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TFS Running Podcast 144:
Sanya Richards on Beijing
and Life in the Spotlight

Posted September 10th, 2008 at 12:00 PM by Adam Jacobs

Section: News & Results, Nutrition, Healthy Eating, Track & Field, Olympics, Special Features, Interviews, Podcasts

Finding herself at the tail end of a busy, up-and-down Olympic year
during which she has earned two Chinese jade-inlaid Olympic medals, Sanya Richards hopes to finish her season with an exclamation point at the IAAF World Athletics Final on September 13th and 14th, 2008 in Stuttgart, Germany. Before that, however, she sat down to talk with TheFinalSprint.com, not only about her disappointing finish in the individual 400m race in Beijing, but her amazing support system that helped her regroup after that race and run an exciting come from behind anchor leg in the women’s 4×400m relay final to help her team win gold.

Download the podcast to hear Sanya discuss Team USA’s performance in Beijing as well as the Jamaicans’ ascendancy to world sprinting supremacy. In this special-edition podcast that begins a series about “Women In Sports”, Sanya talks about the pressures and attention that accompany her success. She talks about the dynamic involved with being represented by her mother, Sharon Richards, she touches on the financial aspects of being an elite athlete, and she offers advice to young female athletes about body image and handling the pressures that come with being a healthy woman. Finally, she discusses her nutrition, balancing her career, her relationship with New York Giants’ defensive back Aaron Ross and all of the other demands on her time as well has her European season.

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Host: Adam Jacobs | Guest: Sanya Richards
Producers: Greg Cherniet, Adam Jacobs
Music: Ryan Ahlwardt & Darnell Perkins
File size: 12.3 MB | Length: 00:18:30

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2008 Beijing Olympic Preview: Men’s 400 Meters

Posted August 11th, 2008 at 10:30 PM by Jesse Squire

Section: News & Results, Track & Field, Olympics

Men’s 400 Meters
The Schedule: heats, Monday Aug 18; semifinals, Tuesday Aug 19; finals, Thursday Aug 21
The Americans: #1 Jeremy Wariner, #2 LaShawn Merritt, #8 David Neville
The Contenders: #3 Chris Brown (BAH), #4 Ricardo Chambers (JAM), #5 Tyler Christopher (CAN)
The Stats: Records, 2008 List, 2007 Worlds, 2004 Olympics
The Medal Picks: T&FN - Wariner, Merritt, Christopher; SI - Wariner, Merritt, Brown
The Story: A funny thing happened on the way to Jeremy Wariner’s unchallenged Olympic title defense: he got challenged. Beat, actually. Along with the men’s high hurdles and women’s 5k, this will be one of the very best races in the whole shebang. Wariner’s season record against rival LaShawn Merritt stands at 2-2, and the race will go to the one who makes the fewest mistakes.
In their wake, the race for third is nearly as tight. Brown has topped all the others over the outdoor season, but Christopher usually runs his best in the biggest meets. He certainly did at the World Indoors, where he won gold. Neville’s performance at the Olympic Trials suggests he should be in the fight as well.

Note: Athletes’ rankings refer to TheFinalSprint.com’s World Points Standings, and medal picks come to us from Track & Field News and Sports Illustrated, respectively.

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