Joe <\/a>but he graduated a year or two before I went to Taylor so we almost ran together! He competed in the Decathlon and placed 18th. (NBC doesn’t like to embed their videos, sorry).<\/p>\nI’ll end this tribute with a video of the 800.\u00a0 As a former 800m runner I know the joy and pains of the race. I never would have thought about diving to the finish – but I also was never a few hundredths of a second away from going to the Olympics! So enjoy!<\/p>\n
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It seems like a lot of time has passed since the Olympic Track Trials ended a few weeks ago and we now find ourselves about halfway between their ending and the beginning of the actual Olympic games.\u00a0 For the athletes there is still a lot of training to accomplish for the races ahead. 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It seems like a lot of time has passed since the Olympic Track Trials ended a few weeks ago and we now find ourselves about halfway between their ending and the beginning of the actual Olympic games.\u00a0 For the athletes there is still a lot of training to accomplish for the races ahead.<\/p>\n