Moz wrote:
Patriot? For f's sake, how nauseating.
Really? You felt the need to write that? It's the Olympics. How can you not feel a sense of pride when athletes from your country do amazing things? Of course, you could be from another country, but then why bother to write that comment at all?
Manzano.
This is Jenny Simpson's chance for redemption
Double_Dog wrote:
rojo wrote:What a patriot.
http://www.chron.com/sports/article/US-runner-finishes-Olympic-relay-lap-on-broken-leg-3775937.phpNow that is an impressive performance! This is the type of performance that is inspiring to runners, as opposed to the British runner who tore a hamstring in the 1992 Olympic prelims for the 400m and hopped his way to the finish.
Spoken as a person who has clearly never run fast enough to tear a hamstring.
It is absolutely impossible to continue running with a torn hamstring, no matter how brave you are.
It is still possible to keep running, albeit it in great pain, with a broken fibula as the major bone in that area, the tibia, is still intact.
unless clement is hurt, I d go with the three hurdlers over anyone else. Taylor I believe, and clement for sure, are former indoor 400m world record holders.
According to Angelo Taylor's twitter he is on the team.
Well his exact tweet was:
I second that emotion! RT @McQuay_Runs: I want this Gold soooo bad
Don't think he would say that if he was not on the team.
manzano is running for mexico fool
I have to admit, when I was watching the race I thought WTF when I saw his slow split, but when I heard about his leg I truly thought WTF, but in a much different way! Amazing effort on his part.
Greg. Jennings.
Clearly I did feel the need to write that, although your response is strange as it was irrelevant to my original comment.
You have a strange understanding of athletic motivation if you feel his run was the result of patriotism. How ridiculous.
while I have no doubt that breaking your fibula while running would hurt, the fib is a non weight bearing bone.
was that taylor anchoring? tyson gay would have brought home the gold. and I would have had our best guy, mcquay, running anchor with someone to catch.
we would have been better off with manteo mitchell running the anchor on his broken leg.
jjjjjj wrote:
was that taylor anchoring? tyson gay would have brought home the gold. and I would have had our best guy, mcquay, running anchor with someone to catch.
How fast can Gay run a 400m?
You are correct that Taylor should not have been the anchor.
Tyson has run 44.89 open, I believe he is the only person ever to have officially run sub 10, sub 20, and sub 45
Not Tyson Gay, but Justin Gatlin. Gay has almost never run 400s. Gatlin anchored TN to a national title spliting low 44s. Gatlin of all the short sprinters or Spearmon would have been the ones to go to.
Actually he only cracked it a bit like a stress fracture.
But he continued running on it and then it became a full blown fracture.