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20-08-08, 06:09 PM
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Lol...guess you were getting used to the Gold Rush from Team GB..
I could swear Bernard Lagat used to run for Kenya..must be a fairly recent switch..ay!!..if theres toomuch competition at home better head to another country..big fish in small pond syndrome...guess hes happy though..hes a legend over there
Happy for Tasha Denvers..very deserving after all the inhuries and disappointments..i was really surprised at how her speed pattern had matured
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He was running for them. Our new motto is to be like other countries when looking for Brazilian football players. If you can't produce them, steal errrr nationalize them. LOL  |
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20-08-08, 06:12 PM
classic blogs
QUES
does anyone know if there has been any WHITE runners to win gold?? since umm the end of segregation?
I’ll show you a white man breakin’ track records - just have him come to my neighborhood.
one will need a bigger lie to cover the first one
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20-08-08, 06:47 PM
The silver medalist in this race has now also been DQ'd for a similar reason.
So after the reshuffle, the guy who got bronze but didn't think he's medalled at all(unitl Spearmon got DQ'd) now will have silver.
God there are gonna be some tears in that Olympic village tonight. 
I aint asking for nothing,just open the door and i\'ll take it myself-James Brown.
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20-08-08, 06:48 PM
one word - wow!
when i saw the 100m i was in shock. if you blinked you would have missed it. he even he kept on running after that.
today i knew he would win but i wasnt sure if he was going to break the record and again he did it!
did you see look on the guy's face in the fourth lane when usain overtook him, he was like wtf?! i was even more shocked when he had a 6m lead.
he has stamina, strength and good looks.
dang i'm in love!
Never too busy to be beautiful.
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20-08-08, 06:58 PM
btw the dance he was doing was the gully creep a jamaican dance!
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20-08-08, 07:08 PM
I'm not that bothered about athletes going over to represent another country. People do have their reasons sometimes. It does raise some important questions though about funding and getting support being an issue in some countries. Like i said before money talks and all that.
It is just a bit funny when you see someone representing their home country when they were born and grew up somewhere and then they switched. I find it a bit funny as well when people select some obscure country like Quatar. I don't like the idea of poaching though if it is done with an intent just to get someone in to just boost how you do in sport and in events like this.
I mean with Lagat i was watching that for a while and was thinking that the US are doing very well and maybe going to end the dominance of the East Africans and then i find out that the guy is a Kenyan himself lol.
Imagine a Johnson (when he was at his peak) Bolt 200m final? I wouldn't like to put money on either.
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20-08-08, 07:54 PM
Respect to the man. Jamaicans must be proud, and too right!
Bolt is killing it right now - Two world records with barely even trying....lol
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20-08-08, 08:08 PM
Would Mike Johnson..come out of retirement??
Jokes aside it would have been a bloody race..smashing all records..guess thats why God placed in different generations
one will need a bigger lie to cover the first one
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20-08-08, 08:16 PM
Usain is just scarily fast. I just hopes this does not go to his head and he relaxes on his medals. I think he can go faster.
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20-08-08, 08:22 PM
This thread to be merged with Oly,pic general discussion thread in 5 mins..
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20-08-08, 08:39 PM
saw the replay. JA is on fire. men and women setting new records
so proud of them. Americans dont seem to be so dominate in this olympics. Thougt I would have seen more american winners coming through
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20-08-08, 08:50 PM
If the medal table were listed by achievement per head of population rather than by the absolute number won, Jamaica would be top right now. Have to salute that.
Furthermore, on the evidence of these Games the Caribbean is the no. 1 region in the world for sprinting. My guess is that it won't stop there. I hope that young men here are watching Bolt and the rest - big lessons about how hard work pays off in the long run.
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20-08-08, 10:03 PM
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Respect to the man. Jamaicans must be proud, and too right!
Bolt is killing it right now - Two world records with barely even trying....lol
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I think it's fair to say that the 100meter was a leisurely stroll for Bolt,but make no mistake he ran flat out for the 200 hundred!! he ran his ass off and left most of his skin on the track,to the point where he even leaned in at the end, even though noone was close.
He needs to put that same effort now into the 100 and he'll be knocking on the door of the mid 9.5's in no time.
I aint asking for nothing,just open the door and i\'ll take it myself-James Brown.
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