Plus I met the great Namibian sprinter Frankie Fredericks.

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Now, if Arthur Levitt modestly claimed that there'd been an erosion of sprinter talent over the last 40 years, I'd buy that.

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And Nike knew how to market that appeal -- with an ad in 2011 that showed the sprinter starting from blocks and the caption "I am the bullet in the chamber" together with Nike's "Just do it" slogan and logo.

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That may sound like nit-picking, but I buy the logic of excluding the Sprinter vans from the relevant category.

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Days later, I'm still appalled that a magnificent sprinter like Johnson, a thoughtful and well-spoken fellow, a noble man-god, would lose his cool in a rivalry of words with a cheap, two-dollar-pistol-of-a-sprinter named Maurice Greene.

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I'm really looking forward to seeing South African amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius run.

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When I was a kid following the Olympics for the first time in 1960, America's best male sprinter, Ray Norton, had a disastrous run of misfortune.

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