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Widener Library security staff discovered a forgotten vault of photographs and historical items on Thursday while preparing the building for renovations...
...Australians and their guests watched as American Michael Johnson embarrassed the field at 400 m, becoming the first man ever to win that event in back-to-back Olympics; as American Stacy Dragila bested a bevy of blonds to win the first-ever Olympic women's pole vault; as Romanian Gabriela Szabo held off Irishwoman Sonia O'Sullivan four times in the stretch to win a thrilling 5,000-m race by a quarter of a second; and as Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie nipped Kenyan Paul Tergat at the wire in an even more exciting...
...problem with so many Olympic sports--the 400-m run, the pole vault, skeet shooting--is that they lack narrative. This accusation cannot be leveled at synchronized swimming. Each routine has a theme, which swimmers take very seriously--even if their intentions aren't always clear. Below, a primer...
...Which would be last Monday night, maybe the greatest night in track history. I know what you're thinking, honey, but trust me, I'm not saying this because of all the blondes in the pole vault. By the time I started noticing, only one of them was left, Tatiana Grigorieva, the Australian ?migr?e from Russia. It was down to her against our Stacy Draglia. Tatiana was interesting: She's only been here for a year, only vaulting for three. Maybe she thought she was still a Russian, because she barely noticed that the crowd was going crazy...
...think you saw Svetlana mad during the team competition, nothing could have prepared anyone for the fury that came when she discovered that the vault had been mismanaged. Spouting and screaming, twitching and reddening, she took everyone to task for a conspiracy that she believed was intended solely to derail her gold medal hopes. When reporters tried to get her to sum up her feelings, she had two words for them: "Piss...