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Sports Illustrated
July 24, 2000
Brian Cazeneuve |
Tops of the trials Despite the shocking disappointment of the Maurice Greene-Michael Johnson showdown in the men's 200 meters, there were several high points on and off the track during this week's U.S. Olympic trials. Here, in no particular order, is a very unofficial list of highlights...   |
Sports Illustrated
May 5, 2000
Brian Cazeneuve |
Olympic burnout factor Q&A on the Olympics: increasing surge of interest rising in the 2000 Games in the U.S. public and media?... How does the United States' shot put, discus and hammer throwers look this year?... Has the IOC ever considered offering "at large" berths to athletes... etc. |
Sports Illustrated
August 11, 2000 |
Games are mere weeks away US will likely dominate Olympic basketball... Swedes and Norwegians strong in handball... Changing of the guard in US Wrestling... Should automatic spots be awarded to top athletes?... Does Fu Mingxia have a shot diving in Sydney?... Why isn't golf an Olympic sport?... |
Sports Illustrated
July 13, 2000
Tim Layden |
Track trials top 10 Ten reasons why the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials, which open Friday in Sacramento and run for 10 days, are among the best sporting events on American soi |
Sports Illustrated
July 11, 2000
Tim Layden |
Inside Olympic Sports Here's what to expect from the crucible of track and field's U.S. trials... Plus, more Olympic briefs |
Sports Illustrated
June 15, 2000
Tim Layden |
O'Brien is incognito, but not irrelevant Since coming out of hiding to win the Goodwill Games dec in the summer of '98, Dano has been further underground than David Lee Roth. |
Sports Illustrated
April 5, 2000 |
What's in and what's out Q&A on the Olympics: Anything like Triplecast in the future?... Handball... Surfing... Mary Slaney and Amy Van Dyken... Why no golf?... Michael Bennett... Will Bahamas team win the 4x100-meter relay?... |
Sports Illustrated
August 11, 2000
Tim Layden |
Track & Field snapshot six weeks from Sydney Such a varied roster of elite performers has emerged in the past 30 years that it's common in certain events to have all six continents represented in a single race. Yet it is also a tiny world. |
Sports Illustrated
May 10, 2000 |
Scorecard: Marathon Mess Why the world's best doesn't deserve a free pass to Sydney |
Sports Illustrated
May 4, 2000
Tim Layden |
Citizenship quest sinks Khannouchi On Wednesday morning I watched as Khalid Khannouchi, a small, tough man who has run the marathon faster than anybody in history, shed tears because he will not be competing in the U.S. Olympic marathon trials on Sunday morning in Pittsburgh.... |
Sports Illustrated
May 9, 2000
Tim Layden |
Inside Olympic Sports In a steamy trials marathon, Rod DeHaven grabbed the only U.S. ticket to Sydney... Marion's Off to a Flying Start... |
Sports Illustrated
April 15, 2003
Layden & Yaeger |
Playing Favorites? An ex-USOC official says some athletes were allowed to bend the drug rules. |
Sports Illustrated
August 15, 2000
Tim Layden |
Inside Olympic Sports Low-profile champs Allen Johnson and Charles Austin keep winning |
CIO
January 15, 2002
Lafe Low |
No False Starts Allowed The Olympic IT team has deployed the largest network in Utah. The 17-day-long Games begin on Feb. 8, and the systems for running the event have to be fully operational from day one... |
Sports Illustrated
June 27, 2000
Tim Layden |
Inside Olympic Sports A sparkling women's metric mile highlighted the Prefontaine Classic |
Sports Illustrated
July 23, 2000
Tim Layden |
Johnson can't sit out 200 Not competing would further damage his sport |
Sports Illustrated
March 7, 2000
Tim Layden |
Inside Olympic Sports At 39, half-miler Johnny Gray is charging toward his fifth Olympic team... 200-meter Showdown?... Drummond Gets Serious... |
Sports Illustrated
May 1, 2000
Tim Layden |
Track's three M's look sharp In honor of the Penn Relays -- the only track meet in the United States where you can find ticket scalpers on the street -- four legs of track-and-field dish after the first frantic weekend of the Olympic year... |
Sports Illustrated
July 6, 2000
Tim Layden |
Runyan's focus is sharper than ever We journalists are cynical mercenaries whose emotions don't stray far beyond what makes a good story. However, the stereotype has flaws. (For one, we aren't supposed to use words like "assiduously," so there you go). Some athletes simply demand to be rooted for. |
Sports Illustrated
August 16, 2000
Brian Cazeneuve |
Swim trials top 10 (er, 12) Following the tremendous response to our 10 (well, OK, 12) top highlights, lowlights and sidelights of the U.S. track and field trials last month, we present, with two races still to be swum on Wednesday, our top 10 (well, OK, 12) list from the Olympic swimming trials |
Sports Illustrated
April 17, 2000 |
Five golds gets closer for Jones Marion Jones' performance in 400 meters ensures her a spot in the 4x400-meter relay... C.J. Hunter won the shot put... Jason Pyrah ran the 3000-meter steeplechase... |
Sports Illustrated
May 17, 2000
Tim Layden |
Perec goes, Freeman arrives Marie-Jose Perec of France left Smith to train in Germany... Smith and Co. snared Cathy Freeman... Larry Wade, the No. 3-ranked 110-meter hurdler in the world last year, is recovering from major surgery... Women's 100 showdown... A hurdle for Jones... |
Sports Central
August 3, 2012
Marc James |
Becoming an Olympian Here's a closer look at the chances an Olympic hopeful has of qualifying for their event. |
Salon.com
September 25, 2000
Gary Kamiya |
Night of the thoroughbreds On an evening of amazing feats, an Australian hero and an American legend shone the brightest. |
Sports Illustrated
September 13, 2000
Frank Deford |
A culture of 'sus' So overwhelming is the perception that drugs sustain most Olympic athletes, that it really doesn't matter how much the well is poisoned. Almost every record and every winner is sus. Sus, a shortened version of the word "suspicious," is, so far as I know, only used in Olympic circles. |
Sports Illustrated
June 9, 2000
Brian Cazeneuve |
Rower battles back from cancer Here are two inspiring stories to watch at this weekend's U.S. Olympic rowing trials in Cherry Hill, N.J.... |
Registered Rep.
