Olympic Trials Thread

If your co-worker thought Symmonds was jogging, he must be drunk.

 

Nick tends to come from behind. He's a very strategic runner, and he's bears a certain resemblance to Brad Pitt

 

Goddamn that was a great race. The stadium sounding like it was going to come apart it was roaring so loud.
Definitely the race of the Trials so far.
What interests me is that Symmonds' home paper isn't here despite it being located 6 hours away.

 

"gola, you are covering one of the great events in all of sports. Enjoy it, boy!

 

Amen to that. Have covered six T&F trials and if you like track, there's nothing better, including the Olympics.

And I imagine the Eugene crowd was really into the 800 because boys with Oregon connections swept 1-3.

 

Jeff Hartwig, all of 40, made the Olympics as a pole vaulter.
That's pretty damn cool to be 40 and still an elite at a physically demanding sport.

 

That one is amazing, Jay

 

According to the track announcer, Tom Pappas just became the first American to ever qualify for three Olympics in the decathlon.

And, yes, the crowd did go nuts because of the Oregon connections. I wasn't totally aware of all that when I was watching, but it still was awesome and shows how knowledgeable the crowd really is here.

 

I really hope either Rupp or Solinksy win the 5000-meter finals. Then I can say I was beat by an Olympian back in college.

 

Attending a track meet at Hayward Field is like attending a hockey game in Canada -- no matter how knowledgeable you think you are, here are thousands of people who can make you feel damned stupid in short order.

 

Our home girl, Hyleas Fountain, is becoming one hell of a story.

Not only did she blow away the heptathlon competition (best mark in USA this year, No. 3 in the world), now she has the top mark through qualifying in the long jump. And her 100 hurdles time should put her in the middle of that on Saturday, too.

Great young woman. Very nice person. She used to run against my daughter in high school.

 

If she can pull that off, shot, it would be as impressive as anything anyone can do at the trials.
I'm guessing she doesn't make it in the hurdles.
But the hep and LJ puts her in JJK land.