Sponsored by AstraZeneca 2009 Official daily newspaper of the 2009 Senior Games | Palo Alto, California FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2009 Magnum force in horseshoes Foa Remillong takes commanding lead with non-stop ringers By Colin Becht When it comes to women’s horseshoes, there is simply no one better than Foa Remillong. Remillong, of Half Moon Bay, handily dominated her op- ponents in the first two days of competition in the Senior Games women’s 55-59 horseshoes. With 11 preliminary round games played, Remillong is a perfect 11-0, with her narrowest victory coming by 15 points. She played five matches Thursday, winning the five by a combined score of 307-109. Remillong displayed incredible accuracy, holding by far the highest ringer percentage. In horseshoes, a ringer is the term for a thrown horseshoe that completely surrounds the stake. While Remillong’s competitors have ringer percentages in the twenties, meaning they throw ringers slightly over twenty percent of the time, Remillong had ringer percentages on Thursday of 56.7, 60 and 70 percent. Her lowest of the day was a 53.3 percent. “I just go in and stand where I feel like I’m going to make the ringers,” said Remillong. “It’s just natural.” Even more demoralizing for her opponents, Remillong (continued on page 7) Longtime partners take gold in tennis Virginia team cruises to victory in women's 70-75 age group By Kylie Sloan Veronica Weber Sylvia Will returns a shot in her doubles match Thursday with partner Anita Murchie, not shown, in the 70-74 age group After four grueling matches in the Palo Alto heat Thursday, at the Senior Games. The Virginia residents and longtime partners took the gold medal, 6-3, 6-1. Anita Murchie, 76, of Alexandria, Va., and Sylvia Will, 71, of Fairfax, Va., secured the gold medal in the women’s 70-75 tennis doubles. The duo has played together for the past five Inspiring stories at every turn Senior Games years, and while this is Murchie’s third Senior Games and Daily signs off Will’s second, they have never advanced this far in the past. Two-week run of intense, but friendly, After the semifinals, Will said, “Well, it would feel great, goodness yes,” if they won the gold. Walking off the court competition is drawing to a close After 14 days of incredible stories, extraordinary photographs and pro- after the finals, Murchie and Will said they were astounded By Sue Dremann viding information about what to see that they actually accomplished their goal, even though they and do around the Games venues and clearly shut out the competition. Palo Alto, the Senior Games Daily “They were very good, excellent, the best we’ve played,” Louis Paponis has been at all 15 days of When the javelin throwers walked ends its 14-day run today. said finals opponent Maxine Brown, 74, of Pine Mountain the Senior Games. Paponis, 70, will have by, Paponis greeted them with a jaun- It has been a privilege to work with Club, Calif. worked 27 volunteer shifts by the end of ty tease. all the athletes and Games officials, “They were just better; they outplayed us,” said Brown’s the games on Saturday. "Mighty big toothpicks, you've got as well as the talented photographers partner, Mannie Adams, 72, of Fallbrook, Calif. Each day, he arrives at the volunteer there," he said. of the Brooks Institute, who contrib- Murchie and Will won the first set 6-3 and came back even booth at 10:30 a.m. and stays until clos- For Paponis, who formerly played ten- uted the two pages of Senior Moments stronger in the second set, winning 6-1. Adams and Brown ing at 7 p.m., with a 1 1/2-hour break nis and fenced for recreation, the Games photos that quickly became one of the had to settle for silver, an accomplishment nonetheless. between 2:30 and 4 p.m., he said. If the are inspiring. Daily's most popular features. And In the finals, Murchie and Will’s play peaked right at the time, hours seem grueling, for Paponis, they're "These people here have proved don't miss today's "Moments," with one (continued on page 15) a labor of love. themselves to be better than people photo from each day of the Games. "I owned a mortuary in San Francisco in their own town. What impresses Please turn to Page 3 for a final for 50 years and I was always around me is their attitude, that when they message from 2009 Senior Games people. I retired when my wife died last lose they just feel they weren't good CEO, Anne Warner Cribbs. year. The games put me in with people enough today," he said. But then, they again," he said. (continued on page 19) Tom Gibboney, publisher INSIDE GAME SCHEDULE & MAPS PAGE 3 | ENTERTAINMENT SCHEDULE PAGE 4 | SENIOR MOMENTS PAGE 10 PAGE 2 | FRIDAY, AUGUST 14 | 2009 SENIOR GAMES On behalf of the 2009 Summer National Senior Games Local Organizing Committee, I want to thank all the Volunteers who have worked so hard to make the 2009 Games a big success. Our volunteers are the heart of the Games, just like they were at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney — and we could not have produced the 2009 Games without everyone’s help. Our goal for the Games has been to provide the “best competitive conditions for athletes” and to send all our visitors home with great memories of incredible experiences in Palo Alto, Stanford and Northern California. 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