Word: sprinters
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...they're mindful of the old bear joke: Two guys are backpacking and notice a bear approaching. One guy drops his backpack and starts running, while his buddy stays put, frozen in fear. "You can't outrun a bear," shouts the guy standing still. "I know," replies the sprinter. "I just have to outrun you." --With reporting by Matt Baron/Evanston, Deborah Edler Brown/Long Beach and Sarah Sturmon Dale/Minneapolis
DIED. BOB HAYES, 59, Olympic gold-medal sprinter and Dallas Cowboys receiver; of complications from prostate cancer; in Jacksonville, Fla. Hayes tied the world record in the 100 meters in 1964 and later took his speed to the NFL. He finished his career with 71touchdowns--and a Super Bowl ring...
...DIED. "BULLET" BOB HAYES, 59, legendary sprinter who won two gold medals at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics before hanging up his track cleats to start a second career as a wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys; in Jacksonville, Florida. A sprint coach later recalled that Hayes "ran like he was pounding grapes into wine...
...space of a few days the World Cup in athletics got off the blocks in Madrid, the World Equestrian Games went to the starting gate in Jerez and the World Rowing Championships were launched in Seville. At the athletics track the crowd had hoped to see U.S. sprinter Tim Montgomery, fresh from setting a new 100-m world record at the season's last Grand Prix event in Paris. Montgomery had clipped .01 seconds off Maurice Greene's three-year-old record of 9.79, but so drained was he by the record-breaking effort that the World...
...Sprinter Fraser dominated the competition again on the second night of Ivies with a victory in the 100-yard butterfly. She touched the wall in 55:49, a personal best and a new school record...