Let's take it the other direction (for a "suppose")...
Say the USATF doesn't wait for the bullet to be fired,
but summarily WITHDRAWS from the IAAF.
Not without preparation of course...
before making such an announcement they would
approach a few other key track powers of "like mind",
and
It's been said on this list before, but bears repeating-
other than Baumann and maybe Mitchell, everybody hit with
charges the last few years says it's because of unlisted
ingredients in supplements they were taking. Ditto for
Hunter- he blames it on iron supplements.
Why do they take
On Fri, 9 Mar 2001 15:19:20 EST, you wrote:
I suspect there is a need for a track and field list where track and cross
country meets are important as opposed to all these threads about drugs, etc.
Also, this list needs more people who write because they have something to
say and far fewer
If any of you doubt my statements, read the comments of the IAAF concerning
their drug policy, anything, regardless of how it got there, the athlete is
responsible for.
In the real world, that would never fly. Not even at malmo's job.
Actually, if you get stopped for driving with a burned
Here's my GUESS as to what's going on- nothing more than
a guess, and others are welcome to throw crap at it
For years the German federation and it's powerful
administrators, including the people connected with the
drug-testing lab at Cologne (Kln), have taken the lead in
firing salvos at
For a fun sport like baseball the concept
is laughable.
...yeh, but...
you somehow fanagle expensive box seats in row 3, right
behind home plate...
It's a pitcher-duel game.
ball from pitcher-to-catcher. strike.
throw it back to pitcher.
ball from pitcher-to-catcher. strike.
throw it back to
Let's say the results from a GP I meet like Zurich or Pre
(it doesn't make a whole lot of difference) roll in to an
American newspaper's sports desk via wire service or any
other reasonable source, and there aren't any obvious world
records jumping off the page, here's my take on what happens:
Except that the world of specialization has grown in the last
couple of decades.
At the top level (not at collegiate where you do whatever your
coach tells you, for team points), if all they have is a 12K
race, everybody from Steeple specialists and shorter (middle
distance) simply won't run.
Don't have the start list at hand-
what about Meb and Abdi ?
RT
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 18:33:11 -0500, you wrote:
Anywhere to find entry lists for Vancouver, WA? Just read in McPaper, I mean USA
Today that Regina Jacobs is running the 4k. That makes that race interesting. The
men's 12k will
Hey sports fans,
this thread brings up a question-
Are the women's world records held by East Germans the only
ones not also recognized as national records (because East
Germany doesn't exist as a federation any more), or...
at the time of the German reunification, did the West German
and East
Wait a minute, if my recollection is correct, at the declaration
deadline for last year's London race, KK's advisor's were telling
him that the chances of getting his citizenship before the Trials
deadline were slim.
So it boiled down to:
1. Skip London on the 5% chance that the citizenship came
I saw Bert Rosenthal's AP writeup (significant portion attached)
and was confused on the extreme setup for Marla Runyon's national
indoor 5K record attempt this coming weekend-
they DON'T WANT ANYBODY EXCEPT RUNYON TO FINISH THE RACE!!!
To actually state this in advance seems to be an obvious
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001 13:41:16 -0500, you wrote:
Message text written by "Sahu Habibi"
"This time (1900 GMT) is prime time for Greece, it's also prime time in
Europe and lunchbreak in the United States," the ATHOC source said.
Well, in parts of the United States this is true, but in the Eastern
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 20:15:05 +0100, you wrote:
Vladimir Yashchenko URS, WR in high jump 1977 (233) and 1978 (234).
Regards
H Pettersson
I don't recall seeing anybody mention this name so
far (WR-setters never competing in OG), so here goes:
Renaldo Nehemiah.
Also, I'm not sure, but maybe
Merriam Webster online dictionary:
3 : a single continuous effort: as a : a single round of a contest (as
a race) having two or more rounds for each contestant b : one of
several preliminary contests held to eliminate less competent
contenders
this might be revealing, from infoplease:
heat,
I thought he won the NCAA indoors at 64 or 65 feet, but I could
be wrong...
I've talked to him numerous times since he left UCLA (he
often comes to meets at Westwood in the spring) and asked
him about out-of-football-season shotputting, but he
says there's a clause in his Ravens contract that
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001 11:33:20 EST, you wrote:
...in my paper this morning,...
gh
Speaking of 'this morning's paper', the L.A. Times says that
the Feb 12th new indoor meet at L.A.'s Staples Center is in trouble
with only 2,000 tickets sold.
