The CHill Zone of T&F: Conway's View From the Finish Line
Jul 7th, 2013
9:11 am PDT
Suddenly the World Championships are very close, and we got a couple of very good "tune up" meets on back to back days (Thu/Sat) that I think started to set the stage for Moscow.
Now's the time when we either watch athletes start to reach their peak or begin to falter a bit. Either way, we're starting to get a clue at where the best battles may be when the first events begin at the World Championships Read More...
Tags: Bolt, Bondarenko, Gay, Hejnova, James, Lausanne, Merritt, Okagbare, Oliver, Paris
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Jun 2nd, 2013
11:18 am PDT
Ok people, like Christmas the Prefontaine Classic has come and gone - and just like Christmas I find myself the day after trying to figure out how it compares to meets past. It's not a question of whether or not I liked the meet. It was track and field, of course I liked it. The question is to what degree was my appetite for the sport satiated? Perhaps because of the discussion about the sport in general over the past week I may be a bit more "critical" than usual, but I found the meet to be "just ok" for me Read More...
Tags: Barshim, Cain, Dix, Fraser, Hejnova, James, Merritt
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May 18th, 2013
9:33 am PDT
Perhaps Doha raised the bar a bit high, but I didn't come away from Shanghai with the same WOW factor that I had following the Diamond League opener. A nice set of marks were turned in, but that special something was missing in most of the events on the track. One running event that hit on all cylinders however, was the men's 400 as both LaShawn Merritt and Kirani James showed up to compete Read More...
Tags: Fraser, Gatlin, Hejnova, Isinbayeva, James, Jeter, Kiprop, Merritt, Okagbare, Richardson, Weir
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May 16th, 2013
10:25 am PDT
It's time for the second installment of the Diamond League, and if Doha was any indication of how the year is going to go then Shanghai should be a real humdinger! Looking at the start lists, things should once again be exiting from start to finish. As usual however, there are some events that I am especially looking forward to: Men's 110 Hurdles Aries Merritt, David Oliver, Jason Richardson This is one of those wonderful events where the best compete head to head quite often - and the anticipation never drops Read More...
Tags: Borlee, Demus, Fraser, Gatlin, Gordon, Hejnova, James, Jeter, Makusha, Merritt, Okagbare, Oliver, Patton, Phillips, Richardson, Rutherford, Saladino, Spearmon, Spencer, Tarmoh, Watt, Weir, Young
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Mar 28th, 2012
3:37 pm PDT
If you like speed and competition then you must like the hurdles. Unlike the pure sprinters, who seem to avoid each other as much as possible until forced to toe the line for championships, the hurdlers compete often and face each other with regularity.
The sprinters tend to get more publicity but of the four hurdle events three of them have legitimate shots at having WR’s broken – two by more than one individual Read More...
Tags: Anderson, Antyukh, Carruthers, Clement, Crawford, Demus, Dutch, Gordon, Greene, Harper, Hejnova, Jackson, Jones, Liu, Merritt, Oliver, Pearson, Richardson, Robles, Spencer, Taylor, Trammell, Van Zyl, Walker, Wells, Wilson
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Dec 28th, 2011
12:10 pm PST
Now that we’ve taken a look at the men, it’s time to do the same with the women, because there will certainly be those women that step out of the shadows to make headlines. After getting drubbed by the Eastern Bloc sprinters in ’76, Evelyn Ashford became Kryptonite to the Iron Curtain Superwomen demolishing them at the ’79 World Cup before making headlines at the ’84 Los Angeles Games Read More...
Tags: Beard, Cherono, Hejnova, Klishina, Krais, Okagbare, Olympics, Patterson, Porter, Tarmoh, Wright
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Nov 19th, 2011
5:49 pm PST
The women had a much better season relative to their male counterparts. Whereas the men seemed to have difficulty coming up with quality times, the women had no such troubles. Right off the bat, the women started asserting themselves as Lashinda Demus (USA) turned 54.85 to set a solid world lead on May 7th Read More...
Tags: 400 Hurdles, Antyukh, Demus, Hejnova, Spencer, Walker
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