A blog on the White House Web site that uses a "truth-o-meter" against a particular cable news network would not seem to qualify.
A week after the Sherbrooke meet, Rupp won the Pan American junior championships' 5,000 meters against athletes two years older than he is.
The United States will play all of its first-round matches at altitude -- against England on June 12 in Rustenburg (4,920 feet, or 1,500 meters), against Slovenia on June 18 in Johannesburg (5,750 feet, or 1,753 meters) and against Algeria on June 23 in Pretoria (3,981 feet, or 1,214 meters).
Johnson's injury, which he did not believe was a strain or a tear, conjured images of his withdrawal from a 1997 match race over 150 meters against Donovan Bailey of Canada, the 1996 Olympic champion at 100 meters.
On Nov. 9, for instance, the levels of particulate matter called PM10 near the University of Delhi measured 908 micrograms per cubic meter, against the standard limit of 100, falling into the "very unhealthy" category.
Maria Mutola of Mozambique, who lives in Springfield, Ore., will try to win the 800 meters against the Clark family -- the sisters Hazel Clark and Joetta Clark-Diggs and their sister-in-law Jearl Miles-Clark.
"The tough decisions we made have created an uphill battle for us now," Mr. Fenty said in an interview, seeking to attribute his low ratings mainly to the fallout from changes like the closing of underused schools, layoffs of civil servants and the adoption of taxi meters against driver opposition.
On Saturday, Cameron Burrell will run 100 meters against other top high school sprinters at the New York Grand Prix on Randalls Island, where his father set a world record of 9.90 seconds in 1991 (later lowering the mark to 9.85 in 1994 in Lausanne, Switzerland).
He competed on 21 August in the Men's 100 meters against eight other athletes in the seventh heat.
Males are monogamous and actively defend territories (diameter: about 75 100 meters) against conspecifics all year long [11].
