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**lonewolf** · 08-23-2008, 05:21 AM

Amen. They could have spare us several hours of diving where Cynthia Potter is the only person who can see the difference in99% of the dives. After a while you just don't care unless you have a relative in the competition.

**Slowrunner** · 08-23-2008, 06:06 AM

Originally posted by lonewolf

Amen. They could have spare us several hours of diving where Cynthia Potter is the only person who can see the difference in99% of the dives. After a while you just don't care unless you have a relative in the competition.

I would have been fine with coverage of the final. It's also really weird that NBC is drooling over a sport where the USA hasn't won a medal in 2 Olympics. The qualifying rounds are so competitively uninteresting it's ridiculous.

Plus it was the "Gold Medal Spotlight" event...without a gold medal being awarded tonight. :?:

**TrackCEO** · 08-23-2008, 09:41 AM

Re: Bryan Clay joins American Decathlon champions...

Originally posted by Slowrunner

I can't figure out why NBC paid so little attention to him.

Bryan is just not that flashy. He's modest and quiet in person.

I ran into him on the second rest day at Eugene, where I entered the free all-comers meet run by the Oregon TC. He was sitting near an entrance, ignored by dozens of people, but I came up to him and said, "How's your Mom?" (I told him that had met his mother in the stands at the 2005 Carson nationals, where she wore a BC T-shirt and cheered him on.)

Bryan didn't engage me in chitchat for long. He seemed deep in thought. Later, at the all-comers, he practiced his start.

BTW, he may be "short" from a distance. But he seems big and powerful on close inspection. I watched him practice his starts. He's world-class in that department as well. Extremely quick out of the blocks.

I hope his Mom was in Beijing.

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