Andy Sneddon, CMUChippewas.com
RIO De JANEIRO – Game time for Alex Rose.
Rose, a Central Michigan graduate, will compete beginning Friday in the discus at the Olympics. The event is scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. EDT.
Rose is competing for Samoa, a country of some 190,000 people in the South Pacific near the International Date Line. He hails from West Branch in the Northeastern Lower Peninsula, and is able to compete under the Samoan flag because his father Ross is a native of that country.
There are some 35 throwers in the field.