t-and-f: Rumours on Greece and doping

2002-08-16 Thread Winfried Kramer
Immediately after the European championships you could read rumours about doping in the German press as far as some Greek champions were concerned. These rumours are now nourished when Kenderis, Thanou and Manjani cancelled their participation in Zurich. The facts for these rumours are as

t-and-f: Webb poll

2002-08-16 Thread Post, Marty
As of this morning there were 711 votes in the where will Alan Webb be after the 2008 Olympics poll that appeared with the USA TODAY on-line story yesterday. Results: 35.44% - out of the sport, never living up to the hype 30.66% - US record holder at sub 3:47 19.27% - a 3:55 miler 14.63% -

Re: t-and-f: Webb poll

2002-08-16 Thread Kurt Bray
35.44% - out of the sport, never living up to the hype 30.66% - US record holder at sub 3:47 19.27% - a 3:55 miler 14.63% - Olympic medalist Choices are a bit puzzling. Obviously 2nd and 4th choices are not mutually exclusive. And since he is already at least a 3:55 miler, you could say that

Re: t-and-f: Rumours on Greece and doping

2002-08-16 Thread Wayne T. Armbrust
They check for dope at the Olympics, World Championships, and European Championships, don't they? Winfried Kramer wrote: Immediately after the European championships you could read rumours about doping in the German press as far as some Greek champions were concerned. These rumours are now

Re: t-and-f: Rumours on Greece and doping

2002-08-16 Thread goldbu1
They certainly do. So did Fatima Whitbread, whom I remember coming one early morning and - bang- throwing a WR 77.44m in the qualifications of the WC. And later Petra Falke and her 80 meters flat. No one approaches these distances now, either on the field or in their wild dreams - and the

Re: t-and-f: Rumours on Greece and doping

2002-08-16 Thread Michael Contopoulos
I don't doubt it, but something tells me there was some pretty strict testing at the Olympics and World Champs... especially for finalists and medalists... which the previously mentioned athletes were. Michael From: Winfried Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Winfried Kramer [EMAIL

Re: t-and-f: U.S versus Great Britain Russia

2002-08-16 Thread goldbu1
It is Zykina, not Zygina in the 400 and Jearl Miles Clark hardly seems in shape to compete with her, given the late time in the season + other limitations. The question is to what extent the US and Russia will field genuine national teams. Past experience is not encouraging. UG =

Re: t-and-f: Webb poll

2002-08-16 Thread JimRTimes
In a message dated 8/16/02 10:02:57 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And having run 3:53 as an 18-year-old it's hard to believe he'd still be in the sport as a 3:55 man in 2008; maybe a 3:50 miler would have been a better option. I thought you were always known by your all-time PR. Hence, even if

Re: t-and-f: Webb poll

2002-08-16 Thread Lee Nichols
In a message dated 8/16/02 10:02:57 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And having run 3:53 as an 18-year-old it's hard to believe he'd still be in the sport as a 3:55 man in 2008; maybe a 3:50 miler would have been a better option. I thought you were always known by your all-time PR. Hence, even if

t-and-f: Zurich Stadium Record Prediction Contest

2002-08-16 Thread koala
Okay, here's the compendium: New records are predicted in six events. First up, at 8:15pm (11:15am Pacific time), six people all agree that Boulami is going to take down his current Stadium record of 7:58.50 in the Steeple, set two years ago. David Donley says 7:58.30, Ted Polous sais 7:57.3,

t-and-f: USATF Release: Devers, Dragila, Johnson headline Team USA at Norwich Union Challenge

2002-08-16 Thread USATF Communications
Contact:Melissa Beasley Communications Coordinator USA Track Field (317) 261-0478 x335 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.usatf.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, August 16, 2002 Devers, Dragila, Johnson headline

Re: t-and-f: Zurich Stadium Record Prediction Contest

2002-08-16 Thread Ben Hall
FYI- the Welklasse site has live results for all events, including attempt-by-attempt field results: http://waprod2.bluewin.ch/hc_cust1/results/timetable.html It goes nicely with the BBC coverage. On Fri, 16 Aug 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, here's the compendium: New records are

t-and-f: Boulami Steeple WR

2002-08-16 Thread koala
7:53.17!!!

