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May 1: Brian Lewis doubles at Guadaloupe
Ato Boldon has been beaten into second place by American Brian Lewis in his second outdoors 200 metres of the
season.
The 26-year-old clocked 20.44 seconds, compared with Lewis' 20.34, on Monday night in Guadeloupe. Boldon's Los
Angeles-based team mate Curtis Perry grabbed third place.
Boldon said he was not satisfied with the run. "I was very tentative. I did not run a very good turn, nor
did I run a good straight. Two races in three days was too much to start with."
On Saturday, the fifth fastest sprinter in history won a 200 metres in Martinique in 20.30 but reported some discomfort
in his leg.
The 1997 200 metres world champion had his 1999 season cut short by an injury to his right hamstring which prevented
him from competing at the world championships in Spain.
"I felt great on the straight but not on the turns. The answer though is not to give up or shy away from the
200s. I need to strengthen the leg in the gym," said Boldon who is building towards the Sydney Olympics in
September.
Results:
100 Metres
Wind: NWI
1. Brian Lewis United States 10.26
2. Donovan Bailey Canada 10.34
200 Metres
Wind: NWI
1. Brian Lewis United States 20.34
2. Ato Boldon Trinidad & Tobago 20.44
3. Curtis Johnson United States
April 29: Boldon breezes in 200; Bailey falls to Lewis in 100
Ato Boldon cruised to victory in his first 200-meter race of the season and Brian Lewis beat Olympic champion
Donovan Bailey in the 100 Saturday at an IAAF track meet in Fort-De-France, Martinique in the Carribean
Boldon, the 1997 world champion, clocked 20.30 seconds. Belgium's Patrick Stevens was a distant second in 20.45,
with Milton Mallard of the United States third in 20.57.
Lewis was timed in 9.96 to Bailey's 10.03. Deji Aliu of Nigeria finished third in 10.10. Unfortunatly, the wind
readings are not available at the moment. So, I cannot confirm that Brian Lewis is now a sub-10 sprinter and I
can't confirm that Donovan is back!
Results:
100 Metres
Wind: 2.5
1. Brian Lewis United States 9.96
2. Donovan Bailey Canada 10.03
3. Deji Aliu Nigeria 10.10
-Donovan ran 10.21 in his heat
200 Metres
Wind: NWI
1. Ato Boldon Trinidad & Tobago 20.30
2. Patrick Stevens Belgium 20.45
3. Milton Mallard United States 20.57
April 29: Penn Relays
The United States conquered "the world" at the Penn Relays on Saturday.
Competing against teams from Africa, Asia and the Caribbean, the American relay teams, with Marion Jones and Maurice
Greene running sizzling anchor legs, swept the men's and women's 400- and 800-meter events.
Those events were billed as the USA vs. the World, and the Americans, always powerful in the sprints, again showed
their prowess.
Their most impressive performance came in the women's 800, where the USA team raced to a world record of 1 minute,
27.46 seconds, shattering the previous mark of 1:28.15 set by an East German team 20 years ago.
Greene, the world record-holder and two-time world champion in the 100, keyed the men's 400 relayteam to stadium
and meet records of 38.22, while the 800 team ran 1:19.92.
Surprisingly, the men's 800 team was overshadowed by Texas Christian University, which won the collegiate relay
at 1:19.67, breaking its NCAA mark of 1:20.20 set in 1986.
In winning the men's 400 relay, the USA team of Jon Drummond, Tim Harden, Tim Montgomery and Greene smashed the
field record of 38.61 set by a U.S. national team in 1980 and the meet record of 38.66 by a Nike team in 1997.
The winning 800 team consisted of Ken Brokenburr, Bryan Howard, Rohsaan Griffin and Greene.
All four USA teams ran without having practiced together.
"What you saw today ... shows the depth of sprinting we have in the U.S.," Drummond said. "If
we had had some exchanges together, I think you might have seen a world record."
Greene said he did not feel much of the soreness throughout his body which had forced him to skip the recent Texas
Relays and Mount SAC Relays.
"Coming to the Penn Relays and running two races says he's ready to go," Drummond said about Greene.
The USA's opposition in the four relays included teams from Jamaica, Sierra Leone, Thailand and the Bahamas.
