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...until recently when she went to Bulgaria to train. (Bulgaria must have lousy food; a lot of lifters go there to lose weight.) Urrutia won Colombia's first-ever Olympic gold medal in anything, which means she lost all that weight for the glory of her country. Maybe Jenny Craig should try an incentive like that...
...thought it might just be fun and meaningful. None of these players is going to threaten to choose a Nike swoosh over the U.S. Olympic uniform as Jordan and some of his mates nearly did. "This team is doing what Olympic athletes do," says team spokesman and co-captain Craig Miller. "They're going to visit the Olympic Village, attend the opening ceremonies, stand in line...
...says Craig Masback, chief executive officer of USA Track and Field, the governing body in the U.S. for a sport with a druggie reputation. He insists these Games will be, by and large, clean: "The Olympics are the most tested sports movement in the world. I believe the vast majority of athletes aren't on drugs." Counters Shorter: "Anybody can look at a dirty athlete and know he's dirty. All bulked up. His face changing..." Masback says, "You can't ban an athlete because he looks suspicious. That's why there are tests." And, he adds, "it's unfortunate...
...Sydney. When the question is asked of experts, answers range from Pollyannaish to doomful. U.S. sprinter Michael Johnson, who will defend his Olympic title at 400 meters, insists he has "never taken the line thinking I was in anything but a clean race." To which Frank Shorter answers, "Bullshit." Craig Masback says he hopes his young daughter runs track because, with so much testing, she won't do drugs. But Shorter says he first heard about human growth hormone in a Boulder, Colo., locker room in 1984, when he eavesdropped on a conversation between two 14-year-olds discussing...
...worked, and Johnson is ready to defend an Olympic title that he won in 1996 by blowing away the 400 field. Expect a repeat, says Craig Masback, head of USA Track & Field: "If Michael's healthy, the 400's not a contested event. The only question is whether Michael feels a need to, or has an interest in, setting a record...