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...When sprinter Shingo Suetsugu races around the track wearing his high-tech spikes and aerodynamic suit, he has another less visible secret weapon: he practices ancient techniques used by samurai and ninja to move more swiftly through the streets of Edo-era Japan. Suetsugu, 24, credits a centuries-old practice called nanba for the bronze medal he won in the 200-m race at last year's track-and-field World Championships, which made him the first East Asian since 1900 to land a medal in an international sprint competition. In Athens, the goateed native of Japan's southern Kyushu...
...device consists of video cameras, sensors and other data-collecting gadgetry that are positioned on a track and wired to a workstation mounted trackside. St.-Hilaire uses it to record the speed, acceleration, starting power and strength of athletes such as Nicolas Macrozonaris, 23, Canada's top male sprinter, who has run a 10.03-sec. 100 m. Ranked No. 19 in the world in 2003, Macrozonaris will probably need to run under 10 sec. to make the 100-m Olympic final. But Sainsily believes his machine can help Macrozonaris get there. "If you train with the fastest runner...
...Best Runner will allow Macrozonaris to dissect each part of his race and compare it directly with the world's best by examining the device's computer-generated graphs and charts. Sprinter Hank Palmer, who trains with Macrozonaris, says, "It will help me improve by showing me exactly what speed I have to be at at what part. I'll be able to memorize the perfect...
...investment in sports, several other Iraqis will join Ali as unlikely Olympians this summer. For the first time since 1988, Iraq's soccer team has qualified for the Olympics. Iraqi women's sports--destroyed under Uday's rule because athletes feared he would rape them--are recovering. A female sprinter, Al'aa Hikmet, will make the trip to Athens. Some 30 Iraqis will march in the Aug. 13 opening ceremonies. During the 2000 Games in Sydney, four Iraqis competed. "We still don't have nearly enough resources," says new Olympic chairman Ahmed al-Samarrai, an exbasketball player who defected...
...This is the reason I didn't win. I've got y'all on my back." TIM MONTGOMERY, the world's fastest sprinter, blaming heavy media coverage of a charge that he used illegal steroids for his failure to qualify for the U.S. track team at the Athens Olympics