Word: houstons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Monica track are empty save for the security guards who only have eyes for stray spectators trying to pass through the chain-link fence. A female hurdler sprints along one side of the track. Lewis, his coach Tom Tellez, and Carl's friend Kirk Baptiste, a University of Houston sophomore who will run the 200 meter, set up shop on the opposite side. "Carl, go grab the tape measure!" Tellez yells from the stands. Lewis ambles over to the tape...
...after his legs no longer support him, led him one night to the ABC control center, where he sat behind Roone Arledge while the network chieftain called the shots for the evening's coverage. Lewis has worked for the past few months at the local ABC affiliate in Houston as an intern, learning what goes on behind the scenes as well as doing on-camera sports interviews. The process fascinates him. After a while, Arledge turned around from the blinking panel of screens and asked, "Do you want to try it?" Replied Lewis: "No thanks...
...Marta had just defected from the Rumanian team during an American tour. They walked into the New York office of the Department of Immigration and Naturalization with no assets other than the suitcases in their hands and a world of gymnastics knowledge in their heads. They opened shop in Houston. A year later, having met Karolyi at a meet, Mary Lou and her parents packed her bags and drove 24 hours to Texas. "It was at Christmas time," Mary Lou recalls. "Leaving home was so hard...
...Richmond, Va., for eleventh-hour arthroscopic surgery to remove three fragments that had drifted under her patella. Doctors operated at 8 a.m., making three small incisions to remove the cartilage, clear the blockage and restore flexibility to the joint. At 7:30 p.m., she boarded a plane to Houston; the next morning, she was in the gym riding an exercise bike. Exactly two weeks after the surgery, she was flying through the air and landing without a wince. Six weeks later, she had become the first American all-around gymnastics champion in any international competition, let alone the Olympics...