Word: sprinters
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...healthy Jonah Lomu, who - as the most devastating ball-runner the game had seen - ignited the '95 Cup in South Africa and put rugby in a spotlight that hasn't dimmed. Since the game's birth in 1823, countless players have combined imposing size and strength with a sprinter's speed, but none in the prodigious quantities that Lomu, age 19 in 1995, brought to bear. Lomu's apogee occurred in the semifinal against England. It's been suggested that as he was performing the pregame Maori war-dance, the haka, his opposite that day, Rory Underwood - in a moment...
Dubbed the Clown Prince of track and field, U.S. sprinter JON DRUMMOND threw a world-class tantrum in Paris last Sunday. He lay in his lane, refusing to budge, after he was disqualified from the 100-meter world-championship quarter-finals for a false start. Some hope officials will revisit their reliance on gate sensors. "If you so much as pass gas, you get a false start," says runner Kim Collins...
...very clearly for financial reasons - this is what we call morally weird," I.A.A.F. general secretary Istvan Gyulai tells TIME. He says there have been around 60 requests for "transfer of allegiance" in the last two years alone. Even some transnationals think enough is enough. Says the formerly Jamaican sprinter Merlene Ottey, who fell out with the Jamaican track federation and ran her first World Championships race for Slovenia in Paris: "If athletes are doing it just for the money, I think they should tighten the rules." The I.A.A.F. promptly ordered a study to examine and perhaps stiffen relevant rules. Athletes...
...open. American Marion Jones usually dominates the women's race, but she's out because she's just had a baby. Look for Chandra Sturrup of the Bahamas and Zhanna Block of Ukraine to step up in Jones' absence. Paris will be the last World Championship for Jamaican-born sprinter Merlene Ottey, 43, who now runs for Slovenia. Over her 25 years in international competition, the elegant track queen has racked up 28 World and Olympic medals, more than any other woman. But even she has her eye on next year: though a medal in Paris would be great...
Thus armed, CSTV has secured an additional $90 million, including investments from Constellation Ventures, (a Bear Stearns fund), football legend Joe Namath and Athlon Ventures, a fund whose participants include NBA star Kevin Garnett and Olympic sprinter Michael Johnson. Coca-Cola is in for $10 million, plus a $5 million marketing partnership. For programming, among other deals, CSTV has bought national rights to all sports other than basketball and football from Notre Dame, which has millions of fans. DirecTV, the satellite operator recently acquired (from GM's Hughes Electronics) by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., has agreed to place CSTV...