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...women's 100, there seem to be no youngsters to threaten the four veterans who have dominated the event for four years: Gwen Torrence, 30, and Gail Devers, 29, of the U.S.; Russia's Barcelona bronze medalist Irina Privalova, 27; and Jamaica's defending Olympic champion Merlene Ottey...
MARRIED. NADIA COMANECI, 34, first Olympic gymnast to score a perfect 10; and BART CONNER, 38, U.S. 1984 Olympic gold medalist; in Romania...
...World Cup points to earn him an automatic spot on the U.S. team. To do that, he will concentrate on the sport's premier event, the Tour de France in June. "The Tour will be the key for the Olympics," he told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "The [Olympic gold medalist] will come from the Tour...
...reprised similar cult sacrifices that took place 14 months earlier. And among the victims were some of the most privileged, responsible members of society. Besides the police officers, the woman psychotherapist and an architect, the dead included Patrick Vuarnet, the 27-year-old son of 1960 Winter Olympics gold medalist Jean Vuarnet, best known today for his line of chic sunglasses. For Vuarnet fils--whose mother Edith, his woman companion Ute Verona and their daughter Tania, 6, accompanied him in death--the prerogatives of status had melted under the mystical thrall of a sect known as the Order...
Their friends expect that Katia will return to Simsbury after the traditional Russian Orthodox 40-day mourning period and resume her skating, probably as a solo performer--she could never find Sergei's equal. "The perfect pair," says commentator and two-time Olympic gold medalist Dick Button. "They had everything. He was the perfect husband; they had the perfect career, the perfect marriage...