Success in Track & Field ... and Life
Share Stop before you drink that protein shake. According to the study from Dec 2007 commissioned by Informed-Choice, approximately 25% of supplements could be contaminated. According to the report, which can be found here (PDF): Fifty-eight supplement samples were purchased from popular retail outlets and Internet sites in the United States and sent to HFL [...]
Share In the Corporate Olympics, who won the world’s fastest spikes? Like the Sports drinks and cola beverage industry, the sports shoes market is a highly competitive one, even more competitive than the Men’s 100 meters! My first recollection of the Corporate Olympics was in 1972. Lasse Viren won the 5000 and 10000 meter double, [...]
Share The 4 x 100m Relay was going to be a showdown between USA, Jamaica, and Great Britain. However, from my experience witnessed at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, “Anything Goes” (the Irving Berlin song). In Semi-Final 1, USA, Nigeria, Poland, South Africa all dropped or missed the baton and DNF’ed. Trinidad won in 38.26, followed [...]
Share As expected, Yelena Isinbaeva won the Gold medal in Beijing. What we didn’t know is by how much, and if she could break her own world record of 5.04m. Jennifer Stuczynski finished 2nd in 4.80m and Svetlana Feofanova 3rd in 4.75m Yelena (Elena) Isinbaeva didn’t disappoint us. The video of her 5.05 meter World [...]
Share Angelo Taylor won the Gold in 47.25, repeating his feat from the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Kerron Clement finished 2nd in 47.98 and Bershawn Jackson 3rd in 48.06 Shades of Edwin Moses? 1976 – Gold 1980 – Did Not Compete (Olympic Boycott) 1984 – Gold 1988 – Bronze Angelo Taylor 2000 – Gold 2004 – [...]
Share Utterly, amazing! And he slowed down. Imagine if he ran right through? Take my 100 meter to 200 meter conversion equation of doubled and add or subtract +/- 0.2 seconds = 19.38 (+/- 0.2). The next question is, “Can he bring down Micheal Johnson’s 19.32?” Will he win 3 Golds with Jamaica winning the [...]
Share Last Week, I wrote about Merlene Ottey attempting to compete in eight Olympics. In the article from NBCOlympics.com, they stated Jamaican-born Slovakian sprinter Merlene Ottey, 48 years old, failed in her final attempts to qualify for Beijing in the 100m to become the first athlete to compete in eight Olympics. However, there is an [...]
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