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TRACK & FIELD - U.S.A.SHELIA BURRELL

EVENT: HeptathlonCOMPETITION DATES: Aug.20-21AGE: 32HEIGHT, WEIGHT: 5-8, 145BIRTHPLACE: AlbuquerqueRESIDENCE: Manhattan,Kan./Chula Vista, Calif.COLLEGE: UCLA (’95)RESUME: Bronze medalist in2001 World Championships;national champion in ’99 and’03; won prestigious multi-events meet in Gotzis, Austria,in ’02; ran second leg on

UCLA’s NCAA fourth-place 4-by-400 relay team in ’95; won ’04U.S. Olympic Trials. Personalheptathlon best of 6,472.

PAST OLYMPICS: 2000. Fin-ished 26th with a score of 5,345after suffering a knee strain and“no-heighting” in the high jump,receiving no points in that event.

DID YOU KNOW: Burrell wasall-state for Rio Grande in threesports — volleyball, basketballand track — and had collegescholarship offers for all three.

EVENT: 10,000-meter run

COMPETITION DATE: Aug. 27

AGE: 32

HEIGHT, WEIGHT: 5-5, 115

BIRTHPLACE: Durango, Colo.

RESIDENCE: Albuquerque

COLLEGE: Western (Colo.)State (class of ’96)

RESUME: Won four NCAA Divi-sion II 3,000-meter titles, theonly runner to have done so;women’s 5K road-racing nation-al champion in 1997. In 2001,set U.S. road-racing record for

four miles with a time of 19:40.Personal bests of 4:10.02(5,000), 8:46:09 (3,000),15:03.56 (5,000), 31:26.88(10,000).

PAST OLYMPICS: 2000 (fin-ished 11th in her 5,000 qualify-ing heat and didn’t advance tothe finals).

DID YOU KNOW: She’s notthe fastest runner in the family.Her husband and coach, Russ,was an All-American at WesternState and has run a sub-30-minute 10K.

EVENTS

SWIMMINGWhen: Aug. 14-21 Outlook: All eyes will be onAmerican Michael Phelps andIan Thorpe of Australia. NatalieCoughlin and Amanda Beardlead the American women,while 10-time medalist JennyThompson is back for her fourth — and final— Olympics.

SYNCHRONIZED SWIMMINGWhen: Aug. 23-27 Outlook: Russia swept both events in Sydney,while Americans didn’t win any medals.

DIVINGWhen: Aug. 14, 16, 20-28 Outlook: The Chinese are the sport’s domi-nant country, winning a record five gold medalsin Sydney. The only non-Chinese winner wasAmerican Laura Wilkinson, who pulled off astunning upset in platform and is back todefend her title. The top U.S. male is TroyDumais, who will compete in springboard andteam up with brother Justin in synchronized.

WATER POLOWhen: Men’s Aug. 15-29; women’s Aug. 16-26Outlook: Wolf Wigo, returning for a thirdOlympics, will captain the U.S. men’s team.Australia won the first women’s gold medal inSydney, edging the United States 4-3 in thefinal. The Americans won the world champi-onships in 2003 and have seven returningOlympians.

AQUATICS

EYES ON NEW MEXICO

When: Aug. 15-21Outlook: Archery competitionwill be at stadium where thefirst modern Olympic Gameswere held in 1896. SouthKorea won men’s and women’steam competitions in 2000,and swept the podium inwomen’s individual.

ARCHERY

When: Aug. 15-25. Outlook: Professionals werefirst allowed to participate inthe 2000 Sydney Games,which the United States won,but major league baseball doesnot allow players on 40-manmajor league rosters to partici-pate, causing the IOC to periodically say it willreview baseball’s status as an Olympic sport.The U.S. team was eliminated by Mexico.

BASEBALL

When: Aug. 14-21.Outlook: In a sport dominatedby athletes from Asia, Denmarkand the Netherlands also havesome medal hopes. China hasthree of the world’s top fivemen (as of late June), the topthree women in the singlescompetition and the two top-ranked women’sdoubles pairs.

