But if you haven't seen the race, you have to watch the last 5 minutes of it. Whitfield was with the lead pack of four runners, but then 3 broke and dropped Whitfield... he fell back about 50m with just a few minutes left in the race.
Somehow he clawed back over the last 500m and he and a German guy actually SPRINTED FLAT OUT pretty much the last 300m.
Are you kidding me? If I went out and put the energy into the 300m that they did, i'd be exhausted. These guys doing it after swimming, biking and running more than 30 miles?
That's just insane. I was honestly nearly
just watching the exertion.
What an gritty performance by the top two guys... well all of them actually, but especially those two.
If you want to watch it, visit http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/ondemand/ and select Sport flyout from the 'Category' listing to the right of the on demand box. Choose Triathlon from the selections that open up. The video is about 11:30 minutes but half of it is after the race...