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...Ironman is traditionally selected by means of a team vote. Usually, the honors have gone to a member of the distance or individual medley training group, whose swimmers are usually thought to have more endurance. This year, however, the team chose a sprint backstroker...
Marion Jones left Sydney with three gold medals (for the 100-m sprint, the 200 m and the 4 x 400-m relay), two bronzes (for the long jump and the 4 x 100-m relay) and a massive headache, having faced a storm of questions about her husband, injured shot-putter C.J. Hunter, whose positive tests for steroid use were revealed during the Games. Of Jones' ups and downs, the one to remember was the first. In the 100 m she blazed to a time of 10.75 secs. and the largest margin of victory in that race since...
...important. Watching Charles and Diana's wedding on TV, she asked her mother why no one ever rolled out red carpets for her. So naturally, before her first Olympics, she knew she'd win five track-and-field gold medals. Even a phenomenon's reach must exceed her sprint: Jones won three golds and two bronzes. Unfortunately, that was not the only weight she would have to wear around her neck in Sydney. After she won her first gold, devastating the field in the women's 100 m, came news that her husband, shot putter C. J. Hunter, had tested...
...MARION JONES She didn't win the five golds she sought, but three and a couple of bronzes aren't bad. In the 100-m sprint, she won by the largest margin since 1952. She bore up gracefully under great stress before and during the Games...
...obligatory Monday hearings, they might have missed at least one opportunity for efficiency in a process that needs every minute it can get. Couldn't it have authorized the sorting to continue, so that canvassing boards could have their piles in a row and ready for a Monday-evening sprint to beat the 12th...