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It remains to be seen whether a legitimate 100-meter challenger to Usain Bolt will emerge from the US Olympic trials as injuries and mediocre results have hampered the men's sprint team this season.

Former Athens Olympic gold medalist Justin Gatlin has yet to break 9.90 seconds in a wind legal race this season after a barnstorming 2015 cheap nike air max 90 ultra 2.0 , when he won silver at the Beijing World Championships. Trayvon Bromell, who picked up the bronze in Beijing, is a question mark due to an -Achilles injury.

Gatlin, 34, said this week that his slow start is part of a bigger plan.

"I basically have to run two championships in one year, so I wanted to start slower this year so I can prepare myself for that," he said in Eugene cheap nike air max 90 ultra se , Oregon, where he was getting ready to compete in the trials which begins this weekend.

The controversial Gatlin -remains unapologetic after serving two doping bans that have some officials and athletes questioning how the American is still allowed to compete in light of the added scrutiny directed at Russian athletes because of suspicions about that country's anti--doping program.

Gatlin has never admitted to doping, saying that a 2006 failed test was the result of a massage therapist's rubbing testosterone cream on his legs. He also tested positive in 2001 for an amphetamine. He served a 4-year ban, returning to the scene in 2010.

Alexander Zhukov, Russia's Olympic committee president, took a swipe at Gatlin and Tyson Gay during a recent Olympic summit in Switzerland, questioning the fairness of letting them compete in Rio while some Russian athletes who have never tested positive might not.

Like Gatlin cheap nike air max 90 ultra essential , former world champion Gay was suspended for doping in 2013.

More than 100 athletes will qualify for the Rio Olympic Games by the end of the US trials on July 10. The American track and field team is traditionally the biggest by size across all sports.

In 2012, the USA topped the medal table with nine gold among 28 total medals.

The USA also led the medal standings at the Beijing Worlds with 18, but Jamaica and Kenya grabbed more golds.

"The US trials are going to be a dogfight," Gatlin said earlier this month.
Madagascar: Home To These Creatures You Never Thought Existed
Posted by johnstocks on January 9th, 2019



Madagascar is the fourth largest island in the world, with capital and largest city in Antananarivo. The Island is located on the western side of the Indian ocean, or from a different perspective cheap nike air max 90 ultra br , it is located off the coast, on the southeastern side of the African continent. The island is separated from Mozambique by the Mozambique Channel, the shortest distance between the island and Mozambique.

The 2017 population count puts the population of the island at 25.57 million. French and Malagasy are both official languages of the Republic of Madagascar.

Madagascar, unfortunately, is known to be one of the poorest countries in Africa with 90% of the population living under per day.

The Island Comprises rainforest, beaches, and reefs cheap nike air vapormax womens , and is home to many animals species, including the lemurs, that may not be found anywhere in the world. Two of this species will now be discussed

Let begin with the living species, the Madagascar Pochard.

The Madagascar Pochard

This is the rarest bird species in the world. This bird species was believed to have gone extinct when it wasn’t seen in 15 years. Fortunately, the small group of birds, about 25, were discovered on a remote part of the island of Madagascar. These are cheap nike air vapormax black , according to researchers, the last 25 birds of this species on earth.

This duck species are said to be on the brink of extinction due to, for example, sedimentation, invasive species, pollution, poor agricultural practices just to mention these few.

Fortunately cheap nike air vapormax mens , Conservationists are working tirelessly to protect the remain species. Relatively recently, 21 species of the birds have been released into a lake in the north of Madagascar, which is quite comforting news.

The next animal on our list of discussion is another type of bird that is said to have gone extinct.

Elephant Bird

This is the largest but extinct bird known to man. The bird, measuring about 10 feet tall, is said to be flightless and nocturnal--almost blind and is also said to prefer the forest environment. The most distant relative of the bird species is the kiwi bird, a chicken-sized inhabitant of New Zealand. The Kiwi species is also said to have a nocturnal lifestyle (practically blind). This living relative is serving as a proxy for scientists to use to better understand the behavior of the elephant bird.

Unfortunately, this marvel of nature cheap nike air vapormax , the elephant bird, is said to have gone extinct about 500 to 1000 years ago due to human influence, via hunting of the birds, and their potential habitat loss.

But why are these birds so unique to this island, one might wonder?

Well, the reasons are not so far-fetched as scientists have deduced that the general isolation of an island is responsible for the uniqueness of many of these native islands animal species.

And this does make sense because if there is no form of migration or interaction between two or more distinct locations then everything is bound to be restricted, including animal diversity.

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