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...then the glaring sun disappeared over the shoulders of the trumpeters on the crest of the stadium, the countdown to the opening ceremony picked up steam (Athens 1896, Paris 1900...Barcelona 1992), and the show was under way. In moments the stadium found itself sheathed in fabric of the five Olympic colors as members of five different tribes poured out and flew down onto the field. Little white sprites appeared, dancing to the irresistible beat and weaving their way through the tribes. Out of the delirious chaos came a formation, and presto, the tribes became the Olympic rings, and then...
...riches phase, he politely wishes that everyone else would please just move on too. The decathlete is tired of what has become his 11th event, talking about his previous failings--the way he mysteriously flubbed the pole vault in the 1992 Olympic trials, thereby blowing his star turn in Barcelona; the way his college partying sometimes got the best of him. But O'Brien understands too that the past exerts a pull and the future has not quite arrived...
...squad mixed with veterans from 1992 and new youth, and the support of a raucous crowd of 32,048, the team made history. "We've spent a long time waiting," said Mary Lou Retton, who led the team to silver in the boycotted 1984 games. "To win in Barcelona would have been marvelous. To do it at home is oh, so sweet." The gold seemed like a sure thing for the Americans until the final event, when 14-year-old Dominique Moceanu fell on consecutive vaults. Then up stepped Kerri Strug, who was the 14-year-old baby...
...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...