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...more serious problem. Like 15 million other Americans, she suffers from asthma, a chronic affliction of the airways in the lungs that can turn the simplest act of breathing into hard labor and leave a person gasping, coughing and wheezing for air. Last fall the gold medalist (100-m relay, 1984) was hospitalized for a severe attack in which her airways closed off altogether. "Imagine slicing an orange and squeezing all the juice out of both halves," Bolden suggests. "That's how my lungs felt -- as if someone or something was squeezing...
...Services, and as I inhaled gobs of steroids, I tried to start a grassroots movement among other sneezers, wheezers and snifflers. Together, I tried to tell them, we could turn the tide, out law the blue-green mush they used to spread the grass seed. It was hard to relay my message across a barrier of tissues and mucous. My nurse said something about a lost cause, but it was all a drugged haze...
...final standings were up in the air until the last race, the 4x400 relay...
...Crimson's 200-yard freestyle relay team which was predicted to finish in the top five, was disqualified for a false-start. Since it was only the second event of the meet, this put the Crimson into an immediate deficit...
There were a few other bright spots on the weekend for the Crimson. Freshman Joe Ghartey and freshman Bryan Henry took fourth-place finishes in the pentathlon and 1000 meter, respectively, while the two mile relay team placed third...