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Sprinter Maurice Greene, Moroccan middle-distance hero Hicham El Guerrouj, basketball star Vince Carter--there will be plenty of glamour names. But there are those we will remember whom we haven't yet heard of. Who knew of Kerri Strug before she nailed her landing on a severely sprained ankle in Atlanta in 1996? And the real heroes, well, we may never hear about them. For every Michael Johnson or Marion Jones, sponsored athletes who are as media savvy as they are athletically spectacular, there are literally a hundred athletes like Sirivanh Ketavong, Laos' best marathoner, who had to train...
...Your dad, on the other hand, reminds us all a little bit too much of Bela Karolyi. Whenever old Earl appears on a talk show, praising you to the skies and harping over his overwhelming influence on your game, I half expect him to launch into proud reminiscences of Kerri Strug's bone-crunching, gold-medal-winning vault at the '96 Olympic Games. There's something about your dad that makes me nervous. Nothing I can put my finger on - just keep an eye on him. If he starts restricting your calorie intake or encouraging you to "play through...
College Tuition. Janet Tedesco, a high school teacher in Metairie, La., and her husband Ken, a college development officer, arranged a $65,000 line of credit in 1997. They are using it to put two children through school--Kerri, who graduated from Spring Hill College in Alabama in May, and Philip, a sophomore at Notre Dame...
...currently practices only three to four hours, compared with her old eight-hour-a-day Olympic regimen. Dominique's friends, however, warn of the deceptive similarities between real and stage parenting. "I know her parents were tough on her, and I thought they had good intentions," says former teammate Kerri Strug. "But there's a fine line between parents' being supportive and being pushy. A lot of parents try to live through their kids...
...Sophia Loren, James Lovell, Lori Lucas, Robert McNamara, Norman Mailer, Mary Tyler Moore, Dick Morris, Toni Morrison, Ralph Nader, Mike Nichols, Edward James Olmos, Jane Pauley, Dan Rather, Donna Rice, Leni Riefenstahl, Molly Ringwald, Mickey Rooney, Mort Sahl, Diane Sawyer, Claudia Schiffer, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Sargent Shriver, Steven Spielberg, Kerri Strug, Cheryl Tiegs, Laurence Tisch, Donald Trump, Peter Ueberroth, Paul Volcker, Andrew Weil, Raquel Welch and William Westmoreland...