Photo Contest?

[Bob R]

Re: Photo Contest?

For those not familiar with the site, check out photographer Randy Miyazaki's site at http://www.trackandfieldphoto.com . At last count, just over 62,000 images.

[jennefir]

Re: Photo Contest?

62000 images? Whew...

How about one good one: Tonique Williams: http://www.suddenstop.net/blog

[mojo]

Re: Photo Contest?

I loved the picture and caption in a 1976 Olympic issue of Juantorena...it said Juantorena twotarena.....the spelling may be off there-it was a long time ago but it has stuck in my mind ever since!

[DrJay]

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>Dear Mrs. DrJay,
T&FNews fans sign a blood oath never to discard a
>single issue,its true,just ask Mrs. Wineturtle...she seems to have gone
>missing,I'll just look under this pile...nope under the pile in the attic..nope
>but here is a Sieg Lindstrom /Dennis Mitchell article...I'll get back to you..

Dear Mrs. Wineturtle,

You are invited to join TAFAnon, our support group for neglected wives of track and field addicts. If your Mr. is like mine, you need some emotional support. I get my hair cut and he hardly notices, but twelve times a year he acts like a six year-old on Christmas morning when that silly little running magazine arrives. He can barely remember Junior's birth date but he can tell you who won the 50 yard dash in Casablanca in 1979, and, if he (heaven forbid!) can't remember, he knows just where to find it, practically down to the page, in the "Archives", meaning the stacks of the old issues of the same silly little running magazine which, in our closet, date back about to Reconstruction. It's all about numbers, numbers this, numbers that, English and metric, yards and meters and times and seconds (he thought his college roommate--a runner, of course--had a great philosophy about women and numbers....stick to numbers, they're more reliable. I wonder whom he married, 6 or 7?) He thinks all those anorectic Africans on the covers of that silly magazine are so fit--I wonder if we should send their coach some lunch money for them? He came home a few weeks ago all in a tizzy, carrying on about how some college hurriers from here in Colorado just won some big races, two races, and about isn't the Internet great 'cause you can just about learn who won a race before it's even over. So now running and jumping and throwing events aren't enough, now they have events that are just plain hurrying events.

Do you think we could start a good class-action suit, maybe against silly running magazines or Nike or jockstrap manufacturers or maybe just against....runners, all runners, you know, for pain and suffering, and deprivation of companionship? Anyway, we meet one night each month, on the day that silly little running magazine is delivered. First-timers, hon, bring the bon-bons. See you soon.

Mrs. DrJay

[jennefir]

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>For those not familiar with the site, check out photographer Randy Miyazaki's
>site at http://www.trackandfieldphoto.com . At last count, just over 62,000
>images.

Interesting site, but rather like visiting the Largest Ball of Twine Museum: a) briefly interesting, but b) potential greater utility in smaller quantity.

[gh]

Re: Photo Contest?

>I loved the picture and caption in a 1976 Olympic issue of Juantorena...it
>said Juantorena twotarena.....the spelling may be off there-it was a long time
>ago but it has stuck in my mind ever since!>>

I got roasted over the coals for writing/publishing that. The boss thought I had sullied a great Olympic performance with such a lighthearted approach. So nice to be vindicated after all these years! :-)

[tafnut]

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I missed this (Mrs. DrJ) post first time around. You are definitely invited to exercise your lierary stylings whenever you wish.
:-)

[dj]

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>>I loved the picture and caption in a 1976 Olympic issue of
>Juantorena...it
>said Juantorena twotarena.....the spelling may be off
>I got roasted over the coals for writing/publishing that. The boss thought I had
>sullied a great Olympic performance with such a lighthearted approach. So nice
>to be vindicated after all these years! :-)

I'm stunned, both because I've never heard the story, and because the cap is probably the best-remembered in T&FN history!

[MJD]

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Anyway, we meet one night each month, on the day
>that silly little running magazine is delivered.

I'll be a month late for the meeting.

[DrJay]

Re: Photo Contest?

>>I loved the picture and caption in a 1976 Olympic issue of
>Juantorena...it
>said Juantorena twotarena.....the spelling may be off
>there-it was a long time
>ago but it has stuck in my mind ever since!>>

I
>got roasted over the coals for writing/publishing that. The boss thought I had
>sullied a great Olympic performance with such a lighthearted approach. So nice
>to be vindicated after all these years! :-)

A fitting title, a little saying that speaks of child's play and that's what El Caballo made it look like, child's play.

[DrJay]

Re: Photo Contest?

GH, was there much debate over what photo to put on the 1976 Olympic edition cover? Viren's double (plus marathon) was awesome as well and the photo of the 5K finish, as I've said, is my favorite. Was it in the running for the cover?