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Article: Canadian relay team was unified and had practicing and it showed.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- August 3, 1996
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ATLANTA _ They weren't so much a relay team, in the conventional sense, as a contentious debating society. They showed up at the track Saturday afternoon, found out only then who would run through the highly democratic practice of one man, one loud opinion. Then, they set aside their cellular phones and their personal differences and went to work.
Is it any wonder, then, why the U.S. men's 4x100-meter relay team proceeded to get blown away by Canada? Is it any wonder why the handoffs weren't sharp, why the timing was askew, why they looked like four guys who happened to meet at the train station and decided to give it a whirl?
What happened Saturday shouldn't ...