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THE BULLETIN • SaTUrday, aprIL 17, 2021
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OLYMPICS
American sprinter
to miss games
GENEVA — The man
who had been expected
to succeed Usain Bolt as
Olympic champion will
miss the Tokyo Games
after failing Friday in an
appeal to overturn his ban
for missed doping tests.
The Court of Arbitra-
tion for Sport cut current
100-meter world cham-
pion Christian Coleman’s
ban from two years to
18 months, but it won’t
expire until November,
three months after the
Olympics.
Coleman’s 9.76-second
run to win the 2019 world
title was the fastest in
the world in the past five
years, and 0.05 quicker
than Bolt when he won
a third straight Olympic
gold in 2016. Bolt, how-
ever, still holds the world
record in the event, run-
ning 9.58 at the 2009
worlds in Berlin.
Coleman has never
tested positive but the
American sprinter broke
anti-doping rules by
missing three no-notice
attempts to take samples
from him in a one-year
period.
“While I appreciate that
the arbitrators correctly
found that I am a clean
athlete, I am obviously dis-
appointed that I will miss
the Olympic Games this
summer,” Coleman said in
a statement.
Leaving guts and others behind
Sisters’ 400-meter state
champion starts season
strong as he eyes repeat
BY BRIAN RATHBONE • The Bulletin
PRINEVILLE —
S
teve Prefontaine, the
legendary Oregon distance
runner, had a saying that a lot
of people race to see who is the
fastest, but he raced to see “who
has the most guts.”
Then there is Brody Anderson.
The senior speedster on the
Sisters track and field team, who
not 10 minutes after winning the
400 meters in the Ice Breaker track
meet Thursday at Ward Rhoden
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Stadium, was spilling his guts.
“You are either so out of shape that
you puke, or I’m so in shape I push
myself to the point that I puke,” An-
derson said. “So this is pretty normal.”
Normal for Anderson is also run-
ning fast — really fast. As a sopho-
more in 2019, Anderson won the 400
meters at the Class 4A state champi-
onship with a time of 50.45 seconds.
And yes, while standing on the top of
the podium receiving his first-place
medal, up came his lunch.
“He goes hard. He only knows one
way to run and that is hard,” said Sisters
coach Jeff Larson of Anderson’s post-
race routine. “It is not uncommon.”
In the first track meet of the sea-
Sisters’ Brody Anderson takes off from the starting blocks while competing in the 400-meter dash Thursday in Prineville.
“He goes hard.
He only knows one way to run and that is hard.”
— Jeff Larson, Sisters track coach
son Thursday at Crook County High
School, Anderson finished the 400
in 54.52, five seconds faster than the
second-place finisher. He said he hit
“the wall” a little earlier than he was
hoping for with about 80 meters re-
maining.
It was a time he was happy with and
a race his coach was looking for.
“He did exactly what I asked him to
do and that was go hard,” Larson said.
Beavers’ tourney run opening
doors to prominent prospects
NBA
Wade joins Jazz
ownership
— Associated Press
See Track / B3
MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL
— Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY —
Dwyane Wade is an NBA
owner.
The Utah Jazz an-
nounced Friday that the
13-time NBA All-Star will
join the youngest owner-
ship group in the league.
The group is headed by
technology entrepreneur
Ryan Smith, who along
with his wife, Ashley, ac-
quired majority interest in
the Jazz in late 2020.
Wade and Smith have
known each other for sev-
eral years .
“Dwyane is not only a
basketball legend, he is
also a great leader, busi-
nessman, and human be-
ing,” Smith said in a state-
ment. ”
Wade played 16 NBA
seasons with Miami,
Chicago and Cleveland
before retiring after the
2018-19 season. He won
three NBA titles.
“Partnering with Ryan
and the Utah Jazz is the
perfect fit as we share the
same vision and values,”
Wade said.
Wade talked about en-
tering into NBA ownership
in the final seasons of his
career and said in 2019
that he wanted to discuss
the potential of joining
the Heat leadership group.
The sides talked later that
year, with no agreement,
and it’s not known if the
conversations ever re-
sumed.
Anderson came into the 2020
spring season as a junior with aspira-
tions of repeating as a state champion.
