Your adidas Moment for 12 August 2014: Christine Ohuruogu wants to do well in the Europeans, by Larry Eder

Christine Ohuruoghu, photo by PhotoRun.net

In 2012, at the London GP, Christine Ohuruoghu won the race in driving rain, coming from behind. I had forgotten just how good the British long sprinter really is. I sure hope that none of her competitors at the Europeans underestimate her, or the only global title that alludes her will be hers in Zurich.

Christine Ohuruoghu has won the 2007 and 2013 World Championships at 400 meters. She has won the gold in the Beijing Olympics. In London, she won the silver. And in Moscow, in 2013, she took gold once again.

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The European Champs are the only title that has evaded her. Perhaps because she has not run it before.

Christine said of her first round on 12 August: ” I didn’t feel fresh but this is my first European Championships so I really want to finally get a medal in this event. I just want to do my best in the final and see what happens. I need to draw a line under this season and finish it on a high note.”

Christine Ohuruoghu confounds basic physics. When most 400 meter runners are gasping for air, Christine starts racing! Her last hundred meters is bold, driven and a joy to watch. Ms. Ohuruoghu runs the last straight like none of her competitors and will nip them at the finish with a drive that melts the track.

How will she fare in the final?

We will have to wait and see!

And so will her competitors!

Author

Larry Eder

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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