Archive for March, 2010
Lesley Richardson begins posting Kamloops photos at UK site
Lesley Richardson, my Lahti foto friend, has begun posting thousands of pictures she took at Kamloops worlds. (She had to get home to Britain first.) Check out her galleries. Lesley competed in the W40 60 and 4×200 at Kamloops. But her results ambien online (like mine) are top secret. Anyway, great shootin’, sister!
March 10, 2010
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Dang unbanked track! Shaheed barely misses M60 WR for 1500
On the final day of Kamloops, Nolan Shaheed of Pasadena gave it his best shot yesterday. He won the M60 1500 but missed the listed world record by four-tenths of a second. Had the 200-meter track been banked, he would have crushed the WR of 4:36.52 by France’s Raymond Zembri in 2009. Better luck was […]
March 7, 2010
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M60 John Altendorf raises own pole vault WR twice in Kamloops
John Altendorf of Corvallis, Ore., forgot to wear his helmet on a couple jumps yesterday at Kamloops. No matter. He still lifted his own world indoor record in the M60 pole vault, raising the roof in the process. The fieldhouse crowd cheered their lungs out when John, who turns 64 next week, cleared 4.02 (13-2 […]
March 6, 2010
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Perkins on Barnwell case: Relay teammates can keep medals
Expanding on day-old news, WMA President Stan Perkins wrote me this evening: “Athlete Val Barnwell has been suspended by USADA for two years, dating from 11 December 2009 for a positive doping test that was taken during the WMA World Stadia Championships held in Lahti, Finland in 2009. The athlete’s results will be annulled and […]
March 5, 2010
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Drug-testing under way at Kamloops; WMA prez bemoans Barnwell
WMA President Stan Perkins of Australia has reacted to the Val Barnwell drug suspension officially, or at least publicly: “My reaction is disappointment more than anything else,” said Perkins, who also served on the WMA anti-doping committee for 10 years. “People want to be the best. Sometimes they do the wrong thing.” But the “random […]
March 5, 2010
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Orville Rogers pops M90 American record for 3000 at Kamloops
Running essentially by himself, Orville Rogers of Dallas set an American indoor record for 3,000 meters yesterday at Kamloops worlds. At 92, Orville is the oldest member of Team USA. But he showed kids how it’s done with his 22:57.41, which beat the listed U.S. M90 record of 23:12.34 by Frank Levine in 2005. Two […]
March 5, 2010
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Bernie Portenski’s answer to Kamloops: two milestone WRs
Kamloops can’t hog all the glory. Down in New Zealand, a 60-year-old lady known as Bernie instead of Bernardine has informed us of two stunning world outdoor records. As we noted two months ago, Bernie Portenski is in record shape. How good? On January 22, she ran an outdoor 3000 in 11:21.47, only 15 seconds […]
March 5, 2010
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Medal-count shocker at Kamloops: Canada and USA leading!
Medal counts at world meets are bogus, since they compare Half Moon Bay pumpkins to Australian Wolffia angustas . But for those who can’t help themselves, tallies are being told here. Please take them with a megagrain of salt. Kamloops is a Canada-USA dual meet with 60 other countries thrown in for spice. (About 60 […]
March 3, 2010
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M80 vaulter’s funky jump becomes humor fodder for ‘The Soup’
“The Soup” is a reliably funny, sarcastic and iconoclastic show on the cable network E! Thus it was inevitable that we got caught in their cross hairs. This report includes a video of how an 84-year-old pole vaulter was depicted by Los Angeles station KTLA. I couldn’t quite catch the gent’s name. Sounded like Benny […]
March 3, 2010
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Hartshorne masters miles of 2010 now showing as YouTube clips
See Nolan Shaheed’s M60 world record. See Nick Berra’s coming out party as the next great M40 runner. See elite victories by Aeron Arlin Genet, Cheryl Bellaire and Anselm LeBourne. Tonight I uploaded all nine races (five men’s and four women’s) from the 43rd annual Hartshorne Memorial miles January 23, 2010, at Cornell University in […]
March 3, 2010
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