Home
Weather
Sports
Opinion
Obituaries
Special Sections
Forums
Archive
Search
Front Page
Subscription
Services
@ugusta Help
City Guide
Classifieds
Employment
Coupons
Autos
Real Estate
Yellow Pages
Maps
Directions
Applause
Dining
Movies
Travel
Television
Lottery
Horoscopes
Net Music
Quick Cooking
Remote
Your Health
Fitness Files
JobSmart
Food & Recipes
Newspapers
in Education
Xtreme
Citizen Activist
Augusta Golf
Augusta
Magazine
Business
Chronicle
F.A.Q.
Advertise
Chronicle Staff
Chronicle Jobs
Internet Service
The Chronicle welcomes you online! Please feel free to respond to these editorials or letters to the editor by sending your
letters to the editor.
We condense letters; most, as published, won't exceed 300 words. A letter must include the writer's name and city, which will be published, and an address and telephone number for verification, which will not be published. Writers may be limited to one letter every 30 days. Open letters, letters to third parties and poetry are not considered. Letters from people living outside the Chronicle's circulation area usually are not considered.
|
Web posted September 1, 2000
Have a thought? Go to the @ugusta Forums.
Australian Jai Taurima said, ``You can pretty much knock out all the dark athletes (because of the cool conditions expected for the Sydney Olympics). ``We jumped in Salamanca (Spain) a month ago and those guys just couldn't compete well in bad conditions. It was wet and cold.''
Besides, added Taurima, ``Americans are Americans, aren't they? They only jump big in America.''
A furious Lister and Savante compared the comments to John Rocker's infamous remarks to Sports Illustrated. The Aussie was playing mind games, but using the race ignoble and ill-advised.
To discredit Taurima, the Americans must keep their own cool. The smart money says they will. Taurima's best jump is 27 feet, 4Ü inches. Lister, last year's NCAA champ, has jumped 27-10¨, and Stringfellow's best is 27-2Ü.
