Mums are pretty hardy. They're nice, and look how healthy they are. Yellow is pretty easily seen from the street, and bright.

The message was if you weren't the thin, pretty model type, then you'd have to stay in the rhythm and blues category like Aretha Franklin.

With the team we had in (the 4x400), that's pretty darn good. They ran exceptionally well. In a meet like this, you kind of have to be satisfied with whatever you can get because there's so many good people in it. They bring out the best in you.

We got a pretty good pounding on the beach, so that remains to be seen with erosion. But the tide was about a foot and a half above normal, and earlier we were told it could be two to four feet.

In terms of financial exposure, in the next five years, it's a pretty small program. But certainly in terms of the overall future, 10 years and beyond, it is a significant program to us.

We fell out of it pretty substantially.