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THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 2004
ATHENS 2004
MARK J. TERRILL/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps will try to break Mark Spitz’s record of seven gold medals in one Olympics. Phelps is expected to swim in five individual events and possibly all three relays.
EVENTS
AQUATICS
BADMINTON
CANOEING/KAYAKING
FENCING
SWIMMING
When: Aug. 14-21
Outlook: All eyes will be on
American Michael Phelps and
Ian Thorpe of Australia. Natalie
Coughlin and Amanda Beard
lead the American women,
while 10-time medalist Jenny
Thompson is back for her fourth — and final
— Olympics.
When: Aug. 14-21.
Outlook: In a sport dominated
by athletes from Asia, Denmark
and the Netherlands also have
some medal hopes. China has
three of the world’s top five
men (as of late June), the top
three women in the singles
competition and the two top-ranked women’s
doubles pairs.
When: Aug. 17-20 (slalom)
and Aug. 23-28 (sprint)
Outlook: Manmade Helliniko
venue pumps in water from
the nearby Mediterranean
Sea, making it the first
Olympic whitewater course to
use saltwater. That makes the
boats more buoyant and causes more eye irritation from splashing.
When: Aug. 14-22
Outlook: Italy’s Valentina Vezzali has three golds and one
silver in individual and team
women’s foil in the past two
Olympics. The Americans, who
have not won a medal in fencing since 1984, have their
best chance in women’s saber, where sisters
Sada and Emily Jacobson and Mariel Zagunis
are ranked in the top 10.
SYNCHRONIZED SWIMMING
When: Aug. 23-27
Outlook: Russia swept both events in Sydney,
while Americans didn’t win any medals.
BASEBALL
CYCLING
GYMNASTICS
When: Aug. 14-15, 18 (road);
Aug. 20-25 (track); Aug. 27-28
(mountain bike)
Outlook: Mountain — the
Netherlands’ Bart Brentjens
and Norway’s Gunn-Rita Dahle
will be heavily favored to win
individual medals. Road —
American men’s side will be without Lance
Armstrong, who declined an invitation. Track
— France, Britain and Australia each won five
medals at this year’s world championships.
When: Aug. 14-19, 23-24
Outlook: U.S. women won
gold at world championships
last year, and men won silver.
Both are expected to be in the
medal hunt again. China,
Japan, Russia and Romania
have strong men’s and
women’s teams. Women’s all-around should
be the highlight of the individual competitions. Russian Svetlana Khorkina will be one
to watch, her final major competition.
DIVING
When: Aug. 14, 16, 20-28
Outlook: The Chinese are the sport’s dominant country, winning a record five gold medals
in Sydney. The only non-Chinese winner was
American Laura Wilkinson, who pulled off a
stunning upset in platform and is back to
defend her title. The top U.S. male is Troy
Dumais, who will compete in springboard and
team up with brother Justin in synchronized.
WATER POLO
When: Men’s Aug. 15-29;
women’s Aug. 16-26
Outlook: Wolf Wigo, returning for a third
Olympics, will captain the U.S. men’s team.
Australia won the first women’s gold medal in
Sydney, edging the United States 4-3 in the
final. The Americans won the world championships in 2003 and have seven returning
Olympians.
ARCHERY
When: Aug. 15-21
Outlook: Archery competition
will be at stadium where the
first modern Olympic Games
were held in 1896. South
Korea won men’s and women’s
team competitions in 2000,
and swept the podium in
women’s individual.
When: Aug. 15-25.
Outlook: Professionals were
first allowed to participate in
the 2000 Sydney Games,
which the United States won,
but major league baseball does
not allow players on 40-man
major league rosters to participate, causing the IOC to periodically say it will
review baseball’s status as an Olympic sport.
The U.S. team was eliminated by Mexico.
BASKETBALL
MEN’S
When: Aug. 15-28
Outlook: The United States is a
perennial favorite, but the
defending world champion is
Serbia-Montenegro.
WOMEN’S
When: Aug. 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24-25, 27-28
Outlook: The United States is 34-3 in Olympic
competition with 17 straight victories.
BOXING
HANDBALL
EQUESTRIAN
When: Aug. 15-18, 20-25, 27
Outlook: The three disciplines
— dressage, jumping, eventing
— are unique in that men and
women compete on the same
terms and both horse and rider win medals. American Debbie McDonald, with horse
Brentina, is the 2003 World Cup dressage
champ. The U.S. three-day team, with Kim
Severson on Winsome Adante, is favored.
