it just gets worse and worse

Jim Scherr, you're embarrassing me.

Maybe there's a need to provide a little clarification here:

"At a test event last year, smog covered the city and even seeped into the velodrome. Several of the track cyclists came down with upper respiratory infections." (from the nytimes).

In case you were uncertain, the velodrome is INSIDE. The air quality is so bad that people performing INSIDE are getting respiratory infections. Whoever thought this was okay is responsible for the long term health of these athletes. end of story.

So big up to the athletes, especially the TRACK TEAM!!! and Mike Friedman from the PGH!!! w00t!