Word: antonio
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Light-heavyweight boxer Antonio Tarver of Orlando, Florida, took another step toward an anticipated Olympic medal when he outpointed Anthony Stewart of Chicago, 17 to 0, in the U.S. Olympic Box-Offs last week, earning a trip to Atlanta. Other newly named Olympic pugilists include lightweight Terrance Cauthen, welterweight Fernando Vargas and light-middleweight David Reid, all of whom should be medal contenders in their weight classes at the Games...
Boxing is one of the most individual of sports, but when Antonio Tarver, 27, talks about his eight-year-long quest for Olympic gold, he often uses "we" instead of "I." In 1995 the tall (6 ft. 2 in.), lanky (178 lbs.) light-heavyweight from Orlando, Florida, became the first American ever to win U.S., World and Pan American championships in the same year, and he is the best hope for U.S. boxing gold in Atlanta. "Through the years, a lot of people have been there for me," he says. "We've worked very, very hard...
...what he jokingly refers to as "Team Tarver." It revolves around his mother Gwendolyn, who raised Antonio and his three sisters by herself. When Tarver, just 19, with no job or college prospects, developed a cocaine problem, his mother gave him the strength to get help. "She's a best friend," he says. "She just never gave up on me." The experience, he says, was "the turning point of my life. I've been to the bottom, and there was only one way to go: up. I've taken this elevator straight to the top." Other members of Team Tarver...
...Team Tarver will be in Atlanta if, as expected, Antonio makes the Olympic team this week. "Oh, man," he says of completing his quest, "it would be a wonderful, wonderful thing...
...fight in print, where American Home Products, a $13.4 billion maker of such brands as Anacin and Preparation H, launched an assault on Tylenol last week. The company paid for a full-page ad in the New York Times and other papers to reprint an open letter written by Antonio Benedi, a former appointments secretary for George Bush, who blames Tylenol for the liver failure that forced him to have an emergency transplant...