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Atlanta-based Correspondent B.J. Phillips, a member of the TIME contingent that covered the Winter Games in Sarajevo as well as the 1980 Winter Games at Lake Placid, marveled at the resilience of the American athletes, particularly the gymnasts. "It was old home week for me in Pauley Pavilion," says Phillips, who has been following U.S. gymnastic progress since the 1979 World Championships in Fort Worth. "It was all the more bittersweet because I had gone to Moscow to cover the 1980 Games they could not attend. After the men's team victory, I talked to Bart Conner. There...
...only competing against the U.S. teams but against the spectators as well. They are being demoralized before they even set foot on the field." But except at the boxing matches, where fighting any American must be a bloodcurdling prospect, few opponents have been blatantly rooted against. When Gymnast Koji Gushiken of Japan edged Peter Vidmar by 25 one-thousandths of a point in the all-around competition, and Gushiken cried the tears of a 27-year-old warrior who had been holding fast with more than chalk, not even Vidmar seemed to mind. The U.S. exhibition baseball team was able...
...crowd of laughing Rumanians, evidently not the soccer team, is kicking a spotted ball around a park bench. Nadia Comaneci, a guest of the L.A.O.O.C., is staying with her old team. "It is very bright and cheerful. I like everything very much," says the darling gymnast of Montreal. A Lebanese long jumper, Gabi Issa El Khouri, who could shave clear up to his eyes, is rolling them at the second most wonderful question put to him so far: Are Los Angeles and Beirut much different...
...each furnished the fundamental relationship in the other's childhood and young adulthood from the days when the long-jump pit of Evelyn's team served as their sandbox. There might have been no Carl without Carol. In high school she was a force, a varsity diver and gymnast who played recreation-league softball, ran track, waved pom-poms and wished she could do more. Carl attempted hail-fellow sports like baseball, but as a coach of that period remembers, "he was always picking daisies in centerfield." For Lewis, track became a comfort station, a self-sufficient arena where...
...athletes may not be deflated in the least. This is almost certainly the best American Olympic team in history, the first true team as one thinks of a team, convened if not assembled the year round. These 630 men and women, from Yachtsman William Buchan, 49, to Gymnast Michelle Dusserre, 15, are the long-awaited first crop from the Amateur Sports Act of 1978, the charter beneficiaries of the stepped-up Olympic job program, the modern training center in Colorado Springs, Colo., and the newest biomechanical technologies...