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Feeding the dream is the disappointing show by the U.S. women in Barcelona in '92, when they won the bronze. This time the team has been designed differently. In the past, U.S. teams had little time to train together, little chance to become a team. A full year before Atlanta, a dozen of the best U.S. women were chosen for a pre-Olympic squad. Members were paid about $50,000 apiece--a bargain considering that forward Katrina McClain gave up a reported $300,000 offer to play in Europe. They played together, traveled together, stayed in bad hotels in foreign...
...realize you're different when you have a lot of college coaches calling your house," says Teresa Edwards, a 5 ft. 11 in. guard from Atlanta and the first American basketball player, man or woman, to compete in four Olympics. "But when you get to this level of international competition as a member of one of the best teams in the world, boom! Now you know 'I'm good.' You have to be good to be on this team...
Bill Roy actually leads several lives. As a skeet shooter, he is on target to win a gold medal at the Atlanta Games. As an Air Force major, he pilots an F4-E Phantom II jet. In a previous assignment, he was an instructor of American literature at the Air Force Academy, teaching such classics as Moby Dick. He is also a Sunday school teacher, the leader of a Boy Scout troop, a husband and the father of five daughters. Is he superhuman? Not really, says Roy: "I feel like I'm just an ordinary guy who can do extraordinary...
...with a time of 10.8 sec., the winner has been declared "the world's fastest human." Basically, the race is 10 sec. that last a lifetime. Adding to its allure for the 1996 Centennial Games is the convergence of time and distance: 100 years, 100 meters. What's more, Atlanta seems to have been handed two 100th-anniversary gifts from the Greek gods in the form of a matching set of tantalizing his-and-hers 100s...
Lewis, now 35, was unable to qualify for the 100 in Atlanta, but the finals will still have tremendous wattage on the evening of July 27. Among the contestants will be Barcelona's prickly champ, Linford Christie of Britain; Ato Boldon of Trinidad by way of UCLA; Canada's two heirs to Ben Johnson, world champion Donovan Bailey and Bruny Surin; and Frankie Fredericks of Namibia and Brigham Young University. Fredericks, who is coached by Hirschi and is employed on the business side of a Namibian uranium mine, has been positively radioactive of late, running the second- and third-fastest...