t-and-f: WMA betrays its origins with medal count at San Seb

Greetings, all Medal counts have been posted on the WMA results site. Germany was first and USA was second. Big whoop. The big story is that WMA has totally betrayed its founders intentions of a nonpolitical track meet. See my blog post at: http://masterstrack.com/blog/archives/000480.html

t-and-f: Photos (with captions) from masters nationals online

Greetings, all Check out: http://www.masterstrack.com/gallery/hawaii05 This is my photo gallery of close to 80 shots from masters nationals last weekend in Hawaii. Lots of sprints, hurdles and Gerry Lindgren pics. Plus a taste of what we did and saw in Oahu, including the luau. Feel free

t-and-f: Gerry Lindgren could have run at masters nationals

Greetings, all My observations on last weekend's USATF national masters meet in Hawaii continue with a critique of the event: http://masterstrack.com/blog/archives/000455.html Of special note is the fact that distance-running giant Gerry Lindgren wanted to run in nationals but tried to enter

t-and-f: First post on Hawaii national masters meet on blog

Greetings, all I've finally begun posting my observations on the Hawaii national masters meet, which concluded Sunday. Check out my blog at: http://masterstrack.com/blog/archives/000453.html Much more still to come, including a photo and video gallery. Ken Stone http://www.masterstrack.com

t-and-f: First post on Hawaii national masters meet on blog

Greetings, all I've finally begun posting my observations on the Hawaii national masters meet, which concluded Sunday. Check out my blog at: http://masterstrack.com/blog/archives/000453.html Much more still to come, including a photo and video gallery. Ken Stone http://www.masterstrack.com

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Greetings, all I've posted the complete official agenda of the WMA General Assembly in San Sebastian at the end of August. This includes all proposals for rules changes, officer reports and even the treasurer's revelation that WMA is nearly $50,000 in debt. My thanks to one of my many masters

t-and-f: Updated interviews with WMA prez candidates online

Greetings, all I have added photos, Cesare Beccalli's CV and some links to his and Stan Perkins' interviews about the WMA presidential election. You can find them here: http://www.masterstrack.com/news2005/cesare.html http://www.masterstrack.com/news2005/stan.html I also added links to the

t-and-f: M40s Willie Gault (10.60) and Aaron Thigpen (10.68) in 100s!

Greetings, all Willie Gault is just warming up. So is Aaron Thigpen. Both M40 sprinters crashed the 10.70 barrier for the 100 Saturday at the Southern California USATF Association Masters Championships at West Los Angeles College in Culver City. For reasons I don't yet know, they ran in

t-and-f: M40s Willie Gault (10.60) and Aaron Thigpen (10.68) in 100s!

Greetings, all Willie Gault is just warming up. So is Aaron Thigpen. Both M40 sprinters crashed the 10.70 barrier for the 100 Saturday at the Southern California USATF Association Masters Championships at West Los Angeles College in Culver City. For reasons I don't yet know, they ran in

t-and-f: Masters athletes can keep results diary online

Greetings, all I blogged recently on a new Web site that offers athletes of all sports a place to create a database of their performances, along with others specs. The home page if this great site is: http://athletebio.com/ But Dr. David Hinchley -- creator of this site -- has set aside a

t-and-f: Masters athletes can keep results diary online

Greetings, all I blogged recently on a new Web site that offers athletes of all sports a place to create a database of their performances, along with others specs. The home page if this great site is: http://athletebio.com/ But Dr. David Hinchley -- creator of this site -- has set aside a

t-and-f: Send me USATF/WAVA results pre-1996

-- something I can readily tweak for online presentation. But I'll be happy to accept hard-copy results that I can scan and post online. If you have such results, please write me at TrackCEO (at) aol.com. I'll give you postal info privately. This project is long overdue. Thanks for your attention. Ken

