Archive for September 20, 2006
Kingdom issues hurdles challenge: Who’s No. 1?
Two-time Olympic champion and former WR man Roger Kingdom has set up a pair of hurdle races in April 2007 at the college where he coaches in Pennsylvania. His goal: to determine the best masters hurdler in the world. (It’s him, he contends.) Today he wrote me: “This email is to inform you that I’m […]
September 20, 2006
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Böker may be oldest female dope-cheat in history
World masters champion Hella Böker (sometimes Boeker) of Germany, a W65 thrower, has been suspended by the Leichtathletik federation (DLV) after the diuretic hydrochlorothiazide showed up in her urine sample at the European masters championships in Poznan, Poland. Normally, I’d call this evidence of Euros stopping at nothing to root out grannies with medical issues. […]
September 20, 2006
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Latest blast from past: 1979 Hanover WAVA results
Hanover, Germany, hosted the third World Masters Athletic Championships in late July and early August 1979. And thanks to the miracles of scanning, Adobe Acrobat and Canadian medalist Ed Whitlock (who sent me 90 photocopied pages), complete results are now online for the first time. I’ve posted two versions as usual: an image file and […]
September 20, 2006
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