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...night for reviving old rivalries and burying past failures. The Sydney Games' first session of track cycling was tipped as a tussle for gold between France and Australia: Arnaud Tournant and Shane Kelly in the men's 1-km time trial; Felicia Ballanger and Michelle Ferris in the women's 500-meter time trial. For Kelly the crowd wanted more than Olympic glory; after his tragically brief showing at Atlanta, where his foot slipped from the pedal, they wanted to cheer him to gold. After being placed on the track with his shoes already attached to the pedals, Kelly started...
...night's big upset was the absence of Tournant from that podium. Tournant had broken Kelly's world record in June with a time of 1:00.148, but on Sept. 16 was almost 3 seconds slower. The silver went to German Stefan Nimke and the gold to Britain's Jason Queally, who set an Olympic record (1:01.609). Queally admitted he had thought himself an outside chance for third: "If I can win a gold medal, I think there's hope for many, many others...
Wake Forest's Tournant defeated DeLone in three sets in second singles to provide the final margin of victory...
...Dragomirescu and Jennifer Minkus bounced back, pouncing on Tournant and Pamintuan en route to a 7-5 second set edge to knot the match at one set apiece...
...miscues ultimately prevailed. After battling back from six match points to tie the third set at 5-5, double faults ended the Crimson's chances. Tournant and Pamintuan prevailed, 7-5. "There are still some details left--serves to be worked out, double faults under pressure," Dragomirescu said. "We know we're almost there...