smoggy.

i stole this link from my very favorite soccer blog.
i'm not gonna tell you what it is, for two reasons;
1) you don't care, and
2) super rookie does.

anyway, it was explained well enough in the original post so i will just post that text without further comment, except to say that i believe the exact same thing can be said about cycling... the olympic road race is gonna be boring as hell.

hopefully the track event will be ok...

here is is:

Press play on the image of US Olympic midfielder Maurice Edu in China (from his personal website) and you will see 1st hand why this maybe the most low-energy athletic event in history. Ever. Period.

FACT! When you have superb physical specimens like Edu, Jozy Altidore, and Brian McBride saying that it's too hot, they can't see and they can't breathe WHEN THEY ARE JUST WALKING you know there is a very real problem.

If the smog --which is as thick and dirty as Kyle Beckerman's dreads-- in this video is any indication, these matches will be decided in the first 20 minutes due to mass respiratory failure; if no one scores by then it's going to be nil-nil draws all around.

Posted by SF at 8/05/2008