■ Olympic weirdness
Posted on Sep 28, 2000 | Permalink
From Sydney…
* How long until this doctor is found floating face down in the Danube?
* “The way we slide through life, wasting time by the hour, we ordinary humans never notice it. Yet elite athletes, for whom a wasted hour is 360,000 opportunities to grab a hundredth of a second, seem to have some highly calibrated internal timepiece. The sprinter Ato Boldon, of Trinidad and Tobago, says he can feel the hundredth of a second.”