t-and-f: Masters disaster: No results from Boston

2001-03-25 Thread TrackCEO
Y ask Y: It's 4:50 p.m. Pacific time as I write this. If the Boston time schedule has been adhered to, the USATF national masters indoor meet ended at least 4 hours ago. Yet no results are posted to http://www.tracs.net/ as promised on the site. This is utter nonsense. This also is a huge

RE: t-and-f: World XC: Would the USA Have Won?

2001-03-25 Thread GHTFNedit
In a message dated Sun, 25 Mar 2001 5:05:20 PM Eastern Standard Time, John Molvar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok agreed!! My real point is, if you look how well the USA men ran in the long, short and junior races, it was one heck of meet for the USA. Who would have dreamed 3 days ago that we

Re: t-and-f: World XC: Would the USA Have Won?

2001-03-25 Thread Aferr48
In a message dated 3/25/01 7:09:03 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I worry that it's rather illusory. Story I read said it was 34 degrees with 35mph winds and heavy mud. Extreme conditions can be a great leveler of talent Well, let's see the Junior team's success

t-and-f: Juris Luzins Interview

2001-03-25 Thread Dale Winling
On my web page is an interview with middle distance runner Juris Luzins, who ran for the Florida Track Club and in the ITA in the 1970s. I just finished the complete transcription. It is quite lengthy, over 20 pages if printed out. Enjoy. http://hometown.aol.com/jgwinling/interviews.html

t-and-f: Suleiman Nyambui

2001-03-25 Thread KUKIMBIA
in a message dated 23 March, Tom Derderian writes: Does anyone know what has happened to Suleiman Nyambui? Where is he? Suleiman is back in Tanzania, living about 40 miles from Arusha. He is a national coach (he was in Sydney) and has also formed a developmental alliance with the Australian

Re: t-and-f: World XC: Would the USA Have Won?

2001-03-25 Thread Ed Dana Parrot
gh wrote: I worry that it's rather illusory. Story I read said it was 34 degrees with 35mph winds and heavy mud. Extreme conditions can be a great leveler of talent and andy wrote:Can't we except an exciting, unexpected turn of events with some joy? From the look of the results USA

t-and-f: Boulder/CU News Results

2001-03-25 Thread drew/armiger
Boulder's Wells 41st at IAAF Cross Country Camera Staff Report OSTEND, Belgium — Clint Wells of Boulder placed 41st as the U.S. team placed fourth at the Senior Men's 4k competition at the IAAF World Cross

Re: t-and-f: Ritz, Teg run with the Africans at Ostend

2001-03-25 Thread Dave Cameron
Randy, Randy, Thanks for the enlightenment, I think. Your comments helped to indicate to me the viewpoint of the "international junior" raters - which would usually be correct - but in this case essentially boils down to a clear misjudgment given Ritzenhein's subsequent performance -which, to

RE: t-and-f: World XC: Would the USA Have Won?

2001-03-25 Thread malmo
I agree that extreme conditions do have a leveling effect. And so doaggressive customs searches and EPO testing scares. malmo I might also add that while extreme conditions can have the effect of levelling talent, but they can also expose weakness.And the U.S. was missing two

Re: t-and-f: Ritz, Teg run with the Africans at Ostend

2001-03-25 Thread Dave Cameron
p.s. I reread my posting (below). I don't mean to imply below that I'm not impressed by Ritzenhein (and Tegenkamp) 's performance - I am VERY impressed. Nor to I mean to imply that I expected it. I didn't (although I hoped). But... by saying it was predictable - I didn't rule it out -

Re: t-and-f: DI Regional Qualifying Discussion

2001-03-25 Thread Kevin Hadsell
Some of you people make it seem as though people should apologize for running fast times. You make it seem as though you should apologioze for flying to Stanford so that you can run in a great meet with great competition. You make it seem as though these guys in the races are only concerned

t-and-f: Radcliffe runs race of her life

2001-03-25 Thread Eamonn Condon
The Electronic Telegraph Monday 26 March 2001 PAULA RADCLIFFE came within 100 metres of securing a magnificent double at the World Cross-Country Championships here yesterday. After demolishing her reputation as a gallant loser with victory in Saturday's eight- kilometre race - when she

t-and-f: Not all of our heroes are gone

2001-03-25 Thread Eamonn Condon
THE IRISH TIMES March 26, 2001 Excerpt from TOM HUMPHRIES/LockerRoom In these days of pestilence and burning carcasses, it sometimes seems that all that separates us from medieval times is sport. Even with the smoke of disaster in our eyes these past few days, if you loved sport you were able

RE: t-and-f: Ritz, Teg run with the Africans at Ostend

2001-03-25 Thread Oleg Shpyrko
US dominated JR XC Worlds in 74-77 - wins by Rich Kemball (74) Bob Thomas (75), Eric Hulst (76) and Thom Hunt (77). Thom Hunt also placed 2nd in 76, and if you remember, Hunt held high school indoor mile record before Webb broke it earlier this year. Keith Brantley ('81) and Ed Eyestone ('80)