The promoters say they didn't really expect many sales
I've seen it several times. Full red satin costume including hood
with horns, a cape, long forked tail, etc, and a fake goatee. And of
course carrying a long plastic pitchfork.
They usually recruited a local college middle distance runner to
play "the devil", and after several laps of the race
Native European Team:
Leadoff: Armin Hary (Germany)
2nd Leg: your pick of recent Greeks
3rd Leg: Pietro Mennea (don't bother painting lane lines)
Anchor: Valeriy Borzov (S.U./Ukraine)
Alternates: Roger Bambuck and Eddy Ottoz, although I'm
not sure whether Bambuck is a native European.
By the
Has any American high schooler ever broken 50sec for
the international 400mIH ?
RT
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) -- Adhemar Ferreira da Silva, who held the
world record for the triple-jump and became Brazil's most
successful Olympian, died Friday.
Doctors said the 73-year-old da Silva had a heart attack.
Da Silva broke seven world records, many of them his own.
He was the only
On page two of this morning's L.A. Times sports section,
Scott was mentioned by name, but it was alleged that
he was gonna have a lot of trouble as the announcer of
the upcoming L.A. Invitational Indoor meet, due to the
alphabetic Gordian knot names of some of the entrants,
a few of which were
The puzzle with that allegation, Olympic historian John Lucas said Thursday,
is this: "What profit would it have been for Dean Cromwell or the [American]
Olympic Committee or Avery Brundage to replace two Jews with two blacks?"
Lucas, a Penn State professor, said, "I have no answer."
A few
The University of California's Edwards Stadium / Goldman Field was
announced the Outstanding Facility Design and Construction award by the
U.S. Tennis Court and Track Field Construction Association for 1999-2000.
...
Unfortunately, Edwards Stadium will not host the California State High School
Somebody asked for the website this morning; here it is:
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000 20:19:59 +0100, "Matthew H Fraser Moat"
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just to let you know that Athletics Weekly have recently launched their
website.
Early days of course, but please try www.athleticsweekly.com.
On Thu, 7 Dec 2000 16:06:27 -0800, you wrote:
Kukimba wrote:
Conway. Darrell. what's wrong with you two?
No name calling? No references to drugs? No allegations? No accusations?
No snide remarks?
Have you forgotten where you are??
Thanksand have a
Los Angeles has made a bid to host the summer Olympic Games in 2012. A
private bid consortium said it would need to build only one new permanent
facility to host the event for what would be the third time.
Eamonn Condon
WWW.RunnersGoal.com
That one brand new facility would be for gun-shooting.
That's actually "good" news.
Big daddy NBC won't be there to bully the IOC into excessive
demands to block anything and everything.
IAAF is open to negotiate an internet rights arrangement if
they want to, without violating an outrageous prior arrangement
with a single broadcaster.
RT
On Thu,
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 12:11:37 EST, you wrote:
Wow! This is going to make staging major meets a lot easier. No need to lay out and
staff a complicated route outside the stadium. And it won't take long to decide,
either.
They can start at the 100m starting line, and 90% of the field will be DQed
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 11:44:51 -0600, you wrote:
Mike,
In regards to your statements about the Footlocker versus Junior Olympics:
My question is why bother having a JO cross country program when you have
this program which is so much more successful? And appropriate.
My son (age 14) competed in
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 15:08:24 -, you wrote:
So what they're saying is, of course, that to be a great runner you have to
be black. True! Except don't let Sonia O'Sullivan, Paula Radcliffe, Gabby
Szabo, Svetlana Masterkova...
...know.
Actually, it tells me that if a Kalenjin (a tiny
The person making the murder allegations against former
world class 800m runner David Mack held a press conference
to tearfully admit that she fabricated the story as revenge
against her former boyfriend, Mack's former "patrol partner"
on the Los Angeles Police Department.
Mack remains in prison,
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000 09:24:11 -0800, you wrote:
Perhaps all athletes that just miss out on world record attempts should ask
for a remeasurement of the course/track/distance as well .. :o) .. Maybe Mo
was faster than 9.87 in Sydney .. I mean Gore found over 1,400 votes ..
Unless we adjusted for
The presence of money, by itself, is not the problem.
