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First KERRI STRUG saved the U.S. Olympic gymnastics team by sacrificing her ankle in a heroic one-legged vault in 1996. Now the gold medalist is sacrificing her summer to rescue the reputation of the country's interns. Strug has been filing, faxing and copying--and nothing else!--for Republican Senator John McCain at his Capitol Hill office. "Thousands of interns come in and go out each summer," says Strug, who graduated from Stanford in June with a communications degree and will return this fall for grad work. "Most people are very professional. Girls just have to be careful. There...
...whether fewer than 12 athletes would clear at 1.91 and reach the final. Fortunately for her only 10 did, and since she had been flawless at 1.80, 1.85 and 1.88 meters, she earned one of the remaining two spots in the final. Yelena Yelesina, the high jump gold medalist in Sydney, also cleared at 1.88 meters, but she did not qualify for the final because she needed two attempts to clear at that height...
...most outstanding swim [of the meet] was Dan Shevchik's 400 IM," said freshman John Cole. "That swim is really fast and will put him up against the best swimmers in the country at NCAAs, including Olympic silver medalist Erik Vendt...
DIED. EMIL ZATOPEK, 78, four-time Olympic gold medalist and political dissident; after a stroke; in Prague. Zatopek won three of his golds at the Helsinki Games in 1952, in the 5,000 m, the 10,000 m and--having never run one before--the marathon. Nicknamed "the Engine," Zatopek ran up to 100 miles a week, sometimes in place in the bathtub, or with his wife on his shoulders. He was dismissed from the military and reduced to manual labor after standing on anticommunist front lines during the 1968 Prague Spring. He broke 18 world records but once said...
Shevchik also placed highly in the Olympic Trials this summer, making it to the finals in one event, but placing well short of a berth in Sydney. He was the bronze medalist at the 2000 Pan American games...