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Tired Gay succumbs to Dix in 200 meters
Tired Gay succumbs to Dix in 200 meters
By Gene Cherry
EUGENE | Sat Jul 3, 2010 7:39pm EDT
Oregon (Reuters) - Olympic bronze medalist Walter Dix edged out Tyson Gay in the former world champion's hotly-anticipated return to the 200 meters at the Prefontaine Classic Diamond League meeting on Saturday.EUGENE
In the 110 meters hurdles, American David Oliver recorded the fourth fastest 110 meters hurdles of all time with a 12.90 second run.
Gay, who has been battling a nagging hamstring problem for seven weeks, ran his first 200 of the year in 19.76 seconds to finish just shy of Dix, who took control coming off the bend and stayed in front to win in 19.72.
"It wasn't bad, but I was a little fatigued toward the end," Gay said. "I tried to stay relaxed and bring it home, but it wasn't enough."
Dix, who won the 100 meters and placed second at the U.S. nationals last weekend, said his race experience had helped, "but I'm a little beat up, too."
"I was a little sloppy out of the blocks, but I was able to hold on," he added. "Tyson gave me great competition."
Oliver, the Olympic bronze medalist, equaled Dominique Arnold's national record with his second consecutive lifetime best. He ran 12.93 to win the U.S. championships last Sunday.
Only world record holder Dayron Robles (12.87) of Cuba and China's Liu Xiang have run faster.
"I didn't get a great start but I brought it home," Oliver said.
The American left countryman Ryan Wilson (13.16) well behind in second spot.
Jamaican Veronica Campbell-Brown, the Olympic 200 champion, surprised a talented 100 field with a personal best and season-leading 10.78 seconds to leave her thinking she might double at next year's world championships.
Olympic 100 gold medalist Shelly-Ann Fraser trailed in 10.82, just ahead of American Carmelita Jeter (10.83).
Three other season-leading marks were set.
American world champion Christian Cantwell used a last-effort throw of 22.41 meters to win the shot put, and world indoor 800 meters champion Mariya Savinova of Russia clocked 1:57.56 to beat Olympic 1,500 gold medalist Nancy Langat of Kenya at the shorter distance.
Sudan's Abubaker Kaki added a fifth season-leading mark when he took the infrequently run 1,000 meters in 2:13.62.
Kenyan Olympic 1,500 champion Asbel Kiprop just missed another when he won the mile in 3:49.75.
Olympic long jump champion Irving Saladino of Panama pulled a mild surprise as he used a wind-assisted leap of 8.46 meters to beat U.S. world gold medalist Dwight Phillips (8.41).
Brazilian world indoor gold medalist Fabiana Murer also came out on top, winning the women's pole vault over Polish world champion Anna Rogowska. Both cleared 4.58 meters. U.S. world leader Jenn Shur failed to clear a height.
(Editing by Tony Jimenez/Ian Ransom)
Comments
Jul 07, 2010 2:22am EDTjrpardinas Report As AbusiveThat was funny!
A raise for the guy/gal that came up with that title: “Tired Gay succumbs to Dix”
Jul 07, 2010 8:54am EDTslindley Report As AbusiveHahahaha oh man, this article was definitely not what i was expecting after the title, gold.
Jul 07, 2010 11:02am EDTTJF99 Report As Abusive“I was a little sloppy out of the blocks, but I was able to hold on.”
Someone was having fun this weekend.
Jul 07, 2010 12:53pm EDTKendall39 Report As AbusiveWow. At the risk of being a killjoy, why is it ok to make such blatant gay jokes in an actual news headline?
Both of the athletes are black. Couldn’t you find a nice racist headline to get your point across?
via reuters.com
To all my gay friends: HECK yes I'm immature
To everyone who thinks I'm immature: I know you are, but what am I?
To everyone who find this as funny as I do: BAAAAA HA HA HA HA HA!!!
--case p.
Thursday, May 27, 2010
AmazingSuperPowers: Webcomic at the Speed of Light » Later…
My name is Casey Palmer and I think that this comic strip is UTTERLY HILARIOUS.
Monday, May 10, 2010
I REALLY want that taco!!!
I love signs that are full of hilarity!
They are hard to find on the interwebs these days due to the fact that the same links get passed around a bajillion times, but I try to bring the freshest where possible.
Yes, that goes for both signs AND tacos.
--case p.
Monday, April 26, 2010
The 2010 20K: Day 51 - {SPONSORED POST} Guest Post Secrets!
