Quote of the day: "Hey where did you get that sweatshirt?" Bob Larsen,coach of Nike sponsored athlete and silver medalist Meb to me. I had onthe plainest of navy blue sweatshirts with a small swoosh on it, whichI've had for years. He said he keeps asking Nike for one, but theynever send him just a plain sweatshirt.Athlete of the Day:Shaka Sola of Guam. I turned on Eurosport yesterday morning to [...]

Bryan Clay throwing the DiscusI was looking over the results from the USA NationalChampionships again and of all the great performances one of the mostamazing is perhaps also the most easily overlooked. Bryan Clay, OlympicSilver Medalist in the 2004 Decathlon set a world record in thedecathlon discus. The decathlon discus you say? Who cares about that?Well consider for a moment the magnitude of Cl [...]

Sacramento, CA- Well we’ve been here for half a week now andcompetition started tonight. While some would say that it was “only”prelims and qualifying rounds tonight, they obviously fail to see thatif you don’t get through the prelims and qualifying rounds THERE ARE NOfinals. Well, for the most part all went well. Except for one person,everyone who was supposed to advance d [...]