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OLYMPIC UPDATE
By ALEX RILEY
THE GAMECOCK
♦ USC alumna Aleen Bailey took
home a fifth-place finish in the
100-meter dash final Saturday
night. Bailey, a member of the
Jamaican track team, posted a time
of 11.05 seconds. She had won her
first preliminary heat and came in
second on the next one.
♦ Senior Otis Harris continues
to put on a strong performance as
he cruised to the finals of the 400
meter dash with a runner-up finish
in the semifinals. While Harris
tries to bring home gold in the
men’s 400, junior Lashinda
Demus, graduate Tonique
Williams-Darling and former USC
volunteer coach Monique
Hennagan advanced to the
semifinals of the women’s 400.
♦ Another athlete with USC
connections competing over the
next few days is volunteer coach
Melissa Morrison in the 100-meter
hurdles. Morrison took home the
bronze in 2000.
♦ Junior Shevon Stoddart’s
Olympic run came to end as she
posted a time of 56.61 seconds in
her 400-meter hurdles heat.
Stoddart finished fifth in that heat.
♦ Brad Snyder, a USC graduate
and member of team Canada, was
11th in his flight of the shot put
with a toss of 19.41 meters. He
failed to advance to the finals and
finished 20th overall.
♦ Maria Vento-Kabchai, pupil of
former USC tennis star Maxsy
Jimenez, fell in straight sets to No.
1 seed Justine Henin-Hardenne in
women’s singles, 6-2, 6-1.
OTHER NOTABLE
OLYMPIC STANDINGS
♦ Paul Hamm’s gold medal in
men’s gymnastics is stirring
controversy in the Olympic
community. Hamm edged out Yang
Tae-young (bronze) of South Korea
for the title. A judging error cost
Yang a tenth of a point and proved
to be the difference between bronze
and gold. The error was made on
Yang’s routine, which should have
been a 10.0 on the start value scale
of difficulty. However, it was rated
at 9.9. If everything would have
occurred exactly the same way,
Yang’s teammate Kim Daeeun
would have received the bronze
instead of silver, Hamm would
have been the silver medalist, while
Yang would have taken home the
gold. The South Korean’s have filed
protest papers and some of the
judges who oversaw the events
were suspended.
♦ Michael Phelps continues to
stun the world, in more ways than
one. Phelps added his fifth gold
medal to his collection Friday,
bringing his total count to an
astonishing seven. Phelps looked
poised to help his team bring
home the 400-meter medley relay
title, but suddenly backed out in
order to give teammate Ian
Crocker, whom he defeated for his
fifth gold, a chance to win a gold
medal in this Olympics. The relay
team managed to win the race and
set world record time.
Here’s the stipulation: Phelps
gets a gold medal because he was a
part of the qualifying team. Phelps
has now tied the record for most
medals won by a single person
with eight and raised his gold
medal total to six.
♦ Team USA’s softball squad
continues to roll over the
competition in unstoppable fashion,
as they get their seventh straight
shutout win 3-0 over Taiwan. Cat
Osterman was dominating on the
mound as she struck out 10, while
Crystl Bustos crushed her third
homer.
♦ Lisa Leslie led the lady Dream
Team to another convincing win, as
they cruised past Spain 71-58. Leslie
poured in a team-high 19 points.
The win clinched the first place spot
in the team’s preliminary group.
♦ The men’s basketball team
didn’t fare so well, as they fell to
Lithuania 94-90 in the final
preliminary game. The team did
manage to squeeze into the remaining
eight-team bracket for the run at the
gold because of its victory over earlier
teams who lost later in the day. The
team will wrap up round-robin play
Monday vs. Angola.
♦ Medal count: USA holds on to
its overall medal lead at 49 medals
(20 gold, 17 silver, 12 bronze) at
the time of production. China
continues to be second with a total
count of 43 (20 gold, 13 silver, 10
bronze).
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lashinda Demus, a junior athlete at USC, finished with the seventh
best time in the 400m hurdles, but did not make the finals, as she
was not in the top four of her own semifinal race.
■ CLARY
Continued from page 10
Let’s break it down. We play
Vanderbilt and Kentucky on the
road, the two teams in the East
whom you want to play on the
road, and we’ve had success there
in the past. We get Arkansas, who
lost basically everybody, and Ole
Miss, who lost Eli Manning, at
home. Ole Miss will be better than
people expect, but our players
certainly won’t forget when the
score was 35-7 and Eli was
throwing 30-yard passes. I know I
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won’t. Our only road SEC West
game is at Alabama, who has been
affected hard by its probation. The
key here is no LSU.
South Florida is decent but
shouldn’t be a problem, and Troy
State will be a win. With two weeks
to prepare for a home game against
Tennessee, and with a new
quarterback, this will be the year we
beat them. Don’t write off our
home game against Georgia, whom
we’ve played very tough the last
two times here and a road game
against Florida, who still is younger
and not as good as in the past.
And, of course, there’s Clemson.
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For the past 15 years, we tend to
play better up there than we do
down here, so I’m all for it. But
that’s another column.
♦ ATTITUDE
It all starts at the top. Coach Holtz
showed us this summer he isn’t
putting up with anything. By
suspending seven players for summer
II, Holtz showed everyone it’s about
the team and not individuals. Our
team will be more focused and
hungrier than ever. Enough said.
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BRIEFS
Parks offer USC football fans
chance to win prizes this season
A sweepstakes promotion for South Carolina Parks
will give Gamecock fans the chance to win free prizes
this football season. Prizes include golf packages worth
$120 at either Hickory Knobb State Resort Park near
McCormick or Cheraw State Park in Cheraw. The
grand prize includes two tickets to the Carolina
Clemson game in November and a free weekend stay
at historic Oconee State Park in Walhalla. The
Gamecock Radio Network will broadcast the
promotion on game-days and weekly drawings will be
held to determine the winner of the golf packages.
Gamecock finishes in third place
at international golf tournament
USC junior golfer Eirik Johansen finished third
at the International European Amateur
Championship in Skovde, Sweden. He was 13
under par for the tournament and shot under par
in each of the four rounds. Johansen shot 70-64
70-71 at the par 72, 6,215-yard Skovde Golf Club.
He was the leader after the first three rounds of
the tournament. Fellow Gamecocks Robert
Svenson and Martin Rominger also participated in
the tournament, finishing 70th and 73rd
respectively.
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