More Olympic results

Women's 5k

1 Tirunesh Dibaba ETH 15:41.40
2 Elvan Abeylegesse TUR 15:42.74
3 Meseret Defar ETH 15:44.12
9 Kara Goucher USA 15:49.39
10 Shalane Flanagan USA 15:50.80
14 Jennifer Rhines USA 16:34.63

Men's 5k

1 Kenenisa Bekele ETH 12:57.82 (Olympic Record)
2 Eliud Kipchoge KEN 13:02.80
3 Edwin Cheruiyot Soi KEN 13:06.22
9 Bernard Lagat USA 13:26.89
13 Matthew Tegenkamp USA 13:33.13

Men's Marathon

1 WANJIRU Samuel Kamau 2:06:32 Kenya (Olympic Record)
2 GHARIB Jaouad 2:07:16 Morocco
3 KEBEDE Tsegay 2:10:00 Ethiopia
9 RITZENHEIN Dathan 2:11:59 United States
10 HALL Ryan 2:12:33 United States
22 SELL Brian 2:16:07 United States

I watched most of the men's marathon on Saturday evening. In only his 3rd marathon, the 21-year old Wanjiru claimed Kenya's first Olympic gold medal in the event (believe it or not!), and in olympic-record fashion. He ran his first late last year. First mile: 4:41. First 5k: well under 15 minutes. No one thought that they could sustain that pace for 26.2 miles in 85+-degree heat. Ritz and Hall knew that they couldn't, so they dropped back and hoped that the lead pack would eventually follow suit, but it never did. Despite sustaining a stress fracture in his foot 12 weeks ago, Ritz ran well. Hall didn't run as well as he has in the past. He ran a 2:06 in London earlier this year and said that he didn't have those same legs in Beijing. I think it was the heat. His previous three marathons were run in ideal weather conditions: two Londons in April and the Olympic Time Trials in Central Park in November. Sell plans to return to his job at Home Depot. This is the first time since the 70s that two Americans finished in the top 10; overall: good showing. Fourteen-Hundred some odd days until London.