Olympics

Do you look forward to the Olympics? I know I do. My excitement has started to build already. Friday night Amy Yoder-Begley made the team in the 10,000 Meters. That's a 10K for all the road running crowd. The politics of the Olympics aside the sheer joy of an athlete like Amy making the team is wonderful to watch. Amy has a local connection too. Her mother graduated with me at Chesterton High School in 1970. She's being coached by Alberto Salazar. Alberto has a wonderful story too. It could be argued that he was the last great American marathoner, although Ryan Hall could become the next one. Alberto was a main character in the legendary Boston Marathon race captured in the book Dual in the Sun. Now he just may be the best coach of this new generation of American distance runners. NBC will televise the Olympics and also the trials, although not in real time.