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Mountain biker Haywood awarded $319K in suit, 4 years after ouster

Associated Press

Friday, November 7, 2008

WHEELING, W.Va. -- After a four-year Olympic fight, Sue Haywood has a sense of vindication. Haywood, who was left off the 2004 U.S. Olympic mountain biking team because of a clerical error in the qualifying series standings and has battled that decision since, was awarded nearly $319,000 over "the negligence of USA Cycling" from a federal jury in her home state of West Virginia on Thursday. Her conflict with USA Cycling, though, isn't over. The organization, which declined to comment Friday, i ...

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