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[tandfman]

Good mark for a high school soph, but not a PR--she did 6-3/4 (1.85) as a frosh last year. She did that in early April and never approached that mark...

[tandfman]

De mortuis nil nisi bonum. Ken Young passed away two years ago.

[tandfman]

Where in Mexico? Altitude?

Just looked it up to answer my own question. Mexico City with its 2000+ meter altitude....

[tandfman]

Has anyone posted this story from Bloomberg News?

Headline:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...22/coronavirus...

[tandfman]

Commercial sponsorships even more so. (e.g., Hy-Vee at Drake)...

[tandfman]

Mondo is certainly the favorite at this point, but "pretty much a given"? As we all know, on a given day, anything can happen and often does...

[tandfman]

Wanna splain that?...

[tandfman]

I think the 1995 race, which was ratified, may have been his only Reno race, and I don't recall that it ever had an asterisk....

[tandfman]

But didn't you have to get a boarding pass to get through security? And didn't you need ID at check-in to get a boarding pass?...

[tandfman]

Drake has gone out of their way in recent years to have a good number of non-relay events with high-quality elite fields. The others have not....

[tandfman]

It sounds to me as if he was under the DACA program, which has been under some scrutiny lately....

[tandfman]

That would certainly suggest that he does not have US citizenship. Moreover, it would also inhibit his representing Guatemala in international competition...

[tandfman]

He may have done Reno twice. I believe one of his performances was ratified as a World Indoor Record.

[tandfman]

The track in Reno was at altitude, but was 200m, not oversized....

[tandfman]

Good clue, but it's not likely to help if one has never heard of her, as I hadn't before I looked up the answer....

[tandfman]

This one just astonished me. Penn junior Nia Akins ran the 800 on Friday in 2:00.71. This was #2 on the all-time collegiate indoor list (and #1 among...

[tandfman]

I never skied at all because the ski season always conflicted with the indoor track season....

[tandfman]

Bubka set three WIRs within 9 days in 1991. Without looking it up, I'd assume they were in consecutive meets.

[tandfman]

For one skier, the wait for the chairlift was his last. Headline: Skier suffocates to death after getting caught in Colorado chairlift

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[tandfman]

Just curious--what did you think it meant?