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    2008 Summer Olympics - Beijing, China

    You may be right...I just read something that indicated Bolt will be in the finals. I didn't know you could change runners between rounds, but I guess it's good to allow teams to compete even if one guy gets injured during the earlier rounds.
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    2008 Summer Olympics - Beijing, China

    I just noticed Bolt is not in the 4x100 relays...kind of disappointing.
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    2008 Summer Olympics - Beijing, China

    Johnson's record of 19.32 stood for 12 years and had not even been seriously threatened. I think Bolt did pretty darn well to shave a couple of hundredths off.
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    2008 Summer Olympics - Beijing, China

    I don't have a problem with him easing up, but that reason doesn't cut it. I'd rather shock the world with a Beamon-like 29' 2.5" in the long jump or Michael Johnson's 19.32 in the 200m. If he had run a 9.59, which the commentators estimated he could have run had he run all out, that would be in...
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    2008 Summer Olympics - Beijing, China

    I am looking forward to the 100m finals -- Jamaica has two studs (Powell and Bolt) who are making the preliminary rounds look easy. Plus, they will be formidable in the relay.
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    2008 Summer Olympics - Beijing, China

    Exactly...I hate to use the word lucky, but Phelps seemed to benefit from Cavic trying to coast instead of taking one more stroke. And the official difference of 0.01 probably underestimates the closeness. It may have actually been 0.001 if the clocks had that resolution. Update...Cavic's...
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