Lagat goes for gold tomorrow
by Jeff Nusser on Aug 22, 2008 12:34 PM PDT
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Former Coug all-American Bernard Lagat will try to realize his dream tomorrow: Winning Olympic gold as an American
He'll compete in the 5,000-meter final tomorrow in one of the final events of these Beijing Olympics. He's the reigning world champion.
It probably will be the 33 year old's final chance at Olympic gold – and a major chance at redemption – after he became, as Steve Kelley called him, "one of the symbols for American failures at the Olympics' track and field competition" when he failed to make the finals in the 1,500 meters, an event he also was the reigning world champion in. This after missing out on gold in the 1,500 meter in 2000 (bronze) and 2004 (silver) while representing his native Kenya.
Now, I'd love to be able to tell you how to watch Lagat try and make history, but I really can't, thanks to NBC. He runs at 8:10 p.m. in Beijing, which is 5:10 a.m. PDT. As near as I can tell from NBC's convoluted and completely worthless online TV schedule, they're not going to carry the event at all, even on delay. If they were going to carry it, there's a chance it might be on Telemundo – yes, that Telemundo – live or on delay, and there's also a chance it might be on NBC's prime time coverage Saturday night between 6:00 and 11:30. So, if you want to sit and watch for five hours to try and catch it, good luck to you.
Your best bet it seems is to go to the gold medal winner in Olympic coverage – CBC. If you get any of their affiliates (CBUT in most of western Washington) you can try to catch it live, since they carry everything live. It also appears they're going to carry it on cbcsports.ca Channel 2, which I believe is an online broadcast. I couldn't figure out how to get it to work, but maybe you'll have better luck.
At any rate, if you're not familiar with Lagat's story, you should be. He became a naturalized American citizen in 2004, and sat out international competition for three years, per IAAF rules, before competing for the U.S. He's a walking, running version of the American dream.
And if you figure out a way to watch it, please, post it in the comments.
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Steve Kelley's quote brings to mind that ever present descriptor
of Cougar sports: “Coug-it.”
I bring this up because I’m curious what the stance is on usage of said term on this blog?
Worse than cussing
You’re about a whisker away from being banned forever.
Just kidding. Sort of. OK, I’m not kidding at all.
Should we just put that in the disclaimer, Grady?
I thought about adding
“please don’t ban me,” to the original post there. ;D
See (and forgive the vulgar comparison), “coug-it” is like the word that shall not be said yet we know begins with an “N.” It is a storied word with a lot of negative history attached to it, and yet it has become embraced by some of those whom it was used to disparage, and grown into different meaning.
Thus, while a Husky fan might say “you couged it again worthless Cougars,” and be rightfully lambasted, a Cougar fan might say “if only we hadn’t been so sloppy in those last 25 seconds, we would’ve won that game. Really couged it there,” (This last in reference to an ’04 buzzerbeater basketball loss to Stanford, which for some reason still bothers me to this day).
But anyway, I suppose us Cougar fans could go through life here on this blog learning how to use verbage that doesn’t mock our past failures, and it looks like you’ve already made the call to bring the banhammer out for it, so I wont bring it up again.
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