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SPRINTS The shifting demographics of elite track and field--from "amateurs" to 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...
...sentimental highlight of the track-and-field program may be the men's long jump. If Carl Lewis makes the team and Cuba's formidable Ivan Pedroso isn't recovered from a recent operation, the grand old man of American track can collect his fourth straight long-jump gold medal, which would tie him with Al Oerter, who had four straight in the discus...
...Reno and Holly McPeak, the powerful U.S. duo who break up with each other almost as often as they win tournaments, are on their way to gold unless the Brazilians stop them. Sinjin Smith, the granddaddy of the beach at 39, will try for a medal with his partner, Carl Henkel...
There are those who think Johnson lacks a certain charisma. All right, it's Carl Lewis. The popular sprinter and long jumper was quoted last year on the lack of excitement in track, saying, "Michael Johnson, he doesn't have it." To which Johnson says, unexcitedly, "Well, Carl and I don't get along very well...
...taxi driver grunted. "Also," I continued, "I'd pay no attention to those commentators who are going to write about how this series shows that a team from Chicago, which Carl Sandburg called the 'City of the Big Shoulders,' can obviously push around a team from a city where, well, where people drink a lot of latte...