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We have the world champs in a week. So C/D S/D etc.

― anthony, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I did shot put in Junior High.

― Mike Hanley, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ha, just mentioned this down below! ;-) Thanks to my dad, megahuge track fan extraordinaire (has been to at least three national championships at last count if not more, was a jogger well before it was cool and has done many long distance runs over the years, including a number of marathons), it is Fucking Classic and I will always think so. Sometimes I think the greatest night of sports I've ever seen was that one night in Barcelona 1992 where it was just one phenomenal performance after another, topped off with a US relay victory that was stunning (and did not involve the members acting like assholes as in Sydney, the fuckers). All the actual track events are huge favorites of mine (okay, maybe not the distance walking ;-)), while most of the field events have their particular charms, especially whenever the big folks scream out after hurling shotputs/hammers/discuses/etc. Daley Thompson = fave dude in the 1984 Olympics. Michael Johnson exploding down the track in Atlanta 1996 = holy fuck. Cathy Freeman winning events like mad in Sydney = damn satisfying.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I like the feild events , hate the track events. we have tickets for Pole vaulting.

― anthony, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh yeah, what the fuck was I thinking -- Marion Jones, Jackie Joyner- Kersee, Florence Griffith-Joyner: GENIUS. Poetry in motion, etc.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ZOLA BUDD is my destiny

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You did this just to make Paul have a heart attack, didn't you?

― Kate the Saint, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I always wished there were more combined events, like polevault race with hammer throw boxing

― Mike Hanle y, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Work dwarves in there somewhere and you're on to something.

― Steven James, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Javelin high jump with wrestlin g and dwarve fucking?

― Mike Hanle y, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If you can do that all at once, you're a better athlete than I.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dwarf fucking. That's it. This board has officially reached a new low.

― Kate the Saint, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Was that a pun? (New low, dwarves, pole vaulting etc..)

― Steven James, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

KAte, by the time I'm through, this board will have gone so low it will come out the other side.

― Mike Hanle y, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I expect angel song and harps at any moment...

― Kate the Saint, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ANgels in thongs drinking harp? Thats not so low.

― Mike Hanle y, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The track sprint events at Olympic and Commonwealth Games level (only stuff I see) are excellent viewing (palpable tension: four years training blown in seconds if slow outta the blocks). Back on topic: www.fuckingmidgets.com

― AP, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh, and triple jump is the dumbest thing ever. Who invented that? It's just silly. Long jump I can understand — run along, see how far you can jump, it's valid. But triple jump w/ the whole hop skip n' jump thing? That just seems so arbitrary picking those three things. They'd totally improve it if the second step wuz replaced by everyone having to pause & do the John Travolta pose out of Saturday Night Fever.

― AP, Saturday, 21 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What about the LIMBO? How LOOOW can you go. Or: who can ROLL the fastest across 100 yards. They shd abolish all track and field and replace w/ RHYTHMIC GYMNASTICS BY ADULTS.

― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 21 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I really, really, really, really, really, really, really wish Paula Radcliffe would stop nodding.

― Madchen, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

two weeks pass...

Marion Jones loses! Places 2nd in 100m World Champs final! First non-victory in four years! Beaten by "woman from the Ukraine"!! What dilly?!

― AP, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

two years pass...

HEY, COULD SOMEBODY PLEASE ANSWER A PROPER QUESTION ABOUT PROPER TRACK AND FIELD FOR ME, PLEASE?!?!?

Now that I've got your attention...

In Track & Field, the sport variety - what event is "HT"?

High something, I would guess...

I need to know. Don't ask me why.

― kate (kate), Monday, 27 October 2003 14:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Hammer Throw?

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 27 October 2003 14:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Is that a T&F event? Please don't take the piss, because I honestly wouldn't know if you were joking.

I've been trying to look it up on Google, but sport webpages are filtered at work. :-(

― kate (kate), Monday, 27 October 2003 14:29 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.houstonhighlandgames.com/images/hammer_throw.jpg

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 27 October 2003 14:30 (twenty-two years ago)

haha, that looks more like Croquet For Teamsters

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 27 October 2003 14:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Either that's an image that's filtered, or else it's a blank message.

Can't you just tell me what it is? I mean, it's not important, but I do *need* to know... I can't tell you why, though.

― kate (kate), Monday, 27 October 2003 14:31 (twenty-two years ago)

the hammer is now a large ball of metal with a chain coming out of it attached to a handle. The burly gentleman (or now lady) spins round to get some momentum up (within a circle of around 12 feet in diameter) and then launches it down the field. So yes it is real

― chris (chris), Monday, 27 October 2003 14:33 (twenty-two years ago)

we're going with Hammer Throw - but in an actual T&F event it's more like a ball and chain

http://www.yippeeland.com/character/yetiplanet/non-flash%20site/image/yeti-hammer.jpg

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 27 October 2003 14:35 (twenty-two years ago)

For real? You wouldn't make this up, would you?

