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...tussle for gold between France and Australia: Arnaud Tournant and Shane Kelly in the men's 1-km time trial; Felicia Ballanger and Michelle Ferris in the women's 500-meter time trial. For Kelly the crowd wanted more than Olympic glory; after his tragically brief showing at Atlanta, where his foot slipped from the pedal, they wanted to cheer him to gold. After being placed on the track with his shoes already attached to the pedals, Kelly started smoothly, but came home to a bronze medal in a time of 1 minutes 2.818 seconds. "I'm just happy...
There was no such upset in the women's 500-meter time trial. Ballanger, the event's five-time world champion, held Ferris to silver in the sprint at Atlanta and repeated the feat in the 500 meters at Sydney. Ferris was elated with her 34.696 seconds, but then had to watch as the French superstar, her face contorted with exertion, snatched the lead - and gold - by just over half a second...
...infamous for the bloodlust of its rebels - the guerrillas of the Revolutionary United Front. Kidnapping, mutilation and the raping of children have relegated sport to a low place on the nation's priorities list. In 1996, Sierra Leone sent a 21-strong track and field squad to the Atlanta Games. In 2000, its entire team comprises two athletes and a weight lifter...
...Barbara Lane, 53, and suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Haven House, a 20-bed residential hospice in North Atlanta, is living up to its name. ALS invariably kills, but the timing is hard to predict, which runs afoul of the hospice requirement that a patient certifiably have no more than six months to live. Coverage can be extended only if deterioration is continuous or if death is predictable within subsequent six-month periods. Doctors determined that they could not certify Lane, after she had spent a year in her original hospice, a third time, but Haven House executive director Metta...
...pills daily. "The disease just takes so much time," says her daughter Kita Turner, 36. The family pays a private nurse $150 a week for help beyond what the hospice staff can provide. Along with paying for a private nurse, Kita and her husband John, both city of Atlanta employees, spend about $300 a month on medications not covered by Medicare. Ultimately, respiratory failure kills ALS patients, and Lane has signed a do-not-resuscitate order, which will keep her off a ventilator. An ordained Baptist minister, she says she is "ready to do whatever God would have...