BRIEFLY : A SWEEP FOR GREENE.Byline: Daily News Wire Services Maurice Greene Maurice Greene may refer to:
The first annual Prefontaine Classic took place in 1974. track and field meet at Eugene, Ore. Marion Jones Marion Jones, also known as Marion Jones-Thompson (born October 12, 1975 in Los Angeles, California), is an American former athlete in track and field. She was the winner of five medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, which she later relinquished after and Michael Johnson Michael Johnson or Mike Johnson may refer to:
Before Sydney Ngeny first came to international prominence by setting two World Junior records in 1997 - 3:32. . Greene, ranked No. 1 in the world in the 100 meters and the 1997 world champion, won the 100 in 9.84 seconds, a time that equaled Canadian Donovan Bailey's world record but was negated by a wind of 7.83 mph, well over the allowable of 4.473 for record purposes. The clocking has been bettered only six other times. Later, Greene won the 200 in 20.06, a time that would have broken the meet record of 20.15 by Johnson in 1995, if not for the wind. Johnson beat Mark Richardson of Britain in the 400 by nearly 10 meters at 44.51, matching his best time of the year. Jones was competing for the first time in more than a month. But the former Thousand Oaks High star won the 200 by about nine meters in 21.81, the fastest time in the world this year. ``I want to go through the season undefeated because I've yet to do that,'' said Jones, who lost only once last year, in her final competition of the season, in the long jump. Joao Carlos de Oliveira Carlos de Oliveira, GOSE (1921, Belém, Brazil - 1981, Lisbon, Portugal), was a Portuguese poet and novelist. He was born to a Portuguese family living in Brazil, which then moved back to Portugal in 1923. , who held the world triple jump record for 10 years beginning in 1975, died in Sao Paulo, Brazil, after a monthlong battle with lung and liver ailments. He was 45. TENNIS: Florida sophomore Jeff Morrison, the No. 2 seed, defeated top-seeded James Blake of Harvard 7-6 (7-2), 2-6, 6-4 to win the singles title in the NCAA men's tennis championship The NCAA Men's Tennis Championships are held to crown a team, individual, and doubles champion in American college tennis. The first championship was held in 1883 with Harvard's Joseph Clark taking the singles title. at Athens, Ga. In the doubles final, Stanford's Ryan Wolters and K.J. Hippensteel beat Tulsa's Nenad Toroman and Gareth Williams 6-3, 6-2. BASKETBALL: Jennifer Azzi has withdrawn from the six-player group that was expected to form the nucleus of the U.S. Olympic women's basketball team next year, saying she had lost her fire for that type of competition. |
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