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DIARY FROM ATHENS
ATHENS. Aug 4 (AP): Donovan Baileys bid to hold on to his world 100-metre title was broadcast live to 107
countries around the world. But his Canadian countrymen could only see it on a US network.
Canadian broadcasters refused to buy the TV rights for the World Championships, meaning Canadians who wanted to see one of their top stars of all time had to watch him on NBC.
Giacomo Mazzocchi, the director of communications of the sport s world governing body, the IAAF, said the federation was displeased that no Canadian broadcaster such as the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation picked up the rights to the biennial championships.
"We were under the Impression that they (the CBC) thought athletics were a B' event," he said.
Mazzocchi declined to say what the IAAF asked for and what the CBC offered. But he admitted there was a big gap between the two and that CBC's offer was substantially less than what countries of a similar size arepaying.
Ine decision by Canadian broadcasters not to pay for TV rights could damage Edmonton s chances of hosting the event in 2001.
HEMMINGS SEES RECORD
There's been plenty of talk about records falling at the World Championships — in the men s 100 and 800. particularly. Deon Hemmings of Jamaica, the Olympic champion in the women s 400m hurdles, thinks
her event could see Kim Batten's standard of 52.61 seconds fall.
"Well have the competition to break the world record." Hemmings said Sunday, the day before qualifying starts. "It might not be me. but we'll be fighting for that."
The American Batten, who set the record at the 1995 worlds In Goteborg. Sweden, has the Sear's fastest time of 52.97.
lemmings Is next with 53.18.
"Hopefully two or three people will get under 53. 111 be there with them." the Jamaican said The world record is most likely to be broken. ”
SCHOOL'S OUT
A growing number of African athletes are attending American universities, but few Europeans train across the Atlantic. Marco Koers is an exception.
The Dutch 800-metre runner, who'll run in a first-round heat Monday, graduated from the University of Illinois last year with a degree in mechanical engineering.
"After leaving I became a full-time athlete/ Koers said. "I didn't have to worry about homework anymore. Just sleeping. training and eating."
SERGEI'S SONS
Pole vaulter Sergei Bubka, seeking a sixth straight World Championships gold, isn't the only athlete in his household.
The Ukrainian said his two sons — Vitali, 12, and Sergei. 10 — are serious tennis players and work with Bob Brett, the Australian who has coached Boris Becker, Goran Ivanisevic and Andrei Medvedev.
They spend a lot of time with the sport," Bubka said. We changed the school of our older son because there was not enough time for sports." .