::falls down in fits laughing::

― kate (kate), Monday, 27 October 2003 14:35 (twenty-two years ago)

kate is this for a radio phone-in or something?

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 27 October 2003 14:38 (twenty-two years ago)

No, I'm so ashamed I can't tell you what it's for.

― kate (kate), Monday, 27 October 2003 14:39 (twenty-two years ago)

it's definitely a T&F event, it was one of the hardest events on the T&F video game.

― Fuzzy (Fuzzy), Monday, 27 October 2003 14:51 (twenty-two years ago)

i guess they can't call it Ball & Chain cos too many people would confuse it with the Annual Wife-Tossing Championships of Bavaria

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 27 October 2003 14:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Please stop, you are making me laugh so hard I'm going to have to go and take refuge in the loo.

Somewhere on this page is the reason that I wanted to know, honest to god, it just googled up out of nowhere, I'm not a stalker, I'm just bored, honest!

― kate (kate), Monday, 27 October 2003 14:58 (twenty-two years ago)

i guess its the actor not the murderer

― charltonlido (gareth), Monday, 27 October 2003 15:06 (twenty-two years ago)

What murderer? What are you talking about?

― kate (kate), Monday, 27 October 2003 15:08 (twenty-two years ago)

fatal blow lands teenager in jail

― charltonlido (gareth), Monday, 27 October 2003 15:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Nigel killed somone?

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 27 October 2003 15:27 (twenty-two years ago)

No! The young mens Under 15s Hammer Toss champion killed someone, apparently.

I don't know whether I am more amused by the idea of NStheHH tossing balls and chains or scared by the idea that he might come from Blackheath. Though that would make sense in a scary kind of "the world is about this big" sort of way.

I REALLY need to get a hobby or something. Preferably one that is less boring than SQL programming. Sigh.

― kate (kate), Monday, 27 October 2003 15:30 (twenty-two years ago)

OK, I'm starting to scare myself. I think I should go work for a while now. The limits of human boredom...

― kate (kate), Monday, 27 October 2003 15:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Whats wrong with coming up with well structured queries?

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 27 October 2003 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I ran competitively between ages 11 and 18.

T&F Specialties = 1 mile/1500m and 2 mile/3000m and the occasional steeplechase when offered. I ran a 4:25 mile as a junior, my personal best.

Those days are LOOOOOOOOOONG gone though. I doubt I could break 6:00 today.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 27 October 2003 15:43 (twenty-two years ago)

iif(val(left(contact2.inttime,2))*60+val(subs(contact2.inttime,4,2))=0,0,iif(val(left(contact2.inttime,2))*60+val(subs(contact2.inttime,4,2))<=60,contact2.agncyfircs,iif(mod((val(left(contact2.inttime,2))*60+val(subs(contact2.inttime,4,2))-60),15)<>0,(int(((val(left(contact2.inttime,2))*60+val(subs(contact2.inttime,4,2))-60)/15)+1)*contact2.agncysubhr)+contact2.agncyfircs,(((val(left(contact2.inttime,2))*60+val(subs(contact2.inttime,4,2))-60)/15)*contact2.agncysubhr)+contact2.agncyfircs)))

Do you wonder why I'm so bored?

― kate (kate), Monday, 27 October 2003 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah, Blackheath Harriers, we had friends who ran for them, so they were on my checklist when we went up to watch the London Marathon (Woking AC, Blackheath Harriers, Jimmy Saville, Peter Duncan, Ghurkas). We'd see them all through near the Cutty Sark (although not actually at the Cutty Sark - too many people), then peg it under the river to catch them all come past again on the Isle of Dogs, then dash to Waterloo to find sweaty, tired, blistered, silverfoiled, bemedalled Dad waiting for us under the clock. He used to try to swipe 2 mars bars so my sister and I could have one each.

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 27 October 2003 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

(contact2.inttime,2) = nu techno speak for "tea for two, and two for tea"?

― Mark C (Mark C), Monday, 27 October 2003 15:49 (twenty-two years ago)

