One overlooked factor in Ritzenheim's case is that Michigan's rules on
high school athletics prevented him from running in more than two (?)
invitationals, which meant that he ran only one 5000m on the track this
spring. In other words, he missed the qualifier by less than a second
in his only
On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Michael Contopoulos wrote:
Anyone notice that they have let Ryan Hall into the 1500m as the last
qualifier. Looks like they let the a guy in front of him in also with a
3:42.6 when the time was 3:41 something. Ritz's was only like .16 of the Q
time not a full second...they
On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Michael Contopoulos wrote:
Anyone notice that they have let Ryan Hall into the 1500m as the last
qualifier. Looks like they let the a guy in front of him in also with a
3:42.6 when the time was 3:41 something. Ritz's was only like .16 of the Q
time not a full
Except that unlike Golf in Track and field performance is paramount.
There
is room to let old duffers in in a golf tournament with nearly unlimited
space to play, In track there is limited space. So though allowing a
Steve Scott to run would remove a better runner from the field where as
USATF's policy is to take as many people as possible per event. If Webb
wins,
and doesn't meet the standard in doing so (and doesn't chase it in
Europe),
then Michael Stember and David Krummenacker, assuming they run in Eugene,
will go to Edmonton. This is also assuming that Gabe Jennings