t-and-f: A fly on the wall at the USATF Masters budget appeal

Greetings from Portland, Well, they didn't kick me out of the room. I even announced my name and satanic affiliation (masterstrack.com). The USATF budget appeals board went ahead and met in my presence anyway, hearing USATF Masters TF Chair George Mathews plead for $13,500 above the annual

t-and-f: Ukrainian masters pentathlete is drug positive

Greetings, all They held a WMA world indoor meet last March and snagged its first indoor doper. See my blog for details: http://masterstrack.com/blog/archives/000249.html Ken Stone http://www.masterstrack.com

t-and-f: Masters 800 race photos online

Greetings, all I've uploaded some shots I took at the masters 800-meter races at the recent Olympic Trials. Check out: http://www.masterstrack.com/gallery/Trials800 Tony Young and Rose Monday took their respective races. Ken Stone http://www.masterstrack.com

t-and-f: Torri Edwards press release

Check out: http://hsi.net/article_text/article_0207.html Ken Stone Bloggin my head off at http://hsi.net/article_text/article_0207.html

t-and-f: Kingdom making plans for Sacramento

Greetings, all Put that rocking chair away. Roger Kingdom, 41, is making reservations for Sacramento: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04188/342217.stm Ken Stone http://www.masterstrack.com

t-and-f: Mike Powell injured -- no Trials

Greetings, all World LJ record holder Mike Powell didn't get a chance to make the Trials qualifier. Story details his injury: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24417-2004Jul2.html Still waiting to see if Roger Kingdom makes it. He's still listed as provisional in the 110 highs.

t-and-f: Kiwi crushes M40 world record in decathlon

Greetings, all New Zealand's Simon Poelman, 41, buried a 23-year-old deca record for M40 masters by scoring 7,180 points (on the elite charts), and 8,277 points on the masters deca tables June 26-27, at the regional championships of Niedersachsen/Germany. Results are here:

t-and-f: Results and photos of Chuck McMahon meet

Greetings, all Graeme Shirley of USATF San Diego-Imperial has just posted results from Saturday's association masters meet, also called the Chuck McMahon Masters meet (his estate funds the event). See: http://www.sandiegousatf.org/masters/20040626/complete.html I've also posted some photos of

t-and-f: Let Kingdom come to Trials!

Greetings, all Roger Kingdom's 13.79 Wednesday night in the 110 highs was sensational. But it could be leveraged into something much bigger -- to USATF and track's advantage. Send him a ticket to the Trials. To compete if a lane is available. Almost 42, he's probably the oldest

t-and-f: Kingdom's come! 13.98 in 110s!

Greetings, all Chico Harlan of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that 41-year-old Roger Kingdom clocked 13.98 in his first full 110 hurdles race since 1999. His time (wind reading not mentioned in story) was made at Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania. Chico writes: That didn't meet

t-and-f: Look for Kingdom at the Trials

Greetings, all Despite the impression left by the Pittsburgh writer, Roger Kingdom has a better chance of making the Olympic Trials than you think. Here's why: Although Roger doesn't have an A qualifier of 13.55 or better, he now has a B qualifier. His 13.98 last night (assuming a legal wind)

t-and-f: Roger's race was INTO a wind!

Greetings, all Roger Kingdom describes his WR masters 110 hurdle race in the following note I got today: It was an easy race. I just wanted to coast through a full flight of hurdles to see where I was with training. All of my friends and colleagues in attendance asked me why was I hot-dogging

t-and-f: Buy lots of Bengay

Greetings, all Bengay is good for soreness and elite masters tracksters. Check out the USATF news release on Bengay coughing up thousands of dollars to support various elements of USA masters track: http://www.usatf.org/news/view.asp?DUid=USATF_2004_06_14_15_55_52 It's not a huge commitment,

t-and-f: Kingdom putting comeback to the test

Greetings, all Check out: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04167/331826.stm Dejan Kovacevic of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette writes: Roger Kingdom's bid to return to Olympic hurdling at age 41 will be put to its first significant test tomorrow night. He will participate in an open meet at

