Seriously - I don't think I have ever seen a 400m like that. Usually the leaders are just gliding to the finish like cheetahs.bearister said:
400m Men's Final
Lee Evans was born in Madera and was coached by SJSU Hall of Famer Bud Winter.bearister said:
The best 400m time run by Lee Evans (San Jose State Speed City member along with Tommie Smith and John Carlos) was 43.86 in 1968.
The current world record in the 400m is 43.03. With the advances in shoes, track surfaces, training methods, nutrition, and athletes getting faster and stronger, wouldn't you think in the course of 56 years that a full second could have been chopped off Lee Evans time?
bearister said:
As Hall ran, he said to himself, "Get home, son." He thought about all those grueling practices running by himself. He thought about putting himself through junior college. He thought about his two brothers who died young, his mom and his two young daughters."
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going4roses said:
Is snoop the face of the Olympics ? He and his team have pulled off a Re Branding to be studied imo.
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DiabloWags said:
Young people can be pretty naive.
Nothing is FREE.
Even Medicare is $175 a month.
Cal88 said:DiabloWags said:
Young people can be pretty naive.
Nothing is FREE.
Even Medicare is $175 a month.
Basic healthcare is free in nearly every industrialized country around the world. In the US, it is privatized and its costs are inflated due to endemic corruption and regulatory capture by special interests.
DiabloWags said:Cal88 said:DiabloWags said:
Young people can be pretty naive.
Nothing is FREE.
Even Medicare is $175 a month.
Basic healthcare is free in nearly every industrialized country around the world. In the US, it is privatized and its costs are inflated due to endemic corruption and regulatory capture by special interests.
It's not FREE in other countries.
The Govt makes up for the FREE part by TAXING EVERYONE UP THE ASS!
PS. In California, healthcare is FREE for anyone that makes less than $16,000 a year.
Those with family incomes up to 138% of the federal poverty level.
It's called Medi-Cal.
In 2022, over 15 million people were enrolled in Medi-Cal.
About 40% of CA's population.
How do you think that Sacramento pays for that?
Please stop being so naive.
sycasey said:
Correct, in every other wealthy country the government guarantees and subsidizes basic levels of coverage well above what we have in the US. I think the US should be doing this too and would be very much willing to pay taxes for that.
And yet despite these issues, they still get better overall health outcomes than us.DiabloWags said:sycasey said:
Correct, in every other wealthy country the government guarantees and subsidizes basic levels of coverage well above what we have in the US. I think the US should be doing this too and would be very much willing to pay taxes for that.
Sadly, the preventative care seen in those "other" countries is garbage given the cost structure.
In the UK, they hand out cheapie $20 FIT tests for colon cancer screening that do nothing but detect blood in stool. By the time you have blood in your stool, you're already in Stage 3. Never mind that the annual compliance rate for this test is extremely poor. Never mind that colon cancer is the #2 cancer killer of Americans above the age of 60.
Here in the United States we have access to cutting-edge medical diagnostics like Cologuard that actually detect a change in your DNA from colon cancer and is paid for by commercial insurance with no co-pay.
Want to get a colonoscopy in Canada?
You have to schedule one year ahead of time.
Back to the OLYMPICS.
sycasey said:
And yet despite these issues, they still get better overall health outcomes than us.
Health care in the US is great if you have the money or good insurance. Problem is a lot of people don't.
ACA certainly made things better. We're getting there.DiabloWags said:sycasey said:
And yet despite these issues, they still get better overall health outcomes than us.
Health care in the US is great if you have the money or good insurance. Problem is a lot of people don't.
The Affordable Care Act guarantees a ton of preventative services that (unlike those other countries) use cutting edge diagnostics. I wouldn't be so quick to be so categorically dismissive of our healthcare system.
Preventive care benefits for adults | HealthCare.gov
