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Article: Mountain biker bounced from Olympics wins suit

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November 8, 2008
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WHEELING - After a four-year Olympic fight, Sue Haywood has a sense of vindication.

Haywood, who was left off the 2004 U.S. Olympic mountain biking team because of a clerical error in the qualifying series standings and has battled that decision since, was awarded nearly $319,000 over "the negligence of USA Cycling" from a federal jury in her home state of West Virginia on Thursday.

Her conflict with USA Cycling, though, isn't over. The organization, which declined to comment Friday, is considering an appeal.

Still, Haywood considered the jury's award a significant victory.

"In some ways it reinforces my true belief that USA Cycling gravely erred and continued to show absolutely no remorse ...

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