Re: t-and-f: DN Galan results

DN = In swedish: Dagens Nyheter = The news of the day (Swedish Newspaper) Galan(sw) = The Gala more ... http://www.dngalan.com/ Regards, H Pettersson, Sweden - Original Message - From: "Charles Young" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 4:33 AM

RE: t-and-f: Leave Dwight alone! (was NBC monopoly)

Hi JT To answer your points one by one: Americans can't stand to see Americans lose on the world stage or is it a more subtle racial thing? The former. The indifference of the broad US public to anything not involving the triumph of Americans is well known - hardly a controversial view.

RE: t-and-f: EPO Test Announcement Timing Conspiracy?

Actually, the woman who retired, Jong Song-ok of North Korea, is the defending WORLD marathon champion. As far as I know, Fatuma Roba, the '96 Olympic champ, intends to compete at Sydney. Marty Post Senior Editor Runner's World Magazine www.runnersworld.com -Original Message- From:

Re: t-and-f: Missing in Action

On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Conway wrote: Given that we are virtually weeks away from the games, has anyone heard or know anything about any of the following who could be factors at the games ?? Frank Fredericks Fredericks is currently recovering from foot/ankle surgery. He hopes to be able to

Re: t-and-f: Missing in Action

In a message dated 8/3/00 07:33:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Given that we are virtually weeks away from the games, has anyone heard or know anything about any of the following who could be factors at the games ?? Irina Privalova Privalova has been reincarnated as 54.21 winner of Russian

Re: t-and-f: New Olympic Relay Events

One possibility that never seems to be mentioned, but would add audience interest is a mixed (men and women) relay. The teams (a maximum of six at a time) could all run different MW patterns, leading to lots of position changes and cliff-hangers in the course of a race.

Re: t-and-f: EPO Testing

IOC Approves EPO Tests for Sydney... The panel reviewed a combined blood-urine test for EPO that was developed by Australian and French teams Now a French laboratory says it can differentiate between natural and artificial EPO in urine, while Australian researchers have a blood test

Re: t-and-f: New Olympic Relay Events

Now for the serious answer (referring both to my previous posting and the second paragraph of Vulcan's). One thing that swimming has which track does not is strokes. One could have a medley relay where one "runner" crawled (one knee must always be touching the ground), one "runner" hopped

Re: t-and-f: EPO Testing

In a message dated 8/3/00 10:03:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So it's probably only a very slim crack in the armor of EPO testing, but I thought I would mention it. well thanks a whole hell of a lot Jason--can I now change my earlier quote to "the Olympics will be 99.99% drug free"?

Re: t-and-f: New Olympic Relay Events

The equivalent to the strokes in swimming are the distances in track. The medleys would fit that description. I vote for making the 4x200m an official relay. It would give us another race, and more interest would be developed in the 200m, a bastard event. Could you imagine a team of Capel,

t-and-f: Edmonton Journal: Games in the home stretch

From the Edmonton Journal... (home stretch?) Games in the home stretch -- Tickets go on sale today, kicking off a busy 365 days to get ready for the world's top athletes Jac MacDonald, Journal Staff Writer, The Edmonton Journal A year from today the eyes of the world will be on

Re: t-and-f: New Olympic Relay Events

I am biased in that I am a distant coach but for me there is nothing like a good ole 4 by 8 or a DMR. Can you imagine teams for the DMR... Kenya... Morocco... Algeria...going at it in the Olympics... How about the Clarks and Marion? in a 4 by 8...can you say 6 gold medals? Before

t-and-f: 29'4

Back in '96 for the Boston Marathon, I had the honor of spending several nights in the Elliott Lounge with friends. A interesting feature (aside from Coach Boaz dancing with Alison Roe) was the TV set at 8' 1/4" above the dance floor and a line of tape on the ground near the bar. When I asked

Re: t-and-f: New Olympic Relay Events

I love the 4x200 but the problem is you are going to wear out the top bodies with too many of the same relays and thus end up with a diluted product. I would like to see more relays of any kind added however. jp

Re: t-and-f: 29'4

I once saw a TV show where Larry Doubley jumped lengthwise over a car. He did it in the studio too, getting up to speed over some circuitous route backstage. That was also impressive. Dave Carey

RE: t-and-f: 29'4

Maybe at next years USATF Championships the meet co-dictators could do this at the wildly successful food-court and concourse. malmo A great feature of the Goodwill games, when they were held in New York in '98 was, at the main entrance, High Jump and Pole Vault standards at World Record

Re: t-and-f: British television figures

In a message dated 8/3/00 10:36:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's weird for us Europeans to see our coverage held up as some sort of panacea, since most of us think it's largely crap, for the same reasons you criticise NBC. My take is that a hard-core fan of any sport is rarely pleased with

t-and-f: Re: wind conversions (was DN Galan)

In a message dated 8/2/00 09:12:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I at first did a double-take when I saw that 10.68 clocking. However, Jonas' calculator translates that into a 10.80 plain-vanilla reading. Still a superb time, of course, but not quite so jaw-dropping, and puts things in better

