From The Editor — The 400 Is A Great Race… But It Could Be Better
IF YOU’RE A BIG FAN of 1-lap racing—and who among us isn’t?—you’ll love this month’s edition, as we check out… Read More
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From The Editor — Call Me A Heretic, But The IAAF’s Diamond League Tightening Might Actually Be The Right Move
ONE OF THE TOUGHEST PARTS of my job as the editor of T&FN is juggling what the readership wants to… Read More
From The Editor — So Who Is The G.O.A.T. Of Track & Field?
IN THE WAKE OF THE SUPER BOWL, a popular question in the sporting world became, “Is Tom Brady the G.O.A.T?”… Read More
From The Editor — Is The IAAF Being Innovative In The Right Places?
I LOVE THE FACT that the wheels keep turning in Monaco. The IAAF recognizes the fact that track is having… Read More
From The Editor — After 50 Years, My Favorite Annual Edition Ever
WHAT A YEAR 2018 turned out to be. Conventional wisdom had it positioned as one of those off-years with no… Read More
From The Editor — The IAAF Rankings Run Into A Roadblock
I don’t think we’ve ever seen an IAAF initiative stumble as badly as its ongoing attempt to use a rankings… Read More
From The Editor — The Dichotomy That Was Mexico ’68
October is usually an ultra-slow month in the track & field world, but in the middle of this year’s tenth… Read More
FROM THE EDITOR — The Mixed-Sex Relay, Firecracker Or Fizzle?
With the “innovative” mixed-sex 4×4 having finished off the Continental Cup in anything but satisfying fashion, dare we dream that… Read More
From The Editor — The U.S. Needs Summer Meets In 2019
A call for more U.S. summer meets at the professional level is hardly a new or revolutionary concept. Indeed, the… Read More
From The Editor — Maybe You CAN Tell The Players Without A Program
It wasn’t a headline of man bites dog attention-getting, perhaps, but on June 20 our home page’s “Today’s Top Headlines”… Read More
From The Editor — As Always, The Athletes Ride To The Rescue
You are, of course, familiar with the old saw, “Everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.”… Read More
From The Editor—I Missed A Major Anniversary
April & May are annually the most hectic months here at T&FN, and when you combine the peak of the… Read More
From The Editor—A Leaner, Meaner Fighting Machine?
Is that what we might see from Diamond League 2.0? As noted in the “Last Lap” section of this month’s… Read More
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IT’S ALWAYS A SAD MOMENT when one of the sport’s greats leaves us, but for me the news of the passing of Roger Bannister left me with a particularly hollow feeling. He’s my first track memory, although not for the sub-4:00.
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During the just-completed Winter Olympics, one figure skating fan on our message boards tried to simplify the scoring system for the non-cognoscenti. His analysis included this:
“Regarding a landed double vs. a fallen triple, here is how it works. A triple toeloop (the easiest triple) is worth 4.3. If you fall, you get -2.1 for Grade of Execution (GOE) and another -1 for the fall. So it gets 1.3. For a triple Axel (worth 8.5), the minimum you could get is 4.5. The maximum you could get for a double Axel is 3.3 (base value) + 1.5 (GOE) for 4.8. So this is still better than the worst triple Axel.”
