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Familiar turf Jones wins 100; Americans beat Argentina by 30
Updated: Tuesday September 04, 2001 12:22 PM
BRISBANE, Australia (AP) -- Marion Jones ran to a nearly perfect ending for a track season that had one prominent setback. On the Goodwill Games basketball court, Kenyon Martin, coming back from a broken leg, showed how to make an entrance, sparking the United States to a 97-67 victory over Argentina. In beach volleyball, two Brazilian world championship silver medalist pairs gained revenge on their former conquerors and won $30,000 first prizes. Americans won both the men's and women's bronze medals. Back in Australia, where she won three Olympic gold medals and two bronzes, Jones had to endure three false starts -- including one of her own -- before winning the 100 meters in 10.84 seconds. She was unable, however, to run the best time of the year. "I wanted to run the fastest time in the world, better than my 10.82," Jones said. "I thought I had a shot at it. Perhaps if I didn't have to sit so long, I might have done it." Starting cautiously after her false start, "I had to make sure to sit, sit, sit," she said. Breaking her own games record of 10.90 from 1998, Jones pulled away from the field and finished 0.17 ahead of Ukrainian Zhanna Pintusevich-Block, the runner who beat her at last month's World Championships in Edmonton. Pintusevich-Block, who also was guilty of one of the false starts, still managed to get away fastest in the clean start, but Jones accelerated near the 30-meter mark. Since the end of her four-year, 42-race finals streak, Jones already had beaten Pintusevich-Block twice before the Goodwill Games. "It's the end of the season. I'm tired. The World Championships took a lot out of me," said the Ukrainian. In 11 opening day events in track and field Tuesday, the United States and Australia were the only double winners. Two-time world champion Gail Devers, Jenny Adams and current world champion Anjanette Kirkland gave the Americans all three medals in the women's 100-meter hurdles. Devers won in 12.61. For Australia, Melissa Rollison won the women's 3,000-meter steeplechase and Nathan Deakes won the men's 20-kilometer walk in a games record one hour, 19 minutes, 49 seconds, beating Olympic champion Robert Korzniowski of Poland by three seconds. Controversial Olga Yegorova of Russia, the world 5,000-meter champion, won her fourth consecutive race since the World Championships, surging past Ethiopia's Berhane Adere over the final 80 meters to finish in 15:12.22 -- more than 40 seconds slower than her previous victory. The Russian tested positive for the endurance-enhancing hormone EPO at a meet in Paris in July. After the Paris meet, the IAAF banned Yegorova, but then reinstated her just before the world championships. She said she has been drug tested twice since the championships without any positive results. Britain's Jonathan Edwards, the Olympic and world champion in the men's triple jump, won with a leap of 17.26 meters. Felix Sanchez of the Dominican Republic, the world champion in the men's 400 hurdles, took advantage of the absence of Olympic champion Angelo Taylor, out with a bad sinus condition, and won in 48.47. Jamaica's Greg Haughton, the Olympic bronze medalist in the men's 400, charged down the stretch to beat world champion Avard Moncur of the Bahamas in 45.02. Moncur was second in 45.31. The women's 400 world champion, Amy Thiam of Senegal also lost, finishing third in 51.25, behind Ana Guevera of Mexico (50.32) and Lorraine Fenton of Jamaica (50.76). World champion Osleidys Menendez of Cuba won the women's javelin, and gold medalist Kamila Skolimowska of Poland won the women's hammer throw at 230-8 (70.31 meters). In basketball, Martin, a New Jersey Nets forward, came in with the score tied at 20 at the start of the second quarter, and immediately stole the ball. Two dunks and two fouls later, he was back out of the game, but the U.S. team led 24-20 and was on its second consecutive victory here. "That's the way I always start the game -- I was trying to pick it up a bit, get the defense going -- I think I did that," said Martin, who scored four points, grabbed four rebounds and had four fouls in a total of nine minutes playing time. "Unfortunately I didn't start the game, so I saved if for the second period." After a brief third-quarter appearance, Martin limped off after colliding with a defender but said he was OK. The 23-year-old Martin broke his leg at the end of his college career at Cincinnati, and then broke it again against the Boston Celtics in March. Phoenix Suns forward Shawn Marrion led the U.S. scoring with 19 points. Forward Walter Hermann also had 19 for Argentina. Mexico, rebounding from a 132-58 opening-day loss to the United States, came back from a 47-42 halftime deficit and beat Cuba 86-75. David Crouse, a former center at Southern California, led the Mexicans with 27 points and 15 rebounds. Angel Nunez led Cuba with 26 points including three 3-pointers. Australia, the 1998 Goodwill Games runner-up, lost its opener to Brazil Monday and started slowly against Canada. But the Aussies piled on 39 points in the final quarter for a 111-64 victory, ending with Axel Dench's half-court heave at the buzzer for the final three points. Paul Rogers led Australia with 18 and Andy Kwiatkowski had 14 for Canada. In beach volleyball, world championship runners-up Tatiana Minello and Sandra Pires won the women's gold by ending the 28-match winning streak of Brazilian compatriots Adriana Behar and Shelda Bede, the world champions, 21-18, 23-21. In another reversal of the 1-2 order at the world championships, Brazilians Jose Loiola and Ricardo Santos beat Argentina's Mariano Baracetti and Martin Conde of Argentina 21-14, 21-13. In the bronze medal games, Kevin Wong and Stein Metzger won the men's by beating fellow Americans Rob Heidger and Eric Fonoimoana 23-21, 21-19. Americans Barbra Fontana and Elaine Youngs beat Olympic gold medalists Natalie Cook and Kerri Pottharst of Australia 21-12, 25-23 for the women's.
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