Olympics 2012, in Londontown

That having been said, the best decision right from the start would have been for Felix to concede the spot saying "I'm already going in other events which I'm favored, so I'll just focus on those."

 

Think you hit it right with the first one, Shoeless ... she's 22 and trying to sort out a lot of stuff rather quickly. Emotionally, she may not be ready. But unless I see further proof, not buying the vast sneaker conspiracy.

 

I think its the culture of track and field in general. Plus you dont want to go into a big Olympics losing a race getting blasted on prime time national television in a match race, I am willing to cut her some slack. But if this was a Tyson Gay/Justin Gatlin controversy the manhood card would be played, ESPN would be going nuts 24/7 with Screamin A and Skip Bayless perhaps rightly so...maybe a double standard or difference of the sexes?

 

She keeps saying she "earned the spot" and shouldn't have to do it again. No, she didn't. I guess that might be the biggest thing I'm struggling wrapping my head around. When you've got the photo finish, how can she look at it and still say she got the spot? "Who you gonna trust, your lying eyes?"

I do know in the future there should be safeguards where a computer doesn't automatically flash up a result in case there is a photo finish like this.

 

The whole thing was just weird throughout. Why didn't they just have the runoff the next day and be done with it? If she doesn't want to compete, fine. A year from now, no one will remember who she was anyway.

 

It was the unofficial result that put her third. The official result was the dead heat. They didn't take anything away from her.

If she doesn't want it bad enough for a runoff, her loss.

 

DING!

I've covered enough track to know anything put up on the scoreboard right after a race is an unofficial result until otherwise noted. I'd think she's been to enough meets to know that, too.

 

She can even bitch afterwards if she loses the match race. That's acceptable. But you run the doggone race. You don't walk away from it.

 

Hope for the U.S. in the sprints? Bolt pulls out of his last tuneup meet after an apparent hamstring tweak in a race last weekend.


http://sports.yahoo.com/news/usain-bolt-withdraws-monaco-meet-120441214--oly.html

 

Unless you get injured like Bolt.

 

Michael Phelps is a lazy slug, says a teammate...

http://blog.pe.com/jim-alexander/2012/07/09/column-clary-calls-out-the-king-of-the-pool/