Olympic Trivia and Women's Javelin

Former University of Minnesota All American, Barbora Špotáková of Czechoslovakia goes into the women's javelin throw finals today in London with the season's second longest throw and top throw in qualifying hoping to defend the Olympic title she won in Beijing in 2008.

Today's other Minnesota connection came in the broadcast of the women's open water swim final as the NBC announcers, wanting to give the audience an comparative idea of the length of the swim in the Serpentine Pond in London's Hyde Park, declared that the 6.2 mile race was roughly the distance one would have to swim if they wanted to get from Minneapolis to St. Paul. Wonder what route they took to get that distance?