Y ask Y:
Just heard from a friend that Nathan Leeper lept on Letterman on Friday night. Anyone
see it?
I'm told Letterman made a joke about the top winter sports -- and segued into the high
jumping segment.
Ken Stone
In a message dated 2/24/01 11:04:32 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At Drake Relays, they have a saying, "If everybody sits, everybody sees."
It works pretty well and anyone that has been there knows that it doesn't
damper the crowd's enthusiasm.
Andy Ames
Athenian
He ended up tossing a dummy over a bar set at about 6'4" as the track was too
snowy. No mention of a metric equivalent.
Steve S
Y ask Y:
Just heard from a friend that Nathan Leeper lept on Letterman on Friday
night. Anyone see it?
I'm told Letterman made a joke about the top winter sports
Track 'n' fielders:
Check out some astounding throws marks from SMU's Janus Robberts, Libor
Charfreitag and Florence Ezeh at the WAC Championships in Reno. Follow this
link:
http://www.wacsports.com/news/trk/trk/2001/02/24/983074553967.html
Full meet results are available there.
GM
RE: sitting at track meets, WHY DO YOU THINK THEY CALL THEM STANDS?? (or as
in the case of the 1500m start locale in Sacto, "GRANDstands"
-MF
***
Mike Fanelli
San Francisco Bay Area Real Estate Specialist
professional
GH wrote:
Darrell pleads:
Standing is a sign of interest and excitement, do not kill that.
Too late. It's mostly already killed, particularly for the Olympic Trials.
Because there the Fun-Not-Allowed crowd somehow managed to arrange to have
the actual Sacramento police enforce their
Funny...
When I think of a 3000 in 7:30, I think 'bring me a stretcher'...
-Buck
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Saturday, February 24, 2001 12:04 PM
Subject: Re: t-and-f: El G - 8:09.89 - near WR for 2 miles
After several responses from some of you I have come to the conclusion that
it is an auto response. Kind of rude but oh well. Hopefully he will learn
how to remove himself from the list.
DGS
Faith is a road seldom traveled
MEETING GAZ DE FRANCE
Lievin, France
25 February 2001
MEN
60 METERS: 1. Aliu (NGR) 6.55; 2. Saddler (USA) 6.56; 3. Miller
(USA) 6.59; 4. Theodoridis (GRE) 6.61; 5. Cali (FRA) 6.71. Did not
finish:
I'll be standing whenever it is
appropriate. The longest event takes 30 minutes. I don't know what
the big deal is. If you don't want to be forced to stand in order to see
then I suggest you stay home and watch on television. The coverage is so
good and you won't have to worry about having
Conway wrote:
Have to agree with Garry here ... Sacramento was not that bad ... There
were
probably more people in the stands begging people to sit than "police"
doing
so .. And the reason for that was becasue of site lines in the stands ...
Everyone wanted to see the action ... And the way
Hi!
The results of the German indoor Championships can be found at
http://www.dlv-sport.de/ERGEBNISSE/2001/DHM
the complete list is avaible at
http://www.dlv-sport.de/ERGEBNISSE/2001/DHM/ERGEBNISSE/dhm2001.zip
Ciao
dirk
P.S. all results are metric, and we do not provide conversion ;-)
Graf over Mutola again in 1:57.53
Szabo 4:03.42
Noah Ngeny 4:56.40 in 2000m
full story at
http://sports.yahoo.com/m/sa/news/ap/20010225/ap-lievinindoor.html
-|
Bob Ramsak| TRACK PROFILE/OHIO Track Running Report|
Cleveland, Ohio USA| http
England is the only country that I know has converted all standing room areas
(terraces) to seats at major venues. I know there are still standing room areas in
many other countries, even for track meets!
I have stood at Bislett, Zurich and Linz. Tickets for the first two weren't cheap,
Scotstown Co Monaghan
Senior women
1.Rosemary Ryan
2.Ann Keenan Buckley
3.Maureen Harrington
Senior men
1.Seamus Power
2.Peter Mathews
3.Vinny Mulvey
All are automatically selected for the Irish team to compete at the World
c'ships in Leopardstown.
