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...BANNED. DWAIN CHAMBERS, 25, British sprinter and European 100-meter champion, from competition for two years after testing positive for the prohibited steroid THG; in London. Chambers is the first major sports star to be punished in a scandal involving a San Francisco-area laboratory under federal investigation for supplying performance-enhancing drugs to athletes...
...lead after Thursday’s first six events, but after Friday’s competition, Princeton had regained the lead, holding a 16.5 point advantage over the Crimson heading into the last day of the meet. With only two events left in the championship—the three-meter diving and the 400-yard free relay—Harvard had a chance to overtake the Tigers but failed to make the final push. With three divers in the finals, the Crimson could only muster a 4-5-6 finish, leaving the squad 14.5 points behind Princeton going into...
...penultimate event of the competition, the three-meter dive, freshman Annika Giesbrecht, junior Anne Osmun and senior Renee Paradise all made the final eight with high hopes for strong finishes to close the gap on Princeton going into the last event. Osmun was in position to nail down the number-one spot for Harvard but posted her worse dive of the day in her last attempt, dropping her down the leader-board. Osmun finished fourth with 450.90 points, Giesbrecht followed in fifth with 446.60 points, with Paradise in sixth with 442.80 points...
Even with the disappointing three-meter performance, the Crimson divers proved very valuable all weekend as Giesbrecht notched the victory in the one-meter diving and all the Harvard divers scored...
With Wilson and Ward garnering two second-place finishes thus far, Harvard notched its first victory of the day in the one-meter diving when freshman Annika Giesbrecht dove ahead of the field with a final score of 255. Junior Anne Osmun was right behind Giesbrecht with 248.9 points, finishing fourth...