Ok, why isn't the half marathon an Olympic event? Why do we go from track to the marathon with nothing in between 6.2 and 26.2? I'm being serious... there are a lot of good distance runners... three from some countries isn't enough! So what if they added another distance event? They used to have XC, but haven't since 1924, so that would be another possibility...
I kind of get what they're saying from a "marketing" perspective... but there are five Badminton events, and I'm not sure that the Badmiton World Federation was really concerned about filling out a TV schedule when it became an Olympic event in 1992. And I didn't even know that men played field hockey, but apparently they have since 2000!
Any thoughts? In case you hadn't heard, they announced the Kenyan Olympic Marathon Team yesterday and Makau and Mutai didn't make the cut.
... and yes, I did interrupt a "theme series". It was a difficult decision, as something normally has to be 8mm huge for me to do this, but I thought such "breaking news" warranted moving the IT Band post to a later date! Guess after almost two years, I'm getting spontaneous :-)