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SoCal Striders masters club achieves nonprofit status
Your masters club not doing so hot? Money hard to find? The Southern California Striders have an idea for you: Go nonprofit. Become a charity — and seek tax-deductible donations. The club’s Lee Gillespie, an M65 sprinter, was able to gain 501(c)(3) nonprofit status for the Striders recently. Among other things, he says: “The (membership) […]
May 29, 2007
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Jamaica’s McFarlane is new WR man for 400 hurdles
I overlooked this one. Danny McFarlane, whose all-time best in the 400 hurdles is 48.00 from 2004, nipped the M35 world age-group record in the event at the adidas meet in Carson, California, a week ago. Danny turned 35 three months ago, and his 48.83 for fifth place on May 20 ranks him as No. […]
May 28, 2007
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World Masters Athletics claims Bayer as main sponsor
World Masters Athletics reports that German pharmaceutical company Bayer is “main WMA’s sponsor.” The aspirin-maker also will collect data at Riccione worlds for a cardio study. But when I visited Bayer’s home page, I could find no reference to its sponsorship of WMA. How strange. I even used its advanced search engine. So apparently it’s […]
May 28, 2007
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USATF officials: Had no choice but to bar athlete
Give USATF credit. When they see a PR disaster, they’re quick out of the blocks. Within hours of my posting news that Britain’s Anthony Treacher had been told he couldn’t compete in Canada’s masters nationals (and was left hanging on USATF masters nationals), three major figures in USATF sent me reasons for the ban. Gary […]
May 28, 2007
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Dragila ups own W35 record in vault to 14-9
Stacy Dragila cleared 4.20, 4.30. 4.40 and finally 4.50 today at the Road to Eugene meet at the University of Oregon, thus raising her own W35 world age-group record twice in the vault to 14-9. Her previous W35 best was 4.30 (14-1 1/4) . At the same meet, M35 Jeff Laynes ran the 100 in […]
May 27, 2007
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British athlete banned in Boston (and Canada, too)
The USATF masters nationals have been open to foreign athletes for decades. Pay your entry fee, prove your age, and America lets you compete. No more. Now you have to have the blessing of your national governing body. The sad case of Britain’s Anthony Treacher has come to this: Organizers of the 2007 Boston indoor […]
May 27, 2007
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Masterful new track and field blog: Finish Line Pundit
Track bloggers unite! All three or four of us. (Actually, several dozen.) The latest, and perhaps the greatest, is Jimmie R. Markham of Richardson, Texas. He introduced his blog — Finish Line Pundit — as a comment on this blog a few days ago. I visited and was blown away. A former 2:04 half-miler (and […]
May 26, 2007
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M40 Sorensen humbly eyes sub-4 mile this summer
Jim Sorensen is no sorcerer. He can’t predict the future, and won’t promise a record. But he’s not shy about admitting that the M40 mile marks are on his mind. In the second and final part of my interview with the new AR man in the 800, Jim hints he could use a fast open […]
May 25, 2007
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Friday Night Lights — all-comers meets in Houston
Springtime may be track season for high schoolers, but it’s only the first third of the long masters track season — which extends late into October. In Houston, masters have the option of competing six Fridays in a row starting June 1, reports our M55 high jump friend Milan Jamrich. He writes: “Beginning the Friday […]
May 24, 2007
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Nadine O’Connor’s long jump beats old AR by a foot!
Results are now posted from Saturday’s Southern California Striders Meet of Champions. Nadine O’Connor’s legal long jump was 4.26 meters — just a tad under 14 feet. It surpassed the listed W65 American record of 3.94 (12-11ÂĽ) by Leonore McDaniels in 1994. The WR is 4.64 (15-2 3/4) by a German in 2002. Nadine’s wind-aided […]
May 24, 2007
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