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	Injury to Johnson could force change in U.S. sled - 2002 Winter Olympics coverage
		Johnson, a former track and field heptathlete who was suspended for four years for steroid use, practiced with Racine Saturday but the pair had horrendous starts.
		Johnson was expected to test her hamstring again at practice Sunday night.
		Racine recruited Johnson to be her pusher in December when the driver became dissatisfied with Davidson's performances during the World Cup season.
	deseretnews.com /oly/view/0,3949,70000951,00.html (418 words)

	ESPN.com - Loyalty or sport? Bakken's choice gold
		With Johnson limited by a painful hamstring injury, she drove the sled superbly but finished fifth, one half second away from a medal.
		Johnson is a former NCAA decathlete champion who was banned from track for four years for using anabolic steroids and still looks as if she is wearing Bronko Nagurski's shoulder pads under her racing suit.
		With Johnson obviously struggling due to the injury, their push times were worse than 13 of the 15 teams.
	sports.espn.go.com /espn/print?id=1337024&type=Story (1227 words)

	CNNSI.com - 2002 Winter Olympics - Bobsled - USOC won't allow Davidson to rejoin Racine - Sunday February 17, 2002 ...
		A hamstring injury to brakewoman Gea Johnson created confusion Sunday, as U.S. bobsled officials initially said Racine could be reunited with Davidson, her former teammate and best friend.
		Racine said she was confident Johnson would be with her for Tuesday's race.
		Racine recruited Johnson, a former track and field heptathlete who was suspended for four years for steroid use, to be her pusher in December when the driver became dissatisfied with Davidson's performances during the World Cup season.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /olympics/2002/bobsled/news/2002/02/17/us_reunion_ap (515 words)

	ABC Sport - Winter Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Johnson, an erstwhile heptathlon and weightlifting champion, saw her career dogged by injury and doping allegations in the mid 1990s.
		Johnson made the switch and Warner, like Davidson, was left in the cold.
		Racine and Johnson thus will top the bill having set a track record in the Olympic trials, Davidson having Friday withdrawn her complaint against Racine, whom she said had promised to keep faith with her.
	www.abc.net.au /winterolympics/profiles/usbobsled.htm (634 words)

	lonnie021502
		When Gea Johnson was 5, her mother would take her to the beach and have her lift little boys.
		Ahead of her time, perhaps, Sally Johnson was openly proud of the power that inflated her daughter's arms and legs.
		When Johnson and her more accomplished Olympic bobsled partner, two-time world champion Jean Racine, appeared on the ''Tonight Show'' this week, the comedian prevailed upon the former heptathlete to show him what was in those conspicuously hefty arms of hers.
	www.cincypost.com /2002/feb/15/lonnie021502.html (946 words)

	ESPN.com: OLY - Litke: Friendship out as push comes to shove
		She settled on Gea Johnson, a former NCAA heptathlon champion with a very messy past.
		Johnson was brought into the U.S. program by Bonny Warner, a three-time Olympic luger who decided at age 39 to let someone else to push while she handled the steering.
		Johnson, a former bodybuilder, only last year finished serving a four-year track suspension for using anabolic steroids.
	espn.go.com /oly/s/2001/1224/1300868.html (759 words)

	ASU Freshman Jacquelyn Johnson Claims NCAA Outdoor Heptathlon Title :: Johnson's All-American effort paces Sun Devils ...
		Johnson scored 5,807 points to claim the first title awarded at the national meet to not only give the Sun Devils an early team lead with 10 points, but also give ASU its first individual national title winner in track and field since 1996.
		Johnson became the 17th ASU woman to win a track and field title and the first since 1992 when Maicel Malone captured the indoor 400m dash.
		Johnson also is the first outdoor national champion for the women since 1990 when another Johnson, Gea Johnson, won the heptathlon with a score of 6,132.
	www.collegesports.com /sports/c-track/stories/061004acp.html (851 words)

