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...this, and I haven't even told you about the track meet. What an incredible track meet. It started, as I mentioned in my last letter, with Marion Jones and Maurice Greene winning the 100-meter sprints. The next big result, as you might have heard, was C. J. Hunter's. He's the injured shot putter who's much better known as Marion's husband. Well, according to the IOC, he had tested positive for steroids five times recently, once in a meet and four times out of competition. Any other week, any other wife, this is just...
...given week hadn't happened in Australia since the first Aboriginal raft floated over 60,000 years ago, or since Cook sailed into Botany Bay in 1770. This was a big, big win, and I'll tell you: If NBC went heavy on the Americans and C. J. Hunter, then they lost the plot down here...
...balcony each day around 9 a.m., stepped outside, looked at the glittering sea and took a deep breath of salt air. Another fine morning in Sydney. Marion Jones awoke in her suburban apartment and said good morning to her husband, the very large, very injured shot-putter C.J. Hunter. Meanwhile, at the Olympic Village in Homebush, 10,000 young athletes were being shuttled to competitions. They were busily proving that Korean women sure can shoot arrows, that Ping-Pong isn't just kid stuff, that while Americans and Australians still rule swimming, the Dutch and Italians are bearing down...
...similar only in this insularity. Jones went inland, low-keying everything. She holed up with her handlers and family in a just-built apartment complex in the working-class suburb of Bankstown. Two-by-fours still littered the yard; a Dumpster out front hadn't yet been carted away. Hunter, a taciturn 320-pounder who likes the kitchen a lot, did most of the cooking. (He had the time, as knee surgery had forced him to withdraw from the shot-put competition.) After breakfast, Jones reported to a nearby track and practiced under the gaze of coach Trevor Graham...
...Merode isn't helping things, either. While rightfully punishing Hunter, he also made remarks that the U.S. track and field association has habitually hid positive drug results from the IOC. De Merode's claims are something to look into, but his lack of evidence doesn't engender any trustworthy feelings...