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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weights for only six to twelve weeks, then switch to lighter loads and faster movements. The result: more explosiveness in the arms and legs." But when Igor Kravtsev applied similar theories to track, he was regarded as so unorthodox that Soviet officials discouraged Long Jumper Galina Chistyakova and her husband, Triple Jumper Alexander Beskrovni, from training with him. Technological advances may not always have much effect anyway. Many athletes believe something equivalent to the credo of Soviet Cyclist Guintautas Umaras: "It is the amount of time you spend on the bike that makes the difference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Colliding Myths After a Dozen Years | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

...done it at an age, 28, when most athletes are losing half a step? Some have whispered, as they have about countless other athletes, that performance-enhancing steroids have to be a factor behind such dramatic improvement. Griffith Joyner attributes it to hard work and collaboration with her husband of almost a year, Triple Jumper Al Joyner (who narrowly missed a berth on this year's team). "I've trained a lot harder, maybe three times harder, this year," says Flo-Jo, as fans call her. Always a glutton for workouts, she often endures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: For Speed and Style, Flo with the Go | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

...sort of First Family of U.S. track). "Bobby told me to go to the trials in the 200," says Flo-Jo. "But Al and I had decided I'd go to the trials in the 100 and 200." After the event, Griffith Joyner announced that instead of Kersee, her husband would henceforth be her coach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: For Speed and Style, Flo with the Go | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

Sefika Ali, 20, a pretty Kurdish woman in a soiled yellow dress, was cooking breakfast for her husband and three children when she heard the sound of aircraft. The Iraqi warplanes started dropping bombs on Butia, the village in northern Iraq where she lived. "I felt something wrong in my eyes, and I started to vomit," she says. "We knew what it must be, so we all drank a lot of milk and then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Human Rights: The Cries of the Kurds | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

...biography of a brilliant, little-known woman painter named Lorin Jones, really have a problem? Polly's women friends don't think so. Most of them are solitaries of one sort or another, and they warmly support her isolation. She is well shed, they feel, of her first husband, a medical researcher who, a few years before, with typical male arrogance, left Manhattan for a job in Denver, forcing Polly to choose between marriage and her museum job. Her only difficulty, in this view, is that their delightful 13-year-old son, who lives with her, is being transformed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sexual Detente THE TRUTH ABOUT LORIN JONES | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

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