	ESPN.com - Bakken, Flowers break drought, and a landmark (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Racine dumped her best friend and chose Johnson, a muscular former heptathlete from Arizona; Bakken took Flowers, who once ran track at UAB and didn't try bobsledding until after she failed to qualify for the U.S. team headed for the 2000 Summer Olympics.
		Johnson was in severe pain and crying as she hobbled off the track.
		She created a stir by replacing Davidson with Johnson, who once served a four-year suspension after testing positive for anabolic steroids.
	sports.espn.go.com /oly/winter02/bobsled/news?id=1336769 (851 words)

	Topstory 1
		Gea Johnson will be in the back of Jean Racine’s bobsled on Tuesday, or at least that’s the plan: Johnson has an injured hamstring and might need to be replaced.
		Johnson injured her hamstring warming up for practice.
		Racine recruited Johnson, a former heptathlete who was suspended for four years for steroid use, to be her pusher in December.
	www.gmtoday.com /news/special_reports/Olympics2002/bobsleigh_ls/topstory011.asp (493 words)

	Sport \| Sled girls bob and grieve
		Racine's choice of replacement was Gea Johnson, a 34-year-old former heptathlete, suspended in 1994 for four years after testing positive for steroids.
		Johnson's association with the bobsleigh began last summer and her Olympic ambitions coincided with those of Bonny Warner, a former luge competitor, making a comeback at the age of 39.
		Johnson's mother, remembered in Phoenix as an especially pushy parent of an exceptional child athlete, apparently taught her daughter no such thing.
	sport.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4334296-108365,00.html (850 words)

	Women's Sports Foundation ATHLETES
		Racine replaces Davidson with Gea Johnson, a former heptathlon champion who turned to bobsledding after a series of injuries and a four-year drug suspension.
		Johnson claims the spot after winning a race-off that Davidson, as per Racine’s advice, doesn’t participate in.
		Although Davidson has initiated arbitration surrounding her perceived injustice, it appears as though Racine and Johnson are going to be driving the number one sled for the Stars and Stripes.
	www.womenssportsfoundation.org /partners/feministmajstore_pins/athletes/article.html?record=65 (1424 words)

	JS Online: Difficult sledding for Racine
		Racine got her runners in a rut the week before the Olympic trials by firing her former friend and brakewoman, Jen Davidson, and replacing her with the sturdy Gea Johnson.
		Johnson had been working with another American sledder named Bonny Warner, who didn't make the Olympic team when Johnson left.
		Johnson has had a hamstring problem, and the gods tweaked it for her again in practice.
	www.jsonline.com /sports/oly02/feb02/21433.asp?format=print (687 words)

	ESPN.com: OLY - Not the debut they hoped for
		Their relationship ended when Racine dropped Davidson and lured brakeman Gea Johnson out of the sled of U.S. driver Bonny Warner, a three-time Olympic luger.
		Johnson, the 1990 NCAA heptathlon champion, last year finished serving a four-year track suspension for using anabolic steroids.
		As for Johnson's past, Burns said that's "another reason why advertisers are going to head for the hills.
	espn.go.com /oly/s/2001/1221/1299919.html (920 words)

	United States Olympic Committee - Johnson, Gea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Johnson qualified for the U.S. Olympic team with driver Jean Racine, winning the women's bobsled trials and setting a track record at Utah Olympic Park.
		While rehabilitating her right leg injury in 2000, Johnson was introduced to Ian Denny, a former Canadian bobsleigh athlete and coach
		The consummate athlete, Johnson is obsessed with total physical fitness.
	www.usolympicteam.com /26_1017.htm (272 words)

	Columns: Shot at gold comes with a price: friendship
		She fired Davidson and hired Gea Johnson away from fellow USA teammate Bonny Warner.
		Johnson, a former track athlete, showed up on the bobsled scene last summer.
		So Racine watched Johnson from afar and then added her to the team at the last possible moment.
	www.sptimes.com /2002/02/17/news_pf/Columns/Shot_at_gold_comes_wi.shtml (879 words)

