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TFS News Briefs: 4/02/08

Posted April 2nd, 2008 at 2:30 PM by Jimmie R. Markham

Section: News & Results, Marathons, Track & Field, Olympics

TFS News Briefs
Team USA Secret Weapons Revealed
Cooling vests used by Deena Kastor and Meb Keflezighi at the 2004 Olympics gave them the edge in the heat of the Athens marathons. What are USOC’s scientists doing now to prepare US athletes for Beijing? This Washington Post article reveals a Manhattan Project-like effort.
Read more at: [Washington Post]

Transitional Year For Oregon Track Team
An article in Eugene’s Register Guard provides a good overview of the current states of the University of Oregon’s track team Ducks’ coach Vin Lananna said, “we’re looking at this year as a very interesting gap. We have a spectacularly young team, and how we do depends on their learning curve … but honestly, we need to be focusing our attention on 2010 when the NCAAs are here [in Eugene, OR]. That’s when we need to be firing on all cylinders, and we’ve got two years to get it right.”
Read more at: [The Register-Guard]

Warehouse No. 812 May Spawn Olympians
An article in Northern California’s Modesto Bee profiles Tri-Valley Athletics who train in Warehouse No. 812 located in an old Navy warehouse at the Port of Stockton. Athletes include two-time Olympian Suzy Powell, pole vaulter Tye Harvey and his wife Three-time Olympian Amy Acuff.
Read more at: [Modesto Bee]
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TFS News Briefs: 3/22/08

Posted March 22nd, 2008 at 12:00 PM by Jimmie R. Markham

Section: News & Results, Cross Country, Track & Field, TFS News Briefs, Masters

TFS News Briefs
Preview Of Oregon Preview
Eugene, OR’s Register-Guard, arguably THE track & field newspaper, has a preview of the University of Oregon’s Oregon Preview track & field meet which will serve as the unveiling of the newly renovated Hayward Field, which arguably may be THE track & field stadium.
Read more at: [Register-Guard]

The Man Who Would Be King
Joseph Ebuya of Kenya is profiled in Kenya’s Standard. He is vying to upset the great Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia to become the 2008 world cross-country champion. “I want only gold,” he said. “I know that if we keep up with him from the first minute we have a chance of beating him.”
Read more at: [Standard, Kenya]

Show Me the Money!
Of course we all know that cross-country athletes are in it solely for financial gain, not for the love of the sport. Here’s an article on the IAAF detailing the prize money for the 36th IAAF World Cross-Country Championships which will be held on March 30th, 2008 in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Read more at: [IAAF]
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TFS News Briefs: 3/21/08
Special NCAA Track & Field Edition

Posted March 21st, 2008 at 12:00 PM by Jimmie R. Markham

Section: News & Results, Track & Field, TFS News Briefs

TFS News Briefs
2008 NCAA Outdoor Track & Field: Week 1
The 2008 NCAA Outdoor Track & Field season officially kicks off in fine style this weekend with 38 (count ‘em, 38!) meets throughout the country. The U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association has links to all of them on their website. Schedules like this one are truly a track junkie’s dream come true.
Read more at: [USTFCCCA]

ASU Opens Outdoor Season At Home
ASU, the 2008 NCAA Indoor Track & Field Champions, will open their outdoor season at home this weekend at the Baldy Castillo Invitational. Both the men’s team and the women’s team won the NCAA national titles last weekend. The meet will be contested on the Joe Selleh Track at Sun Angel Stadium in Tempe, AZ.
Read more at: [Sun Devils]

Oregon Host First Meet At Revamped Hayward Field
The University of Oregon’s historic Hayward Field has had an $8 Million facelift in preparation for the 2008 U.S. Olympic Track & Field Trials, and now the Ducks want to show her off to the world. Folks will get their first look at the freshly-reminted stadium by hosting the Oregon Preview on Saturday, March 22nd, 2008. Over 550 athletes from throughout the Northwest will be competing in the meet.
Read more at: [Go Ducks][Hayward Field]
Image courtesy of GoDucks.com.
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