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...rules. In epee, you score by jabbing your opponent anywhere with the point of the weapon; in foil, you score only by touching point to torso; in saber, you score with any part of the blade but only above the waist.) The following year in Atlanta she won the gold in the inaugural epee category--and another gold with the French team--and followed that up with a trio of world titles...
...tourism. She welcomes the work obligations because they help her budget her time better and remain focused on the task--or combat--before her. In Sydney, Flessel-Colovic will need to turn her attention to Hungary's Ildiko Mincza and Italy's Cristina Cascioli, her probable rivals for the gold...
That's because, say its critics, neither will the International Olympic Committee. "I think right now every performance in an endurance event is suspect," says Frank Shorter, the former gold-medal marathoner who is chairman of the new, independent U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, which takes over drug enforcement from the U.S. Olympic Committee in October...
...tests. We now know that by 1978 East German athletes in every sport except sailing were being given anabolic steroids. Yet in 1976 and 1980 not one East German tested positive for drugs at the Summer Games. The country took home a total of 216 medals, 87 of them gold, from those Olympics...
...hulking version of her prior self had lowered her times astonishingly. Her success coincided with her marriage to a former discus thrower from the Netherlands who had been kicked out of his own sport as a drug cheat. But Smith won four medals in Atlanta, three of them gold, while passing all her exams. She then dodged random testing for two years before being confronted one dawn at her County Kilkenny home. She reluctantly produced a urine sample, which was later found to be tainted by enough alcohol to kill her; the presumption was that Smith had added alcohol...