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...friend and replaced by a woman who in 1994 had her heptathlon career interrupted by a ban for drug use by the International Amateur Athletic Federation. The men nod knowingly. "We've been going through that for a long, long time," says Todd Hays, currently the world's best driver. Staying out of the headlines has enabled him to stay on mission, he says. "The more they can take the attention away from me the better...
...Heading into this season, there were all sorts of feel-good stories on the U.S. women's team. The best duo in the world for two years running was 5-ft. 4-in. driver Jean Racine, 23, and 5-ft. 11-in. brakeman-pusher Jen Davidson, 29, a resident of Olympic-host Utah to boot. "Jean & Jen" were the first-ever golden girls of bob, "so well-rounded, articulate and charming," as their website, bobsledgirl.com put it a few short weeks ago. Not shy about trading on that charm, the pair had been photographed for cereal-box covers...
Johnson won the contest, and push-off came to shove-off. Racine, as top driver, chose Johnson, the best pusher. Bakken, the No. 2 driver, took Flowers. When the music stopped, Davidson had no seat. Roy insists that his coaches didn't make the call: "Jean chose Gea." Whatever. Warner was pusherless on the eve of the trials. She scrambled but didn't qualify. "Maybe my role in all of this was to make other people's dreams come true," Warner says gamely. "It's hard to be happy with that, but I have...
...case that elbowed terrorism off the top of the radio talk-show topic list and gave American parents and sports fans plenty of dark thoughts, a Reading, Mass., truck driver was on trial last week for killing the adult supervising a kids' hockey scrimmage. Friday evening, after a six-day trial in which the defendant and his son both testified, a jury of nine women and three men convicted Thomas Junta, 44, of involuntary manslaughter, which could earn him up to 20 years in the state penalty box. The most likely sentence, to be announced at a hearing...
...hours of supervised driving, in all kinds of weather and highway situations, before these teens are permitted to get their license. "Teens who would do anything to avoid a parent's company don't seem to mind being seen with one--as long as the kid is in the driver's seat. So have your kids drive you everywhere--to the store and on trips," he says. Safety advocates also recommend placing young drivers in "big boring cars...