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Denson is a sprinter who had never run the relay before, but he anchored the team in 50.4 seconds...
...were in by making them run four miles and swim two on the first day of practice. "I practically sprinted the whole first four miles and left everybody in the dust," he recalls. "Assistant Coach Peter Lansbury yelled, 'Wow, did you see Yifter run?' in reference to the Ethiopian sprinter Miruts Yifter who won the 5000 and 10,000 meters in the Olympics that summer. He is a small, dark-complexioned guy, too. to this day half the people I know introduce me as Yifter...
Senior freestyle sprinter Mike Miao has already received an invitation to join the Taiwanese Olympic team to swim the 100 meters, but he won't rule out the chance that he'll make the United States team, to be chosen at the Olympic trials in June. The Taiwanese government recognizes Chinese from both Chinas and anywhere else in the world as citizens of Taiwan, and both the U.S. State Department and the International Olympic Committee have okayed Miao's participation as either an American or a Taiwanese citizen...
...gravity by continuing to run almost straight off into the air, pedaling furiously for balance, not unlike Wile E. Coyote going off a cliff in a Road Runner cartoon. "It's my best attribute," he says. "In basketball I could hang up there and triple pump." As a sprinter, he also has uncanny staying power. "Everybody," he says, "decelerates from about 60 meters to the finish line-everybody." But Lewis, relaxed and controlled, decelerates least and inexorably pulls ahead...
...aquamen never threatened their own team scoring record of 662 points, set last year at West Point. Their effort was severely hampered by the absence of senior Captain Ted Chappell and junior sprinter Mike Miao, both sidelined with injuries...