Word: gatlin
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...pressure. In 1988, Jamaican-born Canadian Ben Johnson clocked a scorching 9.79 at the Seoul Olympics, but quickly had his record expunged after testing positive for the anabolic steroid stanozolol. Johnson wasn't the last World's Fastest Human to succumb to the lure of steroids. American sprinter Justin Gatlin, who ran a 9.77 at a meet in Qatar, is serving a four-year suspension for doping, and Tim Montgomery - who called the title the "top of the food chain" in sports - was ensnared in the BALCO steroid scandal and stripped of his record. He is currently serving time...
...year for which data is available at private institutions: David J. Sargent of Boston’s Suffolk University, Henry S. Bienen of Northwestern University, and Columbia’s Bollinger. Sargent took top spot on the earnings chart by a wide margin, bringing in $2,800,461. Greg Gatlin, director of public affairs at Suffolk, said the reported compensation was so high because the university not only wanted to reward Sargent for his contributions throughout his 52-year tenure there, but also to compensate for years of being “woefully underpaid” and to entice...
...track beat that summer, and quickly fell in love with the sport - the relay strategies, the tactics of the 100-meter dash versus the distance races, the oddball field sports - pole vault! Hammer-throw! I got to know Justin Gatlin at those trials, and smiled in disbelief when he won the 100-meter sprint in Athens. Just 22 years old, charismatic, and most importantly, clean. Or so I thought. Two years later, Gatlin was busted for doping, and he is now serving an eight-year ban. And Friday Jones pled guilty to lying to federal agents about...
...forget about track and field. Jones and Gatlin have taken the sport down. Maybe we should have lost faith back in '88, when Ben Johnson got stripped of his medal in Seoul. Think about it - Johnson, Jones, Gatlin - three Olympic champs, convicted cheaters. Compared to track and field, baseball's steroid struggles seem bush league...
...profile failures in other global sports - the U.S. hockey team's freeze-up in Torino, baseball's loss to Canada (Canada!), in the World Baseball Classic, and the soccer team's struggles at the World Cup (did we mention Tour de France "champ" Floyd Landis and track star Justin Gatlin, both accused of doping?) - and the basketball World Championship, which starts Aug. 19th in Japan, takes on added urgency...