Word: docter
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...competition, and it brought her luck. She shot from the starting line faster than countrywoman Heike Warnicke and won the 3,000 m going away by a comfortable three seconds. Back in the pack, but victorious in a different sort of race, with no finish line, was American Mary Docter. She caused a pre- Olympic sensation with the admission that she was battling an addiction to drugs and alcohol. Docter finished clear-eyed, 15th and slightly disappointed. "In 1988 I didn't train hardly at all, and I finished 19th," she said...
Comeback stories in the Olympics crop up as often as TV commercials, but few athletes have come from as far behind as two American speed skaters. Early last year, three-time Olympian Mary Docter (near left), 30, checked herself into a clinic for substance abuse. She now concedes that her use of alcohol, marijuana and cocaine was partly responsible for her poor finish in the 1988 Games. When Docter qualified in December for the 1,500-m, 3,000-m and 5,000-m events, it was a double-barreled victory. Says she: "I've stayed straight...