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...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...
...training was difficult but rewarding,” said freshman sprinter Anne Hillier. “It was sometimes difficult to run in the Texas heat...
...latecomer to the race, and Democratic elders, already reeling from L.B.J.'s waning popularity and from Eugene McCarthy's antiwar campaign, had urged him not to run. But Robert F. Kennedy proved a formidable sprinter. For 80 days he campaigned relentlessly, and by the day of the California primary, a must-win for Kennedy to seriously challenge Hubert Humphrey, his body was cracking. The night before, he had been too weary to finish a speech in San Diego, and by the time he reached Los Angeles, he appeared to be running on fumes...
...suggests that however wide the field, the fight for the nomination could be all but over only weeks after the Iowa caucuses. "It won't be the distance runner who wins," says former Clinton White House chief of staff John Podesta, a Daschle strategist. "This time it's the sprinter." At this rate, they will all be exhausted before the starting...