Bolt - TFN Athlete of Year

[Bruce Kritzler]

No big surprise at Bolt being chosen Athlete of Year.
Was a bit surprised to see Clay at #4 and Merritt at #5. Some had suggested that there would be no US men in top 10. Can infer from this that Bryan Clay is US Athlete of Year.
Noticed that Gebrasallasie had a comfortable lead over Wanjuri in AOY voting. If same people are ranking marathon, they will be in that order?

[gh]

Geb also has a high ranking in the 10.

[dj]

Who have been the other unanimous picks?

[tandfman]

Rono, '78 and Johnson, '96. That's mentioned in the story linked on the home page.

[gh]

I'm guessing--given the source--that that was meant as a trivia question.

[tandfman]

That didn't occur to me (obviously). I assumed he just hadn't opened the link.

If you were right, you should have just deleted my post.

[dj]

Nope, it wasn't a trivia quiz. I posted without having looked at the link.

But it would have been a good one.

[gh]

OK, so who are the three women?

[Bruce Kritzler]

Florence Joyner-Griffin, Jackie Joyner Kersee, Marita Koch?

[tandfman]

I assume Marion Jones would have done that at least once, unless her AOY status was retroactively nullified.

[bambam]

What about Michael Phelps?

[gh]

Florence Joyner-Griffin, Jackie Joyner Kersee, Marita Koch?

none of those

[Bruce Kritzler]

How about Irena Szewenska(sp?), Heike Dreschler, and Paula Radcliffe?

[Per Andersen]

Well, I looked and I would definitely not have been able to remember the first one and not the second either. The third one, yes.

[EPelle]

Bolt season recap:

http://athleticsinthenews.blogspot.com/ ... iving.html