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Reese Hoffa, Just an Excitable Guy, by Elliott Denman, note by Larry Eder

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Reese Hoffa, 2012 London Shot Put, photo by PhotoRun.net

Elliott Denman choose to write about Reese Hoffa, and his bronze medal in the shot put. Hoffa took home his first Olympic medal in three tries. David Storl of Germany took the silver and Tomasz Majewski won the gold. A great shot put competition….
 

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 By ELLIOTT DENMAN
LONDON – As a kid, Reese Hoffa was a very-very bad boy.
Very-very.
As the story goes – all true – as a four-year-old, he took a lighter to his 
family home and it burned to the ground.
His single mom – understandably unhappy – took him to an orphanage, where 
he was adopted by caring couple Stephen and Cathy Hoffa , who finally put 
some order into his life.
Soon, the new Reese Hoffa emerged, very-very well behaved. He grew very-very 
big and very-very  strong, too.
Very-very.
He had hoped to be an Olympic champion by now.
But it didn’t happen Friday – he settled for the bronze medal in the shot put, 
first final of the track and field phase of the Games of the XXX Olympiad.
He’s still a very-very proud three-time Olympian.
He’s done so much: twice a world champion, outdoors 2007, indoors 2006; three 
times a U.S.outdoor champion and twice a U.S. indoor champion.
But his Olympic ambitions have always landed a tad short.
Hoffa’s five-ringed dossier: Just 22nd and a non-qualifier at Athens in 2004; 
(B) seventh at Beijing in 2008; (C) Third Friday in London.   Thirty-one years after the 
arson episode, Hoffa won the Olympic shot put bronze by whirling around the Olympic 
Stadium ring and sending the 16-pound iron ball on a flight of 69-11 ¾, good but 
not good enough.
He’d gone 72- 2 ¼ at the Trials, 71-6 ¾ at the Prefontaine Classic, 71-3 ½ at the 
Kansas Relays.  He was a regular past 70. 
  But it was Poland’s Tomasz Majewski and Germany’s David Storl doing the 70-plus 
  throwing Friday.
Storl took the early lead with his 71-8 in round one and 71-8 ¾ in round two.  
But Majewski edged ahead by a single centimeter with his 71-9 in round three 
and stretched it to 71-10 to clinch the gold in round six.
USA’s Christian Cantwell, second-placer at Beijing in 2008, settled for fourth 
this time. Teammate Ryan Whiting had a tough day and landed ninth place, a 
sureshot disappointment for a man who’s gone 72-2 ¼ (taking the gold at the 
World Indoor Championhips in Istanbul.
 A University of Georgia graduate and representative of the New York Athletic 
 Club, Hoffa had every hope of becoming America’s Olympic first Olympic shot 
 king since Randy Barnes at Atlanta in 1996.
 
 Instead, Majewski became the first shot put repeater in 56 years.
 
 Once upon a time, Team USA virtually owned the men’s Olympic shot put,  winning 
 the event 17 times in the first 27 Games held.
But there’s definite recent slippage – the last four  Olympic shot put golds have 
gone to the delegates of Finland, Ukraine, Poland and Poland again.
  The USA has had a pantheon of past Olympic shot kings, the likes of Barnes,
  Mike Stulce,  Randy Matson, Dallas Long, Bill Nieder and Parry O’Brien. 
  (IFull disclosure: Both Barnes and Stulce were subsequently disbarred as drug violators.)
  Almost surely, this will be Reese Hoffa’s final Olympic bid.
  He’s said there’s practically no hope you’ll see him in the 
  Trials for the 2016 Beijing Games.
 He’s had a very-very superlative career.
The very-very bad boy thing is in the far distant past.
His many fans say it’s just very-very unfortunate he never got the 
invitation to climb to the top rung of an Olympic podium.
 Very-very unfortunate.

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    Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys. Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."

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