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Overrated
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Suzy Hamilton, U.S. middle distance
runner
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Has her own calendar, but can't beat countrywoman Regina
Jacobs
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Underrated
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Carl
Lewis
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Retired at halftime of a college football game after a
brilliant career that Americans never fully understood or
embraced
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Annoying
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Donovan Bailey,
Canada
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His mouth did more running in '97 than his legs—it was
sweet justice when Maurice Greene beat him, and shut him
up, at the
worlds
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Breakthrough
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Marion Jones, U.S.
sprinter
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Jones, 21, won the world 100 and ran the fastest 100 and
200 of the
year
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Uplifting
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Sergei Bubka,
Ukraine
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Greatest vaulter in history looked finished by injuries in
May, but put body and heart together to win an
unprecedented sixth world
title
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MVP
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Wilson Kipketer,
Denmark
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Kenyan expatriate revolutionized the 800 meters, shattering
Sebastian Coe's 16-year-old world record (1:41.73) and
then, less than two weeks later, breaking that mark by
running
1:41.11
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