No Water for Old Women by Jon Gugala, note by Larry Eder: Jon Gugala has written his take on the relatively new

No Water for Old Women by Jon Gugala, note

runblogrun.com 07 Aug '12, 6pm

No Water for Old Women by Jon Gugala, note by Larry Eder: Jon Gugala has written his take on the relatively new

LONDON - The women's Olympic steeplechase final ran last night, and though we didn't see an Olympic record set (which is also the current world record of 8 minutes, 58.81 seconds), we did see a certain changing of the guard. In 2012, the Olympic steeplechase officially became both more immature and immensely more professional. Go back to the 2008 Olympics, the first year that the event was offered for women (I know, hard to believe it took that long): Gulnara Galkina of Russia curb-stomped a field of women who looked about as organized as the pre-Clint Eastwood Marine Corps platoon in Heartbreak Ridge. This is not to say that Galkina was not talented; as previously mentioned, her winning time was and still is the Olympic and world record. But there was an almost 27 second gap between places one and 10, and the average age of the field was 26.1 years old (and that is decept...

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