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Local athletes play 'down under’
■ Several athletes from
around the state represent
the United States at the 2000
Olympic Games in Sydney
By Scott Pesznecker
. Oregon Daily Emerald
A couple of athletes competing
at the 2000 Summer Olympic
Games in Sydney, Australia once
donned the Oregon colors of green
and gold.
Two former Ducks — Karl Keska
and Nick Rogers — journeyed to
Sydney this summer to pit their
skills against the world’s top com
petitors. Other athletes from Eu
gene and around the state also took
part in the planet’s most celebrated
sporting event.
Keska was the first Duck to com
pete at the 2000 Olympic Games,
recording a personal-best time of
27 minutes, 44.09 seconds in the
10,000-meter semifinals on
Wednesday.
The England representative,
born in Wolverhampton, England,
finished eighth in the 25-lap event
as the top European in the field.
Keska qualified for the 18-man fi
nal after placing sixth in the sec
ond of two preliminary heats three
days prior with a then-personal
best time of 27:48.29.
Keska was joined at the finish
line by two familiar faces from his
days as a Duck. Former Arizona
athlete Abdi Abdirahman and
UCLA athlete Mebrahtom Ke
felzighi finished 10th and 12th
place, respectively.
The British Olympic Federation
selected Keska to its Olympic team
back in April after a then-personal
best effort of 28:00.56 in an IAAF
meet in Lisbon, Portugal, on April
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Ovprall in the 10,000, returning
Olympic champion Haile Gebrse
lassie of Ethiopia defended his ti
tle (27:18.20) and edged 1996
Olympic silver medalist Paul Ter
gat (27:18.29) in a down-to-the
wire final lap. Fellow Ethiopian
Assefa Mezebu took the bronze
medal.
Rogers, who posted an impres
sive 5,000-meter personal best of
13:18.50 on Aug. 5 at the Heusden
meet in Brussels, Belgium, did not
advance past Wednesday’s open
ing heat in his first Olympiad. The
Snoqualmie, Wash., native dipped
well below his lifetime best, man
aging just 13:46.18 in the 5,000’s
preliminary race.
Rogers finished third at the U.S.
Portland Trail blazer
Steve Smith is playing for
the U.S. basketball team
and is virtually a sure-fire
bet to bring home a gold
medal.
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Olympic Trials in July, then added
the Olympic “A” qualifying stan
dard with his performance at the
Heusden meet.
A third Oregon alum, Kelly Blair
LaBounty, qualified for the
women’s heptathlon after a third
place finish in the U.S. Olympic
Trials in July, but did not compete
in Sydney due to injury.
Eugene hammer thrower Lance
Deal, a silver medalist at the 1996
Olympics in Atlanta, failed to
qualify for his event’s finals. Before
the games, Deal said that this
would be his final season.
Also from Eugene, Maria Mutola
won Mozambique’s first gold
medal in the 800 meters, and local
kayaker John Mooney qualified for
today’s final in the K4 1000 race.
Marla Runyan qualified for the
1,500-meter finals with a time of
4:06.14 on Thursday — her medal
race takes place at 5:20 a.m. Satur
day.
Tom Pappas of Azalea finished
fifth overall in his first Olympic
decathlon, making the trip after
winning the U.S. Olympic Trials in
July. Not far from Pappas’ home
town, swimmer Chris Thompson
of Roseburg will take home a
bronze medal in the 1,500-meter
freestyle.
Mike Kinkade of Tigard was on
the U.S. baseball team that
stunned Cuba, 4-0 on Wednesday,
for the gold medal.
Shannon MacMillan, Conor
Casey, Tiffeny Milbrett and
Michelle French, all of the Univer
sity of Portland, will compete for
gold in the women’s soccer finals
against Norway.
Elsewhere around the state,
Portland Trailblazer Steve Smith is
playing for the U.S. basketball
team and is virtually a sure-fire bet
to bring home a gold medal. Natal
ie Williams and DeLisha Milton,
both from the now-defunct Port
land Power, are leading the
women’s basketball tournament in
the race for the gold.
