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Vega, Usha race into sunset
HIROSHIMA. Oct 3: Lydia de Vega and P T Usha, long time rivals for the "sprint queen of Asia"
Hit. will race into the sunset al Hiroshima battling not to finish last, reports AFP.
The gold medalists turned housewives have decided to' give it one more go for glory at the Asian Games. Do not ex pect any records, but they ‘deserve one last gold, for longevity.
This is definitely going to be my last." said De Vega. 29. the back-to-back 1982 and 1986 Asiad 1,00-metre gold medal winner who wants to have a second ba6y
"After this I will stick to washing clothes, scrubbing the floor and cooking for my husband and kid
USha, 30. who won four golds in the 1986 Seoul Games and was deprived of a fifth by De Vega, is taking part in both relays and the 200 meters But she had a harrowing time getting to Hiroshima and this XjM also be her swansong. ^De Vega and Usha will not get a chance to race each other. They even face the threat of an ignominious exit In tlie heats
The sprint queerr crowns has- already ix-rn nassed to
the young Chinese tracks stars. Liu Xiaomi is the favourite in the 100m sprint and Chen Zhaojing in the 200m.
But De Vega and Usha have assured their place in Asian Games history.
De Vega, once Asia's fastest woman, will race off to domestic life after a dozen years of service to the Philippine sports cause.
It will be a wrenching farewell, as De Vega leaves her country with no new sprint hero to take her place.
Rhoda Slnoro, 26. will be with her on the starting block next week. But success has eluded her and Slnoro may find the sporting Cinderella's running shoes are too big for her.
At the rate the Philippines' cash-starved sports programme Is going. It may have to wait for De Vega's five-year-old daughter Stephanie to give the country Its next Asiad ath-leUcs gold
De Vega first turned her back on the track after the Seoul Games to elope with a Filipino engineer. She missed the Beijing Games in 1990. due to injury.
She hit the comeback trial to rescue her country's faltering sports fortunes. But the results have been modest The Chinese, and others, have caught and overtaken her
De Vega was forced in pull
out of the Singapore Open Championships last month to avoid injury after being laid low with fever and cold.
Her best time this year.. 11.60 sec J»r the 100m is way off her 1986 personal best of 11.28 sec. Liu did 11.02 sec last year.
Life will also turn full circle for the Indian track queen, who exploded on the scene from total obscurity in the 1982 New Delhi Games to become an instant media darling who had a movie made about her life.
Usha narrowly missed a bronze medal In the Los Angeles Olympics 400m hurdles. but beat De Vega in the 200 meters at the Seoul Asiad in 1986.
The Beijing Games in 1990 were already tough. India has also found It needs a new sporting hero, but the come-bask trail from motherhood and injury was laced with tears for Usha as she fought to claim her berth for Hiroshima.
She wept after 10 stubborn teammates failed to turn up and forced her to run the national 200m trials alone. "At least they could have told me," she cried. .
The Indian has spent nearly all the four years since the Beijing Games devoting herself to beinc .1 wife and a mother.