Sport Today

Evidently, Capel thought he had false-started, and started to stop running.
But they didn't call a false start. Oops.

I, of course, haven't seen it yet--thank you NBC--but that's what
I read. *How* did Boldon not win this thing???? Interesting......

Frank

The Aussies have sensibly resisted the urge to produce a 'fast track' for
sprinters, and produced one that, while resulting in no records for the
sprinters, isn't making the long distance runners unhappy either. The
weather isn't particularly conducive to record sprints either, so I've
heard. And as for the poor times by the Yanks - I've heard that they weren't
that favoured, anyway, and none of the field were exactly no-hopers. The two
Brits have been improving steadily, the Carribeans have also been described
as the favourites, and the Greeks seem to have discovered a couple of sprint
stars in Kenteris and Thanou (silver in the women's 100m) (is Greece
investing more money in its athletes now as they have a home Olympics coming
up?).

Then there's psychology. The Americans either weren't ready, or were so put
out when they realised they weren't going to win that they didn't push as
hard at the end as they could have done - dropping them down to last.
Anyway, they'll have plenty of time to think that one over.

I am glad about this.  The Atlanta track was actually harmful to the
distance runners.

This of course neglects the injury induced dropouts of the two clear
favourites in the US trials: Greene and Johnson.

No, simply inexperience.  The guys in there for us were second stringers
without the big time track record.

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cu,
Bruce

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