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...disqualified and an additional dozen from just the U.S. track-and-field squad scuttled home before their events. In the 1984 Olympics eleven athletes, two of them medalists, were ejected from the Games for drug abuses. Before the Seoul Games began, several Americans, including '84 cycling gold medalist Steve Hegg and national swimming champion Angel Myers, were bounced for banned substances. But no disqualification has ever rocked the sporting world the way the Ben Johnson scandal...
When U.S. Gold Medalists Steve Hegg and Connie Carpenter-Phinney pedaled to victory in last summer's Olympics, Huffy bicycles were a big winner too. The largest U.S. bikemaker, Huffy had invested two years and more than $600,000 to design and build the special cycles that Hegg and Carpenter-Phinney rode. Now Huffy is using its Olympic achievement to pump up Christmas sales. "I don't think anyone envisioned our success from the Olympics," says Huffy President Harry Shaw III. "A year ago, people thought we were crazy...
...Jeff Blatnick, the nation's most renowned Greco-Roman wrestler, asked Andrew Saris, the last man cut from the squad. Mary Lou Retton, whose gymnastics career required her to leave home two years ago, reached back to Follansbee, W. Va., for her old friend Lori Lombardi. Cyclist Steve Hegg's neighbor Doug Huffman used to pace him tirelessly in Dana Point, Calif. They went together to the parade...
...oddest-sounding events, like the men's English match small-bore rifle competition (won by West Virginian Ed Etzel), the impression of a rout was confirmed. Where did the U.S. find Air Rifle Markswoman Pat Spurgin, or Greco-Roman Wrestlers Steve Fraser and Jeff Blatnick, or Cyclists Steve Hegg and Mark Gorski? All have won gold medals...
...Steve Hegg, 20, a world-class skier and relative newcomer to cycling, hopped on his Kevlar-cycle for the 4,000-meter individual pursuit race. In this two-man event, a competitor chases an opponent who starts on the opposite side of the banked track. If he catches him, it's over; otherwise, the fastest time wins. Hegg took Rolf Golz, an experienced racer from West Germany by 4 sec. for the gold. After squeaking through quarterfinals in the team pursuit, where four-man squads shift leads to rest in the slipstream, the U.S. cyclists confronted the highly favored...