But the hugely inequitable distribution of money might be.
There is just too much of a disparity between what is
distributed to a semi-finalist versus what is distributed
to a finalist, and even a worse disparity between what
1st place gets
Watching three of his 800 races this summer, he went out
quite fast- 51ish,
and the last 150 meters when he realized he was 'out of it',
he just jogged the final straightaway.
He was trying to be competitive with a 1:45.
Jogging the final straightaway, he finished around 1:51.
That tells me that
On Thu, 2 Nov 2000 12:25:20 -0600, you wrote:
When linear extrapolation is extended over large ranges
the choice of dependent variable becomes important. In the
case of running records, plotting race time vs calendar
time eventually produces meaningless results as witness
below. It is
Anyway, these are the records for men 40 and over:
200m 21.86 Bill Collins
400m 47.87 Manuel Ulacio
800m 1:50.69 Colm Rothery
1500m 3:44.89 Luiz Jose Gonsalves
Mile 4:02.53 David Moorcroft
3:58.15 (indoors) Eamonn Coghlan
My take on the likelihood of Johnny Gray breaking
any of these
On Wed, 1 Nov 2000 18:27:33 -0500 , you wrote:
Brian T McEwen says
I said: I don't know the Limits of human performance in distance running,
but
they are NOT at the level where today's runners would lap Viren, Yifter,
Rono, Schildhauer and Cova at their very best.
Well,
On Wed, 1 Nov 2000 19:50:49 EST, you wrote:
In a message dated 11/1/00 7:01:58 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
-- Walt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Hunter announced his retirement in an interview he did with NBC's Ahmad
Rashad in Sydney before the public announcement
Maybe my memory is faulty, but I seem to recall USATF announcing
something on this just a couple of weeks ago- something to
the effect that the penalty for ephedrine is less than most other
doping drugs, so Heard was given a one-meet suspension (applied
retroactively to the meet where he was
On Mon, 23 Oct 2000 22:36:39 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:
--- "Michael J. Roth" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Someone might want to start a missing persons report on the illustrious
E. Garry Hill of TFN fame. We have not been graced by his presence
much, if at all, since Sydney.
2. He was attacked
Open letter to all athletics federations outside the
United States:
Yes, the performance by the so-called "team" allegedly
representing the U.S. Juniors at Santiago is indeed
indicative of the level of performance to be expected by
the "senior" team at Edmonton next year.
You may prepare your
I read through this 379-line e-mail, and have yet to
figure out what exactly the writers are asking USATF
to do.
Maybe I overlooked it.
Start channelling all USATF development money through
clubs which meet the definitions outlined? (which would
force all elite athletes to become members of
So does anybody who ran this past weekend anywhere in a collegiate
meet at any of the tens of dozens of colleges across the entire
continent of North America have a rat's patutty of a chance to
finish in the top 50 at the World Cross Champs in March?
If not, then I'd rather talk about what the
On Fri, 13 Oct 2000 15:47:54 GMT, you wrote:
Willy writes:
No one could have stated this point any better. That bronze sure would
have
looked nice on the neck of Suzy, the same way those bronzes looked good on
the 4x100m. Falling deprived the world, not to mention Suzy herself.
Well, I
On Fri, 6 Oct 2000 23:31:55 -0600, Glenn Smith wrote:
Did you see Devers even wince? It looked to me as if she just calmly walked
off the track. It didn't even look as if it bothered her to not be able to
race. In
her CBC interview she just said 'It just didn't happen for me today' didn't
even
It's as simple as looking at a globe.
Australia is at the opposite side of the globe
for both Europeans AND Americans. A heck of a
long way.
How's the best way to get home?
For Europeans, Qatar is a convenient refueling and
stretch-the-legs stop.
For Americans, Hawaii is a convenient refueling
Obviously, Devers didn't go to the Olympics with the intention of tanking it!
She may indeed have regretted getting injured prior to the Olympics and may
indeed be wondering if she wouldn't have been better off resting up a lot
more before the Olympics. That is possible. But all this
"suppose" question of the day:
True or not true, and why?
