Archive for February 3, 2014
WMA safety officers can pull you from a meet if you’re ‘a danger’
World Masters Athletics has a new rule, approved by the Porto Alegre General Assembly, that puts a lot of power in the hands of “safety officers.” If they think your health is endangered — or you’re a risk to your rivals — you can be yanked from the track or field. No kidding! See the […]
February 3, 2014
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Ed Whitlock, Karla Del Grande get big indoor WRs in mile, 200
The era of “soft records” in masters track ended years ago. Now we need a new category: “stunning records.” In that group you have to include M80 Ed Whitlock and W60 Karla Del Grande, whose latest WRs were set Sunday at the third Ontario mini-meet. (See complete results.) As Doug “Shaggy” Smith reports: “Ed Whitlock […]
February 3, 2014
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Blast from T&FN past: My interview with Al Oerter in July 1978
Track & Field News has an archive of interviews going back to December 1973 (Q&A with Brian Oldfield). In the summer of 1978, when I was only two years out of Kansas, I had the honor of quizzing Al Oerter in a Los Angeles hotel room the day before a UCLA meet. He had decided […]
February 3, 2014
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