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bluedigger

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10. I don't think we had the hammer throw.

Reply to ProfessorGAC (Reply #9)

Thu Mar 22, 2018, 11:54 AM

Mar 2018

I had some success with the discuss in practice, but as a half miler my event was third to last in the track competition, and I couldn't mess around with field events in meets. Broke a hurdle and a high jump bar in my fabulous career, though. So I got that going for me.

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How do we develop javelin throwers? [View all] underpants Mar 2018 OP

Just watch "Revenge of the Nerds". I couldn't resist. tonyt53 Mar 2018 #1

None of us will truly be free Bob Loblaw Mar 2018 #3

...as opposed to the ever-decreasing pool of javelin catchers? SeattleVet Mar 2018 #2

Washed out quarterbacks? NT Bleacher Creature Mar 2018 #4

It could actually be something like that underpants Mar 2018 #11

If the women's 4x400 is being run at the same time, pangaia Mar 2018 #5

The only way to stop a bad guy with a javelin..... Onyrleft Mar 2018 #6

I believe Oliver Harmon Jones learned in college Brother Buzz Mar 2018 #7

We still had them in the 70's. bluedigger Mar 2018 #8

We Didn't ProfessorGAC Mar 2018 #9

I don't think we had the hammer throw. bluedigger Mar 2018 #10

My Cousin. . . ProfessorGAC Mar 2018 #13

We had pole vaulting too underpants Mar 2018 #12

Funny Pole Vault Story ProfessorGAC Mar 2018 #14

Our high school had pole vault. rsdsharp Mar 2018 #15

Seems fairly simple to organise safely muriel_volestrangler Mar 2018 #16

Javelin is very common up in Northeast. I threw it in high school. chelsea0011 Mar 2018 #17

Really? I didn't know that underpants Mar 2018 #18