Word: puttered
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...left Sydney with three gold medals (for the 100-m sprint, the 200 m and the 4 x 400-m relay), two bronzes (for the long jump and the 4 x 100-m relay) and a massive headache, having faced a storm of questions about her husband, injured shot-putter C.J. Hunter, whose positive tests for steroid use were revealed during the Games. Of Jones' ups and downs, the one to remember was the first. In the 100 m she blazed to a time of 10.75 secs. and the largest margin of victory in that race since the 1952 Games...
...must exceed her sprint: Jones won three golds and two bronzes. Unfortunately, that was not the only weight she would have to wear around her neck in Sydney. After she won her first gold, devastating the field in the women's 100 m, came news that her husband, shot putter C. J. Hunter, had tested positive for performance-enhancing substances. Jones questioned the timing of the revelation, which did not implicate her, but didn't blame it for her shortfalls. "Something just wasn't there on those days," she said. But what was was awesome...
...knew if Marion Jones would win five, if the U.S. would rule the pool, if the sun would shine at Bondi. But heading into Sydney, everyone knew drugs would have a big impact on the Games. Did they ever. The news that C.J. Hunter--a sidelined shot putter who is much better known as Jones' husband--had recently tested positive for steroids, became an overshadowing story. Hunter, a 320-pounder who usually avoids the media like a diet, summoned the press to assert, tears flowing, that he would never do anything to hurt his wife. But if he took nandrolone...
...door to his balcony each day around 9 a.m., stepped outside, looked at the glittering sea and took a deep breath of salt air. Another fine morning in Sydney. Marion Jones awoke in her suburban apartment and said good morning to her husband, the very large, very injured shot-putter C.J. Hunter. Meanwhile, at the Olympic Village in Homebush, 10,000 young athletes were being shuttled to competitions. They were busily proving that Korean women sure can shoot arrows, that Ping-Pong isn't just kid stuff, that while Americans and Australians still rule swimming, the Dutch and Italians...
Your report on drugs and Olympic athletes cited nations with cheaters, including Canada, East Germany, Ireland and the Netherlands [SUMMER OLYMPICS, Sept. 11]. Although you mentioned American shot putter Randy Barnes, who tested positive for steroids, why wasn't there more of a discussion of cheating by U.S. athletes, who hail from a veritable mecca of sports drugs? Any competent sports-medicine authority will affirm that the top echelon of world-class athletes includes those who use chemical assistance, and Americans are no exception. SEAN BOYLE Geilenkirchen-Gillrath, Germany...