John Fahey, former president of WADA, dies aged 75

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Well, specific strength training is anything designed to bridge general strength/power training (squat/snatch) and competition throwing by replicating...

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Yep, and that's why the old Q standards are not really comparable to the new ones. They are not really trying to achieve the same things as PVP pointed...

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The article itself cautions that the numbers may be too small for non-100m events and that no account was taken of altitude. Of course that doen't undermine...

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Schult's response to the question about strength training didn't really align with the question and is out of sequence, so it is easy to misunderstand....

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I looked at this earlier this year during Canberra's extended smoke haze.

The standard, official calculations for AQI are based on a rolling...

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Vault-emort's original musing about the potential lack of knowledge regarding early indigenous athletes was based on specific government policies regarding...

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Unfortunately, there is no readily available dataset for classifying the competition standard for historical races and I'm too lazy to try and create...

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Here is deeper list with Sanchez and Jackson at 6 and 7 respectively.

Source: www.alltime-athletics.com Data includes all rounds.
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Yes, a bit late to be the first at CWG. That honour belongs to "Bourke's Bounciest Blackfella", Percy Hobson back in the Perth '62 edition when...

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John was the Premier of Australia's largest state, New South Wales, during the succesful bid process for the Sydney Olympics.

He later became...

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You can even get a quote for bulk supply!

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Thanks for the tease!

So it's possible that she could have squeezed in another 9 consecutive wins from '51-'59 at age 15-23 (b. 1936)....

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Absolutely, and her daughter, Rachel Stirling is also a fine actress, unlike some other luvvie offspring infecting the entertainment industry recently....

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Sympathies from Australia.

Heavy smoke is hard to escape unless you have a whole of house HEPA filter and passivhaus (or close to it) air...

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The link to the Iolanda Balas story on the main page made me check to see if she had been mentioned in this thread.

Given her long unbroken...

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And now an open letter of concern to The Lancet and authors regarding the Russian vaccine paper: https://cattiviscienziati.com/2020/09/07/note-of-con...

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I think I'll stick to inside tips on the Dapto dogs - they're more reliable!

For whatever reason, nobody ran even close to NR but the...

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gm's data series in visual format:

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I posted the above re the Russian vaccine back in August. The Lancet now has some assessment of Stage1/2 outcomes. https://www.thelancet.com/action/...

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Yes, gh is right.

There's specific provision for multiple WR in field events but there is a catch - you don't automatically get credit for...