It's a much smaller group but all three of the track and field gold medallists were state school-educated.
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The U.S. track team, which has been struggling to improve its track-and-field fortunes, grabbed its second gold of the games as Jennifer Suhr won the women's pole vaulting competition. (Cuba's Yarisley Silva got silver.) Overall, it was the U.S.'s 29th gold, two short of China for the lead.
All got high scores on the Psychopathy Checklist, the "gold standard" in the field, which assesses traits like lack of remorse, callousness and grandiosity.
Tony Gwynn, meanwhile: a five-time batting champion, had a batting average - career batting average of, I think, 338, five gold gloves and right field for the San Diego Padres.
"The information we have is that the electron microscope testing is not the gold standard, so to speak, of testing in this field, " Muia said during a motions hearing Tuesday in state Supreme Court.
One of track and field's biggest stars at the 2000 Olympics, she won three gold medals and two bronzes in Sydney.
Her lifetime ambition is to follow in the footsteps of the North African nation's legendary middle-distance track and field athletes and win Olympic gold.
The 2013 field still has plenty of firepower left: Louisville, Syracuse, Kansas, Michigan, and of course the gold standard, Duke, the team everyone either loves or loves to hate.
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Dr Kevin Leahy is an archaeologist from Scunthorpe who worked as an advisor on the excavation of the Staffordshire Hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold jewellery which was discovered by a metal detectorist in a farmer's field in July 2009.
Suhr's pole-vaulting win was the second gold medal the U.S. track-and-field team has secured during three full days of athletics competitions, following Sanya Richards-Ross winning the women's 400-meter race on Sunday night.
President Barack Obama's former constituency has put the finishing touches on a 560-page book that the grandson of Jesse Owens -- the first African-American to win four Olympic gold medals in track and field -- will hand deliver to the International Olympics Committee in Switzerland.
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