BRIEFLY MONTGOMERY WINS THE 100 IN SWEDEN.Byline: - Daily News Staff and Wire Services American Tim Montgomery won the 100-meter dash Tuesday despite four false starts in the event at the DN Galan meet in Stockholm, Sweden. Montgomery edged Kim Collins of St. Kitts and Nevis Noun 1. St. Kitts and Nevis - a country on several of the Leeward Islands; located to the east southeast of Puerto Rico; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1983 Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Christopher-Nevis, Saint Kitts and Nevis, St. in a photo finish. Both men clocked 10.08 seconds. Montgomery was four-hundredths of a second faster in the qualifying earlier, winning his heat in 10.04. Svetlana Feofanova broke the women's European pole vault record. She cleared 15 feet, 8 1/4 inches - the second-best height ever cleared by a woman - on her first try for the new European record, then challenged Stacy Dragila's world record of 15-9 1/4. The Russian's third and last attempt at 15-9 3/4 was her best. Other winners were former 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 star Gail Devers in the 100 hurdles (12.42) and fellow American Alvin Harrison (44.57) in the 400 meters. MOTOR SPORTS: CART has lost one of its two European races with the cancellation of the German 500. The Indianapolis-based open-wheel circuit said the race scheduled Sept. 21 was canceled by promoters at EuroSpeedway in Lausitz for financial reasons. OLYMPICS: Olympic silver medalist Stephanie Graf had a benign tumor benign tumor n. A tumor that does not metastasize or invade and destroy adjacent normal tissue. Benign tumor An abnormal proliferation of cells that does not spread to other parts of the body. removed from her hip in Vienna, Austria. She who won silver in the women's 800 meters for Austria in 2000. LOCAL: Jeff Trovatten, a veteran San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. football coach, is the new coach at Hollywood High. Trovatten formerly was head coach at Westmark of Encino and St. Genevieve of Panorama City. In other coaching news, Valley product Don Markham has returned as football coach at San Bernardino County's Bloomington High, where he won three Southern Section titles during a four-year stint ending in 1997. Markham also has coached at L.A. Baptist of North Hills and Pierce College. He was at Rialto Rialto, city (1990 pop. 72,388), San Bernardino co., S Calif., a residential suburb of San Bernardino; inc. 1911. The city has greatly expanded as a result of the economic and demographic growth of the southern California area. last year. - Gerry Gittelson ETC ETC - ExTendible Compiler. Fortran-like, macro extendible. "ETC - An Extendible Macro-Based Compiler", B.N. Dickman, Proc SJCC 38 (1971). .: Former world No. 1 Laurent Jalabert of France will retire from competitive cycling at the end of the season to spend more time with his family. ... Proud Citizen, runner-up in the Kentucky Derby, had surgery to repair a fractured shin Monday. ... Howard University's probation was reduced two years by the NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association Infractions Appeals Committee. |
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