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Although the ponytails are similar, the figure on the balance beam in your photograph is Kathy Johnson, not Julianne McNamara...
...best apparatus and Retton on her worst. They proceeded inversely until Szabo dismounted the parallel bars with relief and Retton came to the vaulting horse, her pet pony. A loud bear, Bela Karolyi, the defector who instructed Comaneci and Szabo and now teaches Retton and Julianne McNamara, quietly watched the team ceremony two days earlier and listened to his old anthem from a doorway. "I coached Szabo from the time she was five, [Lavinia] Agache from the time she was six," he said. "I'm feeling happy for Mary Lou and Julianne and the same thing for my former girls...
During the second night's competition, the rest of the judges could only agree, if not in such inflated terms, with Roterescu's opinion of the Rumanian team's performance. At the same time, some of the U.S. stars were not at their best. Julianne McNamara, 18, forced to wait for more than five minutes while Roterescu's previous score provoked another judges' haggle, lost her concentration and fell doing a mount that she has not missed in years. Crashes are contagious, and the rest of the American team struggled to remain aboard during their...
...women, they showed that they can now hold their own with anyone in the world. That includes the absent Soviets, who defeated the Rumanians in the 1983 world championships and whose top gymnast, Natalia Yurtchenko, would have been a favored contender for individual honors in these Olympics. Julianne McNamara is the best there is on the uneven bars. Her line is as perfect as a ballerina's, and she flows so lightly from one bar to the next, one movement to another, that the bars sing for her. She got a 10 to prove it. On the floor exercise...
...field at the beginning of the all-around competition with a cumulative score of 39.525 points. Just behind her, with 39.375, was Rumania's leading gymnast, Ecaterina Szabo, 17, a smoothly solid performer who rarely makes mistakes. Tied for third place were another Rumanian, Laura Cutina, 16, and McNamara, with...