	Bobsledding: U.S. mints bobsled gold
		Racine and her new brakewoman, Gea Johnson, who competed with a severely strained hamstring, finished fifth in 1:38.73.
		In December, she replaced her with Johnson, a former heptathlete from Arizona with a shaky past.
		The powerful Johnson was expected to give Racine the edge she was lacking at the start, but the chronic hamstring problem flared up in Johnson's left leg in the days leading up to the race and hampered their start.
	www.post-gazette.com /olympics/20020220olybob0220p7.asp (840 words)

	Women's bobsled already at Olympic speed
		But Racine's decision to replace Davidson with Gea Johnson, a former track star, was different.
		Johnson, too, took part in the game of musical bobsleds by ditching her partner, Bonny Warner, a three-time Olympian.
		In a few weeks the hubbub will pass, and on Feb. 19, Olympic history will be made when two women step up on the awards podium to have gold medals for bobsledding placed around their necks.
	www.suntimes.com /special_sections/winter_olympics/preview/oly-musicalsleds.html (577 words)

	BOBSLED / Drama doesn't derail mission / American women focused on getting gold
		Then Johnson, a former track and field athlete who had been suspended for a doping violation, was recruited into bobsled by Bonny Warner, a three-time luge Olympian from Discovery Bay.
		The suspension was later cut to two years as Johnson continued to maintain her innocence.
		Johnson said she's always been naturally strong but she augments her training with supplements she has tested to make sure they're legal.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/02/17/SP217174.DTL (772 words)

	Long Olympic road continues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		That would be the summer of 2001, when a convoluted trail marked by career-threatening injuries and a disputed drug suspension took Johnson, a Scottsdale resident, from track and field and weightlifting to bobsled.
		Johnson said fear of injury is a given, but she's progressed to where it is "not constantly in the back of my mind.
		That leaves the 5-foot-8 Johnson at a 20-pound disadvantage that is made up with weights in the sled, which then becomes harder to push.
	www.azcentral.com /arizonarepublic/sports/articles/0807olyjohnson0807.html (1366 words)

	ABC Sport - Winter Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The 23-year-old from Michigan, now teamed up with newcomer Gea Johnson, says ditching Davidson was one the hardest things she has ever had to do, but was necessary to improve her chances of securing gold for the United States.
		Johnson, 34, is nursing a nagging hamstring injury that has slowed the pair's all important push starts in training and could force her withdrawal.
		US bobsleigh officials are fairly certain she will be fit to compete, but, in a move that is likely to send American gossip columnists into a salivating frenzy, said Davidson could be a possible replacement.
	www.abc.net.au /winterolympics/previews/wbobsled2.htm (681 words)

	Underdogs strike gold / Flowers is 1st black athlete to win Winter Games event (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Jen Davidson was the woman she dumped three months ago as her pusher-brakewoman in favor of Johnson, the woman once banned from track for anabolic steroid use.
		Racine spoke as Bakken and Flowers crossed the finish line amid 14,900 fans, most of whom swung their American flags and chanted: "U-S-A. "Poor Gea, she was in so much pain today but she still pushed and gave everything," Racine said of Johnson's pulled hamstring.
		Johnson dumped Warner, the 33-year-old former luger who was supposed to be a huge story before she didn't make the Olympics because Johnson dumped her to ride with Racine.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/02/20/SP67133.DTL&type=printable (666 words)

	A Golden Standard: From The Tampa Tribune (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Warner decided she wanted to have a push-off between Flowers and Gea Johnson, a former heptathlete.
		Johnson wound up with Warner, and Flowers returned to Birmingham and sat out of the sport for nearly a month.
		When the women's bobsled was over in Salt Lake, it was Flowers and Bakken with gold medals around their necks and a hobbling Johnson and Racine finishing fifth.
	www.tampatrib.com /Sports/MGB7QPRE05E.html (950 words)

	Bobsledding: Finding focus Amid controversy, U.S. bobsledder Racine begins medal quest
		Racine replaced Davidson with Gea Johnson, a former heptathlete who in 1994 received a four-year suspension because she tested positive for anabolic steroids.
		But now Johnson has a hamstring injury, and although U.S. Bobsled officials said yesterday they expect her to compete, if she can't go the only eligible person to replace her is Bethany Hart.
		After dropping Davidson because her push times were about a 10th of a second slower than the front-running Germans, Johnson's best time Saturday in practice was 6.32 seconds.
	www.post-gazette.com /olympics/20020218racine0218p5.asp (860 words)