When: Aug. 14-24, 26-29
Outlook: After sweeping all
medals in Sydney, European
teams should again dominate.
Russia, the reigning men’s
Olympic champion, is grouped
with Spain (2000 bronze
medalist) and Croatia (2003
world champion). On the women’s side, 2003
world champion France is grouped with 2000
gold medalist Denmark.
JUDO
When: Aug. 14-25, 27-29
Outlook: Cuba has dominated
Olympic boxing in recent years
and will bring another strong
team that includes defending
119-pound gold medalist
Guillermo Rigondeaux. Cuba is
in danger, however, of losing
the medal race to Russia. Middleweight Andre
Dirrell is perhaps the most talented of the
Americans.
FIELD HOCKEY
When: Aug. 14-20
Outlook: Introduced as an
Olympic sport in 1964; no
country has dominated, but the
Japanese always are strong.
This year will be no exception
with six-time world champion
Ryoko Tani returning to defend
her gold medal in the 48 kg weight class. Jimmy Pedro, whose bronze in 1996 was the last
American medal, qualified in 73 kg; he retired
in 2000 but returned in 2003.
When: Aug. 14-27
Outlook: Germany is a power
in men’s Pool A along with
three-time gold medalist Pakistan. On the women’s side,
Australia won gold at last two
Olympics. The United States
didn’t qualify.
EYES ON NEW MEXICO
SHELIA BURRELL
ELVA DRYER
TRACK & FIELD - U.S.A.
TRACK & FIELD - U.S.A.
EVENT: Heptathlon
COMPETITION DATES: Aug.
20-21
AGE: 32
HEIGHT, WEIGHT: 5-8, 145
BIRTHPLACE: Albuquerque
RESIDENCE: Manhattan,
Kan./Chula Vista, Calif.
COLLEGE: UCLA (’95)
RESUME: Bronze medalist in
2001 World Championships;
national champion in ’99 and
’03; won prestigious multievents meet in Gotzis, Austria,
in ’02; ran second leg on
HEIGHT, WEIGHT: 5-5, 115
four miles with a time of 19:40.
Personal bests of 4:10.02
(5,000), 8:46:09 (3,000),
15:03.56 (5,000), 31:26.88
(10,000).
BIRTHPLACE: Durango, Colo.
PAST OLYMPICS: 2000 (fin-
RESIDENCE: Albuquerque
ished 11th in her 5,000 qualifying heat and didn’t advance to
the finals).
EVENT: 10,000-meter run
UCLA’s NCAA fourth-place 4-by400 relay team in ’95; won ’04
U.S. Olympic Trials. Personal
heptathlon best of 6,472.
COMPETITION DATE: Aug. 27
AGE: 32
PAST OLYMPICS: 2000. Fin-
ished 26th with a score of 5,345
after suffering a knee strain and
“no-heighting” in the high jump,
receiving no points in that event.
COLLEGE: Western (Colo.)
State (class of ’96)
RESUME: Won four NCAA Division II 3,000-meter titles, the
only runner to have done so;
women’s 5K road-racing national champion in 1997. In 2001,
set U.S. road-racing record for
DID YOU KNOW: Burrell was
all-state for Rio Grande in three
sports — volleyball, basketball
and track — and had college
scholarship offers for all three.
DID YOU KNOW: She’s not
the fastest runner in the family.
Her husband and coach, Russ,
was an All-American at Western
State and has run a sub-30minute 10K.
JACKIE LANCE
SANDY MARTINEZ-PINO
HEATHER MOODY
AUSTIN TROUT
SOFTBALL - CANADA
BOXING - U.S.A.
WATER POLO - U.S.A.
BOXING - U.S.A.
Albuquerque, softball, Canada: A star shortstop
(then Jackie Van Hooydonk) at the University of
New Mexico, Lance was named to the Canadian
national team in 1997 and played in the Sydney
Olympics four years ago. She was born in
Grande Prairie, Alberta. Lance, 30, is an Albuquerque firefighter when not playing softball.
Albuquerque, Team Leader, U.S. Olympic boxing
squad: Martinez, a longtime state and national
amateur boxing official, is an Olympic veteran.
She was a timekeeper at Los Angeles in 1984,
supervised the sport’s computerized scoring
system at Atlanta in ’96, and was a member of
the international federation’s executive committee at Sydney four years ago.
