Archive for December, 2008
Hightower campaign admits listing bogus supporters
Under orders of the USATF Ethics Committee, masters hurdler Dexter McCloud has circulated a press release apologizing for an earlier press release. In the original PR blast, Dr. Evie Dennis, writing “on behalf of The Committee to Elect Stephanie Hightower,” listed about 50 USATF members endorsing Hightower for USATF president. But oops! At least two […]
December 3, 2008
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Juan Bustamante dies at 65; was popular SoCal sprinter
Juan sprints at UCSB’s Club West Masters in October 2007. Juan Bustamante, a mainstay of the Southern California masters circuit and a loyal reader of this blog, has died at age 65. Brenda Matthews, president of the Southern California Striders, his club, passed along the news: “It is with sadness that I announce the passing […]
December 3, 2008
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Barnwell sweeps 1-2-4 at South American championships
The meet logo recycles that of the 1997 WAVA worlds in Durban, South Africa. The city of Rosario, Argentina, hosted the 14th South American masters track championships the last week of November, and results are posted here. Kind of ugly presentation, I know. (After clicking on an event, you have to move the horizontal scroll […]
December 3, 2008
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Record rejection sours Kay Glynn’s breakthrough season
Masters athletes are idiots. So are meet directors. Don’t they know rules are rules? That must be Sandy Pashkin’s thoughts as she stamps REJECTED on every fifth record application she gets. The latest miscarriage of justice involves a W55 pole vault mark by national champion Kay Glynn last June. As detailed in this blog entry, […]
December 2, 2008
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Masters muckup: USATF rejects Hinton mile world record
Last January, John Hinton of North Carolina shaved nearly two seconds off one of the oldest world records on the books: the M45 indoor mile mark of 4:21.90 by Albin Swenson in 1993. John was auto-timed in 4:20.18 at the tradition-rich Hartshorne Memorial Masters Miles at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. But I have […]
December 1, 2008
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