Angelo Taylor led a medals sweep in the 400-meter hurdles for the U.S.A..
The Olympic champion in Sydney in 2000, Taylor was laying electrical wire 14 months ago, virtually out of the sport in the aftermath of an ugly legal imbroglio. He failed to make the team for Athens in 2004—he said he had stress fractures in both shins—but made it to Beijing, where he became the first 400-meter hurdler since Edwin Moses to win gold medals eight years apart.