BADMINTON

MEN’SWhen: Aug. 15-28 Outlook: The United States is aperennial favorite, but thedefending world champion isSerbia-Montenegro.

WOMEN’SWhen: Aug. 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24-25, 27-28Outlook: The United States is 34-3 in Olympiccompetition with 17 straight victories.

BASKETBALL

When: Aug. 14-25, 27-29 Outlook: Cuba has dominatedOlympic boxing in recent yearsand will bring another strongteam that includes defending119-pound gold medalistGuillermo Rigondeaux. Cuba isin danger, however, of losingthe medal race to Russia. Middleweight AndreDirrell is perhaps the most talented of theAmericans.

BOXING

When: Aug. 14-15, 18 (road);Aug. 20-25 (track); Aug. 27-28(mountain bike)Outlook: Mountain — theNetherlands’ Bart Brentjensand Norway’s Gunn-Rita Dahlewill be heavily favored to winindividual medals. Road —American men’s side will be without LanceArmstrong, who declined an invitation. Track— France, Britain and Australia each won fivemedals at this year’s world championships.

CYCLING

When: Aug. 17-20 (slalom)and Aug. 23-28 (sprint)Outlook: Manmade Hellinikovenue pumps in water fromthe nearby MediterraneanSea, making it the firstOlympic whitewater course touse saltwater. That makes theboats more buoyant and causes more eye irri-tation from splashing.

CANOEING/KAYAKING

When: Aug. 15-18, 20-25, 27Outlook: The three disciplines— dressage, jumping, eventing— are unique in that men andwomen compete on the sameterms and both horse and rid-er win medals. American Deb-bie McDonald, with horseBrentina, is the 2003 World Cup dressagechamp. The U.S. three-day team, with KimSeverson on Winsome Adante, is favored.

EQUESTRIAN

When: Aug. 14-22Outlook: Italy’s Valentina Vez-zali has three golds and onesilver in individual and teamwomen’s foil in the past twoOlympics. The Americans, whohave not won a medal in fenc-ing since 1984, have theirbest chance in women’s saber, where sistersSada and Emily Jacobson and Mariel Zagunisare ranked in the top 10.

FENCING

When: Aug. 14-19, 23-24 Outlook: U.S. women wongold at world championshipslast year, and men won silver.Both are expected to be in themedal hunt again. China,Japan, Russia and Romaniahave strong men’s andwomen’s teams. Women’s all-around shouldbe the highlight of the individual competi-tions. Russian Svetlana Khorkina will be oneto watch, her final major competition.

GYMNASTICS

When: Aug. 14-24, 26-29 Outlook: After sweeping allmedals in Sydney, Europeanteams should again dominate.Russia, the reigning men’sOlympic champion, is groupedwith Spain (2000 bronzemedalist) and Croatia (2003world champion). On the women’s side, 2003world champion France is grouped with 2000gold medalist Denmark.

HANDBALL

When: Aug. 14-20Outlook: Introduced as anOlympic sport in 1964; nocountry has dominated, but theJapanese always are strong.This year will be no exceptionwith six-time world championRyoko Tani returning to defendher gold medal in the 48 kg weight class. Jim-my Pedro, whose bronze in 1996 was the lastAmerican medal, qualified in 73 kg; he retiredin 2000 but returned in 2003.

JUDO

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U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps will try to break Mark Spitz’s record of seven gold medals in one Olympics. Phelps is expected to swim in five individual events and possibly all three relays.

When: Aug. 14-27Outlook: Germany is a powerin men’s Pool A along withthree-time gold medalist Pak-istan. On the women’s side,Australia won gold at last twoOlympics. The United Statesdidn’t qualify.

FIELD HOCKEY

Albuquerque, softball, Canada: A star shortstop(then Jackie Van Hooydonk) at the University ofNew Mexico, Lance was named to the Canadiannational team in 1997 and played in the SydneyOlympics four years ago. She was born inGrande Prairie, Alberta. Lance, 30, is an Albu-querque firefighter when not playing softball.

JACKIE LANCESOFTBALL - CANADA

SANDY MARTINEZ-PINOBOXING - U.S.A.