Results:
4x100m Relay - "USA vs The World"
Meet Record: 38.66 Nike Elite 04/26/97
Stadium Record: 38.61 USA National Team 07/17/80
1. United States I (Drummond - Harden - Montgomery - Greene) 38.22 MR SR
2. United States II (Johnson - Brokenbur - Howard - Griffin) 38.36
3. Jamaica (Duncan - Jarrett - Stewart - Williams) 38.96
4x200m Relay
1. Nike (Brokenbur - Howard - Griffin - Greene) 1.19.92
2. Reebok Eclave (Sales - Lewis - Ellenwood - Bobb) 1.22.13
April 22: World's fastest man popular with the home crowd
Maurice Greene, the 100-meter world record holder from Kansas City, anchored the HSI 400 relay team to a Kansas
Relays
record of 38.45 seconds Saturday.
"I appreciate all the fans that came out and supported the relays," Greene said of the crowd announced
at 10,220. "It always feels good to come home and show them what their support means to me."
Greene and teammates Ato Boldon, Curtis Johnson and Brian Howard dominated the Nike Central team, which featured
past U.S. 100 champ Tim Harden and former Nebraska star Travis Grant. Grant won the invitational 100 in 10.14.
Greene signed autographs and posed for pictures with the track team from his high school, Kansas City Schlagle,
and earlier in the week had visited his old schools.
"When I was growing up, no athletes came back to school to talk to us," he said. "I wanted to be
different."
Click here to view Mo Greene finish the race
for HSI
Results:
4x100m Relay
Meet Record: 39.12 Philadelphia Pioneers 1980
1. HSI International (Johnson - Boldon - Howard - Greene) 38.45 MR
2. Nike Central (Grant, Harden) 39.54
3. Barton County CC 39.57
April 18: Great gestures from Bruny Surin and Jean-Luc Brassard
from Bruny Surin's official page:
Bruny Surin and Jean-Luc Brassard delighted many on Tuesday, when they gave a total of $75,000 to charities
and non-profit-making organisations. This sum was given to these two athletes by Gillette, via its "Gillette
World Champions" programme. Surin, Brassard and Ottawa Senators' Wade Redden were honoured earlier this year
in Toronto for their involvement in the community.
Surin, Olympic champion, four-times World champion and two-times World vice-champion, offered $10,000 to the Fondation
de l'Athlète d'Excellence du Québec, $10,000 to the Montreal Children Hospital's Foundation and $5,000
to the Société Saint-Vincent-de-Paul. "For me, it's the fair thing to do," said Surin."Nature
blessed me with a talent that allows me to earn my living pretty well, it's only normal that I do my part for society."
"I've been involved for many years now with the Société Saint-Vincent-de-Paul and the Montreal
Children Hospital's Foundation and I know too well that there are needy children, right here in Montreal,"
the sprinter continued. "As for the Fondation de l'Athlète d'Excellence du Québec, it has its
reasons, even though the governments finally decided to help us, the athletes, a bit. It must be repeated, most
of the non-sponsored athletes are dependent on their parents. On that matter, I sincerely thank Vidéotron
who sponsored while I wasn't yet at the top. Without Vidéotron's support, maybe I would have given up before
being able to live from my sport."
April 17: Mt. Sac Relay Results
Another great Mt.Sac relays wrapped up on sunday with the big-time events. Starting with the always exciting
4x100m relay. Despite missing Maurice Greene who is out with a leg injury, the HSI troops powered their way to
a world leading 38.15 clocking. The two best sprinters started off with Jon Drummond passing the stick to Ato Boldon
who gave them a great lead. Bryan Howard & Curtis Johnson ran the final two legs, holding off the team of Ken
Brokenbur, Tim Montgomery, Ramon Clay and Dewarski Odom who stopped the clock in a respectible 38.58 seconds.
In the 200 metres, another event that Greene was scheduled to run in, Jamaica's Christopher Williams ran a very
impressive time of 20.02. Breaking Greene's stadium record and becoming second fastest man in the world this year.
Ken Brokenburr was a very close second in 20.04. The favourite, Jon Drummond was third in a 20.17
In the 100 metres, with a non-legal wind (+2.8) it was the first race since 1997 in Walnut that three sprinters
went Sub 10. Veteran Mike Marsh stole the show with a 9.87 clocking, which would be a new personal best if the
wind was under 2.0 m/s limit. HSI newcomer Bryan Howard showed that he has much potential coming second in 9.94
seconds. Tim Montgomery, who stuggled a bit the past two years was third in 9.96 seconds.
