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Hold on to your medals ... The Dash is checking in from Beijing

By Pat Forde
ESPN.com

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Forty names, games, countries and minutiae making news at the Beijing Summer Olympic Games (masking agents sold separately): Ni hao, and welcome to the Forde-Meter Dash, the Olympic (and metric) version of the Forde-Yard Dash. Since it's still a few weeks until college football kicks off, and since The Metric Dash is in Beijing instead of Baton Rouge, La., why not apply the trusty gridiron rubric to the five-ring circus? Why not trade inches and pounds for centimeters and kilograms for the next ...

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