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08-06-2005, 08:56 AM
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I mean come on she is not like the great man of Swedish athletics the one the only Patrik Sjöberg, there was a charisma machine.
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Sorry, I don't know him... 
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08-06-2005, 08:57 AM
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Sorry, I don't know him... |
When did you start following athletics?
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I definitely would have preferred Gaba winning as he needs the points much more, but Jan would have beaten him anyway. I expect Hajek to destroy Machado, like 6-1 6-2.
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08-06-2005, 09:01 AM
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When did you start following athletics?
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I really started looking quite regularly from Barcelona 92 on...but I was only interested, at first, in sprint and races up to 400m...I'm like good wine, getting better with age! 
Bad news for Carolina, but good one for Eunice! 
From eurosport.com: Carolina Kluft kicked off her world title defence in the heptathlon finishing second to France's Eunice Barber in the 100 metres hurdles as the World Championships kick off from Helsinki.
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08-06-2005, 09:03 AM
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I really started looking quite regularly from Barcelona 92 on...but I was only interested, at first, in sprint and races up to 400m...I'm like good wine, getting better with age! |
Do you know Javier Sotomayor then?
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“ On Nadal bumping him on the changeover, Rosol said: "It's ok, he wanted to take my concentration; I knew he would try something".
Wilander on Dimitrov - "He has mind set on imitating Federer and yes it looks good. But he has no idea what to do on the court".
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I definitely would have preferred Gaba winning as he needs the points much more, but Jan would have beaten him anyway. I expect Hajek to destroy Machado, like 6-1 6-2.
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08-06-2005, 09:07 AM
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Barber v Kluft is going to be a classic!
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It took a slight ankle problem for it to be close.
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“ On Nadal bumping him on the changeover, Rosol said: "It's ok, he wanted to take my concentration; I knew he would try something".
Wilander on Dimitrov - "He has mind set on imitating Federer and yes it looks good. But he has no idea what to do on the court".
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Originally Posted by Filo V.
I definitely would have preferred Gaba winning as he needs the points much more, but Jan would have beaten him anyway. I expect Hajek to destroy Machado, like 6-1 6-2.
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Machado wins 6-2 6-1
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08-06-2005, 09:09 AM
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It took a slight ankle problem for it to be close.
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don't tell me the excuses have started already? 
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08-06-2005, 09:12 AM
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don't tell me the excuses have started already?
but yeah it's a shame she is not fully fit, hope she can last it out |
No excuses just stating the obvious. I don't make excuses my friend.
I wonder if these clowns are actually going to jump something decent this time around it's a disgrace when 2,34 is good enough for a medal.
The womens well at least Kajsa Bergvist is good to look at and she can jump as well.
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“ On Nadal bumping him on the changeover, Rosol said: "It's ok, he wanted to take my concentration; I knew he would try something".
Wilander on Dimitrov - "He has mind set on imitating Federer and yes it looks good. But he has no idea what to do on the court".
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I definitely would have preferred Gaba winning as he needs the points much more, but Jan would have beaten him anyway. I expect Hajek to destroy Machado, like 6-1 6-2.
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Machado wins 6-2 6-1
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08-06-2005, 09:27 AM
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The best guy in the Smith group was Ato Boldon, one of the 3 best sprinters ever! Very likable athlete. I wonder why nobody talks about him here.  |
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08-06-2005, 09:34 AM
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The best guy in the Smith group was Ato Boldon, one of the 3 best sprinters ever! Very likable athlete. I wonder why nobody talks about him here. |
If he was that good of a guy he wouldn't have deal with the Smith group.
John Smith what a guy, told Felix Sanchez he wasn't good enough, what a wanker.
Boldon = choker.
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“ On Nadal bumping him on the changeover, Rosol said: "It's ok, he wanted to take my concentration; I knew he would try something".
Wilander on Dimitrov - "He has mind set on imitating Federer and yes it looks good. But he has no idea what to do on the court".
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I definitely would have preferred Gaba winning as he needs the points much more, but Jan would have beaten him anyway. I expect Hajek to destroy Machado, like 6-1 6-2.
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08-06-2005, 09:41 AM
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Do you know Javier Sotomayor then?
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Yes I know him. 
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08-06-2005, 09:44 AM
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The best guy in the Smith group was Ato Boldon, one of the 3 best sprinters ever! Very likable athlete. I wonder why nobody talks about him here. |
I had a crush on that guy! 1st time I've seen him run, he was 18 I guess. He was so natural and spontaneous when interviewed. The pb is that he stayed too long in the HSI team...it has destroyed everything he could have of natural in him, in all meanings of the word. But I still like him, though I'm pretty disappointed by the way his career is ending.
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08-06-2005, 09:47 AM
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Boldon had 28 sub-ten 100m races and 9 sub-20 200m in 6 years, that's top 3 of all time. That he has only one gold medal doesn't mean too much. It was just his bad luck that Greene was there.
Boldon says on his website that the horrible car crash in Trinidad was his end in 2001. He never ran under 10 sec. again after that.
I just saw that Ato posts one story of the past each month on his website. A great service for his fans, he always had the best website compared to the others. 
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08-06-2005, 11:09 AM
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I just can't stand the majority of sprinters. The only ones I could even consider as good guys are Frankie Fredericks and Kim Collins.
Donovan Bailey was great when he beat the Yanks in the US, but he wasn't a good guy.
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Fredericks is the James Brown of sprinting. While Ato Boldon was more of a Bob Marley. |
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