It’s been one week since the Olympics, and a slow week here at The Science of Sport (as I try to catch up on time lost to the Games, mostly!). For today, though, to begin a Post-Olympic wrap, I thought I’d do a “Best of” (and worst of) list from Beijing. So here are the […]
Archives for August 2008
Post-Olympic prospects
Well, I must apologize for the complete absence of posting or replying to any of your comments on our Olympic coverage over the last 4 days – I’m going to blame our absence on a “post-Olympic hangover”, which saw us drop from 2 posts a day to none in 4! The comments and feedback we’ve […]
Beijing 2008: Men’s Marathon report
The Men’s Marathon in Beijing was, to be blunt, brutal. In temperatures at least 10 degrees higher than we typically see in the Major Marathon Series, the Kenyans and Ethiopians decided that they were going to run it like a paced race anyway. In an incredible display of front running, the Africans shattered the Olympic […]
Beijing 2008: Discovering Usain Bolt
Well, halfway into the athletics programme of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, and the name on everyone’s lips is Usain Bolt. The man with the most appropriate name in track and field (a close second is Philip Spies, who was a South African javelin thrower…”spies” is the Afrikaans word for javelin) has electrified the Beijing […]
Beijing 2008: Men’s 10 000m report
You have to go back a long, long way to find the last time that the men’s 10,000m Olympic gold was won by an athlete NOT from Ethiopia. Barcelona, 1992, to be precise, where Khalid Skah of Morocco beat Richard Chelimo in a controversial race. Ever since, the 10,000m race has been an Ethiopian playground. […]
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