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...trackwomen swept past Brown, 15-50, Northeastern, 15-49, and Drake, 29-30. Sophomore Suzanne Jones was the Crimson's first runner to finish, placing third overall. Part of Harvard's success came from its ability to run together as a pack...
...Kenyan runner, Paul Ereng, looked around at his own team. Several countrymen more celebrated than he had not made the squad. "That's the greatest thing about the Games," he said. "They aren't for the most experienced, and they aren't for the least. Neither are they for the best known or the worst. They're for the first one home...
Leading the high-octane UMass attack is senior quarterback Dave Palazzi. Palazzi has completed 29 of 56 passes for 431 yards and four touchdowns. An agile runner, he is third on the team with 71 yards on 21 carries...
...this good -- but not great -- 200-meter runner suddenly blasted the 100-meter record by a preposterous, in sprinter's terms, .27 sec.? And done it at an age, 28, when most athletes are losing half a step? Some have whispered, as they have about countless other athletes, that performance-enhancing steroids have to be a factor behind such dramatic improvement. Griffith Joyner attributes it to hard work and collaboration with her husband of almost a year, Triple Jumper Al Joyner (who narrowly missed a berth on this year's team). "I've trained a lot harder, maybe three times...
...Decker Slaney fell agonizingly to the turf in Los Angeles in 1984, a victim of tangled feet with Zola Budd, it seemed to be the painful end of an Olympic dream. The young woman, who at 21 began amassing world records, established herself as America's best middle-distance runner. But luck was never with Slaney, who seemed star-crossed where the Olympics were concerned. During the 1976 Games she was laid up with leg injuries, and she had to sit out the following Olympics because of the U.S. boycott. And by the summer of '88, Slaney would turn...