The style of the mustache the author tried to describe is a "Fu Manchu", seen in the pic of the subject. A handlebar mustache does not track down the face, rather it sticks out and usually curls upward.

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Hammer throw is awesome! Save their site!!!

That is the best we can for Olympians? Seriously? It sounds like a training ground from a 3rd World Country, a dirt lot with toxic fumes. US Olympic Committee is fat with cash, they need to step up.

I did a bit of research (actually I just googled it!) on finances of Olympics. At the very top of “the Olympic Movement” sits the International Olympic Committee, a nonprofit run by a “volunteer” president who gets an annual “allowance” of $251,000 and lives rent-free in a five-star hotel and spa in Switzerland.

At the very bottom of “the Movement” — beneath the IOC members who travel first-class and get paid thousands of dollars just to attend the Olympics, beneath the executives who make hundreds of thousands to organize the Games, beneath the international sports federations, the national sport federations and the national Olympic committees and all of their employees — are the actual athletes. “The athletes are the very bottom of a trickle-down system, and there’s just not much left for us,” said Cyrus Hostetler, 29, a Team USA javelin thrower and two-time Olympian who said the most he’s ever made in one year in his career, after expenses, is about $3,000. “They take care of themselves first, and us last.” SOURCE Web Link

Those guys are awesome. I see them every day on my way to work. Lots of Olympic medals have come from the people on that field.

My son a Under 23 GB international had the opportunity to train at Moffet earlier this year. This facility is simple, a metal fence, a bit of scrub grass land a storage area and plenty of enthusiastic athletes of all ages and abilities enjoying the chance to throw the hammer. Athletes travel quite some distance to use the facility and enjoy each other’s company, you get Olympians rubbing shoulders with novices, you get masters and school kids training in a unique community of hammer throwers unlike anything anywhere else not only in the States but I would say the world!
This community needs to be preserved.

unfortunately, this otherwise well-written article perpetuates a phrase that is incorrect- the hammer throw equipment consists of a dense solid metal ball attached to a triangular shaped metal handle with a thin steel wire...not a "chain". Many media reports like to invoke the image of a "ball and chain", and that might be accurate for describing some other object...but hammer throwers know that their implement should be described using the word "wire".

It's nice to see that you can get Olympic medals without expensive facilities. These people have gone above and beyond in today's world of sport. Very nice article.

I know it's 90 minutes or so away but Golden State Throwers field is now up and operational. Full hammer cage with small gym and 50 foot drilling pad. It's in Herald Ca. Near Sacramento.
Let me know if anyone wants to throw up here.
Mike Curry
Info@goldenstatethrowers.org

Sounds like politics again? Even when the people try to find the spot NO ONE would ever worry about, they want them out? Hope it stay's, maybe write our congress men/women