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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...
Then came Barcelona. During the 1992 Olympics, Bubka was one of the few sure bets to win a gold. Instead, to everyone's astonishment, he scotched his first three attempts, ignominiously booting himself from the competition. This was more than simply the single biggest track-and- field failure of the entire Olympics; it was also a rent in the cosmic fabric, a mishap as inconceivable as A.J. Foyt's pulling his car out of the garage and backing over the family cat. The fans in Barcelona sat in shocked silence, then proceeded to whistle him out of the stadium--Europe...
...Bubka is haunted by Barcelona, he's not about to let on. "A medal?" he asks, smiling. "We will see. I try to remember Barcelona and use it to be more focused for Atlanta. But I just want to make best results possible." That sounds innocuous enough. But the piercing memories of the past, like the injuries that increasingly plague him with age, are clearly visible, etched into his face when he competes. He is still great, but he can no longer overpower the field with the effortlessness of yore. Barcelona changed that. Which...