Results:
100 Metres
Hilmer Lodge Stadium Record: 9.86 Ato Boldon HSI 1998
Wind: 2.8
1. Mike Marsh Santa Monica TC 9.87
2. Brian Howard HSInternational 9.94
3. Tim Montgomery Asics 9.96
200 Metres
Hilmer Lodge Stadium Record: 20.03 Maurice Greene, HSI 1998
Wind: 1.7
1. Christopher Williams Stars and Strides TC 20.02 SR PB
2. Ken Brokenburr Nike Atlantic Coast 20.04
3. Jon Drummond HSInternational 20.17
4x100m Relay
Hilmer Lodge Stadium Record: 37.79 Santa Monica TC 1994
1. HSI International (Drummond - Boldon - Howard - Johnson) 38.15 WL
2. Sprint Capital (Brokenburr - Montgomery - Clay - Odom) 38.58
3. STARS & STRIDES TC (Grimes - Miete - Washington - Williams) 38.87
April 16: Past Mt. SAC Results
100 Metres
1996
Wind Reading: 1.3
1. Ato Boldon UCLA 9.93
2. Michael Marsh Santa Monica TC 9.95
3. Jeff Williams T.C. All Stars 10.14
1997
Wind Reading: 2.4
1. Michael Marsh Santa Monica TC 9.87
2. Tim Montgomery Asics 9.98
3. Maurice Greene HSInternational 9.99
1998
Wind Reading: 1.8
1. Ato Boldon HSInternational 9.86
2. Tim Harden Vector Sports 10.11
3. Kevin Little US West 10.13
1999
Wind Reading: 2.4
1. Mike Marsh Santa Monica TC 10.06
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200 Metres
1996
Wind Reading: 1.1
1. Carl Lewis Santa Monica TC 20.19
2. Floyd Heard Santa Monica TC 20.42
3. Dave Dopek Athletico 20.56
1997
No important sprinters racing at the "invitational" level
1998
Wind Reading: 1.4
1. Maurice Greene HSInternational 20.03
2. Roshaan Griffin Asics TC 20.45
3. Dennis Mitchell Vector Sports 20.45
1999
Wind Reading: 1.6
1. Ato Boldon HSInternational 20.19
2. Ken Brokenburr Atlantic CC 20.30
3. Tyree Washington World Class AC 20.34
April 15: Sea Ray Relays Results
Last year, we saw Leonard Scott run an unbelievable one-hudred metre race in 9.83 seconds. The problem was,
the wind reading was 7.1 m/s! On Friday in Knoxville, with a legal wind of 0.5, Pan-American Games champion Bernard
Williams qualified for the US Olympic Trials by winning in 10.22 seconds over Tony McCall who stopped the clock
in 10.23. The 1999 champion from Tennesee finished third in 10.26.
Scott and Williams both won their 200 metre races, in 20.61 and 20.62 resp. The 4x100m relays will be run later
today.
Results:
100 Metres
Stadium Record: 10.02 Michael Green (JAM) 04/11/97
Meet Record: 10.02 Michael Green (JAM) 04/11/97
Wind Reading: 0.5
1. Bernard Williams Florida 10.22
2. Tony McCall Speed Elite 10.23
3. Leonard Scott Tennesse 10.26
200 Metres
Stadium Record: 20.24 Ato Boldon (TRI/UCLA) 06/03/95
Meet Record: 20.40 Stanley Blalock (Georgia) 1983
Heat One
Wind Reading: 1.3
1. Leonard Scott Tennesse 20.61
2. Tony Wheeler Forster TC 20.91
3. Sayon Cooper Liberia T&F 21.06
Heat Two
Wind Reading: 1.9
1. Bernard Williams Florida 20.62
2. Albert Agyemang Middle Tennesse 20.91
3. Clint Crenshaw South Carolina 21.26
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April 14: UT's Scott pursues two-sport stardom
- A spring ago, Tennessee's Leonard Scott was a split personality.
Football and track. Routes and sprints. He almost expected a cornerback to jump out at him in the middle of the
100-meter dash.
As the Sea Ray Relays begin this week, Scott is of one mind. His only route will be around campus to the Tom Black
Track.
"It was tiresome last year, I'm not going to lie about it," Scott said after practicing handoffs for
the 4x100-meter relay. "I knew when I made the agreement to come here I wanted to do both. The first year,
I hadn't established myself yet for football. Everybody knew I could come out here and run. That was a given."
Another given: In a short time, Scott has established he can make the big play in both sports. By the time he caught
his first pass for the Vols last fall as a redshirt freshman, he had won an NCAA 60-meter indoor national title.
On the gridiron, Scott followed that feat up by catching two touchdown passes and returning a kickoff 100 yards
for a touchdown against Georgia.
Scott realizes he is far from a finished product on the football field as he attempts to master the transition
from high school running back to SEC receiver. Still, he relishes the opportunity to go solo in track this spring.