Manzano High School Class of ’91, water polo:
Moody, 30, an all-state swimmer at Manzano,
learned the game of water polo under coach
Reed Barnitz at Albuquerque’s Duke City Aquatics. Her family moved to Green River, Wyo.,
shortly after her graduation from MHS. The 6foot, 1-inch Moody is the captain of the 2004
U.S. water polo team.
Las Cruces, alternate and sparring partner, boxing: Trout, 18, barely missed a berth on the
U.S. Olympic boxing team in the trials process
earlier this year. Because of that near miss and
because of his versatility, USA Boxing took
Trout to Athens to serve as a sparring partner
for boxers in weight classes between 142 and
160 pounds.
ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL
THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 2004 B7
ATHENS 2004
RUSTY KENNEDY/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Gail Devers, left, at age 37, is returning to the Olympics for the fifth time. She is taking her last shot at the one gold that has eluded her — the hurdles.
EVENTS
MODERN PENTATHLON
SOCCER
TAEKWONDO
TRIATHLON
When: Aug. 26 (men), Aug. 27
(women)
Outlook: The five-sport discipline created by modern
Olympics founder Pierre de
Coubertin was introduced in
1912. Women competed for
the first time in 2000. Athletes compete in shooting, fencing, swimming, horseback riding and finish with a
cross-country run. Eastern European men
have won all individual medals the past three
Olympics.
When: Aug. 11-12, 14-15, 1718, 20-21, 23-24, 26-28
Outlook: None of the top four
men’s teams from 2000 qualified. Four-time world under-20
champion Argentina is left as
the favorite. 2003 World Cup
winner Germany and the United States are favorites in women’s event;
defending champion Norway failed to qualify.
When: Aug. 26-29
Outlook: American Steven
Lopez, who won gold in 68kg
in Sydney, will try for another
medal in the 80kg weight
class. Greece’s Michalis
Mouroutsos will try to defend
his 2000 gold medal in 58kg
on his home turf.
When: Aug. 25 (women),
Aug. 26 (men)
Outlook: After being shut out
in Sydney, U.S. team appears
poised to medal in 2004 —
Barb Lindquist and Sheila
Taormina were ranked No. 1
and No. 2 in the world. Australia’s Loretta Harrop, second to Taormina at
the world championships in May, should also
contend. In men’s race, New Zealand’s
Bevan Docherty will look to repeat first-place
finish at worlds. American Hunter Kemper
has risen to No. 5 in world rankings.
ROWING
When: Aug. 14-23
Outlook: U.S. team will again
be prohibitive favorite to win
third straight gold. Led by
three-time Olympian Lisa Fernandez, biggest challenge for
the Americans could come
from themselves. U.S. team
took a 110-game winning streak to Sydney
before losing three straight and nearly missing medal round. The Americans recovered to
win gold.
When: Aug. 14-22
Outlook: U.S. women’s eight
comes in having won its last
two world cup events. Great
Britain is defending Olympic
champion in men’s four and
eight. In women’s single
sculls, Ekaterina Karsten of
Belarus looks to repeat gold medal performance from Sydney. The United States failed
to qualify boats for men’s single sculls and
women’s double sculls.
SAILING
When: Aug. 14-26, 28
Outlook: American Paul
Cayard, one of the world’s
best sailors, will compete in
his first Olympics at age 45 in
the Star Class after beating
Mark Reynolds, the defending
gold medalist and a four-time
Olympian, at trials. The high-performance
49er, with retractable wings and the crew
hiked out in trapezes, made a splashy debut
at Sydney in 2000.
TENNIS
SOFTBALL
TABLE TENNIS
When: Aug. 14-23
Outlook: Chinese have dominated since sport was added
to Olympics in 1988 — they
won every available gold
medal in 1996 and 2000. Top
three men and top five women
in the world are all Chinese.
American Gao Jun, who won a women’s doubles silver medal in 1992 while competing for
China, represents the United States’ best
hope for its first medal.
When: Aug. 15-22
Outlook: Andy Roddick, Roger
Federer and Venus Williams
head a high-quality field, with
ATP and WTA ranking points
at stake. The hard courts are
the same as those used at
U.S. Open, which starts Aug.
30, so that favors Roddick and his 140-150
mph serves. The men play best-of-three-set
matches until the singles final.
