OT (but still sport) Rawlinson out of Olympics

No link yet, but apparently her toe injury will prevent her from competing in Beijing.

Yeah, heard that on Foxy Sports News just now myself. Damn, there's one possible gold (and likely the only possible one in the track and field) gawn.

Why have Aussies generally been so shoite at T&F considering you're the sporting facists you are?

JKLever wrote:Why have Aussies generally been so shoite at T&F considering you're the sporting facists you are?

A good question JKL. Interesting how we can swim the bejesus out of most countries bar the USA but couldn't run or jump our way out of paper bag.

so expect a 20 page article on the drama queen in tomorrows paper?

JKLever wrote:Why have Aussies generally been so shoite at T&F considering you're the sporting facists you are?

I'd like to say something about it being too hot and/or humid to make T&F a worthwhile sporting pastime, but Africa seems to shit on that as a theory.

Zat wrote:

JKLever wrote:Why have Aussies generally been so shoite at T&F considering you're the sporting facists you are?

I'd like to say something about it being too hot and/or humid to make T&F a worthwhile sporting pastime, but Africa seems to shit on that as a theory.

I think it is more a case of the best athletes generally going to the football codes or triathlon. Not sure why the women aren't better at T&F though.

JGK wrote:

Zat wrote:

JKLever wrote:Why have Aussies generally been so shoite at T&F considering you're the sporting facists you are?

I'd like to say something about it being too hot and/or humid to make T&F a worthwhile sporting pastime, but Africa seems to shit on that as a theory.

I think it is more a case of the best athletes generally going to the football codes or triathlon. Not sure why the women aren't better at T&F though.

Pretty good at T & B though.

taipan wrote:

JGK wrote:

Zat wrote:

JKLever wrote:Why have Aussies generally been so shoite at T&F considering you're the sporting facists you are?

I'd like to say something about it being too hot and/or humid to make T&F a worthwhile sporting pastime, but Africa seems to shit on that as a theory.

I think it is more a case of the best athletes generally going to the football codes or triathlon. Not sure why the women aren't better at T&F though.

Pretty good at T & B though.

Nah, you're thinkin of those fit Saffie birds (as our English comrades would say).

Nath wrote:so expect a 20 page article on the drama queen in tomorrows paper?

20? And then some in the news section alone, she's a Vomit, isn't she?

The Herald Sun might even push the footy off the back page for a photo of her crying about the destruction of her Olympic dream. Then there'll be the obligatory multi-page spread including photos of her winning at Athens, and a hugely-important gold at the Comm Games 06...

She is the quintessential Vomit isn't she?

She doesn't surpass Deano.

She didn't nearly kill herself by scoring a double century in Madras...

Zat wrote:

Nath wrote:so expect a 20 page article on the drama queen in tomorrows paper?

20? And then some in the news section alone, she's a Vomit, isn't she?

The Herald Sun might even push the footy off the back page for a photo of her crying about the destruction of her Olympic dream. Then there'll be the obligatory multi-page spread including photos of her winning at Athens, and a hugely-important gold at the Comm Games 06...

As if on cue...

http://www.foxsports.com.au/beijing_olympics/story/0,27313,23994339-5014107,00.html

For all of the money that Australia puts into sport, the USA puts even more into their college athletics programs. And apart from the US athletes themselves, that's where all of the top athletes from the Caribbean like Ato Boldon, Asafa Powell and Usain Bolt have gone.

Distance running is a case of the Ethiopians in particular simply being genetically better suited to distance running than runners from any other country. Most of the top Ethiopian athletes start training from a very young age, at extremely high altitudes. I read in Time magazine that three of Ethiopia's gold medal winning distance runners of the last 20 years have come from the same high altitude village.

And this...


http://www.foxsports.com.au/beijing_olympics/beijinggallery/0,27379,5032255-5017127,00.html