"Maurice Greene and his blue shoes conspired to scorch a stretch of synthetic turf at Saturday's Home Depot Track and Field Invitational, covering 100 meters in a wind-aided 9.86 seconds, the world's fastest time under any conditions this year.
One good conspiracy deserved another, especially with a crowd of 11,266 and a national television audience looking on. Greene loves a big audience, so he had hurdler Larry Wade lurking on the infield, just in case, waiting for Greene to cross the finish and triumphantly fling his shoes to the ground. As soon as Greene did, Wade sprinted onto the track to douse the shoes with a fire extinguisher.
'My feet was burning!" Greene said with a laugh in the trackside interview tent. "They were on fire. Someone had to put the fire out...'"
http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-track23may23,1,6008744,print.story?coll=la-headlines-sports
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