Typical fare for a high-school student, though maybe not for a shot-putter who has turned the local record books into his own personal scrapbook. ❋ Ben Cohen (2011)
He and his longtime travel companion, Olympic shot-putter Lady Hilda von Farfegnugen, became the first explorers known to have reached the island he christened Unicorn Isle, but that we now know as Wilkinson's Folly. ❋ Lynn Beighley (2011)
One of the athletes under Arbeit's charge, shot-putter Heidi Krieger, claimed she was given so many anabolic steroids by Arbeit that she was forced to undergo a sex-change operation and lives as a man. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Sam went on to become a shot-putter, muscles he puts to use now, over 40, in rough touch football games. ❋ Robert Lipsyte (2010)
For a blessed few minutes, a plethora of bored gods, faeries, and Sacred Thunderbirds called me unto them, and I chucked the Methodist Church rather as a shot-putter heaves his best in the Olympics. ❋ Anne Johnson (2009)
I tell her that she looks too light to be a shot-putter. ❋ Unknown (2007)
"Bruce Bennett, who has died aged 100, was, as Herman Brix, an Olympic shot-putter and screen Tarzan, and, as Bennett, he was a stolid, lanky supporting actor of the 1940s and 1950s," remembers Ronald Bergan in the Guardian. ❋ Unknown (2007)
In a show of defiance, American shot-putter Ralph Waldo Rose refused to lower the flag before King Edward VII. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Upon returning from Sydney, she quickly shed the shot-putter, though not her reputation -- somewhat refreshing, if possibly self-destructive -- for not giving much of a damn what anyone else thought. ❋ Unknown (2008)
And her performance had also suffered the tarnish of guilt-by-association; in the middle of the competition, Jones was forced to "stand by her man" as her husband of the time, shot-putter C.J. Hunter, faced revelations that he had failed numerous drug tests. ❋ Unknown (2008)
We know what many of you are saying: That sounds all well and good, but the fact is that I really have no desire to look like an Eastern European shot-putter, thank you very much. ❋ Michael F. Roizen (2008)
And while her professional and personal relationships may reflect poorly on her judgment -- Jones's ex-husband, shot-putter C.J. Hunter, retired in 2000 after failing drug tests, and she and Montgomery worked with Charlie Francis, who gave Ben Johnson steroids in the '80s -- a member of her legal team says, "We have said all along she is innocent; nothing has changed our position." ❋ Unknown (2007)
Jones herself stood by her man and now ex-husband, shot-putter C.J. Hunter, in Sydney as he denied all drug use, even as it turned out he had already tested positive on multiple occasions for massive quantities of steroids. ❋ Unknown (2007)
As I walked past the village post office, dozens of volunteers and athletes lined up to have their picture taken with Russian shot-putter Irina Korzhanenko. ❋ Unknown (2007)
From the SMH, a tale of Intersex, Medical Blindness and Ostracism : A champion shot-putter and discus-thrower, Rabei has photos of himself as a woman towering over other female competitors, which prompted sporting authorities to raid his home looking for performance-enhancing drugs. ❋ Zoe Brain (2007)
After a succession of scandals -- from East Germany to China, from sprinter Ben Johnson to Irish swimmer Michelle Smith to American shot-putter C.J. Hunter -- most Olympic insiders believe that drug abuse remains rampant in Olympic competition. ❋ Unknown (2007)
