I'm going to lead this off with something non-track related. Tonight should be pretty cool. A former prof of mine at ND is going to be in town with some other ND bigwigs and I'll be able to go have a dinner with them and the ND club. Even if it's a hit to the pocket book it should be a good time, besides it's Hunan food, and you can't go wrong with that.
I promise there will be only more more track post after this. Let me see, I said previously that the long time off and rumored injuries could spell bad news for Liu Xiang and unfortunately for him that was correct. Watching the 800m it was great to see Nick Symmonds advance for one round, what killed him is the difficulty of making a late-race kick in the Olympics. Bernard Lagat seemed to get things back on track in the 5000m qualifiers, now he just has to keep it together in the final. The mens 400m and 400m hurdles were US sweeps (thanks to David Neville's dive in the 400m). The interesting thing was how much Jermey Warnier dropped in the 400m, that should teach him not to split with his longtime coach in an Olympic year. The downside is that for each success we drop the ball, or in this case the baton in both 4x100m relays.
The highlight for me has been Usain Bolt. I was able to see a youtube of his 200m. My God, he made everyone look like little kids. No one that big is supposed to start fast. No one is supposed to run the turn that well and make up the stagger like that. But he did it. In a word: incredible.
Right now I'm really looking forward to the 4x400m, the decathlon (go Brian Clay!), and the 5000m. Also interesting will be to see how Ryan Hall does in the marathon, he's fast but still a bit of a long shot to make the medal stand.
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