Word: barcelona
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Talk of winning is not her style, even with Barcelona approaching. "It's about each of us going out there and doing our best, not beating one another," she politely insists. On the other hand, ask Miller how she'd like to be remembered in the sport and her answer is firm: "Gold medalist, all- around." She claims not to be thinking about what it will be like under the kliegs in Barcelona. "It should be the same as anywhere," she says. "A beam's a beam." Instead, she keeps her mind focused on her routines and tries...
...figure income reflects prize purses and exhibition fees of up to $25,000, some for races of 50 m lasting just over 20 sec. against longtime rival and Olympic teammate Tom Jager. He endorses swimsuits and looks ultra-hip in a TV ad campaign for ) sunglasses. In Barcelona, Biondi, 26, will appear in at most four events -- the 50- and 100-m freestyle races, a freestyle relay and perhaps the medley relay -- and only in the relays is he a solid bet for gold. If he wins medals of any color in all four, however, he will top the career...
...most drama is likely to come in the backstroke, pitting towering Wagstaff (5 ft. 11 in., with men's size 11 1/2 feet) against compact Krisztina Egerszegi (5 ft. 4 in.) of Hungary. Wagstaff fades at 200 m but is a front runner at 100 m, and the Barcelona race may be the first time a woman swims that distance in less than a minute...
...When divers leap for Olympic perfection off the open-air platform in Barcelona, their performances will be rivaled by the view -- by cable cars moving past Columbus on his column pointing to the New World; by the crown of thorns of the 13th century cathedral La Seu; by the unfinished confection of Gaudi's Sagrada Familia, its eight towers reaching to the sky even as the divers speed downward, trying not to make a splash...
...fall in love, or at least into some kind of infatuation, with Barcelona. But not everyone finds the course of the affair smooth, for as the Spanish historian Felipe Fernandez-Armesto recently wrote in his short history ; of the city, "like one of those tryingly beautiful and energetic women whom all men are able to identify among their acquaintances, she can excite passion only for short periods." It can be a confusing place for those who expect the stereotype of tourist Spain -- flamenco, bullfights, serenades under the moonlit balcony. It is a gritty city, crowded, with brusque street manners...