El Guerrouj! El Guerrouj!

Belated congratulations to Hicham El Guerrouj, on his 1500M gold on Tuesday. And belated condolences to two-time gold medalist Haile Gebrselassie, who took fourth in the 10000M, and who'll probably now retire. See, folks: there's a lot of interesting stuff in Athens that doesn't involve American athletes. You'll just never see it on TV. (OK, that's a little unfair. Both El Guerrouj and Gebrselassie were on TV. But they're celebrities. Of a sort.)

In American track and field news, the guy who got beat by the zebra on Fox's Man vs. Beast, Shawn Crawford, took the men's 200M gold, part of a US sweep of the event. Talk about your upwards career trajectory. Still, his crushing defeat of the giraffe will always have the premiere place in my heart.