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There aren't enough hours in the day for Lisa Leslie to accomplish all she wants to do.
EUGENE, Ore. -- Jenn Stuczynski made an American-record leap.
EUGENE, Ore. -- Every athlete at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials felt for Tyson Gay, knowing the chill of that sudden strike of pain and the hazy uncertainty that descends while you take stock of your body and desperately hope years of training have not been lost in one swift and terrible instant.
EUGENE, Ore. -- She ran smoothly and steadily, her waist-length blond hair fanning out behind her as the Hayward Field crowd cheered her on.
EUGENE, Ore. -- Jeremy Wariner skipped the traditional victory lap after the men's 400 team was determined Thursday at the U.S. Olympic trials, leaving winner LaShawn Merritt and surprise third-place finisher David Neville to soak up the adulation of the crowd at Hayward Field.
EUGENE, Ore. -- Four years ago Jenn Stuczynski was a long-hitting golfer with plans to join the LPGA Tour.
EUGENE, Ore. -- Bryan Clay had to remind himself he was better than the performances he was leaving on the track and in the jumping pits of Hayward Field.
EUGENE, Ore. -- Please, let them be clean.
EUGENE, Ore. -- A leg cramp at the worst possible time. Or the doubly unspeakable bad luck of both calves cramping at once.
EUGENE, Ore.--If the U.S. Olympic track team for the Beijing Games is composed of athletes as flat-out fast as Marshevet Hooker, as natural and unspoiled as 16-year-old Laura Roesler and as upstandingly honest as Allyson Felix and Lauryn Williams, maybe there's hope for a sport that has seemed intent on destroying itself through a never-ending series of drug scandals.