"Letting your son or daughter train in an athletic program under a coach
who has admitted participating in a systematic, planned, program of doping
of his athletes in the past, is like taking your pre-schooler to a day care
program run
Let's see, Suzy lost because:
1. Complete depletion of glycogen
2. Dehydration
3. Heart rate soared to unspecified record levels
4. Body temperature soared to 105 or 106 degrees
5. Panic
6. Traumatic shock
7. Vascular collapse
8. Lack of oxygen
Looks like the course syllabus for
We all know that Shakespeare was a pen name. What was he trying to cover-up!
Obviously he was a frustrated javelin thrower, given the name.
As for that Montague and Capulet stuff, it was obviously a pseudonym
for IOC versus USATF.
Et tu, Merode?
RT
In the interests of full and fair disclosure, it should be pointed out that
R.T., while being a frequent and sometimes brilliant poster to this List,
is also a USA Track and Field Official.
As such, one would expect a reflexive lack of support from him for a
Canadian espousing the heretical
Related question, prior to this year has there ever been
an athlete, male or female, who medaled in an Olympics or
World Championships in both the Long Jump and either the
open 400 or 4x400?
That has to be one of the widest 'dissimilarity' of
top-level performance in events ever seen, perhaps
Great summary. I hope that the IAAF keeps the pressure on. Even the White
House has asked that names be given to the IAAF.
Then send the names under seal to the White House, and let McCaffrey and
Clinton do with them as they wish.
Watch how quickly they back off and start stammering and
On Sun, 1 Oct 2000 02:46:07 EDT, you wrote:
In a message dated 9/30/00 9:59:47 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
drugs-positives still unresolved. Craig Masback, their chief executive, has
declared none of the 10 are competing in Sydney,
What does this have to do with
The answer is to ban rabbits (pacemakers) who may also
engage in boxing, elbowing, blocking, and pre-strategized
surges to benefit their countrymen...
and replace them with...
the old light system used on the mid-70's pro track
circuit. Set the lights to the exact world record pace-
no surges
The story in the Bee, from Amy Shipley of the Washington Post,
headlined:
"Jones runs exceptional relay leg in women's 4 X 400"
Later, she wrote: "...a mind-blowing relay leg by Jones..."
49.6 is not exactly "mind-blowing." After all, FloJo ran about 48.1 in
Seoul. Does anybody know what kind of
1- Marion should've gotten five.
Marion displays just a bit of immaturity when dealing with questions about
the LJ. I don't think it would be disloyal to get some extra help from people
who have tremendous resumes', such as a Carl Lewis or a JJK...or Bob Kersee
and Tom Tellez. She also
In spite of the big deal that NBC made of it, the
behaviour by the Americans was small potatoes.
What they did would be a perfectly acceptable mode
of exhuberation and celebration in almost any
U.S. urban setting.
Hey guys, the trouble is you're not IN a U.S. urban
setting.
Inexperienced
My husband and I have been to every summer Olympics since 1976 and every
outdoor world championships. However, we decided not to go to Sydney. So we
asked all of our friends not to tell us any results, listened only to a
classical music radio station, watched only tv we knew would not have
-forwarding on behalf of Michael Roth--
Would the List Administrator please contact me, as I have been unable to
post here in a few days.
Thank you,
MJR
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
The two track field events of '72 are interesting-
Vince Matthews twirls the gold medal around his
finger on the victory stand and is immediately banished
by his Federation. Wasn't even given a chance to
apologize.
Dave Wottle absent-mindedly forgets to doff his hat (but
puts his hand over
DeCastella in the marathon would have been a good 'where are they
now' too.
Although here on the west coast, the marathon 'just started', so
I may see DeCastella yet! (yeh, sure...)
RT
On Sun, 01 Oct 2000 19:14:24 -0700, R.T. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 1 Oct 2000 21:49:34 EDT, you
The fact is, with few exceptions, our legal system is built around the
concept of openness of the adjudication process -- there is no "right to
secret back-room tribunals". If you are an airline pilot, a train engineer,
a bus driver or, yes, even just an ordinary private citizen, have an
According to a breaking BBC story, an "un-named female athlete fails
out-of-competition drugs test at Olympics - news coming soon" . . .
Is "out-of-competition at the Olympics" an oxymoron?
Was she watching up in the stands and got yanked out her seat
to go give a sample?
RT
Having said that, I must add this: the first two throws--which we did not see
on NBC--were victims of what I---and some other officials--considred to be a very
stupid situationb, i.e., calling a foul when the throw hits the cage. The proper call
in the discus should be "no throw" since
As Charlie Francis, Ben Johnson's coach, said about the Seoul 100M Final.
