Injury Threatens Griffith Joyner's Olympic Comeback

Florence Griffith Joyner has revealed that she has an Achilles tendon injury that may jeopardize her chance for an Olympic comeback.

The three-time Olympic gold medalist, who has been training for the Atlanta Games in the 400 meters, has tendinitis in her right leg and will undergo an MRI exam this week to determine if she can continue training or will need surgery. The injury developed in late March, she said.

Griffith Joyner, 36, still needs to make a qualifying time for the 400 meters before the U.S. Olympic track trials begin June 14 in Atlanta. There are only two track meets left in which she can do that.

"Time is not on my side," conceded Griffith Joyner, who lives and trains in Mission Viejo, Calif. "If I don't make it, I'll still be cheering everyone on."

Known to fans as Flo Jo, Griffith Joyner holds world records for the 100- and 200-meter dashes. She won three gold medals and a silver medal in the 1988 Seoul Olympics.

Football

Tommie Frazier, the Nebraska quarterback sidelined by blood clots and snubbed in the NFL draft, has received an offer from the CFL's Montreal Alouettes, an Omaha, Neb., television station reported.

An Alouettes spokesman said that Frazier has been in Montreal since Monday with his mother and his agent. Frazier had said he would sit out a year and give the NFL another shot. Montreal acquired Frazier's CFL rights this month.

-- Roderick L. Lewis, a former University of Tennessee

defensive back, has been charged in a fatal drug-related shooting of a man in his apartment complex.

Lewis, 24, was charged with criminal homicide in Monday's shooting of a student at UT who reportedly was trying to collect a drug debt from Lewis when the two men began arguing.

Lewis was suspended from the UT football team in August 1992 for undisclosed disciplinary reasons. He later played for Ohio's Central State.

-- Michigan State tailback Duane Goulbourne was granted a sixth year of eligibility by the NCAA after missing his senior season because of a broken leg. Goulbourne led the Spartans in rushing in 1994 with 930 yards, but missed all of last season, which was to have been his final year.

Cycling

Roldolfo Massi fought off late bids by two fellow Italian cyclists and won the 10th stage of the Tour of Italy. Davide Rebellin of Italy retained the overall lead for the fourth straight day by finishing in a group four seconds behind the winner.

Massi broke away one kilometer from the finish line to win his first stage. He covered the 101.6 miles from Arezzo to Prato, in the Tuscan region, in three hours, 56 minutes, 38 seconds at an average speed of 25.781 mph.

Auto racing

Alessandro Zampedri, injured in a crash on the last lap of the Indianapolis 500, was in fair condition after a third operation on both of his legs and feet. His left foot was most severely injured, and doctors won't know until Monday whether it can be saved, a Methodist Hospital spokeswoman said.

Zampedri, Roberto Guerrero and Eliseo Salazar crashed in the fourth turn just as Sunday's race ended. Guerrero was not hurt and Salazar suffered a bruised knee.