TRACK & FIELD
When: Aug. 20-29
Outlook: Marion Jones was the darling of the
2000 Olympics after winning
five medals. This time around,
she qualified in just the long
jump at the U.S. trials.
Though the United States has
a young team, it will battle
Russia in the medal count.
Allen Johnson goes for another gold in the 110-meter hurdles. Felix Sanchez hasn’t lost in the 400
hurdles in two years.
IT’S GREEK TO ME: WOMEN’S WRESTLING
SHOOTING
Men wrestlers have been competing in the Olympics since
the ancient Athens games in
776 B.C. In 2001, the International Olympic Committee
approved the sport for
women.
Women will participate Aug.
22-23 in four weight divisions.
The U.S. picked Terry Steiner
to coach its first team. Steiner, who, as a 1993 NCAA
champ at Iowa, guided the
Americans to a win over Japan
in the 2003 World Cup.
The U.S. team includes future
Yale law student
Patricia Miranda, 2003 World
Cup champ Toccara Montgomery and Tela O’Donnell,
who attends CU-Colorado
Springs.
When: Aug. 14-22
Outlook: Nearly 400 men and
women will compete; one of
the few sports that has
appeared on the schedule of
every modern Summer
Olympics. Women’s shooting
disciplines were introduced in
1984. Matt Emmons will compete in air rifle,
prone rifle and three-position rifle. He’s the
first American to qualify in three disciplines
since 1960.
VOLLEYBALL
When: Women’s medal matches Aug. 28. Men’s medal
matches Aug. 29
Outlook: The U.S. women have
a good chance to capture first
gold. On the men’s side, Serbia-Montenegro is back to
defend gold from 2000.
BEACH VOLLEYBALL
When: Aug. 14-25
Outlook: American men have won the first two
gold medals. On the women’s side, Americans
Misty May and Kerri Walsh have dominated
the sport.
WEIGHTLIFTING
When: Aug. 14-16, 18-21,
23-25
Outlook: The big story might
again come from one of the
smallest competitors — twotime gold medalist Halil Mutlu
of Turkey is only 4-11 but can
lift more than 400 pounds.
Women’s weightlifting returns after debuting
in Sydney, and American Tara Cunningham
(105{ pounds, 48 kg) goes for a second
gold after surprise win in 2000.
WRESTLING
When: Aug. 22-29
Outlook: Can Rulon Gardner
do it again, without having to
beat Russian super wrestler
Alexander Karelin? Gardner
has had a series of mishaps
and calamities since pulling
off his “miracle on the mat”
upset of Karelin in Sydney, but now looks to
be healthy and a gold medal contender again.
Otherwise, U.S. freestyle and Greco-Roman
teams don’t look especially strong.
EYES ON NEW MEXICO
JOSH WEST
DANIEL SANTIAGO
ELIAS “LARRY” AYUSO
KENDRA HARVEY
ROWING - GREAT BRITAIN
BASKETBALL - PUERTO RICO
BASKETBALL - PUERTO RICO
ARCHERY - U.S. - ALTERNATE
EVENT: Men’s eights
COMPETITION DATES:
COMPETITION DATES:
COMPETITION DATES:
COMPETITION DATES:
Aug. 15-28
AGE: 28
Aug. 15-28
AGE: 27
Aug. 15-20
HEIGHT, WEIGHT: 7-1, 260
HEIGHT, WEIGHT: 6-2, 202
HEIGHT, WEIGHT: 5-5, 125
BIRTHPLACE: Lubbock, Texas
BIRTHPLACE: Aguas Buenas,
Puerto Rico
BIRTHPLACE: Las Vegas, Nev.
RESIDENCE: Puerto Rico
COLLEGE: New Mexico/
RESIDENCE: Roswell
St. Vincent (’98)
RESUME: NAIA Player of the Year for St. Vincent
(Latrobe, Pa.) in 1998; played for Italian A-Division
championship team (Varese Roosters) in ’99; has
played for Phoenix and Milwaukee in the NBA.
PAST OLYMPICS: 1996
DID YOU KNOW: Santiago’s Puerto Rican heritage comes from his late paternal grandfather,
former Albuquerque Dukes baseball player
Pedro “Jockey” Santiago, who stood 5 feet, 6
inches tall — 19 inches shorter than his grandson.
COLLEGE: New Mexico Junior College/
Southern California (’99)
RESUME: First-team all-state for Roswell High
School in 1995; made Pac-10 all-newcomer
team with Southern Cal in ’97; has played professionally in Italy, Greece, Turkey and in the
Continental Basketball Association.
