Clueless writing about our sport

[tandfman]

Aside from American Jim Ryun’s amazing 3:54.8 performance at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico (7,340), no other sub-4:00 mile has been recorded above 5,000 feet.

Did you know that they ran a mile in the 1968 Olympic Games? That's news to me.

https://www.runnersworld.com/races-places/a28751765/breaking-four-minute-mile-at-altitude/

[bobguild76]

Clueless headline writer:

>>West Indian women dominate high jump at Pa Nam Games<<

https://dominicanewsonline.com/news/...-pa-nam-games/

They must have been thinking about the Hunger Games, held in Pa Nem! :-)

[Trickstat]

Clueless headline writer:

>>West Indian women dominate high jump at Pa Nam Games<<

https://dominicanewsonline.com/news/...-pa-nam-games/

Is that a Games only for people with Vietnamese fathers?

[guru]

Article by CNBC writer on Felix signing with Athleta. (bold mine)

As she stepped up to compete in a 400-meter run at the USA Track and Field Outdoor Championships in Des Moines, Iowa, she was decked out in Athleta’s Lightning crop top and running shorts made from a new SuperSonic fabric. She finished sixth, enough to qualify for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/30/gaps-athleta-brand-signs-sponsorship-deal-with-olympian-allyson-felix.html

[tandfman]

Clueless headline writer:

>>West Indian women dominate high jump at Pa Nam Games<<

https://dominicanewsonline.com/news/homepage/news/west-indian-women-dominate-high-jump-at-pa-nam-games/

[tandfman]

This has been noted on the Current Events MB, but it's worth noting here. It's the report of a street pole vault in Omaha a few days ago and it includes this:

Kendricks won with a clearance of 5.90 meters and Chris Nilsen finished in second place with 5.90 meters on countback.

The height that they cleared was actually 5.80, not 5.90.

http://www.digitaljournal.com/sports/review-sam-kendricks-sandi-morris-win-capitol-district-vault-in-omaha/article/555215#ixzz5vdmmRNRt

[gh]

or the Championship Relays of America (Penn)
or the National Relay Championships (Arkansas)

[gm]

Almost as bad as calling something the World Series...

[tandfman]

Fake news, sez I.

[Atticus]

That doesn't make their event a North American Championships.

It is if they say it is! They can even trademark it, I bet.

[tandfman]

That doesn't make their event a North American Championships.

[gm]

Did you know that there was a North American Pole Vault Championship in California yesterday? Neither did I.

https://kmph.com/great-day/michael-i...t-championship

Yep, the North American Pole Vaulting Association has been around for a bit.

[tandfman]

Did you know that there was a North American Pole Vault Championship in California yesterday? Neither did I.

https://kmph.com/great-day/michael-in-the-mix/michael-previews-the-north-american-pole-vault-championship

[Atticus]

>>NAIROBI, July 11 (Xinhua) -- Kenya's 3000m steeplechase specialist Beatrice Chepkoech will return to Monaco on Friday, on a track she broke the world record two years ago, eyeing another win.<<

C'mon, now - they got the name right, the event right, the place right, the WR right - 4 outta 5 ain't bad!

[tandfman]

Getting back to clueless writing, how's this:

>>NAIROBI, July 11 (Xinhua) -- Kenya's 3000m steeplechase specialist Beatrice Chepkoech will return to Monaco on Friday, on a track she broke the world record two years ago, eyeing another win.<<

It happens that she broke the steeple WR in Monaco last year, not two years ago.

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-07/11/c_138218409.htm