Archive for March 18, 2010
Rita Hanscom salutes family and friends at San Diego awards
Rita Hanscom is used to public speaking — she’s a lawyer, remember — but the crowd that heard her February 22 at the Town & Country Resort Hotel in San Diego was full of superstar luminaries, including Olympic diving legend Greg Louganis, perfect-game pitcher David Wells and Chargers quarterback Phil Rivers. Rita showed no butterflies […]
March 18, 2010
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Gary Snyder outlines steps to drug-testing, payment by surcharge
Gary Snyder has done some due diligence. Now he’s announced how USATF will launch a drug-testing program in American masters track. Besides specifying how to pay for it (by a $5 or $10 surcharge to entries at nationals), he also indicates this is a done deal. Whether on his own authority or by consensus of […]
March 18, 2010
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WMA does a 180: Will seek return of relay medals in Barnwell case
Stan Perkins, WMA president, has changed his mind. Or maybe IAAF Rule 39.2 did it. In reply to a query, Stan wrote me today: “All medals awarded to Val Barnwell as well as his relay team members will be requested to be returned. In addition, the change of placings in the events he contested will […]
March 18, 2010
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Kamloops WR man Chris Bates hoping to reshuffle M45 dec
Reason 2,132 why I love track: people coming out of the woodwork to surprise us all. On the kiddie level, this happens all the time. But I really dig it when “unknowns” shock the masters world. Such is the story of Christopher Bates of Oregon. Although I’ve had email contact with Chris in recent months, […]
March 18, 2010
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Canadian masters president puts Kamloops races on YouTube
Paul Osland, president of Canadian masters track, has posted a bunch of race videos from Kamloops. He also wrote a final report on the ‘Loops experience (something our own prez should emulate). Paul began: “The WMA 2010 World Masters Indoor Championships have now come to a close. This was my first indoor World Championships; I […]
March 18, 2010
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