Olympic gold winning sprinter Irena Szewinska dies at 72

WARSAW, Poland — Irena Szewinska, a Polish sprinter who dominated women’s athletics for two decades, winning seven Olympic medals, has died at 72. Szewinska’s husband and former coach, Janusz Szewinski, said she died shortly before midnight Friday in a Warsaw hospital after a battle with cancer. In its reports, the Polish news agency PAP on