Track And Field

Track and Field100 MetersOlympic RecordsMen: 9.95 seconds (1968, Jim Hines, U.S.A.)Women: 11.01 seconds (1976, Annegret Richter, West Germany)The 100 meters is your basic all-out mad dash to the finish--making this the race of seconds and inches. In the 1896 Athens games, an American won the 100 meters in 12 seconds flat, just over two seconds off the current record.Sprinters will do their dashing on a new synthetic eight-lane track recently installed at the Los Angeles Coliseum, site of the '84...