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A new star
Marlon Shirley sets second world record of Games
Posted: Saturday October 21, 2000 10:48 AM
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American Marlon Shirley will go for more gold in Sunday's long jump. AP |
By Luba Vangelova, Special to CNNSI.com
The Sydney Paralympic Games have produced a new star.
A thrilled Marlon Shirley set a second world record in as many days in the highly anticipated 100-meter final for amputees and other leg-mobility impaired athletes.
After his 11.09-second run, Shirley, who runs with one good leg and one C-shaped prosthetic, knelt and pounded the track with his hands.
Americans had won each of the event's three semifinals the night before and were hoping to sweep the medals tonight. But although Brian Frasure captured the silver, defending champion Tony Volpentest was edged out for bronze by Australia's Neil Fuller.
The event capped an exciting day at Olympic Stadium.
Earlier, Australian wheelchair racing star Louise Sauvage, already a household name here before these Games, qualified for tomorrow's finals in the 800 meters. She won her heat despite her "worst start ever," as she described it. Her qualifying time was slower than that of the other heat-winner, world-record-holder Chantal Petitclerc of Canada.
In other events, the world record was broken four times in the visually-impaired javelin competition. Chinese Taipei's Chih-Chung Chiang finally captured the gold with a throw of 57.28 meters, which was almost five meters further than the previous record.
A nasty collision in the men's 800-meter wheelchair race disrupted the event, which was stopped and rescheduled for tomorrow morning.
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The Netherlands upset the second-seeded Americans in the women's wheelchair basketball preliminaries. The final score of that match was 45-26. Pool competition continues tomorrow.
The top three men's wheelchair basketball teams (the U.S., Australia and Canada) convincingly won their respective pool match-ups and will play again tomorrow as the preliminaries continue.
American swimmer Trischa Zorn, who was already the most successful Paralympian in history with 49 medals (41 of them gold), bagged her fiftieth prize today with a silver in the 200-meter individual medley for the vision-impaired. China's Zhu Hongyan came away with the gold. Zorn will compete in five more events at these Games.
World records continued to tumble in the pool. American Erin Popovich broke her second world record in two days, winning the 50-meter butterfly.
Red-hot Marlon Shirley is also the world-record holder in the long jump. He'll compete in that event on Sunday.
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Blind track cyclist Pam Fernandes broke her foot in the Paralympic Village last week. Tired from the long journey to Australia, she forgot about the stairs in the house and fell down them. But her injury didn't stop her from winning a gold medal in the mixed tandem 1 km time trial. Not only that, but she and pilot Al Whaley (who is not disabled), broke the world record in the process.
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Organizers of the very popular Sussex Lane nightclub that was set up in a (temporarily covered) street during the Olympics have revived the venue for the Paralympics.
Paralympic organizers have set up two big outdoor screens in Martin Place and Darling Harbour that show footage from the television and web coverage of the Games.
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The four suspended powerlifters were officially banned today after their second round of drug tests also came up positive. The athletes from Romania and Iran tested positive for anabolic steroids, while the Russian and Bulgaria tested positive for diuretics.
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Athletics - men's and women's 800m, men's long jump, and other events
Powerlifting - women's 60kg, 67.5kg, 75kg, 82.5kg, and +82.5kg
Swimming - men's and women's 400m freestyle, 100m breastroke and 100m freestyle
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The American women's wheelchair basketball team must beat third-ranked Australia by at least 20 points tomorrow night in order to advance to the semifinals.
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