Every morning in Clemson, a Distance runner wakes up
He knows he must run faster than the van. There's gonna be
a few less runners waking up there this year, so SUCK IT!
At 07:35 AM 8/9/00 -0700, Conway wrote:
>On Tuesday, August 08, 2000 9:38 PM Franno wrote:
>
> > I'm not interested in ifs or buts or inability to make it through the
> > rounds. THERE WILL BE NO AMERICAN ON THE MEDAL STAND IN THE 200M.
> >
> > The Americans will NOT beat Obikwelu, Thompson, Boldon or Da Silva. NO
> > MEDAL. They could be running 19.2's.
>
>The heat has gotten to you .. Since in essense you are saying that 3 people
>will run under the WR at Sydney .. Only 1 time in history under 19.60 ..
>Only 2 others under 19.70 .. And suddenly 3 people are going to run under
>19.30 !!!!! And this from a group in which only 1 has scraped under 20.00 so
>far this year .. This statement doesn't even deserve an argument ..
>
> > The only male short sprint in which 2 Americans will be on the stand is
>the
> > 4x100m. Maybe the 100m.
>
>America has a better shot of placing two on the 200 stand than the 100 stand
>.. Of the individuals you named previosuly, only Boldon has a better PR than
>Capel .. And none of them have better seasonal times than the 3 Americans
>who will be in Sydney .. And if you don't think surviving the Trials in what
>has got to be one of the largest pre-hyped media circuses in history did not
>strengthen these 3 men then you deserve the shock you are going to receive
>when at least one (if not 2) of them medal at the games .. Boldon has a
>history of cracking in the big meets (indoors and outdoors), Thompson has
>never broken 20.00 and has not performed at his own top level for bout 3
>years now .. And da Silva has been solid but not great .. The onlyone of the
>group that has shown any improvement this year is Obikwelu who I would
>expect to medal at the games .. But I am afraid that a 9.97 100 PR is not
>going to get him close enough to 19.20 !!!
>
> > I will be sure to remind you of this post periodically.
>
>ACtually I am willing to bet that therte are many on this list who will be
>more than happy to remind YOU of the post at the appropriate time ..
>
>Conway Hill
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>
>Each morning in Australia, a kangaroo wakes up. It knows it must run faster
>than the slowest Dingo or it will be killed. Every morning a Dingo wakes up.
>It knows it must outrun the slowest kangaroo or it will starve to death. It
>doesn't matter whether you are a kangaroo or a Dingo: "When the sun comes up
>you'd better be running!"
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