Athens gold medal favourite Allen Johnson just scraped into the USA team at the Olympic Trials in Sacramento.

STACY DRAGILA was a woman apart at the Sydney Olympics in 2000, when she stormed to victory in the inaugural pole vault competition.

Michael Schumacher ended a controversial week on a high note last night when he was named the 2002 Laureus World Sportsman of the Year.

Marion Jones proved as gracious in defeat as she is graceful in victory after her four-year reign as the queen of world sprinting was unexpectedly ended in Edmonton.