Word: taylorism
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Unlike some of America’s more well-known track athletes, Brenda Taylor ’01 has actually gotten more attention for what she has said about performance-enhancing drugs off the track than what she has actually done with them...
...meter hurdler and former co-captain of the Harvard women’s track and field team, Taylor said that, at the 2003 U.S. championships, she thought she was the only person not to have taken the banned substance modafinil, even though it was offered to her. Taylor’s former coach, Remi Korchemny, is also one of the figures featured prominently in the Bay Area Laboratory Cooperative (BALCO) scandal which has ensnared high-profile athletes from several major sports...
...seem unlikely that Taylor was going to continue to pursue an Olympic career, especially after she was offered a high-level position with The Gap following her completion of the executive training program. Instead, she decided to move to Chula Vista, Calif., to train at the Olympic Training Center, in the hopes of making the Olympic team...
Thanks to the training, Taylor posted a second-place finish at the U.S. Olympic trials—where she ran a personal best 53.36—and suddenly she was on the road to Greece. Sheena Johnson, who recently graduated from UCLA, came in first with 52.95, and South Carolina senior Lashinda Demus finished third...
...threesome ran the event faster than anyone else has in 2004, and Taylor currently sits with the sixth fastest time overall. Johnson is on top with her mark, but has never run at the international level. Australia’s Jana Pittman is the reigning world champ, and has the second fastest time with 53.22, but has recently had to recover from arthroscopic surgery on her knee...