6/29/08

He entered the mixed zone Sunday with his cool intact, almost the same way he appeared there a day earlier after he’d helped set the sprinting world on fire. 

Saturday, he had a day like no one else in prep 100-meter history, running what was then the #2 time in the qualifying (10.12), then blasting the HSR in the quarterfinal with his 10.01.  Sunday, he looked more ordinary, surely suffering fatigue from the previous day and able to manage just 10.34 for 8th in his semi.  But you would barely have known the difference from meeting him in the interview area.