t-and-f: U.S. WOMEN'S 400-METER RELAY TEAM SET

U.S. WOMEN'S 400-METER RELAY TEAM SET BRISBANE, Australia (AP) - Barring any unforeseen circumstances, the U.S. women's 400-meter relay team for the Olympic final will consist of Chryste Gaines, Gail Devers, Inger Miller and Marion Jones. That foursome has yet to run together, but women's team

t-and-f: Italy in Sydney

Title: Italy in Sydney Hi all, does anybody have any information who's gonna compete for Italy in Sydney? Tomas Magnusson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

t-and-f: net storytelling

What if an Olympic athlete tells someone how they feel, and someone prints that on the net? Schiefer

Re: t-and-f: net storytelling

What if an Olympic athlete tells someone how they feel, and someone prints that on the net? Schiefer People tell other people stuff, and these other people then print that stuff. That's what we usually call 'journalism'. (No I don't know how the IOC is going to enforce their moratorium,

t-and-f: FIN-SWE dual meet

Finland-Sweden Dual Helsinki, Finland 2-3 Sep Results taken from http://www.suomiruotsimaaottelu.fi/default.asp?Valinta=Tulokset (in Finish) 60th dual for men (1925-2000) Men Finland 194 Sweden 216 100m (2) wind: 0.0 1. Tommi Hartonen FIN 10,43 2. Kari Louramo FIN 10,54 3. Johan Engberg SWE

t-and-f: SURVIVOR--throwers join distance runners....

... and sprinters. Lance Deal an overwhelming choice for being bounced.

t-and-f: Brent McFarlane

If anyone knows of an email address or snail mail address or phone number on Canadian Coach Brent McFarlane, could you please contact me off list, please? Yours in track, Mike Cunningham Head Track and Field/CC Coach Neosho County Community College (316) 431-2820 Ext. 272

t-and-f: minimum qualifying times?

Does anyone know the minimum qualifying times for the 100 meters and 200 meters? Also, does anyone know where on the Net one could find a list of qualifiers for the Olympics for various track events? -- Jon Entine RuffRun 6178 Grey Rock Rd. Agoura Hills, CA 91301 (818) 991-9803 :: [fax]

t-and-f: Trivia Question - U.S. Interest

Trivia Question: Which U.S. T F Olympian has appeared on the most magazine covers? I don't know the answer, but this week alone, I have received 3 magazines with Marion Jones on the cover: Time, Newsweek, T FN. Joe Joe Rody PSA 424 Department of

Re: t-and-f: Drugs seized at Olympics - another PR disaster

In a message dated 9/7/00 1:16:29 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do away with the whole testing charade, and, voila, the sport is instantly "pure" and impervious to "drug scandals". amen, brother

t-and-f: FIN-SWE dual meet

Finland-Sweden Dual Helsinki, Finland 2-3/9 Results taken from http://www.suomiruotsimaaottelu.fi/default.asp?Valinta=Tulokset (in Finish) 60th dual for men (1925-2000) Men Finland 194 Sweden 216 100m (2) wind: 0.0 1. Tommi Hartonen FIN 10,43 2. Kari Louramo FIN 10,54 3. Johan Engberg SWE

Re: t-and-f: Trivia Question - U.S. Interest

Joe asked: Trivia Question: Which U.S. T F Olympian has appeared on the most magazine covers? I don't know the answer, but this week alone, I have received 3 magazines with Marion Jones on the cover: Time, Newsweek, T FN. Joe I don't know if it is a record, but Suzy Favor Hamilton features

Re: t-and-f: Trivia Question - U.S. Interest

Joe asked: Trivia Question: Which U.S. T F Olympian has appeared on the most magazine covers? I don't know the answer, but this week alone, I have received 3 magazines with Marion Jones on the cover: Time, Newsweek, T FN. Joe I don't know the answer for sure, but I would have to

Re: t-and-f: Kenyan's Shut Out?

In a message dated 9/7/00 4:22:15 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When are TF News picks going to be posted on their Web Site? Easy! When we're sure we'll get it right! :-) for now, you'll just have to buy a copy of the October issue (oops, is that a plug?) gh

RE: t-and-f: Kenyan's Shut Out?

You really believe that Tergat will finally beat his nemesis? I don't think so. Kenya's best shot of avoiding the Gold Medal shut-out (which is what the thread is about) is still the steeplechase. malmo In a message dated 9/7/00 4:22:15 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In the 1, you

t-and-f: World Shot Put Champ Hunter Might Miss Olympics

World Shot Put Champ Hunter Might Miss Olympics By GENE CHERRY .c Reuters RALEIGH, N.C. (Sept. 6) -- World shot put champion C.J. Hunter has undergone arthroscopic surgery for torn knee cartilage, jeopardizing his participation in the Sydney Olympics. "It's day-to-day,'' Hunter, the husband

Re: t-and-f: Ron Dayne returning to track?

