Re: t-and-f: Why not just enjoy?

2002-09-17 Thread Michael Holloway
Enjoy the moment This is truly what kills our sport, the moment someone does something special the first thing out of everyones mouth is a negative. After watching the race last night we should simply give Tim credit for a wonderful performance. Enjoy it for what it is and also lets enjoy

Re: t-and-f: Why not just enjoy?

2002-09-17 Thread Martin J. Dixon
How, specifically, does the latest discussion kill our sport? Now that this has been going on for a couple of days, what do you predict will be the impact on attendance at meets and television ratings? How, exactly, will this phenomenon take place? If you can give me any kind of argument that

Re: t-and-f: Why not just enjoy?

2002-09-17 Thread Kurt Bray
How, specifically, does the latest discussion kill our sport? I don't think it exactly kills the sport, but it certainly detracts from it. It detracts from the sport to have pretty much every World Record followed by a but, or a however, as in say Tim Montgomery set a new world

Re: t-and-f: Why not just enjoy?

2002-09-17 Thread Martin J. Dixon
Props to Tim! He one fast dude! Is that better? I just did an informal survey of several people around my office: Question-Did you know that the 100 meter record was recently broken?-most answered yes Question-Were you aware that there is an internet chat group that has been dissecting the

Re: t-and-f: Why not just enjoy?

2002-09-17 Thread Kurt Bray
I just did an informal survey of several people around my office: Question-Did you know that the 100 meter record was recently broken?-most answered yes Question-Were you aware that there is an internet chat group that has been dissecting the record and what, if any, impact will this discussion