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...might think the world's greatest all-around swimmer must hail from one of the shrines of the chlorinated In crowd -- Leipzig, Mission Viejo or Moscow. Not so. Tamas Darnyi, 21, lives in Buda, the historic section of Budapest. The Hungarian's specialty is the demanding individual medley, in which he holds the world record for both 400-meter and 200-meter events. Darnyi has won every major meet he has entered since 1985. The medley requires phenomenal skill in backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly and freestyle. The shy bachelor, who was named Hungary's Athlete of the Year in '87, will...
Unlike many other athletes, Darnyi prefers to race not against the clock but against the competition on a given day. In Seoul he will be pacing himself against California's David Wharton, 19, whose mark of 4:16.12 in the 400-meter medley is just a fraction of a second behind Darnyi's record of 4:15.42. Oddly, each man suffers from a sensory disability. Wharton is partially deaf and wears a hearing aid when on dry land. Darnyi has had only partial sight in his left eye since 1983. "We were fooling around in the snow when a snowball...
...that she'll do faster than she's ever done before." The fact is that she is as close to a lock as bettors could ask in the 400- and 800-meter free events, and probably, despite a relative weakness in the butterfly, will take the 400- meter individual medley (100 meters each of backstroke, breaststroke, fly and freestyle...
...Biondi and Evans swim the 200-m freestyle and 400-m ind. medley, respectively. Though U.S. v-ballers and b-ballers should have little trouble with their opponents, the Soviet hoopsters will get pressure from Bulgaria...
...Expect the Chinese, East German and Japanese men to be chasing the Soviet gymnasts for team gold, Swimmer Tamas Darnyi of Hungary to be chasing his own world record in the 400-m ind. medley, and Biondi to be continuing his medal chase, in the 100-m butterfly. On the basketball court the U.S. takes on the 1987 Pan Am winner, Brazil, and its colorful colossus, Oscar Schmidt. In the water Terry Schroeder captains the U.S. against defending world and Olympics champ, Yugoslavia...