Finley in fine form ( Colorado and national high school record )
Thursday 9th of September 2010 09:02:33 AM
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| Mason Finley, Buena Vista High School senior, smashed the national high school discus record by more than two feet Saturday during the High Altitude Challenge in Alamosa. Finley threw 236-feet 6-inches, out-distancing the 2001 record set at 234-feet 4-inches by Niklas Arrheniusor of Orem, Utah. Finley surpassed the Colorado record and his personal best April 20 during the Gunnison Invitational with a throw of 223-feet 4-inches, but April 23 during the Buena Vista Invitational he threw the disc 214 feet. He has signed to compete on the University of California Los Angeles track team next season. |
Olympic discus great Oerter dies at 71
Thursday 9th of September 2010 09:02:33 AM
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| <p>FORT MYERS, Fla. - Al Oerter was destined to become an athlete, although he often wondered what he might have been if not for a chance meeting with a discus.</p><p>"I could throw a baseball, a football or a golf ball a country mile," Oerter told the Associated Press in an interview last year. "It was just easy to throw anything."</p> |


