Considering the amount of blur in the picture, and, the amount of noise in the background........ this picure appears to be heavily enlarged or your camera lens was not effecient for the light available. I would be hard pressed to make a picture look this bad with my 10D and the lenses I own. This pic would have benefited from Photo Shop using the Noise>despeckle filter and working the unsharp mask in shapern. Or, invest in a better more effecient lens F1.4-F2.2 to help your camera along. Hope this helps.
very cool action shot. i love how everthing is blurred but the hands. it draws the eyes right to it. awesome! the only thing that wuold make it better would be if the crop was such that there was more space in front of the runners, rather than having the baton so centered.
nice moment. colors okay.. noise from pushing saturation? or exposure too dark?
(asks self). either way, quality is lessened a bit from it, but I like it overall.