The 100 m final was insane. 7 runners below 10 seconds, and only Asafa Powell (who pulled up due to injury) was slower. At the 40 m mark, you couldn't tell which of five men would win (so no, not fait accompli). Truly remarkable. Usain Bolt is the greatest sprinter ever. He owns the three fastest times. Sport at it's most purely beautiful. But the race will likely go down even more legendarily than his remarkable Beijing run. I'm hoping he runs 9.5 or less one day.
They did apparently allow South Africa to continue, or at least they did the last I heard.
Usain Bolt. What more needs to be said?
GBR gets another gold 5,000 meters and the stadium erupts for Mo FarahI i wanna be there! Wow.
Before Farah only six men in history had completed the Olympic distance double: Hannes Kolehmainen of Finland in 1912; Emil Zatopek 40 years later in Helsinki; Vladimir Kuts in 1956; Lasse Viren – the only winner to complete the double double – in 1972 and 1976; Miruts Yifter of Ethiopia in 1980; and most recently, in 2008, the great Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia – fourth over 10,000m last Saturday but absent from the 5,000m field – bridged a gap of 28 years to claim both titles.
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Bolt is awesome, but IMO he is not the best athlete in the world like many(all) says. Why should it be better to run 100 m, 800 m or marathon the fastest. Or jump the highest/longest etc? Everyone is best in their field.
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Journalists, leaders, athletes and people in the street think Bolt is THE NUMBER ONE. Can't see how you know he is cheating.There is always mistrust of the outstanding :think:
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So you say they have found a way to beat all tests and conrols? I should think athletes as the Jamaicans would be controled even more than average athletes.
If you are not willing to read up on this then I don't feel a need to discuss it with you.
Olympia, I too find pole vault intriguing. Who invented that?
All right no more discussions then. I'll try, but I find the article hard to read with white text on black background. For sure the last word is not said.
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Interesting question. According to Wikipedia pole vaulting began in mashy regions of the Netherlands and England. People would use poles to jump over water and ditches. The first pole vaulting contests were for distance rather than height.
As for throwing heavy things a long way (shot put, discus), my favorite is the Scottish sport of "Caber Throwing." You throw a big log as far as you can (hoping your kilt doesn't fly up).
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Caber_2.jpg