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WHEN SHE WAS LUDMILLA Narozhilenko, she won the world championship for Russia in 1991. Two years later, she was banned after testing positive for steroids. In a bizarre case of if-I-can't-have-her-no-track-meet-can, her broken-hearted ex-husband admitted to spiking Ludmilla's protein powder. So she was recently reinstated. Remarried to her coach, running now as Ludmilla Engquist, she took the gold in the 100-meter hurdles for Sweden, her country of five weeks. Favorite Gail Devers (left, with Engquist) finished fourth.
Just a few minutes earlier, Wednesday night, Vebjoern Rodal became only the second Norwegian ever to win a medal in track and field. Unable to run outdoors for much of any year, he practiced in a tunnel that was only 350 meters long; he won the 800- meter race.