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While some celebrate Bailey's remarkable feat, we should all mourn the injustice that was served to British runner Linford Christie...
...Linford Christie--ever since he beat Carl Lewis, I have hated him--but I was near tears after he was forced to leave the track...
Lewis, now 35, was unable to qualify for the 100 in Atlanta, but the finals will still have tremendous wattage on the evening of July 27. Among the contestants will be Barcelona's prickly champ, Linford Christie of Britain; Ato Boldon of Trinidad by way of UCLA; Canada's two heirs to Ben Johnson, world champion Donovan Bailey and Bruny Surin; and Frankie Fredericks of Namibia and Brigham Young University. Fredericks, who is coached by Hirschi and is employed on the business side of a Namibian uranium mine, has been positively radioactive of late, running the second- and third-fastest...
...shifting demographics of elite track and field--from "amateurs" to career professionals--have placed an unusually large number of aging veterans among the favorites. Top contenders in the men's 100 meters include Americans Carl Lewis, 35, and Dennis Mitchell, 30, as well as Britain's reigning Olympic champion Linford Christie, 36. Their younger challengers are Canada's Donovan Bailey, 28, the current world champion; Obadele Thompson, 20, of Barbados; and Ato Boldon, 22, of Trinidad...
Many of the memories, indeed, were checkered, and soft-focus moments were framed by harder edges. The public memory recalls Linford Christie bursting past in the 100 m, arms upraised in triumph; the private one shows Mark Witherspoon, a medal hopeful in the same event, thunder down the track for 30 meters, then suddenly collapse into a sickening heap, his tendon ruptured. On the scoreboard, the finish was played and replayed while Witherspoon lay alone, helpless on the track...