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Mondale and Ferraro won their most exuberant reception in Austin, where 10,000 flag-waving people gathered at the state capitol. In San Antonio, Mayor Henry Cisneros hailed Ferraro as "family." Her reply: "Gracias, Primo Enrique [Cousin Henry...
...tilt of ABC's coverage irritated athletes and coaches from other countries, many of whom did not realize that their fans at home were seeing a different report. On their behalf, International Olympic Committee President Juan Antonio Samaranch formally protested to Chief Organizer Peter Ueberroth, but later retracted after closed-door bargaining. In a statement, the I.O.C. expressed "its satisfaction with ABC . . . and felt that international broadcasters had received appropriate coverage." In the sports that ABC has not highlighted in prime time, when attracting an audience is most urgent, coverage has tended to be a little more balanced. Boxing...
Fred A. Slimp San Antonio...
...some kind of sermonette they preach to themselves to get those beneficial chemicals fizzing? Of course they do. Has anyone heard a built-in dial-a-psych like Mike Storm's? Not recently. Storm is a 24-year-old pentathlete from North Arlington, Va., who lives in San Antonio because that is the site of the nation's only pentathlon training center, run by the Army at Fort Sam Houston. Money is no problem; a group of U.S. business men interested in the pentathlon underwrites his training expenses generously enough - about $1,200 a month - so that...
This blond and blue-eyed muscular young man says that he made up his mind to be an Olympian when he was seven, competing first as a swimmer, then moving to the bewitching variety of the pentathlon at 14. He visited the San Antonio training center that year, and returned summers during high school and his 4½ years at the University of Pennsylvania (where, while putting himself through a ferocious training regime, he also studied economics, political science and financial management). His extraordinary motivation is an asset in a sport whose audiences generally consist of coaches...