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PERSONALITY PROFILE
Born to Run
Marion Jones, the world’s fastest woman, has a chance for 5
gold medals in Sydney.
By Marni Greenberg
All eyes are on Marion Jones at the 2000 Olympics. She’s
already the World’s Fastest Woman, a title she claimed by win
ning the 100-meter final at the World Championships in Athens
in 1997. “She started crying right away," her husband C.J. Hunter
told an interviewer. “It was quick though. It was Marion. She even
cries fast.”
Sport: Sprints and long jump
Age: 24
Height: 5’ 9”
Weight: 150 lbs.
Born: October 12, 1975 in Los Angeles, Calif.
College: Graduated from the University of North Carolina in
1997 with a B.A. in Communications
Married: Shot putter C.J. Hunter on October 3, 1998
Residence: Raleigh, North Carolina
Goals: 5 gold medals at the Sydney 2000 Olympics—accom
plished only once before (Finnish runner Paavo Nurmi, in Paris
in 1924)
Coach: Trevor Graham, a Jamaican Olympian
her last one of the year
in 1998, when Heike
Drechsler of Germany
beat her in the World
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Ones to Ulatch
These students just happen to be Olympic athletes—watch for
them in Sydney.
by Erin Dionne
Jenny Keim
U.S. Olympic Diving Team
University of Miami
Sydney marks Jenny Keim’s second
visit to the Olympics. The first time, at
age 16, she placed 9th on the spring- |
board in Atlanta. A University of Miami
senior, Keim actually retired from diving
after the 1996 games, and only took it up
again when she was offered a scholarship to Miami.
“I figured that it would be a great way to get through school, but I
never at that point had any dream of [going back to the Olympics]
But once I was on the boards again...you can't just dive and not
give it your all.”
This year she’s diving in the 3-meter springboard competition,
and as the 2000 NCAA National Champion in the 10-meter plat
form, she has the experience to bring home a medal.
Ed moses
U.S. Olympic Swimming Team
University of Virginia
Ed Moses started taking his swimming
seriously as a high school senior, when he
won the 1998 Junior National
Championship in the 100-yard breast
stroke. In the two years since he’s raced to
the top of his sport, breaking world records
three times at the 2000 NCAA Championships
Currently a student at the University of Virginia (majoring in athletic
training), Moses takes to the water in Sydney in the 100m and
200m breaststroke. His sights are set on success.
“As far as my expectations for Sydney, they haven’t changed. I
went to Virginia this year expecting a gold in Sydney."
Lorrie Fair
U.S. Olympic Soccer Team
University of North Carolina
She was the youngest person on that
team. At 21, Lorrie Fair helped make his
tory as part of the 1999 Women’s World
Cup team, and she was the only member of
the team to have—and take—her last year of
NCAA eligibility that fall. She played for the North
Carolina Tar Heels and helped them to a total of three NCAA
Championships in her four years. Fair was an alternate for the
Olympic team in Atlanta, so the Sydney games will be her first time
playing for gold.
When she was 13, Fair received an autographed poster of
Michelle Akers, the now-retired star of women's soccer. The picture
still hangs above her bed. “Michelle was the only girl role model I
had,” Fair said.
Now she’s the role model,
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