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V 13 N. 82 DAY SIX WORLD CHAMPS IN BUDAPEST 2023
Okay, Thursday is behind us in Budapest and the results are in 8 hours after the fact.Today's quiz: What track club can now claim Jake Wightman and Josh Kerr, the two latest 1500 meters world...
View ArticleV 13 N. 73 DAY SEVEN WORLD CHAMPS. 2023 BUDAPEST
FRIDAY AUGUST 25Today is not the best for the Canadians as their vaunted sprint relay fails to qualify. Andre De Grasse was absent from the team, but they had enough talent they still should have...
View ArticleV13 N. 74 Day Eight World Champs Budapest 2023
Here we go. Canada picks up another gold in men's 800 with Marco Arop cleaning house from 600 on. In the Decathlon Pierce Lepage and Damien Warner take one-two and Sarah Mitton got a silver for...
View ArticleV 13 N. 75 Last Day of the 2023 World's Kicked Off by a Steamy Marathon
The environmental challenges for the distance runners at this world gathering have been more than difficult, and runners seem to have responded well, running within themselves and then kicking the...
View ArticleV 13 N. 76 The Track and Field Events of Day 9 at the World Championships 2023
Men's 5000m Final - Sunday, August 27OUTV's panel has decided that Jakob Ingebrigtsen gets vote for athlete of the day for his overcoming the disappointment of his loss in the 1500M. I could never be...
View ArticleV13 N. 87 All Those Posts of World Champs in One Place and the Other...
To all of you who are trying to look up the posts we did in the past 9 days, I have put links to them in one place, making it much easier to find them by clicking on those links seen below. Also this...
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V13 N. 88 Cost of a Double Room in Paris and Outside Paris Next August
Thinking of going to gay Paree (Paris) next summer for les JO, Jeux Olympiques (Olympic Games)? May have to break into the kids' piggy banks. Prices are going up in Paris and environs next August....
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V 13 > 89 New Book "Distant Finish" by David D. Bruhn and Jack Leydig
Received a note in the mail today from David Bruhn about his new book on Northern California running boom in the 1970's.Here's our back and forth and a description of the book.Hello George, I wanted...
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V 13 N. 90 New Book Out by Dr. John Telford: "Athletes,Activism, & Apple boughs"
If you are in my generation (early Baby Boomers) you may remember John Telford of Wayne State University as one of the top quarter milers in the US. All his life Dr. Telford has been an activist in...
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V 13 N. 91 An Interesting Find from L.A. 1932 and Mad Magazine View on...
Yesterday was a day of ups and downs, started down but went up. I was expecting some bad health news before going to see a 'specialist' who I thought was going to tell me I was looking at a new...
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V 13 N. 92 Did Shakespeare Know Cross Country? You Bet Your You Know What He...
Here good ladies and fellows is our annual nod to the Bard and his unflinching courage to present to the world a treatise on one of our greatest sports. "Oh, tennis?" you say. Nay, a curse, though...
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V13 N. 93 Not Straying from the Literary Path, W. B. Yeats is Misquoted on...
September 12, 2023 Yeats, Shakespeare, Mad Magazine? Who says our blog will not make you a better conversationalist while you are rehydrating during a marathon race? The Guardian today had this...
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V 13 N. 94 You Thought You Were Done With English 201? Not Quite So
Our recent posts using literary profundities went well with a number of our readers contributing their own prose and poetry to those of us who can still read and reflect. This inspired me to look...
View ArticleV 13 N. 95 Two Diverse Efforts of Endurance That To Me Show a Surprising Link...
The Prefontaine/Diamond League meet is history, and what history with wonderful races and field events hotly contested. World records, none more incredible than the 14:00.21 5000 by Gudaf Tsegay of...
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V 13 N. 96 Don 'Red' Edwards, Sixty-Four Years at the Helm of Big Walnut HS...
Few will ever be able to say they spent sixty years in coaching anything or anybody. Red Edwards could.I got to meet Red about ten years ago before moving to Canada and spent the better part of a day...
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V 13 N. 97 Track and Field Can Be Dangerous to Your Health on a Given Day
The following article appeared in the Oct. 1, 2023 The Guardian telling about a Chinese track official being seriously injured while working at the hammer throw at the Asian Games. You want to...
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V 13 N. 98 Too Long Since Our Last Post - Touching Lightly on a Number of...
I haven't posted anything for almost a month, but I have enjoyed a three week hiatus with a trip back to the old sod of Southwest Ohio after four years of Covid imposed isolation. Had time to catch...
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V 13 N. 100 The Canadian Hammer Throwers from "World Athletics"
Thanks to Steve Smith who forwarded this article to us from World Athletics written by Paul Gains.With the onset of the National Hockey League season and Curling, these two youngsters may soon be...
View ArticleV 13 N. 101 A Look Back at a Beautiful Cross Country Film
A few years ago we posted this film shot by Tom Daymont of a Cross Country Meet at St. Olaf's College in Minnesota. I can't think of a more beautiful setting or filming job done of this sport. It...
View ArticleV 13 N. 102 The Ingebrigtsen Case
The Ingebrigtsen Case In the past week the Ingebrigtsen family of Norwegian world class runners Henrik, Filip, and Jakob and their coach father Gjert have projected themselves into the limelight with...
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