I didn’t have a chance to post an update yesterday during my epic escape from Rochester (see my WPS recap), but you’ve already heard the big news from the Sunday evening (morning in USA) session: Usain Bolt false-started and was…
Monthly Archives: August 2011
World Track and Field, Day 2b
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What you should know at this stage of the World Track and Field Championships (all times ET), particularly if you’re waking up in a couple of hours: – Usain Bolt races in the men’s 100 semifinals at 5:30 a.m. ET…
The biggest non-Olympic Olympic sports event is upon us …
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Live from Daegu (assuming you don’t sleep during normal hours in U.S. time zones), it’s the 2011 IAAF World Championships. (That’s track and field/athletics.) Given the time difference, soccer duties and the uncertainty of having power by the time Hurricane…
2012 women’s swimming and synchro: All about the Franklins
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Once again: These projections will obviously draw quite heavily from the just-concluded World Championships, and the FINA site’s “rankings” page that generates the best times in any given time period — in this case, since the really fast high-tech suits were banned (1/1/2010).…
2012 men’s swimming: Lochte, Lochte, Phelps, Lochte, Phelps, Phelps …
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The USA-Australia rivalry has given way to the Phelps-Lochte rivalry. That’s not to say the USA is poised to add to their already-substantial medal counts — the contenders are simply spread out among the rest of the world. China had…
2012 wrestling: Not just an MMA prep course
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With all due respect to the revamped formats international wrestling organizers trot out every couple of years, mixed martial arts is the best and worst thing to happen to wrestling in the past decade. Hard-core MMA fans have expanded their…