Monday, August 23.1999
The University Daily Kansan
Section B - Page 7
Wife runs to record, husband hurls for title
The Associated Press
SEVILLE, Spain — Now, Marion Jones has another contender to deal with — her husband.
As Jones, the defending champion in the women's 100 meters, was smashing the World Championships record during a quarterfinal heat Saturday, C.J. Hunter won his first major international title in the shot put with a career-best throw of 71 feet, 6 inches.
The usually passive 300-pound Hunter couldn't contain his emotions after the surprising throw on his final attempt ended John Godina's string of two consecutive title titles. He swung his arms
in windmill fashion and smiled broadly.
"Other than the birth of my kids and marriage to Marlon, this is the best thing in my life," Hunter said.
After his winning throw, Hunter made eye contact with Jones, who was sitting in the front row of the stands.
"I knew as soon as I let it go ..." Hunter said of the feeling on his final toss. "I didn't want to hold back."
Before Hunter began his celebration, the stage was set for some sizzling sprint times on the lightning-fast Olympic Stadium track. Jones and Maurice Greene, Kansas City, Kan. native, sending out strong messages with sparkling times in the quarterfinals.
Jones, seeking an unprecedented four golds, won her heat in 10.76 seconds, the fastest time in the world this year. She also advanced to today's final in the long jump, leaping 22 feet, 41/4 inches.
In the men's 100. Greene ran his seventh sub-10 race of the year and appeared ready to threaten his world record of 9.79.
"It's going to be a very fast final," Greene said. "Everybody's predicting I'll break (the record). We'll have to wait and see."
Greene beat one of his top rivals,
Canada's Bruny Surin, who clocked 9.95.
"My coach (John Smith) told me, 'Show 'em a little, but don't show 'em all of it,' said Greene, who also is competing in the
200 and 400 relav. "I believe I did that."
American Stacy Dragila, winner of the first world indoor women's pole vault title in 1987, completed a historic double, winning the first outdoor world title and equaling the world record of 15 feet, 1 inch.
Dragilia, a former roster performer, volleyball player and heptathlete, matched the pole vault record held by Australia's Emma George. Dragilia then missed three times at 15-3, not coming close on any attempt
"I came here with a plan," Dragila said. "I wanted to jump high, and I wanted to be on the podium. I didn't worry about what the other competitors would do.
Olympics will use blood tests to detect drugs
Effort announced after track scandals
The Associated Press
SEVILLE, Spain - Some form of blood testing will be introduced at next year's Sydney Olympics in a bid to improve detection of performance-enhancing drugs, the IOC
announced Fridav.
In another move to step up the fight against drugs, the International Olympic Committee affirmed that a world anti-doping agency will definitely be set up by the end of this year and will be operational for the Sydney Games.
Calls for blood testing at the Olympics have mounted in the wake of a spate of high-profile drug scandals in track and
OLYMPIC GAMES
field and other sports.
Several performance-enhancing drugs of choice, such as human growth hormone and EPO (erythropoietin), cannot be detected in standard urine tests.
The drug issue was a centerpiece of an IOC executive board meeting on the eve of the World Athletics Championships opening Saturday in Seville.
"There will be blood testing in Sydney, if not for doping control, at least for scientific research," IOC spokesman Franklin Servan-Schreiber said.
"The test work and we have a procedure," H. said, noting
that blood tests were carried out at the world short-course swimming championships in Hong Kong earlier this year.
The goal is to have a foolproof test that could be used as part of the official doping control procedures during the Sydney Games. Normally, all medalists, as well as other athletes chosen at random, are tested during the Olympics.
Supplements may be cause of positive tests
The Associated Press
SEVILLE, Spain — Spiked food supplements are apparently responsible for the recent flood of positive tests for the banned steroid Nandrolone, track and field's medical chief said Friday.
Arne Llunggvist, chairman of the International Amateur Athletic Federation's medical committee, said athletes may have ingested Nandrolone unwittingly in unlabeled over-the-counter supplements.
"It may be totally inadvertent," he said in an interview on the eve of the World Championships, which have been overshadowed by a series of high-profile doping scandals.
Experts have been puzzled by the sudden resurgence of Nandrolone, a muscle-building drug that has been around for decades and detectable in urine tests for years.
Sprint stars Merlene Otty and Linford Christie are among those athletes who have tested positive for Nandrolone. On Friday, Dutch sprinter Troy Douglas' name was added to the growing list.
The wave of Nandrolone cases spread Friday to the Arab Games in Amman, Jordan, where two Moroccan women athletes were stripped of their medals after positive tests.
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