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Hurry. Death. Theodore Roosevelt. | Books for Your Summer Reading List
This is a story about Death. No, not death, the force of nature howling all around us, but Death. You know the fellow: white horse, black robe, scythe? Makes a lot of cameos on pirate flags.
Anyhow. This is a story in which Death is sentenced to death.
It’s nothing personal. The Auditors of the multiverse appreciate his undying dedication to his work, haha, but the fact remains that over the millennia, Death has developed a Personality. He has ceased to be an unfeeling, implacable force, and has become an individual. Life, it would seem, is a catching thing, and not even Death is immune. He’s alive now, and all life comes with a terminal diagnosis.
Death takes it in his long, bony stride, though. For the first time in his life eternity, he has a store of that precious resource, time, and he intends to spend it. With his proverbial pink slip on his desk, he saddles his horse (Binky [yes, Binky]) and leaves
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After doing this now for nearly 20 years, when asking casual (American) fans of the Olympics to name the most famous Olympic athlete who first comes to mind, the answer is invariably one of two:
Michael Phelps. Or, more likely, Carl Lewis.
It’s in this context that one is urged to take in the first in a series of promotional videos — featuring both athletes and venues — from the LA24 bid committee.
Released this week, this first mini-movie features Lewis at the scene of arguably his greatest triumph, the LA Memorial Coliseum, where in 1984 he won four Olympic gold medals. He has, over his Olympic career, nine golds and one silver.
Sports Illustrated named Lewis the Olympian of the 20th century. That list includes Jesse Owens, Jim Thorpe, Mark Spitz, Nadia Comaneci, Paavo Nurmi, Emil Zatopek and many more. Track and field's international governing body, the IAAF, named him male athlete of the century. The International Olympic Committee named him "sportsman of the century
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Attention, all you sanctimonious, moralistic, smarter-than-everyone-else know-it-alls who traffic in rumor, half-truth, character assassination and worse when it comes to USA Track & Field, and in particular the effort to win Olympic and world relay medals. Do yourselves a favor, along with everyone who values civility, dialogue and tolerance: give it a rest.
Under the guise of anonymity, the stuff that gets said, and in particular written, about USATF and — now, in the aftermath of last week’s Penn Relays, where one of two U.S. men’s 4x100 teams again had a bekymmer exchanging the baton — is way, way, way beyond the bounds of decency, fair comment and constructive criticism.
To be blunt: a botched handoff fryst vatten not armageddon.
Nearly 18 years of writing about the Olympic movement has led to a great many track meets. Across those years, U.S. relay difficulties have been duly noted. At the same time, fans and self-professed experts rarely understand or appreciate the real-world