Epidemic in results screw-ups? Siddons Games the latest
Nearly three weeks after the fact, I’ve received these results for the Al Siddons Games in Santa Ana, Calfornia. The annual meet, long known as the John Ward Masters Games, was April 5 at Santa Ana College. It’s now named after longtime Santa Ana College coach Al Siddons. But when Al ran the masters meet, he never botched the results. This year’s results are worthless in several sprints. (I didn’t run a 28.41 in the 200, for example. My 29.58 was instead assigned to M65 Tony Craddock.) The women’s 800? Results aren’t even given — despite an amazing run by W45 Jai Black. She went out crazy fast, then faded. But what guts. Landover’s debacle was unforgiveable, but smaller meets still need to be held accountable. And yet masters aren’t the only ones afflicted. The prestigious Mt. SAC Relays had results problems for a few days, as documented by this thread on the Track & Field News message board. Anyone else notice a trend in results/timing breakdowns?
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Probably the most egregious error in the Siddons Meet 200M results was seeing the 27.03 secs time assigned to Jeffers, who collapsed on the track immobile on the turn for 10 minutes to be attended by the Meet Director and paramedics. Or perhaps the 24.85 secs 200M time attributed to a 63 year old sprinter who left the meet after the 100M.
Has anyone noticed problems with meet results? Well, yes! I wrote a column for National Masters News in October 1999 on this subject. It’s now 2009 and bowling still does it better. See:
http://www.geocities.com/ortmanmarchand/fs5.html
Tony craddock talks about egregious errors. How do you think I felt when I found out I didn’t even run in the 200M and yet have visions of doing so, and being completely wiped out? I’m 77 yrs. old, so I guess I’m entitled to a mental lapse now and then. How about the other 3 people I thought ran with me though? Is it even possible they could have left off a whole heat, which included the same people who ran in the 100M? I just wish that if I’m going to have these delusions, I would have a better time than 39.36. Maybe you could give me the 24.85 of the guy who didn’t run. I’d even take the 27.03 of the poor guy that fell. They wouldn’t mind, and it would do a lot for my ranking.
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