Palaver

Listen to this post by Yahoo! Sports: “Jamaica’s Yohan Blake finished second at 9.75. America’s Justin Gatlin was third at 9.79. Neither Blake nor Gatlin ever ran faster than they did Sunday. This was the second- and third-fastest men on Earth running as well as they ever have. And neither stood a legitimate chance against the Lightning Bolt. “I went out to challenge a mountain,” Gatlin said later. “To challenge the odds.” And fellow American Tyson Gay, who finished fourth at 9.80 wept and wept at the realisation he wasn’t even close, saying: “I tried, man. I tried my best.” But like the true champ and The most exciting athlete in all of track and field, Bolt shrugs it off with “Stop worrying about the start, the best part of the race is the end.” Well said chap. Well said.

 

Even as Ezekiel Kemboi gave Kenyans their groove back after a horrendous day at track office, the memorable dance got tongues wagging and a palpable sigh of relief at Kenya’s first foray into Camp Gold in London. Then just to rub it in, David Rudisha literally rudisha-d  (Kenyan pride) sanity to the track with his blistering pace. All the competition saw were his shiny spike heels screaming: “Usipong’arisha viatu vyako, utaviona vya Rudisha.” We congratulate Team Kenya.

 

Some cretin opened fire and killed six people at a Sikh temple near Milwaukee in Wisconsin USA, triggering condolences from President Obama. Reminds Palaver of Obama’s response to a California heckler in September last year, who called Obama the antichrist thus: “As president of the United States, I’m also somebody who deeply believes that part of the bedrock strength of this country is that it embraces people of many faiths and of no faith...While the United States “is still predominantly Christian, we have Jews, Muslims, Hindus, atheists, agnostics, Buddhists, and...their own path to grace is one that we have to revere and respect as much as our own.” Enough said for all peddlers of hateful rhetoric.

 

And finally...

Most countries have been sending their runners to Iten to sip the Kenyan elixir for speed, but not so the Chinese. Their marathoners are so terrified of getting doped that they are rearing their own chicken. Ouch! I repeat, end their suffering, just bring them to Iten, Home of Champions.

 

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