Delisa Floyd

World-class 800-meter runner Delisa Floyd of Houston filed suit in U.S. District Court in Denver seeking to force the International Olympic Committee to lift her four-year suspension for amphetamine use.

World-class 800-meter runner Delisa Floyd of Houston filed suit in U.S. District Court in Denver seeking to force the International Olympic Committee to lift her four-year suspension for amphetamine use.

The Athletics Congress, the U.S. governing body for track and field, said it will back banned 800-meter runner Delisa Floyd in her bid for reinstatement after testing positive for an amphetamine at last summer's World Championships in Tokyo. The IAAF will consider Floyd's petition for reinstatement next month in Toronto.

The Athletics Congress, the U.S. governing body for track and field, said it will back banned 800-meter runner Delisa Floyd in her bid for reinstatement after testing positive for an amphetamine at last summer's World Championships in Tokyo. The IAAF will consider Floyd's petition for reinstatement next month in Toronto.

Cletus Clark, a bronze medalist in last year's world indoor championships, beat top-ranked Greg Foster for the first time Saturday night in the Dallas Morning News Indoor Games 55-meter hurdles. World indoor hurdles record-holder Renaldo Nehemiah failed to qualify for the 55-meter final. Randy Barnes, meanwhile, turned in the fifth-best indoor shotput ever and the second best by an American with a throw of 71 feet 3 inches. Barnes, 21, from Charleston, W.Va.

Athletes from 12 nations are geared up to start the 1990s in record-breaking style Friday, Feb. 16, in the 31st annual Times/Eagle Indoor GAmes at the Great Western Forum. And--although the field is far from being filled--hot events to date loom as the Mobil 1000 Meters, Times Mile and Eagle 3000 Meters (men) and the women's 400 meters, 800 meters and mile run.

Little-known American high jumper Hollis Conway earned a silver medal Sunday, capping a full day of track and field action in the Summer Games. Gennadiy Avdeyenko of the Soviet Union won the gold medal, jumping 7 feet 9 3/4 inches. Conway, a 21-year-old student at Southwest Louisiana, cleared 7-8 3/4. Rudolph Povarnitsin of the Soviet Union and Patrik Sjoberg of Sweden shared the bronze.

Diane Dixon celebrated her 24th birthday in her mother's apartment this week--10,000 miles from home. Dixon, who lives with her mother in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York, traveled to Seoul as a 400-meter runner on the U.S. Olympic track and field team. Her mother, Beverly Dixon, is staying in the Olympic Family Village as part of the "Send the Families" program sponsored by a wine cooler. Diane's impromptu birthday party took place in the new four-bedroom apartment Mrs.

If Butch Reynolds obtains a court order that allows him to run in the U.S. Olympic trials, athletes who compete against him risk their eligibility for the Summer Olympics, a high-ranking official with the International Amateur Athletic Federation said Tuesday. "It means we may have an Olympic Games without American 400-meter runners," the group's secretary general, Istvan Gyulai of Hungary, told the Associated Press.

After dominating high school track as a sophomore this year at Oxnard Rio Mesa, Marion Jones made an impressive debut against the collegians and professionals in the USA/Mobil Outdoor Championships at Downing Stadium. Jones, 15, became the youngest finalist at the national championships in 18 years Friday, when she finished eighth in the 100 meters. On Saturday, she also qualified for the 200-meter final by running 23.13 in the semifinals.

Diane Dixon got her revenge against Valerie Brisco-Hooks Friday night, and it was every bit as sweet as she had hoped. Which is more than can be said about the relations between the two runners. Dixon's 1:02.29 in the 500-yard run in the Times/GTE Indoor Games at the Forum established a world record for the New Yorker, and took one away from Brisco-Hooks. That was the sweet part. The memory of their excruciatingly close race last year in San Diego was foremost in Dixon's mind.