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Less than two weeks before his scheduled participation in this February's Calgary Olympics as a member of the U.S. bobsled team, a Harvard senior learned that he had been replaced by world-class sprinter and Chicago Bears wide receiver, Willie Gault...
BEST TRACK RECORDS Racing toward the 1988 Olympics, Canadian Sprinter Ben Johnson and American Heptathlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee dazzled at the Rome world track-and-field championships by winning their events. After 122 consecutive victories, U.S. Superstar Edwin Moses lost in the 400-meter hurdles...
Also starting their swimming careers at Harvard are Greg Tull, Paul Watson and Dan Hume. Tull is a sprinter who could challenge Kaplan's dominace, while Watson could emerge as the team's best backstroker. Hume gives the team greater depth in the butterfly events...
...young talent will also lead the squad in the running events. Sophomore Gregory Agran, the top returning sprinter, and a host of freshmen will cover the sprints for the Harvard team...
...Washington Post has detected a feeling in Canada that Sprinter Ben Johnson's recent world-record triumph over Carl Lewis in the 100-meter dash ran deeper than a foot race. Some Canadians see national reflections in the downtrodden stammerer Johnson and the American peacock he dusted at the World Games in Rome. "Lewis was pretty and polished in his U.S. national colors," reported the Toronto Globe and Mail. "Johnson was plainly attired in his baggy suit." Anyway, the World's Fastest Human is now a Jamaican Canadian...