t-and-f: Brain Pope, 41ish, runs AR record 3K

Greetings, all Brian Pope, 41, smashed Tony Young's M40 American record in the 3,000-meter run Saturday (June 5, 2004) in Boston, clocking 8:16.87 -- almost seven seconds under Young's listed AR of 8:23.78, set in 2003. The world M40 record remains the otherworldly 8:05.08 by Finnish Olympian

t-and-f: Emmons on comebacks/Kingdom reacts to WR

Greetings, all Check out: http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/sports/8867568.htm?1c Mark Emmons talked to Al Joyner, Roger Kingdom and Mike Powell -- among others -- regarding the spate of ex-Olympians making elite comebacks. But our old masters friend Dwight Stones sounds a discordant

t-and-f: Mercury News confirms Joyner comeback

Greetings, all Anyone notice that the San Jose Mercury News has become the de facto paper of record for American track and field? Or at least the only paper digging deep? Latest example is this (finally following up on my recent posts): Posted on Fri, Jun. 04, 2004 Joyner coming out of

t-and-f: Al Joyner's ticket problems resolved

G, all Someone asked about Al Joyner's suit against the LAPD. It's been long resolved, according to this clip: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/caas/library/PoliceBrutalityjpegs/AlJoyner_Jet.jpg Still, I'm awaiting a reply from USATF to my questions about where and when Al supposedly jumped 54-4 in

t-and-f: Home Depot meet snapshots online

Greetings, all Home Depot meet was impressive. Good job by my old Tafnews free-lancer buddy Rich Perelman, the best UCLA track team manager that ever was or will be. (Rich was meet director.) I've posted some more Marion Jones / Maurice Greene photos. See my family's snapshots and my snappy

t-and-f: Ashford clocks 14.18, seeks Trials entry

Greetings, all USATF reports that David Ashford, the M40 world champion and record holder, has put his name in the hopper for entry to the U.S. Olympic Trials in Sacramento. Ashford, 41, thus beat Roger Kingdom to the punch by getting on the USATF list at:

t-and-f: Joyner making TJ comeback at age 44

Greetings, all The USTAF entry status site also contains this eye-opener: One Alfrederick Joyner is entering the Olympic Trials in the triple jump with a qualifying mark of 16.56 (54-4). The B standard is 16.00, so he should be in. Alfrederick is better known as Al. As in 1984 Olympic Champ Al

t-and-f: Greek wants to be Olympian at age 47 for Palestine

Greetings, all IAAF reports at: http://www.iaaf.org/news/Kind=2/newsId=25298.html that Sofia Sakorafa, a former world-class spear chucker, wants to compete as a Palestinian at Athens -- at age 47. The IAAF article notes that she doesn't even have to make the B standard of 56m (183-9) or the A

t-and-f: Eddie Hart returns to sprint wars

Greetings, all Buried in the results of last weekend's Modesto Relays is this intriguing 100: Men 100 Meter Dash MASTERS NameYear School Finals Wind = 1 Kevin Morning

t-and-f: Great masters marks galore at Scott Invite

Greetings, all The new world record in the M40-49 4x1 relay at UC Irvine on Sunday was just one of several wonderful masters marks at the Steve Scott Invitational. In addition to the 42.20 by SpeedWest TC (Frank Strong, Cornell Stephenson, Kettrell Berry and Willie Gault) -- which was second

t-and-f: Tony Young shatters AR for M40 indoor 3000

Y ask: Tony Young bettered the listed American indoor M40 record for 3,000 meters tonight with a sensational 8:22.99 in Heat 2 of the Washington Invitational. The listed American record is 8:32.52 by Craig Fram. The mark came on the University of Washington's oversize 307-meter track, which

