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...Barcelona Olympics. He felt he needed to psychically bridge the gap between the 400 and the 200. Even coach Hart, a folksy Texan who prefers to sit at the halfway mark of a race so he can time Michael's split, goes along with the transition, filling the sprinter's head with tough and fast imagery in the days between the two races. Agent Hunt and Johnson had hoped to promote their Danger Zone line of merchandise last week, but once the bomb exploded, they wisely decided to back off. Product line or not, Johnson was clearly in the zone...
...bitterness of rejection, and the struggle to overcome a crippling affliction, forged a champion. "She decided to go faster and faster," her mother recalled last week. So fast that Van Dyken, now a 6-ft. 150-lb. sprinter, rocketed her way to four gold medals, an unprecedented haul for any American woman swimmer in a single Olympics. The 23-year-old Coloradan, daughter of a software-company president, anchored two relay victories, in the 4x100-m freestyle and the 4x100-m medley, and captured two individual golds, in the 100-m butterfly and the 50-m freestyle--a win that...
...coffin and said, "I want you to have this because it was your favorite event." Seeing his mother's surprise, Lewis said, "Don't worry, I'll get another one." He did, but only as a consequence of the greatest scandal in Olympic history: the 1988 100 m. Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson, whose motto was "When the gun goes off, the race is over," flashed across the finish line in Seoul in a world-record time of 9.79 sec. Unfortunately, when his urine test came in, it was all over for Johnson. Lewis, the second-place finisher, was awarded...
...Sprinter Frankie Fredericks of Namibia will be making a strong run for the title of "World's Fastest Human" at the Olympics. Last week in Helsinki he ran the third-fastest 100 m ever, in 9.87 sec., finishing ahead of world champion Donovan Bailey of Canada. Fredericks is also a contender in the 200, an event dominated by Michael Johnson. A few days earlier, Johnson won the 200 at the U.S. Olympic trials in 19.66 sec., breaking the 17-year-old world record...
...springboard and a bronze in the 100-m backstroke. (She still has medal certificates signed personally by Baron Pierre de Coubertin.) Those were the Games later dramatized in Chariots of Fire, a movie to which Aileen takes great exception. "They did a grave injustice to Charley Paddock, the sprinter who became a dear friend. They portrayed him as a skinny fellow of few words. Why, he was powerfully built, and he could talk the ears off the Prince of Wales...