HEATHER MOODYWATER POLO - U.S.A.

AUSTIN TROUTBOXING - U.S.A.

Albuquerque, Team Leader, U.S. Olympic boxingsquad: Martinez, a longtime state and nationalamateur boxing official, is an Olympic veteran.She was a timekeeper at Los Angeles in 1984,supervised the sport’s computerized scoringsystem at Atlanta in ’96, and was a member ofthe international federation’s executive commit-tee at Sydney four years ago.

Manzano High School Class of ’91, water polo:Moody, 30, an all-state swimmer at Manzano,learned the game of water polo under coachReed Barnitz at Albuquerque’s Duke City Aquat-ics. Her family moved to Green River, Wyo.,shortly after her graduation from MHS. The 6-foot, 1-inch Moody is the captain of the 2004U.S. water polo team.

Las Cruces, alternate and sparring partner, box-ing: Trout, 18, barely missed a berth on theU.S. Olympic boxing team in the trials processearlier this year. Because of that near miss andbecause of his versatility, USA Boxing tookTrout to Athens to serve as a sparring partnerfor boxers in weight classes between 142 and160 pounds.

ELVA DRYERTRACK & FIELD - U.S.A.

EVENTS

EYES ON NEW MEXICO

COMPETITION DATES:Aug. 15-20

AGE: 16

HEIGHT, WEIGHT: 5-5, 125

BIRTHPLACE: Las Vegas, Nev.

RESIDENCE: Rio Rancho

HIGH SCHOOL: Home-schooled

RESUME: Has won 24 state and six nationaltitles as junior; holds eight of 10 records in thegirls cadet division; ranked 14th nationally, wasthird in U.S. Junior World Trials, fourth inOlympic Trials.

PAST OLYMPICS: None

DID YOU KNOW: A fan of mystery writer Patri-cia Cornwell and of the “CSI” television series,Harvey hopes for a career in forensic science.

KENDRA HARVEYARCHERY - U.S. - ALTERNATE

COMPETITION DATES:Aug. 15-28AGE: 27HEIGHT, WEIGHT: 6-2, 202BIRTHPLACE: Aguas Buenas,Puerto RicoRESIDENCE: RoswellCOLLEGE: New Mexico Junior College/Southern California (’99)RESUME: First-team all-state for Roswell HighSchool in 1995; made Pac-10 all-newcomerteam with Southern Cal in ’97; has played pro-fessionally in Italy, Greece, Turkey and in theContinental Basketball Association.PAST OLYMPICS: NoneDID YOU KNOW: Ayuso came to Roswell as atroubled New York City teenager via a Boys andGirls Club program. In New Mexico, he becamea solid student and a three-sport athlete atRoswell High.

ELIAS “LARRY” AYUSOBASKETBALL - PUERTO RICO

COMPETITION DATES:Aug. 15-28AGE: 28HEIGHT, WEIGHT: 7-1, 260BIRTHPLACE: Lubbock, TexasRESIDENCE: Puerto RicoCOLLEGE: New Mexico/St. Vincent (’98)RESUME: NAIA Player of the Year for St. Vincent(Latrobe, Pa.) in 1998; played for Italian A-Divisionchampionship team (Varese Roosters) in ’99; hasplayed for Phoenix and Milwaukee in the NBA.PAST OLYMPICS: 1996DID YOU KNOW: Santiago’s Puerto Rican her-itage comes from his late paternal grandfather,former Albuquerque Dukes baseball playerPedro “Jockey” Santiago, who stood 5 feet, 6inches tall — 19 inches shorter than his grand-son.

DANIEL SANTIAGO

When: Aug. 26 (men), Aug. 27(women)Outlook: The five-sport disci-pline created by modernOlympics founder Pierre deCoubertin was introduced in1912. Women competed forthe first time in 2000. Ath-letes compete in shooting, fencing, swim-ming, horseback riding and finish with across-country run. Eastern European menhave won all individual medals the past threeOlympics.

