V 10 N. 7 Update on What's Happening with Doping in Track and Field
Feb. 9, 2020I've learned over the years that The Guardian is a great source of independent information not only in international and American news events but also sports. Though heavily tied to rugby,...
View ArticleV 10 N. 7 Mondo Duplantis sets WR Indoors 20'3'' 6.17 meters
What an incredible performance, incredible video, who needs a translator?From The Advocate. No by line Feb. 8, 2020TORUN, Poland — Armand "Mondo" Duplantis set the world record for the pole vault...
View ArticleV10 N. 8 Another Article on Shoe Wars from The Guardian
Jonathan Liew's article on shoe tech today sums up a lot the questions and views that we are currently dealing with in the shoe wars. Actually at this point in time it is not a shoe war so much as a...
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V 10 N. 9 Some Pages from an Old Program
February 15, 2020 I received several photo copied pictures from a program for the Princeton Invitation TrackMeet held on June 19, 1937. (Bruce Kritzler provided these documents.) There must...
View ArticleV 10 N. 10 Mondo Duplantis Puts Another Notch on His Pole
February 17, 2020The Guardian and Sean Ingle reported this morning that Mondo Duplantis has raised the WR in the Pole Vault another cm to 6.18 in Glasgow yesterday. Twice in one week.Mondo Duplantis...
View ArticleV 10 N. 11 Asia Marathons, Some Are Off, Some Are On
Feb. 17, 2020 Tokyo Marathon CancelledI saw in today's The Guardian , yes I read it almost everyday, and noted that the Tokyo Marathon has...
View ArticleV10 N. 13. Mo Farah In a Bit of a Shit Storm Over L-Carnatine Injections
Once again, Sean Ingle of The Guardian is keeping us in the loop with the seemingly endless drama of doping in sport. This time it is with a series of injections of L-carnatine, a 'naturally...
View ArticleV 10 N. 13. Passing of Coach Harry Groves, R.I.P.
Today, Coach Harry Groves the long time track and field coach at Penn State University left us and is probably busy somewhere organizing an indoor meet or getting ready for the Penn Relays. It is too...
View ArticleV 10 N. 14 Dick Bank, Track Legend R.I.P.
Dick Bank passed away today. Harry Groves died yesterday. Who of us who were living and aware of our sport in 1964 will ever forget Dick Bank's incredible call on the last fifty yards of the Olympic...
View ArticleV 10 N. 15 Will the Olympics Go On Despite Corona Virus?
March 4, 2020The news changes so fast about the spread of the Corona Virus or Covid 19 that one needs to put a date on each mention of it. What was unknown a week ago is now old news. Two weeks ago I...
View ArticleV 10 N. 16 Two Weeks Ago, Who'da Thunk?
Wow, two weeks ago we were talking in very, very speculative terms about cancelling the Olympics this coming July. Status of our society seems to change about 10 times in every news cycle. Now all...
View ArticleV 10 N. 17 How the NCAA Indoor Championships Did Not Happen
The NCAA Indoor Championships did not happen this weekend. It's just the opposite of the old peace slogan: "What if they gave a war and nobody came?" Everybody came to Albequerque, but they didn't...
View ArticleV 10 N. 18 Our Predictions on Holding the 2020 Olympic Games
Literally every world organization seems to be taking moves to adapt to the current world healthcrisis, with a few exceptions. Major waffelers are the International Olympic Committee and the...
View ArticleV 10 N. 19 Walt Murphy's This Day in Track and Field
Our mutual blog writer, Walt Murphy sent the following note. Some of you on his mailing list may have been left off recently. Also if you are not on his mailing list he explains how to get on it....
View ArticleV 10 N. 20 "Hell, No. We Won't Go" Canada Takes the First Bold Step
This evening in The Guardian it was announced that Canada has stated that it shall not attend the Olympics. Following our prediction last week, expect a domino effect as nations begin spouting the...
View ArticleV10 N. 21 It's Official, Tokyo 2020 Is Now Tokyo 2021, sort of...
It's official Tokyo 2020 is now Tokyo 2021. Not really, the Japan games committee is going to continue to call it the 2020 Olympics, so they don't have to throw away or overprint all those T Shirts...
View ArticleV 10 N. 22 No Boston This Year? Here's the 1929 Race
Getting tired of the same Covid 19 on the 24 hour news? Tired of 100 best plays of the decade?Well here's some re-runs I bet you have never seen.We are not going to see the 2020 Boston Marathon next...
View ArticleV 10 N. 23 This Will Make You Feel Better Instantly
St. Olaf's Invitational 2015 Clik here.Today I received an email from Dick Daymont in Minnesota. I was reminded that about 5 years ago we posted a video of a cross country meet at St. Olaf College in...
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V 10 N. 24 A Letter from an Impassioned Track Fan
Geoff Williams on the right with George Brose and John CobleyGeoff Williams, a colleague and friend in Victoria, BC, sent me the following letter this morning.I think it more than sums up many of our...
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V 10 N. 25 Boo Morcom, Track Iconoclast
The idea of this posting comes from a book that has been sitting in my library for at least five years. I never cracked it until Covid 19 put us into the situation of closed libraries and bookstores...
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