Hopefully Dayne will return to competition in a very public way... and get soundly trounced by the top throwers out there. This would be great publicity. The American public thinks of football players as the strongest, most powerful athletes out there. If Dayne couldn't compete maybe people

Re: t-and-f: Ron Dayne returning to track?

That would almost certainly backfire. Randy Barnes didn't fare too well with his tryout with the Niners (inspired by Michael Carter, I believe), and he was at the top of the sport at the time. With the publicity machine that the NFL is, it would only take one person saying, "sure, we'll compete

Re: t-and-f: Drugs seized at Olympics - another PR disaster

Who says there has to be any connection between the elite sport and the lower level "recreational" sport? Would you not allow your son to play youth football becuase he might be tempted to use drugs on the off chance he makes it to the NFL? The health (i.e. popularity) of the sport at the top

Re: t-and-f: Kenyan's Shut Out?

I think it's been more or less a consensus for some time now that the Kenyan's have consistently the most top level distance runners, but are almost always second fiddle to a single freak of nature from one of the other neighboring countries. Does that seem odd to anyone? So much for a large

Re: t-and-f: Kenyan's Shut Out?

However, most of those people keeping the US off the top level of the podium are of Jamaican birth, so it's still pretty much a case of a large talent pool delivering the top individuals. Dan --- Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure it is any odder than the US dominating the sprints

t-and-f: Olympic athlete killed in accident

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport/hi/english/olympics2000/athletics-track/newsid_915000/915261.stm An Olympic athlete has been killed in a road accident in Sydney. Nigerian runner Hyginus Anugo was fatally injured in a collision with a car near the Olympic precinct. Anugo, who was 22, was due

t-and-f: Logan A Standard

Netters, The IAAF web page has Jud Logan listed with an A Standard mark of 75.62 from a meet in Rüdlingen (GER?) on 13 08 2000. Was this mark reported to this list? If so I must have missed it. Good to see Jud qualify. -- Wayne T. Armbrust, Ph.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computomarx™ 3604 Grant Ct.

t-and-f: Track History in L.A.

It's a few months old, but here's a nice retrospective of track field in Los Angeles: http://www.latimes.com/sports/reports/2000/track.htm RT

t-and-f: M800 World Vets Record

Word is that Colin Rothery, European Vets Champion, ran 1:50.69 when placing 2nd in a BMC race at Stretford on Tuesday night (5th Sept). Colin was born in Jan 1960 and only took up athletics last year - and his time is actually his lifetime pb! Matthew Fraser Moat Vice Chairman BMC

t-and-f: Khannouchi and Williams in Syracuse

Khalid Khannouchi, the world record holder in the marathon, and Todd Williams, one of the country's best 10,000-meter runners, will lead a fast field of non-olympians in an attempt at the US 5K road record at the Syracuse Festival of Races on October 1. Unlike the Olympic Marathon run the same

t-and-f: Kenyan's Shut Out?

Despite all the constant raving about the indisputable depth of the Kenyan distance runners, if one does an event by event breakdown of all the events, it is quite possible that the Kenyan men could leave Sydney without a single gold medal. Kenyan born Kipketer looks beatable by at least the

t-and-f: geting us back to the Olympic prediction thang

Here's some more half-assed prognostications: Women's 100m: 1. Jones, for gold medal no.1 (the biggest certainty of her five events) 2. Ottey, presuming she gets a run, for her most impressive Olympic showing and a big story 3. Thanou, been in hiding but ran fast early on 4. Miller, better over

Re: t-and-f: World Shot Put Champ Hunter Might Miss Olympics

Don't the U.S. team coaches have the power to seek our an independent medical opinion and replace somebody with the 4th place Trials finisher if they think the chances of being ready to go in Sydney were nil? This news report was dated 9/6, before Sydney declarations had to be turned in. 4th

t-and-f: Now I Know why GH wants to legalize drugs!

Just got a junk e-mail which opened this way: Released by your own pituitary gland, GH starts declining in your 20s, even more in your 30s and 40s, eventually resulting in the shrinkage of major organs plus all other symptoms related to old age. (sorry GH:-) RT

t-and-f: Rival's injury gives Lewis upper hand

Electronic Telegraph Friday 8 September 2000 Tom Knight DENISE LEWIS arrived here yesterday to be greeted with the news that her biggest rival for the Olympic gold medal is suffering major injury problems. Eunice Barber, the Frenchwoman who beat Lewis to the world title in Seville last year,

Re: t-and-f: World Shot Put Champ Hunter Might Miss Olympics

Got this explanation of the procedure from Mike. Of course all of this supposition assumes that Godina would be willing and ready to enter. After his horrible year in the SP (in comparison to prior years) and the possibility that he might have dropped all SP-specific training after the Trials to

t-and-f: Baumann to run in BUPA Great North Run

Electronic Telegraph Friday 8 September 2000 Germany's former Olympic 5000m champion Dieter Baumann, whose case goes before the International Amateur Athletic Federation's drugs arbitration panel next week, intends running in this year's BUPA Great North Run. Baumann plans to make his