UNFORGETTABLEMARION JONES’ STAGE PRESENCE AND PERFORMANCE TRANSCEND A SPORT AMERICANS TRYHARD TO IGNORESeptember 29, 2000 | Detroit Free PressSYDNEY, Australia -- The great ones make you forget their flaws. Michael Jordan became so synonymous with ...Read More
SHAME AND GLORYOUR TALE OF OLYMPIC PROPORTIONS: A SLEAZY SPORT, A MIRACULOUS UPSET AND ALESSON IN FRIENDSHIPSeptember 28, 2000 | Detroit Free PressSYDNEY, Australia -- Time was, if you wanted the thrill of an Olympic fight, you went to boxing. Now you go to ...Read More
LAP OF LEGACYAUSSIES’ FREEMAN WON OLYMPIC GOLD TO HELP HEAL HER COUNTRY’S SCARS; USA’SJOHNSON DIDN’T HAVE TOSeptember 26, 2000 | Detroit Free PressSYDNEY, Australia -- One lap. One glorious lap. One run around the track when you are faster than them all, faster ...Read More
NIGERIAN HURDLER RUNS ON DESPITE HER HEAVY HEARTSeptember 25, 2000 | Detroit Free PressSYDNEY, Australia -- To look at her, so small, only 5-feet-1, you wonder how she gets those short legs over those ...Read More
HOP RIGHT TO IT: TRY SOME ‘ROOSeptember 24, 2000 | Detroit Free PressSYDNEY, Australia -- I did not waltz with Matilda.I ate her.I admit it. I ate kangaroo. And I feel terrible. I ...Read More
SPRINTERS FIRST RUN THEIR MOUTH, THEN THEIR RACESeptember 23, 2000 | Detroit Free PressSYDNEY, Australia -- The moment Ato Boldon finished his quarterfinal run Friday night, Maurice Greene was waiting ...Read More
WHEN IT COMES TO KOOKY, PEREC GOES FOR THE GOLDSeptember 22, 2000 | Detroit Free PressSYDNEY, Australia -- There's gold, there's silver, there's bronze, and there's nuts. Based on her behavior this ...Read More
TWO SWIMMERS CONQUER GAMES IN OWN WAYSSeptember 21, 2000 | Detroit Free PressSYDNEY, Australia -- This is the story of two men at opposite ends of the pool. One flies through the water, the ...Read More