You name it, and Olympic track star Jeanette Bolden, 32, is probably allergic to it. Household dust, cats, seafood. Just the smell of fish cooking on a grill is enough to make her eyes puff up and start to water. But Bolden's allergies are linked to a more serious problem. Like 15 million other Americans, she suffers from asthma, a chronic affliction of the airways in the lungs that can turn the simplest act of breathing into hard labor and leave a person gasping, coughing and wheezing for air. Last fall the gold medalist (100-m relay, 1984) was hospitalized for a...
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