RIP Phil Coleman

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Died 25 July 2021 in St. Petersburg, Florida. Confirmed by family friend.

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Phil Coleman, USA steeplechaser at the 1956 and 1960 Olympics, died "overnight" on 25-26 July. AAU Champion in steeple n 1959-60 and 1959 Pan...

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Even Willie Nelson made it popular again - song and album of the same name...

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No, I don't think they had all 3 jerseys in the Giro when Coppi was riding. It was Tony Rominger who did it one year in the Vuelta a Espana...

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Been in Tokyo now for 3 days. Its warm but doesn't seem anything close to the scorching temps the media is promulgating. But you must remember I have...

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Yes, horses are fully tested. There have been several DQs at the Olympics where the horse was found to have been treated with something on the banned...

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Actually one year Merckx won yellow, green and polka-dot. That has only been done one other time at a Grand Tour - any ideas who that was and in what...

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Hinault did it in 1979 - won 7 stages that year - 4 time trials, 1 mountain stage, 2 flat stages...

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What about the shot put?...

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Died a few days ago in July 2021. European record holder with what was the 2nd longest jump in the world (at the time) after Beamon's (8.45)

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I downloaded the thing today - unless I'm wrong - its actually only 468 pages and the book is duplicated with the final 468 pages the same as the first...

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This is a pretty amazing twitter thread from Nick Butler, who works with Hajo Seppelt, a German guy, and the two basically seek out doping scandals. But...

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The Olympics stopped having demonstration sports after Barcelona in 1992....

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Gen Leslie Groves was the administrative leader of the Manhattan Project. He said basically the same thing. Make sure you hire the right people, and let...

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Yes, Michael Rabinovich works very hard on his brinkster site. Good site....

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Cycling/Rowing is getting to be a more common combination. In addition to Bond, Rebecca Romero rowed for Great Britain at the 2004 Olympics and then competed...

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This sport double has been 3 times at the Olympics. Paul Reneau also did it for Belize in 1984/1988, same as Gould. It was done another time back in 1906/08...

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At last estimate Olympieda had about 75 million data points...

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As I do a lot of this stuff, I'll simply say that El Toro is exactly right. You do enough large datasets and you will have errors and people will find...

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There are no Olympians in T&F with the initials TFN - there are 3 Olympians with those initials - one in wrestling, one in luge (Timothy Francis Nardiello-USA),...