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Since setting that mark, no other female sprinter has come closer than 10.60. And at the Seoul Olympics, where she won three gold medals, she ran the 200 meter dash in 21.34 seconds, setting another seemingly unbreakable record. Only one other woman (Marion Jones at 21.62) has ever run 200 meters in less than 21.70 seconds...
...reads the sports pages could have been terribly surprised. Performance-boosting drugs, once considered the specialty of shady East-bloc coaches, are becoming as common as Gatorade. Even as the Tour de France was sputtering along last week, two U.S. athletes, Olympic gold-medal shotputter Randy Barnes and sprinter Dennis Mitchell, were suspended by the International Amateur Athletic Federation on suspicion of "doping...
...women, Harvard's dominance in the longer events and in the field countered a Yale sweep in the 100-meter dash, caused by the absence of Harvard's top sprinter junior Heather Hanson...
...Linford Christie Has anybody checked to see if Christie has actually left Olympic Stadium yet? The British sprinter refused to leave the track after being disqualified for two false starts in the 100-m finals in Atlanta. Christie had to be physically removed from the premises before the runners could line up for another start. After Donovan Bailey of Canada won in the world-record time of 9.84 sec., Christie was back on the track, taking his own, delusional victory lap. Then he went after fellow sprinter Ato Boldon, who had called Christie's act "unprofessional." Two false starts revealed...
Harvard will mount its strongest challenges in the freestyle events. Sophomore sprinter Alex Kurmatov, junior Eric Matuszak--the defending Eastern champion in the 100 and 200 free--and junior Brian Younger, defending champion in the 1000 and 1650 free, lead the attack...