"I don't call it cheating when everyone is competing on a level playing
field. I only call it cheating when one person is doing something that
no-one else is doing."
That's why Francis is no longer in the business.
Craig said something in his WAVA statement about
being caught between conflicting direction and priorities
between the IAAF and USOC.
Anybody care to amplify?
Who is trying to undermine who?
RT
On Sat, 30 Sep 2000 00:01:29 -0400, you wrote:
It will be Calvin Harrison to Antonio Pettigrew to Alvin Harrison to MJ.
The TV commentator here said that "they will have to drop the baton on every
exchange to be beaten." Of course, baton was pronounced "BAT-uhn".
As in Baton Rouge...
RT
This is a difference between criminal and civil issues, as well as the fact
that the police department is specifically tasked to do policing while it is
really a secondary role for USATF.
Which might explain why it doesn't get done at all.
Hey, you guys have hit on the solution, and didn't
http://www.thestar.com/editorial/updates/olympics/misc/2927SPT04b_SP-RANDY.html
this article includes this paragraph:
--
American sprinter Dennis Mitchell was suspended for an illegal level of
testosterone, but let off by U.S. Track and
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000 15:40:09 GMT, you wrote:
I wonder what Mr. Entine has to say about this? Open mouth, insert foot
Entine. Maybe, just maybe, genetics isn't as important as some people think.
Then again maybe Kenteris's great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather
was from East
In a separate letter to Pound, Masback said he was unable to find a way to
run a drug control program subject to the competing jurisdictions of the
IAAF and the U.S. Olympic Committee. He also cited "shortcomings" of certain
IOC-accredited testing labs and the challenge of working within the
does the appeal process work anyway? I'm just
curious.
D
"R.T." wrote:
US court restrictions? This is new to me. What would they be?
Release a name unnecessarily (before the appeals process
is complete), and you get hauled into court to answer to
defamation charges. T
Then...are you saying that 'to be completely fair, that NO athlete's
name gets released until the process is complete? Or do we just treat the
Americians differently their cheats get to compete and eveyone else get
taken off the infield during warm-up ?
For anybody who has a case 'in
scroll down
it's sad to see so many top athletes athletes in a single
day end their career 'not' on top-
Devers, Bubka, Morceli, and so on.
Isn't there a '96 version of Carl Lewis somewhere in
these Games? Maybe Jonathan Edwards and Michael Johnson...
RT
Here's your test of the day:
You're the head of U.S. Track Field federation.
You get a call from Mr. Catlin out at the UCLA testing lab.
An American elite athlete has tested positive on an A sample.
You call the athlete. You explain the "B" sample process,
and the appeal and arbitration
The answers are flowing in.
Here's the top ten so far...
...okay, make it a dozen or so...
---
This USATF CEO is Drew Carey, right?
---
Accept the offer.
---
Resign.
---
Buy a printing press and start crankin' out the cash.
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000 22:26:41 -0700, you wrote:
They are fully aware of U.S. court restrictions, why choose
NOW to blast away? Isn't it political grandstanding?
RT
US court restrictions? This is new to me. What would they be?
Release a name unnecessarily (before the appeals process
is
I agree.
There is a difference between fist-pumping, spiking the ball and so
on, as an exclamation point on confidence and achievement,
as opposed to singling out opponents for ridicule, to belittle
their accomplishments.
Carter definitely crossed the line.
RT
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000 13:01:27
THE White House has intervened in the growing drugs controversy surrounding
American athletes, calling on USA Track and Field, the governing body for
the sport in America, to come clean about athletes who have tested positive
for drugs.
Barry McCaffrey, President Clinton's drugs tsar, wrote a
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000 20:41:52 -0700, you wrote:
Earlier today, Paul Tucknott, apparently quoting a BBC source. wrote:
"The entire Romanian weightlifting team was to be kicked out of the games,
but paid a $50,000 fine to allow those who had not tested positive to stay."
It's not quite clear, to
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000 03:04:05 EDT, you wrote:
I'm still waiting for a USATF press release on Hunter.
I would have thought that the folks at USATF would have spoken by now.?
To quote Ted Knight in Caddyshack..."Well, we're
waiting??"
Schiefer
The IAAF press release
The word that I get is that three of the five who tested positive at the
1988 US Olympic track and field Trials accounted for five of the gold
medals at the Seoul Olympics.