Last year, a hamstring injury from spring football left Scott far short of 100 percent for the SEC and NCAA outdoor
meets. He was a last-minute qualifier for the NCAA meet and missed the finals by .004 seconds, the price of several
weeks of missed training. This year, he's not only fit, but already has run two 100-meter races, which is two more
than he had this time last year. His 200-meter times are falling, the result of working longer distances and getting
stronger.
"Just doing track is a wonderful thing for him," UT sprints coach Vince Anderson said. "And he's
more fit and has more understanding of all the small parts of preparing for a race. He's really becoming a track
man. And he takes it very seriously. He sees being great at track as something that helps him in football."
Most of what he accomplished as a rookie was on talent alone, Anderson said. But talent alone won't get Scott where
he is capable of going in the SEC, much less the national level.
"Last year," Scott said, "I thought I could just come out here put my shoes on and run. You can't
do that in this conference. You've got to know what you're doing."
Said Anderson, "He's at a whole other level in the 200 this year. Hopefully, he'll put a good one down Friday."
A year ago at the Sea Ray meet, Scott captured the public fancy by running an eye-popping 9.83 100 meters. Trouble
was, he did in with a gale-force wind at his back, more than three times the allowable limit for a record or an
NCAA qualifying time.
The season is young. His best 100 is a wind-aided 10.18, but his 20.59 in the 200 was legal. He'll hook up with
a strong field in both events Friday. He's already been beaten twice outdoors by Florida's Bernard Williams, who
will be here for the Sea Ray meet. On Saturday, Scott will come back for the 4x100 and 4x400 relays.
"I most definitely want to see my 100 down in nine or 10-oh something," Scott said. "I think this
is the weekend it could happen. My goal in the 200 is 20.3-something.
"I'm getting stronger and I'm ahead of my game. A lot of people think because I'm not winning races that
I'm behind, but if you think about it, I'm building something right now. When it's all said and done, it's going
to be phenomenal."
April 14: Mt.SAC this weekend
Maurice Greene, the 100m world record holder who pulled out of the Texas Relays is slated to run the 200m at
the Mt. SAC Relays here on Sunday, a week after he withdrew from the Texas Relays.
Greene, who was to run the 4x100m and 4x200m relays in Texas but skipped the races as a precaution when mid-week
workouts left him with a sore left leg, will take on Kevin Little, the world indoor bronze medallist from 1999,
and veteran Jon Drummond in the 200m.
"We'll see how it feels," Greene said of the leg last week, adding that he saw no cause for concern.
Trinidad and Tobago's Ato Boldon heads the 100m field against five-time Mt. SAC champion and 1992 Olympic 200m
champion Mike Marsh.
April 11: Road to Sydney Poll #3
This edition of the Road to Sydney Poll asks... Who do you want to win the 100m in Sydney?
-Maurice Greene
-Ato Boldon
-Bruny Surin
-Frank Fredericks
-Obadele Thompson
-Other
Click here to vote!
Past Results-
Sydney Poll #1 - Who will win the US 200m Trials?
| Michael Johnson - 48% |
(17 of 35 Votes) |
| Maurice Greene - 37% |
(13 of 35 Votes) |
| Rohsaan Griffin - 8% |
(03 of 35 Votes) |
| John Capel - 2% |
(01 of 35 Votes) |
| Other - 2% |
(01 of 35 Votes) |
Sydney Poll #2 - Of the following, who is most likely to be in the 100m final at the Olympics?
| Donovan Bailey - 54% |
(17 of 31 Votes) |
| Leonard Myles-Mills - 29% |
(09 of 31 Votes) |
| Matt Shirvington - 9% |
(03 of 31 Votes) |
| Feddy Mayola - 6% |
(02 of 35 Votes) |
April 8: Bruny Surin at the Texas Relays
Bruny Surin ran two races on Saturday, both relays. Even though Maurice Greene and his HSI teammates pulled
out earlier in the week the meet still offered much excitement. Starting with the 100 metre dash where Kim Collins
edged Coby Miller who ran a wind-aided 9.88 five days earlier. Collins stopped the clock at 10.07, just .02 ahead
of Miller with the aid of a strong tail wind.
In the 4x100, the event HSI was looking to dominate before the injury to Greene, the Austin All-Stars took care
of business. The team of Donovan Powell, Milton Mallard, Kareem Streete-Thompson and Obadele Thompson retained
its meet title with a time of 39.16 seconds. New Era SC was second in 39.18 and Donovan Bailey, Bruny Surin and
the Canadians finished in 39.59 in the meet's premiere invitational event.
