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Lightning strikes in Charlotte, sparks schedule crisis

Organizers of the Charlotte master’s nationals, who on Thursday cancelled afternoon events due to a heat emergency, were forced to cancel evening events today because of lightning strikes in the local region. Around 8:20 p.m. today, all athletes and officials in the stadium were ordered across the street into the safety of a parking garage. […]

August 4, 2006   Posted in: Uncategorized  4 Comments

Huntsman Games were tragic for couple of high school students

Masters athletes witnessed the lightning strike that left two students in critical condition at the Huntsman World Senior Games. Barry Warmerdam, a javelin thrower, wrote yesterday: “The track competition was held on the campus of Snow Canyon High School, but the first day of the competition, Monday, was mostly postponed due to multiple lightning strikes […]

October 8, 2010   Posted in: Uncategorized  3 Comments

WMA links to handy-dandy index of naughty substances

American masters needn’t worry about being drug-tested at domestic meets. USATF has no budget for it. But if lightning strikes while you’re at a WMA world or European masters meet, and you’re asked to relieve yourself in a labeled bottle, it’s good to know what’s kosher. So World Masters Athletics has teamed with an outfit […]

April 25, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  2 Comments

Batting 1,000: Your musial blog hits modest milestone

This is my 1,000th post. Yeah, I have 1,000 entries on Masters News and Muse. (And countless embedded links.) Coincidentally, my first post was on a January 5 — exactly four years ago. The cheeky debut headline: “A blog to boggle masters track.” And, yup, lots of people have been boggled. Actually, I launched the […]

January 5, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  5 Comments

FlashResults in Carolina muy bueno

I’m positively pleased to share a note I wrote to Roger Jennings at FlashResults, the North Carolina-based timing and results-reporting service that did such a great job in Carolina, Puerto Rico. And I urge like-minded athletes to do the same.

July 16, 2003   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

Ashford threatens masters hurdle record

Dave Ashford of Buffalo Grove, Illinois, came THIS close to breaking the M40 world record in the 110 hurdles yesterday in Puerto Rico. Running with a legal (0.2 mps) wind, Ashford clocked a sensational 14.02 in the prelims — nearly two seconds ahead of the runner-up in Heat 1.

July 10, 2003   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed

Mystery deepens in M50 200 final

The video of the “lost” 200 at WMA worlds apparently is more than a rumor. According to the British track magazine Athletics Weekly, such a video was cited to move Britain’s Viv Oliver up from fourth to a tie for third (with American Robert Bowen) in the M50 200 won by Bill Collins of Texas.

July 21, 2003   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

Bill Collins should sue the weather gods

FlashResults mogul Roger Jennings reports that Bill Collins, winner of the M50 200 meter on a rainy day in Carolina, “heard 22.3” as a hand-time result of his snakebit final. But Jennings writes: “I’m (nor he) was too sure where it came from, so no, haven’t heard of any (other) times. Did hear a rumor […]

July 18, 2003   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed