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 the pursuit of a new record.
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In the two days since Montgomery ran 9.78 -- a story which made the
front sports page of the Tribune -- the people on the list have dissected,
questioned, recalculated, shaken inside out and generally been turned into an
achievement for discussion by mathematicians, aeronautical engineers,
astrophysicists and everyone but sports fans.
It's the same when people tear apart great marathons because of tailwinds
and elevation drops and courses that don't resemble parallelograms.
And you wonder why the general public has lost interest in the sport?
The public still gets off on the notion of world's fastest human.
Unless someone has evidence of a major flaw in recording Montgomery's
time (like the guy in front of the wind gauge when Pedroso jumped in
Sestriere), why shouldn't the people on this list, purportedly track fans,
share the same simple pleasure instead of shredding the achievement into
meaningless slivers?
Philip Hersh
Olympic Sports Writer
Chicago Tribune
