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Also a threat to Taylor’s medal hopes are Russia’s Yuliya Pechonkina and Yekaterina Bikert and Romania’s Ionela Tîrlea. Along with Johnson and Pittman, those are the only women who have run the event faster than Taylor...
...Brenda is highly ranked in the world, so she definitely has the talent to compete for a medal,” Marna Costanzo ’01 wrote in an e-mail. Constanzo was co-captain with Taylor at Harvard, and currently lives in South Africa. “I think her chances for a medal are excellent...
...shot-put Nirvana." That's the description of this year's shot-put competition, held in the ancient home of the Games in the stadium at Olympia by U.S. silver medallist Adam Nelson on Wednesday. The fact that he'd just suffered a heartbreaking loss of the gold medal to Ukrainian Yuriy Bilonog in the finals seconds did nothing to dim his enthusiasm for an event whose venue captured the magic of the Athens Olympiad. And it was shared by competitors, coaches and spectators...
...whereas shot-putters often go unnoticed in the three-ring circus of most track-and-field events, at Olympia they had the 10,000-plus spectators all to the themselves. Said John Godina, one of the U.S. competitors who also suffered a disappointing finish after having been a medal favorite, "It was awesome to walk into this stadium. Thousands of people were there just for you, all wanting you to throw...
...different way. Her father Paul Montgomery is serving 30 years to life in prison for killing two men in Cleveland, Ohio, when Tocarra was 15. She released her anger in wrestling; just months after joining the team at Cleveland's East Tech High, she won the silver medal at girls nationals. Two years later, she was named International Women's Wrestler of the Year. "She doesn't drink. She doesn't get high. She doesn't party," says her Cumberland College coach, Kip Tranik. "She trains 50 weeks a year...