Archive for October, 2011

Masters superstar is best-looking coach on Pan Am Games team

W50 multi-eventer Joy Upshaw should be headed home soon after completing her gig in Guadalajara as a women’s jumps coach for Team USA at the Pan American Games. She sent this photo of the women’s coaching staff. Of course, she’s the cutie on the far left. Congrats to all of you!

October 31, 2011   Posted in: Uncategorized  12 Comments

Ivar Söderlind of Eurovets posts latest records at odds with WMA

Ivar Söderlind, statistician for European masters track, has posted the latest set of Eurovets age-group records. (See them here.) As usual, the world records among them don’t always match the records on the WMA records site kept by Sandy Pashkin, even though World Masters Athletics updated its lists October 24 — less than a week […]

October 29, 2011   Posted in: Uncategorized  16 Comments

M40 middle-distancer Fred Kieser gets 8-month drug suspension

Latest victim of USADA and USATF dragnet: “USADA announced [Oct. 27] that Frederic Kieser of Cleveland, OH, an athlete in the sport of track and field, has tested positive for a prohibited substance and accepted a suspension for his doping offense. Kieser, 40, tested positive for methylhexaneamine, a stimulant, as a result of a sample […]

October 29, 2011   Posted in: Uncategorized  33 Comments

George Mathews details proposed new drug category for masters

George Mathews, a world-class thrower and former USATF masters national T&F chairman, says he will present a plan to the Masters T&F Executive committee in St Louis at USATF’s national meeting that deals with masters taking drugs on the USADA banned list. Here’s how he summarizes it: “If after an athlete has exhausted all alternative […]

October 29, 2011   Posted in: Uncategorized  40 Comments

Duhon says he accepted drug-testing, but not unprofessionalism

In response to an email query, B.J. Duhon wrote me today with this eye-opener: “Well, to make a long story short, I did not refuse [a drug test at Sacramento worlds]. I took the test, but they said I did not give enough of a sample. But the way the test was conducted, very unprofessionally, […]

October 28, 2011   Posted in: Uncategorized  17 Comments

USADA explains post-event TUE process for masters tracksters

Annie Skinner, a spokeswoman for USADA, sent me this note today: “Erin Hannan in our office forwarded your inquiry to me, and I wanted to make sure to get back to you with some follow up information. There is a section on the USADA website that can help athletes understand whether they need a TUE […]

October 27, 2011   Posted in: Uncategorized  3 Comments

Trent Lane dies at 101; masters thrower never made it to worlds

According to this obituary in Louisiana, services were held today for M100 thrower Trent Lane, who died at his home Thursday. What a loss. He would have been the oldest entrant at Sacramento worlds, but he never showed up. The funeral home says he set 17 world records “that still stand.” Not sure of that. […]

October 26, 2011   Posted in: Uncategorized  8 Comments

B.J. Duhon accepts 2-year suspension after refusing Sacto test

A third American bites the dust. USADA yesterday announced “that Byron Duhon, of Elk Grove, Calif., an athlete in the sport of Track & Field, has accepted a two-year suspension for an anti-doping rule violation based on his refusal to comply with the sample collection process. Duhon, 53, refused to comply with the sample collection […]

October 26, 2011   Posted in: Uncategorized  74 Comments

If we can’t be fast, we can be good at jobs: our 12 press awards

La Mesa Patch won a dozen awards at last night’s San Diego Press Club awards banquet. Very proud of my year-old site. (See story here.) But my wife, Chris, kicked my butt in first-place awards. She won three for her photos. I won none. (I got six second-place certificates and a pair of third-places.) In […]

October 26, 2011   Posted in: Uncategorized  17 Comments

Jeanne Daprano goes west for W75 record runs, nails the 4 and 8

First Marie-Louise Michelsohn claims two WRs shortly after turning 70. Now it’s Jeanne Daprano’s turn. Five weeks after hitting 75, Jeanne journeyed from Atlanta to run at the Club West Masters Track Meet at Moorpark College on Sunday — about midway between traditional site Santa Barbara and Los Angeles. Carmel Papworth-Barnum shared the results: “Jeanne […]

October 23, 2011   Posted in: Uncategorized  12 Comments