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With the graduation of Heptagonals champion Steve Sundel, McLean-Foreman is poised to take over the role of best runner in the Ivy League...
...first NBA-stocked bunch not to win gold. For the most part, America's athletes were treated courteously, though geopolitics probably kept retiring medalists Rulon Gardner and Mia Hamm from getting the stadium-size love that enveloped Moroccan Hicham El Guerrouj. When El Guerrouj, perhaps the greatest middle-distance runner ever, hauled in the 1,500-m gold medal that had eluded him in the past two Olympics, he fell to the track and bawled. His fellow runners hugged him and laughed as he performed a victory dance to the Zorba theme that played only 14,000 times during...
...first few laps of the 25-lap race, Gebrselassie stayed with the lead pack as it glided its way around the graceful Olympic Stadium. By the 5000-m mark, Bekele, Gebrselassie and Ethiopia's third runner, Sileshi Sihine, were 1-2-3. The Ethiopian trio was soon lapping slower runners, even as the younger men seemed to slow the pace to accommodate Gebrselassie. But then he began to struggle. At 7,500 m, he fell back for a lap before coming again, fighting off pain, hoping he could run through...
...crowds. So was windsurfer Gal Fridman, who sailed Israel to its first gold medal in 52 years of competition, and whose victory seemed all the more appropriate given that his first name means wave in Hebrew. And when Moroccan Hicham El Guerrouj, perhaps the greatest middle-distance runner of all time, finally hauled in the 1,500-m gold medal that had eluded him in two previous Olympics, he fell to the track and bawled. His fellow runners picked him up and hugged him, then laughed as he performed a victory dance to the Zorba the Greek theme that played...
...Less than a year later, Amaral attended the Sydney Olympics, as an independent athlete competing under the Olympic flag. This time around, as she represents her nation for the first time, Amaral is hoping for a better finish than her 43rd place in Sydney. But the 32-year-old runner is not sure she'll even be competing. Although her airfare, as well as that of fellow marathoner Gil Da Cruz Trindade, was paid by the International Olympic Committee, funds that had been raised in Australia for their pocket money have mysteriously gone missing. Sitting in a caf?...