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After two years of falling short of NCAA titles against the likes of Bergqvist and U.S. Olympian Erin Aldrich of Texas, Gyorffy broke through for her first NCAA title with a 1.94-meter jump at the indoor championships in 2000. She closed out her Harvard track career by winning her only NCAA outdoor title with a performance of 1.91 meters at Eugene, Ore. this past June...
ELECTED. JACQUES ROGGE, 59, as president of the International Olympic Committee; in Moscow. A Belgian-born orthopedic surgeon and former three-time Olympian in sailing, Rogge will oversee I.O.C. reform in light of the Salt Lake City bribery scandal. He said that he will try to reduce the influence of performance-enhancing drugs...
Gyorffy, a 2000 Sydney Olympian, jumped in three world-class IAAF Grand Prix meets in a span of just eight days from June 29 to July 6. In those three meets, which took place in Italy, Switzerland and Paris, Gyorffy finished no worse than seventh but no better than sixth, with top performances ranging from 1.85 to 1.90 meters. The best jump in the world this year is 2.04 meters...
...Then Harvard called, you know those Olympian snobs. And I thought I would be perfectly happy to stay at Michigan and do better than Harvard, and then I thought, 'Well, maybe not,'" he says...
Schutte won her fourth consecutive Outdoor Heptagonal title in the 400-meter dash, a feat matched by none other than two-time Olympian Meredith Rainey-Valmon...