Archive for September, 2005

Underside of San Sebastian world meet emerges

Well, you can’t judge a meet by its Web site. Despite the hyperprofessional gloss of an outsourced results page, the local organizers of the World Masters Athletics Championships that concluded today in San Sebastian lived up to fears of a botched meet. I bit my tongue for a month, hoping that warnings I was getting […]

September 3, 2005   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

Willie Banks and Wolfgang Knabe put on a show at San Seb

Now THIS was a clash of the TJ titans. Willie Banks, at the age of 49, today nearly matched his masters best (set in 2001) but lost by almost six inches to the current M45 triple jump record holder — Germany’s Wolfgang Knabe. At the San Sebastian world masters championships, Knabe, 46, leaped 14.78 (48-6) […]

September 2, 2005   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed