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...Brittan Smith. Smith competed in four events, placing second in the 100- and 200-meter runs. She also ran her leg of the 4x400-meter relay, and tied her career best of 6.01 meters in the long jump. Smith’s first place finish was part of a long-jump sweep for Harvard, with seniors Shannon Flahive and Elissa Reidy finishing second and third, respectively.“Brittan Smith also had a fantastic day,” Saretsky said. “She competed in four events, so she did a really good job spreading out her energy...
...test, while the Russian winner of the women's shot-put and the Hungarian gold medalist in the men's discus event lost their medals after drug tests. But the Americans escaped unscathed. "The sport was going to remain under a dark cloud until we did phenomenal things," says long-jump champ Dwight Phillips, who as a teenager broke both legs after backpedaling into a motorcycle. "Here, we are doing phenomenal things...
...last year and then becoming embroiled in doping allegations depleted her physically and emotionally; she failed to qualify in the 100 m and 200 m, events she won in Sydney. A slot could open for her in the 100--if a teammate is disqualified for doping. THE COMPETITION Jones' long-jump mark at the trials was her best in six years (she won bronze in 2000). Two Russians, Irina Simagina and Anna Pyatykh, will try to keep her from gold...
...soon. U.S. fans have been running away; network ratings for this year's Olympic trials, one of the rare times the sport gets prime time, dropped 26% from 2000. Meanwhile, fans pack stadiums across Europe for its Golden League circuit. "We've got to do something," says ex--U.S. long-jump standout Michael Powell, now a coach. "Every year track drops off more and more...
...grandchildren," he says. One fair solution, as Stones sees it, would be to "legalize all steroids. That would surely level the playing field." While that might be an easy fix, it would turn sports into a test to see whose liver processed drugs best, a world where the long-jump record could be held by Keith Richards...