He was 26 years old then, an age when many amateur athletes begin confronting the inevitable.

The press was free to print this, and the athletes began keeping their money.

He told me just to run around and do some starts, which is the way I guess most athletes begin when they join a club.

Physicians say they believe athletes began using the drug almost with the beginning of clinical trials in 1986.

Both athletes said they were innocent and began a rigorous defense.

So he started an exercise program of walking, which lasted only until the athlete inside him began to emerge.

Seven athletes began the race, though four of them dropped out before noon and a fifth gave up in the afternoon.

And this is the time of the year when athletes have already begun or are about to return to the slopes.

Thus about 15 art students and athletes began to work on the sculpture.

Smarter athletes are even beginning to wonder if there isn't some cause for this lack of respect.