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Harvard struck first against the Minutemen when sophomore Alex Fisher dumped a pass in to two-meter defenseman Sean Cheng to begin the scoring. The defense-dominated first few minutes boded well for the Crimson, as UMass had opened up with big first quarters in the teams' two previous meetings...
...Their approaches to last Saturday night's 100-meter races were similar only in this insularity. Jones went inland, low-keying everything. She holed up with her handlers and family in a just-built apartment complex in the working-class suburb of Bankstown. Two-by-fours still littered the yard; a Dumpster out front hadn't yet been carted away. Hunter, a taciturn 320-pounder who likes the kitchen a lot, did most of the cooking. (He had the time, as knee surgery had forced him to withdraw from the shot-put competition.) After breakfast, Jones reported to a nearby...
...closest thing to a certainty in these Olympics: when Ekundayo Williams crosses the finish line in her 100-meter heat Friday, she'll be five meters behind the winner. If the winner happens to be one of the event's speed queens, Marion Jones or Inger Miller, the gap could be as much as 10 meters. Williams' personal best time is 11.91 seconds, slower than every 100-meter champion in Olympic history save Betty Robinson, who won gold in Amsterdam in 1928 in just her fourth track meet...
...home in the capital, Freetown, burned down - then stops, eyes pleading for a new subject. Her coach, Francis Edwin, confides later that Williams' dearest friend was also killed. Still grieving and unfit, she arrived in Spain early last year for the world championships, and in her 100-meter heat (won by Inger Miller) finished last, in an embarrassing...
...style or technique," she explains. Edwin made her lift weights for the first time. And swim. She started to work muscles she didn't know she had. She wasn't fit, at least not in a way elite athletes understand the term. Edwin had her pounding out 300-meter sprints with cruelly short rests in between. In self-defense, her body began to grow. A high-protein, high-carbohydrate diet combined with hard training stacked 11 kg of muscle onto a body that had weighed just 45 kg. "Now I am like a sprinter," she says proudly...