MODERN PENTATHLON

When: Aug. 14-22Outlook: U.S. women’s eightcomes in having won its lasttwo world cup events. GreatBritain is defending Olympicchampion in men’s four andeight. In women’s singlesculls, Ekaterina Karsten ofBelarus looks to repeat gold medal perfor-mance from Sydney. The United States failedto qualify boats for men’s single sculls andwomen’s double sculls.

ROWING

When: Aug. 14-22 Outlook: Nearly 400 men andwomen will compete; one ofthe few sports that hasappeared on the schedule ofevery modern SummerOlympics. Women’s shootingdisciplines were introduced in1984. Matt Emmons will compete in air rifle,prone rifle and three-position rifle. He’s thefirst American to qualify in three disciplinessince 1960.

SHOOTING

When: Aug. 14-26, 28Outlook: American PaulCayard, one of the world’sbest sailors, will compete inhis first Olympics at age 45 inthe Star Class after beatingMark Reynolds, the defendinggold medalist and a four-timeOlympian, at trials. The high-performance49er, with retractable wings and the crewhiked out in trapezes, made a splashy debutat Sydney in 2000.

SAILING

When: Aug. 11-12, 14-15, 17-18, 20-21, 23-24, 26-28Outlook: None of the top fourmen’s teams from 2000 qual-ified. Four-time world under-20champion Argentina is left asthe favorite. 2003 World Cupwinner Germany and the Unit-ed States are favorites in women’s event;defending champion Norway failed to qualify.

SOCCER

When: Aug. 14-23 Outlook: U.S. team will againbe prohibitive favorite to winthird straight gold. Led bythree-time Olympian Lisa Fer-nandez, biggest challenge forthe Americans could comefrom themselves. U.S. teamtook a 110-game winning streak to Sydneybefore losing three straight and nearly miss-ing medal round. The Americans recovered towin gold.

SOFTBALL

When: Aug. 26-29Outlook: American StevenLopez, who won gold in 68kgin Sydney, will try for anothermedal in the 80kg weightclass. Greece’s MichalisMouroutsos will try to defendhis 2000 gold medal in 58kgon his home turf.

TAEKWONDO

When: Aug. 14-23Outlook: Chinese have domi-nated since sport was addedto Olympics in 1988 — theywon every available goldmedal in 1996 and 2000. Topthree men and top five womenin the world are all Chinese.American Gao Jun, who won a women’s dou-bles silver medal in 1992 while competing forChina, represents the United States’ besthope for its first medal.

TABLE TENNIS

When: Aug. 15-22 Outlook: Andy Roddick, RogerFederer and Venus Williamshead a high-quality field, withATP and WTA ranking pointsat stake. The hard courts arethe same as those used atU.S. Open, which starts Aug.30, so that favors Roddick and his 140-150mph serves. The men play best-of-three-setmatches until the singles final.

TENNIS

When: Aug. 20-29Outlook: Marion Jones was the darling of the2000 Olympics after winningfive medals. This time around,she qualified in just the longjump at the U.S. trials.Though the United States hasa young team, it will battleRussia in the medal count.Allen Johnson goes for anoth-er gold in the 110-meter hur-dles. Felix Sanchez hasn’t lost in the 400hurdles in two years.

TRACK & FIELD

When: Aug. 25 (women), Aug. 26 (men)Outlook: After being shut outin Sydney, U.S. team appearspoised to medal in 2004 —Barb Lindquist and SheilaTaormina were ranked No. 1and No. 2 in the world. Aus-tralia’s Loretta Harrop, second to Taormina atthe world championships in May, should alsocontend. In men’s race, New Zealand’sBevan Docherty will look to repeat first-placefinish at worlds. American Hunter Kemperhas risen to No. 5 in world rankings.

TRIATHLON

When: Women’s medal match-es Aug. 28. Men’s medalmatches Aug. 29Outlook: The U.S. women havea good chance to capture firstgold. On the men’s side, Ser-bia-Montenegro is back todefend gold from 2000.

BEACH VOLLEYBALLWhen: Aug. 14-25Outlook: American men have won the first twogold medals. On the women’s side, AmericansMisty May and Kerri Walsh have dominatedthe sport.

