Word: gatlin
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...parents raised me to be a good sport, but I don't want to share the world record." JUSTIN GATLIN, U.S. track star and world's fastest man for five days until he learned that because of a timing error, he had actually tied, not broken, Jamaican rival Asafa Powell's 100-m record...
...final day, notably, over 50,000 fans pack the stadium to watch U.S. champion track athletes like Marion Jones, Justin Gatlin, Sean Crawford, and Alan Webb participate. Many international stars will compete in the renowned USA-World relay competitions...
...Phelps was impeccably smooth, as were most of the Americans, who won most of the events. The BALCO scandal was supposed to have crippled the U.S. goal of 100 medals, which was met late Saturday night. The medals came in a torrent, and the young legs of Justin Gatlin and Shawn Crawford were almost as dominant as--although suspiciously a step slower than--those of their possibly drug-tainted predecessors. (It was their coach, Trevor Graham, who sent in a syringe of human growth hormone to the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, saying he hoped to save the sport for clean...
...hands. He bounced off track into the press area, smiling like he had won an olive wreath. "I wasn't disappointed at all," he says. "People just don't understand, when I crossed the finish line, I saw that my training partner (100-m gold medalist Justin Gatlin) ran a personal best, and had almost set an Olympic record. I was so happy for him. I knew I just had to just worry about the 200." Crawford cruised to a gold in that race...
...address announcer's pleas for quiet, whistling and booing in support of Kostas Kederis, the 2000 Olympic champ from Greece who pulled out of the Games in a doping controversy. The race was delayed six minutes. Although the sprinters admitted the delay irked them, after Crawford, Bernard Williams and Gatlin placed 1-2-3, the American's didn't seek revenge on the jingoistic fans. There was no chest thumping, no taunting. Says Williams, who ran on the gold-medal 4X100 team in Sydney that embarrassed itself after an excessive celebration: "I've learned from my mistakes...