Word: sprinters
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This became the tenor of the track meet. Sprinter Carl Lewis, the quadruple gold medal man of 1984, said, "The Russians just cheat." Reminded that it was a Jamaican from Canada (Ben Johnson) who dusted him in the 100 -- for the second time this year, incidentally -- Lewis reasoned, "They'll try to help anyone beat us." When a confusion of 1,500-meter heats turned Steve Scott's silver to bronze, he grumped, "It's an asinine way to do things, but that's the Soviet Union." For welcome counterbalance, Regal Hurdler Edwin Moses extended his nine-year winning streak...
They are armful enough to keep their moms running, even if the moms were not already so inclined. Raina Ashley Washington, 13 months, is the daughter of Olympic Gold Medalist Sprinter Evelyn Ashford and her husband, Basketball Coach Ray Washington. Ashley Lynn Slaney, one month, belongs to Olympic Middle Distance Runner Mary Decker Slaney and her discus-thrower husband Richard. The tiny two were born on the same day, May 30, and when the two mothers and daughters got together in Eugene, Ore., where Slaney lives, she found the babies even shared the same name. "Both are very strong babies...
...despite separate workouts and training philosophies, the sprinting and distance corps of this year's Harvard women's track team have merged, thanks to the efforts of the squad's senior co-captains, sprinter Mariquita. Patterson and distance runner Amy Simon...
...event [the captains] compete in. We can talk to either of them," says freshman sprinter Deli Favemi. "They're both really warm...
Both captains began running in junior high, but took it up seriously in high school. Perkins started his track career as a sprinter, then moved to middle-distance events when the entered Princeton (N.J.) High School...