
I don't understand why I should lock my eyes on the center of the track ANYWAY- I'm not that interested in whether it's a blue or red track, or Mondo or Tartan or whatever- I want to see what the ATHLETES are doing ! :-) Kind of like a photographer saying 'watch the birdie'. I've never yet,

Re: t-and-f: my thoughts on ESPN coverage

2000-09-02 Thread Arthur Snoke
I wrote a comment to this effect during the NBC coverage. Hopefully it can get into the job description for their camera crews. It is most important to keep the camera fixed and clock running during heats so one can see who qualifies. In the heats, it wuold be nice if they told us for the