August 29, 2012
Diana Britton |
Cold Call with John McCardell John McCardell works with several athletes and coaches, including Dawn Staley, three-time Olympic gold medalist in U.S. basketball. What types of financial decisions do Olympians have to make post-games? |
Sports Illustrated
September 14, 2001
Tim Layden |
Temporary diversion College football games would have provided only a brief respite from the nation's disaster... |
Sports Illustrated
February 1, 2002
Tim Layden |
Good news, bad news U.S. Olympians will get intense scrutiny, support... |
Reason
June 2008
Katherine Mangu-Ward |
Olympic Gag Order Many countries, including the United States, Canada, and Australia, have promised not to restrict their athletes' political speech about China in the run-up to the games. Britain promises to "review" the U.K.'s policy, so the Brits may yet fall in line with their Anglosphere cousins. |
Sports Illustrated
August 8, 2000
Brian Cazeneuve |
Inside Olympics Competition will be fierce when America's best dive into the Olympic trials |
Sports Illustrated
June 26, 2001
Tim Layden |
Long and Strong Distance runners young and old stole the show at the U.S. track and field nationals... |
Sports Illustrated
June 23, 2000
Brian Cazeneuve |
Last-minute heroics for Ruiz, Dumais In the most exciting of conclusions, Mark Ruiz and Troy Dumais made the Olympic team Thursday night in men's three-meter springboard. |
Search Engine Watch
August 16, 2004
Gary Price |
An Olympic Selection of Search Resources The 2004 Summer Olympics are underway in Athens and the web is home to plenty of information that makes watching the games even more interesting. |
AskMen.com
Mike Sheppard |
Skiing Like An Olympian What does it take to make it as an Olympic skier? |
Sports Illustrated
May 30, 2000
Brian Cazeneuve |
Inside Olympic Sports Triathlete Hunter Kemper... Cyclist Nicole Freedman... Juan Antonio Samaranch, etc. |
Sports Illustrated
March 3, 2000
Brian Cazeneuve |
Defining the Olympic Spirit Welcome to the first Sydney 2000 Mailbag, where we'll discuss anything and everything relating to the Summer Games.... |
AskMen.com
October 4, 2000
Mark Simmons |
Olympic Drug Scandals Ah, the beautiful Olympic games: great athleticism, camaraderie and professionalism. But come every four years, the not-so-glamorous drugs also make their unwanted appearance... |
Salon.com
October 1, 2000
Gary Kamiya |
All of us Why the Olympics matter. |
Sports Illustrated
September 15, 2000
Brian Cazeneuve |
Opening secrets Some of the highlights from the opening ceremonies in Sydney... |
Sports Illustrated
April 28, 2000
Brian Cazeneuve |
Cuban diver sees stars and stripes Will Ramirez make it to the Olympics?... Some thoughts about the difficulties Athens is having as it prepares for the 2004 Olympics... The Sydney organizers are planning to send an Olympic torch into orbit on the shuttle Atlantis... |
Sports Illustrated
September 26, 2000 |
Sydney Pen Pals Thanks to the Sydney Olympics' internal computers, I can reach all the athletes via e-mail. So I e-mail 3,000 of them, 60 at a time, and ask them: What single thing has happened to you at these Olympics that you will never forget?... |
Sports Illustrated
March 21, 2001
Brian Cazeneuve |
Nothstein picks family over dollars U.S. cycling star Marty Nothstein won't be cashing in on his Olympic success in Japanese Keirin races after all... Records tumble at Olympic speedskating oval... Marathons will start blood testing... An equestrian face off... |
Sports Illustrated
August 3, 2000 |
IOC to target EPO dopers ...the International Olympic Committee will conduct tests for the cutting-edge performance enhancer erythropoietin... |
Wired
September 2000
Andrew Tilin |
Ready, Set, Mutate! International jock police should forget about controlling technology's impact on sports. It's the 21st century - let the augmentations begin. We've compiled a cutting-edge athlete's duffel of techno-enhanced clothing, equipment, and drugs that will help the world's athletes mine gold... |
HBS Working Knowledge
March 6, 2006
James Aisner |
Winners and Losers at the Olympics Harvard Business School professor emeritus Stephen Greyser has been studying, teaching, and writing about the business of sports for over 30 years. Here, he discusses his perspectives on the the marketing aspects of the recent Turin Games. |
Chemistry World
July 2, 2012
Bibiana Campos Seijo |
It's not all about winning Our 'Chemistry and the Olympics' feature, looks into the vital role chemistry will play during the Olympic games, in particular in relation to the work of the anti-doping labs and the science behind sports drinks and swimsuits. |
Sports Illustrated
September 12, 2000
Jack McCallum |
Scorecard What's worse -- suing to go to the Games, or just not caring? |
Sports Illustrated
February 7, 2002
Frank Deford |
Your Olympic Quiz A not-so-conventional primer for the Games... |
AskMen.com
Will Brody |
Top 10: Former Olympic Sports There have been many sports that have been dropped over the years. Let's take a look at some of the Olympic sports of yesteryear. |
