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Mercury News Wire Services the record by nearly two sec• BEIJING - Breaking the 30• . onds with a time of 3:44.39. minute barrier in the women's Earlier this summer, Kenya's Yobes Ondieki became the first 10,000-meter run, Wang Junxia of China shattered the record in to break 27 minutes in the the event by 42 seconds men's 10,000, with a world re• Wednesday with a time of 29 cord 26:58.38. minutes, 31.78 seconds. The improvement of Chinese As she broke the record of athletes, especially females, has 30:13.74 set by Ingrid Kristian• been sudden and has raised sus• sen of Norway on July 5, 1986, picions of drug use. Chinese sports officials say the success Wang, 20, beat her own previ• is the result of hard training at ous personal best, recorded last month at the world champion• altitude. But Lynn Jennings, the 1992 ships at , Germany, by more than a minute. Olympic bronze medalist in the Thus two key track barriers event, said Wang's rapid im• ASSOCIATED PRESS have been broken in less than a provement defied credibHity. week. Noureddine MorceH of Distance "all seems Wan~ Junxia breaks the record polluted to me now," Jennings in the women's 10,OOO-meter' Algeria broke the 3:45 barrier said in Newmarket, N.H. in the mile ~ast week, breaking run by 42 seconds in Beijing.

~ San Jose Merc! News, Tuesday, September 14, 1993 .---.... ? I \..) .·Chineserunner sets another recor~ Mereury News Wire Hel'Viees in the NHL behind Pittsburgh's Chinese distance runner Wang Mario Lemieux and Philadel• OFF THE WALL Junxia sliced six seconds off the phia's Eric Lindros. 3,000-meter mark she set Sunday Crossing the lin~ in winning the event in China's COLLEGE BASKETBALL: For• I national games in Beijing on Mon• mer Nevada-Las Vegas coach Jer• If there's a pro football day. ry Tarkanian is suing university team in North Carolina, it Wang's time of 8 minutes, 6.11 officials, alleging they conspired will play its first season i1 seconds represented her third with NCAA investigators to ruin South Carolina. world record in six days and the his college career. The suit, filed Clemson's Memorial fourth for Chinese women run• Friday in Las Vegas, named Stadium, nicknamed "'DEi ners coached by Ma J unren in UNLV President Bob Maxson, le• Valley," was chosen Mon( the games. gal counsel Brad Booke and ex• as the first-year home fo~ Wang slashed 42 seconds off athletic director Dennis Finfrock proposed NFL franchise f the 10,000 record Wednesday, as defendants. Also named were Charlotte, N.C.A new and teammate broke UNLV, the university system and stadium in downtown the 1,500 record Saturday. With a nine members of the Board of Re• Charlotte won't be time of 8:12.19, Wang was first gents. The NCAA, mentioned completed until 1996, aYE among five runners who broke prominently in the suit, is not a after the team's first seas: the previous 3,000 mark in Sun• defendant. The suit seeks unspec• NFL owners will pick t~ day's heats. ified compensatory and punitive expansion teams at meetir Wang, 20, left her competition damages. Tarkanian alleges uni• in Chicago from Oct. 26-2~ far behind Monday as she sprint• versity officials breached his em• Mike McCormack, ed the final lap ployment contract and 1991 res• general manager for the before a cheering ignation agreement, harmed lu• proposed team, said a visi'l crowd. She was crative contracts he held outside to the stadium helped him• mobbed by mem- [SPORTSDIGEST t~ .!miver~!.ty, hurLhis_ o"erall overcome ~'theperception] "-bers vf the mccH economic well-being and libeled that Clemson was way offl the woods." after crossing the finish line. Michael Johnson celebrates his him. Maxson said he had not seen Qu also broke Wang's previous the lawsuit, and "only heard record with a time of 8:12.18. victory in the 200 meters in New But fans from Charlotte about it from the press. It always can look forward to a Wang is confident she can con• Delhi, India. bothers me to have to spend time tinue to lower her times. on frivolous issues. But I'm not one-way trip of-122 miles t "I believe at the next competi• TRACK AND FIELD: Michael concerned about a suit because see their team play. tion, at the World Cup, I can defi• Johnson easily won the 200 me• there's nothing to be concerned nitely break more records," Wang ters on the opening day of an about. " Quote of the day said. international meet in New Delhi, Cowboys defensive end The success of the Chinese run• India. Johnson clocked 20.38 sec• MISCELLANY: Stacey Juhl Charles Haley, who ners has led to speculation about onds to set a meet record in the scored at 9:13 of overtime as the embedded his helmet intQ the use of performance-enhanc• opening race of the two-day com• Cal women's soccer team defeat• a wall in the dressing ing drugs. petition. ed Oregon State 1-0 in a Pacific room, then passed Tom McNab, a former coach of 10 Conference game in Berkeley. judgment on teammate the British national team, said HOCKEY: Goaltender Patrick ... In Bucharest, Romania, Derrick Lassie, who is China's performance "tends to Roy, who led the Montreal Cana• eighth-seeded Andrei Cherkasov rilling in for unsigned echo what happened in Eastern diens to the Stanley Cup in June, defeated Mikael Tillstroem 6-3, All-Pro Emmitt Smith: Europe over the last 25 years signed a four-year contract worth 6-0 in a first-round match at the "We'll never win with a where the women's performances $16 million. "The most important Romanian Open, the country's rookie running back." over a whole range of events thing is to have the chance to first major tennis tournament. were always way ahead of the finish my career in Montreal," Compiled from Mercury Net(, said Roy, 27. The contract makes Track and fwld, soccer, tennis results wire services. I,1\ men."improvement of performances in Roy the third-highest-paid player in Scoreboard, Page 8F ':.~anJose MercuryNews •~ rts • Monday,September 13, 1993 , Chinese women beat 3,000world record (ll h d b I SPORTS DIGEST GOLF: David Frost, given an Stanford 2-0 to win a men's tou! \ coac e y man opening by the back-nine collapse nament in San Francisco. Loyol outing- worm potion b,.,c~ i' ~ !'kJ••. ~- ''''