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" This Wednesday was just about the best day that the United States has had on an Olympic track, and/or an Olympic field, in a very long time. American women finished 1-3 in the long jump. Lashinda Demus took the silver in the 400m hurdles, and Allyson Felix and Carmelita Jeter put up another gold-bronze double in the 200. Meanwhile, Aries Merritt and Jason Richardson took the top two spots in the men&amp;#039;s 110-meter hurdles. Now, as I recall, back in the day, they used to show every medal ceremony for every American winner. (They even showed the medal ceremonies for athletes from other countries, if ABC had put in some work to make a star out of some damned furri&amp;#039;ner, like Alexeev, the massive. rose-cultivating Soviet weightlifter.) Wednesday night, in primetime, as nearly as I could determine, we heard the Anthem once \u2014 for the two nice white ladies who won beach volleyball, and who have been on television only for about 900 hours during these Olympics. But Bob Costas got to yuk it up about the Dodgers \u2014 one of the nice white ladies is married to a Dodger \u2014 so it&amp;#039;s all good. Four years hence, swear to Baal, I am signing up for the Jamaican TV feed. Mr. Riley of Indiana has some related thoughts. UPDATE -- I searched my failing memories of 1984 and 1988 and realized that, occasionally, track medals are handed out the next day. This happened to be the case. Commenter Toasted Glory points out you could have seen them on the live feed today. Which doesn&amp;#039;t blunt my essential point very much, though. --Further Olympic-ing on The Politics Blog and from the Rest of the Esquire Crew &amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;gt; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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