Eamonn Condon
WWW.RunnersGoal.com
Greek National Indoor Championships
24-25 February 2001
Pireaus, Greece
selected results
DAY I
MEN
60 m. 6" 55. Angelos Pavlakakis; 6" 73. Michalis Perrakis pb; 6" 73.
Prodromos Katsantonis (CYP); 6" 77. Constantinos Vogiatzakis; 6" 77.
Alexandros Genovelis; 6" 83. Dionyssios Poulis; 6" 88.
karin mayr ran 22.97 sec in the 200m at austrian indoor championships in
vienna today
regards
andy
I personally think of 3,000m in 7:30 as "seven and a half laps at 60 second
pace"!
Seriously though, in terms of training for 3k/5k runners, many British and
European Coaches tend to use Horwill's five-pace theory, as used to great
effect by El G and Ngeny.
This theory is empirically based,
Listers,
This thread is one of the many reasons the sport will never succeed in the
US.
Ever go to a baseball game? Football game? A rock, pop, country concert?
Hockey game? There's even standing during tennis matches. Doesn't everyone
stand at golf tournaments? Hell, I went to a Monster
Today at the 14th MAC Youth Invitational in NYC, Samantha Shepard broke the
national HS pole vault record. It was over 13 feet, I think 13'1 1/4 inches.
Natasha Hastings of XTC Track Club broke Marion Jones' hs girls frosh record
in the 200m. Her time was 24.38.
Larry A. Morgan
Elizabeth
Results and summary of the Big Ten Men's indoor championship at Penn State
can be found here:
http://www.bigten.org/news/trk/itrk/2001/02/25/983143865250.html
Three meet records for Andrew Pierce/OSU: 200 (20.84), 400 (45.46--fastest
in the NCAA this season), and 4x400 (3:08.71). Double in
What we have here is a lack of youth in this conversation. As a matter of
fact we have a general lack of youth period.
I listen to the arguments, and read the threads and I am continually
astounded by the age of the topics in here. I actually spent a week arguing
a topic that is 30 years old,
In a message dated 2/25/01 8:15:31 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Two in a row and a meet record for Jason Van Swol of Illinois in the 800
(1:48.76).
Make that three in a row for Van Swol, a junior.
Bruce Meyer
KUKIMBIA
Chicago
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
In a message dated 2/25/01 9:15:22 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Three meet records for Andrew Pierce/OSU: 200 (20.84), 400 (45.46--fastest
in the NCAA this season),
Fastest in the NCAA this season, last season, and every other season.
Pierce's time of 45.46 breaks Brandon Couts'
The Electronic Telegraph
Monday 26 February 2001
Elite face `Third World' preparation
By Sebastian Coe
EVERY YEAR throws up sporting shocks. Hicham El Guerrouj's failure to win
the Olympic 1,500 metres title in Sydney last year ranks up there among the
more shocking - on a sports Richter
Does anyone know where on the web I can find the schedule for the IC4A meet
this next weekend?
The Electronic Telegraph
Monday 26 February 2001
Tom Knight
CHRISTIAN Malcolm, 21, will go into next week's world indoor championships
as the favourite to win the 200 metres title after completing his
preparations here with victory in the Gaz de France meeting.
The Welshman was given the
THE IRISH TIMES
Monday, February 26, 2001
Seamus Power combined his class and confidence to optimum effect yesterday
to successfully defend his National Inter-club Cross Country title. Over a
demanding 12km course in Scotstown, the Clareman made the decisive break
approaching the last of the
Results of SEC at www.ukathletics.com
161 NCAA Qualifying Performances
over the course of the weekend (79 men/82 women)...
including the 74'11.00 WEIGHT THROW by Haklits of Georgia.
Jim K.
Entry forms for the Stanford Invitational on March 31 - April 1,
2001, are available in Adobe PDF format at either the men's or
women's track page of gostanford.com.
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