The Commonwealth Games concluding in New Delhi this week were supposed to do for India what the BeijingOlympics allegedly did for China: Prove to the world that it had truly arrived.
Radcliffe's return to form in New York and in the Great South Run came after a disappointing display at the BeijingOlympics where she finished 23rd in the Marathon.
With less than 200 days to go before the BeijingOlympics, China's capital appears on schedule to finish work on its new hotels, stadiums and subway lines.
The suspension was lifted too late for Pistorius to compete at the BeijingOlympics but he made his mark at the Paralympics that year, winning golds and setting new Paralympics records in the 100m and 200m as well as a world record in the 400m.