Drut, a 110-meter hurdler, won silver in 1972 at Munich, then added gold at the 1976 Montreal Olympics.
On a sadder note for Pitman's team, it was announced his former star hurdler Monsignor has been retired.
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Up-and-coming Team GB hurdler Lawrence Clarke just missed out on a medal in the 110m hurdles, finishing fourth.
However Olympic hurdler Liu Xiang's absence again from the CPPCC session is "arousing dissatisfaction among the online population", Xinhua reports.
Leading the medal charge should be 400m hurdler Dai Greene, who has clocked the five fastest times by a European this summer.
For marketers looking to capitalize on a newly crowned champion, the wounded hurdler will likely go down as the Beijing Olympics' biggest disappointment.
Cuban 110m hurdler Dayron Robles beat American rival David Oliver by one-hundredth of a second for his third Golden League win of the season.
This week Ludmilla Engquist, an Olympic gold-medal hurdler in 1996 and still part of Sweden's potential Olympic bobsleigh team, confessed to taking anabolic steroids.
"I don't subscribe to the theory that he did things wrong here last year, " said the trainer of triple 1980s champion hurdler See You Then.
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Managing stress takes a lot of work on top of training to become the fastest hurdler in the world or the best on the beam.
"In a sense, this is the biggest lesson to learn: that there really aren't heroes, " said Jason Richardson, a hurdler who won a silver medal in London.
Former Olympic champion Linford Christie, Scottish sprinter Dougie Walker, hurdler Gary Cadogan and 400m runner Mark Richardson have all tested positive for nandrolone over the last 14 months.
But Eaton is a solid pole vaulter, a terrific hurdler, and outstanding at the 1, 500, which should be enough to make up for his weaknesses in the throwing events.
Griffin was 7th in his high school class, and a world class hurdler, who sped through college academia with the same efficiency and apparently in route to law school.
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Former British sprinter and hurdler Kriss Akabusi tried to persuade Collins to stay on in case there was a chance of him being allowed to run in the relay.
The 2004 200m Olympic champion and silver medallist in Beijing Shawn Crawford and 100m star Carmelita Jeter will be competing for Team USA, captained by reigning world indoor champion hurdler Lolo Jones.
The behemoth from Beaverton, Oregon has already shown how much it values the Chinese market by signing sponsorship contracts with stars like NBA phenom Jeremy Lin, tennis star Li Na and Olympic hurdler Liu Xiang.
As athletes continue to arrive in London, Coe said he was satisfied with the early stages of the Olympic operation, despite American hurdler Kerron Clement complaining that his bus got lost on the way to the Olympic village.
Boarding the jet in her now-famous body suit (inspired by the compression suits used by human athletes such as Aussie hurdler Sally Pearson), Black Caviar -- who is affectionately known as "Nelly" -- was accompanied on the flight by her personal track rider and veterinary surgeon to make sure she remained relaxed during transit.
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