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When Jackie Joyner-Kersee accused a German competitor of employing unsportsmanlike tactics to disrupt her concentration during the heptathlon last weekend, it was not the first time.
During the 1987 World Championships at Rome, while Joyner-Kersee was on the runway focusing on her next long jump, an East German jumper decided to practice her approach on a parallel runway by charging toward the American.
The East German abandoned the mind game when scolded by a teammate, Heike Drechsler.
"Heike told her: `Quit trying to intimidate Jackie,' " Bob Kersee, Joyner-Kersee's coach and husband, said Friday night at Montjuic Stadium. "She said: `If we're going to win, we're going to do it fairly.' "
Joyner-Kersee won that long jump competition ahead of Drechsler, as she...