Word: sec
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...track meet, Jones and Greene cruised through their heats, not noticeably breaking a sweat. Jones ran 10.83 sec. on a cool Friday evening, thrilling 110,000 fans. "I decided to put one out there tonight," she said afterward. Sending a message? "Ohhh, I don't know." In Saturday's semifinals, two more warning shots: Jones and Greene each qualified fastest...
...seven meters clear. Greene, by contrast, came out of the drive phase with a fight on his hands. But the focus of this big-meet runner was never sharper, and he accelerated after 40 meters like the Ferrari he had been driving around Coogee, crossing the line in 9.87 sec. "He just destroyed us," said Boldon, who hung tough for second...
...Marion Jones and Maurice Greene - two very different people had taken two very different routes to arrive within .88 sec. of each other at the same destination: fastest in the world. And then something happened that showed they were true kin under the skin. As Jones, overwhelmed, broke down sobbing under the stands, Greene was in the stadium behaving in an extraordinary manner - not swaggering, but crying too. "Tears of joy," both runners called them later...
...Before the Games, Gary Hall Jr. said the Americans would smash the locals "like guitars." A world-record start by Klim (48.18 sec.) set up the Australian victory, but Thorpe sealed it. "I was hoping [Thorpe] would find something. I knew he was the fitter guy of the two and he just paced perfectly," said Klim. Hall got the U.S. ahead at the final turn, but Thorpe kept his head cool and his stroke smooth to bring home the race in a new world-record time of 3:13.67. "The last 50 m were rather painful," said Hall. "This...
...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 13.08 sec...