OMG!!! OMG!!! DAWN WON!!!! DAWN WON!!!!

maybe some things happened yesterday, but all I remember is that Dawn Harper won GOLD!!!!! I will replay the event for you for those who did not see. Now if you noticed from yesterday or from previous posts from when I was in LA, Dawn is the wife of my boy Craig. She runs the 100 hurdles (you can check out pictures from their wedding on my facebook page) We hung pretty tough in LA, watching her practice, driving her around to physical therapy. etc etc... anyway, well let's recap what occurred yesterday. Dawn Harper was racing the race of her life in the Olympics final, and it looked like she had second place locked up when the leader and big favorite Lolo Jones hits the hurdle with her lead leg and is barely able to stay up. Dawn then takes the lead and crosses the finish line in first place, in a personal best time of 12.54... NOT BAD for someone who had knee surgery in March and was in a leg sleeve for a significant amount of time!

Now how do you react when you are there when the homie wins an olympic gold! I was sitting with friends Curt and Jakki, Jakki's father and sister and my friend Erica's mom. For a split second you are in shock. Personally, all I could say was a barely audible voice "omg omg dawn won!" Then the screen flashed 4th place finisher Damu Cherry and I thought that possibly I had them confused, then the results flashed Dawn Harper first place. I reacted by jumping onto my friend Curt's back and screaming something, that probably was no language known to man. I then sit down and think to myself for about 30 seconds in disbelief. Then the idea hits me, forget it... I'm going down there! I tell no particular person "brb"

I then do a very quick assessment of where would be the best place to go. I do a mad dash down to the bottom of the stadium weaving around people and find the spot where I wanted to go. I run down through security which is tryin to stop me. I just continously yell "sister" "sister" sister" (no we are not actually siblings) After running past at least 5 security people. I end up at the bottom of the stadium stairs and yell at Dawn as she is doing her victory lap. I yell her name at the top of my lungs, she looks over at me comes over and gives me one of the biggest hugs anyone has ever given me... while embracing all I can say is "omg, omg, i can't believe it" her response is "omg omg" this is so crazy, this is like so crazy, where's craig (her husband) and I have no idea at this point. (Special note- these might not have been her exact words or mine, for some reason exact words kind of escape me) I didn't want to but I eventually let her go and return to my seat. When I return everyone around me is like "wow, how did you get down there so fast and thank goodness you were wearing that shirt because we could see you so clearly!" They took pictures of me and when they get them to me I'll post them here and it will no doubt be my facebook profile picture!

Did you know... That 2004 Olympic champion in the 100m hurdles JoAnna Hayes and Dawn Harper have the same coach... Bob Kersee