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...right frame of mind, you're just more competitive." Such resolve exacts a toll. Her relentless training has led to a series of injuries, including one that kept her out of the 1976 Olympics. Then came her two dramatic victories last summer at the world championships in Helsinki, making Decker, who will run only the 3,000 meters in Los Angeles, the favorite for Olympic gold...
...Alabama's Tuskegee Institute: he was a sprinter, she a hurdler, both of them long jumpers. Evelyn, especially, loved floating in free flight. With slim legs tucked tightly under her in the fashion of the day, she sailed over 19 ft. at college and was bound for the Helsinki Games in 1952 until a hurdle injury interfered. Evelyn had to stop competing at 20, and all these years later, some incomplete feelings linger. There are no spectators in the Lewis family, but the varied athletic directions of the children suggest a reasonable tolerance for individuality. Mackie, 30, enjoyed track, football...
...just six days, Decker finished second in the 1,500, her first loss in four years. Reasoning that "one gold is better than two silvers," she has elected a showdown with South African Sprite Zola Budd, though Decker claims to be more concerned about Rumanian Marciana Puica. In the Helsinki world championships last summer, Decker won both, running Soviet Zamira Zaitseva into the ground. Boycotters Zaitseva and Tatyana Kazankina would be missed more in Los Angeles if that picture were not so fresh and fabulous...
...libbing, the French President paid tribute to Soviet bravery during World War II ("I know the price you paid with spilled blood and 20 million dead"), but then blamed the Soviets' SS-20 missiles for upsetting the nuclear balance in Europe. When Mitterrand cited the 1975 Helsinki accords, which included a pledge to respect human rights, the guests realized what was coming. "All constraint against liberty could cast doubt on those freely accepted principles," Mitterrand intoned. "That is why we sometimes speak to you of the cases of individuals, some of whom have attained a symbolic dimension. That...
...second most compelling figure at the trials was Ashford, 27, who has dominated sprinting in this country since 1977 but was hamstrung for the 1980 trials and also broke down during the Helsinki World Championships a year ago. Her resolve is stony: "I want to do all the commercials. I want fame and fortune." But her 5-ft. 5-in., 115-lb. body is made of china. "If you sharpen a pencil point so finely," says Leslie Kaminoff, Ashford's physical therapist, "it can break...