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...forced to withdraw from the competition. Her doctors said she was suffering from * thigh contusions and swelling in the knee and was unable to control a simple hop, never mind a program that included several triple jumps. The assault cast a deep shadow on her ambition to earn a medal in next month's Olympics. However, even Kerrigan's rivals admitted that she deserved to be on the U.S. team, and on Saturday night officials in Detroit selected her over the runner- up, 13-year-old Michelle Kwan. But the poignant question was whether Kerrigan would be in any shape...
Center ice at the Red Army rink on Leningradsky Prospekt in Moscow is hallowed ground in the history of Soviet athletics. Players nurtured there in the dogma of the perfect slap shot have won 32 world hockey championships and formed the core of eight Olympic gold medal teams. But economic hard times along with the departure of star players for lucrative contracts in the West have forced the Ministry of Defense, which oversees the team, to redeploy forces. At a game at the Red Army rink last week, the star performer was not a skater but a bear. A dancing...
Miller won a bronze medal the 50-meter freestyle and nine gold medals in the 100-meter freestyle, 200-and 400-meter individual medleys, 100-and 200-meter butterfly, 100-meter backstroke and three relays...
...Bowe's tendency to shrug at life, the way he did when he failed to bring home a gold medal from the 1988 Seoul Olympics -- well, don't be fooled. Bowe is not the latest in the line of adolescents in oversized bodies who have populated boxing. In fact, what distinguishes him is an early, singularly mature decision to be, as he says, "different." In this course he relied in part on his mother Dorothy, who alone ruled an unruly household of 13 children in a New York City war zone with such edifying comments...
...also hoped to win a gold medal at the Olympics, as Ali had. But in the four months before the 1988 Games, Bowe suffered several blows. His favorite sister, Brenda, was killed in a mugging. A brother, Henry, went into the hospital with AIDS. The young boxer, recovering from hand surgery and a foot injury, made it through the semifinals and tried holding on in the final bout against Lewis, but the referee stopped the fight in the second round, giving the victory to the British boxer. Managers and promoters who had wooed the young hopeful before the Games were...