Re: t-and-f: British television figures

In a message dated 8/3/00 4:28:04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My take is that a hard-core fan of any sport is rarely pleased with TV coverage, no matter how good it is. I suspect that if you logged onto lists for any other sport you'd find a general dissatisfaction with the product. And

t-and-f: rising star Georgia Clark

Ok, let's hear more about her. That's why I put her name in the subject. TD

RE: t-and-f: Olympic TV Suggestions

For a TV audience to a sports event to be 50% female is a triumph of marketing and targeted broadcasting. The 'natural' audience for sports is over 90% male. Even if track's 'natural' audience is less male biased, to achieve 50:50 is quite something. If that's what they achieved, the schedulers

t-and-f: Poor Chen - out

Netters from the NY times: August 3, 2000 China Blocks Chen's Effort to Compete for the U.S. The Associated Press First place finisher Michelle Rohl, left, gives second place finisher Yueling Chen, a hug after completing the Women's 20,000 Meter Walk Race held at the U.S. Olympic

Re: t-and-f: Back to NBC monopoly

Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 18:03:35 -0700 From: "R.T." [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: t-and-f: Leave Dwight alone! (was NBC monopoly) One rule that I would make- one corporate parent cannot monopolize two or more of the 'rights modes' as outlined above. If only corporations would abide by these

t-and-f: NBC monopoly

I'm surprised to hear you feel this way. I haven't watched Eurosport since '97, but saw dozens of meets in '95 and '96 and thought that the announcers (Hutchings and Cram) were quite good. They did have a bit of a campy style, but don't most British sports commentators? sideshow Cram is very

t-and-f: 96 Olympic Men's 10000

Anybody know were I can go about purchasing footage of this race? For that matter...are there tapes of the 72 Olympicsex...Pre's 5000...68 1500? etc? On a side note...regarding the coverage of track on tv...I will take what I can get and like it...beggars can't be choosers. A.C.

t-and-f: How to evaluate coaches?

It never ceases to amaze me how totally unscientific people on this list are with regards to evaluating coaches. Most seem to think that the main criteria are how many athletes reach elite levels or how many championships the team wins. To illustrate the fallacy in this line of reasoning,

t-and-f: Field events

Title: Field events Garry and copy to TF list I picked out this comment in one of your Lists postings: If you don't care much about the field events (which probably fits most of the people on this list; and i don't say that in any pejorative fashion), I find that absolutely astonishing -

Re: t-and-f: NBC monopoly

Eursport uses ex-athletes as commentators most of the time on the premise that they are supposed to know what they are talking about. Sadly they often don't know words. Thus we have "the young 20 year-old" or the "young teenager." Women are often called "ladies" but men always "men" never

Re: t-and-f: the U.S. team

I understand that Stember may have already left for Europe last Sunday to pursue a time. Richard McCann

Re: t-and-f: Poor Chen - out

And a terrific photo of Michelle. However, this is a decision that is not surprising to me having had conversations with another former successful Chinese athlete. It was indicated that the "Chinese Federation" was very unhappy with Yueling's decision to come out of retirement and would do

t-and-f: XC calendars wanted

Please send all XC events that your team has scheduled to me to be included in our magazine calendar. Send them to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks! GW Dameron ___ Say Bye to Slow Internet! http://www.home.com/xinbox/signup.html

t-and-f: was US team...anyone know Davis' next school?

Chris Kuykendall noted: Long Jump: Melvin Lister, Dwight Phillips, Savanté Stringfellow. Third- and 4th-placers Walter Davis and Robert Howard will contest the triple jump only. Triple Jump: Robert Howard, LaMark Carter, Walter Davis. Has anyone heard Walter Davis announced his college of

Re: t-and-f: Bannister takes El Guerrouj into his historic 'home'

El Guerrouj became the 13th athlete to hold the record since Bannister with the 3-43.13 he clocked in Rome last year and talked then of making the pilgrimage to Iffley Road. Trivia quiz: Who was the second athlete to run a mile in under 4 minutes on the Iffley track? Kurt Bray

t-and-f: Slovenian records and tables

there is a fresh update of Slovenian outdoors records and tables for this year at Track and Filed Slovenia web page - http://www.slo-sport.org/azs/ results from some meets will follow shortly... sincerely, Ero!

t-and-f: Relay makeup--not the 400s

Netters: All the attention on the Olympic Relays on the list has been on the 4x100s, which is only natural since this selection involves so many factors---relay experience, turn running, etc. For myself, the main thing is not who is selected but how much practice and competition they will

t-and-f: Bannister takes El Guerrouj into his historic 'home'

The Electronic Telegraph Friday 4 August 2000 Tom Knight HICHAM El GUERROUJ, the world's fastest miler, realised a childhood dream yesterday by meeting Sir Roger Bannister at Oxford's Iffley Road track and even the weather added to the sense of occasion enjoyed by these two giants of the

Re: t-and-f: Larry Rawson's Day job

Just a note to thank a number of. you for you kind commentsyes I am a subscriber, have been for quite a while and would have responded to Cotey's request sooner except I've been away for almost a week.To Cotey's question, my best mile was a 4.07 My apologies on the field events in

Re: t-and-f: the U.S. team

Randy Treadway wrote: Stember and Lunn both ran 3:37 at the Trials, and both have proved it wasn't a one-time fluke, with follow-on 3:37's at post- Sacramento meets. Either would appear to have a solid chance to get a 3:36, given the right weather, situation, and a good field to drag them

Re: t-and-f: Missing in Action

From: "Conway" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: "Conway" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "TFMail List" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: t-and-f: Missing in Action Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 07:28:34 -0700 Given that we are virtually weeks away from the games, has anyone heard or know anything about any of the

RE: t-and-f: Leave Dwight alone! (was NBC monopoly)

Now set the high jump bar at 8-1/2 (2.45). Really scary. malmo -Original Message- From: Joe Rubio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 7:37 AM To: malmo Cc: Dalton Foster; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: t-and-f: Leave Dwight alone! (was NBC monopoly) Back in '96