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Everybody in the (relay) pool

By Helene Elliott
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Angela Williams of Ontario, a four-time NCAA champion at 100 meters at USC, and Monique Henderson of San Diego, who was the 2005 NCAA 400-meter champion at UCLA and part of the Athens champion 1,600-meter relay, were added to the relay pool for the U.S. Olympic track and field team.

Williams, this year’s world indoor champion at 60 meters, was added to the 400-meter relay pool. She was a member of the Athens relay pool, but the U.S. team was disqualified because of a bad baton pass. Henderson was added to the 1,600-meter relay pool.

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Javelin thrower Breaux Greer, who didn’t make the finals, was added to the men’s team by the USA Track and Field chair, per a rule that allows an athlete who was injured during the trial to be added to the team if he has previously achieved the Olympic ‘A’ standard. Check out the complete list of who made the team.

--Helene Elliott

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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