VOLLEYBALL

When: Aug. 14-16, 18-21, 23-25Outlook: The big story mightagain come from one of thesmallest competitors — two-time gold medalist Halil Mutluof Turkey is only 4-11 but canlift more than 400 pounds.Women’s weightlifting returns after debutingin Sydney, and American Tara Cunningham(105{ pounds, 48 kg) goes for a secondgold after surprise win in 2000.

WEIGHTLIFTING

When: Aug. 22-29Outlook: Can Rulon Gardnerdo it again, without having tobeat Russian super wrestlerAlexander Karelin? Gardnerhas had a series of mishapsand calamities since pullingoff his “miracle on the mat”upset of Karelin in Sydney, but now looks tobe healthy and a gold medal contender again.Otherwise, U.S. freestyle and Greco-Romanteams don’t look especially strong.

WRESTLING

EVENT: Men’s eightsCOMPETITION DATES:Aug. 15-22AGE: 27HEIGHT, WEIGHT: 6-9{, 210BIRTHPLACE: Santa FeRESIDENCE: Cambridge, EnglandCOLLEGE: Yale (’98)RESUME: Took up rowing as a freshman atYale, then was recruited to row for Cambridgeafter moving to England to study on a MarshallScholarship. Has two silver medals and onebronze in World Championships competition. Isthe tallest man to row in the famed Boat Racebetween Oxford and Cambridge. Eligible to row forGreat Britain because his father, Geoffrey, wasborn in England.PAST OLYMPICS: NoneDID YOU KNOW: West played soccer andfield hockey before he took up rowing but,despite his height, never played basketball.

JOSH WEST

IT’S GREEK TO ME: WOMEN’S WRESTLING

Men wrestlers have been com-peting in the Olympics sincethe ancient Athens games in776 B.C. In 2001, the Interna-tional Olympic Committeeapproved the sport forwomen.Women will participate Aug.22-23 in four weight divisions.The U.S. picked Terry Steinerto coach its first team. Stein-er, who, as a 1993 NCAAchamp at Iowa, guided theAmericans to a win over Japanin the 2003 World Cup.The U.S. team includes futureYale law student Patricia Miranda, 2003 WorldCup champ Toccara Mont-gomery and Tela O’Donnell,who attends CU-ColoradoSprings.

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Gail Devers, left, at age 37, is returning to the Olympics for the fifth time. She is taking her last shot at the one gold that has eluded her — the hurdles.

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TIM MONTGOMERYIn June, the United States Anti-Doping Agency

announced it would seek a lifetime ban againstMontgomery — the world recordholder in the 100 meters — foralleged steroid use. Though he con-sistently denied in the media thathe had used banned substances,Montgomery reportedly admittedbefore a grand jury that he had.

Montgomery made the situationmoot, for now, by finishing a well-beaten seventh in the 100 at the Olympic Trials.

Montgomery’s girlfriend, three-time Olympic goldmedalist Marion Jones, is under investigation fordoping violations. She won the long jump at theTrials but failed to qualify in the 100 meters andpulled out of the 200.

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5Times Gail Devers has qualifiedfor the Games. She joins CarlLewis and Willye White as the

only track athletes to qualify forfive Olympics.

7Shooters on the 28-man U.S.Olympic rifle team who are full-time marksmen with the Armyunit based at Fort Benning, Ga.

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team’s record in Olympic compe-tition, with losses to the Soviet

Union in 1972 and 1988.

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Olympic village.

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Amount NBC paid to televise theGames.

1,210Hours of the Games NBC

Universal networks will televise.

441Hours NBC televised during the

2000 Games in Sydney.

$1.5 billion

Athens’ record security budget.

The Acropolisand Parthenon

Nike, goddess of victory

Panathinaikon Stadiumheld the first modernOlympic Games in 1896

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Excerpt from Pindar’s EighthOlympic Ode (460 B.C.)

SOURCES: EFsimon Collections SA; Athens Olympic Committee APAP

THE NEW FACE OF SUMMER’S GOLDThis Olympics will see the first change to the front side of theSummer Olympic medal since the Amsterdam Games in 1928.

