TFS News Briefs: 04/22/2008
Posted April 22nd, 2008 at 7:04 PM by Jimmie R. Markham
Section: News & Results, Track & Field, Olympics, Drugs In Sports, TFS News Briefs
John McDonnell To Retire After 36 Years, 42 Titles
Thirty-Six years, 25 Olympians, 42 NCAA National Titles, 181 All-Americans who have earned 643 All-America honors. That’s just some of the legacy the incomparable John McDonnell leaves behind when he retires from his head coach position at the University of Arkansas at the end of the 2008 season.
Read more at: [Google News]
No Positives at the 2008 World Indoor Championships
We all know what kinds of positives I mean, too. Positive tests for steroids, juice, gym candy. Whatever you want to call it, there was none of it at the 2008 IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Valencia, Spain. Has our sport managed to clean itself up? This is certainly a good sign. Now we’re just left with the unenviable task of cleaning up our image. (Perhaps even more remarkable is the fact that ESPN is covering the sport of Track & Field!)
Read more at: [ESPN]
“Bird’s Nest” Architect Discusses Efforts To Fine-Tune Beijing Olympic Stadium
Li Xinggang, the chief architect of the Beijing Olympic Stadium (dubbed the “Bird’s Nest” because of its shape) discusses the fine points of getting his creation ready of the Olympic Games, which begin on 8/08/2008. “We did find some minor problems. For instance, we designed duo doors for the washrooms. Users were meant to enter and exit from different doors, but Chinese users are not accustomed to this and they just turned back and exited from the same door. Now we have to rethink the design: do we revise it and yield to conventional practice or insist on our own design and ask users to learn a new way?”
Read more at: [Beijing08]
Focus On The Science of Kenyan Running
Ross Tucker and Jonathan Dugas at Science of Sport offer some insightful commentary on the scientific aspects of marathoning as it relates to the Kenyans and the perception that they will dominate in Beijing.
Read more at: [Science of Sport]
Clay Withdraws From His Favorite Meet To Focus On Trials
Olympic silver medalist Bryan Clay has decided to withdraw from his favorite track meet (the Hypo Meet in Goetzis, Austria) so that he can focus on the U.S. Olympic Track & Field Trials. Such are the sacrifices athletes of this caliber have to make to attain their lofty dreams. Read more at: [IHT]
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