For Dix, It's No Sprint to the Finish
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Florida State sensation Walter Dix is seen as the nation's most promising young sprinter and something of an enigma.
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ATHENS, Greece -- He was leading the race, but for some reason, you just had the feeling he might slow down. I don&#39;t know what it was about American Jeremy Wariner, his technique or thin muscles or something
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There is no 'i' in 'team', the saying goes.
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He has chosen to give chase to swimming&#39;s greatest achievement and, predictably, he has fallen short. He will not match Mark Spitz&#39;s seven gold medals at these Summer Olympics, but he should not be chided for trying.
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The tricky thing about being the team to watch is it's impossible to stay that way for long. Either you become an also-ran or you turn into the team to beat.
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ATHENS -- Matt Emmons was focusing on staying calm. He should have been focusing on the right target.
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Marion Jones reached and found nothing. Not in her well of reserves to get off a jump. Not in the emptiness of a missed relay connection.
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Carrying a scoreless streak deep into October isn't one of the easier tasks to carry out on a gridiron.
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The mens&#39; 100-meter final isn&#39;t until tonight, but it didn&#39;t look as if anybody told the guys who were running in last night&#39;s preliminaries.
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DENVER - They have arrived at this juncture in a blink of an eye. When you spend the entire postseason hammering home the notion that you absolutely, positively must not look ahead, then it can be a little bit startling when you suddenly glance up and realize you are nine innings from being sized for a World Series ring.
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A month ago getting beaten would have seemed like the end of the world to the fiercely driven Kelly Holmes. But, with two Olympic gold medals to her name, it does not seem so important now.
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Ike Diogu scored five points in the first half, and his remarkable double-digit scoring streak was kept in tact with only six minutes left in the game.
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Mitt has a moment  -  just when he needed one. But for the rest of the field, it was a snooze-fest of missed opportunities
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In some of the most basic ways imaginable &#151; how fast people can run, how high they can jump, how far they can throw &#151; the march of progress has stopped.
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The results are in, but what they mean is by no means settled.
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The Renault F1 Team ran through its programme without worrying about the timesheets or its rivals. The focus has been on Sundayâs race, not Fridayâs glory.
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Try telling Arsenal the Premiership is a marathon not a sprint. The champions have come out of the blocks at an extraordinary pace, racking up nine goals in two games and