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Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs  I was a little bit 'meh' watching the men's 100 metres race. The biggest event in the athletics calendar yet it felt like a damp squib even though it was contested amazingly by all eight runners.
I think it was because i'd never heard of any of the athletes. Not one of them was a household name. Where's the Usain Bolt's, Carl Lewis, Linford Christie, Justin Gatlin's of the 100m world?
I've no doubt the runners are all well known among athletics fans but they haven't broken out of that circle to become household names. |
I completely forgot it was the men's 100m race today so, usually for me, I didn't watch it.
Like you, I'm unfamiliar with the elite sprinters so, without looking, couldn't name any of the main contenders.
Going back to Dad's Army for a minute, I was pleased to find it educational, learning from Lance Corporal Jones that
khaki comes from the Urdu word meaning dust coloured.