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World-Class Americans, 2008 (800m - 10000m)
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008Here’s the list of all American runners from 800m through 10000m who made the IAAF top lists in 2008 and the events for which they made the list:
Metric to Imperial Distance Conversion Tables For Field Events
Sunday, August 31st, 2008Do you ever envy those TV announcers who can tell you an athlete’s metric mark in a field event and then effortlessly rattle off its equivalent in feet, inches & fractions? How do they do it? Either a) they’re computational geniuses, or b) they have a laptop on which they’ve loaded a website that has an online calculator or c) they have a table of some kind.
I can’t help you with "a", but here’s b) the online calculator. I’ve also put together c) a conversion table in PDF format for when you have to travel to a meet that doesn’t offer any internet connectivity. (I know, I know. Why couldn’t I have done this at the beginning of the season instead of with one week left? Just think, you’ll be ready to go as soon as practices for the indoor season begin! 
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In order to make it fit on one page, I’m requiring you to do some minor addition. It was either that, or have you print a sixty-page document. I’ve got some instructions for you after the jump.
Arrrrrgh! No Redemption!
Sunday, August 31st, 2008If I hear/see any more announcers/journalists use the words "redemption" or "redeemed" one more time to describe athletes’ performances in these meaningless post-Beijing track meets, I’m going to scream! Redemption is not possible until the 2009 World Championships next August in Berlin.
Golden League $1,000,000 Jackpot Winners
Friday, August 29th, 2008| Men | Women |
| 1998 | |
| Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR) | Marion Jones (USA) |
| Haile Gbreselassie (ETH) | |
| 1999 | |
| Wilson Kipketer (DEN) | Gabriela Szabo (ROM) |
| 2000 | |
| Maurice Greene (USA) | Tatyana Kotova (RUS) |
| Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR) | Trine Hattestad (NOR) |
| Gail Devers (USA) | |
| 2001 | |
| Allen Johnson (USA) | Olga Yegorova (RUS) |
| André Bucher (SUI) | Violeta Szekely (ROM) |
| Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR) | Marion Jones (USA) |
| 2002 | |
| Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR) | Ana Guevara (MEX) |
| Felix Sanchez (DOM) | Marion Jones (USA) |
| 2003 | |
| None | Maria Mutola (MOZ) |
| 2004 | |
| Christian Olsson (SWE) | Tonique Williams-Darling (BAH) |
| 2005 | |
| None | Tatyana Lebedeva (RUS) |
| 2006 | |
| Jeremy Wariner (USA) | Sanya Richards (USA) |
| Asafa Powell (JAM) | Lesser share - Tirunesh Dibaba (ETH) |
| Lesser share - Kenenisa Bekele (ETH) and Irving Saladino (PAN) | |
| 2007 | |
| None | Yelena Isinbayeva (RUS) |
| Sanya Richards (USA) | |
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2008 |
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| None | 800m - Pamela Jelimo (KEN) |
| High Jump - Blanka Vlasic (CRO) | |
Source: [IAAF]
A Sports-Lovin’ VP Pick For McCain
Friday, August 29th, 2008
An interesting bit of trivia about John McCain’s Vice-Presidential pick, Sarah Palin:
The Palins named their first child, a boy, Track, after the track and field season in which he was born. Sarah’s father jokingly asked what they would have named their son if he had been born during the basketball season. Without hesitating Sarah answered "Hoop."
[Source]
By the way, Track Palin is an infantryman (11B! Hooah!) in the US Army, same as yours truly was many moons ago.
Photo of Sarah Palin courtesy of Wikipedia.
Complete Coverage of Weltklasse On TrackShark.com
Friday, August 29th, 2008TrackShark.com has your live track & field viewing needs covered today. Weltklasse may very well be the best meet of the 2008 season.
Universal Sports/WCSN Has Live Track & Field & Road Racing For Free!
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
That’s right. With the launch of their new web site, Universal Sports/WCSN has decided to allow users to view events, for a limited time, for free! This promotion lasts until November 9th, 2008 and includes the following events which you might be interested in watching:
August 31, 2008: Aviva British British Grand Prix at Gateshead, GBR
September 7th, 2008: Rieti 2008, Rieti, ITA
September 13th - 14th, 2008: IAAF World Athletics Final at Stuttgart, GER