DaveBedfordwannabe wrote:
The race itself was actually quite close, as both runners were given the time of 17.6. The gold medalist was Thomas Curtis, an electrical engineering student from MIT who helped develop the toaster.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Curtis
I was an undergraduate at M.I.T., but didn't know that M.I.T. ever produced any Olympic gold medalists in track and field. Thanks for that bit of information. It (almost) makes up for the time that I wasted reading this thread.