Olympic gold sprinter Irena Szewinska of Poland dies at 72

WARSAW, Poland — Irena Szewinska, a Polish sprinter who dominated women’s athletics for two decades, winning seven Olympic medals, and who later became a member of the International Olympic Committee, has died at 72. Szewinska’s husband and former coach, Janusz Szewinski, said his wife died shortly before midnight Friday in a Warsaw hospital after a