t-and-f: TM follows suit, drops CF

Y ask: Brother Gene Cherry of Reuters reports: ALVO, North Carolina, Feb 7 (Reuters) - World 100-metre record holder Tim Montgomery said on Thursday he had ended his association with Canadian coach Charlie Francis, the man behind the biggest scandal in Olympics history I am no longer with

t-and-f: Regina record to test WMA sanity

Greetings, all Regina Jacobs, who turns 40 (!) this coming August, set a world elite/open all-time indoor record in the 1500 today at Boston: 1st 3:59.98 Regina Jacobs 2nd 4:09.91 Elena Iagar 3rd 4:12.75 Jenelle Deathrage 4th 4:13.91 Heather Sagan 5th 4:15.62 Collette Liss 6th 4:16.75

t-and-f: Francis fesses up at last

Y ask: Reuters just spilled these beans: TORONTO, Jan 31 (Reuters) -- Suspended Canadian coach Charlie Francis has confirmed he is working with triple Olympic champion Marion Jones and 100 metres world record holder Tim Montgomery. But Francis, the mastermind behind Canadian Ben Johnson's

t-and-f: Euro meet directors threaten to go nuclear

Y ask: This should get the attention of MJ-TM: http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/sports/5069699.htm Quick query to Scott Davis and Tom Jordan: If Euro meet directors ban the Dynamic Duo if they don't drop CF, would you follow suit? Ken Stone

t-and-f: Brumel was a masters jumper, too

Greetings, all My sad, sad duty to share this: MOSCOW (AP) -- Valery Brumel, an Olympic champion and world record holder in the high jump for the Soviet Union, died Sunday at 60. Brumel died at a Moscow hospital after a protracted illness, the ITAR-Tass news agency said. He won the silver

t-and-f: More mile confusion -- and a vault milestone

Y ask: Runner's World Online, apparently taking the Armory's word for it, reported a couple days ago that Harry Nolan had set an American M55 indoor mile record. Think again. The listed world indoor M55 mile record is a tick faster. And an American (Vic Heckler) holds it. But record activity

t-and-f: Trackos picks Super Bowl victors

Y ask: In its 14th Annual Scripps Howard Celebrity Super Bowl Poll, Scripps Howard News Service quotes three track stars on their XXXVII picks: MAURICE GREENE, Olympic gold medalist, sprints: Oakland, 32-27. AL OERTER, four-time Olympic gold medalist, discus: Tampa Bay. I think they finally

t-and-f: Everything has to have Super Bowl tie-in

Y ask: Here's a press release I got from racewalker/publicist Al. If event in itself isn't compelling, you can always use the Super Bowl Card: Media contact: Al Heppner Phone: 619-410-1181 North American Racewalking Institute January 22, 2002 Battle of #1's square off at National Racewalk

t-and-f: M40 Tony Young: 4:08.60 indoor mile!

Greetings, all Club Northwest's Tony Young took sixth in an elite mile yesterday at a meet called the Husky Indoor Preview at the University of Washington in Seattle. Not a bad time for the M40 miler -- an American masters record 4:08.60. Complete results:

t-and-f: Speedskaters on our turf

Y ask: This post may be on thin ice, but just FYI: KEARNS, Utah (AP) Russia's Svetlana Zhurova won the inaugural 100-meter World Cup speedskating event, and Japan's Tomonori Kawata took the men's race Friday. The World Cup tour has never featured a 100-meter race. Previously, the shortest

t-and-f: Masterstrack.com goes whole blog!

