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[Dave]

Also a bit of a statement to the rest of the world that he is absolutely in shape. However, I’m not sure Cheruiyot or Ingebrigtsen will be impressed...

[Dave]

Let’s see. The defending Olympic champion sets a new PR 10 days before his Olympic races. I’m not seeing a failure here.

On the other...

[Dave]

It sounds like the vaccine may have protected you from a much worse outcome....

[Dave]

Color me judgemental, but anyone (in the US) at this point who hasn’t gotten their vaccine, barring a substantial medical reason, is being stupid and...

[Dave]

Most likely because those athletes are more likely to make a living throwing a football or baseball than a javelin....

[Dave]

Given the era we live in and have lived in since at least 1972, would distributing the games drive up security costs? It seems like securing a lot of...

[Dave]

I’d keep boxing since it has long been part of the games, but the others should go....

[Dave]

Do you ever do TV? I know you announce meets pretty regularly....

[Dave]

Per world athletics, she ran 50.36 indoors a couple years ago. No doubt she is now faster....

[Dave]

Perhaps the schedule dictated those choices. His coach may have wanted to have him compete in three events but the 200 would have gotten in the way of...

[Dave]

Dave ( me) is waving at you from the harbor....

[Dave]

That is kind of consistent with my comment: “she freaked”.

Of course we will never know unless she tells us about it in a few years....

[Dave]

Is it possible that she did this intentionally? Ie that she really didn’t want to compete for whatever personal reason? Ie she freaked? She isn’t...

[Dave]

Is there anyone who could potentially get to 6.10 or 6.20 in the pipeline?

[Dave]

Were any of the jumps close?...

[Dave]

Mondo over 6.02.

[Dave]

How are these guys looking? Was Mondo over by a lot?...

[Dave]

That is wrong. That is worse than the original bad decision....

[Dave]

Which part? People won’t pay as much attention to the games? People don’t care what is happening in T&F?

Around here, I’d expect...

[Dave]

Remember, most of America doesn’t care, at all. They are vaguely aware that the Olympics happen this year. If she ran, they’d have briefly fawned...