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...greatest champion in Olympic history won no medals. Baron Pierre de Coubertin wasn't even much of an athlete. But were it not for the diminutive French nobleman, we might not know the names of Jim Thorpe, Babe Didrikson, Jesse Owens, Wilma Rudolph, Mark Spitz, Nadia Comaneci, Jackie Joyner-Kersee...
...Czech javelin thrower Jan Zelezny, 30, had 21 of last year's 22 longest throws. Barring the kind of bad luck that kept him off the U.S. team for Barcelona, decathlete Dan O'Brien, who turns 30 the day before the opening ceremonies, will get his overdue gold. Jackie Joyner-Kersee of the U.S., if healthy, is clearly the favorite in the women's heptathlon, which she won in Seoul and Barcelona. She is a tad less dominant in the long jump, which...
Florence Griffith Joyner, 36, the 100- and 200-m champion in Seoul, hit a snag in her attempt to make the U.S. team in the 400 m. She has an Achilles-tendon injury that may require surgery and sideline her from qualifying meets over the next two weeks. Meanwhile, Mary Slaney, 37, who holds several American records but has not won an Olympic medal, ran a strong race last week in Oregon and appears ready to contend for a spot on the Olympic track-and-field team...
Olympian Florence Griffith-Joyner was at Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum last week unveiling her CIRCLE OF LIFE, a painting auctioned for charity along with pieces by Ringo Starr and Jane Seymour--all of which will also grace credit cards. Griffith-Joyner's brushwork is similar to her track work. "I can do 10 or 15 canvases a day," she says. And her style? "I've seen a lot of work in this museum like what...
...produced shot, I wanted something more authentic to the experience of being a father." This isn't the first time that Heisler, 39, has conveyed complex ideas for the cover of TIME. His photographs have graced the front of the magazine some 20 times, ranging from Olympic athlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee and director David Lynch to former President George Bush and Ted Turner for the Man of the Year issues in 1991 and 1992, respectively. But this week's TIME cover has special meaning, he says, because he and his wife Prudence had their first child, Lucy, 16 months...