Y ask: Happy New Year! Out with the old, in with the blog! You're all welcome to visit the Next Big Thing on the Net -- my version of a Web log. This online diary replaces my old Guestbook, which became laden with disguised commercial links. (Spammers have discovered that they get free links

t-and-f: Deena doubts move by MJ

Y ask: Deena Drossin has become the first American track celeb to publicly question MJ's apparent affiliation with CF in Toronto, telling Mark Zeigler of The San Diego Union-Tribune: I'd like to give Marion the benefit of the doubt and think that she has good reasons for doing this, says

Re: t-and-f: Deena doubts move by MJ

Good comments from Martin, eh? One question I'd like to see someone address is: What do American track coaches think about two Americans having to go to Canada for needed expertise? Not that Canada doesn't have coaching talent, but it IS a little far from North Carolina. Wish someone would

t-and-f: Two Italian masters get IAAF doping bans

Greetings, all: The IAAF's latest newsletter, posted Dec. 9, 2002, lists 13 `positive cases in athletics' -- referring to folks sanctioned for violating doping rules. British pole vaulter Janine Whitlock, slapped with a two-year ban, is the big name. But two minor offenders are masters -- and

t-and-f: Marion's Canadian coach a front?

Y ask: I'm probably talking way out of turn here, but I'm way suspicious of Marion Jones hooking up with a Canadian coach named Derek Hansen, who Gene Cherry reports is a native of Vancouver, British Columbia, has extensive background and expertise in analysing the biomechanics of sprinting

t-and-f: Promise Mose pleads guilty to manslaughter

Y ask: Former SDSU sprinter Promise Mose faces a three-year ban from regular living. Could have been worse. http://foxsports.lycos.com/content/view?contentId=775400 Ken Stone http://www.masterstrack.com

t-and-f: Here's another one for Entine et al

Y ask: Latest story on Kenyan distance superiority appears in the East African Standard of Nairobi, with article that starts: Kenyan athletics excellence raised serious debate on Monday evening when two Danish speakers presented so-called research papers on why the east African nation

t-and-f: Quirot targets masters records

Y ask: Another sign that former elites are taking masters competition seriously comes in this news note on the IAAF Web site: Quirot steps up to Half Marathon in retirement Wednesday 20 November 2002 HAVANA -- Cuba's former double World 800m champion Ana Fidelia Quirot, ran the Havana

t-and-f: M100 Jaskulski shatters 100m record in Hawaii

Greetings, all Thanks to Ross Dunton's daily news site, we learn that Erwin J, who turned 100 a couple months ago, has lowered the M100 record in the 100 to 36.49 -- demolishing Everett Hosack's 43.00 from this year's Penn Relays. See story at:

t-and-f: More details on M100 WR in 100 (and 200!)

Y ask: Mark Zeug, president of the Hawaii Senior Olympics, has provided more details on Erwin Jaskulski's M100 WR Saturday in the 100 -- as well as WR in the 200! Mark writes: The official times: 100 meters -- 36.49 (AccuTrack FAT) 200 meters -- 1:27.85 (AccuTrack FAT). Timing official on the

t-and-f: Photos of record man Erwin

Y ask: The Honolulu Advertiser also covered Erwin's M100 sprint records. Check out: http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2002/Nov/17/ln/ln15a.html Great photos as well! Ken Stone http://www.masterstrack.com

t-and-f: Milers mastering marathons

Y ask: Marla Runyan's mile-to-marathon hop is certainly amazing. But there's more. Don't forget that she was primarily a high jumper before becoming a heptathlete at San Diego State. Can you picture a Kenyan girl Fosbury flopping? We also might note the New York efforts of two geezers with

t-and-f: Huffins gets Cal job after all

Y ask: John Crumpacker of the Chron reports that Chris Huffins has won the Cal coaching job despite lack of traditional academic credentials. Check out: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2002/10/17/SP229223.DTL Good news for fans of Joy Margerum, a world-class W40

t-and-f: Masters do the double deca, too!

