RT,
The best of the American 800 Meter runners (Bryan Woodward) is recovering
from hernia surgery, and has just started training again. He will be
relocating to the West Coast to train with his college coach Frank Gagliano
and the Nike Farm Club. Reebok dropped its sponsorship of the Reebok
Enclave last year, and so all of the Enclave athletes have retired or are
moving on to Nike.
I do not know what happened to the rest of the American 800 Meter runners as
they have all run faster than they did in Edmonton. I am especially shocked
at Khadevis Robinson's time! Must have partying too hard instead of
training.
By the way, Bryan ran in the Olympics in Sydney with his hernia as he did
not want to let his country, his family or his team down. It did him more
harm than good!
Gerald Woodward (Uncle)
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For those of you who didn't follow the competition in
progress, it was a fantastic duel between the Polish
Olympic champion and Japan's Murofushi.
The BBC radio kept patching in to the Japanese TV
audio, whose announcer was going absolutely bonkers.
The series, for the two of them:
Ziólkowski 81.88 79.69 X 80.32 83.38 80.39
Murofushi 79.91 82.46 81.95 81.43 82.92 82.61
Murofushi's series was amazingly consistent- four throws
over 82 meters, and two others over 81 meters, yet
not good enough to overcome the big 5th-round
throw by the Pole.
Murofushi tried though, throwing last in the order (which was
reversed after the 1st 3 rounds, with Murofushi's 2nd
round throw leading), he tossed two big ones in the
last two rounds- his best two of the competition, but
not quite good enough.
Enough for a big sushi party tonight though, I would
think...if such a thing can be found in Edmonton...
Alas, such tipping contest stalwarts as Gecsek and '96
Olympic champion Kiss were relegated to the 'finalist but
chaser' category.
P.S. - what happened to the U.S. 800m racers (I use the
term lightly) ?
... EL STINKO!
RT
