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Bolt is an exciting showman and, clearly, a gifted runner, but is he an inimitable oddity, or proof that athletes are simply getting faster overall? World speed records have fallen like dominoes at these Olympic Games (in swimming too, you may have heard), and experts think humans can get faster still. Half a century or ago or so, we didn't believe a human could run a 4-min. mile - until Roger Bannister proved us wrong in 1954 when he ran it in 3 mins. 59.4 secs. At the 1936 Games in Berlin, sprinter Jesse Owens won the 100m gold...
...Regardless of that, I took this seriously. I called the Americans, the British and the Europeans, and I repeatedly said, "Anything you have, let me know." And once, twice, three times, four, five, six times - nothing. Allegations have been there, but never have they come to me with proof. Privately they say, "President, we have nothing...
...campaign will not be any more dazzled. In a sense, the question of Obama's preparation hinges on data that are still being gathered, because his greatest accomplishment is this unfolding campaign. For a man given to Zen-like circularities - "We are the change we seek" - the best proof that he can unite people to solve problems might be his ability to unite them to win an election...
...that firm footing, a representative from Russia's Federal Prosecutor's Office, speaking at the expanding Ministry of Emergency Services base at Tskhinvali's Repubican Hospital, said his office was searching for indisputable proof of Georgian military aggression against Russian peacekeepers during Georgia's initial attack of South Ossetia...
...than stringent. Jamaican health officials insist they're on a vigilant watch for performance enhancing drugs, and in recent years they have nabbed a few cheaters, including two who'd been training at U.S. universities. But while groups like the World Anti-Doping Agency have conceded there is little proof of drug-use among Jamaican sprinters, the country has refused to join the Caribbean Regional Anti-Doping Organization, which would put the country under the kind of broader testing microscope that experts say is required by today's scandal-ridden environment...