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    If I did made race sport Book

    Sorry, CS, here's the post missing in the sequence because I was revising it and ran out of time: I think what waterbed is doing in that particular post is trying to standardize the cultural and socio-economic factors that might help or hinder an athlete (things such as whether a particular...
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    World Youth Championships

    He looks like he could be a sprinter. Or a decathlete. He's even a bit long-legged. And not so large that he couldn't learn to pole vault. That's close to an 11' broad jump.
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    What's wrong with the white American boxing fans

    Facetious only in the sense that a reference to "Franks and Greeks" would perhaps have been too obscure. I've had a couple websites in the past where I would have been happy to pay that sort of hyperactive "troll", just to get the post count rolling. He seemed Greek to me.
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    What's wrong with the white American boxing fans

    Apparently, the northern Europeans here find the Mediterranean personality irksome.
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    Christophe Lemaitre "White Lightning" 9.92 and 19.80!

    The stars are aligning for Lemaitre.
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    Greatest warriors of all time

    I remember talking to a rather bookish student of the Eastern martial arts, and he was of the studied opinion that the particular skillsets of the East as well as the training of the knights of the West, had a common source, and that being the Roman Legions.
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    2011 outdoor season

    Borlee recently ran a 20.42 in the 200.
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    2011 outdoor season

    Van Zyl's jackpot will add to family herd South African 400m hurdles record holder LJ van Zyl says he will use his prize money from the domestic athletics season to buy cattle for his family. Van Zyl, the leading one-lap hurdler in the world this year, received a R200 000 cheque from...
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    Laura Roesler

    Very interesting dynamic going on there. T&F fans are not at all DWF's, and yet here we see many of the posters on that forum with an almost instinctual decision-making process based on... well... not necessarily intentionally so -- because the mind cannot openly admit it -- but based on color...
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    Psychology

    Yes, I do think you have a point. Although some of what is considered "tightness" seems to me to simply be better gross motor skill control. Edited by: Observer
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    Ubiquitous Man Hating

    Some economists can't count. Yeah, sure, let's get all the women working. Oh, and also make sure they get lots and lots of training for all of those modern technologies. Oh, yes, now with all of that career busy-ness, she is into her 30's and hasn't had time to marry. And when is she...
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    Scott Starr

    Surnamed rightly.
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    Bobby Wolford and John Wolford

    Actually, to me it reads as if he is not really comfortable with the choice of being a Catholic and yet choosing a Mormon school; but that BYU was the best choice because it was not a moral cesspool. I would guess that he and his family discussed the pros and cons of this and decided that this...
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    800 meters

    I have never read a post by trackster that was not fascinating. Thank you, again.
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