Posted on 08/09/2012 5:09:09 PM PDT by the scotsman
'America's safe passage into the men's 4x400 metre Olympic relay final on Thursday morning was not as painless as it had first appeared after Manteo Mitchell revealed he broke his leg half way round the track but still managed to finish.'
(Excerpt) Read more at uk.eurosport.yahoo.com ...
He didn’t finish the race. We did. We built the roads that he trained on, and we grew the grain he ate to fuel his workouts.
I read about this earlier. This was amazing toughness and quite team spiritedness.
That was a great effort. I’m glad the fracture didn’t go terribly worse, and cause him to collapse on the track.
“We” didn’t do dick. He ran on a broken leg, not we.
Saw the race. You could see the break in the leg. WOW
It was sarcasm and playing on what Obama said about people not building businesses.
Somewhere, Jack Youngblood is smiling and nodding.
He did not break his leg, someone else did that! Oh wait, were not talking about a successful business? Never mind.
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