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...gold. A delightful woman who models for Claude Montana and spars with the French press over her move to the States, Perec causes as much of a sensation with her revealing track outfit as she does with her speed. "In Paris," she says, "I am like Michael Jordan." In Atlanta she was like Michael Johnson...
Viewers may have had trouble seeing it on NBC's equally disputed TV coverage (which opted for flashy individual performances on the track and in the diving pool over less glamorous team efforts), but sisterhood was powerful at the Atlanta Games. Sparked by Richardson, and by dominating pitching from Lisa Fernandez and Michele Granger, the U.S. softball team survived some low-scoring squeakers (and a 2-1 loss to Australia in extra innings) to capture the first Olympic gold medal ever awarded in the sport. The U.S. women's soccer team also dispatched the world's top teams, including Norway...
...life, said Pythagoras, "is like the great and crowded assembly at the Olympic Games," which is a roundabout, Olympian way of saying the Games are as full of terror and chaos as the lives they temporarily eclipse. On a less exalted level, in Atlanta's official fairy tale of the Games, the first of the five Olympian qualities that a hero must master (in the realm where the Olympian flame always burns bright) is perseverance...
...threats in a city that had waited forever to show off the New South (a phrase coined in 1886). As the Centennial Games came to an end, it seemed as if a slim hope had gone 15 rounds with hard reality and emerged bloodied but just ahead on points. Atlanta had faced its share of biblical afflictions--rain and thunder, explosions far and near, a plague of journalists and the smell of lucre. Yet the stars raved about the crowds as much as the crowds raved about the stars, the venues shone, the volunteers (mostly) smiled and the athletes never...
...just lost and Perec warmly hugged her (while a volunteer fetched a Kleenex). Japanese said "Muchas gracias" to Cuban baseball players, and the Cubans responded, with typical charm, "Domo arigato." Charles Barkley gave his practice jersey to the 14-year-old daughter of Alice Hawthorne, the woman killed in Atlanta's bombing...