Hey all! So as I've mentioned before, I'm part of a site called Pay Per Post where you can put up your blog as an adspace for others so that you can write a blog on their behalf for payola! I know, cool, right? Anyway, an interesting one came my way this time - Guest Post Secrets! The entire premise behind the site is that there's a simple thing that one can do in order to become better "known" in the blogosphere - and that's by writing a guest post for someone that's better entrenched in the culture than you are! But, as you can learn from the site itself, this is far from being an easy feat! In fact, there are rules and regs, steps, do's and don't's, etc. that one should do in order to make sure that they do it CORRECTLY. Getting Guest Post Secrets, from the research I did, looks like a pretty solid way to get the knowledge needed in order to do so! If you want to see what a satisfied customer from the site looks like, please read below:
I greatly enjoyed the videos in Guest Post Secrets. Not only did they sound and look professional, you have a very good speaking voice and a great way of breaking things down step by step.I especially liked how you called out specific resources and provided cut and paste email templates. You made it so easy to start guest posting; all the tools were right there for me. In the 6 days since I bought your product, I've already sent out one guest post (will be published Monday), received a request to guest post from a second blog, and queried a third site and been accepted to do 2 for them. (I offered two possible topics and the blog author liked them both!)
Thanks for taking the time to make up such a helpful product. It was just what I needed."
-Unsolicited email from Katrina McQuarrie, who runs Kick-Ass Genealogy
I think it's pretty awesome. I can see myself checking it out - any other bloggers out there might want to think about it too :)
Get your blog on, baby!
The 2010 20K Running Total = $192.14
--case p.
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Biggest goal ever?
Dear Kevin,
Sorry it took me so long to respond. Let me finish the answer I'd been putting together for you now.
Surprisingly, this is a VERY easy question for me to answer.
The key thing I want to accomplish in my lifetime is making Fish 'n' Chimps (FNC) a household name. Since 2003, the ideas surrounding FNC have been developing in my head, on sheets of paper and on the computers I've had over that time. It's gone from a number of different scraps of paper and ideas all over the place to a better-developed idea with a skeletal storyline, a cast of characters with each being very individual and better art than I've ever seen come from my hand.
It will take a long time to make this goal/dream happen - it's not a short storyline by any means, and I'm hoping that eventually it will get to the point where I have a staff of people working on it. But that's a long way down the road.
The first thing I'll need to do is get up off of my ass and get back to producing the strips.
Friday, April 23, 2010
xkcd: Jacket
The 2010 20K: Day 50 - Sleep is for the smart
"Sleep is for the weak" - I've often heard this and lived by it for many years of the life I've lived so far. SO not true, as yesterday proved to me - sleep is really good to get, and as you get older (I know, I know - I'm only 26...), it's something you come to appreciate a whole lot more. Yesterday was a good example - me, feeling tired as hell, decided to take a trip to the nearby mall after work to get some jeans, since all of mine are either too baggy, ripped in the wrong places or just not my style anymore. So all was well until I needed to get my butt home - ONLY TO NOT BE ABLE TO FIND MY SUBWAY PASS.
Well this was a problem. With the fact that I already pay $111 monthly for the pass, I wasn't too keen on paying extra fare in order to correct my mistake. But my mistake it was, so extra fare I did pay.$20 and one spent token later, I eventually made my way home, and emptied my bag of the day's contents. And what was at the very bottom? That's right. My April subway pass. Joy: Finding it. Not so joyous: Having bought tokens that I didn't need! Do I chalk it up to fatigue or am I just the idiotic victim of my own disorganization? I leave that to you to deci...Nah, here. Let's see what the magic poll says!
- My very first sponsored post - yes, I will write posts for money! Watch me do it!
- The video post of Doomz! What's he up to and what does it look like?
- My move from PC to Mac and how the heck it affects what I do!
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Worst Ad EVER.
Thanks to my friend Taty for pointing this one out for me:
Oh, man. Who comes up with this crap? --case p.
Oh, man. Who comes up with this crap? --case p. Wednesday, April 21, 2010
The 2010 20K: Day 49 - Casey, where have you been?
Q: How do you juggle work, side projects, a girlfriend, friends, sports and social time? A: Not very well, apparently! Let's not kid ourselves, folks, I definitely haven't been as attentive to this blog as I'd like to be - in fact, my performance has been downright dismal at times. But I still haven't quit. Originally I was just going to put up a quick sound clip for today to talk about what I've been up to and whatnot, but I felt like it would be doing my readers a bit of a disservice as to what they might expect from this blog. Work's been busy, to say the least. There's a lot of expectations for a lot of deliverables to land correctly, and I'm at the helm on a number of them. Unfortunately, and this is something I should have taken into consideration, it's affected a good load of my extracurriculars as well. I make an effort to fit in at least one day of sports per week, biweekly Bible study sessions, time with Sarah, hangouts with friends and other obligations that require my attention - but due to this, it seems that too many projects fall by the wayside. I know that some of my friends are experiencing much of the same when they try to balance their lives as well with the projects that they're trying to accomplish on the side. It's not easy at all, but there is a way that one can approach it and hope to obtain any success from their endeavours whatsoever.Discipline.I haven't been disciplined enough, and I'll be the first to admit it. When I started this blog, I aimed to do it daily so that everyone could keep updated on the progress that was being made - but then progress wasn't happening. Things were taking longer to get done than I'd like and I was getting discouraged. But that's far from a good reason to bow out. Do parents quit when their children make a mistake? Did some of the greatest entertainers in our history throw in the towel when they made one bad song, movie, book, etc.? I think not. It requires a paradigm shift and the dedication to get where one wants to be. But do I have it in me? That's an entirely different question. One can always try, but this world will quickly tell you that trying is often far from good enough. I have a backlog of content to share and projects to attack, so I hope you'll walk with me this week as I try to wade my way through it all and hopefully save the 2010 20K from the gurney! Running total = $192.14Thanks always,--case p.P.S. Attached the sound file for posterity.
