Olympic Updates

In the wake of this morning's epic run by Usain Bolt, in which he appeared to cheat the other runners by, get this, actually SPRINTING THE WHOLE WAY in the 200m final, some bad news has popped up. Lyudmila Blonska of Ukraine (the Silver Medal in Women's Heptathlon) has apparently tested positive for something and will be stripped of her medal. The IAAF is only saying that they "have started disciplinary action" against her. She becomes the most high profile athlete to test positive, since the previous four were an gymnast, a shooter, a hurdler, and of course, a cyclist.

Moving along for a few injury updates...

Paula Radcliffe was not injured, just a bit hurt and undertrained in her marathon last weekend. She was noticeably limping in the last few miles, but says she should be fine with a bit more training. And yes, she's committed to running the 2012 marathon in London. She will be 38 in London, which is the same age as this year's marathon winner Constantina Tomescu.

One of the other hand, Deena Kastor from the US was not so lucky. She sustained a broken right foot (during the race!). Said she "heard a pop". Wow.

Canadian Lauren Groves in the triathlon did indeed break a bone in her elbow in one of the best looking HD bike crashes I have ever seen. She broke the radial head of her left elbow and needs 6 weeks to recover. Too bad for her. However, she is already looking ahead to London 2012 and is at least pleased that her "DNF" is not "DFL". I should remind you that Colin Jenkins of Canada finished DFL in the men's race the next day. Whoops.

Last thing in advance of this weekend's men's marathon. Robert Cheruiyot of Kenya, who has won Boston four times in 6 years, is out of the Beijing Marathon. He is perhaps more famous for his Youtube video below from the 2006 Chicago Marathon.



He will be replaced by, ho-hum, last year's World Champion Luke Kibet. Kibet wasn't even on the Kenyan team due to his PB being only in the high 2h08m range. Plus, he was injured this past winter when he was hit by a rock during the violence in Kenya. If that incident wasnt enough, he then had to pull a gun to escape from some vicious sheep-herders. Wow.



See you Friday for Ironman Canada preview 2008!