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Sadly, but predictably, Christophe has already decided he will run a poor time in Zurich. He says he is not fit and lacks training and will simply run "for fun." I wish I was making this up: Under what sign do you put your end of the season, Zurich and Brussels of 200 m? CL: I'll get...

A small correction. I just checked and the translation makes an error. Christophe didn't lose three pounds of muscle. He 3 KILOS of muscle before the Olympics. 3 pounds could have been a daily fluctuation. 3 kilos (that's 6.6 pounds) is a legitimate loss, especially for someone with no body...

Even though I've pretty much thrown in the towel after all the boards seem to have been taken over by extremists (not my bag, sorry), I did want to post this article for the people (if there are any left) who used the boards primarily to follow a few favorite athletes--primarily Christophe. It...

Lost in all of the hullaballoo over LeMaitre, we should note that Nick Symmonds did himself proud, running a phenomenal 1:42.xx in the 800. He saved the best run of his career for his most important race and knocked 8 tenths of a second off his PR. I don't know if his competition were doped...

Zellgaddis's initial comment led me to this interview that the website SpeedEndurance did with Vazel. I think you'll all find it VERY interesting. The quote is long but please read all of it: Q2 – SpeedEndurance.com: In France weight training is often not maximal, yet one of the best...

Zellgaddis, That's fantastic that you have access to PJ Vazel. Could you ask him what he thinks of Christophe's race, Christophe's current training, and Christophe's future? We're all a bunch of armchair coaches on this site, but I'd love to hear an expert's opinion. Thanks.

Well, it sounds like we're all in agreement here. In my earlier comments, I've laid a lot of the blame (all year) on his coach. However, I find myself agreeing with Jack and others about losing respect for Christophe himself today. Remember last year when he spent two weeks training in Miami...

Nearly an hour later, and I still want to kick something. Can anyone point me in the direction of Pierre Carraz's ass?

Well, isn't it about time someone from France posts about what a great coach Carraz is? Time to post about how we should never doubt Caraz or Christophe, about how they have a great plan, about how they don't need to train like every other sprinter? How about telling us that he really isn't...

I don't think I'll have the stomach to watch Christophe run tomorrow. His race today was nightmarish--and he knew it. I don't know about his start, but he was close to last place coming out of the curve. As usual he put on phenomenal top end speed, but you know what, guys? There are no...

I stand corrected, Devans. Never again will I forget Ukhov's name. Coolest dude in sport? Quite possibly. So for anyone who missed it, yesterday Devans actually lost his singlet halfway through the competition, took a key jump wearing a floppy oversized t-shirt, eventually borrowed someone...

Well, the great Sally did it today. Sally Pearson--gold in the hurdles. A Russian--I forget his name--won the high jump. In other news--an Algerian (basically looks like a less tanned Adam Gemilli) took gold in the 1500, followed by Mexican-American Leo Manzano at silver. A Moroccan...

Keyser, He's in shape. The tiredness is an unfortunate side effect of nervousness. If he could ever truly calm himself at one of these championships, we'd see an incredible time. The good news is that Bolt and Blake will be nervous about each other, and everyone else will be nervous about...

Okay, there were only two qualifiers faster than CL, so he should get a good lane draw in the semis. The two were Weir, the Jamaican who came out of nowhere at their trials, and Quinonez, who ran the best time. Quinonez ran hard all the way through and set a PR of 20.28, so he will not be a...

Well, the final is another thing altogether, but in the heats, Christophe was faster than both Bolt and Blake, and Christophe has been in the only heat with a negative wind.

Christophe qualified easily for the semis. He ran a faster time than Bolt, even though Bolt had a nice +.9 wind, and Christophe had to deal with a -.1 wind. Plus, Christophe ran the last twenty meters looking around with his head twisted and in the last five meters he didn't just slow down, he...

More leaks about how universal doping of every kind is in Kenya, where there is no testing: http://translate.google.de/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Folympia.ard.de%2Flondon2012%2Fallemeldungen%2Fkenia167.html&act=url

Here's the link to the startlists and live results: http://www.iaaf.org/Mini/OLY12/Results/ResultsByDate.aspx

Oops--add one more. 12 finalists. I hadn't realized that Pecanha of Brazil counts, too. Based on his record, I don't view him as a major threat, though.

A correction to my report on the 800 heats. For some reason, Lewandowski made the semis. I missed his heat (overslept), so apparently he got tripped up or something. Not sure. At any rate, that's good news and means that no one was eliminated. Furthermore, I should mention a few other guys...

The 200 heat startlists are up. They actually gave LeMaitre a break! He could walk the 200 and beat everyone in his heat. As for the 100, I agree with what multi said above. Having LeMaitre race against the bloated roiders that filled out the 100m final would have looked terrible. He...

Well, they tried to screw us in the 800: They put seven white guys in the same heat in order to eliminate as many as possible. Fortunately, two of the "fastest losers" came from that heat and went through. So the major loss from the heats was Lewandowski. The fourth heat was stacked...

Yum is right. It's hard to concentrate on the race when she's out there.