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LANCE ARMSTRONGThe Olympic Games cycling competition won’t be

the Tour de Lance. Armstrong, whorecently won his sixth consecutiveTour de France, is a three-timeOlympic cyclist and won a time-trialbronze medal four years ago. Hedecided against competing inAthens, citing a need to spend timewith his three children as well as theshort amount of rest and preparationtime between the Tour de France and the Olympics.

DAVID KRUMMENACKERHe’s a national and world champion, but he’s

still not an Olympian. The 1993 Las Cruces HighSchool graduate, acknowledged as one of thebest 800-meter runners in the world, keeps com-ing up empty at the U.S. Olympic Trials.

Four years ago, Krummenacker —unknowingly suffering from iron defi-ciency — was badly beaten in the800 and the 1,500 at the Trials.

Last month, running as a heavyfavorite after having won the 800meters at the 2003 World IndoorChampionships in London, he fin-ished fourth and out of the runningin the 2004 Trials. Krummenacker chose not torun the 1,500, saying he had concentrated on the800 and didn’t have enough time to prepare.

Has time run out on Krummenacker, who will be33 in 2008? Maybe not. American record-holderand four-time Olympian Johnny Gray still was run-ning world-class times as he approached 40.

KELLI WHITEShe won gold medals in the 100

and 200 meters at the 2003 WorldChampionships but has admitted tousing banned substances andaccepted a two-year ban. She didn’tcompete in the Olympic Trials. Ithasn’t been decided whether she’llbe allowed to keep her World Cham-pionships medals.

ALVIN HARRISONThe two-time Olympian ran at the Trials with the

weight of a doping investigation on his shoulders.He was eliminated in his 400-meter semifinal heat.Alvin’s twin brother, Calvin, the 2000 Olympic goldmedalist in the 400, finished fifth in the Trials finalbut was among the candidates to run the 4-by-400-meter relay in Athens — until he was hit with a two-year suspension on a doping charge.

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Tracy McGrady, who has left the Orlando Magicand will wear a Houston Rockets uniform next sea-son, won’t suit up for the U.S. this summer. Hewithdrew from the team, citing security concerns.Others who withdrew include Jason Kidd (kneesurgery), Ray Allen (getting married), Karl Malone(injuries, the death of his mother), Jermaine O’Neal(injuries) and Mike Bibby (reasons unknown). Thosewho initially declined invitations include ShaquilleO’Neal, Kevin Garnett, Vince Carter, Richard Hamil-ton and Ben Wallace.

As a result, the U.S. will field a talented but youngand vulnerable men’s basketball team in Athens.

ATHENS:Greek capital and that nation’slargest city. Site of the 2004 Sum-mer Olympic Games. Named forAthena, the ancient Greek god-dess of wisdom, skills and war-fare. City is built around Mt.Lycabettus, which according tomythology was dropped from thesky by Athena to protect the city— or, according to other ver-sions, just because she got a littleclumsy.

DECATHLON, HEPTATHLON, PENTATHLON:

Olympic events requiring thecontests to compete in several

different disciplines. From theGreek words for 10, seven andfive, plus “athlon” — meaning “aprize.”

MARATHON:Small city in Greece (actually,Marathonas). In 490 B.C., theAthenian army defeated the Per-sians in a battle on the nearbyplain of Marathon. According tolegend, a runner named Pheidip-pides ran approximately 26miles from the battle site toAthens to inform the citizens ofthe victory. Perhaps because hehad run approximately 290 milesfrom Marathon to Sparta and back shortly before in an

unsuccessful attempt to enlistSpartan aid, Pheidippides is saidto have collapsed and died as hedelivered the good news. Forsome reason, modern runnersdecided to name their 26.2-milerun the marathon instead of thepheidippides.

OLYMPICS:Athletic competition founded inGreece in the year 776 B.C.,according to legend. The namederives from the Greek wordOlympus, the home of the godsin Greek mythology — an indica-tion, perhaps, of how seriouslythe ancient Greeks took theirsports. Jim Rome would have fitright in.

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