PAST OLYMPICS: None
DID YOU KNOW: Ayuso came to Roswell as a
troubled New York City teenager via a Boys and
Girls Club program. In New Mexico, he became
a solid student and a three-sport athlete at
Roswell High.
Aug. 15-22
AGE: 27
HEIGHT, WEIGHT: 6-9{, 210
BIRTHPLACE: Santa Fe
RESIDENCE: Cambridge, England
COLLEGE: Yale (’98)
RESUME: Took up rowing as a freshman at
Yale, then was recruited to row for Cambridge
after moving to England to study on a Marshall
Scholarship. Has two silver medals and one
bronze in World Championships competition. Is
the tallest man to row in the famed Boat Race
between Oxford and Cambridge. Eligible to row for
Great Britain because his father, Geoffrey, was
born in England.
PAST OLYMPICS: None
DID YOU KNOW: West played soccer and
field hockey before he took up rowing but,
despite his height, never played basketball.
AGE: 16
RESIDENCE: Rio Rancho
HIGH SCHOOL: Home-schooled
RESUME: Has won 24 state and six national
titles as junior; holds eight of 10 records in the
girls cadet division; ranked 14th nationally, was
third in U.S. Junior World Trials, fourth in
Olympic Trials.
PAST OLYMPICS: None
DID YOU KNOW: A fan of mystery writer Patri-
cia Cornwell and of the “CSI” television series,
Harvey hopes for a career in forensic science.
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Helliniko Olympic
Complex
Agios Kosmas Olympic
Sailing Center
MAC.
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ITALY
GREECE
Detail
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0 100 km
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Olympic
Shooting
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Olympic
Equestrian
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SOURCES: Chartographica Hellenica; Athens Organizing Committee
AP
The Olympic Games cycling competition won’t be
the Tour de Lance. Armstrong, who
recently won his sixth consecutive
Tour de France, is a three-time
Olympic cyclist and won a time-trial
bronze medal four years ago. He
decided against competing in
Athens, citing a need to spend time
with his three children as well as the
short amount of rest and preparation
time between the Tour de France and the Olympics.
DAVID KRUMMENACKER
GUIDE TO ANCIENT NAMES AND PLACES
ATHENS:
Greek capital and that nation’s
largest city. Site of the 2004 Summer Olympic Games. Named for
Athena, the ancient Greek goddess of wisdom, skills and warfare. City is built around Mt.
Lycabettus, which according to
mythology was dropped from the
sky by Athena to protect the city
— or, according to other versions, just because she got a little
clumsy.
DECATHLON,
HEPTATHLON,
PENTATHLON:
Olympic events requiring the
contests to compete in several
THE NEW FACE OF SUMMER’S GOLD
different disciplines. From the
Greek words for 10, seven and
five, plus “athlon” — meaning “a
prize.”
MARATHON:
Small city in Greece (actually,
Marathonas). In 490 B.C., the
Athenian army defeated the Persians in a battle on the nearby
plain of Marathon. According to
legend, a runner named Pheidippides ran approximately 26
miles from the battle site to
Athens to inform the citizens of
the victory. Perhaps because he
had run approximately 290 miles
from Marathon to Sparta
and back shortly before in an
unsuccessful attempt to enlist
Spartan aid, Pheidippides is said
to have collapsed and died as he
delivered the good news. For
some reason, modern runners
decided to name their 26.2-mile
run the marathon instead of the
pheidippides.
OLYMPICS:
Athletic competition founded in
Greece in the year 776 B.C.,
according to legend. The name
derives from the Greek word
Olympus, the home of the gods
in Greek mythology — an indication, perhaps, of how seriously
the ancient Greeks took their
sports. Jim Rome would have fit
right in.
TIME differences
This Olympics will see the first change to the front side of the
Summer Olympic medal since the Amsterdam Games in 1928.
The Acropolis
and Parthenon
Panathinaiko Stadium
Excerpt from Pindar’s Eighth
Olympic Ode (460 B.C.)
NEW MEXICO
He’s a national and world champion, but he’s
still not an Olympian. The 1993 Las Cruces High
School graduate, acknowledged as one of the
best 800-meter runners in the world, keeps coming up empty at the U.S. Olympic Trials.
