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Monday, August 20, 2007

From Cali- Entry #15

From Cali- Entry #15: The 500-meter heats, quarter, and semi-finals took place today. The relay qualifiers also took place. Tonight 48 medals will be presented. I can't wait to go watch (now that I look out the window, it is raining...). The bus picks us up from the hotel very soon. Here are a few pictutres for you-


Luigino doing some moulding for a reporter


A picture of the vendors area from the inside of the Bont booth


Italy junior women before their relay heat


Leah Kaluta, Mister Taylor, and Linda Wood


Junior women's first heat


Track side catching the action


Colombia before the junior men's relay


Italy preparing


Portugal junior men


Junior men relay


Junior men ready to go out


Ecuador dropped out of the relay early while in the thick of the action due to equipment problems


USA moved on to the final in the junior men


Morgane Echardour and Leah Kaluta before the start of their relay heat


Morgane Echardour coming out for Martine Charbonneau's push


Martine Charbonneau coming out for her push from Leah- there was an error and Canada was disqualified


Senior women


Senior women


Senior women


France's Julie Despaux leads his heat- France moved on


New Zealand crashed out in their relay heat and failed to qualify to the final


Chinese Taipei dominated their senior men's heat


Chinese Taipei in control

5 Comments:

Blogger ★ Terrinha ★™ said...

ehhh... "os meus Putos" :D Congrats to the Portuguese Team, they're all doing good, but I can hope they can do better on the road! ehhh Portugal allez, Portugal allez, Portugal allez... Força Portugal! =]*

Tuesday, August 21, 2007 5:08:00 AM

 
Blogger Nomás said...

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Tuesday, August 21, 2007 10:28:00 AM

 
Blogger Nomás said...

Don't you have pics of Eul Ki Kook or south korean team?

Tuesday, August 21, 2007 10:37:00 AM

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Nice shots Pete. LOL - the guy in the last pic looks like Kevin!

Tuesday, August 21, 2007 12:14:00 PM

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

BTW: were you there long enough to see how Luigino took the cast off. Just curious what he does.

Tuesday, August 21, 2007 12:15:00 PM

 

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