The American sprinters are now in Beijing after spending more than a week at training camp in Dalian. The biggest contingent arrived Sunday to start working out at the U.S. Olympic Committee facility at Beijing Normal University.
Tyson Gay said he expected to be part of the 400-meter relay team, though decisions on the team won't be set until after Saturday's 100 meter finals. The 100 meters is probably the much-awaited athletics event in the Olympics this year.
Wallace Spearmon was open about his personal bests recently in Dalian, but the numbers he was throwing out didn't sound right - 250, 260, 257. Turns out he's quite the bowler, a skill he said he honed during all those days with too much time on his hands in Fayetteville, at the University of Arkansas.
Jeremy Wariner, defending 400m gold medalist, separated with his coach Clyde Hart. The former coach insists there is no bad blood between him and his former sprinter. The two have reviewed over why they split - Wariner insisting it was for competitive reasons and Hart saying it had to do with money. "I have no problem with Jeremy," Hart said. "You just have to move on. I'm enjoying what I'm doing, working with Sanya (Richards), working with the Baylor kids. So I've got plenty on my plate. That's history as far as I'm concerned."
Lopez Lomong qualified for the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Team in Eugene, Oregon last month. And since then his remarkable saga of survival has captivated the American public. His journey from a village in Sudan, to a horrific prison camp in the middle of the Sudanese civil war, to a daring escape through the African wild, to a decade spent in a Kenyan refugee camp, to salvation by his adoptive family in upstate New York, to his rise as a collegiate and professional runner is nothing short of remarkable. Lomong was selected to carry the U.S. flag during the Parade of Nations in the Opening Ceremony.
Jamaican former record holder in the 100 meters Asafa Powell is worried that too much blood sampling by the IAAF dope-testing committee might spell his defeat in tomorrow's finals.
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