In the rare 4x200 metre relay, the Austin team of Obadele Thompson, Bruny Surin, Glenn Smith and Milton Mallard
easily took the win in one minute and 21.70 seconds. There was only two more teams in the race, Tfn Nutrition who
finished second in 1:24.85 and the Canadian National Team who did not finish.
Results:
100 Metres
Myers Stadium Record: 10.22 Bruny Surin (CAN) 1999
Meet Record: 9.97 Olapade Adeniken (UTEP) 1992
Wind Reading: 4.0
1. Kim Collins Texas Christian 10.07
2. Coby Miller Auburn 10.09
3. Jarmiene Holloway Mpl 10.26
4x100 Metre Relay
Myers Stadium Record: 38.23 Austin All-Stars 1999
Meet Record: 37.89 Santa Monica TC 1994
1. Austin All-Stars 39.16
2. New Era SC 39.18
3. Canadian National Team 39.59
4x200 Metre Relay
Myers Stadium Record: 1:19.88 Austin All Stars 1999
Meet Record: 1:19.88 Austin All Stars 1999
1. Austin All-Stars 1:21.70
2. Tfn Nutrition 1:24.85
-. Canadian National Team DNF
April 6: Greene returns to Texas Relays
Five years ago, an unheralded sprinter from Kansas City shocked Carl Lewis here in the 100 meters, announcing he
would be a track force to be reckoned with.
On Saturday, Maurice Greene returns to the Texas Relays as the world's fastest man with his eyes on Olympic gold.
Greene came to Austin in 1995 a relatively unknown 20-year-old looking for glory. He had finished fourth in the
60-meter dash at the 1995 World Championships before shocking Lewis and the crowd with a wind-aided 9.88 in the
100.
He left as the Texas Relay's outstanding male athlete and with the confidence he someday would break the world
record.
"I've always had tremendous confidence in myself, but that was my first race against that caliber competition,"
Greene said. "I was able to overcome a lot of fears to win that race."
The Texas Relays is one of the first large outdoor meets of the year with more than 5,000 participants, including
high school and international athletes.
Other world-class sprinters scheduled to run on the University of Texas' Mike A. Myers track include former 100-meters
world record-holder and 1996 Olympic gold medalist Donovan Bailey and Greene's HSI teammates Jon Drummond and Ato
Bolden.
Drummond won a silver medal in the 1996 Olympics in the 4x100 relay. Bolden won bronze in the 100 in the 1996 Atlanta
Games.
Greene shattered Bailey's previous record of 9.84 last year with a time of 9.79 during a race in Athens, Greece.
He later became the first sprinter to sweep the 100 and 200 at the World Championships in Seville, Spain.
Most important, Greene said, would be to win the Olympic gold medal in September in Sydney, Australia. Barring
a disaster in qualifying for the American team, he will be the odds-on favorite to win the 100.
"I already have the world record," he said. "The gold medal is the most important thing."
"My coach believes I can run 9.6," he said. "I have to get to my personal goal of 9.76 first. I
don't believe I can just cut that much time off in one shot."
Greene will run the 4x100 and 4x200 relays in Austin. He won't run the 100, and says it will be several weeks before
he even thinks about it.
"I'm really not scheduled to run a 100 for a while yet. We just want to run a nice, easy relay. We're just
going to Texas to have some fun," Greene said.
That doesn't mean the meet's superstars won't run hard, said U.S. Olympic men's track coach John Chaplin, who will
serve as meet referee.
"None of these guys want to get beat," Chaplin said. "There's a lot of pride out there."
April 3: Coby Miller runs wind-aided 9.88
Auburn sprinter Colby Miller stole the show Saturday with a world-best time in the 100-meter dash at the Southeastern
Conference Quad Meet. Auburn, Kentucky, Florida and Tennessee participated in the meet, but everyone was buzzing
about Miller's performance.
Miller posted a 9.88-second time in the 100-metre dash, the fastest time recorded in that event in the world this
year.
"I struggled with my starts during indoor, and I knew the key to running well (Saturday) would be a good start,"
Miller said. "I got one, and I ran a great race."
Later in the day, Miller continued his dominance, recording a 20.17-second 200-meter run, the fastest time posted
at the college level this year.
April 1: Top Sprinters to meet in Kansas
Four of the world's top sprinters will race at the 73rd Kansas Relays. Maurice Greene (PB: 9.79), Ato Boldon
(9.86), Jon Drummond (9.92) and Tim Harden (9.92) will run
the 100 metres. The relays will be held at the University of Kansas, April 19-22. Other meets this month that will
feature some top sprinters will be the Penn, Texas, Stanford and Mount SAC relays.
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