Re: t-and-f: NCAA Steeple - Ian Connor?

In a message dated 6/3/01 1:17:34 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyone have any details on his last place finish? Did he fall? Thanks, Just as he was making a move towards the lead, he fell at the last water jump, and limped across the finish. Walt Murphy

Re: t-and-f: NCAA hurdles DNF's.

Two of the favorites, Aubrey Herring and Arend Watkins, both went down early (3rd hurdle?). Walt Murphy

t-and-f: WAVA Brisbane a drug battleground?

Greetings, all: WAVA President Torsten Carlius of Sweden is running unopposed for his second and final term of office at the Brisbane General Assembly in July. But that doesn't mean he won't face a fight. Carlius has taken a hard stand against doping in masters track, even with evidence

t-and-f: Automatic timing

On Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:36:09 -0700 (PDT) Dan Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, quoting Charlie Francis' book, Speed Trap, . . . But in 1968, when the IAAF began to make the transition from hand to electronic timing, it bungled the job. As an electronic clock would start the instant the gun was

t-and-f: Re:An article on Webb with quotes from Sullivan and Warhurst

I wonder what other schools Webb considered given his parents' background? Clearly, the musings about his future were purely hypothetical if they have any say in the matter. Regards, Martin

t-and-f: NY Times Webb

On Saturday, he ran the fourth-fastest 800 meters by an American high school runner, 1:47.74, in the Virginia Group AAA state meet in Richmond. Fyi. Regards, Martin http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/03/sports/03WEBB.html

Re: t-and-f: Automatic timing in 1 9 5 2

Not in 1952! The hand timing in 1952 was horrible! Look up Bob Sparks' deciphering of ET . the quartet of runners given 10.4 and the two (Sukhraev, treloar) given 10.5 in the 100m final actually ran over 10.70! UG Quoting P. N. Heidenstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:36:09

t-and-f: Grote's Breath of Fresh Air

It was great to see an honest and refreshing opinion on things instead of the standard statist mantra. Grote wrote: What I'm doing is looking out for #1...me. Thats right, I'm a selfish, capitalist bastard. More people and organizations should do this. Instead of charity work, USATF

t-and-f: NCAA hurdle DNFs

In a message dated 6/2/01 18:08:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just looked at the NCAA 110H results at www.flashresults.com. There were three DNF's. Anyone know what happened? Was there a pileup, or do fall starts get recorded as DNF's in the FlashResults AP style results? as i make

t-and-f: Sprinter focuses on human race

Australian star quietly volunteers with Portland homeless center C.W. Nevius San Francisco Chronicle Saturday, June 2, 2001 "Eight months ago, Australian sprinter Cathy Freeman won a gold medal in the Sydney Olympic Games. On Monday, she will ride her bike down a Portland, Oregon, street to

t-and-f: NCAA TV SCHEDULE (SUNDAY 3RD) ?????

Just curious if the NCAA's are supposed to be shown today (June 3rd) as shown below? My tv schedule shows an hour long golf special, and then four hours more of golf (Memorial Tourney) on CBS. JOY! Paul Nisius Bigfork, MN Note: forwarded message attached.

t-and-f: Movie Alert

Netters: This is for any movie (and track) fans out there. Today at 2 p.m. (I realize the notice is short, but just learned of the scheduling myself), the Bravo Channel is showing Black orpheaus, a film set in the Rio carnival period circa 1960 or so. The attraction for track fans (it's a

Re: t-and-f: NCAA TV SCHEDULE (SUNDAY 3RD) ?????

The NCAA meet airs next week (June 10) Walt Murphy

t-and-f: s'bin fun

my final analysis of the NCAA posted shortly at www.trackanfieldnews.com and as i exit Eugene, i once again depart from the list. gh (now a lurker)

t-and-f: NJ Group meet

Netters: The New Jersey HS group hampionships were held over the weekend in, to say the least, indifferent conditons The Friday session at Egg Harbor Twp was marked by periods of rain, wind and very chilly temperatures---about 40 degrees below last year when we sweltered in 95+ humid

t-and-f: auto-timing

Netters: The first time I recall auto-timing becoming a matter of public discussion followed Frank Budd's WR 9.2 at the AAU championships in NYC (either 1961 or 1962),. That race was auto-timed by the Bulova system and Jesse Abramson, among others, reported that it was clocked that way a

Re: t-and-f: NJ Group meet

The public school meet did not get by without some more official idiocy. This time, it was the disqualification of a 3200M girl runner for "showing her navel" The rules required shirts to be tucked in and hers was at the start of the race but pulled loose during the competition. Thanks

t-and-f: UTEP @ NCAA's

5/30/01 Jäppenin Takes Second In Javelin; Miners Send Four To Finals At NCAA Championships http://athletics.utep.edu/news/archive/053001tf1.htm 5/31/01 Vartia Finishes Fourth, Three More Advance In Prelims At NCAA Champs http://athletics.utep.edu/news/archive/053101tf1.htm 6/1/01 Six More

Re: t-and-f: s'bin fun

my final analysis of the NCAA posted shortly at www.trackanfieldnews.com and as i exit Eugene, i once again depart from the list. gh (now a lurker) Cheers! Drop in again, sometime. Maybe for the U.S. nationals and the world championships? The list could use your background info. And bring

Re: t-and-f: Nostradomalmo predicts

Who'll be back first, GH or D-W-I-G-H-T ? the book in Vegas says both will be back within 90 days. RT On Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:38:43 -0400, Malmo wrote: He'll be back within 10 days. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: t-and-f: Nostradomalmo predicts

Better see what the Aggies book has 'em. 19th street Café, Gaming Center and Bacchanal. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Randy Treadway Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2001 4:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: t-and-f: Nostradomalmo predicts

t-and-f: Fake Plastic Trees (apologies to Radiohead)

