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So everyone knows that it's the Olympics. And as a former track and fielder, I still have an affinity for those in the sport. So let me introduce you to the US best hope for a medal in javelin, Breaux Greer.
Breaux Greer is an eight time US champion in javelin, twice having broken the US record and currently holding it with a length of 91.29m/299-6, nearly breaking the 300 feet mark. He just recently took the bronze in Osaka at the World's Championships in 2007, and was 2nd in the 2001 Goodwill Games and 1st in the 2004 World Athletics Final in Monaco.
Sadly, Breaux has never preformed that well at an Olypmics. In Athens, he was in first leading into the finals, but his knee, which has chronic injuries, gave out. The winner's throw was actually shorter (86.fm) then Greer's qualifying throw (87.25).
Now, after such sucess in 2007, Greer is poised to hopefully be the first American since 1972 to take a medal in javelin.
Greer is in a band called Former Track Star, lives with his two dogs, and is both funny and cute. He lists Panic at the Disco, Fall Out Boy, Slipknot, T.I., Alice In Chains, Luthor Vandross, and Jack Johnson as his music on his myspace, and currently plays Hurricane on American Gladiatiors.
( And onto the pictures! )
Breaux Greer is an eight time US champion in javelin, twice having broken the US record and currently holding it with a length of 91.29m/299-6, nearly breaking the 300 feet mark. He just recently took the bronze in Osaka at the World's Championships in 2007, and was 2nd in the 2001 Goodwill Games and 1st in the 2004 World Athletics Final in Monaco.
Sadly, Breaux has never preformed that well at an Olypmics. In Athens, he was in first leading into the finals, but his knee, which has chronic injuries, gave out. The winner's throw was actually shorter (86.fm) then Greer's qualifying throw (87.25).
Now, after such sucess in 2007, Greer is poised to hopefully be the first American since 1972 to take a medal in javelin.
Greer is in a band called Former Track Star, lives with his two dogs, and is both funny and cute. He lists Panic at the Disco, Fall Out Boy, Slipknot, T.I., Alice In Chains, Luthor Vandross, and Jack Johnson as his music on his myspace, and currently plays Hurricane on American Gladiatiors.
( And onto the pictures! )