RE: t-and-f: Boulami Steeple WR

2002-08-16 Thread Post, Marty
Wow, Just a little more than 10 seconds slower than his FLAT 3000m PR (7:42.99, 1998). Wonder what he could run without barriers these days? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 2:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

t-and-f: Steeple WR at Zurich

2002-08-16 Thread John
http://waprod2.bluewin.ch/hc_cust1/results/re0290040.html

t-and-f: Bob Carty

2002-08-16 Thread Ed Grant
Netters: The death of Bob Carty breaks up one of the two NYC college relay teams which were, to say the least, overachievers in the early 1950s. Bob was the senior member of a team which included 1952 Olympic 100M champ Lindy Remigino, Jack O'Connell and Joe Schatzle. He had run

t-and-f: Zurich m1500

2002-08-16 Thread Jones, Carleton
Whoo! That was close! EL GUERROUJ, Hicham MAR 3:26.89 WR = 3:26.00 Cheers, Buck

t-and-f: Devers AOY Candidate?

2002-08-16 Thread koala
see Zurich results (not that I'm a Radcliffe supporter, mind you- but this leaves the women's AOY question rather murky unless you put a lot of credence in XC and road racing) RT

t-and-f: Sacto to host 2003 masters games

2002-08-16 Thread TrackCEO
Greetings, all I'm still on vacation and have limited access to the Net, but I learned something in Orono that is worth passing along sooner than later. At the USATF masters nationals last week in Maine, WMA official Stan Perkins of Australia confirmed plans for a Pan-Pacific Masters Games in

Re: t-and-f: Devers AOY Candidate?

2002-08-16 Thread goldbu1
Radcliffe's London marathon phenomnal debut is not just another road race. Radcliffe has already done all it takes to be voted athelte of 2002. UG === Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: see Zurich results (not that I'm a Radcliffe supporter, mind you- but this leaves the women's

RE: t-and-f: Boulami Steeple WR

2002-08-16 Thread Kurt Bray
Please have mercy on those of us hoping to watch the meet pseudo-live tonight on ESPN2 and do not give away any results in the subject line. Thanks. Kurt Bray _ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos:

t-and-f: Zurich Prediction Contest Results

2002-08-16 Thread koala
Congrats to Scott Jensen, who won the contest over Adam Knudson on the tiebreaker. The fork got stuck in most of the contestants over their men's 100 predictions, rather than the fork being stuck in the record, mostly due to an unfortunate change in wind direction between the semi's and the

t-and-f: link to full zurich results

2002-08-16 Thread John
http://www.iaaf.org/gle02/index.asp?filename=/gle02/intro.html

t-and-f: Fw: [Oztrack] Zurich Meet delivers again

2002-08-16 Thread Rob Veer
regards, RobV - Original Message - From: Laurie Cousins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Oztrack [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 11:15 PM Subject: [Oztrack] Zurich Meet delivers again WR Mens steeple; El Guerrouj misses WR by 0.89 secs; Tim Montgomery 9.93 9.98; Marion Jones

Re: t-and-f: Devers AOY Candidate?

2002-08-16 Thread Dan Kaplan
Indeed it does. How about Guevarra in the 400? The performances are as good as anyone's put in the past couple of years, and she's now got the edge on Devers in terms of being unbeaten. Dan --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: see Zurich results (not that I'm a Radcliffe supporter, mind you- but

Re: t-and-f: Boulami Steeple WR

2002-08-16 Thread Mike Prizy
Lets hope we get to see more than two barriers of this. Kurt Bray wrote: Please have mercy on those of us hoping to watch the meet pseudo-live tonight on ESPN2 and do not give away any results in the subject line. Thanks. Kurt Bray

t-and-f: 2002 Texas 4A Shot Put Finals

2002-08-16 Thread Joe Reed
Does anyone know where I might find the film of the Texas 4A shot put finals from 2002? __ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com

RE: t-and-f: 2002 Texas 4A Shot Put Finals

2002-08-16 Thread Bloomquist, Bret
The UIL doesn't tape the track meet, so you'd be relying either on television stations or family recordings from the stands -- and fans weren't let anywhere near the shot put ring. You probably have this, but here are the results of Texastrack.com (note to non-Texas high school fans: yes,