Borzakovskiy Skipping Indoors, Opening Season at Pre

[EPelle]

Olympic 800 m Champion, Yuriy Borzakovskiy, has announced he will not compete in any indoor competitions in 2007, instead opting to start his summer season at Prefontaine Memorial in Eugene, USA in June. Insisting that he wants to be in top form for the World Athletics Championships in Japan and to retain his Olympic title in Beijing in 2008, he is back in strong training after recovering from a serious car accident where a fellow passenger died at the scene.

http://www.european-athletics.org/index ... 6&Itemid=2

(The person who died was not a passenger, rather a pedestrian crossing the street in an unlit area not wearing reflexors).

[Master Po]

Has Borza. ever raced in the USA? (Perhaps he's been over here a bunch of times and I've just missed the obvious -- once again)

[nevetsllim]

He was defeated by Gary Reed at the Pre in 2005.

[SQUACKEE]

He was defeated by Gary Reed at the Pre in 2005.

His splits were 63.8- 48.7. Just ran out of real estate.

[EPelle]

800m 1 Reed Gary CAN 1:44.82; 2 Borzakovskiy Yuriy RUS 1:44.91; 3 Robinson Khadevis USA 1:45.19; 4 Krummenacker David USA 1:45.43; 5 Ismail Ismail Ahmed SUD 1:45.58; 6 Smith Richard USA 1:46.65; 7 Peterson Derrick USA 1:46.86; 8 Tadili Achraf CAN 1:47.05; Krempley Ross USA DNF

His only appearance on USA soil.