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...subtler factors also figure in. First, as a more centralized society, the Soviet Union seems to be better set up to disseminate the latest sports research and take advantage of the results nationwide. Second, Soviet schools place great emphasis on physical fitness, whereas U.S. physicians generally oppose intensive fitness programs for the very young...
NIXON IN CHINA (Nonesuch). A waltz across the Great Wall with Dick, Pat, Henry, Mao and the missus: last year's best new opera is this year's best new opera recording...
...this good -- but not great -- 200-meter runner suddenly blasted the 100-meter record by a preposterous, in sprinter's terms, .27 sec.? And done it at an age, 28, when most athletes are losing half a step? Some have whispered, as they have about countless other athletes, that performance-enhancing steroids have to be a factor behind such dramatic improvement. Griffith Joyner attributes it to hard work and collaboration with her husband of almost a year, Triple Jumper Al Joyner (who narrowly missed a berth on this year's team). "I've trained a lot harder, maybe three times...
Rare in the Los Angeles Games (neither Mary Lou Retton nor her Rumanian counterparts did one), the Yurchenko is now commonplace. International Gymnastics Federation President Yuri Titov calls the vault "a great change" but notes that the equipment may have to be redesigned for safety. "The apparatus for vaulting must be a bit wider for the boys and longer for the girls...
...successful formula are planned. NBC has rounded up the required roster of former Olympians -- Gymnast Mary Lou Retton, Swimmer John Naber, High Jumper Dwight Stones -- as expert analysts, and is preparing taped features similar to ABC's "Up Close and Personal" reports. "I think ABC has done a great job; we hope to do a great job too," says Michael Eskridge, NBC's executive vice president for the Olympics. "When you get right down to it, there are only so many ways to skin a cat." NBC officials have discussed, however, downplaying one oft criticized feature of ABC's Olympic...