Y ask: USATF rightly reports that Kip Janvrin won the Double Decathlon World Championships Sunday in Turku, Finland, with a two-day world-best score of 14,185 points. But USATF neglects to add that masters competed in the double deca (and double hep) as well. Check out:

t-and-f: Brazil a slam dunk for 2007 WMA meet

Greetings, all World Masters Athletics reports that only two cities have made bids to host the 2007 WMA World Outdoor Championships -- Riccione, Italy, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Given the fact that WMA likes to spread its world meets around and give special consideration to Third World

t-and-f: Steeple legend McCluskey dies at 91

Y ask: Not likely to appear in your morning paper, so here's the scoop from The Associated Press: MADISON, Conn. (AP) -- Joseph McCluskey, who won a bronze medal in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the 1932 Summer Olympics, died at his home Saturday, his family said. He was 91. McCluskey

t-and-f: Diack backs indoor Olympic track

Y ask: David Barron of the Houston Chronicle reports: With only a few days left until the U.S. Olympic Committee cuts the field of 2012 Olympics bid candidates from four to two, Houston's plan to hold track and field events indoors has won a potentially critical endorsement from the head of

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

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

t-and-f: Blast from the past: Bob Bornkessel on sub-50s

Y ask: Kudos to USATF for affirming the monumental 400 hurdle race by Kerron Clement, a high school junior (!) from La Porte, Texas. His 49.77 at the Junior Olympics finally erases the legendary 49.8 (hand-timed) altitude mark by Shawnee Mission North's Bob Bornkessel at South Lake Tahoe

t-and-f: Kathy Jager story featured on Salon.com

Y ask: About a year ago, I was interviewed for an article about Kathy Jager, the 56-year-old sprinter who drew a two-year drug ban after the Gateshead WAVA meet. The article was to appear in one of the highest-profile periodicals in the world -- The New York Times Magazine. Then came 9/11

t-and-f: We remember Scott mile PR

Y ask: Check out column on 3:47.69: http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/wed/sports/news_1s24sullivan.html Ken Stone http://www.blamemeforstoryidea.com

t-and-f: MJ vs. Zhanna in August

Y ask: My question has been answered. Ed Gordon on the IAAF site writes: Zhanna Pintusevich-Block, after her world-leading 10.83 in the 100, says: My goal for the rest of the season is to be as consistent as I can be, and to win as many races as I can, and as often as possible under eleven

t-and-f: Highlights of USATF Western Masters Regionals

Y askL Highlights of Day 1 of the USATF Western Masters Regional Championships at Mission Viejo, Calif., contested under sunny skies, high 70s and with light to moderate aiding winds in the sprints (no wind guage, unfortunately): Kevin Morning, 46, won the 100 in 11.16 -- equal third on the

t-and-f: Steinbrenner the hurdler

Y ask: My long-held belief that hurdlers rule was confirmed again in the current issue of The New Yorker (July 8, 2002), which features a thumbsucker on George Steinbrenner. Sayeth John Cassidy, the profile's author: (Steinbrenner) entered the shipping industry at the behest of his father,

t-and-f: USA national masters results from 1996 to present

Greetings, all The Masters Track and Field Home Page now has archived results from the most recent six USATF National Masters Outdoor Track Field Championships. The earliest online results I could find were from Spokane in 1996. These are all long files, which take some time to download. I

t-and-f: Great marks at Hayward Masters Classic

Y ask: Word from Oregon is that a Southern California-based team of milers set an M40 world record in the seldom-run 4x1600 relay over the weekend at the Hayward Masters Classic in Eugene -- traditionally one of the best masters meets of the year outside the USA nationals and WMA regional or

t-and-f: Aussie, Aussie, Aouita?

Y ask: Bloomberg News Service (not generally regarded as a prime source of track news) reports out of Canberra: Said Aouita, who won the 5,000 meters gold at the 1984 Olympics, will coach Australia's middle and long distance runners for the next three years. Morocco's Aouita, the first man

t-and-f: New spin on WMA meet sanction fee

Greetings, all World Masters Athletics has posted the particulars of how a city can bid to host the biennial world masters track championships at: http://www.world-masters-athletics.org/index.php?id=lawsl=bidder01 Also posted is a sample contract between the host Organizing Committee and

