2012 London Olympics: Forget Usain Bolt, David Rudisha Delivered the Moment of the Games
Last night the networks could not help themselves. Usain Bolt had completed a “double double.” Suddenly his face was plastered onto every television screen and titled as the greatest sprinter of all time. He ran a time of 19.32s. That was the same time Michael Johnson ran when he held the world record. It was [...]
Rudisha wins 800m in record time
David Rudisha won his first Olympic gold medal with the kind of world-record performance that has made him almost unbeatable the last three years.
The 23-year-old Kenyan won Thursday's final in 1 minute, 40.91 seconds, shaving one-tenth of a second off the mark he set in 2010, and setting the first world record on the track at the London Olympics.
After crossing the line, he...
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August 09, 2012
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Rudisha wins Olympic 800 in world record time
David Rudisha won his first Olympic gold medal with the kind of world-record performance that has made him almost unbeatable the last three years.
The 23-year-old Kenyan won Thursday's final in 1 minute, 40.91 seconds, shaving one-tenth of a second off the mark he set in 2010, and setting the first world record on the track at the London Olympics.
After crossing the line, he...
Via AP on Fox
August 09, 2012
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