	U.S. No.2 bobsledders stun Racine for gold - 2/20/02
		Racine, 23, and her brakeman, Gea Johnson, had created a stir for months, since Racine's decision to dump her long-time partner, Jen Davidson, a move that destroyed their friendship The ultimate payback for the woman some tabbed Mean Jean?
		Johnson pulled a hamstring muscle during practice Saturday, and that clearly was a factor.
		The other U.S. team of Gea Johnson, left, and Jean Racine, favored to contend for a medal, finished fifth.
	www.detnews.com /2002/sports/0202/20/a01-421993.htm (930 words)

	CNNSI.com - 2002 Winter Olympics - U.S. bobsled team of Racine, Davidson split - Friday December 14, 2001 10:22 AM
		Johnson proved herself in Europe this year with U.S. pilot Bonny Warner.
		Racine said the coaches had been angling all year to see what Johnson could do in Racine's sled.
		Johnson and Racine had the best push-start times in training Thursday.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /olympics/2002/news/2001/12/14/bobsled_split_ap (447 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports -- U.S. Bobsled Federation rejects spurned brakewoman's complaint
		Davidson filed a grievance last week, asking for a hearing and a race-off against Gea Johnson, the former heptathlete champion Racine picked to replace Davidson.
		Davidson contend that Racine told her there was no need for her to compete in the push-off and that her dismissal did not meet the federation's criteria by which pilots choose their brakewomen.
		Johnson's start was 0.13 second faster, she said.
	www.signonsandiego.com /sports/olympics/20020117-0252-oly-bobsledgrievance.html (326 words)

	-- Beliefnet.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		With the drivers usually having the final say on who will be the brakes in a particular sled, Warner decided to bring in former college heptathlon champion and weightlifter, Gea Johnson, as her new brake.
		Johnson turned heads within the bobsled community for her strong push times.
		On the eve of the Olympic trials in December, Racine asked Johnson to join her sled and dumped her long-time partner Jen Davidson.
	www.belief.net /story/98/story_9840_2.html (278 words)

	United States Olympic Committee - Rivers Run Gold
		Johnson, who suffered a hamstring pull just days before competition began, pushed through the pain.
		She slipped at the start of the second run, but held on as the twosome posted start times of 5.54 and 5.58.
		Johnson had to be helped off the ice.
	www.olympic-usa.org /73_4576.htm (521 words)

	2 On Your Side - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The other U.S. team of Jean Racine and Gea Johnson had been favored to contend for a medal and overshadowed Bakken and Flowers leading up to the race.
		In the end, though, it was the USA-2 team that had the fastest combined time in the two runs, 1 minute, 37.76 seconds.
		Racine and brakewoman Johnson, who had been bothered by a sore hamstring, finished fifth in 1:38.73.
	www.wgrz.com /storyfull.asp?id=7060 (673 words)

	WinterSports2002.com - All eyes on Racine as women teams make debut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Gea Johnson, left, and Jean Racine face some hurdles due to Johnson's recent hamstring injury.
		Her push times dropped, and Racine (Waterford, Mich.) replaced her with a former track star new to bobsledding, Gea Johnson of Phoenix, Ariz. Together, Racine and Davidson set a track record at the Utah Olympic Park.
		Spectators will be watching to see if Johnson can overcome the pain and launch the American women into the first gold in the sport.
	deseretnews.com /oly/view/print/0,4060,70001086,00.html (350 words)

	Salon.com News \| Don't believe the hype (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		But it was Racine and Johnson who were the most entertaining, because not only were they, or at least Racine, among the most hyped athletes, they were also the stars of the Games' best drama.
		In the end Johnson raced, and as she pushed the sled in the team's first run, she felt her injured hamstring tear.
		She praised Johnson and said, "America was on the podium today, and that was the goal.
	www.salon.com /news/sports/olympics/2002/02/20/hype (1133 words)

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