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Sunday, September 24
Russia's Kliugin easily wins gold


SYDNEY, Australia -- Cuba's Javier Sotomayor, whose drug suspension was reduced in time for him to compete at the Sydney Olympics, settled for a silver medal in the high jump in pouring rain.

Javier Sotomayor
Javier Sotomayor's best clearance was 7-7¼ (2.32).

The event was won by Sergei Kliugin of Russia, the only competitor to clear 7 feet, 8½ inches (2.35 meters) in Sunday's event. Sotomayor was second, with a best clearance of 7-7¼ (2.32).

Abderrahmane Hammad of Algeria also cleared 7-7¼, but took the bronze because he had one more miss than Sotomayor. The Cuban got his second Olympic medal -- he was the champion at the 1992 Barcelona Games.

After mild weather for the first two nights of the track and field competition, it was cold and windy Sunday with sporadic showers. It poured during the final attempts in the high jump.

"It was impossible for me in the rain," Sotomayor said. "I'm the worst jumper in the world in the rain."

"These are the Winter Olympics," said 110-meter hurdler Mark Crear. "They don't seem like the summer."

Sotomayor, a two-time world champion and world record-holder, was banned by the International Amateur Athletic Federation for two years for testing positive for cocaine after winning the high jump at last year's Pan American Games in Canada.

But the IAAF reduced his suspension to one year last month, citing "exceptional circumstances" and an exemplary 15-year career. That allowed Sotomayor, who has denied ever using cocaine, to resume competitions immediately.


 

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