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It took the Olympics to showcase the new gymnastics and their freshly minted champions in a week of competition as razor close as it was electric. How far the sport has come in its public appeal could be seen by the crowds that thronged into the 12,700-capacity Pauley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Finishing First, At Last | 8/13/1984 | See Source »

She lived with a local family whose daughter is also a top-flight gymnast. The relationship she formed with her coach was and is close, as any television viewer could see last week when she veered off to confer with him, and get encouraging hugs, before every step on the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Finishing First, At Last | 8/13/1984 | See Source »

As the week ended, the American men as well as the women could look forward to the prospect of further medals in contests on individual apparatuses. But for a nation that previously had won but two Olympic gymnastics medals in 52 years, the market had already been brisk indeed. It...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Finishing First, At Last | 8/13/1984 | See Source »

world, at least, will read about and rally behind the just cause that Aubrey champions.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Native Grounds | 8/6/1984 | See Source »

In a distressing horse melodrama mysterious enough for Dick Francis, Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes Winner Swale collapsed suddenly last week. Just eight days after his emphatic four-length victory at Belmont-the 1½-mile test of three-year-old champions-Swale returned from an ordinary gallop, reared up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Burying Swale | 7/2/1984 | See Source »

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