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...Heading into this season, there were all sorts of feel-good stories on the U.S. women's team. The best duo in the world for two years running was 5-ft. 4-in. driver Jean Racine, 23, and 5-ft. 11-in. brakeman-pusher Jen Davidson, 29, a resident of Olympic-host Utah to boot. "Jean & Jen" were the first-ever golden girls of bob, "so well-rounded, articulate and charming," as their website, bobsledgirl.com put it a few short weeks ago. Not shy about trading on that charm, the pair had been photographed for cereal-box covers...
...trouble with sports is, if you're not Anna Kournikova, you've got to keep winning, and as the pre-Olympic World Cup campaign wore on, Jean & Jen didn't. Or was it just Jen who wasn't pushing her weight? The brakeman's job in a two-person sled is primarily to propel the sled at the start. Go a tenth of a second too slow in this 50-m run-up, and you're a loser. Jean & Jen finished third in one race, out of the medals in all others, as Germans swarmed the podium. Racine told Davidson...
Johnson won the contest, and push-off came to shove-off. Racine, as top driver, chose Johnson, the best pusher. Bakken, the No. 2 driver, took Flowers. When the music stopped, Davidson had no seat. Roy insists that his coaches didn't make the call: "Jean chose Gea." Whatever. Warner was pusherless on the eve of the trials. She scrambled but didn't qualify. "Maybe my role in all of this was to make other people's dreams come true," Warner says gamely. "It's hard to be happy with that, but I have...
...Liverpool, under the coaching of another Frenchman, Gérard Houllier. An architect of the French national training system, Houllier revamped and restructured a rusty Liverpool organization to win a rash of national and international titles last year. This year, the English Premier League got its third French manager: Jean Tigana, of the London club Fulham...
After one month Sanders was allowed to carry money at the pump--a promotion. "Jean's been a good man," says Brad Goodman, the station owner. "When I met him, I found it hard to believe that he had such an illicit history. He was very soft spoken, well mannered, clean cut." Sanders makes less than $13,000 a year, and he doesn't get any benefits yet. But he is employed and has a room of his own. "I don't have no issues," he says. "I work, I come home tired, I go to sleep, I go back...