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Later, on the red carpet leading into the Kodak Theatre, Corriero was spotted chatting up fellow nominee Olympic gold medalist Carly Patterson before heading inside for the show...
Defection sounds like a bad word, but in reality the runners may still be patriotic as ever. They just moved on to greener pastures. When the commonwealth gold medalist, Stephen Cherono, moved to Qatar, there was uproar in Kenya, especially when he, as Saif Saeed Shaheen, went on to beat his former teammates at the Paris athletics championships. More recently, Bernard Lagat became a U.S. citizen, again amid further protest. Now, many wonder whether these athletes should be allowed to compete for their new host nations...
Then a glint of light catches the eye: a javelin, thrown by one of the women in the heptathlon competition. It arcs down into the sod: 120 ft. and change. The distance is not impressive. "Wait for Jackie," someone says. Jackie Joyner, silver medalist at the Los Angeles Olympics last summer, has won the first five heptathlon events here at the U.S. Olympic Committee's National Sports Festival meet. She appears at the beginning of the javelin run-in, holds her spear head-high, level with the ground, and flows into the unmistakable prancing, straight-backed run that must have...
...minutes away is the nattily named Natatorium, where a rare sight awaits. The great Greg Louganis, a double gold medalist at Los Angeles, completely butchers a couple of dives in the 10-meter platform prelims. He has explained, in his bashful, self-effacing way, that he is not really training. Headshaking here; sad to see a fine athlete on the downward slide. Uh-huh. But when the diving is finished a couple of days later, guess which bashful, self-effacing phenomenon has another two golds? The real surprise is that Michele Mitchell also wins two. She won the silver last...
...Florida swimmers that had established the NCAA and US Open records earlier in the year torched the field by over 1.5 seconds. The Harvard relay again came in 15th despite battling the nation’s best sprinters, including Gators freestyler Ryan Lochte—a 2004 Olympic gold medalist in the same event...