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Whatever the outcome, some of the Games' most glorious moments will occur high above the water. During their training, which often begins at age ten, Chinese divers spend as much time practicing acrobatics in the gymnasium as they do dives into the pool. The result will be an aerial aria in Seoul...
...asks that the defendants be forced to return profits they made from the alleged scams, along with any losses they avoided, plus a fine of triple that total. The complaint leaves the court to calculate that number, but estimates put it as high as several hundred million dollars. If Drexel and company lose the case, the SEC could also impose penalties ranging from censure to banishment from the securities business...
Perhaps it was Mexico City's high altitude that produced such rarefied records, three of them, at the 1968 Games: Bob Beamon's 29-ft. 2 1/2-in. long jump, Lee Evans' 43.86-sec. 400 meters and the U.S.'s 2:56.16 in the 4 X 400- meter relay. They are still three of track and field's greatest achievements...
...modern man and futuristic equipment approach the once unthinkable 20-ft. pole vault, the 30-ft. long jump, the 60-ft. triple jump and the 2-hr. marathon, the benchmark most likely to fall in Seoul is the 8-ft. high jump. Sweden's Patrik Sjoberg and West Germany's Carlo Thranhardt shared a world record of 7 ft. 11 1/4 in. until last week, when Cuba's Javier Sotomayor soared 7 ft. 11 1/2 in. in Spain. At least three other jumpers, West German Dietmar Mogenburg and Soviets Igor Paklin and Gennadi Avdeyenko, are potential Olympic eight-footers. Sotomayor...
...coach. "I have no education, no profession. Now it is time for me to look after my future and make provision for it," he says. Sjoberg calls the 8-ft. barrier his next goal "because it is such a big thing in the United States," where appearance fees run high on the indoor circuit...