Thursday, April 08, 2010
60 Ways to Lose Your Lover
Ha, I don't normally post stuff like this, but sometimes we all need a little help. Sarah was kind enough to show this article to me from The Toronto Star (no, she wasn't dropping any hints), and I think everyone should take a look to see what they agree with, disagree with, or even think is just plain stupid.
A few key things I'll note:
- Outside of the Facebook item in the women list, I'll pretty much agree with everything there
- The men's list is WAY longer than the women's list. Is this telling or just plain biased?
- Communication = the solution to EVERYTHING
Happy reading!
--case p.
The 2010 20K: Day 48 - The Dance Continues
"Umm... okay... yeah..."
--Casey Palmer as quoted by Chris Raymond, referring to The 2010 20K Day 47Thank you, my friend, for the jackassery :)Today's Agenda:
Forgive me for sounding nasal. I'm tired and apparently I need breathing exercises.--case p.
Forgive me for sounding nasal. I'm tired and apparently I need breathing exercises.--case p.
Wednesday, April 07, 2010
Sorry for the multiple posts.
I was trying to get an article up entitled "60 Ways to Lose Your Lover", but I'm guessing that something is up with the way that Posterous is rendering images tonight, so I'll have to get it posted another time.
Sorry for what seemed to be spam - it was just a frustrated Casey trying to get his blog working!
Thanks for your understanding,
--case p.
60 Ways to Lose Your Lover (re-post)
Note to self: Never upload to Gmail using Google Chrome, ironically enough.... Sorry for all the re-posts, everyone - this picture just WOULDN'T TAKE.
Ha, I don't normally post stuff like this, but sometimes we all need a little help. Sarah was kind enough to show this article to me from The Toronto Star (no, she wasn't dropping any hints), and I think everyone should take a look to see what they agree with, disagree with, or even think is just plain stupid. 
Ha, I don't normally post stuff like this, but sometimes we all need a little help. Sarah was kind enough to show this article to me from The Toronto Star (no, she wasn't dropping any hints), and I think everyone should take a look to see what they agree with, disagree with, or even think is just plain stupid.
A few key things I'll note:
- Outside of the Facebook item in the women list, I'll pretty much agree with everything there
- The men's list is WAY longer than the women's list. Is this telling or just plain biased?
- Communication = the solution to EVERYTHING
Happy reading!
--case p.
60 Ways to Lose Your Lover (Now Hopefully With a Working Image!)
Repost since Posterous seems to be hating on me:
Ha, I don't normally post stuff like this, but sometimes we all need a little help. Sarah was kind enough to show this article to me from The Toronto Star (no, she wasn't dropping any hints), and I think everyone should take a look to see what they agree with, disagree with, or even think is just plain stupid.
A few key things I'll note:
- Outside of the Facebook item in the women list, I'll pretty much agree with everything there
- The men's list is WAY longer than the women's list. Is this telling or just plain biased?
- Communication = the solution to EVERYTHING
Happy reading!
--case p.
60 Ways to Lose Your Lover
Ha, I don't normally post stuff like this, but sometimes we all need a little help. Sarah was kind enough to show this article to me from The Toronto Star (no, she wasn't dropping any hints), and I think everyone should take a look to see what they agree with, disagree with, or even think is just plain stupid.
A few key things I'll note:
- Outside of the Facebook item in the women list, I'll pretty much agree with everything there
- The men's list is WAY longer than the women's list. Is this telling or just plain biased?
- Communication = the solution to EVERYTHING
Happy reading!
--case p.
Monday, April 05, 2010
The 2010 20K: Day 47 - Getting Back in the Game
2010 20K April 5 2010 by Casey Palmer
Download now or listen on posterous
blog post 04 05 2010.mp3 (7937 KB) Download now or listen on posterous
My bad, y'all - it's been a while, I know. Here's my formal apology and promise to get back to doing what I do... well, maybe not best, but at least what I was doing before :)
Give it a listen and feel free to give me a piece of your mind!
The 2010 20K soon-to-be-changing running total: $192.14
--case p.
City signs gone HORRIBLY wrong
Some municipalities should get younger staff to review their signage before sending it out...
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