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Italian posts some Riccione race videos on YouTube

Thank goodness. Someone with a camcorder in the stands at Riccione recorded nearly two dozen races at Riccione worlds and posted them on YouTube. They are mostly in the 35-39 and 40-44 age groups. The previous videos of the meet were more like MTV music videos with cuts so quick your head spins. These videos […]

October 20, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed

Dutch high jump champion can’t get over size of worlds

On our Forum Monday, Weia Reinboud wrote: “I am curious of opinions about the world championships. My personal opinion is that they have grown too big — in Riccione nearly 9,000 competitors each doing about 2 events. There were three stadia, far away from each other. Although there were many buses specially for us, you […]

October 19, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  11 Comments

Hartwig calls it a season, but he’ll be back in 2008

Supervet vaulter Jeff Hartwig, who turned 40 in late September, has quit competing for the season, he wrote me today from Arkansas. “Yokohama was miserable,” Jeff writes, “and I took it as a sign that it was time to be done for the year. I took a couple weeks off and now I am back […]

October 18, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  2 Comments

Milt Silverstein planning comeback, targets M90 records

Milt Silverstein is a Penn Relays masters superstar and many-times champion in the sprints and jumps. But in late 2002, he declared his retirement in a letter to National Masters News. Thank goodness he didn’t mean it. (He sat out 2003 but returned in 2004 and 2005, when he stopped again.) I recently learned from […]

October 18, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed

Pete Magill exorcises demons at 5K XC nationals

Most national champions get a chance to savor their victories. Not Pete Magill. On Sunday, this Southern Californian won the USATF masters 5K cross-country title, clocking the best time of all 40-and-overs despite being 46. His 15:17 (a 4:55 mile pace!) also was the top age-graded mark among the men, worth an open time of […]

October 17, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  7 Comments

USATF may end pentathlon at masters nationals

Former USATF Masters T&F Chairman George Mathews, mindful of the heat emergency at Charlotte nationals in 2006, wants to downsize masters nationals (indoors as well) by eliminating the pentathlon. He made this proposal at the 2006 USATF annual meeting in Indy. But it was tabled and is being revived this November at the convention in […]

October 16, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  33 Comments

Sacramento likely to host the 2010 masters nationals

Sacramento is seeking to host the 2010 USATF masters national outdoor championships — a dry (and hot) run for 2011 worlds. Bob Burns of the Sacramento Sports Commission yesterday confirmed the candidacy of California’s capital: “Yes, we’re bidding for it — seems like a natural with WMA the following year. To the best of my […]

October 16, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  3 Comments

World 400-meter medalist Rodney Brown dies at 80

Dr. Rodney Brown excelled in events from the sprints through the 800 meters. Older sprinters are mourning one of their own this week. Dr. Rodney Brown, a Utah dentist who won three silver medals in the 400 and 800 at the 1997 Durban and 1999 Gateshead world masters meets (plus at least one 4×4 gold) […]

October 15, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

Meet director documents Silvester record as legit

When I learned that four-time Olympian Jay Silvester had broken the M70 American record in the discus, I was thrilled. So I blogged the news immediately. As the self-appointed masters blabbermouth, I also posted the news on the Track & Field News message board and sent the USATF press office in Indy a heads up. […]

October 15, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed

Kenny Dennis, sprint icon, recovering from heart surgery

Kenny Dennis — a short, softspoken sprinter from Los Angeles — is a local legend with tall worldwide stature. He’s a one-time M50 world record holder in the 200 (22.9) who claimed several WAVA sprint titles in the late 1980s. But to his many friends in SoCal, he’s just a reliable fixture at masters meets […]

October 15, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  3 Comments