Some time ago I wrote about a potentially great Finnish site called Tilastopaja. I pointed out that the site was user-unfriendly, since there was no way to know how much you had to pay in order to become a subscriber before registering.
The site I am going to write about today, Track and Field Statistics,
is not as complicated. Once you reach the home page you are asked to register. But if you happen to have the link to the page with the results you can continue witout registering.
Clicking on an event gives a few salient results. One has free access to top-10 lists but the previous years' lists are reserved to (paying) members. The financial conditions are clearly stated. Personally I find the 100 $ per year subscription rather stiff. Moreover the results of major championships are freely available on the web, so, why pay for them?
The only thing I found interesting were the electronic books (mind you, they are not books but rather Excel files) which give statistical results from 1891 for men and 1921 for women. One book (well, part of a book), that of men's 800 m, is freely available and I must say that it is really interesting. So if one is looking for some athletics paleo-history, paying 10 $ for a book is not excessive (and you can have all 36 of them for 150 $). However, forking out 100 or 80 $ (there are two tiers) for an annual subscription, this is a no-no for me.
So, another potentially great site, but...
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