Courtenay Becker Day of The
Dalles finished 21st in the sailing
competition. Ken Brauckmiller of
Portland played for the Nether
lands’ baseball team but did not
advance. Dave Daniels of Red
mond is playing basketball for
Canada. Rower Hilary Gehman of
Portland finished second in
repechage and fifth in the quadru
ple sculls.
Netherlands swimmer Inge de
Bruijn and 1,500-meter runner
Suzy Favor Hamilton trained in
the state. Bruijn won golds in the
100 butterfly, 100 freestyle and 50
freestyle, plus a silver in the 400
freestyle relay. Hamilton advanced
to her event’s semifinals.
Gladstone wrestler Matt Lind
land won a silver medal, rower
Amy Martin of Kent finished sixth
and Wyndham St. John of
Prineville, competing for Canada’s
equestrian team, finished 23rd in
his race.
American ‘prowess’reigns in Sydney
TWO MINUTES FOR
ROSSCHECKING
PETER HOCKADAY
By Peter Hockaday
Oregon Daily Emerald
Damn, it feels good to be
an American.
Not only do we domi
nate world politics,
world economics and world cul
ture, but then we go to Sydney
and kick the world’s behind over
there, too?
Oh say, can you see.
I mean, there are come-from be
hind victories, human-interest
stories for everybody (just ask Bob
Costas) and, of course, there’s
Gary Payton. What’s not to love
about this U.S. Olympic team?
Who cares if C.J. tested posi
tive? Marion’s still going to win
those five golds! Aborigines, smi
genees - watch Michael John
songo! Ah, let the so-called “Thor
pedo” take his two events; we’ll
just mop the floor with the Aus
tralians in everything else!
All of this winning is very emo
tional, of course. I practically
burst into tears every time I turn
on the television these days.
There’s Laura Wilkenson bawling
over beating the Chinese off the
diving board. There’s the gymnas
tics team - it’s just one big tissue
fest with those 14-year-olds.
There’s Tommy Lasorda: I just
broke down when he finally won
something again.
But at least some of the teams
put a smile on my mug. Really,
how can you not love the Ameri
can tennis teams? I mean, Venus
({ / practically burst into
tears every time I turn on
the television these days.
Williams is just a perfect repre
sentation of all Americans: hum
ble, quiet and reserved. Good
thing Jeff Tara^go, tantrum boy,
was our last U.S/. menl’s player. I
wouldn’t have wanted Pete Sam
pras representing this fine coun
try!
And shame on those Australians
for booing our basketball team!
Those boys are the model of civili
ty and sportsmanship. My favorite
part of the opening ceremonies
was when the NBC camera panned
to tight-lipped Minnesota Timber
wolves forward Kevin Garnett,
Panama hat tilted to one side, car
rying a video camera and just soak
ing it all in. He must be surprised
Dream Team XXXVIII is doing so
well! How many other countries
can claim that they have actual
NBA players on their teams?
But gosh, we weren’t even sup
posed to win half of these golds,
which frankly are starting to weigh
us down. We weren’t supposed to
beat Cuba in baseball. We had a
greco-roman wrestler (my favorite
Olympic sport, by the way) who
knocked off a guy that won golds
in the past three Summer Games!
Stop it, please!
And where does this Lance
Armstrong guy come from? I
thought he was supposed to be
good. “Superman,” as he’s often
called, sarcastically noted before
coming to Sydney, “I can win five
Tours (meaning the Tour de
France), but if I lose at the
Olympics, everyone back home
says, ‘Who is that guy?’”
Excuse me, Lance, but isn’t that
the way it should be? Shouldn’t
the Olympics be the pinnacle? The
top of the heap? Do they happen
once a year, or every four years?
I’m not quite clear on that fact.
And which is better, a bright-yel
low shirt or a heavy gold medal?
Definitely the shirt.
But seriously, I’ve just been kid
ding with you this whole time. I
only really watch the Olympics for
Katie Couric.
Peter Hockaday is a sports reporter for the
Emerald. He can be reached at phocka
day@yahoo.com
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