He felt good about his offseason train-
ing and felt confident he could end
the year at the same spot he did the
prior season.
Then came COVID-19 and the
cancellation of spring sports — mean-
ing no chance at a repeat.
“The carrot was always being held
out there that things would open up
again,” Larson said. “In the middle of
June is when he finally hung it up. He
continued to train and stayed posi-
tive.”
It still remains uncertain if there
will be a track and field state cham-
pionship meet this year. The Oregon
School Activities Association decided
to not hold a sanctioned state meet.
However, the Class 4A athletic di-
rectors were able to organize a state
cross-county meet, football champi-
onship game, and postseason volley-
ball and soccer tournaments after the
“fall” season that concluded last week.
BY NICK DASCHEL
The Oregonian
Al Powers via Pac-12, file
Oregon State men’s basketball coach Wayne Tinkle celebrates with
players Ethan Thompson (5) and Zach Reichle (11) after the Beavers up-
set Colorado in the Pac-12 Conference tournament title game in March
in Las Vegas. Tinkle credits the leadership roles taken on by Thompson
and Reichle as key in the Beavers’ improbable postseason run.
Oregon State’s Elite Eight
run has long since come and
gone, but in one respect, it’s
still a fresh topic to some who
matter most.
Men’s basketball recruits
looking at Oregon State as
their college destination.
In most cases, amend that to
next college destination, as this
spring’s recruiting attention
has turned to the NCAA trans-
fer portal.
The Beavers have at least
two roster spots to fill with the
departure of transfers Julien
Franklin and Tariq Silver.
Asked if he expects others
currently on the roster to con-
sider the portal, OSU coach
Wayne Tinkle said, “In this
day and age, you never know.
We’re prepared. We’re involved
with some pretty good guys.
You never know once you start
signing a guy or two, how guys
will respond to that. We’ll see. I
know we’ll be prepared to deal
with whatever comes our way.”
Tinkle can’t talk about spe-
cific transfer prospects, but his
coaching staff isn’t having trou-
ble developing conversations
with prominent players. Sev-
eral are thought to have ties to
Power 5 programs.
See Beavers / B2
OLYMPICS COMMENTARY
Tokyo Olympics will go on, but in name only
BY PAUL NEWBERRY
AP Sports Columnist
In 1964, less than two de-
cades removed from World
War II, Japan used the Sum-
mer Olympics to showcase its
astonishing recovery from a
horrific defeat.
It was an undeniable tri-
umph for the host nation.
This time, the Tokyo Games
will be a multibillion-dollar
test of survival in the midst of a
lingering pandemic.
Despite the mixed messages
coming from top officials, not
to mention the steadfast op-
position of the vast majority of
Japanese citizens, these Olym-
pics will take place this summer.
There’s too much money at
stake for there to be any other
outcome.
But it’s clear this will be
an Olympics in name only,
stripped of the joy and charm
and lofty ideals that make it
a tradition unlike any other
(sorry, Masters), leaving only
the stench of well-deserved
cynicism.
Forget about tens of thou-
sands of people from every
corner of the globe transform-
ing the streets of Tokyo into a
potpourri of humanity. Foreign
fans are not allowed.
Forget about the athletes
hanging around to absorb the
culture and cuisine of the hosts
once their competitions are
over. They’re being told to ar-
rive late and get out of town as
soon as possible.
Forget about the stories that
would’ve been shared in the
years to come — the frenzied
bartering of the pin traders, the
embarrassed remembrances of
far too much money dropped
in the Olympic superstore, the
chance encounter that opened
your heart to someone who
looked and sounded different.
For Katie Ledecky, one of
the most enduring memories
of her two previous Olympics
was having NBA stars from the
U.S. men’s basketball team turn
up in the stands when she was
Eugene Hoshiko/AP
A bird rests with a backdrop of the Olympic rings floating in the water
in the Odaiba section on April 8 in Tokyo.
swimming for gold.
In 2016, it was Kevin Du-
rant, Kyle Lowry, Draymond
Green, Klay Thompson, De-
Marcus Cousins and DeAndre
Jordan who transformed into
awestruck fans as they cheered
on Ledecky and Michael
Phelps.
Afterward, they all posed for
pictures.
See Olympics / B3