Tony Craddock
Is there a reason why people have to keep going back
to 1988 (TWELVE years ago!) to dig up enough dirt
for
And she is not the first aborigine woman to become the best in her selected
sport. That honor must go to Eva Goolagong (Cawley), the greatv tenbnis star whose
name (I realize she is not an Olympian, but she surely is everything else) has, to my
knowledge never been mentioned in the NBC
What I am wondering is why, if the IOC and IAAF are so determined
to keep drug disclosures at a "minimum" during the 15-day run
of the games-
-such has been suggested as the goal of the IOC many times on this list-
...and this appears to be why the IAAF was determined to not
announce anything
On Sat, 23 Sep 2000 11:25:50 -0700, you wrote:
I would be interested in seeing a comparison of marks of the qualifiers in
the US trials with their OLY performances. I wouldn't be a pretty picture
in
most cases.
Agreed ... There definitely seems to be a drop off so far .. Mo, Marion, MJ,
One of the web sites - either Olympics.com or nbcolympics.com,
I don't recall which, said that the Jamaican coaches were
appealing on Watts behalf because he got tripped up by
somebody and went down.
Apparently they won the appeal.
RT
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000 22:24:18 -0400, you wrote:
Heat
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000 19:29:40 +0200, you wrote:
Well, thanks to Ed Grant, I know what happened. Joachim Kirst of East Germany
(European Champion in 1969 and 1971 and at that point of the Decathlon in 2nd
position, just behind Avilov) fell and brought Bannister with him.
If Bannister was
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000 10:19:03 -0500, you wrote:
..pretty soon we'll get down to the 3:16...
Guys, you are day dreaming. Current 400m elite ability these days just does
not back these predictions.
You forget that all except the leadoff leg gets a flying
start.
I agree with Conway, I would put
An hour and 19 minutes to complete the first round of
a what is basically a 10 or 11 second race.
Uh-huh.
RT
I'm still waiting on second flight Jav results
on NBCOlympics.com
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000 20:06:36 -, you wrote:
netters
looks like we have our first Olympic Snafu.
Last Heat of the
Maybe there are people out there who like near-impossible
challenges,
but the responsibilities outlined for the U.S. Masters pooh-bah
sound like a 98% probability of lose-lose rather than win-win.
No wonder everybody is jockeying for position to be 'last' in
line.
RT
I'm going with event "rookie" Privalova to upset
the womens 400H field and take home gold
RT
Be sure and register that finger splint with the Australian
Bureau of Criminal Investigation, lest it be mistaken for
a terrorist weapon...
...say, it's not the middle finger is it?never mind
We will expect to see you on TV playing the Bobby Kersee
role by leaping out of the stands to
I thought most of the top runners left home to move to
Brother O'Connell's boarding school.
They probably DO run 20 miles to get to school-
10 miles out and 10 miles back before the first class
each day...
RT
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000 20:55:56 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:
--- Kurt Bray [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jeff Bennett finished fourth.
Bruce Jenner finished tenth.
Don't remember who the other team member was.
RT
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000 04:49:16 GMT, you wrote:
Here's a question I need help answering: Who were the (presumably 3)
athletes who competed on the US team in the decathlon in the '72 OG
Not to imply that it's actually happening, but how many
million $$$ would it be worth to NBC to come down to the
final of the women's 4x400, with Marion running the 3rd leg,
and have her still be in contention for a 5th gold medal?
Enough to try to increase the likelihood of it happening?
Anybody
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000 14:54:54 -0700, you wrote:
Tony Craddock said:
This is great news for NBC.
They can now do an "up close and personal" heartbreak story without the distraction
of any track and field.
We will probably be subjected to the story BEFORE the start of the
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000 19:41:04 -0700, you wrote:
Regarding Conway Hill's wondering (below) as to whether the '84 games
happened (Valerie Brisco's 200-400 double golds and Carl's 4 golds
and Seb's 1500, etc.,) if world public opinion reflects the comments
about the 1984 LA games made by the
The L.A. Times had an almost identical article last weekend (I believe
it was Sunday).
They interviewed one bar owner somewhere in the L.A. area (seems like
out Chico way or in that direction) who had just gone out this summer
and got a big dish, just so his patrons could see the CBC Olympics
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