Archive for September 5, 2007
Italian site listed 79 masters athletes entered at Osaka
Man, those Italians. While I was cherry-picking masters at Osaka, this Italian site was listing all the over-35 athletes entered at IAAF worlds. One thing I noticed: some possible world age-group records that WMA has overlooked. How many did they find? I count 37 men and 42 women — a total of 79 geezers at […]
September 5, 2007
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Americans fare well as Germans dominate the multis
Americans captured four world titles in the decathlon or heptathlon today in Riccione, holding their own against the 900-strong German juggernaut. Team USA gold medalists were M50 Jim Russ, many-time world champ M65 Emil Pawlik, W60 Phil Raschker (who fell short of her June world record by about 120 points) and W70 world record holder […]
September 5, 2007
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Riccione video shares delights of WMA Open Ceremonies
You gotta see this! A file-sharing site called blip.tv has posted a well-edited video of athletes and speeches (all in Italian), marching band and music at Riccione worlds. And fireworks, circus peformers and dance troupes! Athletes are having a blast — singing and dancing. Click right here to access this 8 1/2-minute video. As well, […]
September 5, 2007
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Results posted as Riccione deals with major storm
The Puerto Rico 2003 world meet featured a tropical storm. But nobody expected Riccione 2007 to suffer high winds. Yet that’s apparently what delayed events (including the decathlon and heptathlon Day 1) yesterday at worlds. Some cross country races were postponed as well. In any case, results are now percolating online (and in a nice […]
September 5, 2007
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