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    A good year for track and field?

    A good year for track and field?


    The 2009 athletics season is over. The celebrations have been held, the plaudits received. It will be recorded as a good year for our athletics - what with our magnificent performances in Berlin. It will also be recorded as a wonderful year for athletics worldwide - what with the rapid growth in the popularity of the sport.





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    "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
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    Good - He asked the 'Jeter' question which most of us is too scared to ask.
    The same type of thinking that created a problem cannot be used to solve the problem.

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    • #3
      Past and present phenomenal athletes

      Past and present phenomenal athletes

      Published: Tuesday | October 20, 2009


      The Editor, Sir:
      I found Keith Noel's article of Sunday, October 18 titled 'A good year for track and field?' to be quite informative, fresh and well presented. But, as in any literature there are some inaccuracies, and I would like to point out a few of them. First, it is states that Valerie Brisco-Hooks came out of nowhere to win Olympic gold in 21.81 and 48.83 in the 200 and 400 events respectively, in 1984 that "she stopped running right after". Not quite true. Brisco-Hooks continued performing until at least 1988 when she won a silver in the Olympic 4x400 relay for the US. In between, she won a World Championships 400-metre gold in 1985, and set an indoor 400-metre record.

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      Second, the article states that Florence Griffith-Joyner "set world records of 21.34 and 10.62 in Seoul"; not quite accurate! Flo-Jo did set that 200 record of 21.34 in Seoul, but the 100-metre time was set during the US Championships in Indianapolis, Indiana, which of course preceded the 1988 Games in South Koera. Although Flo-Jo was there or thereabouts before her 1988 heroics, she effectively retired after those games, running some uninspired races in early 1989.

      Yes, the new strongwoman of the 100 metres Carmelita Jeter, is now powerfully built and I always believed that she and the current US male equivalent are, well, in a class by themselves! To steal a line from Evelyn Ashford after losing the 100-metre final to Flo-Jo in 1988 said: "She is a phenomenon; it will take a man to beat her." I think, with due respect to the Jamaican sprint queens who are splendidly and superbly ready, it will take a man to beat 'CarJet'.
      I am, etc.,
      O'NEIL CLAYTON O'Neil.Clayton@parks.nyc.gov
      "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Karl View Post
        ...I always believed that she (Jeter) and the current US male equivalent are, well, in a class by themselves!
        Huh?!?!


        BLACK LIVES MATTER

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Mosiah View Post
          Huh?!?!
          Look lacka im a drap wud pan Tyson Gay?
          "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

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          • #6
            Yep. The author also stated that Ohuruogu was busted for steroids. wrong, she actually missed three mandatory test.
            Karl commenting on Maschaeroni's sending off, "Getting sent off like that is anti-TEAM!
            Terrible decision by the player!":busshead::Laugh&roll::Laugh&roll::eek::La ugh&roll:

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Yuttie View Post
              Yep. The author also stated that Ohuruogu was busted for steroids. wrong, she actually missed three mandatory test.
              Well if she thought she would be found...
              "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

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