Four years ago, Krummenacker —
unknowingly suffering from iron deficiency — was badly beaten in the
800 and the 1,500 at the Trials.
Last month, running as a heavy
favorite after having won the 800
meters at the 2003 World Indoor
Championships in London, he finished fourth and out of the running
in the 2004 Trials. Krummenacker chose not to
run the 1,500, saying he had concentrated on the
800 and didn’t have enough time to prepare.
Has time run out on Krummenacker, who will be
33 in 2008? Maybe not. American record-holder
and four-time Olympian Johnny Gray still was running world-class times as he approached 40.
KELLI WHITE
She won gold medals in the 100
and 200 meters at the 2003 World
Championships but has admitted to
using banned substances and
accepted a two-year ban. She didn’t
compete in the Olympic Trials. It
hasn’t been decided whether she’ll
be allowed to keep her World Championships medals.
GREECE
ALVIN HARRISON
Albuquerque
Athens
The two-time Olympian ran at the Trials with the
weight of a doping investigation on his shoulders.
He was eliminated in his 400-meter semifinal heat.
Alvin’s twin brother, Calvin, the 2000 Olympic gold
medalist in the 400, finished fifth in the Trials final
but was among the candidates to run the 4-by-400meter relay in Athens — until he was hit with a twoyear suspension on a doping charge.
U.S. BASKETBALL TEAM
Olympic flame
Nike, goddess of victory
Panathinaikon Stadium
held the first modern
Olympic Games in 1896
SOURCES: EFsimon Collections SA; Athens Olympic Committee
AP
Mountain Daylight Time
Eastern Europe Summer Time
Midnight
9:00 a.m.
Noon
9:00 p.m.
Time difference
+9 hrs.
Tracy McGrady, who has left the Orlando Magic
and will wear a Houston Rockets uniform next season, won’t suit up for the U.S. this summer. He
withdrew from the team, citing security concerns.
Others who withdrew include Jason Kidd (knee
surgery), Ray Allen (getting married), Karl Malone
(injuries, the death of his mother), Jermaine O’Neal
(injuries) and Mike Bibby (reasons unknown). Those
who initially declined invitations include Shaquille
O’Neal, Kevin Garnett, Vince Carter, Richard Hamilton and Ben Wallace.
As a result, the U.S. will field a talented but young
and vulnerable men’s basketball team in Athens.
SKE D OUTPUT
$1.5
billion
South
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In June, the United States Anti-Doping Agency
announced it would seek a lifetime ban against
Montgomery — the world record
holder in the 100 meters — for
alleged steroid use. Though he consistently denied in the media that
he had used banned substances,
Montgomery reportedly admitted
before a grand jury that he had.
Montgomery made the situation
moot, for now, by finishing a wellbeaten seventh in the 100 at the Olympic Trials.
Montgomery’s girlfriend, three-time Olympic gold
medalist Marion Jones, is under investigation for
doping violations. She won the long jump at the
Trials but failed to qualify in the 100 meters and
pulled out of the 200.
ACTUAL OUTPUT
Hours NBC televised during the
2000 Games in Sydney.
TIM MONTGOMERY
FINAL DESK OK
441
Athens Olympic
Sports Complex
TURKEY
Hours of the Games NBC
Universal networks will televise.
Marathon
route
Goudi Olympic Complex
Faliron Coastal
Olympic Complex
0
1,210
Schinias
Olympic
Rowing and
Canoeing
Center
Nikaia Olympic
Weightlifting Hall
Gold medals won by the U.S.
swimming team in the Sydney
Olympics.
Amount NBC paid to televise the
Games.
Ano Liossia
Olympic Hall
A t h e n s
14
$793
million
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Cycling Road Race Course
Shooters on the 28-man U.S.
Olympic rifle team who are fulltime marksmen with the Army
unit based at Fort Benning, Ga.
Meals to be prepared daily at the
Olympic village.
C
Galatsi
Olympic Hall
7
50,000
E
Peristeri Olympic
Boxing Hall
Times Gail Devers has qualified
for the Games. She joins Carl
Lewis and Willye White as the
only track athletes to qualify for
five Olympics.
The U.S. men’s basketball
team’s record in Olympic competition, with losses to the Soviet
Union in 1972 and 1988.
E
P
1
AMONG THE
MISSING
Marathon
5
109-2
Parnitha Olympic
Mountain Bike Venue
Olympic competition venues
CY
CY
MK
MK
init
abo