Happy Wednesday!
This week on the show we’re talking World Juniors, the NHL lockout (of course!), Adrian Peterson’s big season & we take a look at Wildcard Weekend in the NFL.
In the GABBYs: The London Knights, the LA Clippers, Adrian Peterson, US customs, the Atlanta Braves & Avery Johnson. The Punchline this week is the Memphis Grizzlies!
Happy Tuesday!
This week on 15 Minutes of Fame we wrap up the Summer Olympics for another four years & discuss Usain Bolt’s track dominance, we delve into labor talks between the NHL and the NHLPA & the latest Phoenix Coyotes news and we look another solid night for the Edmonton Eskimos.
In the GABBYs: Usain Bolt, Manny Machado, Dwight Howard, Antonio Conte, Belgium & the NBC. The Punchline this week is Carolina Panthers defensive end Thomas Keiser!
Usain Bolt (Erik Van Leeuwen, Wikimedia Commons)
Usain Bolt of Jamaica is now in the history books.
Bolt posted a time of 19.32 on Thursday in the men’s 200m to win Olympic Gold in a Jamaican sweep. Yohan Blake won the Silver medal with a time of 19.44 and Warren Weir won Olympic Bronze with a time of 19.90.
Bolt also becomes the first sprinter to defend his 200m Olympic title, and now owns the men’s 100m and 200m gold medals from the last two Olympic Games.
It was also a world record night in the men’s 800m as David Lekuta Rudisha of Kenya posted a time of 1:40.91. Rudisha was 0.82 seconds faster than Nijel Amos of Botsawna. Rudisha broke his own world record that he set in 2010.
Rudisha has also reportedly challenged Bolt in a 400m run in the future, something similar to the Michael Johnson-Donovan Bailey 150m exhibition at Toronto’s Rogers Centre about 15 years ago. Bailey won after Johnson pulled up.
Happy Tuesday!
This week on 15 Minutes of Fame we’re looking at the ups and downs of the first week or so of the Olympics in London, how the Edmonton Eskimos are sitting after five weeks of CFL action and the latest on Shane Doan and the Phoenix Coyotes.
In the GABBYs: Rosannagh MacLennan, Derek Dye, Shannon Eastin, Felipe Kitadai, Rio Ferdinand & London police. The Punchline this week is NBC’s Olympic coverage!
Usain Bolt (Phil McElhinney, Wikimedia Commons)
On day nine of the 2012 Olympic Games, Jamaica went 1-2 in the men’s 100 metre dash.
Usain Bolt ran a time of 9.63 to win his fourth Olympic Gold medal of his career. The sprinter, who many in Jamaica call Lightning, beat eventual silver medallist Yohan Blake of Jamaica by 0.12 seconds. American Justin Gatlin ran a time of 9.79.
The final was remarkably fast with seven sprinters running under 10 seconds. Jamaican Asafa Powell, who ended up last with a time of 11.99, would have probably run under ten seconds as well, if he had not got injured during the race.
The 2012 Olympic Games in London will also be remembered from an athletic perspective as the Olympics swimming legend Michael Phelps of the United States retired. When Phelps helped the United States win the 4×100 metre medley relay yesterday, he recorded his 18th Gold medal of all-time, more than double of those Olympians who are second on the list.
Usain Bolt (Erik van Leeuwen, Wikimedia Commons)
The city of Edmonton is going to be hosting a major event in three years.
According to Athletics Canada, Edmonton has been awarded the 2015 Pan American Junior Track and Field Championships. The competition will take place at Edmonton’s Foote Field.
Foote Field is also the host site of the annual Donovan Bailey Invitational. This year’s elite track meet is on July 16.
Athletics Alberta Executive Director Peter Ogilvie, an outstanding friend of Prospect Magazine, will play a key role in organizing the event. Edmonton defeated a bid from Kamloops, British Columbia.
The 2011 Pan American Junior Track and Field Championships took place in Miramar, Florida, with Canada winning 14 medals. The 2013 Pan American Junior Track and Field Championships will take place in Lima, Peru.
Dylan Armstrong (Wilson Wong, Wikimedia Commons)
Dylan Armstrong of Kamloops, British Columbia, has won Canada’s first medal at the World Track and Field Championships in Daegu, South Korea.
Armstrong delivered a throw in the shot put of 21.64 meters to win a Silver medal.
German David Storl won the Gold medal with a throw of 21.78 metres. Andrei Mikhnevich of Belarus won the Silver medal with a throw of 21.64 metres.
Storl’s throw was a personal best and will be a Gold medal contender at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. At only the age of 21, he has won the silver at the 2001 European Indoor Championship in Paris. His performance in Daegu came after a solid junior career where he was the 2008 World Junior Champion in Bydgoszcz, Poland and the 2007 World Youth Champion in Ostrava, Czech Republic.
Armstrong is a winner of three Diamond League Grand Prix events in Doha, Qatar, Rome and Birmingham.
In other action, Usian Bolt of Jamaica won the 200m, after his embarrassing disqualification in the 100m last weekend.
Slow Sprint
Have you been keeping up with the IAAF World Championships in South Korea?
Let me get you up to date so far: Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt was disqualified in the 100m, double-amputee Oscar Pistorius helped get the South African team to the 4×100 final but was then replaced…and American Samoa’s Sogelau Tuvalu showed us that slow and steady doesn’t always win the race!
The 17-year-old failed to qualify for the shot put, his event of choice, and somehow ended up in a preliminary heat for the 100m instead.
He didn’t have the right shoes or anything, but Tuvalu channeled his inner Trevor “The Tortoise” Misipeka and gave it all he had. By the time the first of his competitors crossed the finish line, you couldn’t even see Tuvalu on the screen anymore. To his credit, he didn’t do any of the things I would worry about if I were in his position – he didn’t false start, he didn’t fall and he didn’t hurt himself! (After the Jump: Video of Tuvalu’s run, Didier Drogba gets knocked out, Dwight Howard dunks on a giraffe…) (more…)
Yohan Blake (Bing Images)
The International Association of Athletics Federations World Championships in Athletics kicked off this weekend in Daegu, South Korea.
The biggest headline wasn’t who won, but who didn’t.
In an interesting surprise, Usain Bolt, the defending Olympic and World Champion from Jamaica, was disqualified with a false start. Under the new IAAF rules, one false start and you’re out. The rule change puts significant added pressure on each sprinter who competes.
The winner turned out to be Yohan Blake of Jamaica with a time of 9.92. American Walter Dix was second with a time of 10.08 followed by Kim Collins of Saint Kitts and Nevis, with a time of 10.09.
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