At the Olympics: time reference

[Laurence Horn]

At 10:36 PM -0400 8/12/08, Doug Harris wrote:
>Here's the latest on this -- with both the 'morning' and 'tonight'
>uses:
>
>Breaking News Alert
>The New York Times
>Tuesday, August 12, 2008 -- 10:25 PM ET
>-----
>
>Michael Phelps Captures 4th Gold of Beijing Games
>
>BEIJING -- Michael Phelps continued his dominance of the swimming events on
>Wednesday morning, with a world-record victory in the 200-meter butterfly in
>1:52.03. It was the fourth gold medal of the Games for Phelps, who is trying
>to break Mark Spitz's record of seven gold medals in one Olympics, which
>Spitz set in 1972. Phelps swims again later tonight in the 4x200-meter
>freestyle relay.
>
>dh
>
Well, maybe that's presenting things from Phelps's ideal
perspective--he'd have from morning till night to recover between
races instead of the 45 minutes or so he actually has.

LH

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