21. Kansas Track/XC Archetypes: Christian Smith, The Greatest Story You've Never Heard
By Rod Murrow, March 7
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Much like seeing the tip of an iceberg, sometimes when you see something incredible, something even more incredible behind it is unseen. June 30 this year marks the 10th anniversary of just such an event, the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials men's 800m final in which Christian Smith, of Rozel, Kansas and Kansas State University, produced one of the most dramatic and thrilling races in Olympic Trials history.
But that was just the visible tip of the iceberg.
The even more incredible unseen story behind that race was that Christian Smith was even still alive to run it.