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Diane Dixon desperate to get her due
NEW YORK. Mar 7: Diane Dixon lias dominated the 4 00 metres on the indoor track in the United States for the past decade, yet she feels she needs a major championship victory to win her true international recognition, reports Reuter.
"I'm going to finally get my due." the 26-year-old American says with confidence as she looks ahead to the World Indoor Championships in Seville. Spain, which begin on Friday.
"People will know who I am soon enough."
Last month. Dixon won her 10th U.S. national indoor title, a record for any athletics discipline. She was a member of the gold-winning team at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, running In the early rounds of the 4X400 metres relay. She ran tn the relay final four years after in Seoul and took home a silver.
Dixon was second in the 400 metres to Helga Arendt of the Soviet Union at the 1989 World Indoors Championships in Budapest and won her second overall women's tile for cumulative results during this season's North American Indoor Grand Prix circuit.
But the absence of a major international title still haunts her.
She went undefeated in five indoor 400-metrc races this season. But even in pursuit of her I Oth title, she fell overshadowed by Indoor sensation Noureddine Morcell of Algeria, who ran blistering times tn the mile before breaking the indoor 1.500 metres mark last week In Seville.
'The mile Isn't the only event at a track meet.'' Dixon says. 'Hut sometimes it seems the other athletes have to do unusual things to get noticed."
Dixon has always tried hard to be noticed. The struggle for recognition began when she talked her way Into the Atoms Track club In Brooklyn 14 years ago as a 12 year old.
Fred Thompson, the club's coaeh. told Dixon he had no room for her. but she kept coming back. Finally, she hopped on the track and started running anyway, be-
to her.
"Here was a kid who didn t understand no." Thompson said.
Dixon, who says she would like to pursue either a modelling or acting career. Is used to calling her own shot*. She dated former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson briefly during his title reign before losing interest.
"Mike was okay." Dixon says, "but he was a little too pushy for my taste."
She is far from bashful herself. She pushed her way Into a public relations Job with U.S. Olympic Committee vice-president George Steinbrenner, the controversial owner of the New York Yankees, by Introducing herself to him at a USOC function two years ago.
“I told him we couldn't get enough money to train, so he told me to come worked for his baseball tram. He gave me flexible hours, good compensation. He was very understanding."
Dixon can be full of surprises. Before the 1990 Indoor nationals, she took her pet snake to her hotel room and considered taking it along during a post-race victory lap.
That was going to be my ninth title, and I wanted people to remember it." she saki. "But I was talked out of H."
Dixon gets noticed anyway. She was introduced at a recent track writers' luncheon as "the woman with 10 indoor title pnd 10 hairstyles." But she suys she is not emulating compatriot Florence Griffith-Joyner. I he fashionable, triple gold medallist at the Seoul Olympics. "Were different people, who do different things.' Dixon says. “People see her as the original, but she also won some gold."
That, for now.is what separates Dixon from the star,role she would hkc to play.
Her best chance may be on Seville's banked track, where '.he indoor configurations could favour runners who are shorter, stockier and not averse to bumping.
Dixon fits the bill at 1,65m and 57kg and will not have to run against Cuba's Ana Quirot. the best outdoor 400 metres runner who has decided not to take part.
"It will take a 51-something (seconds) to win in Spain." forecasts Dixon, whose 51.77 is her indoor best." Then 1 want to finally have a great outdoor season — and start winning some medals.
"I want to be known as a good runner, not Just a stylish runner." Dixon said.
"On second thought. I want to be known as both."