All it takes is three clicks at the USATF website (www.usatf.org): 1. Elite Athletes
2. IAAF World Outdoor Track & Field Championships (under 2003 Team USA Events) 3. Qualifying Standards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >In a sort of reflexive defense of my own mistake, though, I would note >that >I had first searched for a statement of entry standards on the IAAF, >USATF, >and AthCan websites, without success, before turning to Google as a more >general resource. There, if you should be interested, the search term >"world championships" locates 1,200,000 hits, "world athletics >championships" narrows it down to only 190,000, and "Paris world >championships" to a tidy 571. Looking at the first 125 of those today, I >finally found a second citation of the IAAF entry criteria, this time on >the New Zealand Athletics site, quoting the IAAF qualifying period as 1 >Jan >02 to 23(!) July 03. So it goes.