t-and-f: Complete results of masters deca/hep

Y ask: Here are results of the 2002 national masters deca and hep held last weekend at Trenton, New Jersey: Deca results: http://us.f1.yahoofs.com/users/501d98/bc/Results/2002MenDeca.doc?BCTHiG9AO3cKl XkL Hep results:

t-and-f: Todd C's deca marks

Y ask: M45 - 1 Cristensen, Todd 12.245.77m 13.51m1.64m 59.39 16.92 34.46m3.60m 44.72m 6:37.86

t-and-f: Original story on SDSU sprinter case

Y ask: Check out: http://www.uniontrib.com/news/uniontrib/wed/metro/news_7m26student.html Ken Stone

t-and-f: Lance Deal cracks AR for M40 hammer

Greetings, all The Associated Press reports that Lance Deal, who turned 40 last August, has won his ninth USATF national open title in the hammer: Lance Deal, who retired after the 2000 Sydney Olympics, returned to win his ninth national title in the hammer throw with a toss of 244-5. That

t-and-f: Karen Dennis canned at UNLV

Y ask: The Associated Press reports out of Las Vegas: Karen Dennis, who headed the women's U.S. Olympic track and field team that won seven gold medals in Sydney, has been fired by UNLV. Athletic director John Robinson said in a statement Friday that Dennis' contract won't be renewed after

t-and-f: Sacto priced out of 2007 world masters meet

Y ask: USATF Masters Chairman George Mathews has informed us that Sacramento has opted not to bid for the 2007 world masters athletic championships in the wake of a sudden WMA Council decision to charge bid cities $150,000 each. Full report is at:

t-and-f: Clueless Carl

Y ask: The Associated Press moved this story today: ATHENS, Greece -- American sprinter and long jumper Carl Lewis won nine Olympic gold medals and 10 world titles, but one of track and field's greatest athletes doesn't miss any of it. Lewis said Saturday he did everything he wanted and was

t-and-f: New American masters mile record for Young

Y ask: Tony Young, 40, of Redmond, Washington, broke the listed American M40 outdoor mile record at the Seattle International meet of 6/08/02, clocking a sensational 4:09.61. See results at: http://www.cnw.org/si Young smashed Larry Almberg's listed M40 AR of 4:12.24 as well as the

t-and-f: James Lofton opens season with 51.55

Greetings, all Former NFL great James Lofton opened his masters track season today (6/08/02) with the fastest M45 400 in the world this year -- 51.55 seconds. Lofton chased Kettrell Berry, 39, in a speedy 400-meter dash that included a stiff head wind on the back stretch to highlight the

t-and-f: Masters fields for USA Stanford nationals

Y ask: Fields are set for the masters invitational events coming up at the 2002 USATF National Outdoor Track Field Championships to be held at Stanford University in Palo Alto on June 22. Start lists are below, courtesy of race coordinator Mark Cleary. Women Masters 800m Maureen de

t-and-f: American doper won Sydney medal?

Y ask: Check out: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/06/05/1022982720780.html and http://sport.guardian.co.uk/athletics/story/0,10082,728196,00.html So far, nothing on the U.S. wire services on claims at a WADA meeting that an American medalist at Sydney had tested positive a year earlier

t-and-f: Asterisks for Calif. State Meet

Y ask: The outcomes of a half-dozen California State Meet events would have been different over the weekend had two stars from Rancho Bernardo High School competed. The team title result may have been different, too. Check out:

t-and-f: Mo (as in More) Money Greene

Y ask: Landon Hall of The Associated Press, writing from Eugene, notes the presence of Mo Greene at the Pre. Here's Hall's explanation of why Mo won't toe the line in a fabulous 100 field: Greene isn't competing Sunday because Nike is the chief sponsor of the meet. After Greene's endorsement

t-and-f: Track's revenge: new USOC chief?

