Quietly under construction, new site is funky.
The World Masters Athletics
website, never a model for fresh news, is more out of date than ever. Its top story is coverage of IAAF Portland masters races — from late March. I think I know why. A new WMA website is being built. (The old one
dates to 2001.) Same name but no hyphens.
worldmastersathletics.org (and a .com version) was created in December, according to
registration records. I posted a question to the WMA Facebook page, and President
Stan Perkins graciously replied: “The website is being upgraded to make it easier to navigate and to be more relevant to the athletes.
Jeff Brower is doing this work for us.” Jeff, the USATF masters webmaster as well,
became WMA webmaster in January 2014. So he’s finally making a dent. But I hope the site features photos better than what we see now (in the background). I’ll reserve further critiques until the new one is christened.
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As of 10 p.m. Pacific Wednesday, the WMA website was down. But archive.org has a recent backup:
https://web.archive.org/web/20160422102046/http://www.world-masters-athletics.org/index.php
I’m looking into the WMA situation.
No answer on when WMA website will be back up. Still down after five days.
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