select a.id account,
t.job,
t.id,
t.activity,
t.security,
s.cusip,
s.description_1,
t.price,
t.units,
t.dated,
t.blotter,
a.business_unit,
bu.institution,
blocks.trade_count
from business_unit bu, account a, security s, settlement_item si, trade t, (
select substr( min( t.job || t.id ), 1, 5 ) a_job,
to_number( substr( min( t.job || t.id ), 6 ) ) an_id,
count( unique t.block_trade_job || t.block_trade_id ) trade_count
from inventory_account_id ic1, inventory_account_id ic2, settlement_item s2, trade t, settlement_item s1
where s1.processed_on BETWEEN to_date('&tcti_start_date', 'DD-MON-YYYY' ) and to_date('&tcti_end_date', 'DD-MON-YYYY' )
and s1.source_job = t.job
and s1.source_id = t.id
and s1.source_type = 'T'
and s1.side = 'P'
and t.block_trade_job is not null
and s2.source_job = s1.source_job
and s2.source_id = s1.source_id
and s2.source_type = 'T'
and s2.side in ( 'S', 'T' )
and s1.counterparty_account = ic1.account
and s2.counterparty_account = ic2.account
and ic1.inventory_type in ('P','N','M')
and ic2.inventory_type in ('P','N','M')
) blocks
where blocks.a_job = t.job
and blocks.an_id = t.id
and si.source_job = t.job
and si.source_id = t.id
and si.source_type = 'T'
and si.side = 'P'
and s.id = si.security
and a.id = si.counterparty_account
and bu.id = a.business_unit
;

Which didn't quite do what I wanted to but its fun for the whole family none the less.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 27 October 2003 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)

iif(TIME()>="17:00:00",{MAKE COFFEE},{HOME})

Don't make me write a macro for making coffee...

― kate (kate), Monday, 27 October 2003 15:59 (twenty-two years ago)

There was a brilliant Foxtrot comic about that.

nvl(Kate.work, Go Home! )

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 27 October 2003 16:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Brilliant!

― Mark C (Mark C), Monday, 27 October 2003 16:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry U Of T, not that they should notice being so freaking HUGE.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 27 October 2003 16:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Dude, that picture is so filtered. Why? (Is it to do with coffee? Filtered, Coffee, geddit, hur hur?)

I feel sorry for the people who actually come onto this thread expecting to talk about, like, running and stuff, and here we are writing SQL macros to stalk Cambridge Art History Professors.

― kate (kate), Monday, 27 October 2003 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~andria/csc/108f00/lecture/w00/java_joke.html

And it won't go through?

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 27 October 2003 16:08 (twenty-two years ago)

i ran track in high school! i remember throwing up EVERY TIME after the 400 meters. that race is hell, i get nervous just thinking about it.

track meets with friends and lots of downtime can be extremely fun. oh the memories...

― ryan (ryan), Monday, 27 October 2003 16:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Filtered. Category: Sports.

Like that whole Blackheath & Bromley Track & Field site wasn't?

I really don't get the filtering system here.

― kate (kate), Monday, 27 October 2003 16:10 (twenty-two years ago)

system.out.println ("Yawn!");
and
int [] usualDisArray;
are pure comedy gold

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 27 October 2003 16:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Check your mail.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 27 October 2003 16:11 (twenty-two years ago)

(Maybe I am safe and he is really from Bromley. I hadn't thought about that.)

― kate (kate), Monday, 27 October 2003 16:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, BTW, maybe you didn't get my group email, Noodles. My easycunt account is totally screwed at the moment, so please mail me on the yahoo address, OK?

― kate (kate), Monday, 27 October 2003 16:14 (twenty-two years ago)

You know, I half expected the term bighairymoosecock to come into this thread.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 27 October 2003 16:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I posted about track & field athletics on TMFD yesterday!

The hammer is not a ball and chain, I think - ball yes, but it's attached to a rope of twined steel wire with a handle at the end.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 27 October 2003 18:25 (twenty-two years ago)

between the javelin toss and the hammer throw, track and field events were always a little bit unnerving when racing along the fringes of the impact zones.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 27 October 2003 18:28 (twenty-two years ago)

nine months pass...

It's about time.

― the timefox, Sunday, 22 August 2004 23:53 (twenty-one years ago)

No, track OR field

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 23 August 2004 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

Marion, Marion, Marion.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 5 October 2007 02:21 (eighteen years ago)

The day in 1968 in Mexico City when Bob Beamon broke the world record in the long jump by almost two feet(!!!!) is still really and truly The Day the Earth Stood Still.

― Aimless, Friday, 5 October 2007 03:26 (eighteen years ago)

shock and horror conspicuously notable by their absence re:overmuscled lady being a drugs cheat.

― darraghmac, Friday, 5 October 2007 08:52 (eighteen years ago)

two years pass...

Serious track and field question:

In the pole vault, why do they do that thing where after they jump, they um go back and stick their pole in box and raise it over their heads?

― Chaim Poutine (NickB), Friday, 30 July 2010 20:26 (fifteen years ago)

Those days are LOOOOOOOOOONG gone though. I doubt I could break 6:00 today.
― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, October 27, 2003 7:43 AM (6 years ago)

ha, I can break 5 again. never say never!

― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Friday, 30 July 2010 20:36 (fifteen years ago)

four years pass...

salazar/rupp doping allegations blowing up:

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/jun/03/mo-farah-training-camp-documentary-alleged-drug-use-alberto-salazar-

― Frank 4ad (NickB), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 17:09 (ten years ago)

eh what: gu.com/p/49f6k/stw

― Frank 4ad (NickB), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 17:12 (ten years ago)

fucking links. anyhow, fuller details:

http://www.propublica.org/article/former-team-members-accuse-coach-alberto-salazar-of-breaking-drug-rules

― Frank 4ad (NickB), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 17:25 (ten years ago)

nternational anti-doping rules allow for expedited (and even retroactive) exemptions when acute medical problems need treatment, but Salazar and Rupp were unable to procure an exemption, Magness says. Rupp took the medication anyway, and while he flew ahead to Germany, Magness was directed by Salazar to fly to the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota to have a bottle of Rupp's urine tested. "They did that to see if it tested positive," Magness says. "I hand-carried Galen's urine through the airport, onto the plane, and into my rental car and drove to this clinic and dropped it off, and that was it." He never learned the result of the test.
Magness then flew to Dusseldorf to meet Rupp prior to the race. Soon after he arrived, Rupp told him he wasn't feeling well. Magness called Salazar, who he says told him to expect a package. Two days later, a box arrived at his hotel room. Inside it he found a paperback thriller. Confused, he flipped it open. A section of the pages had been hollowed out to form a compartment into which two pills were taped. "At that point," Magness says, "my mind was like, this is stuff you see in movies, this is extremely strange." He handed the pills to Rupp, who he says promptly swallowed them and laughed off the clandestine packaging as typical Salazar antics. Magness, who had been on the job less than two months, says he never asked what the pills were. At the end of the week, Rupp placed fourth in the 5K in Germany. Neither Salazar nor Rupp responded to questions about the hollowed-out book containing pills.

― Frank 4ad (NickB), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 17:25 (ten years ago)

one year passes...

been watching us qualifiers, i like watching running

― johnny crunch, Monday, 11 July 2016 00:06 (nine years ago)

wife and i are watching this too and yeah it's good for some reason. i could go for a little more field coverage tbh.

― call all destroyer, Monday, 11 July 2016 00:07 (nine years ago)

not sure y this girl in the 1500 wore makeup but shes fast so wtg

― johnny crunch, Monday, 11 July 2016 00:07 (nine years ago)

i've been jogging by pole vault practice at the h.s. near me and am finding these olympic vaulters extremely impressive

― call all destroyer, Monday, 11 July 2016 00:11 (nine years ago)

not sure y this girl in the 1500 wore makeup but shes fast so wtg

― johnny crunch, Sunday, July 10, 2016 8:07 PM (35 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

btw i checked her twitter she's just a big makeup fan seems like

― call all destroyer, Monday, 11 July 2016 00:43 (nine years ago)

i LOVE watching track. i don't know why. i just like to watch people be good at hard things.

― assawoman bay (harbl), Monday, 11 July 2016 01:02 (nine years ago)

Never new this thread existed! My dad's a track coach, so I've been around it all my life. Today especially a big deal 'cause a girl he's coaching just won the 800m to qualify for Rio!

― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Monday, 11 July 2016 01:38 (nine years ago)

xp yeah plus they often make it look effortless

― johnny crunch, Monday, 11 July 2016 01:43 (nine years ago)

i also love watching track.

― momtest (map), Monday, 11 July 2016 02:19 (nine years ago)

Never new this thread existed! My dad's a track coach, so I've been around it all my life. Today especially a big deal 'cause a girl he's coaching just won the 800m to qualify for Rio!

― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Sunday, July 10, 2016 9:38 PM (46 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is very cool!

― call all destroyer, Monday, 11 July 2016 02:30 (nine years ago)

itt gygax reveals he ran a 4:25 mile as a junior in h.s., that is insane

― skateboard of education (rip van wanko), Monday, 11 July 2016 02:33 (nine years ago)

not that insane if u have the special controller

https://atariage.com/2600/boxes/b_TrackAndField_Silver_front.jpg

― am0n, Monday, 11 July 2016 17:52 (nine years ago)

nine years pass...

Phanuel Kipkosgei Koech, age 18, is one of the most impressive runners I've seen in years:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk7NfOM_5Go

He's run even faster 3:27 in a losing effort which was the 9th fastest 1500m ever:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcI_ftT2iIg

― imperial frfr (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 22 July 2025 03:08 (ten months ago)

indeed. the 1500m is usually dominated by runners considerably older than 18!

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 22 July 2025 03:15 (ten months ago)

Cooper Lutkenhaus (still technically a HS sophomore), just broke the USA HS 800m record by FOUR seconds (!) in this 2nd place finish @USATF, keep an eye on him the the final 200m:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWs6ctiEBvA

― imperial frfr (Steve Shasta), Monday, 4 August 2025 20:55 (nine months ago)

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