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The fear that plagues sports

By Greg Garber
ESPN.com

Wednesday, April 30, 2003

Like so many professional tennis players, Alexandra Stevenson is a transient citizen of the global village. She lives in Los Angeles, feels comfortable in New York and moves easily through the grand European capitals, Australia and Asia. But ask her about upcoming events in Berlin, Rome and Paris and her wide brown eyes open even further with alarm. "I have asthma, so I'm very concerned about SARS," Stevenson said Monday in New York. "I fly out of LAX. It's a big city and a big drop-off for pe ...

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