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...refused to acknowledge the press, and thus her fans, that same adoring public that made her an Olympic icon. The BALCO investigation had uncovered evidence that Jones had used performance-enhancing drugs, and she refused to take the heat. Finally, after she pulled out of the 200-meter semifinals, citing fatigue, Queen Marion was holding court in the tent. Reporters dropped their coverage of the races, of those less famous athletes whose Olympic dreams were hanging in the balance, and sprinted to Jones like lap dogs. She smiled, charmed, even casually addressed a few of those reporters by their first...
...track beat that summer, and quickly fell in love with the sport - the relay strategies, the tactics of the 100-meter dash versus the distance races, the oddball field sports - pole vault! Hammer-throw! I got to know Justin Gatlin at those trials, and smiled in disbelief when he won the 100-meter sprint in Athens. Just 22 years old, charismatic, and most importantly, clean. Or so I thought. Two years later, Gatlin was busted for doping, and he is now serving an eight-year ban. And Friday Jones pled guilty to lying to federal agents about...
...stars, and tell us how they'll put all this sorry history behind us. Well, I heard that storyline back in 2004; how, with good conscience, can I buy it again? The world's two top sprinters, Tyson Gay of the United States and Asafa Powell, the 100-meter world record holder from Jamaica, have a nice little rivalry, and you'll hear about it ad nauseam in the months before the '08 games. But it's hard for me to get too excited about it. Sure, Gay and Powell never failed drug tests, and no one has accused them...
...Cambridge man was charged Tuesday with “receiving stolen property of over $250 and breaking into a depository,” after Cambridge Police found 123 parking meters in his home Monday night. Thomas Gannon, 38, was found in possession of the parking meters when police entered his home to serve a warrant for a separate offense, according to a spokesman for Cambridge police, Frank Pasquarello. “When they went to the apartment they found the parking meters there,” Pasquarello said yesterday. “Most of the parking meters were found stashed...