I think field event fans whine too much about the lack of respect their favorites get in regards to AOY recognition.
A busy field-eventer can rack up 15 or 20 wins a year and that 20-0 record looks pretty good at year's end even though a handful of those wins may have come against less than the best competition. As you point out below a marathoner has maybe two good shots to post a big win/fast time each year. If anyone should complain about lack of respect it should be marathoners, race walkers (particularly 50-k) and multi-eventers. Just last year a field eventer, Dragila, was acknowledged as the women's AOY. I'd say the number of pure field eventers (which would exclude a Carl Lewis) honored far exceeds the marathoners, walkers and pure decathletes/heptathletes (which would exclude JJK). -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 8/1/02 12:59 PM Subject: RE: t-and-f: women's AOY And just as field event athletes are hurt in AOY voting because they can only do one discipline, a marathoner is hurt because he/she can't compete but 2 or three times a year at their main event, whereas Devers can run every third or fourth day for virtually the entire summer. If Radcliffe runs close to sub-30:00 in München and breaks 2:20 again in Chicago she's gotta be AOY, unless Devers breaks the WR. sideshow
