So...the Olympics are over, but we've still got one more for you from Beijing courtesy of Mr. Kirby Lee before I revert back to the regular riff-raff of events that we'll just have to tolerate for the next four years before London rolls around. Don&rsq...

On this ninth day of the Olympics the US does have a chance to win 4 of the seven events.  The US does have a couple of challengers for the marathon on the last day. 

2007 world champion Blanka Vlasic of Croatia has had a tremendous last tw...

The first day of the Decathlon was very good for two Americans.  Both Brian Clay and Trey Hardee were.  Right now they would be favored for first and third.  Two veteran favorites, Azalea, Oregon's Tom Pappas and Dmetriy Karpov were...

Ah, the Olympics.  The worldwide celebration of friendly competiton between our planet's nations.  It's such a HUGE event that it must be opened with a spectacular $300 million ceremony.  Well can you blame em?  Okay so $300 million...

The men's Decathlon starts on the seventh day of the Olympics.  The US has a legitimate chance of sweeping the top three positions.  American Brian Clay is the Gold medal favorite and wants to improve on his silver medal from 2004.  Defe...

What an amazing pair of runs by Usain Bolt.  The 100 meters was sad in that I and many in the audience wanted to see him run faster than the 9.69 that he posted.  If he hadn't celebrated 15 meters out from the finish he would have probably ru...

Pictures of runners doing funny things like wearing
too much sun screen and tying their shoes while the gun's going off are great,
and they're usually what I bank on for this little thing we call Photo of the
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For Oregon and Idaho residents this is a big day.  The men's 800 heats will have the three Eugene residents try to advance to the semi-finals.  Bishop Kelly High (Boise) product Nick Symmonds won his first outdoor national title over Kha...

There are five finals on this fifth day and the US so far has had mixed results.  The shock of the third day where the US was shut out of medals in the women's 100 meters and defending world champion Bernard Lagat not qualifying for the final...

The men's 100 meters was the center event of the second day but there were three other finals and important heats and qualifications.  In the morning Russian 20km race walker  Veleriy Borchin won a close competition against 3x world cham...