Virginia Right!

I did not know the men’s 800 could have so much fun!  I haven’t had this much fun since I ran 800s and was cheered at an away team match by the home team’s crowd!  Led by a girl much much better looking than Paris Hilton!  (My nearest competitor was from the third school invited, [...]

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Looks like Botswana will have a medal in the Olympics for the first time ever!  It’s unofficial but Nijel Amos won silver in the men’s 800.  Alas, the Americans took fourth and fifth (Symmonds). I was not able to find any Botswana media yet on the win.  Give it a day or two.  But I [...]

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Based on this site here, Nigel Amos of Botswana won heat 1 yesterday in the quarterfinals with a time of 1 minute 45.90 seconds.  (My best heat in high school was about twice that for the same event!) Here’s a better article (actually a photo) from a European source: Botswana’s Nijel Amos, center, leads in [...]

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I am about ready to pitch the Olympics into the trash can.  Botswana could save the day!  Tunisia did not win yesterday.  But I was so excited about today – surely we’d win a fencing medal today!  And then we had TWO US fencers in the semi-finals – surely this had potential – if they [...]

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More news on Botswana’s Olympic team:  This Nigerian report says the African nation will field five athletes to the Olympic Games in London.  Leading up the charge will be Amantle Montsho: “We are sure that we will be sending quality not just numbers,” BNOC chief executive officer, Tuelo Serufho added. He said it was good [...]

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