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...variety of sports have also been damaged by recent drug scandals involving professional and amateur athletes, culminating in sprinter Ben Johnson's disqualification from the Seoul Olympics because of possible drug...

Author: By Steven J.S. Glick, | Title: Swimming Through the Sleaze | 2/7/1989 | See Source »

...most exposure women get in any single issue of magazines such as Sports Illustrated. The imbalance suggests that women are most newsworthy when they are passive sex symbols. This is a warped idea in an age when the United States' brightest Olympic star was not a man, but sprinter Florence Griffith-Joyner...

Author: By Steven J.S. Glick, | Title: Swimming Through the Sleaze | 2/7/1989 | See Source »

...Junior sprinter Meredith Rainey had a stellar performance running the first leg of the victorious 4-by-220 yard relay, placing second in the 200-meter dash in 25.05 and qualifying for nationals in the 400-meter dash with a time of 54.2 seconds...

Author: By Angela M. Payne, | Title: Harriers Take Greater Boston | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

...learn that the ideal man looks something like Mr. Universe. "Watch Saturday-morning television, and you'll see all these huge, abnormally muscled beings on cartoons and kids' programming," notes Chicago osteopath Bob Goldman. "Conan and Rambo are the heroes." So are sports stars, some of whom -- like Olympic sprinter Ben Johnson and Seattle Seahawk linebacker Brian Bosworth -- are known to have taken the steroid shortcut. Scrawny youngsters, some only 13, eagerly pay between $50 and $400 to black-market dealers for a six-to-13-week cycle of pills and injectables that could turn them into Hulk Hogans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: Shortcut to The Rambo Look | 1/30/1989 | See Source »

...Yale really isn't that much of a rival for us" freshman sprinter Ruthie Tanenbaum said. "Princeton is probably our biggest rival. They're a lot tougher...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Aquawomen Cruise Past Yale | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

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