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...Olympic veteran, the 29-year-old Johnson had battle-tested nerves. O'Brien did not. "I've walked this road for a decade," explains Johnson. "I expect what comes along." Bruce Jenner, the 1976 decathlon gold medalist and the last of 10 Americans to win the event at the Olympics, concurs. "What makes Dave Johnson stand out is that he knows how to win," says Jenner. "That is crucial. You've got to be the best you can be on that given day -- and know...
...bettors beware. Hungary's Henrietta Onodi has a fluid, elegant presentation that pleases audiences as well as judges. And as always, the former Soviets of the Unified Team are formidable. Several of the competitors -- 1988 gold medalist Svetlana Boginskaya and the two Tatianas, Gutsu and Lisenko -- have a shot at the all-around title, and there may be some stealth talent in the wings. Nonetheless, in American gymnastic circles many think this is the year the U.S. women could upset the long dominant ex-Soviets for the team gold. "The Soviets are weaker financially and spiritually, and don't know...
...linked to a more serious problem. Like 15 million other Americans, she suffers from asthma, a chronic affliction of the airways in the lungs that can turn the simplest act of breathing into hard labor and leave a person gasping, coughing and wheezing for air. Last fall the gold medalist (100-m relay, 1984) was hospitalized for a severe attack in which her airways closed off altogether. "Imagine slicing an orange and squeezing all the juice out of both halves," Bolden suggests. "That's how my lungs felt -- as if someone or something was squeezing...
BOSTON--Olympic silver medalist Paul E. Wylie '91 returned to Boston to applause and cheers yesterday after his triumphant performance in the men's singles figure skating competition at Albertville last week...
...hundredths of a second short, and four days later she lost another gold to Blair by two hundredths of a second. "I spend so many times for skating," she went on, tears streaming down her cheeks, "and I gave up so many hobbies for this." Why should a medalist cry? "Because the Olympics are four years in time...