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...admitted to spending about $12,000 a year on steroids and human-growth hormones during his career, said a majority of Australian athletes used performance enhancers and were encouraged to do so by Olympic officials. In Cuba, track officials refused to suspend world record-holding high jumper Javier Sotomayor after he tested positive for cocaine, and Jamaican track officials reacted similarly after sprinter Merlene Ottey tested positive for steroids...
HIGH JUMP 1924: 6.66 ft., Harold Osborn 1961: 7.38 ft., Valeriy Brumel, up 11% 1993: 8.04 ft., Javier Sotomayor...
...then someone should tell Christopher Columbus, Neil Armstrong and Javier Sotomayor that there have been some serious measuring errors along with a few pretty good hoaxes pulled on the world...
...baseball and boxing but also in judo, fencing, wrestling, weight lifting and track and field. Contrary to popular belief, Cuban athletes are not constantly watched by security personnel. Each of Cubas' five defections went off without incident. Cuban authorities even allow such loyal athletes as high jumper Javier Sotomayor to travel the world freely...
Less than a month before competition begins, 1992 high-jump gold medalist Javier Sotomayor of Cuba, the only man to clear 8 ft., has yet to find his form. At a recent meet in Havana, he failed to make 7 ft. 1 in. on his first jump and passed on his next two. The 6-ft. 6-in. Sotomayor has been slow to recover from an inflamed left knee. He predicted that it will take a leap of at least 7 ft. 9 in. to win in Atlanta. "I'm not going for the record," he said. "I only intend...