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Gymnast Mitch Gaylord was wakened regularly by phone-calling female admirers. Many of the track stars hustled to European meets to cash in on the medals, although quadruple Gold Medalist Carl Lewis pushed back his own schedule after he stopped off in Houston and found his home had been tossed by burglars, his stereo and video equipment stolen, his well-publicized crystal collection shattered. It appeared that the welcoming signs of kindly neighbors had pointed out the mark...
...Ahem, I've just discovered the most extraordinary thing about myself." So now she would be sitting down there next to Steve Lundquist, the white-blond gold-medalist swimmer...
...Schultz lost an early match because he used an illegal armlock that broke a Turkish opponent's elbow. Capping it all, a letter from a top U.S. wrestling official was sent to Coach Dan Gable asking him to resign once the Olympics are over. Reason: Gable, a gold medalist in the 1972 Games, had taken sides with one of two wrestlers in a court dispute over which athlete had legally made the team. Yet, aided by the absence of Soviet, East German and Bulgarian wrestlers, the U.S. shrugged off its setbacks and earned seven gold medals in ten weight...
...class and a silver by Mario Martinez, 27, in the superheavyweight category. Martinez, a car-rental-agency worker, was bested by Dean Lukin, a millionaire tuna fisherman from Australia. Lukin lifted a total of 909¼ Ibs., topping Martinez by 5½ Ibs. Said the silver medalist: "I did my best. I'm pretty happy...
...results proved we needed a law to get these opportunities," says Donna de Varona, who, after winning two gold medals in swimming in 1964 at the age of 17, was in effect forced into retirement. "My best friend, Gold Medalist Don Schollander, had a full scholarship to Yale. Girls weren't even admitted to Yale then, and there were no women's swimming scholarships anywhere...