Senior Athletes Compete at the Senior Olympics
Masters track & field athlete Dalmutha Dammons, 73, of Baltimore, Maryland is photographed participating in the track and field competition at the 2007 National Senior Games, held at the University of Louisville's Cardinal Park Soccer & Track Stadium in Louisville, Kentucky on June 28, 2007.
Dammons, who ran the 200 meter sprint, started running in 1990.
The event was sponsored by the National Senior Games Association, established in 1986, which oversees 50 state and 350 local and regional competitions for senior athletes in the United States each year. There are an estimated 250,000 senior athletes in training in the U.S. ...