Okay, it is 2008 and the olympic marathons will be interesting... and I wonder whether what happens in London will impact the field at the games.
On a related note from The Science of Sport blog (http://scienceofsport.blogspot.com/2008/01/running-news.html): Zhang Yingying, running her third marathon at the age of 18, has qualified for the Chinese Olympic squad by winning a marathon in Xiamen, in a world junior record time of 2:22:38.
Are you kidding me??? An 18 year old girl ran 2:22? Holy ****! I tried to look up info about Xiamen, and it looks like the air quality is better than Beijing. Dunno where she trains though, so who knows what kind of acclimation the Chinese may have to bad air and the expected heat in Beijing? The Chinese may be posing a serious challenge to the usually strong Japanese womens team. I guess that chinese herbal medicine stuff really does work!!!
