Archive for February, 2006
Alisa gets revenge for meet snub: another record
Nearly a month ago, fresh off dual W40 American indoor records, Alisa Harvey tried to enter a George Mason University meet. Event organizers said, “You’re not good enough.” Alisa got mad. She also got even, lowering her own W40 indoor record in the 800 tonight at an Armory meet in New York City, far from […]
February 4, 2006
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Gail Devers a mom at 39! Fourth in Millrose Games
And that’s the order of importance. Gail Devers’ absence for the entire 2005 season after her Athens disappointment made a lot of people wonder if she were hanging up her spikes. Actually, she had plenty good reason to sit out the year. She gave birth in the summer! Was news to me (and everyone else […]
February 3, 2006
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Linz entries online — all 3,000-plus searchable
The best online roster of athletes ever seen in World Masters Athletics is now posted — a searchable database of entrants at the Linz world indoor meet in mid-March. You can search by an athlete’s name, nation, age group or event — allowing one, for example, to specify all M50 pole vaulters from Germany. Incredible. […]
February 3, 2006
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Olympian among women’s masters relayists at Millrose
Mary Rosado is an all-purpose event organizer. She helped assemble the masters women’s 4×4 relays at tomorrow night’s Millrose Games and is listed as a member of the Central Park Track Club quartet running in the prestigious meet. But don’t spike her. She’s a lawyer. (Her specialties include guardianship, labor and employment and sports law.)
February 2, 2006
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British athlete reportedly San Sebastian drug positive
Robert and Annette Koop are reporting that a British athlete tested positive for illegal performance-enhancing drugs at the San Sebastian world meet last summer — and not a German as previously speculated. The athlete is male, I was told a few weeks ago. Still no name attached to the athlete.
February 2, 2006
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Germany’s mammoth entry list for Linz online
Germany is sending nearly 900 athletes to the second World Masters Indoor Championships, starting the Ides of March in Linz, Austria. That’s nearly a third of all athletes entered at Linz. German-American Phil Raschker shared a roster PDF detailing the German entrants and their events — from W35 Urte Alisch to M90s Anton Polgar and […]
February 1, 2006
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