March 13th, 2008
NY Times: Indoor Worlds = Weak
Is a world championship without the world’s best, truly a championship? This is the question posed by the NY Times in their coverage of Valencia 2K8.com — in an editorial, I might add. (Now that’s some serious ink.) And, if you ask me, it’s a pretty fair question. Championships are held to weed out the riff-raff and allow the very best in a sport to elevate themselves. They are the centrifuge of life, and the champions are the yield of this, this…. reverse emulsion! (The athletes even provide their own centripetal acceleration!)
So, if you hold the World Championships and Jeremy Wariner isn’t running the 400, and Kenny Bekele isn’t running the 3k, what do you have?