When Cook Holliday was in the first grade in Rochelle, Wilcox County, he got on the bus after school one day, looked out the window and for the first time saw somebody pole vaulting. It intrigued him so much that when he
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What began as a call for change by some veteran athletes over the way the Masters community was being managed has led to a disagreement between Singapore Athletics (SA) and its affiliate, Singapore Masters Athletics (SMA), resulting in the latter sending two
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Tony Bowman won three medals in the 80-84 category at the European Masters He scored silver in the 400m relay, bronze in decathlon and fourth in the 100m Broke 11 British athletic records when he started before having two heart attacks Has ‘cut
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Having started fitness training at age 50, on the instructions of the Fitness Centre of the Ministry of Sports (MoS), to get over his knee problems, Srilal Alahakoon ended up an international sprinter in no time. For successfully completing its fitness programme,
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Do vibration rollers and Massage Guns work! Local vibration, that is vibration directly applied to a muscle, was used in studies as early as the 1960s to investigate sensory afferents, reflexes and motor response (1-6, 9, 12-13, 22, 40-41). Note, this paper
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Two questions follow 77-year-old runner Doug Goodhue wherever he runs: How does he do what he does? And more important, how does he keep doing what he does? Goodhue has been atop the U.S. masters ranks for years. He has set seven American
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Alex Rotas still recalls the feeling of emptiness when she typed “older sportsmen and women” into the search engine on her computer. As a junior academic researching visual culture, Rotas was on the hunt for some imagery of older tennis players and,
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The 2019 European Masters Champion in the 200m, Steve Peters of Middlesbrough, UK, won his 39th successive sprinting crown since 1994 this weekend, running a 25.56 to take the title. Peters’ time is extremely impressive, for several reasons. First, he had already run 100m
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When Alastair Walker hung up his trainers more than 20 years ago, he thought his running days were over. But he is now one of the fastest over-60s in the world after taking up his old hobby again. The grandad of three,
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I am obviously going to be biased here as a 200 and 400m runner, but wow the timetable that has finally been published by the Toronto LOC is crazy! (Maybe) but… see below For the full schedule of events look HERE You
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