Archive for January 27, 2007
Masters chivalry, bravery noted at Reebok Games
When you ask Jeff Hartwig to jump, the 39-year-old vault champ says, “How high?” That also applies to his willingness to help fellow jumpers. Today at the Boston Reebok Indoor Games (site of indoor masters nationals), Australia’s Steven Hooker showed up without his poles (they were lost in transit). So Jeff lent him his and […]
January 27, 2007
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Joan Nesbit Mabe shatters mile record in W45 debut
Olympian Joan Nesbit Mabe, a scholar of distance running, continues to make history herself. A week after turning 45, Joan returned to the University of North Carolina, her alma mater, this weekend and blistered a mile in 5:04.74. That beat the listed indoor WR of 5:08.6 by Canada’s Patty Blanchard in 2003. (The previous American […]
January 27, 2007
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Treacher defends his honor with letter to WMA brass
Typical of a 400-meter man, Anthony Treacher is hanging in there. Treacher, the British ex-pat handed a year’s suspension on ridiculous grounds, has taken his fight to the next level. He’s written to two dozen leaders of World Masters Athletics, saying: “The enclosed letter . . . is primarily addressed to WMA officers to explain […]
January 27, 2007
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