AREA ATHLETES : BOLDON: JOHNSON'S PAIN, SPORT'S GAIN.Byline: Jon Wilner Daily News Staff Writer Part-time track historian and full-time UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX sprinter Ato Boldon Ato Jabari Boldon (born December 30, 1973) is a retired athlete from Trinidad and Tobago, the 1997 200 m World Champion and four-time Olympic medal winner. Only 2 other men in history, Frankie Fredericks of Namibia and Carl Lewis of the USA, have won as many Olympic individual is well aware of the public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most disaster that struck his sport eight years ago in Seoul, when Ben Johnson Ben Johnson or Benjamin Johnson may be:
Like Boldon and fellow 100-meter favorites Linford Christie Linford Christie OBE (born April 2, 1960) is a former athlete, and the only English man to win Olympic, World, Commonwealth and European 100 m gold medals. He still holds the UK record. , Bruny Surin Bruny Surin (born July 12, 1967) is a former Canadian athlete, winner of gold medal in 4x100 m relay at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Surin was born in Cap-Haïtien, Haïti, and moved to Canada with his family in 1975. and Donovan Bailey Donovan Bailey (born December 16, 1967) is a Canadian former athlete. Born in Manchester, Jamaica, Bailey emigrated from Jamaica to Canada at age 13, and played basketball before his graduation at Queen Elizabeth Park High School in Oakville, Ontario. , Johnson is Carribean-born but raced for a first-world country, Canada. His rise and fall sent shock waves through the islands, and through the track world. ``I was a huge fan of his, and like everybody I was disappointed,'' Boldon said. ``But Ben Johnson needed to be caught. We needed a reversal from the direction track and field was heading. It needed to be cleaner. Johnson was the sacrificial lamb A sacrificial lamb is a lamb (or metaphorical parallel) killed or discounted in some way (as in a sacrifice) in order to further some other cause. In typical modern usage, it is a metaphorical reference for a person who has no chance of surviving the challenge ahead, but is placed , but it was a sacrifice we needed.'' Boldon and Co. begin their pursuit of the world's fastest man title today, with first- and second-round races. UCLA's Mike Marsh Mike Marsh may refer to:
Van Nuys' Gail Devers and the rest of the women's 100 field compete in early-round action, as well. To the mound? Her sprained ankle willing, former Bruin Lisa Fernandez may pitch this morning for the U.S. softball team against Australia, with former Bruin Tanya Harding. It would be Fernandez's first start of the Olympics. Bounced again: The U.S. men's soccer team, with UCLA's Frankie Hejduk and Chris Snitko, failed to advance to the second round after a 1-1 tie with Portugal Wednesday. The U.S. has never played in the second round. Hejduk was involved in both goals: He and fellow defender Alexi Lalas were split by a pass to Portugal's Paulo Alves near the 18-yard line, then his centering pass to Claudio Reyna began a sequence that evened the score in the 75th minute. In action today: Thousand Oaks rower David Collins is in the semifinals of the lightweight four without coxswain. ``The times will be at a different level than we've had so far,'' he said. USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. swimmer Brad Bridgewater makes his Olympic debut in the 200 backstroke. Bruin Annette Salmeen, in the 200-meter butterfly today, was a state Rhodes Scholar finalist. She's an honors chemistry major but has eight units left. ``The one class I need isn't offered in the fall, so I'll take some classes and wait for it in the winter quarter,'' she said. The U.S. water polo team plays Spain in the quarterfinals today at 3:20 p.m. ``We've got 24 hours to sort things out,'' coach Rich Corso said Wednesday night, after a 10-8 victory over Croatia. ``Spain is everything now.'' Not so hot: Former Bruin Elaine Youngs gave the U.S. women's volleyball team a lift off the bench Monday night, but she couldn't repeat the performance Wednesday against the Chinese. ``Elaine was a little inconsistent tonight, compared to what she was against the Netherlands,'' coach Terry Liskevych said. Can't keep it up: Don't expect the Dream Girls to punish opponents in medal-round play like they have in pool play. Example: U.S. 107, Zaire 47. ``We've had some lopsided scores, but I just hope that our public won't change when they see that the score will change, because we don't expect to keep winning with such a large margin like this,'' said former Trojan Lisa Leslie, perhaps the world's best player. ``We have some big competition ahead of us.'' Like China's 6-foot-9 ``Great Wall'' Zheng Hai Xai. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: BOLDON Chart: KEEPING WATCH ON AREA ATHLETES |
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