2008 Olympics: Notes, Stories & Observations


There is too much talk about how poorly the U.S. track team is performing. I don't look at it that way. Many articles and critics are forgetting that over the years, we've had the best coaches, facilities, technology, and etc. which has enable our top athletes to stay on top. The rest of the world has caught up with us because they now have access to the same things. They forget to mention how many top track athletes ran in the U.S. in College and have taken what they've learned to train others. They also forget that Track is sport that gets more props internationally that here in the states. That's just the way it is.

Somebody earlier asked a question about notable NFL players who were exceptional in track, a few that comes to mind are:

Hershel Walker (10.0 speed in the 100m in the early 80s)

Bo Jackson (still holds High School Records in Alabama from the 80s, ran a 9.3 in the 100 yard dash in High School, equivalent to 10.3 in 100m, competed in the decathlon at Auburn)

Deion Sanders (many times he alternated between running on the 4x100 and 4 x4000 relays at Florida State then meeting with his baseball teammates to play on the same day) I don't know what his times were but at the level that FSU was at he would have had to have run in the low 10s in the 100m, maybe a 46 or better in the 400m

Anyways...it can be done, but it takes a special kind of athlete to succeed in track and football...Do I think Usain Bolt could do it? Who knows? If he add some solid muscle to the 6-5 frame and knew how to bring it (hit and tackle), I could see him being a safety. LOL
 
BulldogM.Ed.23 said:
There is too much talk about how poorly the U.S. track team is performing. I don't look at it that way. Many articles and critics are forgetting that over the years, we've had the best coaches, facilities, technology, and etc. which has enable our top athletes to stay on top. The rest of the world has caught up with us because they now have access to the same things. They forget to mention how many top track athletes ran in the U.S. in College and have taken what they've learned to train others. They also forget that Track is sport that gets more props internationally that here in the states. That's just the way it is.

Somebody earlier asked a question about notable NFL players who were exceptional in track, a few that comes to mind are:

Hershel Walker (10.0 speed in the 100m in the early 80s)

Bo Jackson (still holds High School Records in Alabama from the 80s, ran a 9.3 in the 100 yard dash in High School, equivalent to 10.3 in 100m, competed in the decathlon at Auburn)

Deion Sanders (many times he alternated between running on the 4x100 and 4 x4000 relays at Florida State then meeting with his baseball teammates to play on the same day) I don't know what his times were but at the level that FSU was at he would have had to have run in the low 10s in the 100m, maybe a 46 or better in the 400m

Anyways...it can be done, but it takes a special kind of athlete to succeed in track and football...Do I think Usain Bolt could do it? Who knows? If he add some solid muscle to the 6-5 frame and knew how to bring it (hit and tackle), I could see him being a safety. LOL
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Willie Gault too but he couldn't catch a cold but naked in Lake Michigan in January....
 



Bolt don't want to play football. One lick and he'll go running back to track. Dude has NEVER played football. You don't just take a guy from the track team and tell him, Here, go catch it. You guys don't remember Renaldo "Skeets" Nehemiah?? Dude was crazy fast, but had trouble with running routes. He would always over run his routes.
 
Did anybody see this game? China hit 5 batters....and didnt expect to get their arse kicked....:retard:.........

Our relations with China were nearly broken at the plate.

A near-brawl with our Olympic hosts in a baseball game won 9-1 by the U.S. team Monday night resulted in an unexpected outbreak of tension for the international pastime.

Three members of China's team were ejected from the game.

Two collisions at home plate led to an injury to a Chinese catcher and a confrontation with another.

An American player was then hit in the head with a pitch. He was rushed to a hospital, where he was diagnosed with a concussion.

"That was the last straw," said U.S. center fielder Nate Schierholtz, another of the principals.

Jim Lefebvre manages China's team, as he once did the Cubs, Brewers and Mariners, and was kicked out by the plate umpire, as were coach Steve Ontiveros and a pitcher.

Davey Johnson manages the U.S. team, as he once did the Dodgers, Reds, Orioles and Mets, and was unhappy that five of his players were hit by pitches, particularly the last one.

Emotions ran high right up to the very last pitch.

In the ninth inning, with his team down 9-0, China catcher Yang Yang hit a home run. He circled the bases with his right arm raised and a finger pointed to the sky.

U.S. relief pitcher Blaine Neal brought the evening to an end by fielding a grounder and tagging out the batter personally, then flipping the ball into China's dugout.

Schierholtz said he and his teammates would have charged the mound if they had been 100 percent sure China's pitcher had hit U.S. right fielder Matt LaPorta in the head on purpose.

"We would have for sure," Schierholtz said. "You hit five guys and you hit our leaders, you're going to pay for it."

Lefebvre denied that the U.S. batter was hit deliberately. The 66-year-old former Dodger pointed the blame toward Schierholtz, who bowled over Yang while scoring on a sacrifice fly, one inning after LaPorta's similar play led to China's starting catcher being hurt and the manager's ejection for arguing.


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I'll take her with no breast or butt.
 



Oh well....

Bolt is first to break records in 100, 200 at same Games

BEIJING -- Usain Bolt of Jamaica broke the world record by winning the 200 meters in 19.30 seconds Wednesday night, becoming the first man since Carl Lewis in 1984 to sweep the 100 and 200 gold medals at an Olympics.

Bolt is the first man ever to break the world marks in both sprints at an Olympics. Not even Lewis or Jesse Owens managed that.

Showing what he can do when he runs at full speed all the way through the finish -- something he hadn't done yet in the Beijing Games -- Bolt eclipsed the old record of 19.32 seconds set by Michael Johnson in Atlanta in 1996.

The performance marked Bolt as one of the breakthrough stars of these Summer Games, coming on the heels of his victory in the 100 Saturday night. He bettered his own world record in that race by winning in 9.69 seconds -- despite slowing down over the final 20 meters to showboat.


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I wanna' do something bad to this woman right hur VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV

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Great Britain's Christine Ohuruogu. :read: Finest thing in the entire games. :read:
 
This woman came from back of the bush mother Africa and I'd put something in her and on her ajax couldn't take off... :read:

<img src="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/00792/co2_792961c.jpg">

Hips, thighs, small waist, fit... She all woman and then would chase your arse down if you did something she didn't like. lol *REURN* *REURN*
 
Panthro said:
I wanna' do something bad to this woman right hur VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV

<img src="http://www.olympics.org.uk/beijing2008/images/athlete/Christine_Ohuruogu_350x3501.jpg">

Great Britain's Christine Ohuruogu. :read: Finest thing in the entire games. :read:
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ummm Pantrho she looks like a man with pony tail.
 
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