Americas Masters Games meet begins Saturday with dec, hep

W75 superstar Christa Bortignon is skipping Vancouver meet.

W75 superstar Christa Bortignon is skipping Vancouver meet after illness, injury.

About 500 people are entered in the five-day track meet at the Americas Masters Games in Vancouver, British Columbia, according to this list.Lots of U.S. stars are in the mix, including Colleen Barney, Joy Upshaw, Kathy Bergen, Don Drummond, Chip Crowl, Tecumseh Peete and James Chinn. Sadly, Canadian star (and local) Christa Bortignon won’t be joining them. Her local paper reported: “Bortignon’s training went off-track after she was hospitalized for pneumonia and then injured her hamstring doing the triple jump at the B.C. Athletics Masters Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Kelowna last month…. However, the West Vancouver resident is back training and hoping to participate in the B.C. Seniors Games in Coquitlam next month.” (See video there too.) Get well soon, Christa! Meanwhile, best of luck to tracksters in BC. The meet begins Saturday (see schedule) with the decathlon and heptathlon.

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August 26, 2016

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