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Crawford dents Gatlin's dream

AFP, Athens
Shawn Crawford denied fellow American Justin Gatlin a sprint double on Thursday as he set up a United States clean sweep in a controversial Olympic men's 200 metres final.
The race was marred by ugly scenes and delayed for five minutes when the packed 75,000 crowd at the Olympic Stadium hijacked the event by booing, whistling and chanting "Kenteris, Kenteris!" and "Hellas, Hellas!"
Costas Kenteris, Greece's Sydney Olympics 200 champion, withdrew from the Athens Games after missing a drugs test in mysterious circumstances the day before the opening ceremony.
Despite the furore, Crawford timed 19.79 seconds, a personal best and the best time of 2004. Only seven men have ever run quicker.
Silver went to Bernard Williams
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(20.01) with Justin Gatlin, the 100m winner, taking the bronze (20.03).
It was the first American clean sweep in the event since 1984.
Crawford was diplomatic afterwards.
The crowd, furious over Kenteris's withdrawal, spared only one man with their jeers, cheering when former 200 world champion Frank Fredericks, who is retiring after the Games, was introduced.
The Namibian began pleading with them to be quiet as the protest continued. Fredericks finished his top-level career with a fine fourth place. Jamaican Asafa Powell did not start the race.
The 26-year-old Crawford, who had just missed out with fourth in the 100, was in control on the crown of the bend in his specialist event before surging clear.
The Kenteris scandal, which also
involved female sprinter Katerina Thanou, has overshadowed the Athens Olympics and split public opinion in Greece.
The crowd's behaviour provoked one false start on Thursday before some sections of the crowd began to call for quiet.
Crawford had smiled at the uproar but it looked a nervous reaction.
There was still significant crowd noise when the start gun got the field away at last.
Gatlin, who said his coach had warned him there could be a protest before the final, had been hoping to emulate Carl Lewis, the last man to take a sprint double 20 years ago. Eight men have achieved the feat in Olympic history.
Crawford, though, lived up to his reputation as favourite after timing 19.88 at July's U.S. trials.
The American trio all ran substan-
tially quicker on Thursday than Kenteris's winning time in Sydney.
Crawford had called the 100 metres just a "relax race" after his near-miss in the short sprint. In the 200, however, he meant business.