A hot potato in Boise: failure to post national results
Well, gag me with a moldy spud. It’s 11:20 p.m. Pacific time, well after completion of the first day’s events at the national friggin championships. And results are not available at the place set up for ’em. So unless you’re in phone contact with athletes, you’re outta luck knowing, for example, if Nolan Shaheed snagged a world record in the M55 3000 meters or if Phil Raschker got off a good jump in the pole vault.
Today’s opening day at the USATF National Masters Indoor Championships has more than a dozen finals. But if anyone wants to know the results, they’ll have to wait for the Pony Express — arriving in about four days, if the injuns don’t get to ’em first.
On the other hand, I’m hoping that tomorrow morning’s Idaho Statesman Sports section carries agate results of the meet in its market.
This is beyond belief.
I’m sure that tomorrow some sensible soul will post a perfectly reasonable explanation for why the results of an American (greatest technological country on Earth) national (not all-comers) championships (as in the most important indoor masters meet of the year on U.S. soil) can’t be disseminated for the benefit of friends, relatives, hometown newspapers and fans like myself, who beyond all logic continue to think that our niche sport has grown up.
Well, whatever.
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Amen brother. Rediculous! I missed it all due to illness and still can’t locate any results about my fellow competitors at Masters Indoor Nationals. Any news for how to locate this from your sources?
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