Posts by Steve Mcconkey

Amazon wants your palm and TSA wants your face…. Full list of shops going cashless including major supermarket locations…. Turkey’s Erdogan calls for Islamic alliance against Israel…. Wisconsin election ‘loophole’ could allow 142,000 to vote without an ID…. Are we moving toward a cashless, checkless society?…. US hiring comes up short…. Stocks dive for bad…

“Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ’s sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.” (2 Corinthians 12:10) Thanks again for your prayers and support. The Lord allowed us to reach many people over the summer. USA Track and Field won 34 medals,…

MADISON, Wis., August 2, 2024 /4 WINDS USA/ — International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach said concerns over the boxers’ gender identity are “totally unacceptable.” Boxers Lin Yu-ting and Imane Khelif posted early victories. There was an uproar as the boxers appeared to be male. Last year, the athletes failed gender eligibility tests at the…

October 19, 1955Born in Des Moines, Iowa1961Dunlap Elementary1967-68Two Dunlap field trips to the Drake Relays, a world-class track and field event, in Des Moines1968Moved to the Danbury, Wisconsin area after the sixth grade, near Dairyland1968Webster Junior High School (WI)1970Webster High School (WI)1971Started distance running. Competed in cross country and track. From 1971 through 2016, Steve…

Steve McConkey was a USA National Track and Field Club Coach from 1982 to 1992. Athletes were ranked ninety-three times. The below list does not include the hundreds of successful athletes on the teams who nearly ranked in their events. Marks made by foreign athletes are not included, plus marks made indoors in events that…

I was born in Des Moines, Iowa in 1955. We lived near the Iowa State Capitol. Railroad tracks separated our home and the Capitol. We played near the tracks and on the Capitol grounds, plus at the Iowa historical museum nearby. Inside the Capitol, there were Civil War flags and uniforms. Occasionally, we would see…