I just got my new USATF Fast Forward Magazine????????????

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17 years ago 12/29/2006 2:28pm EST

The magazine features a bunch of photos---I am perplexed about two things related to the National Track and Field Hall of Fame Inductees for this year:

1. Why are Lynn Jennings mother and sister accepting the honor in place of Lynn? Did something happen to her? Is my memory failing me?

2. Why was Ollan Cassell inducted into the Hall of Fame? Who votes on this stuff. If athletes had anything to say about it, it seems to me that Cassell could wait 1000 years and not get in. Why would he be honored? For holding back track and field's growth as a sport in the U.S.? Corruption? Disrespecting the athletes who ensured his employment? For giving personal favors to officials while using athletes as endentured servants? I guess you could say I am pissed off.

17 years ago 12/29/2006 2:34pm EST

re: It is about time

People who actually know something about the sport and its history vote on the inductees. That would leave you out, apparently.

17 years ago 12/29/2006 2:47pm EST

re: go away kid

Are you attempting to defend Cassell? My guess is that this would make you Cassell---he would be the only person I know who has been around track and field since 1965 who would vote for him.

17 years ago 12/29/2006 2:49pm EST

re: It is about time

Let me also state that Cassell was inducted as an administrator and not an athlete-----

17 years ago 12/29/2006 2:56pm EST

re: It is about time

The problem is he adminstrated track to death. He must be getting old and near death. It's like when a president dies and all of a sudden he was a good president.

17 years ago 12/29/2006 3:09pm EST

re: It is about time

Obviously you don't know many people, then.

And I almost choked with laughter at the thought of Cassell actually looking at a message board. You really don't know much.

You must be either Dwight or the ghost of Pre. Or maybe the racewalker dude. Put down the axe, dude, it's been ground to smithereens already.

17 years ago 12/29/2006 4:05pm EST

re: It is about time

Is that the same free shoe catalog that USATF has been issuing ? with some dippy articles and crud pictures in it ?

17 years ago 12/29/2006 8:44pm EST

re: Shoe Catalog

It's not a magazine per se, it's all advertisements with a few blurbs disguised as advertisemnents. Blurry pictures and rotten writing. Don't get excited it's the usual running magazine void of any real information.

17 years ago 12/30/2006 12:16am EST

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Why was Lynn Jennings unavailable?

She definitely deserves it. She is a great ambassador for the sport and has done a lot to help young women get more involved.

17 years ago 01/14/2007 7:00pm EST

re: It is about time

1. lynn jennings declined attending the event. she wrote a speech. her sister delivered it.

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