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...although it took three false starts and a petulant protest by Great Britain's Linford Christie, who was disqualified for two of them, before the gun sounded for good. Bailey ran down Frankie Fredericks of Namibia and Ato Boldon of Trinidad to become the world's fastest human--ever. He also helped erase the Seoul stigma of Ben Johnson, who like Bailey was a Jamaican running for Canada. "I'm not trying to do what Ben did, or undo what Ben did in Seoul," he said. "My name is Donovan Bailey...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: President Clinton called a Rose Garden press conference this morning to announce that the U.S. economy had grown at a heady 4.2 percent from April to June, the fastest growth since 1994. "This is good news for America, more evidence that our economic strategy is working," said Clinton. Investor fears that the Federal Reserve will hike short-term interest rates to ward off the inflation that usually accompanies rapid growth have been eased by reports that inflation is not heating up. (While the GDP rose 4.2 percent, the price index climbed just 2 percent.) In response to this...
...were especially watching Romania," Burns said. "We knew they would be the fastest, but at the same time we weren't discounting the other boats...
This Olympic champion, one of the fastest men on the planet, was not allowed to run in what may have been the race of his life...
ATLANTA: Jackie Joyner-Kersee's bid for an unprecedented third straight heptathlon gold medal ground to a halt when she pulled out after one event Saturday with an injured right hamstring. Joyner-Kersee, who has been bothered by the hamstring injury for months, had the second-fastest time in the 100-meter hurdles. She appeared to re-injure the heavily bandaged hamstring as she jumped over the final hurdle. After a long rain delay between the hurdles and the high jump portion of the competition, Joyner-Kersee, limping badly, pulled out at the urging of her husband and coach Bobby...