With the London Olympic Games approaching, TIME Magazine featured the rivalry between Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake as one of the top face-offs to watch in 2012.
It’s good to see track and field getting run in the nation’s largest news magazine ahead of the big Olympic year.
The man one missing – Tyson Gay. Although the showdown between the two Jamaicans is appealing, it would be infinitely more intriguing for the American audience if a top U.S. sprinter like Gay mixes it up with Bolt and Blake.
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Kevin Liao is your typical running nerd, following the sport for years before starting Spiked Up, Psyched Up. Kevin was previously the cross country and track & field correspondent for Capital One Cup. When not writing, watching Flotrack videos and reading Letsrun.com, Kevin also finds time to run fairly competitively with PR's of 4:12 (1500) and 15:23 (5k) and more famously winner of the 2009 Marshall Clark 4 Mile road race. He is a graduate of UC San Diego (explaining the site color scheme) and current resident of Sacramento, Calif. Among his other sporting interests are rooting for his hometown teams, the San Francisco Giants, San Francisco 49ers and Golden State Warriors.
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