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...Olympic Creed - "the essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well" - to the brink of collapse. It was tempting to believe that Ben Johnson and Linford Christie were villains of a darker past. But great athletes keep turning out to be cheats. American sprinter Kelli White, the reigning 100-m and 200-m world champion, was suspended in May for two years after admitting to using banned drugs since 2000. White was a training partner of Dwain Chambers, a British sprinter of interest to Australians. In the lead-up to the Sydney Games, in an interview...
...Olympic Creed - "the essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well" - to the brink of collapse. It was tempting to believe that Ben Johnson and Linford Christie were villains of a darker past. But great athletes keep turning out to be cheats. American sprinter Kelli White, the reigning 100-m and 200-m world champion, was suspended in May for two years after admitting to using banned drugs since 2000. White was a training partner of Dwain Chambers, a British sprinter of interest to Australians. In the lead-up to the Sydney Games, in an interview...
MAURICE GREENE AGE 30 HOMETOWN Kansas City, Kans. EVENTS 100-m dash, 4 x 100-m relay THE DRAMA A motorcycle accident has slowed this brash sprinter since he won gold in 2000, but like Muhammad Ali, Greene claims to be "the greatest." He was superb at the U.S. trials. THE COMPETITION Teammates Shawn Crawford and Justin Gatlin and Jamaican Asafa Powell should make the 100 a (quick) race...
...average age of 26.9, this team is the youngest since 1992; this summer could see the sport's future make its debut. "Our youth is a good way to get the focus away from the not so nice things that are happening in track and field," says 100-m sprinter Lauryn Williams, 20, who just finished her junior year at the University of Miami. "And we're not just happy to be on the team. We all have a shot at medals...
...instinct for knowing when to scare or seduce her adversaries, she somehow persuaded the government, which oversees all public works and Olympic construction in Greece, to begin a desperate game of catch-up on 138 Olympics-related infrastructure projects. "It was like running the marathon," she recalls, "at a sprinter's pace...