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21 years ago 08/11/2002 5:30am EDT

I went to the NACAC meet yesterday. This thing was pathetic. I was ashamed. It was an "international" meet, and I don't think they put 400 people in the stadium. There were 2 girls in the steeple, 5 guys in the 10K (won in a sizzling 30:16), 4 mens steeplechasers, etc. There was ONE GUY running the half marathon (he won).

It made me sick to see that a.)nobody would come out and support a meet "as big" as this should be (in theory) and b.)USATF does nothing to promote it or make sure decent Americans are running. I mean, a meet in San Antonio in August???

Pretty sad.

21 years ago 08/13/2002 7:23am EDT

re: pathetic

even more pathetic that nobody even cares enough to comment...

21 years ago 08/13/2002 7:27am EDT

re: pathetic

21 years ago 08/13/2002 8:57am EDT

re: pathetic

obviously you don't understand how hard it is to find athletes ages 20-24 (the NACAC meet requirement)who are eligible to compete in this meet

this was NOT a USATF event, as such, and the local organizing committee did as good a job as I have seen of publicizing the event locally

21 years ago 08/13/2002 9:34am EDT

re: nacacwatcher

that's a bit of an understatement. The USATF sent a US team, and they did not bother to fill out the roster with athletes who did want to go. To be selected you had to be in the top 2 21-24 year olds at USATF at Stanford. If you were in that group, and didn't want to go, your spot was not given to anyone else.

The thing is, the San Antonio sports council, whatever, worked really hard to put this meet on. The fact was, it was such a poorly timed meet. Luke Watson people were running, and they still had eligibility left, and they got cross to prepared for. A lot of people took two weeks off and then came out and ran. No big deal.

Jeremy Scott in the Pole Vault, had won the meet, but he was exhausted. He hadn't even jumped much. But he was just worn out from a season going on 9 months. A lot of the athletes were happy to be there and represent the USA, but the meet just wasn't ideal for them, condition wise.

21 years ago 08/13/2002 9:46am EDT

re: StL

Seems like a bit of a stupid meet and those that turned up did so to get a USA shirt.

Alison Holinka 1:22:02?

Beth Fronner 1:27:02??????

You get an international shirt AND a medal for showing up and jogging 1:27? I'm sorry but thats a crock.

21 years ago 08/13/2002 9:59am EDT

re: pathetic

- The governing bodies choose where to have the meet based on the bids that come in. If you want it in Tijuana, encourage them to submit an attractive bid for the next meet.

- If you don't like the makeup of the fields, don't s**t on the ones in the fields -- they agreed to go. S**t on the people who were invited and said no.

21 years ago 08/13/2002 10:01am EDT

re: Joseph Aloysius McV.

If you show up you can at least pretend like you're trying!

21 years ago 08/14/2002 3:02am EDT

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21 years ago 08/14/2002 5:26am EDT

re: mashed taters

were you there? I thought not.

Moron.

You have no idea how hot it was or how difficult the course was.

No one on the U.S. team "jogged it"

21 years ago 08/14/2002 8:19am EDT

re: nacacwatcher

It was really hot there so obviously the distance races are going to be tactical...

Its too bad the field sized were small but other than the states, Mexico and Canada the other countries don't really have that many distance runners

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