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...return of the slam dunk contest, and three spots will be open on the all-NBA Olympic team that will compete at the Sydney Games next September. One of those spots figures to go to O'Neal, who will be asked to become more of a thinker and...
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - Politics, drugs, a bribery scandal. The Olympic meetings this week had just about everything - even sport.
...career. Teuscher won an Olympic gold medal in the 800-meter relay at the 1996 Atlanta Games and is in training for the Sydney Games in September. She was the Ivy League champion in the 200- and 400-meter individual medley, as well as the 100...
...received U.S. citizenship last month in hopes of representing his new country at the Olympics, won't run at the Sydney Games at all. Record broken JONESBORO, Ark. (AP) -- Former Olympian Jeff Hartwig broke the American pole vault record...
...second event of the U.S. Olympic track and field trials with the sweet poise that could make her the darling of the Sydney Games. Jackie Joyner-Kersee fell short in her comeback attempt and bid a graceful farewell to the sport she dominated...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - With Dan O'Brien almost certainly out with a foot injury, the man expected to carry the U.S. decathlon medal hopes to Sydney is Chris Huffins.
...chance at the Olympics. Then, in the fall of 1996, shortly after the Atlanta Olympics, Goad, who was pregnant and teaching school, got an early morning call from her old coach telling her the sport would be included in the Sydney Games.
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - With 50 days to go before the Olympics, most Sydneysiders are indifferent to the approach of the games - a stark contrast to Atlantans, who were Olympics-obsessed months before their games in 1996.
...panel on Tuesday decided that testing for one of most abused performance-enhancing drugs in sports can be used at the Sydney Games. The panel reviewed a combined blood-urine test for EPO that was developed by Australian and French teams. The...