Archive for June, 2003
WMA Web site is the picture of cluelessness
Picture this: the front page of MLB.com featuring a single group photo of commissioner Bud Selig and a bunch of balding club owners. Or this: the gateway page to IAAF.org boasting a lone shot of IAAF President Lamine Diack and his council cronies. Absurd? Ridiculous? But of course. No sensible sports site is illustrated with […]
June 10, 2003
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Javelin great Larry Stuart calling it quits?
Larry Stuart, one of the greatest javelin throwers in masters history, says he’s retiring from competition after being robbed of another potential world age-group record. For at least the second time this season, meet organizers failed to provide a steel tape to measure his best throw — a necessity for records consideration. Larry posted a […]
June 9, 2003
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Puerto Rico WMA — smallest turnout in 22 years
Manuel de Jesus, a spokesman for next month’s WMA world championships in Puerto Rico, passes along the great news that three Web sites will be posting meet results in expeditious fashion. The bad news — results will cover only 2,600-plus athletes. This is the smallest turnout at a WAVA or WMA world championships since 1981, […]
June 9, 2003
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Douglas pulls a Beamon at 100
Dutch master Troy Douglas, 40, put the masters record in the 100-meter dash into outer space Saturday at a meet in Leiden, Holland, clocking 10.29 with a just-legal wind of 1.9 mps. He crushed his own world M40 record of 10.42 set six days earlier in Hengelo. Until Troy’s debut as a master, the world […]
June 8, 2003
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Raschker, Lane, Hoffman star at NSG
Phil “The Legend” Raschker of Georgia tied her own W55 world record in the pole vault this week when she won the event at the National Senior Olympics at Virginia’s Norfolk State University. Phil, 56, cleared 3.00 (9-10) to match the mark she set in August 2002. But two 90-somethings were the real stars at […]
June 6, 2003
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Free speech too much for WMA?
Next time you visit World Masters Athletics, you might notice a little change. The “Forum” is gone — vanished. No longer in the upper-righthand corner. No longer letting masters athletes and others post comments and queries. Actually, it’s still there in the background — but links to the Forum have been erased from all pages. […]
June 5, 2003
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World records set at National Senior Olympics
Reluctantly and with agonizing slowness, the National Senior Olympics is posting women’s track results — even though the track meet started a week ago and is almost over. Actually, the NSGA isn’t posting results at all. This function is being performed by an affiliated site (the one involved in marketing photos of the event). But […]
June 4, 2003
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More innocents snared in doping dragnet?
Have we come to this? Masters athletes handed two-year doping bans because they sought to control hypertension or lose a little weight? That’s the possibility that arises with the revelation of the banned substances within the systems of two Italian masters. Yesterday, World Masters Athletics posted a series of WMA Council reports in advance of […]
June 3, 2003
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Innovative National Senior Olympics
The National Senior Olympics is pioneering a new way of listing track meet entries. In a delightfully compact 67-page Adobe Acrobat file, athletes are alphabetized by first name. But get ready for a challenge akin to a double decathlon. And put on your Sherlock Holmes cap if you’re trying to ferret out results of the […]
June 1, 2003
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