The following article in The Black World Today (and another in Africana.com)
addresses an aspect of TF athletes in the winter Olympics...
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Jon Entine
http://www.tbwt.com/views/specialrpt/specialrpt_0249.asp
Flowers Is No Fluke: Black Success In Bobsledding Part Of A Growing Winter
Oxymoron?
Flowers Is No Fluke: Black Success In Bobsledding Part Of A Growing Winter
Sport Tradition
The first ever gold medal victory by a black in the Winter Olympics...
How about ski jumping? Being very thin and having a strong push off the ramp
are very important. Explosive muscles fibers
Agence France-Presse
NAIROBI (February 23, 2002 11:22 AM EST)- A superb, well calculated run
gave Richard Limo his first national cross country title at the IAAF
permit meeting here on Saturday while Pamela Chepchumba upset a strong
field to win the women's title.
The World 5,000 meters
Alan:
Unfortunately, Alan, your analysis is flawed and reflects as usual a
determined myopic and unscientific view of basic physiology and body types
by population.
For the record, I did not mention in this article genetic superiority.
That's an ignorant concept, one that I have always argued
After the end of the Balkan Games, the Greek Federation announced the team
for the European Championships
MEN. Angelos Pavlakakis (60m.), Georgios Theodoridis (60m.), Aristotelis
Gavelas (60m.), Anastassios Goussis (200m., 400m.), Stylianos Dimotsios
(400m.), Panayotis Stroubakos (1500m),
Boston University
February 21-22, 2002
University of Connecticut wins its ninth straight New England title with a
meet record point total.
Dan Wilson ran 4:01.72 and 4:01.32 in the mile trials/finals.
No Heps schools (Hep champs same weekend)
Full results at www.neicaaa.org under past events
/20020223/ap-trackdeath.html
Kevin Dare, a sophomore pole vaulter at Penn State, was killed during the
vault competition at the Big 10 Championships in Minneapolis. A statement
regarding Dare can be found at www.gophersports.com
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Join the worlds
Regina Jacobs is unquestionably one of the greatest distance runners in the
history of US track and field and naturally her sponsorship contracts reward
her amply for significant accomplishments but her even she should be
embarassed by her latest record at NY today.
In an indoor 3 mile race at
[February 23, 2002]
Kevin Dare, a member of the Penn State men's track and
field team, died today while competing at the Big Ten
Men's Indoor Track and Field Championships in
Minneapolis, Minn. A sophomore from State College,
Dare, 19, fell during a pole vault attempt and hit his
head on the
The only points that I am making, which in your fervor you refuse to
consider, is that body type and physiology are key characteristics in
certain athletic events and that those characteritistics are not equally
distributed by population.
Never once have I argued against this. I do believe that
Agence France-Presse
LIEVEN, France (February 21, 2002 02:12 PM EST) - The controversial
Russian distance runner Olga Yegorova has not been invited to run in
Sunday's indoor athletics meeting because she failed to meet the
organizers' family-friendly criteria.
A French promoter has also hit on
Mark Craig's Star-Tribune piece on the death today
of Penn State pole vaulter Kevin Dare is here:
http://www.startribune.com/stories/503/1645942.html
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In the spirit of Monty Python, I post this to the list. You can insert
anyone's name (esp mine) and it will work well to give a general idea of
list dynamics.
More of these can be found at http://www.intriguing.com/mp/
Enjoy,
MJR
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Title: Argument Sketch
From: Monty
Coming off their impressive performances at the USA
Cross Country Nationals, Colorado's Jorge Torres and
Dathan Ritzenhein traded wins in the 5K and 3K at the
Big 12 Championships at Nebraska:
5000 Meter Run (Feb 22)
1. Jorge Torres, 13:51.32
2. Dathan Ritzenhein, 13:52.41
3,000 Metter Run
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