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Saturday evening, Canada's Donovan Bailey won the gold medal in the men's 100 meters and broke the world record in a race that had been dubbed the greatest lineup in Olympic history...
...Atlanta, but the finals will still have tremendous wattage on the evening of July 27. Among the contestants will be Barcelona's prickly champ, Linford Christie of Britain; Ato Boldon of Trinidad by way of UCLA; Canada's two heirs to Ben Johnson, world champion Donovan Bailey and Bruny Surin; and Frankie Fredericks of Namibia and Brigham Young University. Fredericks, who is coached by Hirschi and is employed on the business side of a Namibian uranium mine, has been positively radioactive of late, running the second- and third-fastest 100s in history and then ending Michael Johnson's 21-race...
...other apostles of O.J. SIMPSON, all for a black-tie dinner to oppose domestic violence and, not least, to rub elbows with the Juice. With security provided by the Nation of Islam, the night was one of image repair for America's most dubiously innocent man. Attorney F. Lee Bailey, fresh from the slammer, pronounced his own jail stay "not so great." Simpson pal and chauffeur A.C. Cowlings seemed proud when a guest praised his driving. Outside Simpson's gates protesters clamored, but inside, Simpson charmed the antiviolence folks. If you can't beat them, have them over for dinner...
Sprinter Frankie Fredericks of Namibia will be making a strong run for the title of "World's Fastest Human" at the Olympics. Last week in Helsinki he ran the third-fastest 100 m ever, in 9.87 sec., finishing ahead of world champion Donovan Bailey of Canada. Fredericks is also a contender in the 200, an event dominated by Michael Johnson. A few days earlier, Johnson won the 200 at the U.S. Olympic trials in 19.66 sec., breaking the 17-year-old world record...
...career professionals--have placed an unusually large number of aging veterans among the favorites. Top contenders in the men's 100 meters include Americans Carl Lewis, 35, and Dennis Mitchell, 30, as well as Britain's reigning Olympic champion Linford Christie, 36. Their younger challengers are Canada's Donovan Bailey, 28, the current world champion; Obadele Thompson, 20, of Barbados; and Ato Boldon, 22, of Trinidad...