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...seems certain to take the gold medal on the springboard with her clockwork precision. Teammate Li Qing, 16, will vie for the silver with American Kelly McCormick. Meanwhile, Xu Yanmei and Chen Xiaodan could finish first and second in the platform contest. In the men's events, '84 Silver Medalist Tan Liangde will test Louganis' nerve and verve on the springboard, while Li Kongzheng will chase Louganis on the platform...
...Myers fiasco was a personal disaster, and there was no question that a likely gold medalist had been lost to the team. Still, at Seoul, the U.S. would have the smallest world beater in Evans; one of the largest and most awesome in Biondi; and, unless one of the East Germans has managed to grow gills, by far the spookiest in Berkoff, the vanishing backstroker. Bring on that Korean water...
After graduating in 1985 with a degree in computer science, Sudduth gave up crew and took up single sculls. Considered the finest sculler in the world, he is favored to bring a gold medal home from Seoul. Sudduth beat three-time gold medalist Pertti Karpinnen of Finland in a regatta in Italy earlier this year...
...easy to keep active as a swimmer in Parkersburg because it was, and still is, a swimming hotbed. Parkersburg has not lost the city swimming championships in 15 years. Former members of the team included 1984 Olympic silver medalist Betsy Mitchell, who is favored to win the backstroke in the Seoul Olympics...
...Winter Olympics. They stay aloof at practices and are banned from talking to the press until after the competition. Most are former skaters and instructors who work their way up from judging regional competitions to the world championships and Olympics. They are unpaid and unloved, doing, as former Gold Medalist Peggy Fleming notes, a "thankless...