Fake Plastic Trees A black plastic nursery-stock pot For a fake western cedar tree On a fake plastic track That she bought from a running doc In a town full of track fanatics To get ready for the worlds It wears her out, it wears her out It wears her out, it wears her out She lives with

t-and-f: Calif St HS Meet 2 Nat'l Rec's - Ryan Hall 4:02 1600

Great action at the Calif St HS Meet in Sacto 6/1 and 6/2 Two National Records (Girls PV Girls 4x400) Ryan Hall 4:02 1600 Results, Stories, Pictures at: A HREF=http://www.prep.caltrack.com/;Click here: Prep.Caltrack St Meet Coverage/A Doug Speck

RE: t-and-f: Thoughts on the five alive

Ed Gordon makes some greats points in his recent post. As an announcer, I find his final statement (The ones most confused by this procedure are the fans and the stadium announcer) to be 'oh so accurate'! He is right on. Why? First, five alive is NOT handled the same by all officials.

t-and-f: Czech TF Marketing efforts ?

Hi All, So here's an interesting marketing angle from the Czech Athletics Federation.. Go to http://www.olt.cz/atletika/atletika800/welcome.htm and check out their front page logo... I know very little Czech, so I have no idea what the logo refers to...

Re: t-and-f: NCAA indicator boards

Can you imagine going to any baseball game, from your local Little League to Yankee Stadium, and having the scoreboard displays balls, strikes, outs, hits errors, but not runs? That's kind of the situation that exists in track. I for one was stunningly impressed by the FinishLynx scoreboards

t-and-f: results : 2001 adidas Oregon Track Classic

2001 adidas Oregon Track Classic Gresham Oregon 06/03/01 Final WOMEN'S 200 METER DASH VERIZON 1. LaTasha Jenkins, USA 22.40 w:2.9; 2. Merlene Frazier, Jamaica 23.45 w:2.9; 3. Fali Ogunkoya, Nigeria 23.48 w:2.9; 4. Astia Walker, Jamaica 23.66 w:2.9;5. Fatima

t-and-f: Results; Kalamata, Greece

2 June 2001 – Kalamata, Greece from iaaf.org Results: Men 100 m. Race 1. (+2.8 m/s). 10. 14. Dwain Chambers (GBR); 10. 25. Aris Gavelas (GRE); 10.37. Tommi Hartonen (FIN); 10. 43. Constantin Rurak (UKR); 10. 80. AlexandrosTerzian (GRE); 18. 60. Gennadiy Chernovol (KZK) 200 m. Race 1. (+0.1

t-and-f: Drafting

Somebody wrote, about Webb: If the record is so good that it needs elite-level drafting, Nobody drafted Webb. He was too far back for a long time and then he went past world-class men so fast that the only draft was what they felt as he whipped by.

t-and-f: Dutch

It would seem that all of the greatest Dutch athletes are women. Perhaps Jon Entine has an answer.

Re: t-and-f: results : 2001 adidas Oregon Track Classic

2001 adidas Oregon Track Classic Gresham Oregon 06/03/01 Final MEN'S 3,000 METER STEEPLECHASE HORIZON 1. El Arbi Khattabi, Morocco 8:12.95; 2. Stephen Cherono, Kenya 8:22.98; 3. Anthony Famiglietti, USA 8:23.20; 4. Tim Broe, USA 8:26.56; 5. Tom Chorny, USA 8:27.40; 6.

t-and-f: Webb

I wasn't going to say anything, because anything starts arguments here, but since Garry has put me on the spot with this: pps--maybe Cordner Nelson will be able to log on later while in Eugene and provide some insight from the point of view of somebody who has seen it all, but he did say

t-and-f: Lewis ready to call the shots again

The Electronic Telegraph Monday 4 June 2001 Tom Knight IN THE moments after Denise Lewis and Katharine Merry opened their seasons with appearances for their club in a British League match in Birmingham, the contrast between the two could not have been greater. Competing for Birchfield

t-and-f: Pre Videocassette Wanted

Returning home from 6 days of t-and-f in Oregon over 8 days, I found that my neighborhood experienced an electrical outage on Sun., May 27, and thus my VCR did not successfully videotape the Prefontaine Classic from Fox Sports Net. If anyone would be able to make a copy for me or loan me a

Re: t-and-f: results : 2001 adidas Oregon Track Classic

Final MEN'S POLE VAULT SOBE event used IAAF 2 miss rule (GP II test) 1. Pat Manson, USA 5.35m (17-06.50); - Lawrence Johnson, USA NH; - Derek Miles, USA NH; - Russ Buller, USA NH; - Tim Mack, USA NH. Any more info on this? Was it windy? What was the opening

Re: t-and-f: Webb

A couple days ago, I finally got to see the mile on TV. Webb's performance was even more incredible in the watching. You hate to put even higher expectations on the kid, but he sure looked under control, like there is more there. I got the impression that he didn't really know what he was

t-and-f: re: automatic timing in 1 9 5 2

On Sun, 03 Jun 2001 16:28:12 +0300 (IDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: Re: t-and-f: Automatic timing in 1 9 5 2 Not in 1952! The hand timing in 1952 was horrible! Look up Bob Sparks' deciphering of ET . the quartet of runners given 10.4 and the two (Sukhraev, treloar) given 10.5 in the

Re: t-and-f: results : 2001 adidas Oregon Track Classic

Ed Dana Parrot wrote Any more info on this? Was it windy? What was the opening height. While one would expect the new rule to result in lower heights, this seems a bit ridiculous. Maybe they did it on purpose to ensure that the rule doesn't get adopted (I'm kidding)! Fairly light wind