National sports
Report: Jones’ former coach turned in steroid vial
The former coach of three-time Olympic champion Marion Jones was the mystery man who gave anti-doping officials a used syringe filled with a new steroid, touching off the scandal now clouding preparations for the Athens Games, a newspaper reported.
In a story posted on its Web site, the San Jose Mercury News said that five sources identified Trevor Graham as the coach who submitted a vial of the steroid THG to the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency in June 2003. The newspaper said the sources spoke on condition of anonymity.
Graham has been questioned by federal agents as part of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative case, which has led to indictments against four men and doping allegations against several top athletes — including Jones and baseball’s Barry Bonds, both of whom repeatedly have denied drug use.
Rowing
Two U.S. crews win Henley finals
Cindy Bishop won the Princess Royal Cup, and New Hampshire’s St. Paul’s School captured the Princess Elizabeth Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta in Henley-on-Thames, England.
Bishop, who races for Riverside Boat Club in Cambridge, Mass., easily outpaced South Africa’s Rika Geyser and became the first American to win the category for female international single sculls.
St. Paul’s, in Concord, N.H., downed England’s Abingdon School by 1 1/4 lengths in the final for schoolboy eights.
Three other U.S. crews lost their finals on the Thames river.
Harvard was defeated by two-thirds of a length by a Dutch Olympic squad in the Grand Challenge Cup for international eights, while Princeton lost by three lengths to a composite English crew in the Remenham Cup for women’s international eights. Harvard also lost the Ladies’ Plate for sub-Olympic international eights.
Endurance racing
Sindballe, Kozulina win titles
Denmark’s Torbjorn Sindballe and Ukraine’s Tamara Kozulina won titles Sunday at the World Long Distance Triathlon Championships at Sater, Sweden.
Sindballe took the lead for good about 4 1/2 miles into the final 18-mile run. The endurance test also included a 2 1/2 -mile swim and 75-mile cycling leg.
Miscellany
Kenyans dominate Peachtree
Martin Lel led a 1-2-3 Kenyan sweep of the 10-kilometer Peachtree Road Race in Atlanta. Another Kenyan, Susan Chepkemei, captured the women’s division.
Lel covered the 6.2 miles in 28 minutes, 4 seconds and was followed by John Korir and Robert Cheriuyot. Chepkemei won in 31:55, with Constantina Tomescu-Dita of Romania second. Colleen De Reuck, who has made the U.S. Olympic marathon team, was third.
“Svetlana Feofanova of Russia broke the world record in the pole vault at the Tsiklitiria super grand prix meet in Iraklion, Greece, becoming the first woman to clear 16 feet and bettering the mark set a week earlier by a Russian countrywoman.
A few minutes earlier, Russia’s Gulnara Samitova shattered her own record in the 3,000-meter steeplechase by nearly seven seconds. Samitova finished in 9 minutes, 1.59 seconds.