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Rita Hanscom claims silver as oldest in W55 pentathlon field
Thanks to all-world athlete Rita Hanscom and all-star photograher Robert Jerome, I double-dip today for Budapest news. Rob sent me a great shot of Rita over the pentathlon high jump bar on her way to silver in W55. She’s only a couple months shy of 60, too. See my post at Times of San Diego. […]
March 26, 2014
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Star of Finland worlds? Do initials PR mean anything to you?
Phil Raschker has this habit. Every five years, she picks a world stage to crush the competition and pad her 500-page track resume. So it was at JyvГ¤skylГ¤ worlds last week. How well did W65 Phenom Phil do? Not bad: six golds and three silvers, she reports. Oh, and five American records including one world […]
April 10, 2012
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Nominations sought for Canadian Masters Hall of Fame
Seven years ago, Canada joined the United States in honoring its masters track legends: It created a Masters Athletics Hall of Fame. But organizers of that inaugural class “ran out of steam,” and only now is the process back on track. (The idea is to add inductees every year, after all.) Diane Palmason, herself an […]
June 26, 2009
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