Word: barcelona
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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...
...Angeles and Las Vegas they flock to Country Star for barbecued twang and to Dive!--the submarine creation of Dreamworks' filmmakers Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg--for simulated undersea adventures. Dive! has also surfaced on the Barcelona waterfront. The Harley Davidson Cafe is hog heaven for the customer who climbs into the saddle of a Low Rider against a make-believe open road while a video camera records the moment of sublime fantasy. And if spooky things grab you, Jekyll and Hyde, a house of horrors, is the place to thrill...
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...
...women's dash could be a hometown celebration for pre-race favorite Gwen Torrence, who grew up in nearby Decatur, Georgia, and lives in Livonia. "God sent [the Olympics] here to make up for what happened to me in 1992," Torrence has said, referring to the Barcelona 100, when she finished fourth and then accused two of the three medalists of drug use. All three of those medalists--Devers, Juliet Cuthbert of Jamaica and Irina Privalova of Russia--will be back, which should make for some interesting stares as the women line up for the start...
...just imagine what the air of the Olympics is going to be when that 100 begins," says Mitchell, who would love to redeem himself after finishing third to Christie and Fredericks in Barcelona. "It's going to be just crazy. I don't even know if I can handle it, and I'm one of the athletes competing." All that anticipation over something that takes just 10 seconds. All that importance attached to just six grams of gold...