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Significant Digits: Your daily preview on what to look for in Olympic Track and Field

270 is the final significant digit for our last segment of “Significant Digits” and our Olympic Athletics previews. This number is representative of the approximate number of Kenyans who hit the IAAF standard to compete in the Olympic marathon. Despite this staggering number of qualifiers, Kenya is still only able to send 3 competitors to […]

Significant Digits: Your daily preview on what to look for in Olympic Track and Field

Significant Digits: Your daily preview on what to look for in Olympic Track and Field

The number 2 stands for British distance king Mo Farah going for his 2nd Gold medal of this Olympics, American distance star Galen Rupp going for his 2nd medal of this Olympics, the number of Olympics that the United States has ever earned a medal in the 5,000 meter race, the number of women from […]

Significant Digits: Your daily preview on what to look for in Olympic Track and Field

Significant Digits: Your daily preview on what to look for in Olympic Track and Field

Zero is the number of medals that the United States has ever won in the Women’s 1500 meter run.  No American woman has ever cracked the top 3 in the event.  Shannon Rowbury was the closest when she finished 7th in the final in Beijing, and she returns to the final this year as the last […]

Significant Digits: Your daily preview on what to look for in Olympic Track and Field

Significant Digits: Your daily preview on what to look for in Olympic Track and Field

Only two men have ever scored over 9,000 points in the Decathlon, Roman Sebrle of the Czech Republic and Olympic favorite Ashton Eaton of the United States.  Olympic Silver Medalist from Sydney and Gold Medalist from Athens, Roman Sebrle was the first man to break the 9,000 point barrier when he did it in 2001 […]