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UNITED STATES-RUSSIA-CHINA VIRTUAL TRIANGULAR MEET--2004 Men Last month, a contributor to PoleVaultPower.com invited discussion of the China/Russian agreement on mutual assistance in preparation for the Beijing Olympic Games. If you missed this earlier, Bill Briggs' article can still be read at <htt...

USA vs. USSR 2004 Virtual Dual--Day Two 200 meters: 1. Allyson Felix USA 22.18 2. Tonette Dyer USA 22.34 3. Irina Khabarova RUS 22.34 4. Yuliya Tabakova RUS 22.51 (If you may wonder how I broke the tie between Dyer and Khabarova, instead of carrying the fractional points forward for the rest of this...

Hi, Andy: For some reason, your comment reminds me of the kindergarten teacher who had her class busy, drawing pictures of "anything you want." She noticed one little girl concentrating furiously and asked what she was drawing. The girl said, "It's a picture of God." "But honey," the teacher respond...

If you missed the earlier posts of men's "results" for a 2004 virtual USA/USSR dual, this is just a fun exercise of looking at how the highly popular dual meets of the 50s and 60s might have turned out, based on personal bests in last year's outdoor season. United States of America vs. Union of Sovi...

Patrick remarked, "no decathlon, though?" I didn't include the decath, because it apparently was held, but not included in the scoring of the Moscow 1958 meet I've used as a model for the structure of the dual. For the benefit of Patrick and others who may be interested, the result of a "virtual" de...

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Thanks to LHSpolevault, because it's the sort of input I really need if I'm going to try a USA/RUS/CHN triangular; but at least for the 1958 dual in Moscow, it's clear from the scoring given in Track and Field News that the scoring was 5-3-2-1 for individual events and 5-3 for the relay. I think it ...

Becca has re-introduced the topic of the Russia/China agreement on mutual assistance in preparation for the Beijing Olympic Games, by quoting Craig Masback's comments on the matter.The latest suggestion forwarded to PVP is achtungpv's that the USATF should take advantage of the opportunity to challe...

I asked Gérard Dumas the same question yesterday. Here was his reply: Traditionally the two main Russian Pole vaulters have started quite late in the season. Isinbayeva; 2000 28 june 2001 08 june 2002 08 june 2003 12 june 2004 27 june ( that is to say next Tuesday ) Feofanova; 2000 28 may 2001 10...

Ken Stone is doing a good job of keeping up, at http://www.signonsandiego.com/sports/we ... .html#more

Dragila just made a clutch third-try vault to stay in the competition.

The USATF website lists Adam Keul as tied for fifth with Tye Harvey at 5.40m. Since the results shown on PVP skip from fifth to seventh, I'd suspect that the USATF results are the correct ones.

With the men's vault final scheduled for 6:30 PDT tonight (strange day to schedule one of the meet's most popular events), you might want to check out masters fanatic Ken Stone's website for frequent updates on the competition. He writes: If all goes according to plan, I will begin keeping a live di...