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...perkiest. A former college star at UCLA, she continued to play through medical school, and now works as an orthopedic surgeon. To train for the Olympics, she took a one-year leave of absence from her residency at the University of Southern California; two days after the gold-medal victory, she returned to her rounds at the hospital. Or at least tried to. The hospital held a congratulatory press conference; the USC band serenaded her outside the hospital; and she got a standing ovation at Dodger stadium. The celebration continues this week with a trip to Disney World, a visit...
Richardson had her opportunity in the third inning of the gold-medal game between the U.S. and China. With a runner on first in a scoreless game, she lifted a fly ball deep down the right-field line. As it sailed toward the foul pole, the exuberant 5-ft. 5-in. shortstop crouched low on the base path (so the home-plate umpire could see better, she later explained), then leaped in the air as the ball was ruled fair. The Chinese team disputed the call for 10 minutes, to no avail, and the homer provided the winning...
...glamorous team efforts), but sisterhood was powerful at the Atlanta Games. Sparked by Richardson, and by dominating pitching from Lisa Fernandez and Michele Granger, the U.S. softball team survived some low-scoring squeakers (and a 2-1 loss to Australia in extra innings) to capture the first Olympic gold medal ever awarded in the sport. The U.S. women's soccer team also dispatched the world's top teams, including Norway (which had beaten them in last year's world championships) and China in a hard fought 2-1 final, on the way to America's first soccer gold medal. Along...
...sudden success? At least in part it's the result of social changes that no longer make it necessary for little girls to cut their hair to play ball. "In the 20 years since I competed, a great deal has changed," says Anita DeFrantz, a member of the bronze medal-winning U.S. rowing team in 1976 and now one of two American members of the International Olympic Committee. "The way society views women has changed for the better. Funding for sports has changed for the better. And the potential for women to survive--if not make a living--in sports...
Every time one looked up at the bank of 20 TV screens in the Olympic Stadium media subcenter, one could see arms being raised, in victory or despair. A man called Talant scored with two minutes left to lift Spain to the medal round, above Egypt, in team handball, 20-19. The perennial Olympian, basketball hero Oscar Schmidt, in his fifth and last Games, put up an absurd shot for Brazil with 17 seconds left, and it fell in, and Puerto Rico was defeated. In the new sport of women's softball, an American pitcher was one strike away from...