Word: heptathlon
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...highest honors in Swedish sports. The award panel singled out "the very un-Swedish way she has shown us that you really can have fun on the field of competition, even though there is so much at stake." But who wouldn't be having fun? The heptathlon - a grueling challenge covering seven sports over two days - may be the best overall measure of women's athleticism on the planet. And according to International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) rankings, Kluft is now the best. Born in V?xjö, she began competing at 15. After setting a new record score...
Well, when you board a sled, you join the crazy club. What we've got this time is a brakeman booted from her seat by her erstwhile best friend and replaced by a woman who in 1994 had her heptathlon career interrupted by a ban for drug use by the International Amateur Athletic Federation. The men nod knowingly. "We've been going through that for a long, long time," says Todd Hays, currently the world's best driver. Staying out of the headlines has enabled him to stay on mission, he says. "The more they can take the attention away...
...Freshman Sandra Venghaus placed fifth in the heptathlon, which was also won by Lindsay Taylor...
ATLANTA: Jackie Joyner-Kersee's bid for an unprecedented third straight heptathlon gold medal ground to a halt when she pulled out after one event Saturday with an injured right hamstring. Joyner-Kersee, who has been bothered by the hamstring injury for months, had the second-fastest time in the 100-meter hurdles. She appeared to re-injure the heavily bandaged hamstring as she jumped over the final hurdle. After a long rain delay between the hurdles and the high jump portion of the competition, Joyner-Kersee, limping badly, pulled out at the urging of her husband and coach Bobby...
FIELD EVENTS, DECATHLON AND HEPTATHLON More old-timers. In the pole vault, Ukrainian Sergei Bubka, 32, has ranked No. 1 for 11 of the past 13 years, and should be able to beat back a challenge from youngster Okkert Brits of South Africa, 23, and Russia's 1992 Olympic champion Maksim Tarasov, 25. Cuban high jumper Javier Sotomayor, 28, the only man ever to clear 8 ft., is a solid favorite if his knee holds up; British triple jumper Jonathan Edwards, 30, is the first man to hop, skip and jump 60 ft.; and Czech javelin thrower Jan Zelezny...