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...next to... Maurice Greene. Did you see him? He's the showboater, the character, the real piece of work - and this is an image he works hard at. He's the gum-popping, strutting leader of coach John Smith's Handling Speed Intelligently team, a stable of hip-hop sprinters and sundry others who train at UCLA's Drake Stadium and hang together in the off-hours. Four of the HSI guys spent the Olympics at a beach house in Coogee. Greene was out there, and so were Jon Drummond, Curtis Johnson and Ato Boldon. This last guy is from...
...training, playing pool, chillin'. "Today was Ato's turn to do breakfast," said Greene one day. "He went to McDonald's!" Greene, for all his shoulder rolling and Ali-style prognosticating, is a funny, sweet young man, and very self-aware. Before his race he cracked jokes, cracked his gum, and seemed relaxed - but he always does, and never is. "Do I get nervous?" he said, repeating the question. He looked at me, and smiled. "Of course I get nervous. I don't show it, but I'm nervous right now. This is the biggest stage I've been...
...Jones went to Bankstown, Greene went to the beach; he wouldn't be caught dead where nobody could find him. He is a showboater, a character. He works hard to burnish a high-gloss image as the gum-popping, strutting leader of coach John Smith's Handling Speed Intelligently team, a stable of hip-hop athletes who train at UCLA's Drake Stadium and hang together in the off-hours. In a strategy similar to the Jones camp's, the honchos at HSI sought to approximate L.A. in Sydney by renting a beach house in Coogee. Sharing it were four...
...Gonna Be Me.' I worked at a camp with kids all summer and they were all into bubble gum pop. So we all learned the dance...
...roads out of the city closed where they crossed the blazing forests, houses claimed by flames racing down the fingers of vegetation that probe the city's suburbs. To the west, the national parkland of the Blue Mountains, named for the eucalyptus oils that evaporate from the gum trees and tint the air, is a 10,000-sq.-km wilderness of heavily wooded gullies and forbidding cliffs, home to well over a thousand species of plants. Only six years ago the Wollemi pine was added to the list. These prehistoric trees, previously unknown, were found in one of the region...