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The Ducks' Alan Foster (right), a freshman, has given alreadyrich Oregon even more depth in
the distance events.
Duck freshman sensation Foster
anchors awesome distance team
By lack Millikin
Emerald Sports Reporter
It's a funny thing about fresh
man Alan Foster.
He doesn’t look like a prodi
gy
Maybe that explains his suc
cess as an Oregon middle dis
tance runner. Maybe it's part of
his strategy to line up for a
race, check his elder oppo
nents. flash them a classic Tm
just-hoping-to-do-well smile
and later', just as his victims
near the home stretch, make a
mad dash to the finish line to
give his opponents the best
possible view of his backside.
Then again, it could lx; that
Foster has more up his sleeve
than just a good strategy
Since the Ducks' track season
began, Foster has not only
lived up to the expectations
thrust upon him since coming
to the Webfoot track team as a
key member of one of Oregon's
most highly prized recruiting
classes in history; he has quick
ly become one of the top guns
in the Ducks high-powered
lineup which has bullied its
way to a 7-0 season dual meet
record and has surpassed the
100-point barrier in each of the
six scored meets the Ducks
have conducted this year
His recipe for success has
been simple thus far; he com
bines hard work- which pro
pelled him to an all-American
rating from Track and Field
News in the metric mile as a se
nior at Aloha High School in
Beaverton- with a genuine en
thusiasm for running, one
which can be detected from the
outermost regions of Hayward
Field.
“He's got a lot of enthusiasm
and charisma about him." Ore
gon head coach Bill Dellinger
said of the lanky HOll and 1.500
meter runner who has also run
legs on the Ducks' mile relay
team. “I think he's going to he
good for Oregon track
"He's been a winner, number
one." he continued "He's
been a state champion (cap
tured 1MHH AAA state title in
800 with 1:51.97 and the 1.500
in 3:51.ill. adding these titles
to his cross country crown) and
he's the all-time Ix'sl 1.500-me
ter runner from this stule, and
he's a top student, so those are
things you look for."
This season, in addition to
moving up to a higher competi
tive level. Foster seems to have
brought his performances up a
notch as well, recording a ca
reer best in the 1,500 of 3:45.33
at thi! Oregon Invitational April
29 at Hayward Field, less than
three seconds short of the
NCAA standard of 3:42.70.
Foster, who one day hopes to
LMHornt* a pnysicui minimum
teacher. has also posted some
impressive numbers in the
classroom. He posted a :i H
GPA last fall and carried a ;t :)
winter term.
Naturally. Foster's bid to add
himself to the list of nine Ore
gon NCAA qualifiers in lit
events has attracted tin? atten
tion of local media, as well as a
few other followers.
"If you start running well,
you've got to expect some pub
licity." he said.
Still, for a freshman, to be
hounded by hordes of writers
drawing comparisons of Foster
to former Duck gre.it Dub My
ers (the HIHti NCAA 1,500-me
ter champ, like Foster, was
once an Oregon high schooler)
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Bogue tells of steroid
use in sprinter's club
TORONTO (AP) The head of
the Canadian Trat:k and Field
Association rejected a surefire
plan to catch Ben lohnson us
ing banned steroids in ItiHS, a
federal inquiry was told Wed
nesday.
Glenn Hogue, former ath
letes' representative with the
federally funded group, said
one of Johnson’s teammates
told him of rampant steroid use
at the sprinter's Toronto track
club.
Hogue said sprinter tfesai
Williams feared for lohnson's
health and was frustrated by
thi! star's artificially aided
gains
The pair made a plan where
by Williams would tell Hogue
when Johnson would lie on the
chemicals and would surely
fail a drug test
"It was the lies! evidence
short of testing positive at a
major competition we were go
ing to have." Hogue testified
"I went right to (assm lation
head) Wilf Wedman
"Will's attitude was 'Prove
it (let the (informant) to come
forward ami sign an affida
vit
Hogue >.11(1 ho wanted to sot
up ii "crime hotline" whereby
athletes could anonymously in
form off it i.ils of cheating. Wed
man rejected it. he said
Hogue told the commission
the athletes "were taking a lot
of stuff."
A government laboratory
analyzed five vials of a milky
white substance obtained last
November from the teammate
who stocked Johnson's drugs.
Andrew Holmes, a forensic
chemist with Health anil Wel
fare Canada, testified the vials
contained stano/.olol and had
properties similar to Wins!ml V
a veterinary form ol the syn
thrill hormone.
Johnson has denied ho know
ingly look banned drugs Those
t lose to him said they couldn’t
understand how he tested posi
tive at last year’s Olympics for
one drug stanozolol when
they thought he was taking an
other They said |ohnson’s
urine sample must have I iron
sabotaged after he won the l(il)
meters, although Wednesday’s
testimony indicated it was not
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