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PostPosted: Thu Sep 05, 2002 7:44 pm    Post subject: watch out for that dip on the turn... Reply with quote

http://cgpr.ce.vt.edu/photo_album_for_geotech/Earthquake%20hazards/Rupture%20-%20Taiwan/Rupture%20Taiwan%20P3.html

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 06, 2002 8:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

What a great shot!! Exclamation Exclamation Thumbs Up Very Happy Cool Good enough to be background wallpaper.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 06, 2002 8:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Good call! I just set it as my background wallpaper, and it looks quite, er, "nice." Smile

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PostPosted: Mon Sep 09, 2002 3:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That whole Taiwan earthquake web page was quite interesting. I sent it to a few people and they enjoyed it too.

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PostPosted: Mon Sep 09, 2002 3:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think that track is about due to be resurfaced. Wink

Of coarse judging from the other pictures it looks like it's not the only thing that could use some work.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 09, 2002 3:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ACtually isn't that track in use ??? Isn't that where they run the Chinese Nationals annually ??? I've seen sprint times coming out of there that look like it ...

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PostPosted: Mon Sep 09, 2002 3:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Maybe that's their way of removing the evidence, a la Atlanta '96? Smile

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 10, 2002 7:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

REmoving the evidence ??? I figured they were running down those slopes !!!!

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 10, 2002 8:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Only problem is, their incredible times were in full lap events. Unless they brought in an M.C. Escher understudy to construct that track, they'd have to go back uphill somewhere else...

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 10, 2002 9:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Now they have turned in incredible straight away times as well ... Starting with a 10.79 for otheir female national record !!!!

And I haven't seen the other side of the track so Escher most certainly could have provided technical assistance !!

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 10, 2002 9:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have forgotten if mainland China and Taiwan compete as a unified team??
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 10, 2002 9:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

No ... But I couldn't help but tie the two together with that photo !!

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 10, 2002 9:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Whoa, I must've missed those sprint times...

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 10, 2002 9:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dan wrote:
Whoa, I must've missed those sprint times...

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Oh yeah ... 19.79, 10.89, 10.90, 10.95 .... All within the boundaries of China !!! She's gotten her drawers blown off competing outside the country !!! Lu Xinei (or something close to it) !!!

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 10, 2002 11:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It took a couple of days for people to remark on this photo. I thought maybe I was the only person to see it the first day. What was remarkable to me was that there was so little damage except along the narrow fault line in the track picture, a fact brought out in the original picture set.
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