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So far no one has stacked up with my fave, Gabriela Soukalova. She made biathlon cool.

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You guys are tough. Now I figure I was lucky to get Maurice Green a couple days ago.

If you'd been doing these back in the late 80s/early...

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I have to ask what sort of research is allowed in these questions. Do we have to go strictly from memory? Or can I look up results of old meets as long...

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What is a typical opening 200 for WJ? In Doha, with a running start she looks to be high-23s, which looks to be rather conservative.

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I just booted my "Olympic" disc to my DVR for the next fortnight and the '19 championships were still there. Watching the race again, Jonathas...

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For years my favorite moment was Bruce Jenner crossing the finish line in Montreal. The fruits of focus, commitment, and dedication.

Then...

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At Sunkist and the LA Times meets we'd often have a Masters 60. Newman was usually in them, and this gave us an automatic note for his introduction....

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Maybe a little more representation for the old-timers? Yes, of course we can only guess at the comparisons, and it seems unlikely that Hal Davis or Charley...

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Robert Ouko was on that '72 team, yes? Anchored their SM relay. So he was probably fast enough to run on the 4x4

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Justin Clouder has waxed eloquently about Hayes over the years. He's made some really interesting (and sometimes controversial) observations about the...

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Doh!

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I don't think anyone did unless they deleted their post....

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. . . or risk blowing up by going out too hard when a modest pace is still good enough to win comfortably?...

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Couple interesting things about this - first, that the Soviets were willing to meet the Americans head-to-head prior to the Olympics, and second, that...

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My guess is that Dwight remembered some examples of good HJ / JT combinations, and perhaps a couple bad pairs, and extrapolated based on a small data...

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I found the same in my "CIF alumni records" post, and I assumed it was because I pasted in part of an Excel spreadsheet which goes into the...

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Did she get a clean sweep of seven PBs then? That tops Avilov, who got what, 8 of 10 in 72?

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Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but how does that work? Or was that sum of pre-trials PBs?...

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I made the comment to my wife a few days ago that I would love to sneak up on the president of NBC just as he's waking up in the morning, still groggy,...

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Stones used to say that high jumpers tended to be good javelin throwers. (Maybe he still does, though I haven't seen him cover a deca in a long time.)...