Wayne writes:
> > On the men's side we had 2 Americans in both finals of the
> > 100 and 200. I do not ever remember the US sweepine the sprints, and
>only on
> > a few special occassions did we take 2 medals.
>
>The U.S. swept all three medals in '84 in the 200 as I remember.
The US male sprinters scored Olympic sweeps of all three medals in:
100m - 1904 and 1912
200m - 1904, 1952, and 1984
400m - 1904, 1968, and 1988
The World Champs US sweeps are:
100m - 1983 and 1991.
The US women have never scored a sprint sweep.
Kurt Bray
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