Your education system has failed you , also don’t make up statistics to feel better about yourself
Your education system has failed you , also don’t make up statistics to feel better about yourself
Nur didn't declare. So he doesn't even show up as DNSing this morning. He apparently told people he pulled his hamstring in the 400 at the Pacific Championship meet a couple weeks back. But I went back and looked at the schedule for that meet. The 800 was after the 400. He ran the 800 and won it after the 400. So that one doesn't add up. I think out of competition testing for him and Hastings is warranted. I went and checked the USADA tests results. They tested Hastings once in 2018 and they don't appear to have tested Nur.
Hastings progression of times make no sense: 3:10 marathon at 42 in 2005, a 2:46 marathon at 48 in 2011, then slowing into the high 2:50s and low to mid 3s around 50 in 2014-2017. Then low 2:50s in late 50s around 2019. Then 2:45 at London at 59.
Likewise Nur's progression makes no sense. A 46:30 10k at 50 in 2008. A 3:53 marathon at 51 in 2009, then 40-41 minute 10ks and high 19/low 20 5ks at 51-52 in 2009-2010. Then a 1:30:11 half in 2011 at 53 (I think this was his last clean race), then suddenly a 17:43 5k, a 1:23:55 half and a 2:57 marathon at 53-54 in 2011. In 2013, his mile time (which had been 5:30 two years before) declines to 5:06, where it stays for years. Then in 2017 at 62, he runs an 80 half. At 2022 at Boston at aged 66, he runs a 2:45 marathon and a 17:00 turkey trot (certified course) 5k at 67.
Why they haven't tested him with those odd results, I don't know. If they want us to take Masters records seriously, they need to do random out of competition testing of Masters runners. The above, combined with what happened this week, is highly, highly suspicious.
it eez wut it eez wrote:
I think saying "penultimate" is easier and sounds better than "second to last."
I don't want to be "second to last." I want to be first. Does that make the Silver medal the penultimate medal? Would it help to call it the silver lap, or silver step? Perspiring minds want to know.
You may not like it generally, but please give us at one:
”And now, for the penultimate event in the pentathlon …”
This year the NBC Al Michaels BOT is replacing the side bar packages with Paul Swangard, Ato Boldon, etc. Next year the NBC Al Michaels BOT will go live.
It’s one of those words that, once you know it, you’ll realize people use it all the time.
Annoying, but no big deal wrote:
"Penultimate" is track announcer Paul Swangard's favorite word -- he says it over and over and over again. It is a legitimate word, however. That doesn't mean I like Swangard's frequent use of the word, because it seems showoffish. I like Swangard's work, overall, it's just that one word rankles me. Big deal, though.
Sanya Richards-Ross just LOVES to use the word "phenomenal" -- again it's an over and over and over again usage. The word often hypes an athlete wrongly, and I sure wish she'd jump off the hype train. Was the Baltimore Orioles 101-win season last year phenomenal? It was fanastic, but it was not phenomenal. (And then they lost in the first round of the payoffs, I mean the playoffs.) Had Richards-Ross been the Orioles announcer, every strikeout of an opponent would have been "phenomenal" and every Orioles win "phenomenal". It's a bit much! Otherwise, I really like her announcing, her friendliness, her enthusiasm, and her knowledge of the sport.
(Since I'm mentioning NBC announcers, I'll just add that I think Oto Bolden is phenomenal. No, that's S R-R's opinion of his skills. Really, though, I think he is excellent. And unlike a few who post here, I enjoy the NBC announcers, all of them, by and large. No anti-Lewis chatter from me regarding Johnson or Trey Hardee or Kara Goucher or Leigh Diffey...except once from Johnson, when he sucked up to Sha'Carri Richardson after she bombed in a race a year or two ago. Once, for Johnson. He's a talented interviewer, normally, but coming the heels of this posting will likely be various "Goucher sucks" and "Johnson sucks" posts...and that will give someone the opportunity to write, "Dwight Stone sucks." "Hate is a beautiful thing" seems to come to mind here...)
Actually, the first time I heard the word penultimate used at a track meet was from the late Scott Davis, who was the gold standard of track & field announcing in the USA.
Also, a lot of jumps coaches use that word to describe the next-to-last step in the long, triple and high jumps, though you might hear pole vault coaches use it every once in a while.
45 year old female here. Masters degree in Educational Leadership. I am fully aware of what ultimate means. However, I have never heard the word penultimate before. I actually just looked it up on the internet. Learn something new everyday I suppose.
Julia Danner wrote:
45 year old female here. Masters degree in Educational Leadership. I am fully aware of what ultimate means. However, I have never heard the word penultimate before. I actually just looked it up on the internet. Learn something new everyday I suppose.
You may be less eager to know that it’s “learn something new every day,” but I suppose autocorrect fouled that one up for you.