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...Forty-one-year-old DARA TORRES, 41, swims for three silver medals at 41 but gets no gold...
...OLYMPIANS win gold medal in THURSTON HOWELL III--impersonation event...
...second week of the Olympics is a bonanza of Bolt. Two races, two world records, and one more to go - the 4X100m relay on Friday. People are even mentioning him as they did a certain swimmer last week. "He added spirit to the sport," says Shawn Crawford, the 200m gold medalist in '04, who backed into a silver this time around when two other sprinters were disqualified for stepping out of their lanes. "He danced for us in the introduction, he danced for us at the end. I mean, he put on a show. To me, he's just like...
...That clean-cut image is a calling card for Bolt and an entire new generation of Jamaican sprinters who have taken the Beijing Olympics by storm. With Bolt shattering world records to claim gold in the men's 100 and 200 meters, and Jamaica making a clean sweep of the medals in the women's 100 meters, the Caribbean island is fast earning the title of the world's fastest country. That reputation is music to the ears of Jamaicans who, for years, have become more accustomed to hearing their country discussed for its sky-high murder rate...
...Jamaican athletes are in a better position to have that kind of effect than Shelly-Ann Fraser, who won the women's 100 meters last weekend, the first gold for her country in that event. (She was followed in second and third place by fellow Jamaicans Sherone Simpson and Kerron Stewart.) To international track-and-field enthusiasts, Fraser, 21, seemed to emerge from nowhere; but to Jamaicans, she's the girl who used to train barefooted in her home neighborhood of Waterhouse, a particularly tough ghetto on the outskirts of Kingston. One of the first things she did after...