Ed Graney
Ed Graney is a sports columnist for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, covering a variety of topics and the Las Vegas sports scene.
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Tyson Gay is one of the fastest men in the world, and on Sunday night, the U.S. athlete flew down the track at Olympic Stadium and finished the 100 meters in 9.8 seconds.
Picture this: Somewhere in Columbus, Ohio, there is a house, and in that house there is a laundry room, and in that laundry room there is a bed, and in that bed sleeps a 340-pound female weightlifter.
The raindrops splattered against the window of the bus on Thursday and Gabby Douglas smiled. When she was little, her mother would say that water from the sky was God’s way of telling us it would be a good day. She immediately texted her mother.
The chimes of Big Ben sound in the background to welcome midnight, and the lights shine against walls of history.
The Olympic Oath is taken late in the opening ceremony, when thousands of athletes stand and promise to respect their sport and abide by its rules, to compete in the true spirit of sportsmanship and for the glory and honor of their teams. There isn’t anything honorable about badminton today.
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