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USATF Champs (The Guard is Changing)
We’re getting close to the debut of the outdoor season. As entertaining as indoors has been so far, it’s merely the prelims for the real show outdoors. That said we still have a few weeks of indoor action left – what should be the most exciting part of all, championships. Last weekend’s USATF meet, set the stage for collegiate conferences, the NCAA’s themselves, and the World Indoor Championships. All of which promise exciting competition. The USATF champs was exciting for a couple reasons. The first because the competition was hot! The other because that hot competition was between mostly new names and faces. Something we need desperately here in the…
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You Know It’s an Off Season When …
Track and Field exists in its own alternate universe where semi finals consist of THREE heats, and the focus on promoting the sport is NOT on the competition, but individual performances! In that same vein, it’s the rare sport where its most outstanding performances tend to occur outside of championship settings and in seasons where there is no major championships at all – the Off Season. We’re not like swimming where records and sensational times fall like leaves from the trees when their World Championships and the Games come around. Especially in events longer than one lap where running fast – for whatever reasons – takes a backseat to tactics.…