Y ask: Linda Robertson of the Miami Herald reports, regarding possible successors to Sanda Baldwin at USOC: Three USOC vice presidents could be in the running to replace Baldwin: Herman Frazier, a two-time Olympian in track and field and athletic director at Alabama-Birmingham; Paul George,

t-and-f: WMA invites bids for 2004 world indoor meet

Greetings, all World Masters Athletics doesn't officially have a world masters indoor championships yet, but it's gearing up for an inaugural meet in 2004 by inviting bids now. Deadline is Dec. 31, 2002. Here's the WMA specs on subject: WMA World Indoors 2004 - bid invitation The WMA

t-and-f: WMA Council wants meet-selection power

Greetings, all USATF Masters Chairman George Mathews shares some important and startling news in his latest Chair's Report on the USATF Web site. He says World Masters Athletics wants to radically change the way it chooses its world championships site. In the past, bid cities for the

t-and-f: Roger Ruth and Dragila caught -- smiling

Y ask: Now the truth can be told. Roger Ruth of Victoria, B.C., the first masters pole vaulter over 14 and 15 feet, is the force behind Stacy Dragila's rise to pole vault supremacy. Several years before her meteoric ascent culminating with world and Olympic titles, she shared a tarp with

t-and-f: Correction: Hosack chasing 58.29 in 100

Greetings, all My bad. I forgot about the M100 record for 100m by Australian Leslie Amey, the celebrity sprinter at last year's world masters meet in Brisbane. Amey holds the M100 WR for 100 at 58.29 seconds. Hosack should smash that -- but not with 44 seconds as I suggested earlier. Closer

t-and-f: Hosack set for M100 WR in 100

Greetings, all Everett Hosack of Ohio, the new centenarian, is on the start list to to run the 100 at Penn: Event 254, Saturday, 4:10 pm Masters 100m Dash (75 and older) 1 Everett Hosack Over The Hill TC 2 Champ Goldy Philadelphia Masters 3 Mel Larsen Midwest Masters 4 William Daprano

t-and-f: Photos: Masters and submasters at Mt. SAC

Y ask: As promised, here are selected shots of the masters who competed Sunday at the Mt. SAC Relays. I've also included some shots of masters-to-be by the names of Jones (as of late 2010) and Greene (2014, unless WMA changes men's entry age to 35, in which case it's 2009). Harold Tolson of

t-and-f: New record for oldest human hurdler

Greetings: In the most important hurdle race of all, a Japanese gentleman has taken the lead. The new WMA Web site lists New records, and among the most startling is the revelation that the M90 age group now has its first recorded hurdler! He is Kizo Kimura (whose birth date I don't have).

t-and-f: Kathy Jager at Mt. SAC: The Epilogue

Y ask: Kathy Jager wanted her medal! The race had taken place nearly five hours earlier, and she still was bereft of that golden piece. She had traveled 350 miles from Glendale, Ariz., to Walnut, California, for the 44th Mt. SAC Relays. She had beaten some of the best age-group sprinters in

t-and-f: Other Mt. SAC masters highlights

Y ask: Unlike past years, Mt. SAC's Web site has expeditiously posted results of all the masters races, including the hard-to-quantify distance or time handicap events. (The webmaster did so by uploading a scanned copy of the hard copy results -- a techy shortcut.) John Cosgrove, Elaine Iba

t-and-f: Details on Josh Cox withdrawal from Boston

Y ask: From a paper I'm familiar with: Rancho San Diego's Josh Cox was forced to withdraw from today's Boston Marathon after a doctor told him he would have risked a long-term illness by running the race. Full story at: http://www.uniontrib.com/sports/20020415-_1s15cox.html Ken Stone

t-and-f: WMA Web site goes live -- officially

Greetings, all Webmaster Nick Russi in Switzerland has flipped the switch on the new World Masters Athletics site at: http://www.world-masters-athletics.org/index.php It differs little from the test site that WMA President Torsten Carlius divulged a few weeks ago (and which went dark after

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